Issue No.8 december 16th, 2015 College News · 2018. 7. 2. · Issue No.8 december 16th, 2015 College News 76 booran road caulfield east 3145 telephone: 9571 7838 Facsimile: 9571

Issue No.8 december 16th, 2015

College News76 booran road caulfield east 3145

telephone: 9571 7838 Facsimile: 9571 0079email: [email protected]

this newsletter is emailed home to all families twice per term. If you have any items of interest to the college community or want to advertise your business, please contact either Penny marks

or Gabrielle darvell (business manager) on 9571 7838.

Movember Fundraising

Diwali Celebrations

Languages Assembly

FROM THE PRINCIPALAs I reflect on our achievements in 2015 I could not be more proud of our students, staff, parents and community – we are a fantastic team at Glen eira college.

this term we celebrated diwali (Festival of Lights) led by Lilly Francis and bernadette ronald. there were displays, workshops, dancing and great food. this is another example of celebrating our wonderful culturally diverse community. We were delighted to have the French Ambassador as our special guest at our recent Languages Awards Assembly. It was exciting to see so many students recognised for their success in French, hebrew and chinese. the results for students participating in the deLF (diplome elementaire en Langue Francaise) exams get better every year. I am very grateful for all of the hard work and commitment to language education provided by all of our language teachers.

the music Festival was again a great success showcasing the performance talents of our students. I am delighted with the hard work of all of our Instrumental music teachers, led by robyn Keane, and their commitment to developing the talents of each of their students.

the Year 10 surf camp was a huge success. the students and staff had a wonderful time and everyone learnt a few new skills.

congratulations to our 2016 school captains Akhil mathew and Katherine Aspinall and Vice captains James brooks and sofia Vamvakidou and our 2016 Junior school captains tuesday mooney and sean Kelly and Vice captains seirra danon and harry macLeod-smith

congratulations to Alistair and eitan from 7b who were invited to represent Gec at the National Inter-school chess Finals recently at Queens college melbourne university. the National Interschool chess competition involved 17 schools and 104 students in the middle years (years 7, 8 and 9). Well done to these 2 students who achieved great results.

Year 12 ValedictoryIt was wonderful to celebrate the completion of secondary schooling with our Year 12 graduates and families. students were awarded with certificates and commemorative ‘owls’. mary maniatis again excelled with commemorative cupcakes and a wonderful main cake that all students signed. I look forward to the results of our wonderful Year 12s.

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College News College News College News College NewsStaffing We say farewell to:

•DominiqueDeMareuil,VictoriaSapoznikoff, Yuyun Feng, Lyn campbell, Anny bevan, Kathleen Pellizzer,HelenAmir,JenniferHoldenandthank them for their wonderful contribution in working with our students in their time at Gec. •MadeleineStulgiswhohasreplacedMatthew Weekes while on leave this term.

daniel mulligan is taking a year of leave to travel and we wish him all the best.

As our numbers continue to grow we are in the wonderful position of recruiting more excellent teachers and support staff to the college. We welcome:

•HaroulaChristodoulou-LeadingTeacher, senior school •ColinSuckling–BusinessManager •LeeDalton–Maths/Science •ErinBurgess–French/English •BernieCoghlan–BusinessManagement/EAL/ Phys ed •MelanieMattsson–LegalStudies/English •EmmaNishikubo–French/Japanese

We will also have simon as an intern from telecom Lille for January to may 2016 working in the area of communications.

Finally, I wish all students and families a happy and safe holiday and look forward to seeing you all ready for the 2016 academic year which begins on thursday 28th January.

Sheereen KindlerPrincipal

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Junior SCHool HigHligHtSWell that’s a wrap! 2015 is finished and 2016 has begun. We farewelled our Year 9 students as they moved into the senior school and welcomed the new Year 7 students on orientation day.

the Year 9 program finished up with Project rockit leadership incursion and Peer support

training. congratulations to those Year 9 students who are now Peer support Leaders. We look forward to working with you and seeing you blossom as leaders.

the Year 8 girls’ table tennis team competed at the smr regional finals. It was an intense day as they won their way through to the grand final. sierra, reena, manon and Pauline, led by campbell, lost in the grand final but were the smr runners up. congratulations team – very well deserved!

movember was another successful event with many students and staff donning moustaches while raising money for men’s health. thank you to coen and his aunt, Marissa,fortheamazingartworkandpreparation!

the Junior school team wishes you a very safe and relaxing holiday and we look forward to working with you again in 2016.

