Latest News and Reminders
The Weeks Ahead
TERM 3 - WEEK 10
Monday 16th September
School Tours 9.00am-9.45am
Year 10 St Mark/St Margaret to Lawn Bowls P3-4
EB/HPV Day Track Training @ Oakleigh Go Kart Track 7.45am-2.30pm
EB/HPV Night Ride Training @ Killester 3.20pm-9.00pm
Yr 10 Volunteers to St Joseph's Homework Club 3.45pm
Tuesday 17th September
Year 8 Activity Day @ Killester
SESG Inters Grand Finals - Volleyball
Wednesday 18th September
Yr 8 Rally Day Incursion P1-2
Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival @ Xavier College, Kew 2.30pm to 6.00pm (Performance time 4.00pm)
Thursday 19th September
Yr 10/11 Monash Mentoring Program Information Session @ Lunchtime (for any interested Yr 10/11s)
Friday 20th September - Term 3 Concludes - School finishes 3.10pm
Yr 8 Humanities Incursion - Polynesian Immersion Day
Yr 9 Kryptic Challenge - Melbourne CBD
VCAL Yakult Factory Tour and Lunch at Burden Park
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS - MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER TO FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER
Note: Office will be closed Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th September but will be open the other week days from 8.30am-3.30pm
TERM 4 - WEEK 1
Monday 7th October
Students Return - Term 4 Commences
School Tours 9.00am-9.45am
Tuesday 8th October
City of Greater Dandenong Event - Nurture Self, Nuture Others 8.30am-3.00pm
Wednesday 9th October
Yr 9 St Agnes/St Rita to Lawn Bowls P1-2
SESG Inters Sport
Thursday 10th October
Yr 9 St Barbara to Lawn Bowls P4-Lunchtime
Grade 6 into 7 2020 Information Night 7.30pm-8.45pm
Friday 11th October
Yr 9 St Helen to Lawn Bowls P4-Lunchtime
VCAL Incursion @ Killester
Saturday 12th October
Killester College Working Bee 9.00am-12.00pm - Morning Tea provided
Upcoming Events
Out and About......
Last week a number of us from the Leadership Team attended the Annual Conference for Catholic Deputy Principals. Father Kevin Dillon, who is Parish Priest at St Simon's in Rowville (so he may be known to some of our families), spoke of the many pastoral support activities he has been involved with and was extremely humble and inspiring when speaking of those who have been helped. We were certainly energised by Kieran Flanagan, who is the co-founder of a strategic think-tank that helps organisations make change. She is a dynamic speaker and motivator. It was a wonderful opportunity to catch up with some of the wonderful things Catholic secondary schools are doing in Victoria.
A reminder that Term 4 commences on MONDAY October 7th. Students need to wear the full summer uniform, which includes the blazer. Day 2 of Term, Tuesday 8th October, is photo day for school teams.
As the Year 12s commence their trial exams, we wish them well. There will be numerous celebrations with them in Term 4 as they complete their time at Killester. Best wishes to everyone for a relaxing holiday period.
Loreto Cannon
School Organisation and Community Development
Naplan 2019
In Term 2 Killester College continued as one of the schools to be part of the pilot program to take NAPLAN testing into the digital age and online.
Over a five day period students in Year 7 and Year 9 were amongst the nearly 50% of schools to complete NAPLAN tests in the areas of Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation and Numeracy as online tests.
Unlike the previous paper tests, which many schools still completed in 2019, the online testing is a form of adaptive testing. This means that as students progress through the test they are directed to questions of varying difficulty depending upon their response to the previous questions. This will allow students, parents and teachers a much clearer picture of the current capacity of our students to attain particular standards in literacy and numeracy.
Results of the tests completed in 2019 were received from ACARA last week. Again, Killester College has achieved results of which we can be proud. Growth reports indicate that in the areas of Reading, Writing, Spelling and Grammar, our students continue to grow and perform well above the national average. Specialised programs in Literacy in Years 7-9 have resulted in our students making significant gains in the areas of Spelling and Writing, with our mean scores being significantly higher than the state. Similarly, Killester College students continued to achieve above the state mean in the area of Numeracy.
Individual student results have been sent by post directly to parents/guardians at the most recent address supplied.
Catholic Education Today
Published each term, Catholic Education Today celebrates the faith, life, achievements and culture of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.