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2022 Collingwood College Swimming Carnival

On Tuesday 22nd February we held our annual Collingwood College Swimming Carnival at Fitzroy Open Air pool. The Melbourne weather was glorious for us again.

With the seating area at full capacity swimming events started at 10am, after a short walk from the college, with the Year 5/6 50m freestyle heats. 

This year we had the whole pool to ourselves so were able to have a section closed off where students could enter into the water to play games and free play. It was that busy we had to create a queuing system! 

As usual, our SRC students were all on hand and run off their feet with BBQ and drinks duties – a BIG thank you to you all.

Overall eventual winners of the 2022 Collingwood College Swimming Carnival were Blue Gum (Blue House) with 209 points. 

1st Place – Blue Gum (Blue) House - 209 points

2nd Place – Banksia (Red) House - 174 points

3rd Place – Eucalyptus (Green) House - 117 points

4th Place – Wattle (Yellow) House – 102 points

Congratulations to Blue Gum for winning the 2022 Collingwood College Swim Carnival.

A big thank you to all participants and teachers for making our 2022 carnival the best one yet. Our next carnival is only five weeks away - The 2022 Athletics Carnival on Thursday 7th April. A great way to finish Term 1.

Here are some photos of the Swimming Carnival

On behalf of the Collingwood College HPE Team – thank you and see you soon.

Regards

James Agombar

Head of Health, Physical Education & Sport

Collingwood College Celebrates the Year of the Tiger!

Here are some photos and a link to a video of our students' work for Chinese New Year 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y4NFq3sBqAu-ZsYixvw-CAxPjT7vlrk1/view?usp=sharing

Students were introduced to the legends, the traditions and festivities of the Spring Festival (also known as Lunar New Year) at the start of the year. 

The LOTE team wishes everyone:

龙腾虎跃，虎虎生风，如虎添翼，虎年大吉！

May we have a year of health, provisions, blessings and joy!

Year 8 Chinese - The Alien Competition

The Year 8's just finished learning how to describe someone's appearance and participated in a 外星人选举赛 (The Alien Competition). Using what they have learned in the chapter, they drew, described in Chinese, and created their aliens using modelling clay. 

Now, which alien is the best?

Collingwood College LOTE (Language Other Than Englsh) team

Green Team Waste Audit

In 2022 the Green Team has expanded to include Primary School students from year 2 up. We have a plan to improve what happens to our waste at school. We want less waste in landfill and more to be recycled or composted. Yarra Council is helping us work out how to tackle this problem. On Wednesday we did a rubbish audit. We tipped out bins and sorted the rubbish into recycling, landfill and compost. Once we work out what kinds of rubbish we have at school we can make a strategy for dealing with it! 

Please email green team with your ideas: greenteam@collingwood.vic.edu.au

Design Week 2022 - DIY Neighbourhood Project

Its been a great pleasure to work with our Year 8 Humanities students in conjunction with the Urban Design Forum and artist Marta Figueiredo. The project is about creating connection to the local Collingwood area and is asking our community what we want to see in Collingwood in the future. Students are participating in an incursion day along with our Grade 5/6 classes next Thursday 10th March.

We also want to invite our families to come into a session run by the Urban Design Forum at 6:30 in the library on Thursday March 10th where you are able to participate in giving views on what our local area should be moving forward.

Finally, we need donations of old toys or objects that you love but could discard. An object that makes you feel at home. If these could be donated to the front office ASAP so they can be included in the artworks being made. Please, no sharp objects or liquids. It has to hold shape and be able to be painted. No smaller than 5 cms or bigger than 30cms in height, with or length. Your objects will then be included in the artworks being made and will be displayed at the celebration event listed below and will appear around Collingwood College in April!

For further details of artist Marta Figueiredo’s work please see her website –

https://marta-figueiredo.com/new-page

DIY Neighbourhood Project - Celebration Event

Monday, 21 March - 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Music Market - Collingwood Yards, Johnston Street, Collingwood VIC, Australia

In this event you will be joined by students, teachers and parents from Collingwood College, about the potential for a community-led plan in their neighbourhood

So you want to change the world? Start with your neighbourhood. We’ve heard this before, but if you do want to change your neighbourhood, where do you begin? At times it seems like we don’t have much influence on the places around us, at best we can ‘object’ to a new development proposal on our street. But what if we could be more proactively involved in mapping out the future for our own neighbourhoods. What skills would you need? Where would you start? Who do you need to partner with? And how would you pay for it all?

In this event you will hear from community members and urbanists about the possibilities of community-led plans, discussing what techniques and processes can be used and what needs to change to support more community involvement in the fabric of their own neighbourhood.

You will be joined by students, teachers and parents from Collingwood College, who have curated an exhibition of what they have discovered, made and discussed, during a series of workshops around their neighbourhood. They have been guided in this process by volunteer urbanists and artists, who are passionate about giving community groups the skills they need to think big and participate in the change they see around them.

This event will be led by Urban Design Forum, an advocacy group supporting public-interest outcomes in our cities, in partnership with Marta Figueiredo an architect & multidisciplinary artist, Collingwood College, a progressive and innovative government school. Collingwood Yards, an affordable, long term home for arts and creativity, and Music Market, a home for the Victorian music industry.

For Tickets -

https://designweek.melbourne/program/making-plans/

Angela Watters

Year 7 & 8 Education & Programs Leading Teacher

Stephanie Alexander ABC Interview - Filmed at Collingwood College - 10 March

Think you know everything there is to know about Stephanie Alexander? Find out more on ABC’s One Plus One – screening Thursday 10 March, 9.30pm, or catch up on iView. Stephanie shares a wide-ranging conversation with guest host Rosie Batty, where she offers tips in the kitchen, talks about the Foundation, and reveals the challenges of running a successful business.

Community Liaison Officers helping Collingwood College to build positive connections with students and families of African background

Collingwood College's Community Liaison Officers work with students and families of African heritage in order to develop positive connections. Collingwood College has a student population of 823 students with a high number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD).

Over 34 languages are spoken within the school community, and many students have only recently arrived in Australia with refugee status.

In 2020 Hassen Mohamed-Saeed, Badria Mustafa and Hussein Ibrahim joined the school as Community Liaison Officers working as part of the school’s wellbeing team.

These new roles were established to help build strong and positive connections with students and families of African background.

Since the African Community Liaisons became onboard; it is widely noticed the connection between  the school and the African school community/students has been greater than ever before. The African community feels a sense of representation at the school and communicated in a language they understand.

Click on the link below to read the article about their valuable work recently  included in the Department of Education & Training website: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/news/Pages/stories/2021/Collingwood-College-is-building-connections-with-the-African-community.aspx

INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE - New Contact Person - Steve Wu

Thanks very much to Naomi Durstan who for several years has been managing the Document that lists musical instruments for sale which provides the opportunity for families to sell and buy second-hand musical instruments.

Thanks also to Steve Wu who has taken over this responsibility this week. You can now contact him.

Please click on the attachment below to see a list of Stringed instruments for sale. If you have an instrument for sale please email at:  fengchih.09@gmail.com

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