Community Update
Global Connections Program
Lucie Dickens, Academic Dean of Languages
LOOKING FOR HOST FAMILIES FOR JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, 2024
We are seeking expressions of interest from our Kilvington families to act as hosts for our international students.
In particular, we are looking for two Kilvington families to host Japanese students in Term 1, 2024. Two female students from our partner school in Tokyo will visit and spend Term 1 at Kilvington next year. These students are 16 years old.
If you would like to host, please contact me at dickensl@kilvington.vic.edu.au or Mrs Kirsten Maruff, International Student Coordinator, at maruffk@kilvington.vic.edu.au for further information. A homestay family would be paid about $380 per week to house, feed, and generally care for a secondary age student.
2024 INDIVIDUAL TOUR TO FRANCE OR JAPAN - YEARS 10 AND 11
Your child can spend three weeks in January 2024 in Japan at one of our partner schools. The individual tour to France is reciprocal and is for five weeks from mid-December 2024 to January 2025. Hosting will be for five weeks in June/July 2024.
Please note that students must have completed Year 10 Japanese or be in Year 10 or Year 11 French to undertake this experience. For further information, please contact Lucie Dickens at dickensl@kilvington.vic.edu.au.
Bob Stewart uniform appointments
Bob Stewart's Bentleigh is offering appointments for new students in 2024 for uniform fitting from Monday 23 October until Saturday 23 December 2023.
Avoid the queues and book a Year 7 uniform fitting online here. As always, if appointment times don't suit, families are more than welcome to visit the store during normal trading hours.
PFA Openings
The PFA have opened all volunteer vacancies for 2024. These include PFA Executive, class social representatives (CSRs), and event coordinator roles. Head to the PFA News page in ITK to find out more and sign up.
Connor's Run
Jacqui Goldenberg, Community Service Program Director
We are full of pride of our Kilvington community who, on 10 September, ran, walked, rolled, hopped and skipped through Connor’s Run from Hampton Beach, to St Kilda, to Southbank.
In the lead up to Connor’s Run, the Year 10 students heard from guest speaker Dr Rebecca Goldstein, who spoke about her son Gideon’s journey with brain cancer and her family’s participation in Connor’s Run since 2019, shortly after nine-year-old Gideon passed away.
It is always a moving experience to hear from someone so personally linked with the charities we support but also a way to remind students of why we do what we do.
On the day itself, not only did we have one of the largest school groups participating in the run, we also had several students helping at the water stations, and four students donning the mascot costume throughout the day, culminating in Kilvington earning the gong for 2023’s top fundraising school with $𝟭𝟲,𝟳𝟱𝟯 raised to fight brain cancer!
We even bumped into Dave Hughes!
Stellar efforts everyone!