Literata 2013 by Westbourne Grammar School

LITERATA

2013

COVER ARTWORK Jessica Ryan, 12H

COVER ILLUSTRATIONS

The Students of 1B and 1M Williamstown

From the Principal

Senior Musical

Associate Principal

Senior Play

Chaplain’s Report

Co-Curricular Activities

Ski Camp 2013

School Captains’ End of Year Speeches 10

Information Services

Year 12

Senior Music

Year 12 Formal

ACS Sport 2013

Year 7

Outdoor Education

House Reports

Junior School

International Students

Junior LOTE

132

Director of Learning

Junior Library

134

Year 9 Program

Performing Arts Festival

136

Exchange and Trips

Junior School Music

138

Presentation Ball

Junior School Art

144

Senior Visual Arts

Junior School PE & Sport

146

Extra Curricular Activities

152

Out of School Hours Care Williamstown

153

Children’s Centre

155

Westbourne Parents’ Association

157

Staff 2013

158

Class of 2012 VCE Results and Destinations

162

2013 Academic Prize Winners

163

Student Roll

164

Autographs

170

Prefects Report

Thank you to Literata ComMittee Ms Emma Woodall Mrs Andrea Cameron Ms Kerry Whelan Ms Rachel Griffin Ms Paige Bell Ms Tracey Grobbelaar Ms Ellie Hogan

ThankS TO Arthur Reed – Official School Photographers Advanced Life Photography Timothy Burgess Photography Three’s a Crowd

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

creative and collaborative problem-solving needs people to understand how to work together

FEATURE ART Phillip Audley – 10F

2013 has been a year of firsts. The first time, for example, that boys in the Senior School will be able to wear shorts in summer; although, given the Melbourne climate, there has not been a rush to take up the opportunity just yet. I am astonished at the ramifications of this decision; decisions around socks, and the length thereof, and discussions around the length of shorts. One can only imagine quite which way the length might travel. It has also been the first full year of operation for the newly-formed Friends of Westbourne. Led by Mrs Shona Taylor, this K-12 parent volunteer body has worked diligently for the benefit of students and have organised fundraising activities which has paid for the refurbishment of the Junior School library and for new musical instruments: there are further plans for other invaluable projects. I would urge parents to consider joining this group and I commend their focus and purpose to you. They are great company, hard workers and are happy to include everyone in their plans for our students and their School. I would like to specifically acknowledge Mrs Rosemary Marfatia who was the driving force behind this year’s Friends of Westbourne Ball held at the Melbourne Aquarium. The School also had its first car raffle, thanks to the generous contribution of Conrad and Shona Taylor in sourcing a car at cost. We raised $20,000, a wonderful effort for a first time. Joanne Seddon, alumnae and parent won the car, in what was I assume a first for

her. Our relatively new Alumnae Association held its first Careers evening this year. It was an outstanding success with students from Years 9 to 12 attending the evening with their parents to learn about careers in a variety of industries. I know that School families appreciated the opportunity to talk with our alumnae about their careers in diverse fields such as Medicine, Finance, Creative and Performing Arts, Business, various community and public service domains, as well as Engineering academic research. Particular thanks goes to the organising committee; Fiona, Maria, Sean and Catherine. Some student firsts this year: the first time we have entered the Hillary Challenge, an Inter School outdoor challenge. As a couple of students, Jodie and Jack, said to me, “Miss, there were nine schools competing and we came seventh, but I swear we had the best time of any school there. We loved being part of our team and had so much fun. It was just awesome.” These instances of ‘firsts’ could not be regarded, sensibly at least, as challenging the status quo in any significant way, although for those involved it certainly involved a vision for change, a strategy a resolution, and considerable work.

successful education and a “smart” person. We are wedded to notions of academic rankings, of attainment time frames selected quite randomly, and make quite bizarre judgements about ourselves, our children and others, accordingly. “Oh, is your child two already and can’t tell the difference between analogue and digital time?” Most disturbingly, we do this to our children who are complex, subtle, young human beings. We inadvertently convey strong messages of either academic success or academic failure at a very young age. I am certain that from adults to children, we all know what it means to believe we are no good at something. I am shocked when I hear young children saying, for example, “I am no good at Mathematics, or Science, or English.” I am not suggesting that it is not a good idea to understand how one is progressing with one’s learning, but I am saying that children and adults progress and learn in different ways and that the myriad markers for these learnings stay with us for a lifetime. What we need to be very careful about is setting limits of achievements and of making final statements about what a person can and can’t learn. We need to be mindful that high student achievement rankings can often hide some significant learning gaps simply because of how we test. We need to realise that the best at a test is just that: the best at a test.

History is littered with examples of significant firsts. This year was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. King challenged the status quo of American society We need to acknowledge that the origins of our current schooling systems came about in which discriminated between black and the 19th century when governments realised white-skinned citizens, despite the horrendous Civil War fought in part by Lincoln, that they needed workers with varying degrees of education to work in factories to outlaw slavery. Fifty years ago, King was (less education), or in management (a bit assassinated for his outspoken demands for more), or in leadership (lots more, and likely equality. I am sure we all know the “I have a only landed gentry). Schools were ‘Brave dream speech”, not actually written down, New World’, sausage factories where people but delivered from the heart on the day existed for the benefit of an industrial society, following singer, Mahalia Jackson’s advice not themselves or their communities. Thus that King tell people what he dreamt of was our education system formed. We have achieving. Had he lived, he would have seen never questioned it. Hence the truth is that in the most powerful symbol of equality which Aldous Huxley’s words, ‘Some were alphas, was, of course, the election of America’s first some were betas and some were gammas.’ African American President, Barack Obama. Perhaps not as visceral, immediate or emotional, but of unparalleled significance is the challenge that needs to be made to our cultural beliefs about what constitutes a

Interestingly in Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, no one is particularly happy. The 21st century world of creative and collaborative problem-solving needs people to understand how to work together with one another’s diverse skills to solve increasingly complex world problems. It is with this thinking in mind, and a significant high level audit of educational research which we have shared with you in various fora during the year, that we have introduced some initiatives, designed to challenge and break down notions of “can and can’t learn” and, most importantly, the first year where we have explicitly said that every child can be “extended” in their learning. We are asking our young people to set high expectations of themselves, to work hard and to challenge anyone (including themselves) who might say they cannot do something.

It was the first year for every student from Years 7 and 8 to enjoy the choice of extension subjects. Students selected from a range of studies, including Art Deco, Engineering, Astronomy, and Sports Science. As an example of the high level of engagement, students studying Astronomy on a visit to the Planetarium absolutely stunned the Director who commented later that he could not believe the sophisticated understanding and level of knowledge of our students. He said he had never had a school group visit which was so engaged and thoughtful. It is, of course, amazing what choice can do. When Year 8 student, Shihab, visited the School Executive to talk with us about his learning experiences at Westbourne, another first, he reinforced the enthusiasm with which Years 7 and 8 students approached their extension studies. For the first time rather than selecting students to participate in ‘Tournament of the Minds’, a problem-solving competition

Nobody would argue that parents and for older students, we asked for volunteers. students need to know about progress. Whereas before we had selected some The problem with this style of reporting is 20 students, this year we had 49 students volunteer. So first question, how did they do? that it is always out of date given that teachers are in a continual process of providing They reached the State Finals. A tremendous feedback to students, not just on work they effort by Mrs Sophie Murphy and the might have completed and submitted, but students who wanted the challenge. also offering commentary to students on learning behaviours that may be exhibited Perhaps the most significant “first” for during the course of a normal lesson. Westbourne Grammar has been our How many parents here struggled in vain pioneering journey into the heart of to understand what work students were technology infrastructure to harness its expected to complete at home or what the capability to improve our reporting platform. results of various assignments might have Our ICT Faculty under Ms Rose Elsom’s been? How many of you, like me, have leadership has built a learning management unpacked their son’s or daughter’s bag only system which allows teachers to provide to find two or three crumpled essays , along continuous reporting on students and with old lunch wrappers, distressingly damp their learning. PE gear and forgotten school letters that Teachers have always marked students’ appear to have been ignored by our children? work and given feedback. They have How many of you simply forget to check always written interim quarterly and full Record Books in the busyness of your half-yearly reports. These reports have then lives? It happens. been carefully compiled and sent home to However, we all know that the relationship parents in weighty envelopes which, when between parents, students and teachers seen by the children, strike varying degrees is a crucial one. of elation and fear. The cliché, “It takes a village to raise a child”, Remember these? Perhaps not, my report has woven its way into our cultural thinking card always had a ranking. Imagine the about education. But how one actually horror of ranking 20 out of 27 for something, achieves this open three-way communication or reading a comment “could do better”. can be challenging. Schools try by running Really? A planet of almost seven billion, parent teacher interviews and by, at least in and this is helpful? Westbourne’s case, running a deep and extensive pastoral care process whereby parents can contact Heads of House, who then contact classroom teachers who then get back to parents, and so on. Whilst this process is extremely valuable, it might be that your questions as parents can be addressed rather more easily. This is where continuous reporting comes into its own.

FEATURE ART SURENI PERAKOTUWA – 10D

FEATURE ART CARLA DEALE – 10M

So what of the future?

What we are trying to achieve with this system is a means of delivering feedback about student learning in a timely and constructive fashion. We want to ensure that parents understand not only what is being taught and the tasks and expectations that are required of students, we also want students to get immediate feedback about their learning, not necessarily just their achievement. A quick word about learning feedback as opposed to achievement on tasks. It is always gratifying to learn that one has achieved great results on a test or essay. There is no denying the satisfaction one feels as a student and, indeed, as a parent. As we move deeper into the 21st century, a century where we know the skills of creative collaboration are increasingly important, we know that focussing simply on a grade achievement is only a tiny part of a good education and, more importantly, of a well-trained learner. Feedback given to students about how they are approaching their learning and where they might like to direct their learning attention in the future is of far more value. As peculiar as it may sound, many students who achieve high grades seemingly easily, do not actually understand why they receive the grades that they do. They need to. Doing things for the first time means there will be room for development and for improvements to be made. (Just think about the first mobile phones). Our learning management system of 2013 is unlikely to remain static and look exactly the same in 2015. This is the beauty of pioneering, particularly in an online environment.

We hope that over time there is a seamless operability between a student management system, a learning management system and the maintenance of an e-portfolio by the learner. These three environments will be interoperable and powerful, yet easy to use and intuitive. I am sure that parents and students will appreciate the breadth and depth of work that has been necessary to achieve this major change in the way in which we do things at Westbourne Grammar. ICT staff and teaching staff have faced the challenge and have delivered something of great benefit to each and every family in this room. We still have a long way to go; we are largely on our own in space; however, I know there are many schools watching with interest. Within the next few years many more schools will be adopting this particular approach to student learning feedback. However, this does not mean that the school will not run parent teacher interviews, or give you other, more personal, feedback when necessary. We welcome your letters, emails or phone calls and are always happy to address your concerns personally. And a final but significant first. 2013 was Mr Andrew McGregor’s first year at Westbourne Grammar. Mr McGregor joined us as our very first K–12 Associate Principal. He entranced students at the very first Assembly of the year with his very funny reflection on being a ‘new kid at school’ and worrying about with whom he was going to eat his play lunch and whether or not anybody would talk to him at lunchtime. He shared his optimism, like any new student, that he felt that he would enjoy the experience and that he would find good friends here. I asked a few students how they thought Mr McGregor’s first year had gone. Here are some of their comments:

“Oh, is he that guy that did the maths problem at Assembly that time, Miss? Is that who you mean?” “Yes, that’s who I mean.” “Oh, he’s awesome!” Or, of his Specialist Maths class, “He is a great teacher, always looking for new ways to explain things to us. Awesome Miss!” What is it about this word “awesome”? Mr McGregor has loved working with his Year 12 Specialist Maths class and the keen mathematics problem-solvers of Year 8, and was thrilled to be a part of the boys’ Hockey team making it to their premiership. He has also been a very proud parent of a Strathmore student. He told students at the beginning of the year that his daughter had joined Strathmore House and that he had heard that they were going to win the House Competition. He could not understand why everyone fell about laughing. The truth was that Strathmore had not won the House Cup for 23 years. So I think it quite fitting to acknowledge another first here, because Mr McGregor’s words were in fact apocryphal. Go Strathmore. In closing, some words from Irish poet W.B. Yeats “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Meg Hansen Principal

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Before I arrived at Westbourne to begin my role as the new Associate Principal, several people told me simply that “the students are great here.” Once I arrived I was immediately curious to put this to test and to discover exactly what made these western students so special. On the first student day my opening official duty was to introduce myself at Senior School Assembly. In the process I made a few ‘bad jokes’ that unearthed a few chuckles and possibly, if my memory serves me correctly, a small guffaw! Encouraged, I headed off to my first class of Specialist Maths. As I entered the class a tall, smiling, fresh-faced and curly-headed young man welcomed me with “Do you barrack for Richmond, sir?” Perhaps I had been hoping for a more algebraic opening, but I was nevertheless pleased that this attentive young man had correctly caught one of my Assembly asides. I nodded in the affirmative and he replied with great fervour “Yes! You’re the best teacher I’ve ever had!” If indeed I had already reached such a pinnacle in his education, I wondered how he would feel about me once I had actually explained the mystery of complex numbers to him. Okay, I knew Christian Gashi was joking, but after asking each of the Year 12 students in my class to introduce themselves I quickly felt convinced – “the students are great here.”

“Do you barrack for Richmond, sir?” Perhaps I had been hoping for a more algebraic opening, but I was nevertheless pleased that this attentive young man had correctly caught one of my Assembly asides.

As the year unfolded my opinion has not changed. Whether I have been dodging my twin sons’ playmates in the Children’s Centre, chatting with Preps about their Craft Corner, learning about persuasive essays in Year 2, asking one too many questions at a Williamstown Assembly, spreading my love of Maths with Year 8s, or learning about Hockey with the Senior premiership boys – the students just keep amazing me. What I have also realised is that there are many ‘great’ components that make up Westbourne Grammar School. Many argue that a school’s greatest assets are its teachers. A volume of research suggests that the single most important driver for school improvement is teacher quality. The teachers at Westbourne have impressed me greatly. Their work ethic and professional approach to their calling is a stand-out. But staff at Westbourne are setting standards that are the envy of other schools. The delivery of a sustainable, continuous, reporting model across the whole School in 2013 has been exceptional. The understanding and roll-out of genuine

pastoral care and behavioural management through the principles of restorative practice have been highly effective. Staff work tirelessly to keep the entire School’s curriculum mapped, meaningful and dynamic. Every opportunity is taken to differentiate learning, and to provide challenge and engagement in the classroom. This only happens through hours of creativity and collaboration behind the scenes. There is a wonderful sense of team with staff who are always learning and always sharing. Community is a key value at Westbourne and it plays out in myriad ways. I have been fortunate to meet many parents this year who share our desire to make this the best school it can be. Many parents are involved in the various Friends of Westbourne groups, and they provide invaluable support to a host of School events. Many parents are keen to share ideas, debate educational philosophies, provide constructive feedback or just ‘shoot an email’ or ‘have a chat.’ Every interaction with every member of the community has been greatly appreciated this year. I look forward to 2014. More great things will be happening. Andrew McGregor Associate Principal

CHAPLAIN’S REPORT “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Luke 6 : 31 This simple, well-known verse of scripture clearly defines the essence of the foundational message we have tried to gently and consistently place in front of the School community at Westbourne this year. In Chapel Services, Assemblies, classroom sessions and in general conversation we have attempted to remind ourselves of the importance of this time-honoured message, often referred to as “The Golden Rule”. As written above “The Golden Rule” is in fact the words of Jesus Himself recorded in The New Testament – words which were an echo of God’s earlier instructions to Moses as recorded in The Old Testament in Leviticus 19:18 when He said, “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your kinsfolk. Love your neighbour as yourself: I am The Lord.” So the message is perhaps older than some of us realise, and interestingly we have seen this same message strongly expressed in one form or another within virtually every ethical religion or tradition throughout human history, illustrating quite clearly for us that this truly is a vitally important concept for us all to understand and activate on a daily basis.

helpful in our journey toward living in accordance with “The Golden Rule”. Topics covered included “Rest”, “Honour”, “Anger Management”, “Handling Success”, “Truth” and “Contentment” with many students responding positively to the opportunity to focus on this style of thinking. These biblically-based messages are designed to stimulate thought and prompt discussion centred on the concept of establishing positive values as a platform upon which to build our lives. As we contemplated topics such as resilience, responsibility, friendship, hope, respect, integrity, selflessness, and making a positive contribution to the community, we were able to see and understand the strength contained within the ability to make defined and positive choices about what we believe and then live in accordance with those beliefs. The Chaplain’s role, providing leadership to the spiritual life of the School, has proven once again this year to be a busy, challenging and rewarding one here at Westbourne. With almost 1,500 students and 300 staff spread over two physical locations, and six sub-schools (Senior School, Junior School, Williamstown, The Year 9 Centre, The International Centre, and The Children’s Centre) there is always plenty to do! In this, my second year at the School, I deliberately chose to continue to be involved with as many activities as possible and I greatly

enjoyed the development of relationships and the opportunity to offer support, care and counsel to staff, students and their families through these many and varied events. The fascinating array of sporting pursuits, musical occasions, art exhibitions, theatrical presentations, trips and excursions, guest speakers and leadership training opportunities, combined with the establishment of “Chapel Fridays”, a trip to Cambodia to visit “Kampuchea House” with two of our Year 12 student leaders, and assisting with the introduction of the School’s new Sports Anthem “Westbourne’s Call”, all fitted together beautifully to create an amazingly fulfilling year. Suffice to say that throughout 2013 it has been an honour and a pleasure to be part of the Westbourne family, serving the students, the staff and the families of our School community. Westbourne Grammar School is indeed a wonderful place full of tremendous people, and my continuing prayer will be that an ever-growing sense of purpose and hope will be present in all of us as we continue in our efforts to live meaning-filled, enjoyable, productive and effective lives. Rev. Tim Edwards School Chaplain

With this in mind we have spent the majority of our Chapel Services this year examining sections of “The Ten Commandments” in an effort to extract and retain learning which is relevant and applicable to life today, and therefore

School Captains’ End of Year Speeches

PREFECTS’ REPORT The School Prefects of 2013 have been a dynamic group of students ably lead by School Captains, Tessa Marshall and Jay Paton, and School Vice Captains, Jemina Nuredini and Tim Levar. I have really enjoyed working with the Prefects. They have a diverse range of skills and talents and were very quickly able to form a cohesive and effective leadership group. This year, in addition to the Co-House Captains for each House and the Sports and Music Captains, we added two new Prefect positions; International Student Leader and International Student Liaison Prefect. These positions were competently filled by Showee Qian and Jack Sheehan. The rationale behind these appointments was to improve the integration of the International Students into the School. This initiative proved incredibly successful and culminated in the International Student Showcase where Prefects co-hosted the highly entertaining event. There were many other highlights this year. The second inaugural Year 7 Social, which was organised and run by the Prefects, was an enormous success. The annual Prefects’

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“The more that you read, the more things that Little did I know that I was taking my first steps you’ll know, the more that you learn, the more into what would become, without a doubt, the places you’ll go.” These are the words of none most rewarding six years of my life. other than Dr Seuss. Although simple in logic Although the memories of my first years at – these sentiments are not only true but Westbourne are still vivid, where a demerit pinpoint the opportunities that learning can point was the ultimate punishment and the give an individual. elusive honour badge would guarantee a successful future, it is hard to fathom that the There is no doubt that over the last six years awkward ‘getting to know each other’ stage at Westbourne, the environment that we have in which we all took part, would establish the been exposed to and the skills we have gained have prepared my fellow Year 12s and I to tackle close friendships we now share, and that the acquaintances we made in Years 7 and 8 the many hurdles that life will throw our way. could become as close as family by the What has become abundantly clear to me is end of our days at Westbourne Grammar. that school is not just about reading books and gaining knowledge of different subject areas. It is far more than that; a great education involves educating the individual invaluable life skills. So it is not surprising that at Westbourne we have four central School values that are the driving force behind everything we do. At Westbourne we value courage, community, scholarship and creativity and it is these guiding principles that ensure that every student leaves Westbourne with a truly great education.

Our year level is very proud of being involved in the introduction of the Year 9 Program. Throughout Year 9, we faced many new and exciting challenges, each one resulting in our cohort becoming visibly closer as we helped each other enjoy and achieve great success in what for us was a new and exciting learning environment. We were met with new subjects including LEX, SAK and extension periods and played soccer on the barren plains before the grass was introduced. The year was a definite success with new skills acquired and new friendships made in preparation for VCE. Ultimately, our enjoyment of the year was such that there were a number of watery eyes as we departed the Lecture Theatre at the end of 2010.

My journey as a student at Westbourne didn’t start as most of you may have assumed. Although I enjoyed meeting new people and revelled in the new opportunities in a vast unexplored campus, the transition from Primary School to Senior School, and the uncertainty that accompanied this transition seemed to take Our shift back to the main School was met a toll on my Year 7, twelve year old self, leaving with new responsibilities as we took on the role me quite emotional and teary eyed at the end of of senior members of the School. Participating my first day, and my second day for that matter. in sports with students in Year Seminar continued to be an invaluable learning experience and saw over 50 Prefects from all over Melbourne come to Westbourne for the day to share experiences and ideas. Flinders’ Festival, Arts week and Sports week are always fun and provided many opportunities for students from all year levels to participate.