Keira McLeanJunior School Leader

Year 8 Girls’ Table Tennis

Year 7 HigHligHtSWhat a wonderful end to a fantastic year. It is very rewarding to see the huge progress that our Year 7 students have made since the beginning of the year – I am very proud. We have also had a really good transition that will set our students up for a successful start to Year 8.

there have been so many things to celebrate this term. relay for life at duncan mackinnon was a huge success with a large number of Year 7 students getting involved. We all had some wonderful musical performances from sophie rowsell, brittany cooper, michaela butler-brauer, Jasmine hobbs-Gordon, mikki clemans and emma singer.

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the Year 7 boys’ cricket team achieved great success at interschool sport, only losing by 7 runs in their final game. Well done to: Josh Agar, harrison ryan, Jaymin Patel, Kartik Panikar, hudson messenger, seokhyun Lee, dante spina, ben schauder, Vansh shah, Oscar crick, Abhinav tummala, srivanth Allaka and Alex ellenbogen.

during transition it was very exciting to see students showcase their dance moves during their dance routines for Pe. We certainly have some very talented Year 7s. We had a great day on our annual trip to melbourne Zoo. the students used a combination of science and their language studies to enrich their experience. A really great way to finish off a very successful year.

thank you Year 7 for a wonderful year. I hope you all have a very restful summer holiday. I look forward to seeing you all in year 8 in 2016.

Louise BaragwanathYear 7 Coordinator

Relay For Life

Year 8 HigHligHtSIt has been a great pleasure to get to know and work with the Year 8 students and I am delighted to be their coordinator again next year. It was great to see our Year 8 students growing both academically and personally.

As part of the Year 9 transition program they participated in a workshop on social labels and judgement where they learnt to develop empathy for their peers and reflected on the differing experiences that fellow students might have of school.

I would like to congratulate all the Year 8 students who ran for Junior school captain as I was very impressed by the effort and the professionalism they put in writing and delivering their speeches. congratulations to tuesday mooney and sean Kelly who were elected Junior school captains and sierra danon and harry macLeod-smith who were elected Vice-captains.

I wish you all a well-deserved summer break and look forward to working with you again next year.

Celine FompudieYear 8 Coordinator

Year 9 HigHligHtS After much excitement and preparation our Year 9 students and staff headed off to Phillip Island Adventure resort on monday 9th November. Our first stop was the san remo foreshore for a relaxing lunch on the beach followed by watching the local pelicans being fed by Parks Victoria rangers.

After settling into the camp accommodation all students and staff headed off to the various activities that were organised over the next couple of days. during the archery we saw some budding archers in the making with Jade Wolfson, TimRuzeuandAaronRegterschotfiringoffsomeveryhighscores during their group shoot outs. the disc Golf saw some very accurate frisbie throwing occurring among the various groups and ms mcLean’s group (Anna rowsell, mathilde Papon, campbell hymans, Noah micmacher, chandra Windi, ElizabethLindner-Craig,BinilMathew,AdamCosgrave,CoenmcGinniss, Kai cappel, Alex Ide, barney miller, Vasundhara singh and Julie robin) setting the score to beat around the course. the canoeing saw some stylish rowing across the lakeandafewcapsizingincidentswithCoreyZielinskianddimitris chrisoulis ending up in the lake on a few occasions. the Laser tag saw a lot of ducking and dodging occurring around the bush course with all Year 9 students and staff showing off their sharp shooter abilities.

One of the challenges of the camp was a raft building competition. It was great to see all students enthusiastically undertake this activity with very creative rafts being built. most importantly, all rafts with their passengers aboard made it across the lake without sinking in the process. the most challenging activity of the camp was the high ropes course which involved students climbing up to a course which was about 3 metres above the ground then climbing along a challenging course. It was great to see the acrobatic efforts of the students as they moved along the course.

