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EISM Swimming Night of Champions
Well done to all of our 24 students who qualified and represented the School in this individual event. We had some outstanding results with our greatest-ever medal tally!
These included: • Annie Steele: Freestyle Gold Medal,
Butterfly Gold Medal, Backstroke Gold
Medal, Breaststroke Silver Medal • Greta Saville: Freestyle Gold Medal • Liam Molloy: Freestyle Gold Medal,
Backstroke Bronze Medal • Henry Kiosoglous: Breaststroke
Silver Medal • Ben Huang: Breaststroke Silver Medal • 15YO Girls Medley team –
Greta Saville, Rianne Darvell, Milla
Ellaway, Freya Watters: Bronze Medal • 15YO Girls Relay team –
Greta Saville, Rianne Darvell, Milla
Ellaway, Freya Watters: Bronze Medal • 14YO Boys Relay team –
Hayden Mellow, Tim Bonham,
Henry Kiosoglous, Sean Darvell:
Bronze Medal EISM Athletics Night of Champions
kilvington was well represented at the eiSM athletics night of champions on 10 May in which the top athletes from all three divisional athletics carnivals competed. In total, we had 49 students give their best effort in this high level track and field event. there were numerous medallists throughout the afternoon and evening and many more personal bests. The Sport department is very pleased with the fantastic achievement of our students. the effort, dedication to training and willingness to learn is a credit to them all. • Gemma Craddock: Gold, Long Jump • Max Pogreb: Gold, Long Jump • Alex Pietrosanto: Bronze, Long Jump • Scarlett Murphy: Bronze, Long Jump • Cody Norman: Silver, Triple Jump • Tomoki Harvey: Bronze, Triple Jump • Anthea Diplaris: Gold, Triple Jump • Marcel Krivonas: Bronze, High Jump • James Cooper: Bronze, High Jump • Gemma Craddock: Silver, Shot Put • Ben Churilov: Bronze, 400m • Max Pogreb: Silver, 200m • Gemma Craddock: Silver, 200m • Darcy Donohue: Bronze, 100m • Kaitlyn Connolly: Silver, 100m • Kaitlyn Connolly, Momoko Hikima,
Gemma Craddock, Sara Dorne: gold, girls relay
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HOPE – Humans of Purpose and Empathy
‘Non Nobis Sed Omnibus – Not for our own, but others’ good’. It is Kilvingon’s school motto which is the basis for our community service program, aptly named HOPE – humans of purpose and empathy.
Once again, Kilvington is leading the way and running a community service program which promotes the idea that doing good for others is not a duty, but rather a joy. Helping others not only assists more disadvantaged communities, but increases our own health and happiness.
For a small school, we are punching above our weight, and in 2020 we were the number one fundraising school for four of the organisations we support. We continue to uphold the three pillars of our program; to educate, to participate and to donate.
Harmony Day
In Term 1, we held a wonderful celebration for Harmony Day, which involved the whole School, from the ELC through to Year 12. The School was awash with orange as we celebrated diversity and the premise that everyone belongs. This was exemplified in the hand-print mural that the Junior School (including the ELC) made.
Food Drive and Cut For A Cause
Each student participated in the food drive for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) and we collected 100 bags of food. Food donated to the ASRC Foodbank makes a difference by providing one of the most basic human rights – food. The ASRC foodbank provides free groceries to around 1000 people every week. Food is one of the most immediate and tangible ways to give someone a hand up and we know that our donations made a significant difference.
Harmony Day also coincided with our annual Cut for a Cause. This year, we had 14 students and one parent cut their hair for two very good causes. Our Year 9 students raised $5000 for the ASRC, and our Year 12 students (plus our PFA President Kirsten Brooks) raised more than $12,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
As part of our commitment to educate students about the causes they are fundraising for, on their Character Day earlier in the year, all of our Year 12s heard from Elisa from the JDRF. As part of their IMPACT program, the Year 9 students were fortunate to hear from a volunteer at the ASRC, as well as a member of the ASRC about their lived experience of seeking asylum.
Eat Up Australia
On May 4, our Year 7 students also made over 1000 sandwiches for Eat Up Australia to help students who are unable to bring their own lunches to school. They will hold their eight-hour continuous Ride for a Cause event in November.
Indigenous Literacy Foundation
In late May and early June, our Junior and Senior School students were able to purchase tote/library bags designed by Lolly Seligmann in Year 11 and Myrah Bhargava in Year 4. The tag line on each bag reads: ‘Hope lies between the pages of a book’ and was written by Maya Wimalasundera in Year 8. All funds will go to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea
In early June, Year 8s gifted Year 12 students, who were at School completing their English and Further Maths SAC, with little boxes of ‘kindness’ – yummy treats made by them, as part of the Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea program.
As Nelson Mandela said, ‘We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in our hands to make a difference.’ We continue to develop and enhance our partnerships with all the organisations we work with, and hope that every student has the opportunity to do something not only for their own, but others’ good. Kilvington is leading the way and running a community service program which promotes the idea that doing good for others is not a duty, but rather a joy.