The 2013 Prefects should be justifiably proud of their efforts this year, not only raising money for Kampuchea House but also as outstanding student leaders and role models for all students. I wish them well as they now look forward to life beyond Westbourne. Louise Mahony Head of Senior School

11 and 12 made for anxious try-outs and, for many, the commencement of our first VCE subjects resulted in a far more strenuous study regime. Our last two years at Westbourne, learning about our chosen VCE subjects in preparation for the SACs and exams to come, has made for some stressful times, yet I would not swap these years for anything. The privilege of the Year 12 Common Room has provided a stress-free oasis during recess and lunchtime, once again establishing the sense of unity and the friendships we shared during our period in the Year 9 Program. I would like to think of our cohort no longer as segregated small groups, but rather as a unified family. Over our time at Westbourne a strong sense of community has been developed. The House system and Inter House sports program, as well as the extensive range of co-curricular activities, have resulted in our being able to strongly connect to the values of our School. ACS Interschool Sports and extracurricular activities ensure bonds are formed among team mates and groups. The fundraising for Kampuchea House ensures that Westbourne students develop skills not only in subject matter but also on how to actively contribute in a selfless way to their community and others. When Jemina and I visited Kampuchea House early this year there was no doubt in our minds that our efforts to raise money to help the children at the orphanage is one of the most worthwhile and rewarding initiatives undertaken by our School. It is clear, that the children we were when we began our secondary education in 2008 are now better adults due to the time we have spent at Westbourne Grammar School. I believe I speak for the entire Year 12 cohort when I say that our time at Westbourne has been unforgettable and the day-to-day life at Westbourne is something we will all surely miss. We could not ask for a better environment in which to learn, with highly skilled and passionate teachers encouraging us along every step of our journey, ensuring we not only reach out potential but excel. Though the circumstances will be very different, it is quite likely that the way in which my last day at Westbourne will end will be the same as my first day at Westbourne, emotional and teary-eyed, and never forgetting the wise words of Dr Seuss: “The more that you read, the more things that you’ll know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go”. Jay Paton School Captain

To paraphrase American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: the achievements of great people all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Throughout my time at Westbourne Grammar, both the hard work of my teachers and the motivation and ambition of the students around me have inspired me to lead a life which has an impact. Longfellow reminds us that life need not be a passive existence, a mere struggle for survival: rather, we can all strive to become people of substance and value. You can’t spend six hours a day, five days a week and forty weeks a year for six years in one place without the experience leaving an imprint. High school is the cocoon which we enter as children and emerge as adults ready to make our own way in the world. It is where we learn independence, where we discover our values, where we decide the direction we want our lives to take and the kind of person we want to be. I entered my first ever day at Westbourne Grammar – the first day of Year 7 – excited, but also apprehensive. I’d already had to conquer what seemed the incredibly complex task of tying a tie and it wasn’t even 8.00am: if this was getting dressed, what were the classes going to be like? I already had a number of friends who had attended Westbourne Junior School, and they had warned me about the rumoured mountains of homework – homework every night! – and, even scarier, the dreaded exams. Coming from a primary school where the most mentally taxing activity had been scrapbook making, the idea of being tested every semester, your worth decided by a letter from A–F, was rather daunting to say the least. But in the same way that I adapted to sitting next to the boy that chewed with his mouth open and had sticky pencils in Grade 4, so too did I quickly learn how to handle the (much-exaggerated) workload and the nowhere-near-as-stressful-asanticipated exams. One of the most important things I learned over the six years was how to approach education, and to realise that while grades are important, we all sometimes fail: they are not the be-all and end-all. We may earn a grade for sitting an English SAC, but we get an education when we learn how to construct an argument and structure an essay. We may feel a rush of pride when we get an A on a History test, but more important than the percentage on the page is how well we absorb the lessons of the past and apply

them to our lives. After six years of Senior School, we know how to study and how to work; we can apply ourselves to a problem and persist until it is solved. So as nervous as I may be about sitting my VCE exams, I am also quietly confident that no matter my ATAR, I will be able to pursue my dream career and achieve whatever I want to, because Westbourne has equipped us with the ability to learn, and with the resources and the support network to bounce back from failures. Winston Churchill was defeated in every election for public office until he was finally named Prime Minister at the age of 62. Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school at the University of Southern California three times, instead working at Universal Studios as an unpaid intern at the beginning of his career. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he, and I quote, ‘lacked imagination and had no good ideas.’ Success doesn’t depend on getting it right the first time: what matters most is persistence and ambition. And that’s what Westbourne has taught us: thanks to the enthusiasm of our teachers, the support of our parents, and the passion and dedication of every student in the year level, each of us has been inspired to give everything our best shot. Westbourne’s culture is one of striving for excellence in every facet of life, and looking at my fellow Year 12s, and all the effort they have put in this year, I know that a strong work ethic permeates our every action, and will continue to do so long after we graduate. So I’m not too worried about study scores or ATARs, because I know that regardless of this year’s outcome, Westbourne has equipped us with the skills to succeed. I know that in five, ten, twenty years’ time, the class of 2013 will be spread all over the world, across all different disciplines, all doing something great. Some of us may fail initially, and may need to take circuitous paths to achieve our goals, but no matter the setbacks we encounter, we will ultimately succeed because we can draw on the skills we learnt here, at Westbourne Grammar. Sir Isaac Newton famously commented that, ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ To the class of 2013, I say this: we may have made it this far thanks to the fantastic culture built by those who have come before us, but we can do even better than that – let’s leap from the shoulders of the giants on whom we stand, and make even bigger footprints in the sands of time. Tessa Marshall School Captain

YEAR 12

YEAR 12 FORMAL

In the midst of countless SACs and English oral presentations, the much anticipated Year 12 Formal held on Friday the 14th June was finally here. This night was a break from our hectic schedules of studying; where the year level came together to celebrate our final year at Westbourne Grammar School.

It was what the industrious Formal Committee had been working towards since early 2013. After deciding on the theme ‘Arabian Nights’, the Committee (Laura Newman, Madeline Ryan, Jessica Ryan, Noel Fuertes, Vidhi Shah, Liana Gardy, Shannon Borg, Chloe Allen and many more) had been hard at work deciding on the menu, table decorations, décor and, of course, the ‘Arabian’ themed entertainment for the night which included a belly dancer, a henna tattoo artist and a tarot card reader. The event, held at the Werribee Racecourse, began smoothly with the year level arriving promptly. After entrees were served, everyone was very eager to get a henna tattoo or get their fortune read. The belly dancer was the anticipated entertainment for the night and she did not disappoint, putting on an unforgettable show for all the guests. The night ended with the year level and most teachers on the dance floor, thanks to the DJ’s music, but all too soon the night was over. Vidhi Shah 12H 12 Derrimut

(From left to right) Photo 1: Leanne Lu, (12M), Iris Shen (12F), Vinne Chen (12D)

Photo 2: Sophie Broadway (12H), Claire Coulter (12H), Lauren Carpio (12D) Photo 3: Thomas McAllister (12P), Adam Russell (12P), Phillip Stojanovski (12H), Keone Wright (12P), Bogdan Astrakhantsev (12H), Sam Koletas (12H), Louis Xevgenis (12P), Satwik Sayala (12P)

Photo 4: Ricky Ta (12F), Louise Rebesco (12M), Rodel Dignadice (12F), Priya Dhillon (12S), Ashley Nguyen (12M) Photo 5: Alex Jacques (12D), Arin Eyiam-Rutty (12D), Kelly Pickard (12D), Louis Hogarth (12D) Photo 6: Claire Russell (12P), Olga Xinomilakis (12P), Kate Emery (12P), Jaime Lee (12P) Photo 7: Ricky Ta (12F), Louise Rebesco (12M), Rodel Dignadice (12F), Priya Dhillon (12S), Ashley Nguyen (12M)

Photo 8: Tatyanna Mendoza (12M), Eliza McCarron (12P) Photo 9: Chloe Allen (12S), Melanie Cvetkovic (12S), Jessica Ryan (12H), Claire Russell (12P), Kate Robinson (12S), Olga Xinomilakis (12P) Photo 10: Shannon Borg (12D), Chloe Allen (12S) Photo 11: Jemimah Di Natale (12H), Daisy Aaron (12D), Brittany Olver (12H)

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Photo 12: Maddy Ryan (12D), Kate Barber (12D)

YEAR 7 Year 7 is a year full of changes, trepidation and anticipation. This year, the Year 7s have excelled in stepping up to the challenges that education at the Senior level brings. At the start of the year, many were nervous and hesitant about the new experiences ahead of them. While struggles occurred with lockers, timetables, finding the correct classroom and making new friends, the Year 7s as a group banded together and made the start to the year a positive and enjoyable one for all. Camp at Portsea at the beginning of the year provided students with a relaxed atmosphere to get to know many new friends. Some of the highlights of camp were the camp out, abseiling, snorkelling and kayaking in the bay. The Year 7 students have also been involved in many of the co-curricular activities offered. Participation in Chess, Junior plays, Debating, Music, Sport and House competitions are some of the many areas through which Year 7 students have contributed to the life of the School. Students have been developing their understanding of their learning through structured activities during their tutorial periods. This time has been dedicated to setting study goals and learning how to improve their skills across all subjects. Each student recorded their study habits and reflected upon their improvements and achievements over the course of the year. 2013 has been an exceptional year for this cohort and they are well prepared for the transition into Year 8. Megan Turner Head of Year 7

YEAR 7

Year 12 House Captains Jodie Dunstan Braxton Controy (from top to bottom, left to right column) Catherine Bui Forest Bundy Rodel Dignadice Vy Duong Mitchell Frick Noelle Fuertes Liana Gardy Olivia Huynh Adam Isac William Johnson Emily Lerias Kevin Long Porshian Naidoo Jemina Nuredini Jay Paton Alexander Poole Rhys Renwick Aarvinder Sandhu Yuhong Shen Stephanie Silva Ricky Ta James Tan Cameron Tran

FLINDERS HOUSE

Head of House Report

House Captains’ Report

It was Kevin Long who haunted me all last summer. In my first address at the Flinders House final Assembly I said, “You thought you had gotten rid of me but, I am back,” whereupon Kevin, the Assembly’s MC, wound up proceedings with, “… and we have a new Head of House who looks like he’s out for some revenge.” I was mortified. Later while trying to regain my composure, some Year 11 students came to me with some sage advice. “Mr Callan the first thing you must do is get a new toast machine.” Here was my redemption. I was off to get the best toast machine money could buy and what great advice that proved.

2013 was a successful year for Flinders House. The year began with Inter House Swimming and the Athletics Carnival. The Falcons in these events portrayed characteristics of resilience and unity. However, the fact that we were not the best swimmers or athletic House on the day did not, in any way, deter the continuing House spirit. Other House events of the year included Chess, Debating, Public Speaking, and Badminton which saw Flinders’ members stepping up to the challenge and, once again, putting in their best efforts. The highlight of the year was our final Inter House event, House Singing. The chosen song ‘Jesse’s Girl’ was performed in a truly remarkable manner and earned a respectable third place in this event.

Life around Flinders revolved around that toast machine. It was the equivalent of the African savannah watering hole and all walks of life dropped in. The place was buzzing with ravenous toast makers, breezing in and out, hunching around a table, sharing a laugh, gobbling down their toasties or just shooting the breeze. While just outside the toast machine, Flinders proved the place to be where after school sporters nattered and laughed or where the chorus of ‘Jesse’s Girl’ bounced off the big top as students excitedly packed their bags for the weekend ahead. Along with myself, three new teachers also arrived at Flinders. Mr Evans at Year 10, Mr Horton at Year 7 and Mr Mackenzie at Year 9 complemented an already expert Flinders staff of Ms Zaharopoulos, Ms Mullenger, Ms Raimondo and Ms Howe. Finally, a big thank you to Jodie Dunstan and Braxton Conroy who led the way all year as truly inspiring House Captains. We did some great things this year in Flinders, but it was the people who made things so special; that and a toast machine.

The annual Flinders Festival, with everything from a chocolate coin toss to a donut eating competition, was also held at the end of Term 3. This event, combined with Casual Clothes Day, raised an impressive $1,923 for Kampuchea House. We would like to thank everyone in the Flinders Family, from the students to the Tutors, for their enthusiasm throughout the year. The Class of 2013 was outstanding and a big thank you goes to Mr Callan, Ms Howe and the Flinders Vice-Captains Liana Gardy and Forest Bundy for their support and hard work throughout the year. We wish the future leaders of Flinders and the House itself all the best for 2013. Jodie Dunstan and Braxton Conroy Flinders House Captains

Des Callan Head of Flinders House

FLINDERS HOUSE

Year 12 House Captains Laura Newman Nicholas Gray (from top to bottom, left to right column) Lucy Abbott Bogdan Astrakhantsev Muhamed Basic Sophie Broadway Claire Coulter Jemimah Di Natale Isaiah Finn Emily Fox Yu-Yen Huang Christopher Kent Savva Koletas Lesley Lee Timothy Levar Simon Nguyen Vinh Nguyen Sinead Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dwyer Brittany Olver Liping Qu Jessica Ryan Jarryd Scully Benjamine Sourivong Philip Stojanovski Pavel Suslov Jacqueline Tran

HUDSON HOUSE

Head of House Report “I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in my neighbourhood… But the world that contained even the imagination of a dragon was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.” J.R.R Tolkien. The world is richer and more beautiful because of Hudson House. Our success this year was in Chess. Hudson achieved first place in this event, to the absolute delight of all students. As I write this article, it is difficult to not be caught up in the fervour of Inter House Singing. This is the one event that encompasses everything we are trying to achieve at Westbourne. It is completely organised and led by students, and every student in the House has an opportunity to participate. The sense of House pride and community is enormous. Hudson House would not be the strength it is without the leadership of our Year 12 students. Our House Captains, Nick Gray and Laura Newman, have been admirably supported by Vice captains, Sinead O’Dwyer and Izzy Finn, and the entire Year 12 cohort. I would also like to thank all the students and Tutors of Hudson House for their commitment and participation.

House Captains’ Report When we first affirmed our captaincy at the Prefect Induction ceremony, we knew that this year was going to be full of challenges and surprises, but ultimately a year of fun and fulfilment. Looking back, 2013 has been an exceptionally busy year – time has flown and we wish we had more time to spend with the incredible people that make up Hudson House. However, our time as House Captains has been nothing less than rewarding. We would like to pass on our congratulations to all members of Hudson House for their outstanding participation and enthusiasm during 2013. All of you continue to embody the spirit of the dragon, continually demonstrating the fierce passion, respect and kindness for others that make a true Hudson student. We would like to extend an enormous thank you to the brilliant Ms Jenkins for her continued support and advice throughout the last six years – without her Hudson would not be the warm and welcoming environment it is today. We sincerely hope that the future generations of the House will benefit from her infinite wisdom and wicked sense of humour for years to come. We would also like to thank Ms O’Brien for her limitless optimism, infamous cackle and her compassion for all members of the House.

Finally, it was with great pleasure that we saw Ms O’Brien become the Head of Pascoe House. She is an outstanding leader and, while we were sad to see her leave, it is a wonderful opportunity for her. With this appointment comes the announcement of our new Deputy. Mr Jason Smith will be the next Deputy of Hudson House and we welcome him warmly.

And finally, to our Tutor group, thank you for being leaders in your own right and for being so supportive; not only throughout this year, but all through the ups and downs of the past five years as well. Your efforts are commendable and we could not have done this without you.

Sandra Jenkins Head of Hudson House

Nick Gray and Laura Newman Hudson House Captains

HUDSON HOUSE

Year 12 House Captains Louise Rebesco Brendon Stankovic (from top to bottom, left to right column) Jeremy Coleman Patrick Crowle Georgia Deale Corey Farrell Christian Gashi Timothy Goh Yubo Guo Chi Hsuan Hu Tram Huynh Angelea Karageorge Angus Long Yunyang Lu Evan Luong Tessa Marshall Tatyanna Mendoza Simon Nahyna Jamie Ngo Ashley Nguyen Minh Nhat Khanh Nguyen Chelsey Radley Tyrone Wang Jialin Wei Chong Yao Ho Min Yoo

MOLLAND HOUSE

Head of House Report

House Captainsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Report

Another year has passed, and still, I feel so privileged to be working in the role of pastoral leader for Molland House. What I have found encouraging is that the students see Molland House as one big family. The values of a family are evident; a sense of belonging, respect for one another, honesty, generosity, tradition and communication. These values encourage a willingness to participate, to be courageous and to have a go.

The success Molland had in 2013 has provided us with a great opportunity to grow through our experiences by working together as a team.

This year, the students have demonstrated their commitment to Molland House by putting every conceivable effort into Swimming, Athletics, Cross Country, Badminton, Public Speaking, Debating and Chess. They have also had an overwhelming eagerness to help out at Molland House fundraising events; Molland Red Roses for Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day and Molland Mexican. It is the involvement by the students in the House that creates a sense of being part of a special community. Overall we ended 2013 in fourth place in the House Cup. Congratulations to all students for their efforts in participating in events, assisting at fundraisers and as loyal supporters of Molland House. A special thank you goes to the House Captains, Brendon Stankovic and Louise Rebesco, and Vice Captain, Christian Gashi. They have been truly inspiring leaders who have supported the House in every aspect. No task given has been too much of an effort for them. Mr Grieve and I have been so fortunate to have worked beside them. Thank you to Mr Grieve for all his support this year and to all our House Tutors, and good luck to the Class of 2013. From everyone in Molland House, we wish you every success in the future.

Molland students approached every event with a positive attitude. The year began with a strong effort, taking third place in Swimming. We were also placed an impressive equal first in Public Speaking. It was pleasing to see many students supporting the participants in this event. We came fifth in Chess and third in Athletics. In Debating and Badminton we were placed fifth and sixth respectively. Cross Country presented us with second place. Lastly, House Singing showed us that we can improve, coming fifth; one place better than last year. Molland was also very successful in its fundraising efforts. Molland Roses, as always, was a big hit with the School community. However, this year we were overwhelmed with the support received and the money raised from Molland Roses and Molland Mexican exceeded last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total. In the last six years the Year 12 Class of 2013 has shared so many memories that we will remember for years to come. We would like to extend our thanks to Ms Muller and Mr Grieve for their support and encouragement. They provided us with so many opportunities to lead, and we learnt so much from the experience. Finally, we would like to thank the entire House for their enthusiasm and sportsmanship. Molland House has provided us with so many unforgettable moments and we will miss every single part of it. Brendon Stankovic and Louise Rebesco Molland House Captains

Sharon Muller Head of Molland House

MOLLAND HOUSE

Year 12 House Captains Olga-Louise Xinomilakis Nathan Grech (from top to bottom, left to right column) Leslie Borg Sam Chen Kate Emery Raquelle Fonseca Yiyao He Jordan Hughes Priya Lal Hae Bin Lee Jaime Lee Rachael Lim Peter Mayer Thomas McAllister Eliza McCarron Albert Nguyen Daniel Nguyen Mingyang Qian Kimlynn Reid Adam Russell Claire Russell Satwik Sayala Ashley Sevior Selina Tassone Keone Wright Louis Xevgenis

PASCOE HOUSE

Head of House Report

House Captains’ Report

Winston Churchill once said that “Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts”. Such a phrase epitomises the tireless efforts of Pascoe House in 2013 and I feel every Pascoe student should be proud of their extraordinary hard work this year.

Being the House Captains of Pascoe House this year has been a memorable journey. Although there were high expectations for the House to perform well due to our previous successes in recent years, this did not deter Pascoe from striving for excellence in 2013.

This year’s Inter House Competition was highly competitive with every House demonstrating the desire to win. Pascoe rose to the occasion and further excelled with strong participation levels and a sense of camaraderie ever present. This resulted in Pascoe’s valiant victory at the House Swimming and House Singing Competitions. Although the competition was fierce in the Inter House Public Speaking, Athletics and Cross Country Competitions, I could not be more proud of Pascoe’s hard work and determination to do their very best. Even when defeated, Pascoe arose from the ashes, dusted themselves off and prepared themselves for the next big event.

As part of Pascoe’s on-going contribution to Kampuchea House, we once again sold hot cross buns at our annual fundraiser. This was a great success, as we sold in excess of 500 buns and raised over $500 for Kampuchea House.

2013 has been a year of change for Pascoe. With Ms Louisa Scerri appointed as the Deputy Head of Senior School, it has been a great honour to be given the opportunity to lead Pascoe as the new Head of House. The warm welcome I received from both Pascoe students and Tutors instantly made me feel at home. I would especially like to thank the Pascoe House Captains, Nathan Grech and Olga-Louise Xinomilakis, for helping me with every aspect of the running of the House: they have been excellent role models for the younger grades. Along with our fantastic Tutors, it is no wonder Pascoe House is admired by all.

In addition to the success Pascoe achieved in its charity fundraisers, a shift in staff leadership saw the appointment of a new Head of House, Ms O’Brien. We farewelled Ms Scerri by acknowledging the enormous contribution she has made to the House and welcomed Ms O’Brien with open arms, as her enthusiasm will be invaluable to the House in the years to come. Overall, we would both like to thank the contribution that every member of Pascoe House from Years 7 to 12 has made over the School year. It has made our role as leaders of Pascoe enjoyable. A big thanks also goes to the Year 12s and Vice Captains, Kate Emery, Albert Nguyen and Kimlynn Reid, for their support throughout the year. Finally, we would like to extend our gratitude to Mr Michielin, Ms O’Brien and Ms Scerri for their support for which we will be forever grateful. We wish you all the best for 2014 and beyond. Nathan Grech and Olga-Louise Xinomilakis Pascoe House Captains

Sharon O’Brien Head of Pascoe House

PASCOE HOUSE

Year 12 House Captains Keeley Ross Travis Phelan (from top to bottom, left to right column) Chloe Allen Jason Chester Melanie Cvetkovic Priya Dhillon Rohnil Ganjoo Kendrick Ha Vincent Hardy Michael Ho Nang Hong Ee Sing Lau Duy Le Calvin Mijares Jake Muddle Rachael Nadalin Doris Nguyen Caitlin Orr Kate Robinson Karan Sharma Jack Sheehan Elizabeth Tintaru Hai Nhi Tu Xingpu Zou

STRATHMORE HOUSE

Head of House Report “All you can do is your very best”; “Do your bit for the team”; “The wheel will turn”; “The tide is changing”, “Be positive”, “If you cannot win, try to improve”; “Success may not happen overnight, but it will come”. These are just some of the many quotes I have used over the years in an effort to inspire Strathmore students to be the best they can be. While these messages may be ringing in their ears, I must admit that our students need little assistance as you would need to go a long way to find a more resilient, caring, united and self-motivated group of people. Much can be said about having a positive outlook when confronting challenges. Strathmore students know better than most about trying to remain positive in the face of adversity, given our struggle in the House Competition up until recent times. 2013 has, however, been Strathmore’s year. The hard work of the current cohort of students and staff, along with that of those from years gone by, has finally been rewarded with victory in the 2013 House Competition after 23 years. A third placing in Cross Country, second place finishes in Swimming, Chess and House Singing and victories in Public Speaking, Debating and Badminton were the keys to our success. I would like to thank Acting Deputy Head of Strathmore, Helen Gauci and the Strathmore Tutors for their tireless efforts and wonderful support throughout the year. Congratulations our Captains, Keeley Ross and Travis Phelan, and Vice Captains, Rachael Nadalin and Karan Sharma, on the wonderful commitment they gave to their roles. Lastly, I would like to congratulate all of our students on their efforts in 2013. Stephen Evans Head of Strathmore House

House Captains’ Report When this year’s Year 12 students were in Year 7, Strathmore was never seen as ‘The Winning House’. We were always perceived as the House known for their ‘spirit’ and ‘potential’, with the hope that in the coming years we would improve. Victories were scarce and on the odd occasion that Strathmore would take out an event, the success would be relished for months. However, constantly lingering in the backs of all Strathmorian’s minds was the possibility, hope and dream that Strathmore, in the not too distant future, would suddenly and unexpectedly win the whole House Competition. We embarked on this year’s journey with an overly enthusiastic mindset. Our slogan for the year announced that “Strathmore: It’s Time”. While other Houses scoffed at the mere notion of Strathmore being a threat, we remained quietly optimistic that this year would be our year. As our level of improvement and success increased with each event, our House spirit grew beyond belief until the final House event was nigh and we were left shocked and dreaming about the possibility of Strathmore’s first House Competition victory in 23 years. This year the dream became reality. We accredit this year’s victory to the persistent optimism of every single member of Strathmore and their continued motivation and effort to ensure the success of our House. Our success would never have been possible without the dedication of the Vice Captains Rachael Nadalin and Karan Sharma, our House Tutors, Deputy Head of House Ms Burton, Acting Deputy Head of House Ms Gauci and, of course, our inspiring and supportive Head of House Mr Evans. Congratulations on making history in 2013. GO STRATHMORE! Keeley Ross and Travis Phelan Strathmore House Captains

STRATHMORE HOUSE

Year 12 House Captains Madeline Ryan Hayden Azzopardi (from top to bottom, left to right column) Daisy Aaron Monique Atkins Beth Audley Kate Barber Shannon Borg Lauren Carpio Yinglin Chen Anton DePasquale Myles Dickman Taylah Edwards-Dunn Dean Eqbal Arin Eyiam-Rutty Jarrod Flood-Bauce Fanlian Fu Louis Hogarth Alexander Jacques Long Lu Brigette Mercaldi Luke Micallef Chutrin Mitpusaporn Tran Hoang Yen Nguyen Kelly Pickard Vidhi Shah Anh Khoi Tran

DERRIMUT HOUSE

Head of House Report

House Captains’ Report

2013 was a year that initially presented a significant challenge to the ‘new’ Derrimut House, so it is my absolute pleasure to state that this year has been a wonderful success. After a stunningly successful first year of existence in 2012, this year Derrimut has been able to build upon the foundations set last year and we have continued to excel in every measurable context.

