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Kingswood College Newsletter

Message from the Principal

Last week at assembly we congratulated Kathryn Brooks, New House Captain in Year 12 who contributes in a multitude of different ways to our community.  Recently she achieved the World Number 1 ranking for Under 21 Women's Javelin. What an achievement!

Special thanks to Matt Scholes who has masterminded the Kingswood College Sports Club idea, and on Wednesday 40 Junior School students participated in either soccer or netball activities (thanks too, Karen Worland!) after school. This is a wonderful initiative and clearly very popular with our Junior students. The activity will continue for the remainder of first term and has a multitude of benefits, and educates the mind, body, heart and spirit of our students.

Remember Open Day on Saturday 28 February from 10.00 - 2.00pm which will celebrate our 125 years, and also re-open our renovated Gymnasium at 1.00pm. We hope to see you there!

Thank you to every parent who attended our Information Nights for school sections in recent weeks, and especially those who came to more than one! We appreciate your commitment to our partnership, and I was pleased to provide a College update prior to your meetings with those who work directly and daily with your child.

Finally a word of recommendation to attend the Parents and Friends Association meeting on Tuesday - a great group of parents, and a fine cause! Guest speaker for February is our very own VCE Psychology teacher Dianne Mawby, sharing her considerable expertise in the area of adolescent sleep - a vital element of personal wellbeing, and an increasing challenge for many. Di will be speaking at the European Psychology Conference on this topic mid- year, so you can hear her here instead of travelling to Milan. Do come along!

 

Elisabeth Lenders
Principal

Saturday 28 February 2015

Thank you to those parents who have already volunteered to help out at the College Open Day to be held on Saturday 28 February from 10.00am – 2.00pm.

If you would like to help out by speaking with prospective parents, manning the BBQ or assisting with car parking and have not yet registered, please click here to do so.

Your Parents and Friends Association

By now you should be settled in to the 2015 school year and we’d like to remind you that the first meeting of the PFA will be held next Tuesday 24 February.  Dianne Mawby, our Year 12 Psychology teacher at Kingswood College, who will present a Parent Information Session on ‘Adolescent Sleep’.

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Jams 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’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.

PFA International Women's Day Dinner

Tickets for this year’s International Women’s Day Dinner are filling fast.  The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Make It Happen’, encouraging effective action for advancing and recognising women.

Kathy Kaplan OAM is certainly someone who ‘makes it happen and she will speak at our dinner.  Combined with a number of other volunteering activities, Kathy is Founder and President of Impact for women inc – a volunteer-led and driven charity working to make a difference to Victorian women and children living in crisis accommodation due to domestic violence.

Impact for Women web page: www.impactforwomen.org.au

Tickets are $60 or $50 for students. 

Book here

Congratulations Mason Fairlie

Year 9 student Mason Fairlie successfully graded to receive his black belt in Zen Do Kai freestyle karate in December 2014.

Mason has been learning Zen Do Kai karate since he was eight years old and trains at Zanshin Martial Arts & Fitness.

His commitment and diligence served him well during a very demanding grading test.

 

Congratulations Mason.

National Schools Constitutional Convention

Kingswood College Year 11 student Alice  Curtis is one of 120 Year 11 and 12 students selected from across the country to investigate the need for an Australian Bill of Rights at the 20th National Schools Constitutional Convention, being held at Old Parliament House in Canberra from 24 - 26 March 2015.

The National Schools Constitutional Convention program provides senior students with an opportunity to become better informed about how Australia's constitution provides a democratic framework and encourages them to take an active interest in the operation of government.  The topic of the 2015 Convention is Checks and balances: do we need an Australian Bill of Rights? Discussion at the Convention will include a focus on the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.

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Kingswood College Graduate Art Show

You are all invited to attend the Opening of the Graduate Art Show to be held at 6.00pm on Wednesday 4 March at Box Hill Community Art Centre.