After the challenges of the day we spent the night relaxing by taking a walk to the local beach, watching a movie and participatinginadisco/karaokenight.ThekaraokenightsawYear 9 talent on display with eloise Wenborn singing “rolling in the deep” and even mr Golding sang a rendition of ‘All about the bass’ with back up support from Anna rowsell, morgan edwards and berenice mickelburough.

Unfortunately,thecampcametoaquickendandwehadtoreturn back to Glen eira college. Over the time of the camp it was great to see the terrific attitude of the students and that theytooktheopportunity tomoveoutof theircomfortzoneto participate in activities. I would like to extend a ‘big thank you’ to the following staff members who attended the Year 9 camp and made it possible: Keira mcLean, robyn Keane, david ebert, Adam Golding, Georgina Peters, emma Power and radcliff Owen.

As part of the Year 9 Food technology course 9d students undertook a cupcake design activity. during the activity they came up with some very creative and delicious design. congratulations to everyone who participated in this activity!

It is hard to believe that 2015 school year has come to an

Surf our internet address for information about the college and items of interest: www.gec.vic.edu.au

College News College News College News College Newsend. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Year 9 students and parents/guardians for support over the year.I hope you all have a wonderful festive season and a very relaxing holiday break.

Elizabeth AllanYear 9 Coordinator

David Shulz

Samuel Soultanakis and Ari Verrios

CHeSS CHamPionSHiPOn sunday 29th November Alistair mccutcheon and eitan Nikolaevsky in Year 7 competed in the rJ shield chess Finals at Queens college melbourne university, a lead up event to the National Interschool chess championship.

eitan won 2 games and drew 2. Alistair won 6 out of 7, coming equal first in the over 12 competition. Theboyswere veryhappy with their results! Alistair was also presented with his chess Junior master certificate.

Alistair and eitan are looking forward to competing for Glen eira college in the National Interschool chess finals over the next two days at Queens college.

Keira McLean

Eitan Nikolaevsky and Alistair McCutcheon

Senior SCHool newSFirst of all I would like to thank the community of Glen eira college for supporting me this year as the senior school Leader. I feel very humbled and privileged to have been your senior school Leader. In particular I would like to thank my team; Lou tsarpalas, mary maniatis and Laura brancatella, who have worked tirelessly to support all of our students to achieve their very best in everything that they choose to do. I encourage all students to set the bar high, to cross that line and achieve great things in the coming year.

congratulations to all of our 2015 Year 12 students who have, by now, received their results. I am very proud of your achievements and I look forward to hearing about all of your adventures when you come back and visit us for Aim high club next year.

It is with great pleasure that I introduce the senior school student Leaders for 2016. congratulations on your appointment to these positions. We all look forward to working with you next year and know you will represent the college to the best of your ability.

2016 School Captains Akhil mathew Katherine Aspinall

Student abSenCeSParents are reminded that the college has a designated telephone line for notification of student absence – 9571 4178.

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thanks again for a great 2015! I wish you all a safe and happy holiday season.

Emily BrownSenior School Leader

Year 10 newSAs the 2015 school year draws to an end I would like to thank all Year 10 students for the wonderful relationships we have formed over the last two years. I want to wish you all well as you move into your Vce and I look forward to seeing you all do well over the journey.

A very successful Year 10 surfing camp was held at Anglesea on 23rd – 25th November. All 34 students and three staff got the opportunity to “hang ten” except of course for mr Lou who struggled to get on the surfboard. the mind said “do it” but the body couldn’t cope. I was very proud of our Year 10 students whilst on camp as their behaviour was exemplary and they did our college proud. thank you as well to miss brown and madame de mareuil for attending the camp, partaking in all the activities and helping me out.

Finally, welcome to the 2016 Year 10 cohort and their families. Please feel free to email/ringme to discuss any issues orconcerns you may have.

to all at Gec have a terrific festive season and a wonderful holiday.

Lou Tsarpalas Year 10 Coordinator

Year 11 newStHanK You For a great Year!It is so hard to believe that we are at the tail end of 2015 – where did the days, weeks and months go?