Following a remarkable first year for Derrimut House, 2013 marked an exceptional and unforgettable experience for the community within it.

In 2013, Derrimut House successfully defended its Inter House Athletics title, and we also captured the Inter House Cross Country competition as well; thus establishing a reputation as a House which values athletics and always doing our best. However, it is indeed the spirit of Derrimut House that has been our greatest achievement. The passion, loyalty and kindness exhibited by Derrimut students to each other is simply exemplary. 2013’s success is in no small part due to the leadership displayed by our Year 12 students, and particularly our leadership group who are made up of our House Captains, Madeline Ryan and Hayden Azzopardi, and our House Vice Captains, Lauren Carpio, Monique Atkins, Daisy Aaron and Louis Hogarth. It has been a real joy to work with such a talented group of young people. Our Deputy Head of House, Mrs Rachel Griffin, has also been an integral member of our House and I would like to thank her for all of her outstanding contributions. Furthermore, our spirited group of Tutors have also been most valuable members of our community, and I thank them for all of their hard work and dedication. Lastly, I would like to thank all of the parents of students in Derrimut House for their support as well.

In the past year, Derrimut House has grown as a community that encourages unity and spirit, as well as an incredible sense of support for each other. Our success in various House events highlights the immense effort put in by both individuals and the House as a whole, working in a passionate and determined manner. The success we have experienced is in no small part due to the unbelievable strength and friendships within the House. Not only have we successfully performed in House competitions, but as a House we have also raised significant funds for Kampuchea House through fundraisers such as antibullying awareness and ‘Derrimut Donuts’. This would not have been possible without the support of our Head of House, Mr Nowak, and Deputy Head of House, Mrs Griffin, as well as the extraordinary collection of students within Derrimut. It is vastly fulfilling to see the House prosper through its integrity and in perpetuating the values that keep Derrimut functioning in a cohesive way. With that in mind, we would like to thank all members of Derrimut for contributing and making this year so spectacular, as well as the leadership that came from the Year 12s of Derrimut 2013. We wish all of you the best for the future and encourage you to continue to commit to the tradition and culture Derrimut has created. Hayden Azzopardi and Madeline Ryan Derrimut House Captains

2013 marked a year in which our previous standards were met and maintained by our entire House. All of Derrimut House should feel proud of our achievements this year. Dennis Nowak Head of Derrimut House

DERRIMUT HOUSE

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL CENTRE REPORT

Student report

The International Centre would not be the place it is without the contributions of all the student leaders. As International Prefect, Showee Qian has done an outstanding job working alongside Jack Sheehan as International Liaison Prefect. Khoi Tran, Hae Bin Lee and Yoyo He have each made excellent contributions as International Leaders and Yen Nguyen has played a vital role on the School’s Environmental Committee. The leaders all have to balance their leadership roles with their academic studies and I would particularly like to acknowledge Khoi Tran, who was the state winner of the Victorian Department of Education Academic Excellence Award for International Students.

Our International Centre is now the second home of over 60 students from China, Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia. With so many cultures represented, we enjoy many different celebrations from different places. One of the highlights of the year is Westbourne’s Homestay Barbecue. Our homestay families are important because they help us to adapt to the new environment and focus on our study at the same time. Our Homestay Barbecue is the time we say thank you and enjoy traditional Australian food together.

Each year, we are seeing more international students getting involved in school life and trying new things. In 2013, we had international students represented in ACS Sport Finals, Senior Choir, Concert Choir, Band, Orchestra, University Extension Programs, Toast Masters, Life Drawing and much more. All international students, however, should be commended for their courage in venturing so far from home to study on their own in a foreign language. Westbourne’s international students truly are inspirational. Tracy Willman International Student Coordinator

This year we held a new event, the ‘International Playground’. Local students were introduced to international games such as ‘Chopsticks Racing’ and ‘Skipping Duckling’ (skipping with flippers!). There wasn’t much skill involved, but there was a lot of laughter and everyone had a wonderful time. However, the most important day for us is International Food Day. It means so much to be able to share dishes from our countries with our classmates and teachers. This year we raised more than $1,000 for Kampuchea House. Thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising efforts this year. Khoi Tran 12D and Yoyo (Yiyao) He 12P

DIRECTOR OF LEARNING 2013 has been a year of continuous, evolutionary change for Westbourne. As well as building on the strength of our track record of success over more than 150 years, we have embraced a range of exciting initiatives to ensure that our students are provided with a truly cutting edge educational experience. I have relished the opportunity to be involved in this growth as the new Director of Learning. One of the real landmark developments for the year is the implementation of continuous reporting. The availability of regular, quality feedback is acknowledged to be one of the most significant determinants of success for learners. Our system of providing that feedback online, accessible not only by students but also by their families, allows them to continually evaluate and improve their own performance with the support of their teachers. I can safely say that this system is the envy of many other schools.

Many learning experiences both inside classrooms and beyond have been enhanced through the expanded use of technology. For example, some students have begun the process of ‘flipping the classroom’, where they come to lessons having already listened to material that will be explored. The result is a more interactive experience and better use of precious lesson time. We are particularly proud of the enrichment modules offered to students in Years 7 and 8. These provide the opportunity to explore subjects not usually taught in a school environment such as Astronomy, Engineering, Music composition and Archaeology. Westbourne is committed to becoming one of the leading educational institutions, not only in Victoria, but in Australia. We will continue to seek to enrich the learning experiences of all students, ensuring they finish their time at Westbourne prepared to live a successful and prosperous life in our increasingly competitive world. Grant Finlay Director of Learning

YEAR 9 PROGRAM

The 2013 Year 9 student cohort has significantly contributed to the Year 9 Imagine Program (Y9IP), becoming the best of its kind. Through a rigorous, inspiring study program, students have developed skills, concepts and a strong sense of community responsibility through a well-articulated program evaluated through scaffolded activities and authentic summative assessment. There’s been lots of fun learning with others too!

LEX and SAK In addition to core studies of English and Mathematics, LEX (Learning Explorations), an integrated study of Science and Humanities, is the subject at the heart of the Y9IP. LEX units make connections between the physical world and human behaviours in time and place. Directly supporting LEX, students completed a skills and knowledge (SAK) course which developed specific strategies through practice that directly related to LEX outcomes. Research skills, essay writing, oral presentation and project development skills were developed through SAK. A sustained unit on Health was also a core component of SAK, as well as the Outdoor Education Program and the Year 9 Camp to the Grampians.

Patterns - Why do humans seek patterns?

Water - What is the power of water?

Without always being conscious of it, human brains seek patterns in nature and behaviours. Patterns are key to our survival. They provide certainty and the ability to extrapolate and predict. As part of this study, students investigated patterns in migration to and across Australia, design patterns in cityscapes and town planning, weather patterns and patterns observed in microbiology. Students contrasted and constructed maps exploring physical geography, including contour lines for elevation, temperature and population with maps of human settlement over time including Aboriginal nations and evolved states of Australia. Understanding the geography of Australia allowed students to better appreciate the impact of white settlement on the physical environment and respecting cultural differences.

Without thinking about it, we can become complacent about the availability and the potency of water. This unit encouraged students to think about the water cycle – where water comes from and where it goes – with particular consideration for water use and misuse in the local area. Understanding how water can benefit and harm environments here, and in different locations and times across the globe, and then applying scientific testing to sites along Skeleton Creek, allowed students to better appreciate the responsible water use and the health of a significant local waterway. Student reports evaluating the health of Skeleton Creek were produced for Wyndham City Council. To further inform their understanding of water on environment and habitats, students completed studies at Melbourne Water Treatment Centre, CERES Brunswick and Ecolinc Bacchus Marsh. The role of water throughout history, with a focus on the Industrial Revolution, recognised how water generated power, water as transport, and water in relation to health contributed to significant advancements of the period which continue to impact on our lives today. Students collaborated on a water documentary video focussing on delivering a message of the significance of water and our shared responsibility in its use.

Students researched accounts of Aboriginal peoples and early white settlers to understand the feelings and actions of the time and their impact on contemporary Australia. A visit to key Melbourne landmarks linked learning about the physical environment and the transformation of the landscape from pre-European settlement to the current day, recognising the contributions of traditional owners, their knowledge and legacy, as well as later marks on the local landscape and psyche. A guided tour of artworks in the Ian Potter Museum, learning at the Aboriginal garden of the Royal Botanical Gardens, a laneways art tour, and locating themselves in the city from the Eureka Skydeck complemented this learning.

Truth - What is the truth? In school, students are taught many facts. They are also taught other things which they trust are absolutely true when, in fact, they may “only” be the best explanations available to us at the time. In Truth, students explore representations of History through the eye of the photographer in the First World War. They gain an appreciation of deliberate and accidental forms of imagery, and the messages conveyed by the selection framed to define their own response and comparing it to authorised accounts. Students study the debate between renowned War journalists of the day, examine the role of governments, wartime propaganda and read personal and official accounts of the War as preparation for a historical sources SAC. To better understand WWI and its impact on Australia, students participated in a study tour of the Shrine of Remembrance and RAAF Base at Point Cook, with one student successfully applying to become a Young Ambassador of the Shrine. This year students entered the Victorian Premier’s ANZAC Spirit Prize,

another example of school work as an authentic assessment task. In the same way history can be thought to be true, science is also misunderstood to hold all the answers. By exploring evolution of scientific theories and examining competing theories, students applied critical thinking skills to researching and presenting a Comparative Theories Science Report. We were privileged to have a lawyer, also a Year 9 parent, dispel the myth that the law consistently seeks the truth. Students respectfully questioned Mr Nuredini about justice when lawyers focus on winning for their clients.

Energy - What does it mean to be energy-wise? The Ryan Centre is a sustainably designed building taking advantage of many environmentally features. It is a great learning and teaching resource in itself. Our focus in this unit was for students to better understand energy generation and use, understanding that as a Year 9 community, we are the sole contributors to energy conservation and expenditure. To enable students to report on the continued sustainability of the facility, students studied energy sources, extraction and treatment methods, and economic, political, social and environmental impacts of renewable and non-renewable sources. This study was relevant with debate about fracking and renewed discussion about the viability of our coal industry and nuclear energy in the news. We were fortunate to have Ms Galati’s father, Mr Hamilton (a coal plant engineer), present on his experiences about his work in designing energy efficient systems, and his greater understanding of alternative sources of energy. Students studied electric circuits and energy loss in systems, demonstrated through energy generated and use from bicycle power provided by Future Sparks. Students also explored exothermic and endothermic reactions through practical exercises before concluding the unit with a Letter to the Editor based on researched evidence and contemporary views of carbon- based fuels.

Community - Why is community important? Having lived and learned together for almost a year, including the camp to the Grampians, Year 9 students had some experience and knowledge of groups and their success. The unit of community purposefully explored the role of the three levels of Australian government with students collaborating on preparing, presenting and debating a Bill, practising parliamentary procedures in a mock parliament. In preparation for community placements, students explored what makes a healthy and effective community by examples from large

governmental organisations to smaller local community groups. In identifying common purpose and agreed social norms, students reflected on the aims and attributes of communities they would be joining as guests, as well as reflecting upon their impact during the three visits. We hope that through these experiences students will appreciate that the more they engage in community, the more they will benefit from it. We hope the same is true in their Westbourne family and other community experiences.

Extended Project In addition to a full schedule of classes, Year 9 students each designed and completed an Extended Project. Based on a learning goal of their choice, approved by teachers and parents, these projects value the learning process. Planning, research, organisation, skill development, experimentation, decisionmaking, collaboration and leadership all contributed to the most successful projects. To support the learning process, and to authenticate the work, students completed a regularly assessed process journal evaluated through rubrics, Ron Richhart’s Six Intellectual Character Dispositions (Harvard Visible Thinking) and conferences with their mentors. As part of the first Extended Project Exhibition, students presented their product, process journal and a final report on their learning. Students, parents and teachers were able to marvel at the quality of work achievable through effort sustained over a year.

Communication and Presentations of Learning A key aim across Year 9 is to develop and practice strong communication skills with students. In addition to taking responsibility for the Ryan Centre and relationships at School, students develop critical thinking skills, exhibited through written and oral tasks, as well as the three Presentations of Learning (PoL). This is an expectation of the Program which all students complete. Reporting and accurately reflecting on their learning success and strategies for improvement before an audience of their parents, peers and visitors develops their confidence and integrity. Throughout the year, students realise that they are expected to thoughtfully reflect and speak their mind as part of taking an active role in the Year 9, Westbourne and wider communities. In addition to School events, Year 9 students participated in the Wynspeak Youth Public Speaking competition, Premier’s ANZAC Spirit Award, community art, dance, theatre and sports, and were accepted to the Shrine of Remembrance Young Ambassador Program.

Enrichment Subjects Year 9 students also continue to advance skills through studies of LOTE, PE and the Arts. In addition, Year 9 teachers offer a range of Enrichment studies linked to Humanities and Science. This year’s Enrichment subjects were: CSI, Money Matters, Mountain Biking, Permaculture, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology and Robotics. As with other subjects, these trimester-length subjects included formal practical and written assessment. Key events through these subjects included: Money Matters Market, Garden to Table, Who Done It? Crime Scene, Global Conflict Presentations, Psychological Experiments, Robotics Programming Test, and coastal bike rides. We are grateful for the new bike shed and look forward to making better use of the interior and exterior spaces at the Ryan Centre next year. Craig Rodgers Director Year 9 Imagine Program

YEAR 9 CAMP Camp was definitely an experience that I will never forget. Like you would expect from a group of teenagers, most of us went into camp thinking that it was going to be the worst five days of our lives. However, our opinion on camp changed as the week went on. We participated in activities such as rock climbing and mountain biking that everyone really enjoyed. The half and full day hikes, with our 12kg packs, not only tested our physical and mental abilities, but also developed our teamwork skills. The highlight of my camp experience was definitely climbing up Hollow Mountain on

Permaculture the second last day. To do this climb we had to take off our packs because of all the rocks we had to scramble over. Half-way up the mountain, my group stopped and did some easy bouldering on the rock faces. It was also a popular spot to take photos. When we reached the top of the mountain, the view was phenomenal. We sat up there for a long time and my group really bonded. We laughed together and had such a good time. On this climb, my camp group finally realised that camp wasn’t the worst five days of our lives, but one of the best experiences we will ever have. Emily Spiteri 9B

Permaculture is the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient. In Mr Behrens’ Permaculture class, we learnt about permaculture both inside the classroom and outside in the vegetable garden. We have learnt why we need permaculture in our everyday life, the twelve principles of permaculture and how many different types of plants work together to create a more harmonious ecosystem. In class, we completed assignments to help us better understand and apply permaculture principles. One assignment was the rooting gel experiment that we conducted over three school weeks. We measured one plant grown with rooting gel and another untouched by chemicals. Another assignment was our garden design project. This project required us to adopt the persona of a garden designer for Westbourne Grammar School, and to design a garden for the Geoffrey Ryan Centre and surrounding area based on the philosophy of permaculture. A final highlight of the unit was the excursion to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens to help us generate ideas for our Garden Design Project. The guide presented ways to look after plants in order to produce an efficient ecosystem. Natasha Currao 9G

The Rising of November’s Dawn Verse: In the rising of November’s dawn, A hundred thousand hearts will mourn, For the soldiers who, for freedom strove, Diggers, who lay down their lives, Near the shores of Anzac Cove. From Gallipoli to the Western front, Slaughtered like deers in a savage hunt. A hunt for freedom, a hunt for land, Now their bodies lay lifeless, buried, in the sand. Lest we forget as the trumpet is played, As the Last Post cries out to the heavens, The bloodshed, the tears and the price, they paid, As their souls, to our maker, was given. Chorus: The Spirit of the Anzacs, does it live in each of us? Through the cold and through the rain, Do we live to fight again? Is their mateship in our land of hope? Is their courage through the storm? Do we serve our blessed country? Like they did, their bodies torn. Do we live to help our Neighbour? To bring good humour to the sick? Or do we simply come that day to mourn? In the rising of, November’s dawn. Shayden Chrisostom 9B

LEX WATER The LEX Water unit was an incredibly enjoyable and fulfilling learning experience, offering the Year 9 students an opportunity to learn more about the importance of water across a number of different topics. By the time this topic came around, we had already settled into the new way of learning that is the Imagine Program and, as a result, we were all much more confident in our approach to this topic. For Geography, we learnt about the importance of waterways and other bodies of water, particularly the Murray-Darling Basin, as well as the serious issue of water pollution in today’s throwaway society. For History, we learnt about the Industrial Revolution and how water was an important resource in this time of change. For Science, we focused mainly on chemistry and the biology of waterways. The most enjoyable parts of the Water unit for many students was having the exciting opportunity to test the health of the Skeleton Creek water way, using a number of different tests to determine everything from acidity to turbidity, as well as going to the Werribee Water Treatment Plant to see what happens first-hand to all of the waste water from our homes. These excursions were a welcome change to typical classroom indoors learning and aided in reinforcing the key lessons of this unit in our minds.

LEX Water, like the rest of the LEX Units, was an exciting change from traditional learning and was an effective way to engage students in active learning. Jackson Young 9E

LEX Energy In Learning Expeditions we have covered Community, Water, Patterns, Truth and Energy. The Energy unit involved having an indepth look at the science of energy, which included the burning of ‘Twisties’ in order to determine whether it was an endothermic or exothermic reaction. Everyone seemed to enjoy this type of learning experience as we had not only gained knowledge but enjoyed a tasty treat as well. We also explored how the Year 9 building works, and whether it really is as environmentally friendly as we had been told. We were encouraged to express our opinions on how to improve the building design and to be independent in how we thought. The Learning Expeditions program has given the whole Year 9 community an insight into the world around us and the way in which we facilitate our learning. The experiences that we had, and the shared journey, shall forever be valued in our academic life and the future beyond Westbourne that lies ahead of us. Amber Kades 9C

EXCHANGE AND TRIPS A word from our Japanese exchange students For four weeks in Term 3, five Westbourne families hosted three students from Japan; Rena Hirose and Karei Tamura from our sister school in Nijima and Ayana Kusano from our sister school Shukutoku in Nagoya. All three girls had a wonderful stay in Australia, and particularly Westbourne, and the School would sincerely like to thank the Andy, Lal, Long, Bundy and Fuertes families who kindly hosted the girls and made their stay so memorable. Ayana Kusano: I had a very good time in Australia for my summer vacation this year. I was very nervous when I came here but my host family and the people at this school treated me so kindly. I was able to enjoy everyday life in Australia. At school, though it was difficult for me to understand the contents of the lessons, the teachers and students who taught me were so polite and helpful. At home, my family the Feurtes always spoke with a smiling face and I want to say thank you very much to all these people. Karei Tamura: My school life at Westbourne was very interesting. When I was in Japan I thought it would be hard to go to school in another country and I would not be able to make friends but the students here were so kind and positive, so I could make many friends. Above all I was delighted there were many people who like Japanese anime. The difference between Australian school and Japanese school surprised me and it made me want to stay in Australia more. Australian schools have much more freedom. The students and teachers are much kinder too. I will never forget my memories of my stay in Australia. Rena Hirose: Four weeks passed in an instant! At first I was very anxious about my English, so I couldn’t start a conversation. But I started to think, “make a conversation, even if I make mistakes.” I really enjoyed spending my time at Westbourne. I also got to participate in the music camp for four days which was amazing! It was so exciting and has become a great memory for me. It is sad that I have to go back to Japan but I’ll come back to visit Australia again. When I do my English will be much better. I have never had such a great experience in all my life. Thank you to Westbourne!! Fiona Andy, Karei Tamura, Kevin Long, Rena Hirose, Noelle Fuertes, Ayana Kusano, Forest Bundy, Priya Lal

GERMAN AND JAPANESE PROGRAMS Happily ensconced in our specialist German and Japanese rooms, we continued to offer our usual programs in 2013. May saw our busy and exciting Languages Week come and go, with pretzels, sushi, kendo, bratwurst sausages and quizzes, culminating in the traditional soccer match between Year 12 Japanese and German students and staff, this time won by the German students in a very tight encounter. In October we hosted a group of 20 curious young German students from the ‘Städtisches Gymnasium Selm’ and in September Wakida Sensei visited Japan with two intrepid colleagues and 21 students. At the end of January Brigette Mercaldi, Travis Phelan and Peter Mayer returned from their experiences as Exchange Students in Germany, with Kevin Long, Adam Russell and Priya Lal returning from similar experiences in Japan. This Christmas Sarah Fenn is on a SAGSE Scholarship Exchange in Germany, whilst Leo Featherstone and Alisha Maraftia are on exchange at our German sister school and Fiona Andy, James Pallasis, and Christine Deng will experience winter with our Japanese partners. During 2013 there were many interesting excursions such as restaurant visits, poetry and speech competitions, Year 12 Forums and a ‘Why Learn Japanese?’ day. As usual we had the valuable aid of our Assistant Teachers, Aya Isogai from Japan and Leyla Koc from Germany. We thank them and their amazing Westbourne community host families for their contributions. In 2012 over a quarter of our Year 12 student cohort studied either Japanese or German, for an average scaled study score of over 40 in both, so it is fantastic to see Westbourne students reaping the benefits of many years of commitment to language learning. Warren Pratt Director of Languages

JAPAN TRIP On 14 September, 24 students departed for Japan on what would be an unforgettable 18-day tour. After arriving at Nagoya airport, we were taken to a ceremony hall where we met our host families with whom we stayed for a week. The first day was a Public Holiday, and to celebrate there was a spectacular fireworks festival. We also attended Toyohashi Minami High School and experienced Japanese school life. Throughout the school week there was a cultural festival and an athletics festival. The last day in Toyohashi was spent with our host families doing various activities, including bowling, karaoke, visiting museums and shopping. The homestay was a brilliant

We listened to a victim’s experience, visited the museum and Peace Park. We also visited the island, Miyajima, famous for its floating Ootori gate. experience and many great memories and friendships were made. After farewelling our host families, we boarded a bullet train to Tokyo where we explored some of Tokoy’s famous districts, such as Akihabara and Shinjuku. We also attended a baseball match, visited Studio Ghibli Museum and spent the final day in Tokyo at Tokyo Disneyland. Our next stop was Hiroshima, where we explored historical sites and learned about the Atomic bomb attacks during World War 2.

Following Hiroshima was Kyoto, where we stayed in a traditional-style hotel. Visiting the ancient city of Nara, we saw the Todaiji Temple, the world’s largest wooden building. The following day we completed the Kyoto Amazing Race in small groups, visiting many beautiful temples. Our last day was spent at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka before boarding the flight back home. Japan was an amazing learning experience which all of us will cherish for life. Daniel Agosta, Jenny Nguyen and Olivia Buysen

PRESENTATION BALL Westbourne Grammar Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Presentation Ball was not like anything we could have imagined; it was an amazing experience filled with memories that we will all treasure as we enter into our final year at school.

