School Highlights (cont'd)
2023 eSports House Finals
Congratulations to Fethers House for clean sweeping the 2023 eSports Finals following our Just Dance competition (highlight reel here) and the Mario Kart races (expertly driven by Ashwin Parker from Year 9).
Well done to Barrett’s Steph Verginis, Year 7, Burman’s Ewan Brown, Year 6, and Fysh’s Yash Kapoor, Year 9, for making the heated Final.
RACI 2023 Titration Stakes Awards
Louise Macfarlane, Academic Dean of Science
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s (RACI) Titration Stakes is designed to encourage secondary students who enjoy Chemistry to develop their analytical chemistry skills.
Congratulations to Year 11 Chemistry students Victoria Hu, Tina Qi and Jude Teo, who achieved bronze awards for their analysis of the ethanoic acid concentration.
2024 Year 9 Impact Program
Mark Williams, Dean of Year 9 Impact Program
The 2024 Year 9 Impact Program started on December 1 with the first of two EMERGE Fridays.
We spent the morning defining our shared expectations and discussing safe travel. Following this, we ventured into the city to hone our skills in preparation for the upcoming year.
Winner of the KYD School Writing Prize
Congratulations to Claudia Sherman, Year 12, who took out the prestigious Kill Your Darlings (KYD) School Writing Prize this year.
Claudia's entry, 'Slipping Away', is a short story inspired by her literature study. It's a sensitive and sophisticated depiction of a daughter reflecting on her childhood while also carrying the complex weight of caretaker responsibilities for an aging mother living with dementia.
Kilvington’s Academic Dean of English, Sonia Murr, had this to say about Claudia's win:
'This award is a very big deal, and I'm delighted that Claudia's coursework in literature was appreciated by the editors at KYD. Claudia's characterisation of the mother/daughter relationship is deeply moving and shows maturity and restraint. She writes convincingly in a second person narrative voice, and as any writer of fiction will know, this is extremely difficult to get right. I'm so proud of Claudia's achievement; she worked really hard on this!'
Claudia won a cash prize for her efforts, along with mentorship from the KYD Journal’s editing team, and was also added to the Wheeler Centre’s 2023 Teen Gala lineup held this past Saturday.
Watch Claudia recite her story here or read her piece here.
Swannie Award
Nicola Devlin, Academic Dean of Humanities
Congratulations to Maria Wang, Year 11, who recently won a Swannie Award for A Grade DAV for our region.
The Swannie Awards are named after Alan Swanwick, a long-time member of the Debaters Association of Victoria (DAV) and a pioneer of debating in Victoria.
'Swannies' are awarded to the speaker in each region and grade who has the highest average speaker score after completing at least two debates during the year. The average is calculated solely on speaker scores, and is not affected by the best speaker awards that are announced at the end of each debate.