I feel like it was only yesterday when we had our first Year 11 meeting and I presented the idea of crossing the Line(a motivational concept aimed to inspire our young people to succeed).

so what can I say about the current Year 11 cohort? Firstly, it has been a pleasure to work with all students. We have had times of tantrums and tears but the one thing is that, I said it from the start, we are on a journey together navigating the waters of 2015, in good and challenging times. this year we farewelled many students who all sought different pathways away from Glen eira college – Natan camissar, Yoad rafael, Andrea medina, Andrei Panaligan, Lachlan connor, mikhael Tovel, Taylor Powell, Corey Tzabari, Mike Zhang, JoshuaWoodcock, Natchaphat Phosa-Ard, samantha cohen and hung Le. At the end of the year we will have a small group leaving the Year 11 family – Jordan timmons, Lachlan smith, Farisha sardar, david Qiu and tristan coomerawel – and we thank them for their contribution to the college and wish them all the very best in their future endeavours.

to all Year 11 students thank you for a great year, full of great memories and I enjoyed celebrating with you all at our Year 11 function at maxy’s restaurant. to parents, it has been a pleasureworkinginpartnershipwithyoualltoseeyourson/daughter successfully through the year. happy holidays to you all.

May ManiatisYear 11 Coordinator

Year 12 newS

congratulations to the class of 2015 on finally graduating. It was an absolute pleasure and honour to lead this group of young people. I wish them the very best for their future endeavours.

I sincerely thank all students for their cooperation and enthusiasm this year. I especially thank the school captains, Vincent mcKeown-West, Jayde Glass, digby mooney and mailys Perfrement for their outstanding leadership throughout the year. special thanks also to the students on the Year 12 executive who gave so much of their time to support and organizefunctionsfortheirpeers.

Year 12 2015 Valedictory Cake

Mailys Perfrement and Digby Mooney


College News College News College News College NewsI would also like to thank all of the staff at Gec for their support during 2015, in particular the senior school staff, who have worked tirelessly throughout the year.

Finally, I would like to wish you a very happy and safe christmas.

Laura BrancatellaYear 12 Coordinator

moVemberNovember, a month packed full special events. On the first tuesday a race stops the nation. then, just over a week later, we remember those who have fallen in all wars. It is the exam and report-writing period. November signals to us that the end of the year is just around the corner. Not only is November the last month of spring, it is the month where hair seems to spring up on many a man's top lip. November sprouts into movember!

this movember, mr Givogue became our resident smithsonian, with his mutton chop moustache. michael Kelty looked more like michael J Fox in teen Wolf, while mr Golding was sporting a sophisticated errol Flynn. but no one can rival Lou's big bad 'tache!!

coen mcGinniss, who started our movember tradition back in 2013, was instrumental again this year in leading this great initiative. he arranged for signage to be placed around the school promoting movember and manned the stall supplying all of the stick on moustaches to be sold on the day. he also roped in a few helpers, in particular Adam cosgrave and BrandonWasbutzki. MsMcLean andMs Brown displayedtheir artistic talents, painting on stylish moustaches. many staff and students supported the day, painting on or sticking on a moustache. thank you also to ms maniatis for providing moustache cupcakes for sale.

movember not only proved to be yet again successful, it proved the continuing generous and giving nature of our entire Gec community.

though I must honestly say, december is a decidedly better looking month...

Tori MulliganTeaching and Learning Leader

Movember fundraising

enriCHment & enHanCementstudents from Year 7 worked in teams to collaboratively construct ‘liveable cities’ as their major project for Geography. the results were stunning and an exhibition of works was on view in the library to show their models. In addition to working on current projects, students from Years 7, 8 & 9 painted Indigenous message stones to depict the relationship to land from a different perspective.

Thisweekwepresentedour fouramazingYear8studentswho took the initiative to compete with Australia’s best science students with their certificates. It began as an opportunity to enter a film competition and have some ‘science’ fun. It proved much more than that. the fun turned to hard work and their entry into the competition gave them great opportunities. After working hard at school, at home and meeting the deadline and strict conditions of the sleek Geek eureka science competition, they became a finalist in the competition. the team secured a highly commended award nationally. that means that our four students were ranked the fourth best science students across Australia. the four students received a visit from our local member, david southwick, and received letters of commendation from mr southwick’s office and the previous Federal education minister christopher Pyne. this week they received certificates from sydney university.

reena Zelenkova, Jacob hoch, Will stamp and sean Kelly

Year 7 Liveable Cities Project



eleanor harel, Vce Philosophy student, initiated a food collection in the library to support the Asylum seekers resource centre as part of her moral commitment to others while studying the philosopher Peter singer who is promoting the care of others as a duty rather than charity. the food was collected in our library then taken to the Asylum resource centre in Footscray and placed on shelves, like a mini supermarket, for those in need to come and fill their baskets to feed their families with dignity. the Foodbank was very appreciative of our support.