Months before the Ball, the girls had already been meticulously planning every possible detail for the night, from their dresses, make-up and hair appointments, to the limousine arrival. The boys, on the contrary, were much more relaxed, only having to worry about the shoes they would wear.

As Term 1 started, the students participating in the Presentation Ball anxiously attended their first practice. At first the couples stood looking at each other in confusion as they tried to learn the steps to the Merengue, the Evening Three Step and the Jive. However, as the weeks went by, the confusion faded away and was replaced with much laughter and enjoyment.

On the day of the Ball, the limousines arrived one after the other. As the guests started to arrive, our hearts were racing and our hands were shaking. Each couple was introduced by Mr McGregor who shared their achievements and aspirations. It was at this moment that not only the students, but family members, friends and the staff realised that we were not little children anymore, but young adults. Miraculously, we danced without any major mistakes. The nervousness of the night soon disappeared and we all enjoyed ourselves tremendously. In the audience, mothers and fathers were shedding tears, proudly watching their children as they took as many photographs as they could. After the formal dances, we spent the rest of the night with our friends and family on the dance floor. It was a wonderful evening for all who attended and definitely one of the highlights of our year. Abhi Amirthalingam 11H

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SENIOR MUSICAL

In 2013, Westbourne Grammar School continued its reputation of producing successful performances in its annual Musical. This year the cast brought to life the Olivier award-winning musical “Honk!”, an adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic tale “The Ugly Duckling”.

Back row: Travis Phelan, Kevin Long, Benjamin Petkov, Liam Straughan, Ashley Sevior, Grace Becker-Scott 3rd row: Eliza Barnes, Montana Nicolousolpoulos 2nd Row: Jake Arnold, Tatyanna Mendoza, Sarah Mudaliar, Jeevan Haikerwal, Clare McGavin 1st row: James Pallasis, Lana Wyatt, Kelvin Tran, Asami Weaver, Rachel Nadalin, Katie Long, Chelsea Perera Very front: Rhys Renwick

The cast was led by Ashley Sevior as the naïve Ugly Duckling, as he went on a heart-warming story of acceptance and love. Jeevan Haikerwal served as an obstacle in Ugly’s journey as the cunning and conniving Cat, while Ugly’s concerned mother, Ida, portrayed by Asami Weaver, searched for her lost son. This left Ugly’s clueless and exasperated father Drake, played by Rhys Renwick, alone to look after the children. Kevin Long had audiences in stitches in his vivacious character of the Bullfrog; a clear audience favourite. Benjamin Petkov and Tatyanna Mendoza portrayed the pompous British military geese, hell bent on their mission to find Ugly’s mother. The domesticated animal duo of Queenie and Lowbutt were played by Montana Nicoloutsopoulos and Eliza Barnes. Clare McGavin, Rachael Nadalin and Grace Becker-Scott portrayed notable cameo roles as the gossipy Maureen, the privileged Grace and the beautiful swan and love interest Penny, respectively.

There were many other cast members who formed the chorus in various roles, and who filled the stage with a wonderful array of singing and dancing froglets, fish, barnyard animals, snowflakes, Greek chorus and geese. All in all the 2013 Musical was an outrageous success. Everyone should be congratulated on their involvement. We can only look forward to what Westbourne’s creative team will do with next year’s Musical.

Back row: Travis Phelan 2nd row: Jeevan Haikerwal, Tatyanna Mendoza, Lana Wyatt Front row: Rachel Nadalin, Eliza Barnes, Asami Weaver, Katie Long

SENIOR PLAY The Senior Play in each school year has always been a highlight for Westbourne’s expansive drama community. This year was no different. Oscar Wilde’s satire ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’, whilst challenging for each actor, was a fantastic production for everyone involved. It is highly doubtful that anyone will ever forget the experiences they shared on that Drama Centre stage. The performance was lead by Keeley Ross and William Hately who portrayed the married couple Lord and Lady Windermere.

Benjamin Petkov played the suave bachelor completing the love triangle of the story. The mysterious ‘Mrs Erlynne’ whose identity is shrouded in secrets was brought to life by Emily Morris. Sarah Mudaliar portrayed the highly comical and judgemental Duchess of Berwick alongside Travis Phelan who played her brother, the clueless, yet loveable Lord Augustus. Many witty retorts were given by Ashley Sevior and Philip Jakanowski in their characters of Cecil Graham and Lord Dumby, both amusing the audience consistently.

Jeevan Haikerwal and Sarah Fenn had a blossoming romance in the characters of Mr Hopper and Lady Agatha Carlisle. Whilst only cameo roles, Stephanie Silva, Beth Audley and Lana Wyatt were memorable in their portrayals of the snobbish upper-class women of the 1890s. Kevin Long, Liam Straughan and Laura Houghton shone in their interpretations of the household staff of Lord and Lady Windermere. Everyone involved should be thanked for their commitment in bringing ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ to life. It was a fantastic show that was enjoyed by all. Keeley Ross 12S

Back row: Jeevan Haikerwal, Liam Straughan, Ashley Sevior, Travis Phelan, Benjamin Petkov, William Hately, Keeley Ross Middle row: Beth Audley, Lana Wyatt, Laura Houghton, Philip Jakanovski Front row: Kevin Long, Stephanie Silva, Emily Morris, Sarah Mudaliar, Sarah Fenn

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Debating and Public Speaking Congratulations are in order for yet another successful year in the arena of public speaking and debating. Westbourne students were well represented in the DAV (Debating Association of Victoria) competition and the ACS Public Speaking competition. Vincent Harding, as Debating Captain for 2013, led this year’s debaters with assurance and wit. DAV (Debaters Association of Victoria) Thirty-eight students participated in the DAV competition Williamstown division. The DAV competition has the honour of being the world’s largest school debating

competition. On Wednesday 4 September, Westbourne concluded its Debaters Association of Victoria (DAV) season at the October finals with the second A grade team consisting of Tessa Marshall, Travis Phelan, Claire Coulter and Keeley Ross competing at St. Leonard’s College in Brighton. Although their defeat spelled the end of Westbourne’s entry into DAV for this year, their exceptional performance in concluding the competition ranked them as one of the top 16 Year 12 debating teams in the entire state. This is reflective of Westbourne’s broader performance in the overall competition this year. We all have a reason to be immensely proud, with eight teams from the school

participating (two each from Years 10, 11 and 12, as well as one each from Years 8 and 9). The School teams collectively managed to win over two-thirds of all the debates they participated in. Not only that, but five out of eight of the teams ended up second or better on the final standings at the end of the competition, and nearly a quarter of all students participating received Best Speaker awards in the debates in which they participated. Barring a few small incidents with forfeits earlier on in the year, the competition was an extremely exciting event. While we didn’t meet our goal of no forfeits this year, our participation in 90% of the debates overall was still an excellent achievement. The JNR DAV Debating Training Competition held in the Werribee division also continues to grow in popularity with 21 students from Year 7 competing and training. Students undertake one training night and three rounds of debating. This competition gives students a sample of the pleasure to be had through sparring in the debating arena. My personal thanks to the two debating coordinators, Ms Birchall and Mrs Garnham, without whom the competition would have never run so smoothly as it did. My own experiences in needing assistance to field a team for my debates, and the readiness for the other A grade team to help me, reassured me that the debating culture at this School is alive and well. May the voice of debates continue to prosper long into the future. Vincent Hardy Debating Captain

ACS Public Speaking Two of Westbourne’s finest Public Speakers, Laura Bishop from Year 9 and Todd Minehan from Year 8, competed in the annual ACS Public Speaking competition, hosted this year by Loyola College. Until we all meet again for another year of speaking and debating, I would like to sincerely congratulate our Debating Captain, Vincent Hardy and all the dedicated coaches, public speakers and debaters. Rest your voices and we look forward to competing once more in 2014. Jane Garnham and Alison Birchall Debating Coordinators

CHESS REPORT Chess was a popular pastime and sport in the Senior School in 2014. There was spirited play in the library at lunchtimes and on Fridays the Chess Club met for serious chess and coaching. As Chess Captain, Harry Pham 11P showed great organisational skills. He arranged teams, encouraged new players and coached the younger players in the school. Once again the ACS Chess Competition was held at our School. As always, the event was a hard fought struggle and the result was not decided until the final round. Westbourne repeated its victory of 2012, defeating St Leonard’s College in the final round to ensure victory. The players in the team were Harry Pham 11P, Jack Zhang 11H, Rhys O’Rafferty 11F, Andrew Stainsby 11S, Lachlan van Heerwaarden 8M, Leo Featherstone 11H, Cameron Tran 12F, Albert Tu 8H and Tyrone Wang 12M. The School championship was played over a number of weeks in Terms 2 and 3. The competition was played as a five-round Swiss tournament, with Jack Zhang 11H, triumphing in the final round. The Senior School Chess team played in the Victorian Interschool Competition. In the zone final at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School, the team won the zone title from Northcote High School. The outstanding player of the tournament was Jack Zhang, the only player to win all of his games on the day. As a result, the team progressed to the state finals, where they played well but did not finish in the top three. Murray McKean

COMMERCE

Prep Weather Incursion

Australian Business Week Competition 2013:

When we taught the Preps about weather, I was amazed by how keen they were to learn and how much they already knew. It was an excellent experience teaching them about clouds, and I enjoyed the activities that we did with them. In preparation for the day, I had the opportunity to work with students and teachers that I would not normally get to work with. For the incursion, I learnt much more about weather and also about the people I worked with. I had a brilliant time and this is most certainly a valuable memory that I will keep forever, and I would definitely recommend that anybody given this opportunity takes it and treasures it.

This year, during the September holidays, Deanna Dragovic (11 Molland) and I participated in the 2013 Australian Business Week Competition run by Victoria University. This program consisted of 25 Years 10 and 11 students who were divided into five teams – Deanna was in the Red team and I was in the Gold team. Each team was given a decision sheet and had to open up and run a hotel chain. Each team had to make decisions about the operations of the hotel, advertising costs, employee salaries and any other financial decisions. As part of the program we also had to write and present a company report, create a TV advertisement, run a booth at a trade fair and participate in team games and activities. My role was the marketing director and it was my job to create a logo, plan the advertising and plan the trade booth. On the last day of the program there was an awards ceremony. A silver medal was presented to winners of each category; the business simulation, the trade fair, the advertisement, the final report and presentation and teamwork. Our team came first in the TV Advertisement category. Whilst my team may have finished last overall, we still enjoyed ourselves and had a lot of fun. I strongly recommend this program for anyone doing a Commerce subject as it gives a great insight into the business sector. Emily Morris 11F

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GREAT TRANSPORT RACE Mitchell Wood 10S, Maddie Borg 10D, Hannah Debney and Yasmin Al-Kamil 10M and Mr. Michelin On 9 May, Mitch, Maddie, Hannah and Yasmin of Year 10, and Mr Michelin, set off to represent Westbourne Grammar School, or ‘The Westies’ as they called us in the first heat, in the Great Transport Race starting in St Kilda. The Great Transport Race provides students from Years 7 to 10 with a unique way of learning how to catch public transport to favourite destinations in a race format inspired by the Amazing Race. After a hot, tough and running-filled day, ‘The Westies’ finished in the top 5 and were put through to the Grand Final at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 21 May. Arriving at Etihad Stadium, we were all very excited for the action-packed day to come. After planning our journey, we set off and spent the whole day rushing around to places such as the Eureka Tower and Richmond. What an adventure! Coming back to Etihad Stadium we were greeted with a performance by some African tribal dancers. It was so exciting! We placed in the top 15 and had an amazing experience. The race taught us to be independent and gain skills such as leadership, team work and planning. It was definitely an unforgettable, fun-filled experience and one that we will never forget! Yasmin Al Kamil 10M

UN Youth Human Rights Summit

UN Youth State Conference

Philip Jakanovski and I attended the United Nations’ Youth’s First Human Rights Summit for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, at Melbourne University.

The Conference gave me an insight into the workings (and sometimes failures) of the United Nations and increased my drive to do something that I was passionate about; to do something for change. Each guest speaker The day began with a very powerful and we listened to, and each workshop we were inspirational speech from a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the Honourable involved in gave us more and more motivation to follow our passion. I felt honoured to have Michael Kirby. As a human rights activist worked with such a fantastic group of himself, Justice Kirby spoke to us about his like-minded, passionate and sometimes experiences with the LGBTIQ community, inspirational people. As I left the Conference, both in Australia and internationally. The I left with a feeling of passion and confidence. horrific events of discrimination against the I left with a drive to do something for change. LGBTIQ community that he recounted to us, And this is why I am going to repeat the particularly overseas in African countries and words given by the hundreds before you, in the Caribbean, surprised us all and gave us “If you ever receive this chance, I beg you to a very harsh wake-up call. We were then split take it as it is a life changing experience that up into our different focus groups, with Philip’s you will not soon forget.” group focusing on adoption and family rights, and my own on employment rights. In these William Hately 11H groups we were able to share our thoughts on what we felt were the most important issues in these areas, and wrote clauses for our final resolution. While we arrived at the summit not really knowing what to expect from the day ahead of us; we left with a new kind of confidence, knowledge and determination to change this world for the better. We were pushed to develop our debating skills as well as to think for ourselves, but most of all, we got the chance to share opinions on something we feel is important for our generation and to make a difference. Madeline Tester 11S

Peer Support The Peer Support Program has continued to strengthen bonds within the student body in 2013. Throughout Term 1, 72 Year 11 leaders assisted Year 7 students with their transition into Westbourne Grammar Senior School. Weekly sessions were conducted by student leaders over a five-week period. By working through engaging and informative topics such as developing and building confidence, locating support systems within the School and creating and enhancing relationships; the program empowered Year 7 students providing them with a wider support network and greater skill set. Both the Year 11 leaders and the Year 7 students looked forward to their weekly sessions, finding the program to be both enjoyable and useful. Furthermore, all students involved believe the experience created stronger bonds within the individual Houses and across year levels. Many of the Year 11 leaders have expressed the desire to apply for student body leadership roles in 2014 based on this experience.

In addition, all Year 10 students participated in a Peer Support Training Day facilitated by the Stride Foundation. The activity-centred day aimed to inspire and empower attendees to reach their full potential. Students participated in games and activities that broke down reservations, elevated self-esteem as well as enhanced their communication skills. Most importantly, through participation in the day, students acquired tools to use in any future leadership roles. The Peer Support Training Day inspired many students to consider applying for a Peer Support leadership position for 2014. Stephanie Oates Peer Support Coordinator

MUNA On Friday 31 May, Sarah Mudaliar (11H) and James Holland (11F) sponsored by the Point Cook / Laverton Rotary Club, departed Melbourne to participate in a United Nations debate held in Bendigo. The weekend event, the Victorian Rotary Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA), proved to be a challenging but also rewarding experience for both students. MUNA definitely opened their eyes to how narrow-minded some states can be in ascertaining their goals, despite logic and reason. In the end, the weekend served as a reminder as to how important cooperation is in the function of every day life, and that the power of compromise should never be underestimated. James Holland 11F

State Evatt Competition Evatt is the largest diplomacy competition in Australia, and consists of a simulated United Nations Security Council, where students are put to the test in their negotiation and diplomacy skills in order to achieve their allocated nation’s foreign policy objectives. Six to seven teams competed during the preliminary rounds of the competition, with the two prepared resolutions of the situation in North Korea and the issue of potential Security Council reform. My partner (Emily Burkhardt) and I were allocated the nation of Luxembourg, the richest and smallest nation in the EU and in NATO. Competing alongside us in this round were Sarah Mudaliar and James Holland, representing Guatemala. This round was quite challenging, given the fact that we had to put Luxembourg on a ‘war footing’. Something rarely seen of them at all, considering the size of their military at 900 men. Nonetheless, we stood by our allies, made our objectives clear, spoke often in front of the Assembly and negotiated well enough to get us through to the second round. In case you were wondering what our ‘crisis’ resolution was, it was the question of Cuba, in which a resurgent Cuban government, backed by the military, fired upon protesters and in doing so, was threatened by possible NATO intervention. Ultimately, this resolution was the only one in the round we were in that passed, with NATO intervention deemed ‘unnecessary’ and ‘ineffective’ for an operation such as this one.

Liam Straughan 10S

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB

LIFE DRAWING

Being a photographer is serious fun, but also a serious challenge. Throughout Terms 1 and 2, students in Years 10, 11 and 12 attended after school classes once a week to learn a little bit more about this fascinating artform.

After I visited the Life Drawing Exhibition in Term 3 last year, many questions were raised. As an international student, life drawing is definitely a cultural shock. Firstly, I couldn’t imagine myself looking at somebody else’s naked body for more than a minute; the idea of drawing bodies without any clothes on, was awkward enough. However, it turns out life drawing is not only a wonderful cultural experience, it also enhances our drawing skill greatly. Words cannot simply express how much I harvested from this wonderful experience.

Photography has a way of changing the way we see things. It’s actually quite a transformative experience. Suddenly you begin to notice light, shapes, textures, people, buildings… Everything around you looks different when you start to see the world as a photographer. Once you start noticing details, you inevitably start to see how much beauty is all around you every day. Everyone can benefit from having a creative outlet. There’s no use playing the “not creative” card. Anyone can push the button on a camera, it’s honestly that simple. And the result of that creative act? You can create art. There is, of course, a lot more to photography than just point and press, as this year’s students quickly learnt. That’s just where you start. But learning to become a great photographer is a serious challenge. You’ll always be learning something new, have new directions to explore, and new challenges to face. And that’s a good thing! From digital manipulations to darkroom developing, this is a pursuit you will never be bored with. Perhaps you’re into photography already, or maybe you’re just curious about photography but aren’t sure if you should really dive into it. Take up this creative opportunity in 2014 and join the Photography Club. You never know, you might enjoy it! Melissa Avery Photography Club Coordinator

JEWELLERY AND SCULPTURE This year’s Jewellery and Small Sculpture Club was a totally new and amazing experience. We were a small group, which was great because we managed to create quite a few wonderful and satisfying artworks. We explored many different materials and techniques, which was very exciting. Firstly we worked with plastic and then we worked on making bangles. The endless job of lifelessly wrapping wire around my bangle was very time consuming but I definitely loved the outcome of it. There was a time where we made some fancy jewellery design drawings from our imagination to make them into paper cuts for our jewellery exhibition tree. The hardest, but most wonderful experience, was when I cut metal with a piercing saw. It was surely very hard and noisy, but I managed to get over that and I created a piece of artwork I definitely will love and wear for life! If jewellery isn’t your thing, then why not try small sculpture? Our group also experimented with polymer clay to create mini sculpture creations and it was most rewarding. Being able to make something out of clay, other than the set topics during art classes is surely a wonderful experience. If you’re staying back after school on a Wednesday, come to the art room to truly discover how creative you can be. Samantha Lugay 8F

Every Tuesday, Ms Mitchell would start her usual routine of reminding students from Year 10 to Year 12 currently studying Art, Studio Arts or Design, that life drawing was on after school. It is a great opportunity for Art students to enhance and explore their artistic skills and abilities. Also it was a chance to practise working under time constraints. The life drawing lessons consist of a model posing for a limited amount of time, during which we had to quickly illustrate her body shape and form. Initially students found themselves drawing lots of crazy circles and didn’t know how to connect these lines together to form a body shape. However, by experimenting with a range of media, such as charcoal, paint, pastels, and many practices, we were finally able to use variance in line to freely illustrate the body. The 2013 Life Drawing Exhibition held in James Mitchell Centre, was a tremendous success. It was a celebration of what we had achieved, how our artistic skills had improved, and especially reflected the dedication of Art students to this cocurricular activity. Yoyo He 12P

Westbourne Evatt Training Day

Ancients Day On 6 May, all Year 7 students participated in Ancients’ Day. There were six activities that ran throughout the day, and they were all fantastic. One of the Ancients’ Day activities was ‘Ancient Metal Working’, where we learnt about the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age. Archery was also an activity on Ancients’ Day. In this activity we learned what bows and arrows were made of thousands of years ago. We were then split into groups

and we got to try out our archery skills! One of my favourite activities of the day was ‘The Gladiators’. We got to watch clips of the movie ‘Gladiator’ and see what replica armour looked like and how it was used in Ancient Rome. Overall the activities were great. The whole day wouldn’t have been as good without everyone making an effort to dress up in Ancient costumes and the teaching staff organising the activities. Elena Alexiou 7M

New in 2013 is the “Skills Day” for the Evatt State Competition. This day was designed to introduce new students to Evatt. The day began with a brief workshop laying out the context for the topics that were discussed and background on the UN Security Council itself. Following this Socratic lecture, the students moved to a speeches and negotiation workshop, where each team was split and undertook training in the speaking style of Evatt and the art of negotiation. After a break, they moved to a basic simulation that combined speaking and negotiation, where delegates had to negotiate between a set of options responding to a topic. The focus of this section was teamwork, and judges helped the students appreciate which team management strategies are most effective for them. The group then moved to an advanced simulation that introduced them to the concept of amendments to the resolutions. The amendment procedure is baroque, and the session gave the judges an opportunity to show the students the advanced elements of diplomatic strategy. Over the lunch break, all students were provided with considerable research for a complete simulation. Having reviewed their materials, the students then commenced a full 75-minute debate according to the Evatt rules. April Cincotta Director of Humanities

YOUTH PARLIAMENT Westbourne Grammar has a history of both active participation and strong leadership in the annual Youth Parliament Program, run by the YMCA. The program provides six students with an opportunity to be heard at the highest levels of State Government, on a wide range of issues relevant to young people’s lives. The students not only spend three days at Parliament House, presenting their Bills and rebutting those of the other teams, but also spend a week in residence with mentors and guides, learning about our parliamentary system.

Medieval Day 2013

armour, and let me tell you ye olde chain mail is not comfortable! Then we had the Medieval Day started with great excitement. ye olde tournament class, hosted by an We all wondered what costumes other experienced knight who had been fighting students had chosen. There were horses, in his club for over 20 years. Nobody beat him because the minute he started knights, monks and ladies. Our first activity charging at us, we screamed and tried was medieval dance. We danced until we to flee. The crime and punishment class could dance no more. Our medieval feet were worn out. The next lesson was archery taught us that in the Medieval period the punishments were barbaric and there where we were taught the basics. Many hit wasn’t much justice involved when the target, including ‘Robin Hood’ who did determining guilt. Medieval Day was a not disappoint; winning the archery great experience and we all had a lot of competition. A session with Sir Nigel was fun while learning about medieval times. next. He taught us all about medieval weapons. We got to wear the medieval Nicky Peck and Daniel Cross 8H

The Westbourne Team is selected from Year 11 and, this year consisted of: Henry Monahan, William Hately, Kelvin Tran, Thania Andrade, Caitlin Petkovski and Mia Raunik. In the major business of Parliament – tabling and rebutting Bills, our team was successful on both counts; they managed to pass their Bill involving the education of employers and employees with the aim of avoiding the exploitation of youth workers, and they also managed to block the Bill they were tasked with opposing: this Bill proposed to legalise marijuana for medicinal purposes. In addition to this, two of our students received awards: William Hately was not only voted Deputy Chamber Leader for the Government (Legislative Assembly), but also received the award for Best Speaker in the Chamber (Legislative Assembly). In both cases, he was elected by his peers; and Henry Monahan also received an award. He was selected by the organisers of the program to receive the Peter Newling Award. This award goes to the student who most embodies the spirit of the YMCA. Congratulations to the students involved; their participation reflected very well on them as individuals, and also continued building on Westbourne’s strong reputation within the Program. Rachelle Walsh English Coordinator Years 7–10

SKI TRIP On Sunday 15 September, 12 Year 11 students and three staff set off for Queenstown, New Zealand, to embark on a seven-day ‘Ski, Snowboard and New Zealand Culture Trip’. The next five days were spent at the snow. Students and staff were given lessons on both skiing and snowboarding, and then time to develop their skills at both Coronet Peak and The Remarkables. By the end of the five days, students were really challenging themselves, by either attempting jumps and tricks or going down the greater technical runs that these resorts had to offer.

