In the Know

Program Highlights

Welcome Back Everyone!

It was wonderful to see everyone’s smiling faces as students and families returned to Kilvington for the new school year. Welcome to our new families. We hope it has been a smooth start for you. There was certainly a noticeable calmness about the corridors, which augers well for the year ahead.

 

Many of you got together at one of the Parent Welcome Morning Teas after dropping off your children.

And, of course, one of the highlights is always welcoming our new Preps to Kilvington. Loads of smiles which is a lovely bonus.

From the Gifted and Talented Coordinator

As well as seeing all our students back, rested and ready to embark on another year of their school journey, one of the things I look forward to most in the new school year is spending time meeting with my colleagues and discussing the enrichment opportunities planned in each faculty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No one is more enthusiastic and passionate about her learning area than our own Academic Dean of Languages, Madame Lucie Dickens. Lucie’s love of languages is truly inspiring and she is continually driven by students who love learning languages also.  We are fortunate to have a number of extremely talented students of French and Japanese at Kilvington, and Lucie is committed to providing them with the opportunity to excel in their chosen language.

 

This year, the Languages faculty has planned a number of exciting events and students will be participating in these activities and offerings during each term in both French and Japanese. These include Masterclasses, with a return visit by enigmatic presenter Adam Wojcinski, who captivated our students last year with his traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony.

 

Masterclasses will also be held during Terms 2 and 3 in French, in preparation for the Alliance Francaise Berthe Mouchette Poetry Competition. The competition is for students from Years 3 to 12 and is an opportunity for them to further develop their oral language skills. Another exciting event for selected students will be the ‘French Model United Nations’, a simulation of a United Nations panel where students will act as delegates and discuss the Asylum Seekers and Refugees crisis in French.

 

Lucie is also the Vice President of the Association of French Teachers of Victoria (AFTV) and in May, Kilvington will proudly host the AFTV ‘Concours Lyceens’, a speaking event for Years 11 and 12 students of French. This event will be an excellent way for students to enhance their studies as well as preparation for their VCE Oral Assessment.

 

Students of Japanese from Years 7 – 10 will also have the opportunity to participate in the JLTAV Speech Competition in Term 3. For most people, it takes a tremendous amount of courage to stand before a large audience and deliver a speech. To do so in Japanese, or indeed in French, is doubly courageous! The willingness to challenge themselves and go beyond their comfort zones, in the name of achieving academic excellence, is part of what makes Kilvington students so remarkable.

 

These are just some of the ways our Languages faculty is embracing our students’ love of language and continually supporting them in their pursuit to achieve their best.

 

Mrs Dee Broughton

Gifted and Talented Coordinator

2017 China Trip Parent Information Evening

Parents of students in Years 7-11 are invited to come to an information session at 7:30pm on Monday 20 February in Dalton Hall to find out everything they may wish to know about the student trip to China that will take place in the last week of Term 3 and the first week of the September school holidays (15-27 September 2017). The trip will include the following cities and sites:

 

Shanghai

  • Homestay and school with families from West Yanan Middle School
  • Shanghai Disneyland

Xian

  • Shanxi History Museum
  • Terracotta warriors
  • Dayan Pagoda

Beijing

  • Summer Palace
  • Tian An Men Square & The Forbidden City
  • The Great Wall of China
  • The Ming Tombs
  • The Peking Opera

Any enquiries should be directed to International Student Coordinator, Alan Clarke at clarkea@kilvington.vic.edu.au

Welcome to the Library Lounge Room

Students are welcome each day during lunchtime to play chess, board games, read, relax and study. Promotional activities and programs occur throughout the year and students are supported in their learning journey by the library team – Teacher Librarian and Head of Library Resources, Mrs Jane Viner and Library Staff – Mrs Vanessa Grosso and Mr Jordan Adams.

 

‘What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.’

 - Harold Howe