Dear Glen Eira College,Thank you for your generous donation of food and household goods to the ASRC Foodbank. Our Foodbank ensures asylum seeker families without work rights or income support are still able to access groceries. We wouldn't be able to provide that service without donations like yours. Many thanks and kind regards, Chony and the Foodbank Team

the philosophy class thanks everyone at Glen eira college for their kind generosity for those in need.

congratulations to Georgia massey, raphael Aleksenitser, Alanna Gray, benjamin durkin, elouise Krelle, Yann Li Fat chuen, morgan edwards and Fergus boyd who were successful applicants of the melbourne Graduate school of education summer Program over the summer break. We wish them well on the program and we look forward to reading their reflections on return to school in 2016.

Deborah CordingleyEnrichment & Enhancement Coordinator

are congratulated for their contribution to science using scientific method and the medium of film explaining the weird concept of Synaesthesia.

Congratulations Jacob, Sean, Reena and Will

Food collection for Asylum Seekers

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Summer Program participants

green Cornersome of the latest tips to “tree Free your home”As much as possible, create a tree-free home: •replacepapernapkinswithclothnapkins

•replacepapertowelswithaspecialsetofclothtowels/napkins(orcutupoldt-shirtsforgreat towels) - store the used ones in a small container in your kitchen and just wash and reuse

•purchasebleach-free,toiletpaperthatismade from the highest post-consumer waste content you can find (80% minimum)

•ifyouprintdocuments,printononce-usedpaperand/orbleach-free,recycledpaperwiththehighest post-consumer waste content available hemp

I hope that you have enjoyed reading these environmental tips and I look forward to providing more suggestions for you in 2016.

Remi Hudson Year 9

languageS Cornerlanguages assemblyWords are not enough to describe our one of a kind Languages Assembly on Friday 27th November.

Our students showed the audience very clearly and vividly that languages bring us all together as one. the performances, dances, songs, “scenes de theatre” and poetry recitation in hebrew, French and chinese all spoke for themselves. We could clearly see the happiness and the pride of our students to showcase their talents in their languages of study.



Languages Assembly

the large number of students who received awards also proves the dedication of our students to achieve excellence in their language learning.

We were very honoured to have his excellency christophe Lecourtier, French Ambassador in Australia, as our guest of honour who congratulated our students on their high level of achievement.

thank you to all parents who attended, showing their commitment to their child’s language learning.

A big thank you to all teachers; ms tane, ms Feng, madame Peters, Madame Sapoznikoff, Madame De Mareuil andmadame Fompudie for all your work this year and for your contribution to the success of the Languages Assembly. thank you also to our cNed maths teachers, mme Lepetit andMmeDeleplanque.

A big thank you to all students who got involved and went above and beyond to make the Languages Assembly such a uniquecelebration!

immersion excursion to the immigration museum and roule galette Crêperie!It was a great day out for our immersion students in Year 7 and Year 8 on thursday 3rd december. After a visit to the Immigration museum where the students learnt about personal identity and stories of refugees (all with the French App from the museum!), they had a delicious lunch of both sweet and savoury crepes!

Rendezvousnextyear formorefuntimeswith theFrenchImmersion Program.

un Grand merci a mme Fompudie who organised the visit to the museum!

Loveena NarayanenHead of Languages

remembranCe daY exCurSionOn Wednesday 11th November the Year 7 cNed students were invited to participate to the remembrance day ceremony at the shrine of remembrance attended by the French consulate mrs Willie, some veterans and delegations from other schools, including caulfield Junior college, sacre coeur and Auburn college.

It was a beautiful ceremony, very moving.

