Around the College

International students celebrating Dragon Boat Festival 

On 25th June 2020 all international students celebrated Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival, known from Mandarin Chinese as Duanwu Festival, is a traditional holiday which occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year. On this day they ate some special food, the most popular one was Zongi, which is a kind of sticky rice food with some other ingredients, such as red peas or egg yolk and meat or red dates all wrapped with big bamboo leaves. 

All international students got together and enjoyed two flavours of Zongzi. One was plain sticky rice with red dates, and the other was savoury with pork and mushrooms. 

Tara Fang

International Student Coordinator

From the Past

The photo above shows our school building in its old Caulfield High School days.  It looks like the building is shown during or near completion in 1964. You can see the builders' site sheds still set up on the left. The picture is,of course, taken from the paddock. 

John Tserkezidis

Materials Technology Teacher

Year 12 Business Management

During this remote learning period, our Year 12 Business Management students were fortunate to have the opportunity to experience the operations of the Yakult Factory in Dandenong through a Virtual Tour via WebEx on 20th May 2020.

Operations of Business is an important part of the Year 12 course.  Our students were able to apply knowledge from this tour as a real life example to their up-coming SAC on Operations of Business.

Student reflections:

My reflection for the Yakult is that the excursion was very relevant to operations management, especially raw materials, the processes are mixing the ingredients together and output is the finished product. - Max Bennett 

The Yakult virtual tour was very helpful for my knowledge in the operations system. Learning about the automation process that the company uses is a very cool and economically appropriate method. - Jazz Whittaker

I think that the tour helped me to gain better understanding of operations systems. - Chelsea Layton

I learned a lot from this virtual tour, how Yakult business produces the Yakult drink and maintain the efficiency of the business with the use of hi tech machinery. This was a good activity. - Kay Nguyen

This virtual tour was good and gave a great insight about how production occurs at Yakult. - Oscar Lade

I learned the process of how to make Yakult product. And their Automatic production line was very efficient. - Richard Wang

I found the virtual tour very helpful and informative. It was interesting to see the operations of an actual business. It would have been better in real life, but sadly that was not possible. - Sophia Petropoulos

I believe the virtual tour gave me an insight on how products are produced. I believe this tour was relevant to our current chapter. - Kevin Kim

The Yakult virtual tour was very interesting. It showed a real life business and functions we are learning in the classroom in the real world. The tour guide was very helpful. - Haddie Holman Jones

The virtual factory tour provided me with insight into the process that it takes to deliver the Yakult products. It helped me to apply my knowledge that we had been learning in class. - Joseph Folwell

Parminder Kaur

Year 12 Business Management Teacher