Program News

STEM

Term 2 has been full of innovative designs and experiences with Mini Golf and hovering

My words don't do the work that our students have achieved any justice.

Have a look at the Video instead. Congratulations to all 

Blue Light / Blue Edge

The Blue Edge program is half way through their final term and really enjoying this outstanding partnership with VicPol.

Students give 100% and a voluntary program with early morning starts, all weather and hard work is a credit to them, their families and the program.

SEED and Sport

Coaching

Have a look at a short video on soccer coaching and some still of our Netballers in action. The outstanding part of this development with coaches is the responsiveness of our students. They listen, take on board and try to implement the advice. Well done students (and coaches)

Jamie our Soccer coach and Georgia who coaches Netball.

Year 9 & 10 SEED students have been enjoying specialist coaching in a variety of sports to start the year. Due to increased numbers we have been able to offer more sports including basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, cricket in Term 1 and badminton in the coming weeks.

In Year 7 & 8 SEED students have been participating in football, soccer, netball and badminton programs and will start the Term 3 sports of table tennis, volleyball, basketball and hockey.l where competitors are striving for points for OUR NEW HOUSES!

Playing Sport

After 2020 provided very few sporting opportunities, the start to 2021 has been massive. Here is a brief summary of some of the fantastic achievements so far:

Year 11 & 12 Sport: 

Our senior girls’ softball team progressed through to the State Finals after winning the Western Metro Region. They play in Melbourne in late May

The Senior boys’ volleyball team won the Geelong region competition after coming from behind to beat North Geelong in a tight final. The boys then went on to play some very competitive volleyball in the Western Metro finals. 

Year 9 & 10 Sport: 

Our Intermediate softball team will join our senior girls in competing in the State finals next week after finishing runner-up in the Western Metro competition.

The Intermediate girls’ volleyball team won the Geelong region competition in Term 1 and our boys’ team finished runner-up.

Year 7 & 8 Sport: Our badminton teams competed in the Geelong competition on Tuesday 18 May and once again we proved very strong in this sport. Our Year 8 girls and Year 7 boys both taking out their competitions.

We were very unlucky in soccer with both our Year 7 & 8 boys’ team going down in penalty shootouts – it was disappointing for the students because they could  have quite easily won both competitions. The Year 8 team finished runner-up and the Year 7 team were semi-finalists.

Athletics: 

The NBC Year 7-12 Athletics was held at Landy Field on the 21st of April with Freeman taking out the House competition. Bradman finished second in a close finish with Mabo. Irwin House has room from improvement in 2022 with some strong competitors in the younger year levels.

As a result of their achievements 120 students represented the college in the Barwon Division Athletics the following week and for the 3rd Year in a row Northern Bay College increased our overall points in the school competition. 

We now have 6 students and a relay team that will compete in the Western Metro Athletics in September. Allie Todd was the outstanding performer on the day- winning 4 events and anchoring the 16 girls relay team.

Please check out this short video giving a sense of the day's activities and achievements.

Performing Arts

We received this message and gives a great insight into our P-2 music program

TBA@Northern Bay College

Tuneful, Beatful, Artful

Once upon a time singing used to be part of every day life.  Families would gather around the piano or other instruments in the evenings and sing community songs . In schools, teachers often played the piano or or xylophone as students tunefully sang - simple nursery rhymes for the infants and more complex songs sung as rounds or in harmonies for the older students. While singing has become a smaller and smaller part of every day life as each decade passes, the body of research about the benefits of singing and music education for the developing brains of children becomes larger and larger. We now know that music education:

• Improves literacy – listening, speaking, reading and writing
• Improves executive functions like impulse control, working memory and flexible thinking
• Improves social cohesion and co-operative behaviour within groups

At Northern Bay College, they have recognised the potential of music to change the lives of their students - to provide them with happy moments in the classroom AND to change their brain development to give them the very best start in formal education. Bluebird Foundation has partnered with Northern Bay to deliver a comprehensive early years daily classroom singing program. Every day over 500 students sing and dance with their classroom teachers. 

"They are very engaged and enjoying the songs. It is good to see the students who are normally very quiet and withdrawn singing along." Classroom teacher 

Not every student at Northern Bay will grow up to become a professional musician, but we know that some will, and the daily classroom singing program gives them the foundational music skills they need to make that possible. We also know that every single student will benefit from the neurological changes to their growing brains, in addition to the opportunity to develop a love of music and experience the joy that comes from creating musical moments with others.

"It's been fabulously joyous and a highlight of every week!" Classroom teacher

TBA@NBC is a collaboration with Northern Bay College and proudly supported by The Anthony Costa Foundation

The program is now well under way and there are a great deal of activities talking place all with a focus on pathways in the arts. We have been making sound effects for radio and learning how to perform them and are commencing a puppetry unit with an artist in residence.

We were given the opportunity to go to Melbourne on Sunday 16 May to see the Opera Macbeth. Mr Diamond drove the school bus and 10 students braved the unknown to share this experience. None had been to an Opera before and the focus was the experience and to use their own preferences to focus on during the 3 hour performance.

The options ranged from lighting, stage design, costume design, the connection to orchestra, the vocal ranges of the singers as well as how to present drama while not really understanding a word that was sung! Kudos to the students who took this plunge into the unknown and much appreciation to Ken Harrison one of the College's Challenge Board members who organised the complimentary tickets.

EXTENDED SCHOOL DAY

The term 2 program has been going very well and is almost half way through the course. With the population suffering early winter chills and coughs there have been some classes which have had to be missed for a week and I thank all of the students and program teachers for changing their activity at the very last moment.

The breadth of programs are always very exciting.

Planning is already taking shape for term 3 so if any student or community member has a great idea for 8 one hour sessions please email Mrs Baulch at amanda.baulch@nbc.vic.edu.au

One of this Term's most popular Wednesday Programs is World Cup Soccer. At the end of the Program the Tournament will be played. All the children are looking forward to that. This short video shows the fund, the emotions and the skills.

Amanda Baulch

Coordinator: Extended School Day Program, Performing Arts and Year 9 Impact teacher.