Students and staff were also treated to a unique cultural experience. After dinner at the famous Skyline Restaurant, students witnessed and participated in a Kiwi Haka Show that showcased the many different styles of Haka that exist, from welcoming to intimidating. Whilst in Queenstown, students and staff spent time exploring what the town had to offer, including shopping, a gondola ride, luge rides and even a game of mini-golf. David Ciavarella Outdoor Education

INFORMATION â&#x20AC;&#x192; SERVICES This year the Westbourne Library service has continued to focus on supporting the information needs of the Westbourne community. Our aim is to empower students with the skills to seek diverse perspectives and to gather and to use information in both an ethical and critical manner. Students from Prep to Year 12 have been provided with tools, resources and strategies they can use which will help them to complete their research and study. Face-to-face explicit teaching of the research process has assisted students greatly when completing learning tasks. Digital resources are available via the My Library site on the Westbourne portal from School and home. This year, vodcasts have been added to allow students to call on targeted instruction whenever it is required. It is also important for students to recognise the need to communicate effectively and safely when online. This year the Year 7 students have met on a regular basis where they have been provided with strategies to assist them in their digital journey. The Reading Program has flourished with the Teacher Librarians providing specific guidance and encouragement to students from Kâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 with challenging reading choices. The opportunity to listen to a number of different authors as part of the Reading and Writing Festival, has also provided valuable insight for students with their own writing. Our challenge is to remain at the forefront of Information Literacy and Cyber Safety needs whilst continuing to both entertain and challenge the reading capabilities and interests of all students from Kâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12. Bronwyn Macdonald Director of Information Services

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SENIOR MUSIC

Places were awarded by Mrs Watson and Ms Michael as follows:

2013 Performer of the Year Competition / VCE Music Concert The first major event of the Performing Arts calendar was our combined annual Performer of the Year Competition and VCE Music Concert, held on Wednesday evening 17 April in the Auditorium. As always we had an enthusiastic audience creating a real sense of occasion. It is pleasing to note the many past students who have been involved in the event in previous years, come to join the event as audience members this year. We had the privilege to host guest adjudicator Mr Mark Shiell to judge our competition this year. Mr Shiell is an experienced musician. He conducts orchestras at professional levels, and has a keen interest in youth musicmaking programs. In that capacity Mr Shiell is the current conductor for the Percy Grainger Youth Orchestra with Melbourne Youth Music. He was quite complimentary in the playing of all our students. He announced Kimberly Chen 11S as the winner of the competition with her rendition of Paganiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Variations on One String on a theme by Rossini for Cello and Strings. Kimberly performed as a soloist with the School orchestra at the Annual Concert in Term 3. Congratulations must go to all performers, both competitors and VCE music students. Their hard work and preparation ensured a successful and enjoyable evening. Joseph Beckitt VCE Accompanist, Piano Teacher

Beginner Section

JUNIOR PIANO COMPETITION 2013 This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Junior Piano Competition was held on Tuesday 27 August 2013. Thirty-three students competed in the competition which was divided into a Beginner, an Intermediate and an Advanced section. Mrs Watson adjudicated the Beginner Section of the competition. As well as teaching Clarinet in the Woodwind department, Mrs Watson is an experienced pianist. Mrs Watson commended the students for their fine playing and she made many helpful comments and suggestions to all who competed. Our Director of Music, Ms Rosemary Michael adjudicated the Intermediate and Advanced Sections of the competition. Ms Michael commended the students on their fine preparation for the competition and complimented them for playing to such a high standard.

1st Place: Jasmine Nguyen (2B), 2nd Place: Bettina Dowling (3X), 3rd Place: Jennifer Coster (5W) and an Honourable mention to Jack Horvath (4C) Intermediate Section 1st Place: Chloe Smith (3R), Equal 2nd Places awarded to: Calvin Lam (3X), Jasmine Wong (4M), Luke Armatas (5L), Duncan Hale (6GM) Advanced Section 1st Place: Tehya Nguyen (5C), Equal 2nd Places awarded to: Matthew Mercieca (5C) and Alyssa Kades (6R), 3rd Place: Ella Bradwell (6GM). Jason Smith Head of Keyboard Studies and Deputy Head of Hudson House Left to Right, Front Row: Duncan Hale (6GM), Jasmine Wong (4M), Chloe Smith (3R), Calvin Lam (3X), Luke Armatas (5L), Alyssa Kades (6R), Matthew Mercieca (5C), Tehya Nguyen (5C) Back Row: Ms Rosemary Michael

Performing Arts 2013 The Music Department has had another busy and productive year with Music events ranging from Performer of the Year in Term 2 to many festivals and soirees, music camp and Annual Concert, as well as many quality Assembly performances and wonderful individual achievements occurring throughout the year. This year saw the reinvention of Super Soiree Saturday which proved to be a wonderful festive event, with concerts well attended by extended families with many high quality performances. This year we were able to use our Chapel as a soiree venue which proved to be a wonderful venue for singers, with the addition of our new grand piano.

This year our annual concert opened with two items performed by the Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Mr Brendan Smith. We were glad to be able to welcome the Junior Band under the direction of Mrs Donna Zaharopoulos, and a brilliant trumpet solo performed by Dominik Rawdanowicz (5L) with Mr Joseph Beckitt accompanying. Once again the Junior Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in the concert provided the opportunity for our younger students to enjoy the performances of their older peers and become familiar with the various musical opportunities that await them in the Senior School.

I wish the class of 2013 well in their future endeavours and encourage them to keep on with their musical involvement, whether it is at a professional or community level, and thank them for their contribution to the musical life of Westbourne over the years. It is always encouraging to meet with music alumni at various concerts throughout the year and to catch up on musical, academic and personal achievements of our former music students. Rosemary Michael Director of Music

The quality of these events is due to the wonderful commitment of our student body, as well as the support of their families and the guidance of a dedicated and committed team of teachers. It has been a joy to observe the enthusiasm and commitment from the students to the many and varied performance opportunities offered at Westbourne. Many of these events are supported by FOMPA which is an active group of parents who continue to support the performing arts at Westbourne. This year they have contributed to the cost of transport to music camp, provided funding for a bush band and provided two Music Scholarships for 2014. We are very grateful for their support and thank them for their provision of refreshments at various festivals throughout the year. As well as performances within the School environment Westbourne students have also been active in the wider community performing at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Festival, Manor Court Retirement Village and Newport Folk Festival. Several groups also represented Westbourne at musical events outside the School including the Geelong Eisteddfod, Royal South Street competition in Ballarat and Melbourne Schools Band and Orchestra Festival, with outstanding results achieved at all events. The Legends Big Band was invited to perform at a high profile book launch at Eynsbury Homestead and the Concert Choir were guests at the Hobson Bay Choral Festival.

Piano Competition Each year Junior and Senior Piano Competitions are held at Westbourne Grammar School. The Senior Piano competition is held in Term 2 and is open to all piano students in the Senior School. The winner of the competition is given the opportunity to perform a piano solo at the Annual Concert. Students are asked to prepare a piece of music that is between 5 and 10 minutes in length. The competition provides students with an opportunity to practise performing in a more formal setting. The students enjoy competing against each other and they appreciate the feedback the adjudicator gives to them. An external adjudicator is engaged for the event. This year’s Annual Senior Piano Competition was held on Wednesday 5 June after school in the Lecture Theatre. Mr Roger Heagney adjudicated the event. Mr Heagney is well established as one of Melbourne’s leading pianists, harpsichordists and choral conductors. In 1997 he received an Order of Australia Medal for his services to music. Ten students competed in this year’s competition. They were as follows: Christopher Rothwell (7M), Emily Jinu (7S), Jayla McLennan (8H), Albert Tu (8H), Klara Rawdanowicz (8S), Herman Lee (8H), Imran Nasarudin (8D), Kelsey Hale (10D), Charles Hancin (10S) and Kimberly Chen (11S). Mr Heagney awarded an Honourable Mention to Christopher Rothwell and Emily Jinu for their fine interpretations of their pieces.

Third place was awarded to Herman Lee for his sensitive performance of a beautiful Chopin Waltz in A minor, Op. 34 No. 2. Klara Rawdanowicz was awarded second place for her stirring performance of the Military Polonaise by Chopin. Mr Heagney awarded first place to Charles Hancin for his mature performance of the Nocturne No. 3 from Liebestraume by Liszt. The competitors presented a wide variety of music and each student performed magnificently. The standard of the performances presented by each student on the day was extremely high and each student should be very proud of their performance. Previous Winners 2013 Charles Hancin 2012 Marshall Chen 2011 Andrew Takla 2010 Stacy Long and Tam Nguyen 2009 Tam Nguyen 2008 Michael Moso 2007 Ling Ling Chen 2006 Stacy Long 2005 James Holt 2004 George Harisis 2003 Laura Holian 2002 Bernadette Mak Jason Smith Head of Keyboard Studies and Deputy Head of Hudson House

Front Row: Adjudicator: Mr Roger Heagney, Charles Hancin (10S), Kelsey Hale (10D), Emily Jinu (7S), Christopher Rothwell (7M), Imran Nasarudin (8D), Herman Lee (8H), Albert Tu (8H) Back Row: Klara Rawdanowicz (8S), Jayla McLennan (8H), Kimberly Chen (11S)

Royal Melbourne Hospital Live Music Festival This year the Senior Concert Choir and the Legends Big Band were given the opportunity to perform at the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Secondary School Music Festival. This is the third time that Westbourne has participated in this enriching experience, with it being the second time for the Concert Choir and the premiere of the Big Band at this event. We were lucky enough to be the opening acts of the Festival, which was opened by Mr Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Last year the Concert Choir won the Haynes Music in Health Award which was chosen by the public. The Senior School Music Festival is linked to the hospital’s world renowned and expanding music therapy program. This program was founded by the wonderfully talented Emma O’Brien in 1997. Since then, the music therapy program has helped patients through the hardships of sickness, by offering quality of life experiences through music and the therapeutic relationships between patient and therapist. The service is renowned for its innovative song writing program pioneered by the fabulous Emma O’Brien. Part of our day was spent hearing and experiencing what Emma does for her patients as a music therapist. She explained how music stimulates every part of our brains and is essential for the wellbeing of patients and their families in the hospital. I know I felt proud and it touched my heart seeing patients and their families stop, listen and just smile for a moment as we performed, even though they could have been having the toughest day of their life. We were given the opportunity to write our own song, with the talented Andrew Stainsby (11S) on guitar, Brigitte Yoseski (11P) and Jeevan Haikerwal (11M) as our singers, and the fun loving, but stubborn Rhys Renwick (12F) as our patient. I’m sure our rendition of our catchy song Outside School will soon be heading to a store near you! Travis Phelan 12S

ACS SPORT 2013

ACS Sport 2013 It has indeed been another very busy, but at the same times exciting year for Sport at Westbourne. In the weekly ACS summer and winter competition, Westbourne has again led the way. Not only in terms of Grand Final appearances and premierships won, but more importantly in all areas relating to participation, including uniform standards, general behaviour, competitiveness and sportsmanship. The competition is improving though. Improvement from numerous schools means a stronger ACS and that is good for everyone. It does mean, however, that we need to keep improving and looking for ways to get better if we are to remain as the benchmark. In the carnival sports our results did not match those of the previous two or three years, which only highlights that the competition is getting stronger and that we need to work harder. Only the Swimming team maintained its standard and final placing of 2013. The Athletics team missed out on winning the overall aggregate for the first time in three years, and the Cross Country team dropped to a third place finish behind St Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and St Leonardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. There is much to be done next year, for us to turn around these results.

A sports program in a school the size of Westbourne relies on so many people in so many different ways. Without the support of everyone, and the contribution of numerous people, there is no doubting the program would not run as smoothly or be so successful. To the Maintenance staff, Grounds men and women and the cleaners thank you for all your work, much of which goes unnoticed but is all essential to the on-going success of Westbourne Sport. Thank you also to the outstanding and tireless work of all the Administration staff who also, in so many ways, contribute behind the scenes to ensure the Sports program runs smoothly. There are too many of you to thank personally but for all those little things, be it organising buses, or umpires or notes in the bulletin; thank you. As always, thank you to the teaching staff who act as coaches and, also, to the outside sport coaches. Your assistance and dedicated work is much appreciated. Thank you also to the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senior Administration team for all their support and, more close at hand, a particular thank you to Mr Chris Gilham for his outstanding work. Finally the departing Year 12s, thank you for your contribution to Sport at Westbourne. A large group of you, and you know who

you are, have contributed much more than just turning up on a Wednesday afternoon and being part of your team. The contribution many of you have made to the Sports program with your leadership, enthusiasm and overall attitude is very much appreciated and will be sorely missed in years to come. Thank you for your contribution and for the personal support you have given me. Thank you also for your ideas for developing a better Sports Program for future students at the School. Matthew Healy Director of Sport

ACS CROSS COUNTRY 2013 Cross Country, moreso than any other sport discipline in which students can participate at Westbourne, is an activity that rewards those students who put in the hard work at training. Students can achieve amazing results and can experience enormous improvement if they are willing to work hard. The 2013 ACS Carnival was held at Bundoora Park on Tuesday 20 August. Unfortunately Westbourne’s 3rd place overall finish meant we have fallen off the pace slightly in terms of results at this carnival, and are slipping behind the standards set for a long time by St Michael’s, and the improved performance in the past two years of St Leonard’s College. Despite the slightly disappointing team results there were numerous standout individual results. Twenty Westbourne students finished in the top ten of their respective races; a list of which is displayed below. Special congratulations to Thomas Rebesco (8M), Hayden Azzopardi (12D) and Brigette Mercaldi (12D) who won their respective year level races. In terms of the team results, well done to the Year 8

Boys and Year 11 Girls who won their division of the carnival. Based on these results Westbourne was also fortunate enough to win the Year 8 overall aggregate and Year 11 overall aggregate. To all the students who ran on the day and to everyone who made the effort to get along to training, thank you. Special mention should be made to the Co-Captains of the 2013 team, Hayden Azzopardi and Brittany Olver whose attendance and encouragement at training was exemplary and to our coaches Ryan Geard and Jaimie Vernon thank you for your efforts. Your expertise and enthusiasm has been instrumental in motivating and encouraging our students. There is a lot we need to do between now and next year’s carnival to ensure that our results at the ACS Cross Country turn back in the positive direction. As always, the results this year show that those students who are willing to work will achieve results. The challenge for next year will be to get more numbers at training and, when we are training, to train harder and smarter. It will be a real challenge that I am sure the Westbourne students will meet with great enthusiasm.

2013 ACS Cross Country Top Ten Place-getters Year 7 Girls

Kate Spiteri

9th

Year 8 Girls

Sarah Dobie Akeisha Sandhu Alysha Yacono

2nd 3rd 7th

Year 8 Boys

Thomas Rebesco 1st Gus Freeman 3rd Shihab Deen Mohamed 5th Riley Debney 7th Callan Gibson 10th

Year 9 Girls

Emily Spiteri

5th

Year 9 Boys Cameron Atchinson

8th

Year 10 Boys Nicholas Buykx

5th

Year 11 Girls Casey Geard Rebecca Den Ouden Sahra Brown

3rd 6th 8th

Year 11 Boys Matthew Lewis

7th

Year 12 Girls Brigette Mercaldi Brittany Olver

1st 6th

Year 12 Boys Hayden Azzopardi Jay Paton

1st 8th

ACS ATHLETICS Despite not emulating our first place result of previous years, the ACS Athletics Carnival held at Lakeside Stadium on Friday 24 May was an overwhelming success for Westbourne’s Athletics team. There were numerous outstanding individual performances. A complete summary of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd results are shown following this report. In total Westbourne students had 42 first, 29 second and 29 third placings. Significant outstanding results were achieved by Dunsin Akin Ojelabi (8D), Pemi Akin Ojelabi (9D) Mitchell Burgess (8H), Emily Cross (10H), Rebecca Den Ouden (11H), Sarah Dobie (8H), Aaron Lam (10M), Brigette Mercaldi (12S), Isabelle Mountford (9D), Joshua Pineda (10H), Connor Wall (7D), Akeisha Sandhu (8F), Thomas Rebesco (8M), Bianca Rebesco (10M) and Casey Geard (11D). So significant and outstanding were the performances of Rebecca Den Ouden and Pemi Akin Ojelabi that they respectively received the Female and Male Athlete of the Meet Award. While individual achievements are fantastic, the team results are most important and the performance of every competitor plays an important role in the overall results. It is by these measures that the 2013 carnival was such a success. Numerous year level teams finished with a top three placing, with the Years 8, 9 and 10 Boys and Year 11 Girls winning their respective sections of the carnival, and the Years 8, 9 and 10 Boys and Girls winning the Years 8, 9 and 10 Aggregate respectively. In the overall results our Girls’ team finished third, and the Boys’ team (if you count the only half-completed event in 2012 when the boys were well in front before the event was cancelled) won their overall section of the carnival for the seventh successive year. In the combined scores we finished second, just 34 points behind eventual winners St Michael’s.

As everyone knows, success does not happen by chance, it takes hard work, dedication and commitment. What a lot of people in the School community probably do not realise, is that during the first six weeks of the term on average 50 members of the Athletics team have been braving the elements in what, at times, were cold, miserable and very challenging weather conditions to train twice a week in preparation for this carnival at the Victoria University track in Hoppers Crossing and at Newport Park in Williamstown. To all those students who made the effort to get along to training, thank you. The results you achieved on the day are recognition and reward for all the hard work put in. The spirit and enthusiasm with which you competed was a credit to yourselves and the School. You should be very proud of everything you achieved. Special thanks in particular to the Athletics Team Captains for 2013 Tim Levar, Louis Hogarth and Brittany Olver and to the other committed Year 12s for their enthusiasm and example. Thank you in addition to the parents for also braving the early mornings to get your sons and daughters down to training. Training at venues before School relies on a big commitment by you as well. Your efforts too, are greatly appreciated. Finally thank

you to our coaches led by Andrew Boudrie and Ryan Geard and assisted by Pat Lenagh, Jaimie Vernon, Alwyn Jones and Randall Scott for your enthusiasm, expertise and hard work. Much of the success the Athletics team has experienced over the last few years is a direct result of the efforts of all three of you. We can only hope that you will continue to help out with our athletics program for many years to come.

ACS Athletics Carnival 2013 – Westbourne Place-getters

1st

2nd

3rd

Dunsin AKIN OJELABI

Year 8 Boys 100m(A) Year 8 Boys Triple Jump

Pemi AKIN OJELABI

Year 9 Boys High Jump

Pemi AKIN OJELABI

Year 9 Boys 100m(A) Year 9 Boys 200m(A) Year 9 Boys Triple Jump Year 9 Boys Lon Jump

Hayden AZZOPARDI

Senior Boys 1500m

Nathan Bezzina

Year 7 Boys Long Jump

Emily CROSS

Year 10 Girls 100m

Patrick CROWLE

Year 12 Boys 110m Hurdles

Emmanuel BOAHENE

Year 9 Boys 200m(B)

Mitchell BURGESS

Year 8 Boys 90m Hurdles Year 8 Boys 100m(B) Year 8 Boys Lon Jump Year 8 Boys 200m(A)

Shihab DEEN MOHAMED

Year 8 Boys 400m

Sarah DOBIE

Junior Girls 1500m

Emily CROSS

Year 10 Girls Triple Jump Year 10 Girls Long Jump

Jarrod FLOODBAUCE

Year 12 Boys 200m(A)

Georgie DEALE

Year 12 Girls Shot Put

Casey GEARD

Shihab DEEN MOHAMED

Year 8 Boys 800m

Senior Girls 1500m Year 11 Girls 800m

Zara GILBERT

Year 7 Girls Discus

Rebecca DEN OUDEN

Year 11 Girls 100m(A) Year 11 Girls 200m(A) Year 11 Girls 400m Year 11 Girls Long Jump Year 11 Girls Triple Jump

Caitlin ORR

Year 12 Girls 200m(A)

Joshua PINEDA

Year 10 Boys Triple Jump Year 10 Boys Long Jump

Zac POOLE

Year 10 Boys Discus

Sarah DOBIE

Year 8 Girls 800m

Year 7 Girls 200m(A)

Tiffany DRAGHICIU

Year 9 Girls High Jump

Josefa PORFIT ESPINOSA Bianca REBESCO

Ethan HUNT

Year 8 Boys 200m(B)

Year 10 Girls 100m(B) Year 10 Girls 200m(B)

Yvette KOSO

Year 10 Girls 90m Hurdles

Aaron LAM

Year 10 Boys 100m(A) Year 10 Boys 200m(A) Year 10 Boys 400m

Thomas REBESCO

Junior Boys 1500m Year 8 Boys 800m

Akeisha SANDHU

Year 8 Girls 800m

Georgia SCHOLES

Year 7 Girls Shot Put

Raiysnu SUNDERARAJAN

Year 8 Boys Discus

Ashton Taylor

Year 8 Boys High Jump

Connor WALL

Year 7 Boys 100m(A) Year 7 Boys High Jump

Yr 7 Boys 4 x 100m Relay

C. Wall, J. Harrison, D. Cheng, J. Lishman

Brigette MERCALDI

Year 12 Girls 800m

Isabelle MOUNTFORD

Year 9 Girls 90m Hurdles Year 9 Girls Triple Jump

Joshua PINEDA

Year 10 Boys 100m(B)

Helena RAYWARD

Year 10 Girls 200m(B)

Akeisha SANDHU

Year 8 Girls 400m

Isobelle SOURIVIONG

Year 7 Girls 100m(B)

Yr 10 Girls 4 x 100m Relay

E. Cross, B. Rebesco, H. Cutajar, M. Russel

Kate SPITERI

Year 7 Girls 200m(B) Year 9 Boys 200m(A)

Yr 12 Boys 4 x 100m Relay

J. Flood-Bauce, P. Crowle, T. Levar, L. Hogarth

Connor WALL

Year 7 Boys Triple Jump Year 10 Girls 90m Hurdles

Yr 8 Boys 4 x 100m Relay

D. Akin Ojelabi, M. Burgess, E. Hunt, S. D’Mohamed

Yr 9 Boys 4 x 100m Relay

P. Akin Ojelabi, A. Dimitriou, E. Boahene, M. Yoseski

Yr 10 Boys 4 x 100m Relay

A. Lam, J. Pineda, L. Downer, V. Tran-Dang

Yr 11 Girls 4 x 100m Relay

R. Den Ouden, A. Moir, H. Rayward, C. Geard

Megan CUADRY

Year 9 Girls 200m(A)

Braxton CONROY

Year 12 Boys Discus Year 12 Boys Shot Put

Patrick CROWLE

Year 12 Boys 100m(B)

Lucas DOWNER

Year 10 Boys 200m(B)

Jodie DUNSTAN

Year 12 Girls 400m

Cody HARKIN

Year 11 Boys 100m Hurdles

Jack HARRISON

Year 7 Boys 100m(B) Year 7 Boys 200m(A)

Charlotte HARWOOD

Year 7 Girls 400m

Mark McDERMOTT

Year 11 Boys Long Jump

Brigette MERCALI

Senior Girls 1500m

Alanah MOIR

Year 11 Girls 100m(B)

Jake MUDDLE

Year 12 Boys Triple Jump

Taylor MUSCAT

Year 9 Girls Shot Put Year 9 Girls Discus

Jay PATON

Year 12 Boys 400m

Samuel PATON

Year 9 Boys 90m Hurdles

Joshua PINEDA

Year 10 Boys High Jump

Bianca REBESCO

Year 10 Girls 400m Year 10 Girls 800m

Madeline RUSSELL

Year 10 Girls High Jump

Akeisha SANDHU

Year 8 Girls 100m(A) Year 8 Girls 200m(A)

Kate SPITERI

Year 7 Girls 800m Year 7 Girls Triple Jump

Vince TRAN DANG

Year 10 Boys 100m Hurdles

Year 7 Girls 4 x 100m Relay

J. Porfit Espinosa, I. Sorivong, E. Jinu, C. Chan

Year 9 Girls 4 x 100m Relay

M. Caudy, E. Spiteri, D. Sucic, C. Popa

ACS SWIMMING The 2013 ACS Swimming Carnival held at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre on Tuesday 12 March was another outstanding success for Westbourne’s swimming team. Unfortunately that elusive first swimming carnival victory again eluded the team, but the day was still filled with numerous positives. Beaconhills College in Berwick joined the six ACS Schools for the first time at an ACS carnival. Of the seven competing schools both the Boys’ and Girls’ teams finished second and, in the overall aggregate, Westbourne also finished 2nd. Each of the major trophies was won by St Michael’s. This is the 6th successive year that we have finished 2nd in the overall standings at the ACS Swimming Carnival. The gap this year between 1st and 2nd was the narrowest in any of those years. Not bad for a school that does not yet have its own pool and the depth and quality of talent of our swimmers in Years 7–9 suggests the gap will narrow even further in years to come. Some of the notable individual performances of the day came from Sophia Hallak and Cooper Read (Year 7), Paris Vasta, Robbie Dilissen and Sarah Dobie (Year 8), Kiara Gashi and Maddy Scott (Year 9), Stephanie Hallak and Amaya Nicholson-Biggs (Year 10) and Jodie Dunstan and Keone Wright (Year 12).