At the end of the ceremony, the students were able to ask questionsthattheyhadpreparedinclasstoFrenchveteransand visited the memorial.

Dominique De Mareuil

Remembrance Day Excursion



muSiC newS!2015 has been a wonderful year for our Instrumental music students being involved in many performance opportunities. students have worked hard practising their instruments, attending their lessons each week while being involved in all the musical activities on offer and it shows in the development of their musical skills. this was evident at our end of year music Festival held in the Glen eira college Performing Arts centre on Wednesday 2nd december. the audience were delighted with the diversity of the performances on thenightandwerealsoimpressedwiththequalityoftheseperformances.

Choir the hanging treeConcert band hunger Games trilogy

ensemble band + Choir Walking on sunshinebrass cheery Wave

Flute In dreams & under the seabrass birthday boy

Saxophone/Clarinet IntroitStrings Nabo

drums Maya’sMarch/MayaDalpasPercussion ensemble southern Grene

Voice & guitar Life of the Party Violin SoloAllegro/Vivaldi

dance troupe choreographed by Zoe tuttlebySaxophone hatikvaFlute Kummar No 2

Saxophone & Clarinet st Anthony’s choraleVoice & Piano Photograph

Strings & Piano Perpetuum mobileguitar ensemble & Voice

thinking out LoudPiano improvisation – Quy Fatouros

Violin & PianoEineKleineNachtmusik/MozartVoice & Piano happy ending

Saxophone saxabilityString ensemble & dance Cathcart/ApoFetlarTopSet

Josephine’sWaltzacapella group I Need Your Love

Choir Al shlosha d’Varim

I would like to thank all of our Instrumental music teachers for their dedication to their students and for their assistance in the running of this year’s concert. congratulations to all of our students for their efforts this year. We will miss our Year 12s, Quy Fatouros and max hubert as they move on to further studies and we wish them all the best in their future endeavours. We have enjoyed getting to know our Year 7s who have proved to be extremely talented and dedicated already. Farewell to a number of students that are leaving our school this year but have contributed towards our music program through the past few years – we also wish you well and hope that you come back to visit in the future.

Our music students have experienced performance opportunities in a variety of locations this year including:

•Stringfest •RelayforLife •StateSchoolsSpectacularatHisenseArena •RegionalMusicCampatDaylesford •GlenEiraCouncilVolunteerAwardCeremony •Singfest •FluteensembleatCarnegieShoppingCentre hand made Fair

2015 has been an exceptional year for musical talent at Glen eira college but I predict that 2016 will be even better. We look forward to continuing the musical journey with our students next year.

Robyn KeaneInstrumental Music Coordinator

Music Festival



glen eria College ParentS aSSoC newS Join us! We are a friendly group of parents who support our kids’ school and also have some fun and meet new local friends. If you are not already receiving our emails please ask us to add you to our list by sending an email to [email protected].

Our first committee meeting in 2016 will be held at glen eira College on thursday 18th February at 3:45pm, and all Gec parents and guardians are invited. this will be an opportunity to find out more about us and contribute your ideas. We love having new members, and your level of involvement will be up to you.

SCHOOL UNIFORM SALEPlease donate unwanted uniform items by Wednesday 16th December 2015

Uniform Stall Thursday 21st January 2016 9am – 11am – Book Collection Day On thursday 21st January 2016, we will hold a 2nd-hand uniform stall at the college. this is also the date on which campion will have booklist orders available for collection.

Previous uniform sales have been very popular, helped families save on uniform costs and raised funds for the college (the sale in January this year raised over $2,000).

If you have any uniform items that your child has outgrown or no longer needs, please consider donating it for sale at our stall. Please note that we cannot sell items that are no longer part of the college uniform, such as spray jackets and polar fleece jackets.

Please ensure that all items are in reasonable condition and have been washed and thoroughly dried before you bring them in. they can be brought to the school office by Wednesday 16th december.

