RIA LAUNCH

All RIA students and parents are strongly encouraged to come along to our RIA Launch night on Tuesday, April 2nd at 7pm in the PAC.

On the night, you will be hearing about:

Big changes to RIA Showcase
The RIA review process
Important RIA dates and events for the year
Clarification of day-to-day RIA processes.

This will also be a great opportunity to catch up with other RIA families and teachers. Please let us know you're coming by giving consent in the Event page on Compass.

TOMORROW'S LEADERS

Our East and West School Captains are featured in this week's Knox Leader with other local school captains answering "What difference can your generation make to the world?" Read the story here.

BACKGROUND

They are often accused of being the generation of me, but Melbourne’s Year 12 school captains are doing their bit to dispel the myth of selfish Generation Z. In one of the most comprehensive school projects ever attempted, Leader Community News asked nearly 300 captains from all over Melbourne: What difference can your generation make to the world? Read it here.

THE BROTHERS GRIMM SPECTACULATHON

RIA presents The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon!

Two narrators attempt to recreate all 209 of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in a wild, fast-paced extravaganza. To make it more difficult, they attempt to combine them into one gigantic fable using Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and other more obscure stories like Lean Lisa and The Devil’s Grandmother. This is a comedic, light hearted – Monty-Pythonesque – play for the whole family. The performance is a one-act 60 minute show.

Performance dates are Thursday 2nd May at 7pm & Friday 3rd May at 7pm. Click here to buy tickets.

ANZAC DAY ART DISPLAY AT STUD PARK

ANZAC Day Art Display starts on Monday 15th April through to Friday 26th April at Stud Park Shopping Centre. The artwork showcased is proudly curated by our Year 9 & Year 10 Media Specialism students and will focus on the theme ‘Reflections of War’ to highlight the importance of ANZAC Day for Australians. We will also have colouring sheets for the younger children to complete designed by our students (see below).

Make sure you pop down to Stud Park to check it out.

Colouring sheets created by:

Megumi Holmes
Emily Ghost
Jasmine Thomas
Allanah Major
Deakin Zmood
Deacon Trotter
Jade Easton.

To view all 7 colouring sheets click here.

2019 KEY COLLEGE DATES

For the full list of key college dates for 2019 click here. Or visit our Events on our website.

LETTERS TO CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL

Our students have written letters to Cashmere High School in New Zealand to send their love and support during this difficult and sad time.

VCAL MINUTE TO WIN IT CHALLENGE

On Thursday March 21st our East Year 12 VCAL students ran a Minute to Win It Challenge session with our Junior AFL students. The focus of the session was teamwork, communication, leadership and FUN! The senior students coordinated the 50 year 7 and 8 students into 8 groups, where the senior students ran a series of interactive challenge activities. Some of the popular challenges included the Egg Catch, Hang Time and Handball Madness.

It was great to see the senior students role modelling positive leadership and communication skills with the junior students and everyone had fun throughout the session. Congrats to the Purple team who were our overall winners for the day!

Written by Ms. Lisa Williams, Dean.

ROCK OF AGES CAST LIST

Have you checked out our cast list for our college production yet? Well done to all of our students who auditioned. If you were not successful we still have other roles you can help with backstage, contact Ms. Kacey Hocking or Ms. Julia Duke. Read the full cast list.

YEAR 12 FREE DRESS DAY 'TURNS BACK TIME'

All Year 12 students at the East and West Campuses participated in a free dress day last Monday 18th March. The theme was 'Decades' (50's, 60's, 70's & 80's). Check out the amazing and creative costumes below.

West

East

YEAR 10 INTERNATIONAL FOOD EXPO

As part of the Year 10 Design Technology – Food curriculum, students investigate the role of immigration and the impact on the Australian cuisine we see now. In pairs, students were required to investigate a country, identify 6 traditional dishes and justify why a dish they chose was a suitable representation of their country. On Thursday 14th March they then prepared their dishes for a multicultural expo. During the expo they needed to give a very small talk to the class about how their dish represented their country. A great job by all students.

Written by Ms. Marg Semple, Teacher.

YEAR 9 PAINTING

Year 9’s started painting this term. "They are learning watercolour techniques so they can apply them to their self-portraits CAT", said Ms. Zoe George, Teacher.

RELAY FOR LIFE

The Knox Relay for Life has been running for the last eight years and one of our school families the Formichelli’s participated in this on Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March for their sixth year running.

Ms. Formichelli said “Over the years many of our children's friends from Rowville Secondary College have come along and walked some laps for us. The walk is organised by the Cancer Council and our team name is 'La famiglia'. This year was even more important for us to participate in the relay as our daughter Isabella (past student) was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia in January. It was wonderful to see some of my son’s friends from RSC come and support him and our family. Isabella is doing well and the doctors are pleased with her progress so far. Our family had the honour of carrying the survivors and carers banner to open the relay. The relay was on March 16th from 4pm until Sunday March 17th at 10am. Donations can still be made to our team by clicking here."

YEAR 7 BOYS TENNIS

Written by Lachlan Foster, Year 7 student.

On Monday 25th March, we chose to participate in matches of tennis, playing and competing against different schools around our area including Upwey, Fairhills and Boronia. I paired up with Jay, and won our match 4-0. Then we watched James and Max take on their opponents and Rhylee and Kuvams challengers.

After, we all had a hit around with each other, practicing our skills and having good fun. Then we boarded the bus and went home. Thank you Mr. Sherlock for the awesome day! (and the ice-creams).

