Teaching & Learning
Sustainability Club: Vegetable Garden
Today some students from the Sustainability Club planted some vegetable seedlings to grow in the staff courtyard. The students will tend to the plants throughout Term 4 and hope to harvest some cherry tomatoes, snow peas and climbing beans early in 2023…
Jacinta Marlborough
Sustainability Club Facilitator
Sustainability Club: Aussie Bird Count
Members of the sustainability club were involved with the Aussie Bird Count during our sustainability meeting today.
Our results have been submitted, and we have contributed to an Australia-wide program to improve our understanding of our bird life.
Alison Jones
Sustainability Club Facilitator
Instrumental Music – 2023 Enrolments Now Open
Our Year 12 VCE Music Performance Students travelled to Kingston Arts Centre on Wednesday Oct 12 for their final Performance Exam. The students were extremely excited to show off their skills and perform some wonderful pieces for the VCAA assessors. We arrived in style thanks to Mr Knox, our Bus Driver Extraordinaire!
Now it’s time to turn our attention to the new year, particularly when it comes to our fabulous Instrumental Music Program. The new year is the perfect time to begin learning an instrument – it’s never too late to start!
We offer instrumental tuition in all the musical families – Brass, Woodwind, Strings, Guitar, Bass, Percussion and Vocals. Our ensembles have performed at events all over Melbourne, and our former students have gone on to form their own bands and performance careers, in Musical Theatre, Artist Management, Stage Management, a variety of bands and solo performers, and even a Universal Music record contract.
If you would like your child to participate in instrumental music tuition at South Oakleigh College, please collect an enrolment form from the front office or from our school website under ‘Extra Curricular-Instrumental Music’.
Aidan Prewett
Instrumental Music Teacher
Tribute to the 40’s epic Women from Epirus
On October 28, the whole Greek Nation all over the world is honouring the Greek men and women who fought, sacrificing their lives for national independence, freedom and human dignity. “October 28, 1940” is a pivotal moment in modern Greek History. It is an anniversary from which even today, we draw valuable lessons, absorbing its redemptive messages.
The event for the Epic of 1940, focusing on the Epirotissa Woman and her role both in the war and in History, is an expression of honour and memory of her contribution. No example of self-sacrifice, heroism and levity comes close to that of the woman of Epirus. In the years that have passed, this woman has become a legend, an icon, and a song. Symbol of an entire nation of people fighting for the ideas of Freedom and Democracy.
The Year 9 & 10 students who are studying the Greek language sang a song that talks about the bravery the Epirotisses have shown throughout the difficult years of WWII.
Dimitra Maniatis
LOTE Head of Learning