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Primary Years Programme (PYP) Attitudes Student of the Week

In Year 5 we have a book that goes home with a student each week.  It is an attitudes book and it replaces all other homework for that child for that week.

Last week, Zac Muller took the book home and chose the attitude, Cooperation.  He felt that it best represents his family and himself.  Other attitudes that he could have selected included: appreciation, commitment, confidence, creativity, curiosity, empathy, enthusiasm, independence, integrity, respect and tolerance.

Zac wrote a lovely poem about cooperation:

We hold hands tight, when up against a fight
We use four brains instead of one, which gets the job done
We work as a team, Like a well oiled machine
We help each other out, without a single shout

News from the Junior School

It has been a busy week in the Junior School. On Tuesday 17 February we started the day off with a Pancake Breakfast for ELC – Year 12 students. Obviously there were a lot of hungry people about as the pancakes sold out for the first time in 16 years. Over $550 was raised for people in need. Following this, the Junior School celebrated and inducted our 2015 leaders in a special assembly. Congratulations to all these students. I look forward to working alongside them throughout the year in each of their roles. On Wednesday 18 February we had a special visitor to the College in the form of a Chinese Lion to celebrate Chinese New Year.

羊年大吉
愿新年为您带来快乐,友爱和宁静

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Learning Club

A great start to the Middle School Learning Club on Tuesday 17 February with 17 students attending.  This number was particularly pleasing given that Learning Club is being trialled for two weeks with only Years 7 and 8 students and also having two Year 8 classes away on camp.

Many thanks to Di Thomson, Saji Anil and Iain Murphy who supported this initiative.

 

Anthony Willis
Deputy Principal - Wellbeing
Head of Middle School

 

From the Senior School

So much has happened in the three weeks since we commenced our programs in the Senior School.

Our second VCE Student Conference with Billanook and Cornish Colleges proved again to be a great focus for students undertaking Units 1 and 3 this year. The metaphor of the VCE being a marathon and not a sprint is so apt. Endurance, persistence and hard work, combined with a collaborative and collegial environment are the key elements in completing a VCE program with clear goals and objectives. Most students know what is expected, but learning how to achieve the goals set is important for confidence and general wellbeing.

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Stephenson Resource Centre News - eBooks seamlessly available on mobile devices

Wheelers books have released an app that will provide seamless access to Stephenson Resource Centre’s eBooks on iPad or iPhone. If you have an Android device an app for mobile delivery is also available.

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Pancake Day 2015

Pancake Day Tuesday was a huge success. $556 was raised to support the work of UnitingCare, the social service agency of the Uniting Church in Australia. I wish to express my appreciation to all those parents and students who supported this function by purchasing the pancakes. For the first year in the 17 years I have worked this event, we ran out of pancakes at exactly the same time as students needed to get to their classes!

I thank all the parents for their assistance in cooking and getting the students volunteering to assist to the school before 7.15am when cooking began in earnest. A big thank you to Sue Harriage for doing most of the organising of needed helpers, equipment and mix and to the many other staff involved in doing this special fundraising which assists those in our area who are in need.

 

Greg Beck
Chaplain

Careers News

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.

Year 12 interviews:  The Year 12 students will be attending a 1:1 interview with Julie Glanvill, commencing Monday 23 February.  The students have been asked to complete the career planner (on the careers website) prior to their interview. The purpose of the interviews is to assist students with their plans for 2016, and to provide support and guidance to students who are unsure of their direction at this stage.

 

Julie Glanvill
Careers Counsellor

Run for the Kids

In support of the Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal we encourage you to participate in the Run for the Kids on Sunday 22 March 2015.

Distance: 5.4km / 15.5km

Cost: $48 / $53 per person

Please contact Sports Captain Emma Leurs to register your interest.

 

 

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Blackburn Newhope Football Club

 

Welcomes new players to season 2015

 

 

 

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Kingswood College 2015

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