Program Highlights
Cooking Up a Storm
Cooking in the ELC is always fun – even more so when chocolate and cake are involved. Parent support throughout the year has enabled many extra learning opportunities to occur. We truly value and appreciate all our wonderful parents for all the ways in which they have contributed to our ELC programs this year.
To all our precious Magenta and Magnolia (4-year-old) children who start Prep next year, we know you will love it and will continue to be curious, inspired, creative, have fun and thrive as you start a new part of your learning journey. If it is at Kilvington, we can’t wait to see you in the new year.
To those families leaving Kilvington this year, we wish you all the best. We hope you take with you happy memories.
On a Personal Note …
What a fantastic year we have had in the ELC. The children have had fun, learnt loads, made lifelong friends and engaged in so many different learning experiences. As educators, each and every day we are inspired, challenged, made to laugh, cry and beam with pride as we watch our gorgeous children grow. They grow with confidence, competence, socially and emotionally every day. They each develop as whole beings - with character traits such as grit, determination, strength, and independence.
On a personal note, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank some amazing people.
To the ELC educators – you are all amazing and I am privileged to have worked with you all. Thank you for your support, friendship and thanks for being ‘awesome’.
To the families, not just in the ELC this year, but to all those over the past four years, I have loved every minute of working with your children. Your support and genuine interest in the ELC program has made for such a positive, rewarding and joyful four years.
To the Kilvington staff – wow what wonderful people you all are. I take with me so many happy memories and friendships that I will treasure always.
Finally, to every precious child who has been in our ELC – thank you for making me smile every day. Thank you for making my world so much brighter and thank you for being you.
I will miss you all.
Sharon Donnellan, ELC coordinator
From the Gifted and Talented Team
Australian Mathematics Competition
Congratulations to the following Junior School students who achieved commendable results in the Australian Mathematics Competition:
Middle Primary Division
Darcy Donohue – Distinction
Hannah Lee – Distinction
Thomas Kokosoulis – Distinction
Akeisha O’Neill – Credit
Alessia Di Felice – Credit
Catherine Zhao – Credit
Kelly Xiong – Credit
Upper Primary Division
Agrata Sharma – Distinction
Pia O’Reilly – Distinction
Ye Liu – High Distinction
Chloe Mouchacca – Credit
Jimmy Feng – Credit
Joanne Lee – Credit
Kevin Xiong – Credit
Lane Donohue – Credit
Peter Wang – Credit
Rhea Gupta – Credit
Shreya Jain – Credit
Sophie Xu – Distinction
Thomas Vanston – Credit
2016 Gateways Team Challenge
Well done to the Year 5 and Year 6 Gateways Teams who participated in the Challenge at Bialik College in late November. The Challenge included a variety of Science, Mathematics, English and Drama elements. Special congratulations to our Year 6 team who came third in the competition.
Year 5 team: Jimmy Feng, Chloe Mouchacca, Sophie Turner and Renae Bekas.
Year 6 team: Sarah Yeo, Pia O’Reilly, Hamish Bruce and Ye Liu
Kristy Mortimer, Junior School Enrichment
Junior School Soirees
The Prep to Year 2 Soiree was held on 23 November, followed by the Year 3 and 4 Soiree and Year 5 and 6 Soiree on 30 November.
Each program was filled to capacity with enthusiastic and diverse performers, with a strong number of piano, voice and string instruments on stage. Speech and drama students were well represented and an increasing number of brass, woodwind and percussion players performed.
A high level of confidence was shown even by our youngest musicians, while the expression and character presented by students in the upper primary levels delighted and engaged the audience.
Special thanks to Kevin Nguyen for his piano accompaniment, the instrumental staff for their preparation and guidance, the Junior School staff in attendance, and Ella Morris for announcing the items in the Year 5 and 6 Soiree in her role as Junior School Music Leader.
And, of course, many thanks to the wonderful family and friends who attended to support our exceptional musical talent. It wouldn’t’ have been the same without you!
Fiona Radford, Junior School Music Coordinator
Year 7 Assembly of Notables
November 17 was something of a red letter day for Year 7 students. This was the night of the presentation of their notable, and the grand finale of a program that has occupied them for several intense weeks of research and creative thinking. Their task was to choose a ‘notable’ and to ask how this person from the past had disrupted and dared to challenge the world. Our program recognises the vast transition students make during their first year of secondary school and this is a celebration of their emerging maturity and instinctive curiosity.
Along with their teachers and House Deans, students welcomed their family and friends to their booths as they spoke with energy and understanding about the contribution their notable had made to the world, whether in the field of scientific or mechanical innovation, philosophy or artistic expression. Their costuming and creative representation of their notable was outstanding and added to the festive atmosphere of the evening.
I would like to congratulate staff from the English, Drama, Art, Music and IT faculties who ably assisted Humanities staff in the teaching and completion of this program. Most importantly I would like to recognise the organisational skill of Ms Laura Furze who co-ordinated the program and ensured that all students saw a way through the complex pathway necessary to wrap up the task and enjoy their moment as their selected notable.
Lynley Clarnette, Academic Dean of Humanities