Second-hand Books - Please note that we will not run a stall for second-hand textbooks this summer. Glen eira college has registered with the sustainable school shop, whichwillallowfamiliestobuy/selltheirusedtextbooksviaawebsite. We hope this will be a more convenient option for most families (as well as saving many hours of work for the office staff and our volunteers).

the college will also gladly accept donations of books which are on next year’s booklists. these will help the college to assist Gec families experiencing financial hardship.

william angliSS reStaurant dinner 7th noVemberWe had a fantastic night filled with plenty of laughter and music, a lovely meal and interesting conversations.

some expressed their creativity by painting on the theme 'Learning and ever evolving', resulting in a colourful canvas of many thoughts and images to ponder. Our 'oeuvre d'art' will be displayed at the college as a symbol of community, diversity and friendship between parents, colleagues and friends of Gec.

Our raffle saw some dads winning a full range of feminine

beauty products, while other parents and staff won concert tickets,uniquespiritsandmanyotherprizes, thankstoourgenerous sponsors.

We raised over $1,000 for mr ebert's robotics program – so encourage your students to enjoy these new opportunities.

thank you all for making this night so very special and helping us raise funds for an ever evolving school.

thank you!

Marie-Pierre Deleplanque, WA Dinner Event coordinator

multiCultural SuPPer thursday 26th novemberNew and current Glen eira college families enjoyed an informal dinner with a range of dishes including from France (Quiche Lorraine), middle east (falafels and hummus), south African (melk tert) and european (gingerbread, short bread and apple and berry pies). the raffle of movie tickets was won by a new family to the school starting year 7 next year - A lovely welcome to the school.

glen eira College ParentS aSSoCiation end oF Year dinnerto celebrate a year of friendship and helping the school the Glen eira college Parents Association enjoyed a dinner at the servery in Glen huntly. thanks Juliet, marie-Pierre and co for a great year.

Cathy McNaughton and Juliet Brianton

William Angliss Dinner

diwali CelebrationS – 23rd & 24tH noVember 2015

We had great student interest and participation yet again.

students had the opportunity to explore puzzles and languagebased activities.

Henna Tattooing was quitepopular once again and the whole school danced to some popular bollywood beats during lunch time.

Lilly FrancisHenna tattooing for Diwali



CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER 2015christmas is a time for families to get together to

celebrate the birth of christ. however, for a variety of reasons, some people are unable to do this.

And so a traditional christmas day dinner will be held in st

Anthony’s hall, corner Neerim and Grange roads, Glen huntly at midday on christmas day for those not celebrating Our Lord’s

birthday. If you would like to come and celebrate with us, we would love to see you there, so please collect a yellow

invitation at the office.

If you would like to help with the christmas dinner, please fill out a green form, also available at the office,

and return it to St. anthony’s, 74 grange road, glen Huntly 3163.

If you would like more information please ring gwen

Fitzgerald on 9569 2099.

KeY dateS term 1 2016Thursday 21sT January – Campion Book ColleCTion 9am – 3pmThursday 21sT January – GeCpa seCond hand uniform sale 9am – 11amThursday 28Th January – sTudenTs resume Term 1Wednesday 10Th – friday 12Th feBruary – year 7 Campfriday 12Th feBruary - year 11 sTaTe liBrary of ViCToria exCursionTuesday 16Th feBruary – GeC sWimminG CarniValWednesday 17Th feBruary – senior inTersChool sporTsThursday 18Th feBruary - sTaff pd day (sTudenT free)Thursday 25Th feBruary – sChool phoTosfriday 26Th feBruary - inTermediaTe inTersChool sporTsmonday 29Th feBruary – Wednesday 2nd marCh – year 8 CampTuesday 8Th marCh – BeaChside sWimminG & diVinGWednesday 9Th marCh – year 8 inTersChool sporTsThursday 10Th marCh – year 7 immunisaTionsmonday 14Th marCh - laBour day puBliC holiday (sTudenT free)friday 18Th marCh - year 7 inTersChool sporTsThursday 24Th marCh – GeC Cross CounTry CarniValThursday 24Th marCh – lasT day Term 1monday 11Th april – firsT day Term 2Wednesday 27Th april – open dayfriday 13Th may – GeC aThleTiCs CarniVal



YEAR 10 CAMP

YEAR 9 CAMP

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Issue No.8 december 16th, 2015 College News · 2018. 7. 2. · Issue No.8 december 16th, 2015 College News 76 booran road caulfield east 3145 telephone: 9571 7838 Facsimile: 9571