Senior School

Acing Attendance

Congratulations to the following Year 10 students on achieving 100% attendance this term!

• Ruby Brown
• Samantha Chew
• David Kalbrunner
• Chloe Lau
• Shane Mills
• Chloe Tang
• Matthew Tso
• William Wang

Year 12 Pancake Breakfast

On Tuesday 21st June, our Year 12 students enjoyed an end-of-term pancake breakfast to celebrate the conclusion of Unit 3. The free-dress theme was 'Warm & Cosy' and was certainly appreciated on a 10 degree morning!

Changes to VCE in 2023

In 2023, the new VCE Vocational Major (VCE-VM) will replace the Intermediate and Senior VCAL programs, and the new Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) will replace Foundation VCAL.

The Victorian Department of Education have launched their Many Talents One VCE promotion initiative to provide information to students and families entering senior school. Please refer to the website below for more information.

Many Talents One VCE | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)

Applied learning

A huge congratulations to the students undertaking the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning on their hard work and initiative demonstrated throughout the semester. Students have been engaging with the school community through a wide variety of projects and tasks and that we have been excited to see.

Intermediate Personal Best Project

The intermediate VCAL team have been working on their Personal Best Projects as part of Personal Development Skills, where they plan, prepare and organise to create a complex product. Many of our school based apprentices have been designing and constructing pieces of furniture including a bench, table, coffee table, dog kennel, and wine and cheese board. It has been absolutely fantastic seeing students engage in many complex applied learning tasks with a high degree of independence and leadership. We are really proud of the skills they are demonstrating- keep up the good work!

Senior BBQ

The Senior VCAL students planned prepared and organised a BBQ at Ruffey Lake Park to commemorate their completion of Semester 1 of their Applied Learning Certificate. Congratulations team, and looking forward to what the next semester brings!

Speed X at Manningham Community Centre

Students undertook a rapid fire interview excursion where they had an opportunity to talk to a variety of businesses and employers and become more skilled in interview practice and delivery. It was a great opportunity for students to practice and learn to deliver spontaneous replies under pressure. A huge congratulations to the cohort who attend.

Senior History Holocaust Museum Excursion

On Thursday the 16th of June Year 11 Modern History students along with Year 10 History students who had applied, attended an excursion at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. 

The museum is currently undergoing significant work so we went to the temporary site in Caulfield. This site is where the archives are held and students were able to work with a wide range of replica artefacts that demonstrated the progression and impact of the holocaust. Students engaged with artefacts such as propaganda swap cards, anti-Semitic letters of job termination and extended family photographs where only a few family members survived. They were asked to code the artefacts and place them along a timeline of the holocaust, engaging in archiving and classification tasks that a museum creator would do and gaining a better understanding of the reach and impact of the holocaust. 

The highlight of the excursion was the students' 40-minute Q&A session with a holocaust survivor. We were fortunate enough to get to meet Paul Grinwald. Paul hid in rural France during the war to escape persecution from the Nazis. 

Our students represented the college in an outstanding manner by asking thoughtful, reflective and analytical questions. Paul gave us insight into the friendships he formed, the risks that the French family who sheltered him took, his experience moving to Australia after the war  and his feelings about Germany’s atonement post-war. He shared his message against hate and emphasised the importance of education in preventing atrocities such as genocide from occurring again.  

At the end of the excursion students shared their learning and key takeaways with the museum. Here are some of the reflections students shared after the excursion:

I enjoyed listening to their insight into something 99% of people can only speculate about.

I enjoyed broadening my knowledge and how people can act to prevent these tragedies from occurring again.

It was interesting to discover that Paul holds no hate towards the German people.

Anna Ditchburn

English, History & Psychology teacher

Year 10 Food Tech Cultural cooking

This week the Year 10s have finished up their last lessons in Teams with a leader to direct them producing flat breads from 4 different countries. These were then presented for sensory analysis and to eat with their scrumptious butter chicken that they had made 2 days earlier. 

Loads of fun! Thank you Year 10’s for a wonderful last class.

Karyn Humble

departing Food Tech teacher