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THE YEAR OF BOUNCE!

From the beginning of 2014, the Year 8 students have been keen, excited and energetic. All the boys have participated in many great and varied experiences. The personal, social, emotional, intellectual and physical growth has been noted by many. Many boys have risen to a variety of challenges presented, and I hope that each and every one of the students have enjoyed their year. I personally have loved working with this group of fine individuals. There has been such a diverse range of boys within Year 8 and this has made them a special group. The student leaders (class captains and year level leaders) have led by example and helped other students to shine in their respective ways. However, many other students have achieved greatness in a variety of domains. I congratulate and applaud all the boys that have stepped outside their comfort zone and pushed themselves to strive for greatness. With Westcourt awaiting I’m sure they will ‘bounce’ their way down there and make a lasting impression on the next stage of their Joey’s Journey. I wish each and every one of the current Year 8’s, all the very best and I look forward to hearing about their progress in 2015. Good luck boys!

Dan Hale - Year 8 Coordinator

The Melbourne Gaol was old, dark and full of stories, the walls filled with history of our culture and justice. The highlight of the day was hearing the stories of those who were sent to the gaol, why they were sent there, how long they were there for and if they were executed. - Colten Dunn. At the Melbourne Museum we attended Bunjilaka. We learnt about Aboriginal culture, the Dreamtime and Aboriginal history. We saw weapons and tools used, the boats, cooking and the artwork. - Jake

McCorkell

Unlike most other excursions or camps, students were given the opportunity to use public transport to get them from Geelong into Melbourne, where they would further use public transport to travel to some of Melbourne’s iconic locations. The highlight of the day was getting the train back to Geelong with all of our goodies we had collected that day. - Patrick Richards. During the cultural immersion we had a talk from an Aboriginal man and his son Pancake. He told us that he was Australian, he was Aboriginal and he was indigenous. He told us what this meant and the importance of it. To finish it off, Pancake played the didgeridoo for us. - Jake McCorkell We also had a professional Bollywood dancer come and teach us some moves to some classic and modern day songs. Some people were also called up to dance in front of all of their peers including our very own Mr Hale. - Gabe Hickey

OTHER YEAR 8 ACTIVITIES:

Year 8 ... written by the student leaders ACTIVITIES WEEK

Year 8 classes travelled by bus and train to Melbourne for three days and several interesting experiences. Using Myki cards to travel around, the Year 8s had the joy of visiting some of Melbourne’s most historic and important buildings and places, including Eureka Skydeck, the Immigration Museum, ACMI, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne Gaol and the infamous MCG.

- Ben Fraser

The MCG and National Sports Museum was a good experience. - Harry Santispirito At the Immigration Museum we learnt about refugees and their journeys from their home countries, the conditions that some people had to live in, things like how ships changed over time and even a short film that played explaining people’s stories. Highlights of the day included: being able to find our way around the museum and doing interactive activities. It was a really great experience. - Xavier Dowd Battle ball house competition. The popular competition was spread over 3 rounds, two semis, and a final afterwards - Foley won. - Gabe Hickey ACC Public Speaking. We came up against a number of other schools from across the Geelong regions. The highlight of the day was watching everyone speak and getting to know some people from other schools. It was really fun. - Xavier Dowd At the start of 2014 all Year 8 boys Badminton Rally Day. In Term were eager to get a cracker of a 3, 15 Year 8 Joey’s boys headed year started. Although we had to off to MSAC to play badminton adapt to a new area, and being in the ACC Tournament. We more independent we were all were beaten by some really up for the challenge. As the year good schools, but we enjoyed the day and look forward to playing again. - Daniel Corray progressed we have all made new friends or built a closer relationship with others. - Nicolas Boccassini

Healthy Living/Rock & Water. One Health unit we completed was called Rock & Water (Self-Defence). We learnt; ‘Chinese Boxing’ where we had to try and stay as still as possible while trying to get the opponent to stumble over, and self-defence moves. A highlight of the unit was breaking a piece of wood with our bare hands. - Joseph Caruana.

