Kingswood College Newsletter

Message from the Principal

Open Day
There are many different ways to measure success and last Saturday at Open Day the College looked magnificent.  Our Student Ambassadors did a tremendous job meeting and greeting, answering many questions and conducting tours for our prospective families who came to see our school in action.  We also welcomed the Senator the Honourable Mitch Fifield who officially opened our newly renovated Sports Centre as part of our 125 years celebrations. Thank you also to our parent volunteers who helped out on the day.

Graduate Art Show
Attending the opening of the Graduate Art Show on Wednesday evening was a privilege. The diversity and quality of student work was remarkable. Thank you to our wonderful Explorations staff for making it such a delightful occasion.

International Women’s Day Dinner
Last night we held our very successful 4th International Women’s Day Dinner which was attended by approximately 150 people.  Our guest speakers, Dr Anne Walker AM, Christine Faulks (SOSK) and Kathy Kaplan (impact for women inc) spoke about the challenges for a lot of women.  Thank you to Alana Hollenberg, Kate Castle and their team for a great event.

Elisabeth Lenders
Principal

Prep – Year 12 Athletics

This year the College will host its first Prep – Year 12 Athletics Carnival on Tuesday 17 March 2015.

The Carnival will be held at the Bill Sewart Athletic Track in East Burwood.

Parents are most welcome to attend the Carnival. Please note the different times throughout the day of when students will be at the Track:

9.00am - 2.45pm, all middle and senior school students.

10.00am - 2.00pm, Years 2 - 6.

10.45am - 1.00pm, Prep and Year 1.

Jam and preserves making for the Carnival – we need your help!

We are urgently seeking volunteers to help make jams and preserves to sell at the Community Carnival.

The fruit is ripe and it’s now time to turn that into beautiful jams and preserves!

If you have any spare lemons and would like to donate them, please drop them into Stacey Luke at reception.

If you’re available to help on Saturday 14 March in the Cato Centre from 8.30am, please contact Anita Hill or call her on 0400 206 247.

Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Alternatively, if you would like to donate ingredients to assist in the making, please be in touch with Anita.

All proceeds from the Carnival will go towards funding the Centre for a Purposeful Life.

Year 7 2017 enrolments

The College is about to commence the enrolment process for the Year 7 2017 intake. Any sibling of a current student wishing to commence at the College in Year 7 2017 must have lodged an Application for Enrolment in order to receive enrolment priority. If an application for enrolment has not yet been submitted please do so as soon as possible. Applications can be made online or on a paper form available at the College reception.

For any queries regarding application for enrolment please contact Elizabeth Knowles, Registrar on 9896 1718.

Inter School Social Justice Conference

It’s always a glorious feeling when you’re told you're going to miss a day of school. When the teacher says that the program will ‘run for an entire day’ you just can’t help but smile, knowing that you can just sit back and relax, and pretty much just skip an entire day of formal lessons!

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News from the Junior School

The International Baccalaureate (IB) aims to do more than other curricula by developing inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who are motivated to succeed.  We hope our students will help to build a better world through intercultural understanding and respect.

So where does learning another language fit in? Why should children who are already learning one language, as well as the language of Mathematics and the language of music, spend more time learning a foreign language?

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Middle School Captains are Persuaded to visit Year 5

The Year 5 class are currently learning about role models for their first unit of inquiry and what better role models to visit their class than Maddie and Alex.

Students from Year 5 questioned Maddie and Alex about being a leader and role model at Kingswood College. Each child then presented their persuasive text to Maddie and Alex.   They received excellent positive feedback about how persuasive and emotive they were, how persuasive language was used and the dramatic way it was presented. According to all parties involved it was ‘a very happy, positive experience’.

April 2015 Holiday Programs - open to girls and boys in Years 7, 8 and 9

Are you looking for a unique life experience for your child that you won’t find anywhere else?  Would you like them to be challenged, have fun, develop their confidence and leadership capabilities - and improve their health? If so, these programs could be just what you are looking for!
 

April 2015 Holiday Leadership Programs
Program 1: Years 7 and 8 (Monday 30 March – Thursday 2 April) & Program 2: Years 7, 8 and 9 (Tuesday  7 April – Friday 10 April)
 

We are offering a four-day Leadership Program in weeks one and two of the April holidays open to any girls and boys in Years 7, 8 or 9.  Both programs provide participants and families options about the level of challenge they desire and when they want to attend. 

