What a great week it was.
On Monday our Outdoor Education students took off for Inverloch, the Desalination plant and Phillip Island for some surfing, ocean kayaking and environmental impact studies. The weather, surf and learning were great. The students discovered lots about the original inhabitants of the area and the impact of white settlers on the land.
We were also fortunate enough to have the Honorary Neil Angus open our synthetic soccer field at Assembly. Tribe Captains and Impact representatives were presented with their badges. The Basketball Marathon was introduced to the students by our College Captains and we followed our whole school assembly with 6 year level assemblies, where the focus was on continuing to build our learning culture and celebrating student participation in recent events such as World Spelling Day and inter school sport.
Jack, Ricky and Eloise in Year 7 conducted a Transition visit to Livingstone Primary School on Tuesday and made a wonderful presentation to the students. Tours have been busy with prospective parents and students excited to see first hand, what they had heard in the community about the great learning in the College.Visits to Glendal and Blackburn Lake also took place this week and over 20 people went on took a tour of the College this Friday.
Rachel Theofanidies won her way to the Sate finals in diving on Tuesday. What a sensational effort Rachel.
Rachel Theofanidies won her way to the Sate finals in diving on Tuesday. What a sensational effort Rachel.
On Wednesday the students had yet another chance to work with Mr Rogers developing our uniform policy.The IMPACT team led the writing of the rationale for the policy and worked through to a compromise position with Mr Rogers on socks, jewellery and an agreement that the winter and summer uniform can be worn all year round due to the fickle and notorious Melbourne weather. This will be presented to staff and students at our next assembly. Students are being asked for feedback by their IMPACT representatives.
Anne Spudvilas worked with our Yr 8s, who are creating picture books from longer stories. This is part of their writing anthology. Anne explained how pictures can tell part of the story without words, then showed the students how to draw with charcoal.She was working with our Year 8 English classes to assist them develop their story books they have been writing in teams this term.
Anne has produced 7 picture books, 15 illustrated novels and over 40 covers for young adult fiction. A picture book she did which would be known to many is 'Peasant Prince' which is based on 'Mao's Last Dancer'. She collaborated with Li Cunxin and visited China to prepare this book.
Anne has produced 7 picture books, 15 illustrated novels and over 40 covers for young adult fiction. A picture book she did which would be known to many is 'Peasant Prince' which is based on 'Mao's Last Dancer'. She collaborated with Li Cunxin and visited China to prepare this book.
Raffaele Caputo is a film lecturer who spoke to our 11s about the film, 'Gattaca', a text our Yr 11 students are studying. His lecture included discussion of key characters, symbols and themes.
Wednesday also saw 8 Forest Hill College students head off to take part in the Chess Victoria Secondary zone final . The students have been training hard in preparation for the event.
Jackson Lackey Year 12 and Ming Miaw Year 10 have qualified for the State final. Both won 5 out of 7 games. Jackson won the Silver Yr 11/12 medal. Ming won the Bronze at Yr 9/10.
Credits were awarded to Ben Smith and Grant Cater.
All students were great College representatives and had a terrific experience.
First round of Debating Victoria's inter-school competition was held Thursday 22nd March. Our three college teams all acquitted themselves most creditably. D-Grade and C-Grade debates were extremely close with one point losses despite some very fluent and persuasive speeches from our team members.
B-Grade team of Cindy Thang, Jeffery Ho and Alvin Huynh had a most convincing victory arguing that Australia is NOT a poor international citizen. Congratulations to Jeffery on his Best Speaker award.
Well done to all team members: Jack and James Bowman, Oliver Antonopoulos, Alexander Redwwod, James Winstone, Paul Kusmanoff and Benjamin Smith. Thanks to family members and Ms Zemkalnis for their invaluable support. Stay tuned for Round 2 : April 26th!
This weeks PL clips relate to effective classroom teaching, formative assessment and standards based grading, based on the research of Dr Robert Marzanohttp://youtu.be/IdfEm_wIEtM
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