Success in the major carnivals, however, is reliant on not only the contribution of the stars but on the contribution of everyone as a whole. Much of the reason for the success of this year’s team, and the continued improved of our swimming team, is a result of the improved performance of our relay teams. Success of these relay teams comes about from a combination of hard work, School spirit and an attitude shift whereby swimming as part of a team means as much as swimming as an individual. With this in mind the highlights of the day in the team results were the five year level pennants won. The successful teams being Year 7 Boys, Year 7 Girls, Year 7 Aggregate, Year 8 Girls and Year 8 Aggregate. It has again been another very successful year for the Westbourne Swimming team. Congratulations and thank you to all the swimmers who represented the school at this year’s ACS Carnival. You did yourselves and your School (very) proud.

ACS Swimming Carnival â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Westbourne Place-getters

1st Robbie DILISSEN

Sarah DOBBIE

2nd Year 8 Boys 50m Freestyle(A) Year 8 Boys 50m Backstroke(A) Year 8 Boys 50m Breaststroke(A) Junior Boys 100m Freestyle Year 8 Girls 50m Freestyle(A) Year 8 Girls 50m Backstroke(A) Year 8 Girls 50m Breaststroke(B)

Jodie DUNSTAN

Year 12 Girls 50m Breaststroke(B)

Kiara GASHI

Year 9 Girls 50m Backstroke(B) Year 9 Girls 50m Breaststroke(A) Year 9 Girls 50m Butterfly(A)

Terence CHOU

3rd Year 10 Boys 50m Breaststroke(A)

Robbie DILISSEN

Year 8 Boys 50m Butterfly(A)

Jodie DUNSTAN

Year 12 Girls 50m Freestyle(A) Year 12 Girls 50m Backstroke(A) Year 12 Girls 50m Butterfly(A)

Tessa MARSHALL

Year 12 Girls 50m Backstroke(B)

Jack LEACH

Year 8 Boys 50m Breaststroke(B)

Amaya NICHOLSONBIGGS

Year 11 Girls 50m Backstroke(B) Year 11 Girls 50m Breaststroke (A) Year 11 Girls 50m Butterfly(A)

Jack NOLAN

Year 9 Boys 50m Freetyle(B)

Sam PATON

Year 9 Boys 50m Backstroke(B)

Kelly PICKARD

Year 12 Boys 50m Breaststroke (A)

Maddy SCOTT

Year 9 Girls 50m Freestyle(B)

Luke WARREN

Year 10 Boys 50m Backstroke (B)

Keone WRIGHT

Year 12 Boys 50m Breaststroke(B) Year 12 Boys 50m Butterfly(A)

Year 11 Girls 4 x 50m Medley Relay

Jenny NGUYEN, Stephanie HALLAK, Amaya NICOLSONBIGGS, Alisha MARFATIA

Year 12 Boys 4 x 50m Medley Relay

Keone WRIGHT, Christian GASHI, Kelly PICKARD, Daniel NGUYEN

Year 9 Boys 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Jack NOLAN, Jack ROBINSON, Stanley AARON, Sam PATON

Year 11 Girls 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Jenny NGUYEN, Stephanie HALLAK, Amaya NICOLSONBIGGS, Alisha MARFATIA

Year 7 Boys 50m Freetyle(A)

Year 7 Boys 50m Backstroke(A) Year 7 Boys 50m Butterfly(A)

Intermediate Girls 100m Freestyle(A)

Luke WARREN

Year 7 Girls 50m Backstroke(A) Year 7 Girls 50m Breaststroke(B)

Year 10 Boys 50m Backstroke(B)

Keone WRIGHT

Year 12 Boys 50m Freestyle(A) Year 12 Boys 50m Backstroke(A) Senior Boys 100m Freestyle

Year 7 Boys 50m Breaststroke(B)

Jack HARRISON, Jarrod SUTTON, Cooper READ, Jacob KRAWCZYSZYN

Year 8 Girls 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Paris VASTA, Jane WHITE, Whitney GREGSON-BLACK, Sarah DOBIE

Year 10 Boys 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Adam WARREN, Luke WARREN, Eytham LAM, Terrence CHOU

Year 12 Girls 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Olga XINOMILAKIS, Brittany OLVER, Tessa MARSHALL, Jodie DUNSTAN

Year 11 Girls 50m Backstroke(A) Year 11 Girls 50m Breaststroke(B) Year 8 Boys 50m Backstroke(B)

Maddy SCOTT

Year 7 Boys 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Stephanie HALLAK

Ben KRAWCZYSZYN

Cooper READ

Jack HARRISON, Jarrod SUTTON, Cooper READ, Zac MULLENGER

Senior Girls 100m Freestyle

Year 11 Girls 50m Freestyle(A)

Year 7 Boys 50m Backstroke(B)

Year 7 Boys 4 x 50m Medley Relay

Jodie DUNSTAN

Stephanie HALLAK

Jack HARRISON

Open Girls 200m Individual Medley Year 8 Girls 50m Freestyle(B) Year 8 Girls 50m Backstroke(B) Year 8 Girls 50m Breaststroke(A) Year 8 Girls 50m Butterfly(A) Junior Girls 100m Freestyle(A)

Open Boys 200m Individual Medley

Year 7 Girls 50m Breaststroke(A)

Year 11 Girls 50m Freestyle(A)

Paris VASTA

Robbie DILISSEN

Sophia HALLAK

Amaya NICHOLSONBIGGS

Jarrod SUTTON

Intermediate Boys 100m Freestyle(A)

Year 9 Girls 50m Freestyle(A)

Year 7 Girls 50m Freestyle(A) Year 7 Girls 50m Backstroke(A) Year 7 Girls 50m Butterfly(A)

Maddy SCOTT

Year 7 Girls 50m Freestyle(B)

Terence CHOU

Kiara GASHI

Sophia HALLAK

Cooper READ

Maddie CAVALLO

Olga XINOMILAKIS

Year 12 Girls 50m Freestyle(B) Year 12 Girls 50m Breaststroke(A)

Year 8 Girls 4 x 50m Medley Relay

Jane WHITE, Sarah DOBIE, Paris VASTA, Whitney GREGSON-BLACK

Year 8 Boys 4 x 50m Medley Relay

Ben KRAWCZYSZYN, Jack LEACH, Robbie DILLISEN, Gus FREEMAN

Year 10 Boys 4 x 50m Medley Relay

Adam WARREN, Luke WARREN, Terrence CHOU, Eythan LAM

Year 12 Girls 4 x 50m Medley Relay

Tessa MARSHALL, Olga XINOMILAKIS, Jodie DUNSTAN, Brittany OLVER

Year 7 Girls 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Maddie CAVALLO, Charlotte HARWOOD, Abby DETHICK, Sophia HALLAK

Year 8 Boys 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay

Gus FREEMAN, Ben KRAWCZYSZYN, Jack LEACH, Robbie DILISSEN

2013 ACS Summer Grand Finals – Westbourne Results

SENIORS Sport

Winner

Westbourne

Opposition

Girls Softball (A) v Loyola

Girls Softball (B) v St Michael’s

SMGS

Girls Tennis (A) v St Michael’s

WGS

7 sets

5 sets

Girls Tennis (B) v St Michael’s

WGS

11 sets

Girls Volleyball (B) v St Michael’s

SMGS

Boys Basketball (D) v Loyola

Boys Cricket (A) v Overnewton

WGS

4 / 140

107 All Out

Boys Cricket (B) v Overnewton

WGS

7 / 122

109 All Out

Boys Hockey (A) v St Michael’s

WGS

Boys Table Tennis (A) v Overnewton

WGS

12 matches

4 matches

Boys Table Tennis (B) v Overnewton

WGS

11 matches

5 matches

Mixed Touch Rugby (B) v St Leonard’s

St L

At the time Literata went to print the ACS Summer 5 Finals at Year 7, 8 and 9 had not been contested.

2013 ACS Winter Grand Finals – Westbourne Results

Seniors Sport

Winner

Westbourne

Opposition

Girls Basketball (C) v Loyola

Girls Hockey (B) v Overnewton

WGS

Girls Netball (A) v St Michael’s

SMGS

Girls Netball (C) v St Leonard’s

WGS

Girls Table Tennis (A) v Loyola

WGS

Girls Table Tennis (B) v Loyola

WGS

Boys Football (A) v Loyola

10.4 – 64

13. 10 – 88

Boys Football (B) v Overnewton

OACC

6. 3 – 39

12. 16 – 88

Boys Soccer (C) v St Michael’s

WGS

Boys Tennis (A) v Overnewton

WGS

Boys Volleyball(A) v St Michael’s

SMGS

Boys Volleyball(B) v Loyola

WGS

Mixed Badminton (A) v St Michael’s

WGS

Sport

Winner

Westbourne

Opposition

Girls Basketball (A) v Overnewton

WGS

Girls Table Tennis v St Leonard’s

St. L

Boys Soccer v Overnewton

WGS

Boys Volleyball (A) v Thomas Carr

WGS

Sport

Winner

Westbourne

Opposition

Girls Basketball (B) v St Michael’s

SMGS

Girls Hockey v St Michael’s

WGS

Girls Table Tennis v Overnewton

WGS

Boys Soccer v Overnewton

OACC

Boys Tennis v Loyola

6 – 49

6 – 55

Boys Volleyball (A) v St Michael’s

SMGS

Sport

Winner

Westbourne

Opposition

Girls Table Tennis v Loyola

8 – 55

8 – 57

Boys Tennis v Overnewton

WGS

Boys Volleyball (A) v Overnewton

WGS

Year 9

Year 8

Year 7

ACS SPORTS â&#x20AC;&#x201A; TEAMS 1. 1st XVIII Football 2. 1st Girls Softball

3. 1st Girls Netball 4. 1st XI Cricket 5. 1st Boys Volleyball 6. 1st Girls Table Tennis 7. 1st Boys Hockey 8. 1st Girls Tennis 9. 1st Boys Tennis 10. 1st Boys Softball 11. 1st Girls Hockey

ACS SPORTS TEAMS

1. 1st Boys Soccer 2. 1st Boys Table Tennis 3. 1st Boys Basketball 4. 1st Mixed Touch Rugby 5. 1st Boys Hockey 6. 1st Girls Volleyball 7. 1st Mixed Badminton 8. 1st Girls Basketball 9. 1st Girls Soccer 2

YEAR 8 CAMP

OUTDOOR EDUCATION YEAR 7

YEAR 8

Late in Term 1, the Year 8 students participated in their annual camp. The students spent time participating in a variety of activities at Lady Northcote Recreation Camp, Bacchus Marsh, You Yangs National Park and Boar Gully, Brisbane Ranges National Park.

The Year 7 students participated in both bushwalking and snorkelling throughout 2013.

The Year 8 students participated in both rock climbing and kayaking throughout 2013.

Bushwalking was held at the You Yangs National Park. Students were introduced to navigation and basic survival skills in the wilderness. Whilst walking, students had turns at leading the group, during which they followed a map to get to locations throughout the park. They also learnt about features of the You Yangs National Park, including the history of home as well as special geological features of the park.

Rock climbing was held at a combination of Cliffhanger Climbing Gym and the School’s rock climbing wall. Students were taught rock climbing skills and techniques, as well as how to belay other students up and down the wall.

At Lady Northcote Recreation Camp, students participated in activities such as kayaking, the ‘giant swing’, initiative games and high ropes. These activities were designed to teach a combination of leadership and communication skills as well as challenge the students to face their fears. At Boar Gully, students had their first experience of camping out in a wilderness environment, which definitely was a challenge in itself for a lot of them. They also went on a bushwalk, during which they used their map-reading skills to navigate around the surrounding Brisbane Ranges National Park. Cooking their own dinner on Trangia stoves rounded out their first camping experience as part of Westbourne Grammar School.

Snorkelling was held at Jawbone Marine Park, Williamstown. Here students were geared up with snorkels, masks, flippers and wetsuits to be introduced to snorkelling. Students were guided through the skills and techniques of snorkelling in their lessons. They then had the opportunity to explore the Marine Park, searching for fish and starfish, as well as the many other sea life which reside in the park.

Kayaking was taught at Canning Reserve, along the Maribyrnong River. Students learnt a variety of kayaking skills, including forward and backward strokes and, more importantly, how to get back in a kayak after they fell out.

The students also spent time at the You Yangs National Park. At the You Yangs, they experienced mountain bike riding and abseiling. Students’ abilities were challenged in both these activities, as for a lot of them it was their first experience mountain biking on a technical mountain biking course and abseiling down the side of a giant rock. Overall, the Year 8 Students were excellent in their attitudes towards the camp. They gave every challenge a go, whilst facing every twist and turn created by the inclement weather throughout the camp remarkably well.

SNOWGUM HILLARY CHALLENGE

OUTDOOR EDUCATION

2013 saw the introduction of Westbourne Grammar School’s first Adventure Race Team. The team, consisting of nine Year 11 and 12 students participated in the Snowgum Hillary Challenge. The Challenge is Australia and New Zealand’s top outdoor adventure challenge for secondary schools.

from all over Victoria. The team successfully completed five hour-long challenges, including rock climbing, mountain biking, and initiative activities, as well as a rogaine throughout the greater Marysville area. At the conclusion of the event, the team was judged to finish 5th in the state, a fantastic achievement and enough to qualify for the National Championships.

In June, the team set off to Marysville for the Victorian Qualifiers of the Challenge. Here, they competed as one of 10 schools

In September, the team departed for Belanglo State Park, NSW, for the National Championships of the Snowgum Hillary

Challenge. After a solid training program, the team was confident in its abilities. The format for the National Championships was similar to the State Qualifiers, with the team completing five hour-long challenges and an eight-hour rogaine throughout the park. Additionally, the team completed an Environmental Project, Leadership Presentation and a six-hour Adventure Race of running, abseiling, kayaking and mountain biking. At the end of the competition, students had successfully finished 7th in the nation.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH AND COMPASS AWARDS 2013 saw the return of the Duke of Edinburgh Award to Westbourne Grammar School, as well as the introduction of the Compass Award for the first time. The Awards, run through Awards Victoria, were offered to all students in the Senior School, with the Compass Award aimed at Years 7 and 8 and the Duke of Edinburgh Award for Years 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12. Overall, 23 students undertook the challenge of the Awards. The Awards challenge the students to complete hours in volunteering, physical activities, skills, and adventurous journeys. Students were given a Record Book to record the hours completing their chosen activities to satisfy the Award requirements. Generally this meant up to a six-month commitment to each activity in which they participated. Throughout the year, students participated in a variety of activities to complete their Awards, including but not limiting to, rock climbing, white water rafting, volunteering for the local Council, volunteering at animal shelters, learning languages, developing coaching and leadership skills and camps at both the Cathedral State Park and Wilsons Promontory.

YEAR 10 CAMP Throughout 2013, two camps were held for select students in Year 10. The first camp, held in early Term 2, was at the Wollangarra Homestead, located roughly 45 minutes from Licola. Students who attended this camp experienced the homestead lifestyle, a lifestyle which promotes the return to natural living, with no electricity, flushing toilets or even watches to tell the time. Students were definitely challenged by this! Throughout the five-day camp, students spent three days hiking through the Alpine National Park. They were confronted by large mountains to hike up and down, waterfalls to admire, flowing rivers to cross and some of the most amazing views to admire. All the while, students were carrying heavy packs which included all the things they would need for the three days, including

food, tents and clothing The second camp, held midway during Term 3 was held at Wollangarraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister camp, Mittagundi Homestead. The situation the students were confronted with at Mittagundi were the same as Wollangarra: no electricity, and no time. Students were at Mittagundi for six days, during which they spent three of these days crosscountry skiing through the Alpine National Park. Many of the students who attended this camp had never been skiing cross country before, so found this skill particularly challenging. Students spent nights sleeping in tents during negative degree weather, whilst they also enjoyed their experience at the Homestead where they played and helped feed the variety of farm animals, chopped wood and moulded burning hot metal. David Ciavarella

OUTDOOR EDUCATION

JUNIOR SCHOOL

FROM THE H E AD OF JU NI O R S C HOOL This quote is true of every nation and the importance of the task that we, as primary educators at Westbourne, have in guiding and nurturing our young children is always at the forefront of our thinking and actions. Indeed, it is a great privilege to be in this role and to play a part in shaping our young people’s lives for the future. 2013 has been another very busy, productive and rewarding year. A great deal has been accomplished by students, staff and the broader Westbourne community. This year saw another cohort of Preps enter the Junior School and it is interesting to imagine what the world will be like for them when they finally graduate from Year 12 at the end of 2025. The experts tell us that the world of work will have changed dramatically by then, with jobs coming into play that currently aren’t in existence. The need to prepare these young people for such a world is driving a number of changes that are taking place not only in the early years of education, but throughout a child’s journey through school. We look ahead to the very exciting development of the Early Learning Centre (currently being constructed down near the Year 9 Centre) coming online in 2014. Developed around principles that are embedded in the Reggio Emilia philosophy,

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“OUR NATION’S CHILDREN ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET AND OUR MOST PRECIOUS TREASURE.” – CHRISTOPHER DODD

the Junior School staff are already looking at how some of these influences might impact on the first few years of formal schooling. I must say that it is wonderful to see the progression that our Preps have made throughout their first year of school. They are so curious about the world around them and their passion for learning is a joy to see. This has been evident on a daily basis and through a host of special activities such as Pyjama Day, Weather Day, the Teddy Bear’s Picnic, the ‘100 Days of School’ Celebration and the enthusiasm with which they threw themselves into their first-ever PAF performance. They have undoubtedly come a long way in a very short space of time. Whilst there is an undeniable focus in the Junior School on the Key Learning Areas of Literacy and Numeracy, students of all

ages benefit from the special events that add colour and interest to their learning. These come from a multitude of excursions and incursions across the School, as well as much loved and memorable occasions such as Grandparents’ Day, Art Day, Footy Day and the Father’s Day Breakfast, Book Month activities, various music festivals, sports carnivals and of course, the Performing Arts Festival. Many accomplishments have been achieved by Junior School students over the past twelve months. Sometimes, these achievements might be small but nevertheless significant steps on the way to mastering a skill or fostering understanding in the classroom. Other achievements can be more public in nature, such as the Junior School Choir taking out first place in the Geelong Eisteddfod, our Junior School Athletics Team winning the District Co-Educational Trophy, our Future Problem

Solving Teams making the National Finals in Perth, a Westbourne student displaying her prowess by winning the Wyndham Spelling Bee and others achieving the distinction of qualifying for regional, state or national sporting championships. The depth of talent in our Junior School students never ceases to amaze me! Students have also shown their willingness to get behind the School’s major charity focus, Kampuchea House. Led by members of the Social Service Committees across both Junior campuses, students have raised valuable funds through activities such as Casual Clothes Days, goal kicking and handballing competitions to name just a few. Their desire to help and to show their social consciousness in this way is very satisfying and I thank everyone for their ongoing support of the School’s sponsorship of the orphanage in Cambodia. At the top end of the Junior School, our Year 6 students have been excellent role models for the younger students, having led them responsibly and positively throughout 2013. I am very proud of what they have achieved in a range of endeavours, including chess and debating, along with acting as guides on Open Days, leading assemblies, undertaking roles on important student committees across the School and being caring and thoughtful ‘buddies’ to their Prep counterparts. I thank them for their contribution to our Junior School and I wish each and every one of them much happiness and success as they move into the next phase of their education.

All that has been outlined above (and much more) would not be possible if it were not for the huge amount of time and effort that Junior School staff put into looking after the learning needs of the children in their care. At Westbourne, we have an extremely dedicated and highly talented team of teachers who take their educational responsibilities very seriously. Class teachers are constantly reflecting on the teaching/learning process in terms of how they can maximise the learning potential within each child. Similarly, the specialist staff provide rich and stimulating learning experiences outside the regular classroom. There have been numerous highlights in these areas throughout 2013, and the opportunities offered through the Japanese, Library, Music, Physical Education/Sport and Visual Arts Programs certainly enrich the students’ time at school. However, in regard to our teaching staff, this only tells part of the story. Behind the scenes, teachers across the School have been involved in a number of very significant initiatives which are all designed to benefit the students and their learning needs. A great deal of time has been spent on professional development activities focussing on KidsMatter (a mental health and well-being framework for primary schools and early childhood education), Restorative Practice ( an approach that focuses on building positive relationships and engaging people in collaborative problem-solving when issues arise), online/ continuous reporting (which gives students and their parents more immediate and therefore effective feedback on the learning progress of each child) and curriculum design and development (which includes mapping the curriculum, so that we can ensure a more streamlined and sequential approach across the School). I sincerely thank all members of staff for their ongoing and steadfast support of all that we are endeavouring to achieve in advancing the learning outcomes of our students.

