International Student News

VIC International Students Public Speaking Competition 2019

The 5th VIC International Student Public Speaking competition was held at Northcote High School on Thursday 15 August. The topic this year was “knowledge is power”.

The event was described by the school Principal Ms Harrap as “a finely tuned, warm and quality evening.” The judges and the audience were truly impressed by the high quality speeches the International Students delivered. In her thank you speech at the event she highly praised the speakers, saying “the confidence and proficiency of the speakers, who were speaking in their second (or in some cases, third) language was truly remarkable and a joy to listen to.”

Two NHS students; Dao Phuong Dung PHAM (Isa) and Yen Nhi(Camila) HOANG were selected to represent the School in the competition, their presentation was indeed amazing. Bei CUI from Bendigo Senior Secondary College won first place in the competition and both Isa and Camila spoke exceptionally well.

The VIC International Student Public Speaking was initiated at Northcote High School in 2015, led by Martin Ramsay and the International Student Office. The program has grown rapidly over the last 5 years; as a great extra curriculum activity, it brings opportunity to international students. Participating schools over the year are very grateful to Martin Ramsay, our public speaking and Debating Coordinator for his hard work & commitment to lead this IS public speaking program.  

China student visiting group

On Monday, 12th Aug, the school received a student visiting group of 20 people (Year 7-10 age group) from Weihai China. The Chinese students took away a great impression of our school, after a tour with Mr Ramsay. The visiting group leader Ms LIU xiaofang was extremely proud of our current Year 10 international student LI yizhen’s great English language skills and personal growth, after just one year of study experience at Northcote High School as an international student. She did an excellent job of translating for Mr Ramsay during the school tour. Yizhen is from Weihai. She made the decision to study overseas and chose Northcote High School after a short Summer Holiday Study Tour to Melbourne.  Our students made a great welcome gesture by jumping into photo opportunities with visitors. Many thanks to Mr Ramsay and year 10 student LI yizhen, for assisting us to welcome these visitors.

International Student Office