For more information and to register for programs please visit this link on our website:  http://www.wels.com.au/#!melbourne-/c23l1

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Kingswood College Graduate Art Show

Our Year 12 Visual Art, Studio Art and Visual Communication Design students held their annual 'Graduate Art Show' opening on Wednesday 4 March. The exhibition showcases a stunning range of final pieces prepared as part of the graduate's coursework for VCE. In Year 12 Art subjects students choose subject matters and mediums that they prefer to work in. This year's exhibition is diverse and beautiful. The Exhibition was opened by Elisabeth Lenders, Bianca Farley (Year 12 Visual and Studio Art teacher) Aimee Fraser (Precinct Leader of Explorations) James Lawson (graduate Studio Art student) and Lauren Huggins (our current Arts Captain).  The exhibition closes on 15 March. We hope everyone gets a chance to see it.

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Aimee Fraser
Precinct Leader - Explorations

A celebration of Chinese New Year is not complete without a Lion Dance!

As Kingswood College offers Chinese language and Chinese culture courses, we celebrate the important Chinese festivals with our students.

This year some students made dumplings and some students got very special red pockets. The lion was the highlight and caused much excitement as it made its way from Station Street.  The lion’s movements have their origin in Chinese martial arts. Lions might visit the houses and shops of the Chinese community to grab at green vegetables which they then spit out but the red envelop with money will be kept. The lion dance is believed to bring good luck and fortune to a business.

The lion danced along the school driveway starting from the main office and finishing at the Junior School courtyard. Our students and staff enjoyed it thoroughly especially the younger students.  The squeals of delight were tremendous as the lion drew up to its full height. Some of the Early Learning Centre students declared that they knew it was not a real lion!  Others of them have already asked when the next Chinese New Year will occur.

We want to thank Tatsing Chinese grocery shop at the corner of Canterbury Road and Station street  for donating $300 towards the cost of the lion dance and some chocolate for our Chinese Culture class. We hope that Tatsing’s generous sponsorship  brings them prosperity in the New Year.

Yang Chen
Chinese teacher

Your Parents and Friends Association

The PFA International Woman’s Day Dinner was held last night at the Box Hill Golf Club. Thank you to everyone who bought their tickets early.  The night was a sell out once again.  Everyone agreed it was a fabulous night and a full report will be in our next newsletter.  Thank you to the wonderful members of the IWD Dinner Committee, led by this year’s Chairperson Kate Castle, who have worked tirelessly for the past month or two to make the Dinner happen.  We know that SOSK are extremely appreciative of the support and the money raised.

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Blackburn Football Club

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Careers News

Attention parents and grandparents - Volunteer interviewers required!  As part of the Enterprise Program the Year 10 students will be required to attend a 1:1 Mock Interview in week 3 or 4 of Term 3.  We are looking for volunteers to conduct these interviews.  If you have time to spare I would love to hear from you.  Interview experience is not essential as training (including an interview script) will be provided prior to the interviews.  If you would like to be involved, please contact Julie Glanvill on 9896 1782 or email glanvill.j@kingswoodcollege.vic.edu.au  for more details.

Careers newsletter:  The Careers Newsletters is now available on the Kingswood College Careers website for parents and students to view.  To access the careers newsletter, click on the following link:  Careers Newsletter.  This will take you directly to the homepage of the Careers website.  Click on Important Information/Careers Newsletter to view current and past editions of the Careers Newsletter.

Julie Glanvill
Careers Counsellor

Kingswood College Community Prayer Meeting

The next Kingswood College Community Prayer Meeting will be:

Tuesday 17th  March 2015 from 8.30am – 9.30am.  We meet in the

Administration Building Meeting Room.

All are welcome! Any school parents or carers who would like to join us, or would like more information – please contact Ruth or Lyn on the numbers below.

Ruth Hook (David Year 10) Telephone - 0430 289 344   hooky1@optusnet.com.au

Lyn Gray (Luke Year 10) Telephone -  0424 001 933   lyncgray@bigpond.com

Rev Greg Beck
School Chaplain