I also wish to acknowledge the wonderful support provided by our parent body over the past twelve months. Many parents have assisted with special curriculum days/events, by attending excursions or by visiting classes to offer their expertise in a field of endeavour related to one of our integrated units of inquiry. But nowhere is the tangible support of parents more evident than in the many activities conducted by the Friends of Westbourne Association, and particularly in the Junior School context, the Parent Auxiliary. Led by an incredibly hard-working Executive (including Mrs Fiona Parks, Mrs Beata Rawdanowicz, Mrs Narelle Goldie, Mrs Jacqueline Garnsworthy, Ms Melissa Devine, Ms Tahli Shay, Mrs Debbie Huntington and Mrs Fran Armstrong), this year the Parent Auxiliary has provided many benefits for our Junior School community, as well as achieving a truly amazing fund-raising effort that enabled us to refurbish the Truganina Campus Junior School Library and significantly landscape the area surrounding the sandpit at the Williamstown Campus. In wrapping up 2013, I wish to extend my heart-felt thanks to all members of the Junior School Leadership Team. Comprising the Deputy Heads, Ms Andrea Elliott, Mrs Nicole Armatas and Mrs Kylie Baxter, along with the Departmental Coordinators, Mrs Julie Shutie, Mrs Andrea Cameron and Mr Mario Chrisanthou, this inspiring group of people not only give me tremendous support, but they contribute greatly to the ongoing development of our School. I thank, too, the Junior School Secretaries, Mrs Hodgson and Mrs Matthews, the latter of whom I would be lost without. Finally, I want to acknowledge the strategic leadership and invaluable support provided by the Principal, Ms Meg Hansen and members of the School Council led by Mr David Horvath. Paul Barklamb Head of Junior School

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WILLIAMSTO W N Positive school communities don’t just happen. They evolve from the collaborative involvement of all members – students, staff, parents, families and the broader community. Williamstown Grammar is a campus with a strong sense of community and all parties of the School play a significant role. This was evident through the various events and activities that occurred throughout the year. The children returned from their first school break in 2013 to a refurbished sandpit and play area, thanks to the fundraising endeavours of our parent body. It was important that we secured the services of a landscaper that understood the educational principles behind designing purposeful and creative play spaces, whilst also incorporating the influences of the bay that we are so fortunate to have on our doorstep. The children have used the decked wharf in a multitude of ways, such as a stage, a cooking area and a platform to fly from. The ‘concrete’, pebbled beach and water pump have kept our children engaged in creative play for extended periods. I thank the wonderful parents who donate and commit time in a variety of ways for the benefit of our School community. This new play space has been a very exciting addition to our campus. This year we were the fortunate recipients of a Bright Future Mobil Grant. With this money, the Environmental Committee set to work and added to the refurbished sandpit and play area. They designed and planted a sensory, vertical garden. This is still in

progress at the time of writing. We were also able to purchase iPad minis that the Environmental Group has used in a variety of ways, but the iPads have also been used by small groups of children across the school, particularly for the purposes of Maths and Science based learning. Throughout the year, there has been a focus on using ‘circles’ at the classroom level to increase student-student and studentteacher connectedness. We believe we already have strong and respectful relationships within our school, but we also recognise through compelling research that children who feel a sense of belongingness are happier and are more motivated and successful with their school work. ‘Circle time’ allows students to learn more about each other, how to problem-solve challenges, how to increase their resilience in the face of adversity and also how to relate to one another in a positive manner despite differences. This is visible in many classrooms throughout the campus and across the Junior School. Our School is always busy and this year was no exception. The list is long but not limited to: Grandparents’ Day, Art Day, Conservation Ranger Visits, the Football Clinic for our Year Three students, Camp Quality Puppet Show, Book Fair, author visits, Waste Free Lunch and ‘Earth Hour’, the ‘Buddies2’ show on cyber safety and positive relationships, Science Day with Professor Bunsen, Year Three Choir performances, Jon Madin’s musical instruments made of recycled goods and the Performing Arts Festival. Our swimming program was modified this year based on feedback from a parent survey. Our Fathers’ Day Breakfast was the biggest

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yet and remains a highlight for many of our students. We also introduced the ‘100 Days of Learning’ celebration at the Prep level, where parents were invited into their child’s classroom for the morning to participate in a range of Literacy and Numeracy activities based around the number one hundred! Continuous, online reporting was another significant change for our whole community. The process of reflecting on learning and assessment, providing timely and targeted feedback, critically analysing student activities that support and extend on learning have all been a focus. By providing continuous feedback online, we believe the teaching and learning is more visible and accessible for both parents and students. Online reporting will no doubt continue to evolve. In summary, the collaboration of many, make a positive school community. Our children are supported by very able and committed teachers. I extend my deepest thanks to the staff at Williamstown, who work incredibly hard and with a genuine desire to make our School a great school. I also thank Mr Barklamb and Ms Hansen for their unwavering support and wise mentorship. Mrs Hodgson continues to support our School community so competently and always with a smile. To Mrs Cameron, an exemplary teacher and fine leader, I also extend my thanks. Finally, I wish to acknowledge and thank the heart and soul of our school, those who bring the laughter, fun and sunshine into it – the children. Nicole Armatas Deputy Head of Junior School Head of Campus, Williamstown Grammar

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When it was announced that we were selected to be the Junior School Co-captains for 2013, we felt excited, nervous and a little anxious about the year ahead. Those concerns and fears quickly vanished as we were regularly expected to speak at assemblies, attend Open Days and other school functions. This being our final year in the Junior School we wanted to make it count and take advantage of all the opportunities the School has to offer. We felt it important to represent the students of the Junior School with integrity. Particular highlights included attending the Year Eleven Presentation Ball at which we represented the Junior School and taught Mr Barklamb how to dance the ‘Nutbush’. We had the opportunity to go to the Williamstown Campus to introduce ourselves and meet the students. Working with our Prep Buddies on Grandparents’ Day, Tree Planting and spending time together reading books was a rewarding and fun experience. The Year Six Mini Mart is an important day on the Junior School calendar and one which we all look forward to. It is a day when we, as Year Six students get to demonstrate our marketing skills, organisational skills and co-operative attitude. Everyone worked hard to ensure it was a brilliant day.

It has been an amazing and extraordinary year and as it draws to an end, we are all feeling delighted but a little hesitant as we make our final steps into the Senior School. We remember what has been for many of us almost seven years of friendships. As we prepare for Secondary School, many of us will join the Westbourne Community while some of us will go our separate ways, it will be interesting to see where our paths take us. On behalf of the Year Six students we would like to thank Mr Barklamb for his guidance and belief in all of us, the teachers who have helped and cared for us each year and finally a big thank you to our parents who have supported us in every way. We now have the confidence to take the next step in our journey. Carly Gauci and Wil Tattersall Junior School Co-Captains 2013

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PREP

WILLIAM S T O W N

When the firemen came we got to spray their hose. It was fun and we got to sit in the fire truck. They asked us some questions. The questions were easy and we learnt some sayings to keep us safe. Louis Abbott I like Valentine’s Day. I like Valentine’s Day because you get to give flowers. Flowers are bright and colourful. Valentine’s Day is the best day ever. Gemma Board I liked meeting each other. It was fun. I liked playing games with new people. Anahatt Kuar Chhina I made two best friends. They are Louis and Sarah. I love them very much. Do you have a friend? I do. I always have a good day with them. Joshua DeDomenico I liked Professor Bunsen. I really liked the flying saucer. There was a can that was nearly on fire. Sam Di Lisio I liked making goo. It was slimy. It was gooey too. It was green goo. Zac Ellis

My favourite school day was THRASS Day. THRASS Day was the best because it was fun. I loved THRASS Day. Layla Rickman

I liked growing green grass. It was fun growing the green grass! Grass is green. We looked after the green grass. We looked after the grass so that it would grow.

I liked making popcorn because it was popping in the pan and some popcorn flew out of the pan. It was my favourite memory.

Meher Grover

Pehan Silva

We liked to blow bubbles. It was really fun.

My favourite memories are when we had the Book Fair and when we had Art Day because I love doing art. I loved the Book Fair because I got to keep a book.

Antonia Kallifidas I liked going to After School Care because I like Melinda.

Sarah Singh

Cooper Newman I enjoyed going to the Royal Botanic Gardens and picking up sticks. Stephanie Norton

I loved the 100 Days at School celebration because I liked my mum and my dad coming to school. I liked making ice-cream sundaes too. Brock Smith I loved Grandparents’ Day. My grandpa is fun. I like my grandparents. We made a photo frame. We sang songs. Then they went home. Grace Speight

I loved making green jelly at school. It was yummy and there were Freddo Frogs too. It was fun making jelly. Jaren Tan My best memory is Weather Day. I liked it because I got to do lots of activities that were good. I liked Weather Day. Max Tran I loved making milkshakes because they tasted good. The flavour was fantastic. It was banana. Banana is my favourite fruit and yellow is my favourite colour. Milkshakes are my favourite because they are healthy. I love milkshakes. Charlise Turczyniak I like P.E because we play fun games. P.E is good because we learn how to kick a ball. Oskar Williams My favourite memory is shopping at the Mother’s Day stall because I loved giving my mother lots of presents and I love my mother.

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We made a tornado in a bottle. First, we tipped the water bottle upside down and then swirled it. It turned into a water spout. It was fun. Tana Alispahic We made caramel milkshakes. First, we put in the caramel topping and then we poured in some milk. We gave it a shake and drank it all up. It was yummy! Kayden Bartolo We were clever scientists making blue slime. The slime was gooey and it looked like a brain. Elaina Crozier We learnt lots of information about the seasons. In winter, it is very cold and high in the mountains, it snows. In spring, lots of flowers grow and baby animals are born. In summer, it is very hot and you can go swimming in the beach or make sandcastles. In autumn, the leaves change colour and fall off the trees. Samara Fernando A rainbow has seven colours. It is formed by the sunlight reflecting in the raindrops. Some people believe that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Rainbows are beautiful and make me feel happy. Montana Green We learnt a lot about lightning. It comes from the clouds in the sky. It looks like a zigzag of light in the sky. Thunder follows lightning because light travels faster than sound. Giles Gumley We learnt how to read a calendar. We know that there are seven days in a week and twelve months in a year. On a calendar, you write important dates to remember, like your birthday. Pace Hicks Bullock We went to The Royal Botanic Gardens and we saw a lightning tree. It had been struck by lightning right in the middle. The lightning split the tree in half. The gardeners used a rope to pull the tree back together. It was great fun visiting The Botanic Gardens. Hayden Huang

We each made a frog in a pond at school. To make a frog in a pond, you have to get a cup and put in some jelly crystals and pour in hot water. Next you drop your chocolate frog in, put it in the fridge and wait for it to set. Finally you get to eat it. Yum! Yum! Ira Joshi We learnt about take away problems in the playground. We know that you end up with less than what you had before. You can also use the word subtraction in the equation. It was great fun! Saskia Kerrisk We made popcorn at school. We felt the seed before it changed into a white fluffy popcorn. It tasted delicious!

Zuben Khan We learnt lots of new things at swimming. We swam freestyle to the other side. Luca Mazzaferro Circle time is an important part of our day. In circle time, the person that has Harold is the only person speaking. We listen carefully in circle time to show respect to our friends in the classroom. Circle time is lots of fun.

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Sylvie Pilkington We have learnt how to add numbers together like 5 + 3 = 8. We count on from the biggest number to find the total. We used cards, die and teddy bear counters to help us add. Jacqueline Ramanan We went on a shape hunt. We found many different shapes out in the playground. We found circles, squares, triangles, diamonds and rectangles. The rose garden is an octagon. Sebastian Sabotkoski

The celery changed colour when we put it in water with blue food colouring. It absorbed the water, and the blue food colouring travelled to the leaves at the top. Lucas Stojkovski

On the THRASS day, we brought to school objects from the THRASS chart. I used the trigraph ‘oor’ with my Lego door. There were lots of graphs and digraphs also. Oliver Struhs

The firemen came to our school to teach us about fire safety. We had a turn of spraying the hose and we sat inside the fire truck. They taught us to ‘Stop, Drop, Cover and Roll!’ It was lots of fun.

The Teddy Bears’ Picnic was lots of fun. Our teddy bears came to school with us and shared in all the fun and games. We had a special teddy bear treat.

Tabish Majeed

Konnie Theodoropoulos We made ice-cream sundaes. First, we put in the milk and then the ice-cream. Finally we put in the sprinkles. We had lots of fun and it was delicious! Jacob Thompson

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I like circle time because we talk about our feelings that are in our hearts. We also sometimes tell jokes in a circle. Oliver Azzopardi Circle time is fun because we get to talk about what is in our heart and sometimes we get to have joke time. Daniel Behringer When we do circle time, I like to talk about our feelings out of five, because we tell Ms Boam how we are feeling. I usually feel five out of five because I have many wonderful days. Oscar Brajkovic Circle time is fun because we talk about our school holidays and we pass teddies around. Anabelle Breiss I like circle time because we get to bring in toys and my teacher never ever shouts. She always listens to me. Claudia Giambattista My favourite thing about circle time is that we get to share our feelings out of five. We also talk about things we did last night. I often feel one hundred out of five! Rayann Hasna

Circle time is fun because we get to pass a teddy around. Mia Marinaccio I think circle time is fabulous because we pass toys around and some of them are fluffy. Jordan Martyn I think circle time is relaxing because we talk about things we are looking forward to in the future, like birthdays. Scarlett McConnell Circle time is enjoyable because people talk about how they feel when playing with other people in the yard.

Grace Simoni I like circle time because it is fun when we get to talk about our feelings.

Lachlan McGuire

Javyn Singh

I adore circle time because it is a relaxing time when you can tell people how you are feeling out of five. I usually feel a five because school days are fun days.

I like circle time because we talk about our feelings and what we are thinking about.

Leah McKenzie

We always change the subject in circle times. The topics aren’t always the same. They are often different. This keeps circle time really interesting.

Circle time is lovely because you get to talk about anything you like and everyone is happy in circle time. Zahra Nuredini

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I enjoy circle time because it is a nice relaxing time when we can share our feelings and listen with our hearts. We help those who aren’t feeling too good.

Oliver Smaragdas

Ashley Walker

In circle time, we sometimes tell jokes. We have a ‘knock-knock’ joke circle!

Circle time is interesting because you can listen to people’s sentences and they are often interesting.

Ilyusha Shulin

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I adore circle time because we talk about things that are going to happen like birthdays and special events. Edie Whittaker I think circle time is fantastic because we talk to our lovely, beautiful teacher and we tell her our feelings. Laura Wood

IN HER BOOK ‘WILFRID GORDON MCDONALD PARTRIDGE,’ CHILDREN’S AUTHOR MEM FOX TELLS US THAT MEMORIES ARE ‘SOMETHING YOU REMEMBER … SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU LAUGH … SOMETHING AS PRECIOUS AS GOLD’. HERE ARE OUR SPECIAL MEMORIES OF YEAR ONE IN 2013. MY FAVOURITE MEMORY OF YEAR ONE IS…

Going to the Di John Centre and making potato people with my friends. My potato person had spiky hair! The Book Fair because we all got to buy a book and keep it.

Angad Ahuja Going to the Aquarium because I enjoyed going and it was amazing.

Holly Seddon Making milkshakes because they were delicious.

Sienna Armstrong Making clocks in Maths because we were able to decorate the plate.

P.E. lessons because P.E. makes me fit and it is a sport. I am good at sport.

Beau Brecely

Peter Hatzopoulos

Going to the Parcel Centre because we got to put a parcel on the conveyor belt.

Professor Bunsen coming to our School. My favourite experiment was the smoke gun because it shot rings of smoke.

Maths because I love doing quick quizzes.

Charlotte Steel

Derrick Cee

Swimming lessons because I got to swim with my friends.

Going to the Aquarium because I liked looking at the fish. Christian Chiriano Going on camp because I liked the treasure hunt. Haylee Frazer Shrove Tuesday because we all had pancakes. They were yum, delicious, scrumdiddlyumptious, yummy and buttery. Zachary Garnsworthy 2013 Day because I met my wonderful, kind teacher. Lulu Graham Going to the Sunshine Parcel Centre because we got to put a parcel on the machine. Alexis Harvey-Wills

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Tyler Hourmouzis

Tom Hughes Making milkshakes because we were writing procedural texts. Kai Lawson Reading groups because I like reading. Joseph Marek The swimming program because I liked doing backstroke and dolphin kick. Maia Marinkovic Shrove Tuesday because we had scrumdiddlyumptious pancakes. Chloe Nikolovski The Year One camp because the Truganina students came to Williamstown. We had a treasure hunt and we had fish and chips for dinner. Jessica Salvalaggio

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Hooray! We scored a goal! When the 2B Shooters played our first game of soccer, we went wild! Lachlan was first on the ball and Zachary scored the first goal. Anika went crazy! The atmosphere was filled with tension but an awesome game was had! Go 2B shooters! We are champions! Anika Choubey, Benjamin Gill, Lachlan Hatzopoulos and Zachary Murphy We have had many special memories in our class this year. Our two absolute favourites are growing our own grass and recording its measurements. This was part of our Lifecycles unit. We also had some very special friends in our classroom, crawling caterpillars that turned into beautiful butterflies and fuzzy cute chickens. We also remember visiting the Essendon Traffic School as part of our Safe Travels unit. We cycled around, navigated the road traffic hazards and refuelled our bikes with petrol. It was a fun filled special day! Sophie Bryant, Aarush Challa and Sophie Mills

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Year Two has been very special. One of our favourite memories is participating in the cooking excursion to the Truganina campus. We excitedly explored the Food Technology room and discussed how to be safe when cooking. Then we got to bake lollipop biscuits and decorate delicious cupcakes! They were so tasty and scrumptious “Yum, Yum!” Mia Armatas, Keera Beasley and Kieran Gallagher “Dr Jones, calling Dr Jones! Wake up now!” Our Year Two Performing Arts Festival was the best! Our play was called ‘Indiana Jones and the Bestow Rune.’ It was good because we all had a line to say. The best part was singing the song. We sang a boys’ part and then a girls’ part. Some of us were nervous because we knew our mums and dads were watching, but we were brave. The people in the tribe got to run across the stage yelling “Wha, wha, wha!” We loved our play. Flynn Harvey Wills, Oscar McNaughton and Edward Wright

Learning all about different animals’ lifecycles was our favourite Integrated Studies topic! We learnt many new and interesting facts about frogs, chickens, whales and polar bears, just to name a few! We learnt new words like metamorphosis. Metamorphosis means an animal goes through a complete change, like a tadpole to a frog, or a caterpillar to a butterfly. Liam Huntington and Madison Luis Geale We have many highlights from the best class ever! Our absolute favourite was when we had cooking Fridays. Every Friday we would look at the board to see what yummy treat we would be cooking. We liked the fruit kebabs, banana milkshakes, healthy pizzas and pancakes! We all became great cooks. Our food was scrumptious and delicious. Stella Pilkington, Persia Rigas, Erin Stojcevski and Jasmine Thompson

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At the Art Gallery, we saw things from Japan and China. We saw some interesting things and scary stuff too. We loved looking at the Japanese Noh masks. The demon was the best because he had big nostrils. Timothy Jose and Ethan Nikolovski 2M went to the National Art Gallery and saw a statue of a dead deer. The most amazing thing was the water glass window and we even got to touch it. There was also a waterhole with bowls in it and when they touched each other they made a sound. Freya Cantwell and Brydie Read In Year Two, Professor Bunsen came to our school. He was amazing. He drew with light and made a girl fly. He also did some other tricks that were spectacular.

Year Two went to see Professor Bunsen’s experiments. My favourite one was when he burnt the cotton wool. I think it was really cool when he shot air bullets with his big air gun.

Ella Grech

William Bendle

Theodore Pedley

2M had chicks in the classroom. They were so fluffy and cute. The chicks came as eggs but they hatched and turned into fluffy chicks. They only stayed with us for two weeks.

Williamstown Grammar had a special visit from Professor Bunsen. We saw the best science we have ever seen. He played music with solar light and an iPod and he also burnt cotton wool quickly.

Alexandra Karagiannis and Lily McLeod

Mackenzie Braini and Lachlan Martin

In Year Two, we made food every Friday in Term Three. Our favourite things we made were banana milkshakes and pizza. All the Year Two students loved making food.

In Year Two, we went to the Essendon Traffic School. Our whole class got to ride bikes. It was a fun day because it was like a real road. We were also allowed to go to a fun park that had a massive slide and swings. It was the best day!

Olivia Alexander and Harrison Grgic We went to see the National Gallery of Victoria. We saw a real reindeer with bubbles all over it. It was a very interesting excursion. We also liked looking at the shoes. One even had a teddy bear stuck on it.

In Year Two, Professor Bunsen came to see us. He made a boy and girl fly! He also made an invisible air gun.

Vivian Tzavaras

Athena Avci and Benjamin Di Lisio On Art Day in Year Two, we got to make a zebra. We were also allowed to wear casual clothes. We made a lion’s face and a camouflaged zebra in the jungle. When we were making the lions, the glue was very sticky. Aiden Mantzaris At Williamstown Grammar School, we had a fantastic Book Fair in the Library. We got to buy books. I bought a knitting book full of activities. Chelsea Pivk In Year Two, we had a Mother’s Day celebration and a special stall. I bought lots of gifts for my mum. She loved them! Isabel Rigas

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Acrostic Poem Melbourne is the place to be Everyone enjoyed our excursion to the Eureka Tower Learning about the map of Australia was cool

Camp Wilkin

Buildings like the MCG have changed over time Oral presentations taught us many interesting facts Using Federation Square as a meeting place Remembering to treat all Australians equally No other city is as good as Melbourne Everyone researched interesting landmarks to visit Julian Chiriano, Reilly Gunn and Amelia McConnell and Kathleen Pitliangas

Sports Carnivals “3, 2, 1... Boom!” The gun was fired and the race began. Year Three was the most exciting year filled with many sporting activities. We joined the older grades for the first time to participate in Cross Country, Athletics Carnival and swimming races. The four Houses are called Price, Gerity, Miller and Steedman. Students who performed really well qualified for District and Zone. Participating in the events was exceptionally fun and barracking for our teams was awesome! Elise Mitchell, Rafael Moraes, Georgina Parks and Noah Stojkovski

Music Program Year 3 was a year of opportunities. There were many ways to extend our talents through music. All students in Year 3 learnt the recorder with Mr Elston and participated in the strings program every Thursday afternoon. Children could choose from the viola, violin or the very large cello. Being a part of the Williamstown Choir was fantastic and we performed at many special occasions such as Grandparents’ Day, Fathers’ Day, assembly and Open Day. Another highlight of the year was our Music incursion with Jon Maddin where we enjoyed playing all sorts of musical instruments, even a bike! Joseph Bradwell, Emily Nascarella and Nathaniel Varsamakis

Year 3 enjoyed two nights and three days at Camp Wilkin in Anglesea. Day One was spent setting up our cabins, touring the campsite, enjoying the facilities, toasting marshmallows by the camp fire and eating dinner. The second day was spent at the beach searching for sea creatures in rock pools and learning about the coast. Our Westbourne’s Got Talent show entertained everyone that night and dinner was delicious. The final day included riding on the flying fox and some team work activities. Camp Wilkin was awesome! Cameron Bailey, Kane Roseburgh and Jeremy Seddon

Year 3 is the Best! We believe Year 3 is the best year level because it is filled with fun activities. Our final year at Williamstown Grammar School with Mrs Cameron has certainly been great! Learning about Melbourne and Australia was really interesting. Conducting science experiments, camping in Anglesea for two nights and performing X-Factor for everyone was lots of fun! Becoming a buddy to our Prep friends was also special. We loved helping with activities and playing together in the yard. Hosting assembly, becoming a tour guide and being the leaders of the School have been amazing. We have loved our time at Williamstown Grammar and have so many special friends and memories. Edward Camilleri, Imogen Gumley, Angelina Waddell and Bill Wonson

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Camp Wilkin was so much fun,

Buddies are our best friends

Adventurous games in the sun!