BOOK TASTING WITH A FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR

On Thursday 13th March, two of our Year 8 English students, Athena Kaye and Krisahna Demetriou were present at the Knox Literacy Workshop, held at Boronia K-12. They had the amazing opportunity to meet with and listen to international author, Jackie French who has written over 140 books. This interactive workshop saw all students produce some examples of explosive writing, with Anthena's work being praised by Ms French for, "writing a fascinating, gorgeous and wonderful response!"

The workshop was streamed live to other schools and students came away with some valuable tips on the importance of reading and how to "taste" a book. Rowville Secondary College will be having its very own Book Tasting and Supper for parents, carers and students during Literacy Week and we hope Anthena and Krisahna will add some flavour to the evening.

Written by Dr. Saraya Lubarsky, Director of Learning & Naplan.

WELL DONE INTERMEDIATE CRICKET TEAM

I had the pleasure of taking out the intermediate cricket team earlier this month. The team was a combination of year 8 and year 9 boys. We had trained three times in the lead up to match day. We played the East A and bowled quite well but they bowled better, they were not overawed by them at all. In our last game we rotated the boys around to give everyone a bat, as games were only 10 overs long, but this is a game we could quite well have won against Wantirna.

We weathered the elements (rain, wind, hail and sun) and had a terrific day. The boys really teamed together well and gave their best and represented our school and themselves positively.

The team:

Mario Chaisawas, Tyler Evans, Josh Gerreyn, Campbell Gilbert, Jack Halabi, Cooper McCay, Mujtaba Mohebbi, Cooper Naylor, Mitch Neylan, Bryan Nguyen, Bastian Roy, Brayden Rumpf, Charlie Suisted.

Written by Mr. Haje Halabi, Leading Teacher & Instructional Coach.

LITTLE BIG MAN

Year 12, RIA Student Daniel Tohill has his very own show in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Come & see Dan make his debut in to the comedy world with his premiere of Little Big Man. With supporting acts that will have you in stitches, sit back and watch in awe as you experience fresh comedy entertainment that will have you laughing the whole time! Enjoy the variety of stand-up comedy, physical comedy, magic, music, acrobatics, impression, accents, lighting fx and more. This comedy extravaganza is not one to be missed! Book here.

RSA FOOTBALLERS WIN

Our year 7 boys played their first competitive game in Rowville colours against Overnewton SC last week and in a very close game came out 2-1 winners with goals from Raul Afonso and Alex Joowon. Well done boys AND Alana Murphy.

MSA ZEBRA FISH

Earlier this term our year 10 MSA class had the exciting opportunity of working with Monash University and their staff in breeding and monitoring the growth of Zebrafish embryos. The fish and all equipment and materials were provided by Monash University as part of the genetic program where students dive deeper into their study of how character traits are inherited by offspring. As the embryos developed, students were able to watch under the microscope as the embryos grew and developed features that were characteristic of either their mother or father. This is possible as zebrafish embryos’ are transparent. It was a very successful program with the zebrafish safely returned to Monash University.

Written by Braedon Johnstone, Teacher.

VICSRC WORKSHOP

On Monday 25th March, Maverick Taylor, Brianna Collins and Alison Hughes attended a VicSRC Student Voice workshop at Carwatha College.

Mav, Brianna and Alison worked with students and staff from other local schools to identify ways to increase student voice in the College. Brianna and Alison, both being on School Council, and Mav, East Campus Vice School Captain, worked collaboratively to come up with various strategies and ideas on how to increase student voice around the College.

All three students worked extremely well throughout the day and have developed some great ideas. We look forward to hearing about these in the near future. Well done Mav, Brianna and Alison.

Written by Jacqui Barr, Head of Mabo.

RSA VOLLEYBALL CHAMPS

RSA Volleyball program crowned CHAMPION VIC SCHOOL. Winning the Victorian Beach Championships over 3 days at South Melbourne Beach recently. On the final day we added another Gold in the Year 11 Girls Pairs and 2 silvers in the Year 12 Girls Pairs and Year 12 Girls 4s. A brilliant effort overall with final tally of 4 Gold & 6 Silver. Amazing! Well done students.

OPEN NIGHTS 'A GREAT SUCCESS'

This month we held our school open nights and program specific information nights across both campuses. Thank you to our teachers, staff and students for representing the school in such a professional manner and showcasing to prospective families all the fantastic things we do. All evenings were very popular.

MEET OUR SCHOOL CAPTAINS

Have you met our 2019 School Captains yet? We have set up a page on our website to introduce our East & West school captains and vice captains to the school community. We have also interviewed them to see what they have in store for 2019 at RSC. Visit our website.

2019 HOUSE CAPTAINS

After some inspirational speeches, the students voted and we have our House Captains for 2019. Congratulations to:

Western Campus

Walton

Alexandra Gilbert
Ched Alpay

Stynes

Merryn Olman
Cain Williams

Aston

Claudia Jones
Tiana Massin

Mabo

Maddison Brownless
Storm Addison
Ella Willis

Eastern Campus

Walton

Alison Hughes
Suhayla Ahmed

Stynes

Luke Box
Luke Bakewell

Aston

Jessica Daish
Emily Franklin

Mabo

Jiei Motoki
Sam Gelb

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DOWNLOAD SCHOOL PROSPECTUS

Read our school prospectus to find out more about our one great school. Please share with family and friends who may be interested in Rowville Secondary College - download here.

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EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FORM

If you know of anyone who may be interested in coming to our One Great School. Please complete our online Expression of Interest Form.

WELLBEING CORNER

East School & Vice Captains

MEET OUR WELLBEING COORDINATORS

Night Owl Hoops for Youth

UPCOMING EVENTS FOR PARENTS & YOUNG PEOPLE

Eastern VACCA