We also had excursions to bocce, table tennis and ten pin bowling. All three were fun. - Finbar Lonergan

ACC Basketball: The ACC basketball team had an unlucky few games but overall all the kids and Mr Jovic had fun and a great time. - Nathan

Mifsud

ACC Soccer: The Year 8 soccer team travelled to Parade College where the boys played some great soccer and displayed great teamwork and sportsmanship. On behalf of the team a special thanks to Mr Colak, Mr Trupkovic, Mr Jovic and Mr Milverton for helping organise the day. - Mitchell Johns

LOTE Excursions: All LOTE classes will be going up to Melbourne - Italian students to Lygon St. and Chinese students to China Town.

We will learn about culture and different lifestyles. - Joseph Caruana Winter Sleep Out: Some students slept outside to spread awareness of the growing problem of homelessness. - Jurrin Romanis Grovedale College Sports Day: This year, Year 8s had the opportunity to play basketball, football and soccer against Grovedale Secondary College. All of the Joeys teams won on the day and had plenty of fun. Thanks to Mr Jovic, Mr Lynch and Mr Colak for helping to organise the day for us.

- Elliot Horan

NEW Basketball Court: This year we now have fantastic new basketball court. We kicked off by having a very competitive basketball competition on the courts, with Mr Gnaccarini organising this. Team Ubergang won. It has really been fun using the new and wonderful courts. Thanks Mr Hale and SJC for providing us with these courts. - Lewis Antonac Cybersafety Robbie Noggler informed us about cyber-safety. It was an interesting insight into the cyber world. - Ged Gallagher With new equipment and new classrooms, next year will definitely be a new experience as we move up to the Year 9 campus. Bring it on!

- Hamish McManus

Year 8 3D Art: In this subject we have researched lots of information about different types of dragons and even got to make one out of clay. We also researched masks and their uses in different cultures. We then chose a particular style and made it using mod-roc. It has been great fun and we learnt about the art elements and principles and how to apply them to our practical art. - Josh Pellegrino

8A

Liam Benzie Samuel Brethouwer Harvey Carmody Samuel Chalmers Dermott Cooney Xavier Dowd Liam Draper Lachlan Dunell Dan Hale

Colten Dunn Kauri Farnham Charlie Fitzgerald Connor Hamilton Alexander Jaskiewicz Thu Sa La Domenico Lecchino Bailey Macallef Hamish MacKenzie Jake McCorkell

Hamish McManus Nicholas Pratt Patrick Richards Mitchell Saba Joshua Spork Lachlan Street Samual Torpy Sean Wee Benjamin Willis Jonathan Zarb

8B

Adrian Augello Timothy Ball Nicolas Balta Jye Bannister Lachlan Barbaro David Buttignon Liam Eibl Koby Fatone Tom Trupkovic

Jack Grigsby Lachlan Handley

Danny Quach Joshua Ritchie-Crichton Nathan Harwood-van Wegen

Zachary Rockett Mitchell Johns

Lachlan Stanley Oliver Lewry

Zachary Sullivan Thomas McCartin Baxter Mensch Colm O’Connor Benjamin Pamplin

Robert Tigani Maxwell Uebergang Nicholas Warner Karl Zilic

Angela Gionis

8C

Romuald Ambrose Rosario Bove Hudson Brayshaw Joseph Caruana Seth Clay Thomas Curran Samuel Ford Benjamin Fraser

Ryan Hamers Lochlan Hardiman Callum Hetherington Gabriel Hickey Bailey Kampans Bri Kelly Tom Mahon Gene Majic Danh Ngo

Angus O’Connell Thomas Orsolic Benjamin Paulden Sam Purdy Jake Raimondo Phoenix Sweetten William Tamassy James Tripodi Fletcher Wilson

ABSENT: Jack Riches, Jack Sadler-Cahoon

Louisa Biviano

8D

Harrison Adamko Lewis Antonac William Beggs Daniel Beron Max Brown Jaxon Bruhn Alexander Chen Daniel Corray

Sammy Costanzo Ethan Cumming Gideon Doble-Appleton Martin Dujmic Declan Flannery Joseph Flintoff Harry Gough Ethan Gray Roko Gudasic

Charlie Irwin Ricky Ivelja Jordan Jones Thomas Keast Ryan McNearney Jackson Moore Fraser Murray Matthew Ryan Connor Taylor Kyle Williamson

8E

Samuel Arnold Matthew Bily Nathan Bolger Zeke Bourdamis Joshua Brown Stefan Bukovski Patrick Burchell Jackson Bye Cassandra Coogan

Reef Davie William Eckhardt Kieren Fernandes Robert Foster Lachlan Francis Ged Gallagher Fionn Guina-Stannard Paul Kanellos Harrison Keane

Finbar Lonergan Harry McKeegan Jamie Noggler Lachlan Peck Dylan Sharp Matthew Stosic Max Sutton Samuel Walsh Lleyton Woolley Oliver Wright-Janocha

ABSENT:Thomas Hartney

8F

Jordan Alvarez Alor Anyang Joseph Bifano Nicolas Boccassini Oliver Boothey Tyler Bryan Joshua Chudosnik Zachary Costa Nelson Gnaccarini

Isaac Doroschuk Liam Dumont Hayden Fell Declan Fenton Mackenzie Fraser Samuel Harris Jack Henderson Jack Horan Angus Humphrey

Benjamin Jaska Joshua Malley Max Matthews Angus McKinnon Eamon O’Callaghan Jurrin Romanis James Sherry Benjamin Vanjek Max Visintin Matthew Walters

Frank De Rosso

8G

Kaine Abela Thomas Boardman Jordan Bradaric Matthew Carroll Bailey Collins Ned De Grandi Matthew Dementiev Noa Dragicevic

Franjo Dugandzic Alexander Foss Sheldon Ham William Hanley Julian Manaszczuk Carlin McCloskey Lachlan McVilly Julius Nelson Joshua Pellegrino

Daniel Sacchetta Nicholas Scott Seamus Spanner Hayden Spiller Hudson Stoop Ashley Thompson Nikolas Tino Adam Welsh Thomas West

ABSENT: Thomas Devlin

Caterina Giacomazzo

8H

Dallas-Jai Alcorace Joel Andrews-Stacey Samuel Barling Millen Boekel Patrick Boland Lewis Clarke Darcy Conlan Lewis Conquit

Brodie Denney Jack Dunstan Callum Dwyer Griffin Harvey Patrick Henderson Louis Kied Avery Knight Zachary Knights Harrison Lockyer

Connor Mackus Nicholas Papic Thomas Pinjuh Alexander Reader Luke Rowlands Harry Santospirito John Serra Jesse Stawyskyj Charles Windt Mitchell Zivcic

8I

Dylan Barnes Benjamin Bennett Samuel Black Harley Canny Louis Clifton Mitchell Coon Izaak De Agrela Mark Demo Jo Hart

Liam Digby Zachary Fausett Joseph Frigo Matthew Fromholtz Oliver Hanneysee Ben Henkel Harry HockleySamon Elliott Horan Cooper Ingles Isaiah Lindsay

Zak Lynch Doyle Madigan Arop Makor Bradley Mann Nathan Mifsud Lewis Rancic Dylan van Arend Nicholas Vanmeel James Zielinski Matthew Zulumovski

Benjamin Africa Angus Benson Fraser Berry Joel Burns Patrick De Grandi Abwi Deng Lachlan Denney

8J

Michael Di Russo Vicki Mills

Daniel Gudasic Max Hardwick Jackson Harlock Liam Holmes Thomas Kahle William Kiebert Josh Kiss Anthony Larmah Fletcher Long James Maiden

Lochlyn McFarlane Michael Modica Angus Moore Finley Parke Joshua Power Patrick Ryan Tanner Sadler Seamus Schroeder Finn Stephensen Jimmy Tran