Understanding each other’s feelings

Making people laugh at the talent show,

Deciding games together

Performing songs and jokes that others don’t know!

Drawing pictures, writing and reading stories

Walking and exploring the sandy beach,

Eating snacks and lunch together

Inside the games room was a treat!

Sharing and caring for each other

Looking up at the bright, bright stars,

Sandra Breiss, Will McLaren, Piyara Silva.

Interesting activities on Grandparents’ Day

Kids jumping on the trampoline trying to reach Mars!

X-Factor was our play for this year’s Performing Arts Festival

In rock pools we found starfish and our feet got wet.

Four talented acts trying to win the big prize.

Now we know it was the best camp yet! Madeleine Bryant, Cassandra Homewood, Jack McAuliffe, Christopher Vourvahakis

Audience clapping and cheering because we were amazing. Celebrating and dancing to our groovy songs.

Year Three was so much fun

Timing our play and rehearsing our lines.

Eating chocolate mousse at Camp Wilkin with everyone.

Our performers were hosts, judges, acts, ad breaks and announcers.

Awesome buddies that never stop laughing

Rapping to the Chicka Rap and Happy Little Vegemites

Running in Cross Country kept us huffing and puffing. Touring Eureka Tower and Federation Square

Practising our lines so we didn’t forget them on the night.

Hosting assemblies and Open Days in the fresh air.

Amazing songs - Count On me, Footloose and On With The Show.

Remembering our lines for choir and the Performing Arts Festival play

Four acts but only one can win… it’s The Willy Rockers!

Exciting science experiments, phases of the moon and night and day.

Lara Cameron, Liam O’Brien and Caleb Sheehan

Entertaining excursions – all were a highlight. Isaac Fulton-Grover, Sam Nowell and Ermioni Pitliangas Exciting experiments X-ray goggles and oxygen masks for safety Planning tests and gathering equipment Extraordinary, exploding, fizzy mixtures Red food colouring and oil look amazing Investigating changes to solids, liquids and gases

Environmental Committee planting and watering Nature’s garden growing really fast Vertical garden – different from the past IPads to video our projects Rosemary, curly parsley, mint and cabbages Organic spring onions, red and green capsicum too No caterpillars please, as we’re growing our trees More seeds to plant in our vegie patch Earth hour and waste free lunch days Nature is protected each day Thumbs that are green Mary Attard, Zain Memon and Oliver Rickman

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Making chemical reactions with borax and alka-seltzer Explosions big and small Needing heat to turn water into gas Testing, predicting, even tasting fizzy sherbet Slime, crazy putty, lava lamps and erupting volcanoes Christian Konstantinidis and Alec Vass

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IF I HAD $100 I WOULD… …buy 100 zombies and I would play with them because it would be fun. Cooper Archer …spend it on a baboon. It would snuggle me at night. I would give it breakfast. It would love me and I would love it. Fin Butterworth …buy Octonaut toys because I love them and Charlie likes them too. Hugh Curtis …buy two expensive teddy seals because they are fun. Jacqueline De Kock …get a pet dog and the breed would be a Labradoodle. I would also buy a limousine and I would have a guitar and write a song. Madeline Dowling …buy my dad’s car because my dad had a car and it was black and blue. Ayman Elbelli …buy a box of lollies and coke. I would drink it with my brothers. I would also buy a motorbike, a house and an iPad with Minecraft on it.

…buy a soda and I would share it with my friends. I would also dance in party clothes.

Kasper Fonsboel

Costa Karlaftis

…buy 100 chocolates and a whippet dog with 100 spots. It will be cute. I will also buy a kitten and it would like me. I would buy a drawing pad too.

…buy a puppy. I will feed my puppy, pat my puppy, give some treats to my puppy and play with my puppy.

Tara Fox

Meagan Lee

…buy a kitten for my party and I will bring my friends with me. I will play with them and my kitten in the party room.

…buy a computer because I will play games. If I had change I would also buy a school and I will teach people. I would also buy a car so then I can drive.

Violet Greene

Rayan Miglani

…buy a scooter which costs $50 and a bike which costs $50. Pakhi Gupta

John Moraitis …go to sleep and I would invite all of my friends to my house. I would have a party and I would have a fantastic time. Charlie Murphy …buy 100 pens for my friends. They would be different colours like pink, purple, indigo and violet. They will all be for girls and they will look nice.

…buy a deer and I would ride it because I like it. I would also buy an egg because I am not allergic to egg and I would buy a coke car. Jackson Hopper

…buy the Fox in a Box book because I love Fox in a Box. I would read it to myself 100 times.

Cynthia Nguyen

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…spend it on a toy Barbie doll because I like them. I would also get a dog. Tehara Samaratunga …buy a pet kitten and a puppy. I would take them for a walk and they will love it. Ines Turnor …buy so many teddies and a limousine. It would take us to a disco and I will drink coke with my friends.

WEST BOURNE

Tara Walsh …buy an iPad and put word games on there. Kristian Zaharopoulos

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IF I HAD $100 I WOULD… …spend it on a diamond ring. Ayeesha Abdul Latif

…buy some things from the shop then I will have more coins. Then the next day I would go to the shop again and get more coins. Jannat Hara …buy a La La Loopsy and I play with it. If I had $100 I would be kind. Madeleine Hately-Williams …buy my own phone.

Baran Karakas …use $100 when we go shopping and when …buy fake money because it will be like we go to buy some bread. I like going real money. shopping because shopping is fun and helping mummy carry in stuff. Amelie Kumar Dema Altaleb …buy every Skylanders, buy Pokemon, buy James Bond, buy planets zombies, buy a house, and buy vampire games. Oliver Blazevic …put it in the bank and buy a monster truck. Ben Boyer …buy toys, save up and buy a house.

…spend it at the movies. Thomas Mercieca …buy an ice-cream, it would be banana flavour. Archie Modica …be rich! I would buy a motor bike. James Nash

Jayden Calus

…use them to buy a Barbie car because me and my sister really want a Barbie car.

…be so, so happy and I will give it to dad and mum.

Ella O’Brien

Shareen Dhillon

…buy a toy with it. I would save it up.

…use it to buy a motor bike, use it to buy a canoe, use it buy a house, use it to buy a pair of shoes. Taj Fox …sell it to buy a toy, buy a house, buy a monster truck, buy a banana.

Eric Rodgers-Toussaint …pay it on a hotel, if I had some change I would go to the shops and I would get some apples and bananas. Darcy Schneider

Dallas Greene

…buy an iPod and an iPad. Buy every Pokemon, buy a car, buy a Star Wars set, buy a soccer ball, buy a pool.

…buy so many Barbies and Littlest Pet Shops and lots and lots of jellies.

Naomi Schaap

Sarah Hannett

…spend it on all the Skylanders. Edison Vergara …buy anything like an iPod or an iPad or a seatbelt pet. Mirabelle Witcombe

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WEST BOURNE Art Day

Art Day is a day where you have fun. We made lots of things like giraffes, masks, cats and zebras. We were learning about African art. We mixed up with the Preps and we wore casual clothes and art smocks. It was a great day!

Swimming

Emma Davis and Vanya Suslov

For sport we went swimming. Harry was in group two and Olivia was group three. Harry learnt how to do backstroke and Olivia learnt how to dive. We had so much fun!

Packing Teddy Bear Biscuits

Olivia Casabene and Harry Muir

Year 1 Camp

Melbourne Parcel Centre

We went to Williamstown by bus for Year 1 camp. We played pass the parcel. Vanya won. We had a special fish and chip dinner. It was sad to go home but we were really tired.

We went to the Melbourne Parcel Centre. We saw letters, parcels, fork lifts and a parcel train. We got to push a parcel along the train. We sent a parcel to ourselves and it arrived the next day.

Javiera Bustos and James Hately-Williams

Alessia Cilmi and Rhodes Manakis

Performing Arts Festival

Sustainability Checklist

We have the Performing Arts Festival because we celebrate the different Arts we can do. Year One did a play called ‘Yo Ho Ho and a Whole Lot of Love!’. We loved our rehearsals and performing on stage. We got to wear costumes.

In Term Two our class won a plant for first prize for always having our room neat and tidy. We needed to make sure that only paper went into the Visy bin and only rubbish went in the rubbish bin. It helped us to look after our environment.

Tyler Carrington and Kamil Rawdanowicz

Siena Costa and Sebastian Holovka

After our excursion to the parcel centre we decided to make our own package and send it to Williamstown. We made a teddy bear biscuit parcel. We all made one out of boxes and other things. We had to see if our biscuit broke when we got our parcel back. Annabelle Lazarevski and Anthony Tabone

Potato People We read the book ‘Potato People’ by Pamela Allen. Then we made our own. We used fabrics, match sticks, pipe cleaners, feathers and potatoes. We all loved making them. Shyla McGuire and Tiffany Temuskos

Maths Games At school we have been learning lots of Maths such as numbers, time, sharing and money. We love to play Maths games like 100’s number puzzles, shape train and place value investigations. Henri Monching and Zac O’Meara

Melbourne Aquarium We went to the Melbourne Aquarium. We saw sea stars, stingrays, fish and penguins. We touched a spiky sea star and the stingrays had a mouth under their belly. Tameika Sheldrick and Vincent Nguyen

Milkshakes When we made milkshakes we had a choice of chocolate or strawberry. We did this because we wanted to do something fun when learning about procedural texts. We also learnt how to write and set out a procedure correctly. Ruby Streit and Aengus Walsh

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1S Year 1 Camp

Broom, broom went the bus when we went to camp. Some of the activities we played were; rob the nest, the parachute and the egg and spoon race. Our favourite activity was the egg and spoon race. We had fish and chips after we played the activities. We loved camp. We thought camp was super!

Melbourne Parcel Centre Excursion

Lachlan Boyer, Navi Portelli, Gabrielle Vincent and Ben Yaziji

Telephone Timeline In Term Three, we learnt how telephones have changed. The first telephone was the candlestick phone. We liked the novelty telephones made in the 1980s because they look like things that are in the real world. Some phones have cords and some phones don’t. Smartphones can be used anywhere, even overseas! Vivienne Card, Francesca Fontana and Lilijana Santzaridis

Making Milkshakes “Yum! Yum!” we said as we licked our lips. Mrs Sutton turned on the blender and the milk came out! We thought that it would go on our books! She made the milkshake and then we wrote the steps for making it. The milkshake tasted really yummy! Tiara and Hannah drank their milkshake really fast but James wanted to drink it slowly so it would last. We wanted to make another milkshake again.

Melbourne Aquarium Excursion

Boom! Boom! went the parcels at the Melbourne Parcel Centre. We had to wear bright yellow vests. First, we went outside. We saw big, red postal trucks and forklifts. We saw a ULD full of magazines. The parcels were sorted quickly on machines that looked like a roller coaster. Parcels went around four times. The Melbourne Parcel Centre was cool!

We went to the Aquarium in Term Two. Our favourite part was the coral reef. We loved Jared Lapeyre, Avishka Raj all the rainbow coloured fish. The penguins and Aiden Ristevski were really cute. The sharks looked scary! We had fun at the Melbourne Aquarium. Emma Cockram, Kiana Shay and Rory Theodore

Swimming In Term Three, we had swimming. We had our swimming clothes on underneath our PE uniform. We learnt freestyle and some of us learnt backstroke. We learnt how to save someone if they fell in the water. Sometimes we played games at the end of the lesson. We had a lot of fun at swimming. Khody Krueger, Gisele Szulc and Max Van Niel

Maths

Maths was cool and spectacular! We learnt about division with even and odd numbers. It was fun sharing smarties and using whiteboards. We learnt about 2-D and 3-D shapes. It was tricky drawing some 2-D shapes. It was exciting using the play money to learn about money. We enjoyed adding and subtracting big numbers. It was super fun using the little clocks to make different times. Reuben Krawzcyszyn, Shaurya Prabhakar and Evan Pataridis

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2B In Year Two, we reflected on some of our most memorable moments throughout the year. Here’s a few that we would like to share with you. Footy Day

Art Day

On Footy Day we had a Fathers’ Day breakfast and a sausage sizzle cooked by the Parents’ Association. We dressed up in the colours of our favourite AFL team and sang our team’s anthem. We also brought in a gold coin donation for Kampuchea House. Omar Altaleb, Melisa Karakas and Jordan Pisak

Art Day started when we sat down in the Auditorium and watched a play called ‘The Lion and the Mouse.’ As we walked into each classroom, we knew that we were about to make fantastic artwork. Some of the artwork we made was a lion face, a zebra photo frame, a sunset collage of a savannah and a picture of African animals.

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Wil Butterworth, Thomas Hopper and Yanni Karlafti

As we splashed in the pool, we learnt how to swim with our group. As we paddled in the pool, we swam into the water and caught the swimming toys that the swimming teacher threw into the pool. It was great fun as we finished with a swimming game. Oscar Black, Jasmine Nguyen and Jessica Tan

National Gallery of Victoria Excursion The National Gallery of Victoria was full of different artwork and sculptures. There was a deer covered with glass balls, a sculpture of a tiger walking, funky futuristic shoes and some floating bowls that sounded like wind chimes. When we lay down in the Great Hall and stared up at the coloured roof, we saw many tessellated pictures. Hunter Braidie, Alys Jones and Karina Morales-Castillo

Professor Bunsen As we walked in the Holy Trinity Hall, Professor Bunsen was tinkering with his bibs and bobs and other magical stuff. He made his own flying saucer which carried Ella and Archie from Prep around the room! He did magical stuff that we didn’t even know existed. He did experiments with matches and he even made a Coca Cola can move with a balloon! Joshua Condon, Grace Croft, Zara Curtis and James Gillespie

Cooking classes As we walked in the classroom, we were so excited to make a variety of delicious dishes. During Term Three, we made fruit kebabs, banana milkshakes, jelly, fried rice, sandwiches, pizza muffins, cupcakes, muffins and cakes. The flavour of the cupcakes, muffins and cakes were delicious! We made fruit kebabs and they were yummy too! Daniel Galati, Lillia Greene and Madison Muscat

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Classroom pets Wow! It was so exciting having all the different animals come in to our classroom during Term Two. We had fish, caterpillars that turned into butterflies, stick insects and chicks. Each week’s class captain was in charge of feeding and caring for the classroom pets. Sadly one fish got sick and died. Chloe Moraitis, Marko Movre and Samantha Westcott

Splish, splash, splish, splash! Earlier in Term Two we had Swimming Lessons with 2B at Bayfit in Altona North. We had six groups 1A, 1B, 1, 2, 3 and 4. The best part about swimming is when we got to wear our clothes in the pool. Jenna Modica, Tanishk Miglani and Xena Hamad

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Splash, splosh! Food going everywhere, flying off people’s spoons! In Term Three we learnt about cooking because it was our Integrated Studies project. Wibble, wobble! We made jelly in 2B and it was raspberry in flavour. Some people went up and helped by putting in the ingredients. Ella Behrens, Elka Pepper and Hanine Seifeddine Messy, messy, messy paint was everywhere! Earlier in the year we had a super Art Day. We made a lion in the Year Three room and it looked very scary. At the start of Art Day, Mr Barklamb dressed up as a lion and Ms Cardona dressed up as a mouse and told a hilarious story. Kepler Lill, Kayla Orchard and Tara Petty

Flour, eggs everywhere! Mixture, spoons in our hair! In Term Three we were learning about interesting food. For fun we went to the Senior School and made delicious lollipop biscuits and fabulous, fresh cupcakes. After that we did a booklet that had a hard word search and other awesome activities. Ella Fleming, Alexis Moraitis and Peter Tzambazaki 3,2,1 there’s an explosion here! Professor Bunsen came to visit the Prep to Year Two classes to show us his amazing experiments about physics. We saw two kids on a hover craft and it looked like they were flying in mid-air. Professor Bunsen also put a year two student in a black plastic bag and used a vacuum cleaner to suck all the air out of the bag. Francesca Garra, Chloe Bubeck and Michael Streeter

We were so excited when we first got our baby chicks but they were still in their eggs. The light was shining bright in the incubator to keep the baby chicks warm. Every day we were yelling and screaming “When would we be able to look at the chicks?” On the last day we had our chicks, we went into Mr Beraldo’s room and got to hold the little chicks. Xavier Bucciarelli, Murtaza Jafri, Analise Milone and Luke Soppi Broom! Broom! Broom! Get your seatbelts on and here we go! In Term One the Year Two students went to the Essendon Traffic School as part of our traffic term. At the park we all had so much fun on the four swings. My friends and I had a lot of fun on the colourful bikes. It was fantastic! Jayden Archer, Matthew Bradley and Sofia Santzaridis

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Cross Country Huffing and puffing students fell across the finish line of a tough cross country run. It was a hot day and we were rewarded with an icy pole at the end. Along the course we got to view the Year Nine Centre, the new Early Learning Centre under construction and some butterflies. That helped to keep some of us going. Everyone did their best. It was a great day. Max Deller, Jamie Bearzi, Selena Makris and Chan Sprenger

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Eureka Tower Up, up and away we went in the lift to the 88th floor of the Eureka Tower. Year Three students enjoyed walking along the Yarra River in the lovely sunshine. Once we got to the top, we were thrilled to see all the interesting landmarks we had been learning about in class. The Eureka Tower was really, really tall and made all the people below look like tiny ants scurrying around everywhere. Katelyn Masseni, Dominic O’ Brien, Kali O’Meara and Carl Schaap

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Shhh! The animals are here! Quick, hide! Art Day had a wild animal theme. In one activity we made a framed jungle picture with grass. We also made a hill with animals on top, we got to make and paint the animals with our mums and dads. Another session was to make a hairy lion mask out of a paper plate and fur. Everyone enjoyed Art Day and our wonderful creations were put on display in the corridors for all to share.

Ready, set, go! That was a great race! We had just finished the 200 metre sprint and we were heading off to the 100 metre event. Parents, grandparents, teachers and students were there cheering us on. Everyone got energy from eating the best food ever. We had sausages, refreshing soda drinks and a chocolate treat to keep us going. Some of the events we participated in were discus, hurdles, long jump and triple jump. Everyone had fun but by the end of the day we were all exhausted!

Amani Elbelli, Avsar Modi and Tarun Rao

Ty Alexander, Poppy Murphy and Marcus Weller

Adel Barakat, Samuel Kennedy, Georgette Lueddeke and Sasha Skilton

Camp Wilkin Hooray! We were at Camp Wilkin! We were there to learn more about Australian environments. Free time was first up and we had a great time discovering the camp facilities. The trampolines, games room, oval and volley ball courts really grabbed our attention. The food was delicious. Exploring the beach and rock pools was awesome. All up, Camp Wilkin was terrific!

As the bus arrived at Federation Square we looked out of the window and it took our breath away. We knew it was going to be an exciting excursion. We learnt all about John Batman and the early Aborigines. Strolling along the pathway revealed Aboriginal stories and large metal tribal shields. We had fun counting all the different sized triangles on the walls of the buildings, not to mention finding fossils in the footpath! Ricardo Esposito, Chloe Smith and Tyler Van Niel

Science Experiments Bubble, bubble, glug, glug. It was the first session of a number of exciting experiments about liquids, solids and gases. First we heated things to see how they changed. Loads of chatter followed as we compared our results. Next we froze chocolate, oil and other interesting objects. Not all items behaved as we predicted. “That’s science!” explained Mrs Richardson. Finally we watched as water turned into gas (steam) and back into water. Science is great fun! Michele Cilmi, Tegan Goldie, Kristian Mastrobattista and Mia Nelson

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Art! Art! Art! In Term Two we had our annual Art Day. Our theme was African art. We made clay zebras with 3-D backgrounds, African patterns, lions and pictures with tissue. We had a delicious sausage sizzle. It was a great day, enjoyed by all the students. Julian Galea, Calvin Lam, Jasmin Larranaga and Madeleine Lazarevski

Athletics Day The winner is… MILLER! In second place Steedman, in third place Price and in fourth place Gerity. On Friday 31st of May, the Year Three students participated in their first Athletics Carnival. We did discus throwing, shot-put, 100 and 200 metre sprints, hurdles and triple jump. Three students from 3X – Alana C, Liana and Orlando represented our school at a District level. We were all exhausted by the end of the day. Alana Chrisanthou, Arth Tuteja and Orlando West

Federation Square Hooray! The day had finally arrived. The Year Three students went to Federation Square. When we got there, we saw many people, even students from other schools. We had a guided tour around Federation Square. We learned many facts about how the indigenous people used the land and the river to survive. It is now called the Yarra River and many historic landmarks are situated along it.

Eureka Skydeck WOW! It was an amazing view from the top of the highest building in Melbourne. In Term Two we went to the 88th floor of the Eureka building as we were learning about different Melbourne landmarks and how Melbourne had changed over time. Many of us went out onto the enclosed balcony. It took only 33 seconds to arrive to the top. This was the best excursion ever.

Talia Nash, Tanay Solanki and Nicholas Tam Azra Basic, Bettina Dowling, Ethan Esakson and Oliver Rayward

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Drip! Freeze! Heat! We conducted some science experiments for our unit called – The World of Matter. We heated, froze and changed the shape of many items found in our pantry cupboards. We made many predictions and recorded our results. We even turned liquid into gas and watched the evaporation take place. The experiments we did were awesome! Riley Moir, Alana Rushworth and Jordan Watson

Camp Wilkin Next stop… Camp Wilkin! We went on a fantastic journey to our first ever camp in Anglesea. When we arrived we had a tour of the camp site. We later had some free time to explore the wonderful activities. On the second day we went down to Point Addis and the Anglesea River for activities with Ecologic. That night we had our Westbourne’s Got Talent competition. On the final day we went on the much awaited flying fox. CAMP WILKIN ROCKED! Emilia Acciarito, Olivia Alexander, Ashley Griffiths and Ava Stone

Cross Country Bang! The cap gun started and the race was on. The Nine Year old boys went first followed by the girls. We ran two kilometres and we were very exhausted. Some of the students in our class got ribbons for their efforts. Liana came first, Alana C second, Jake fourth, Sebastian fifth and Julian sixth. These students represented our school at a District level. We all had a great time participating in our first Cross Country Carnival. Sebastian Fonsboel, Jake Krueger-Strong and Liana Tarola

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Camp “Let’s go to the bus! We’re going to Camp!” On 13 May, Year 4 went to Camp Wilkin in The Day Our SLates Arrived Anglesea. We were away for three days and did loads of activities. The weather wasn’t We were really excited when I heard we were very good but we still did everything. The getting our slates. We had been waiting all wind nearly blew us off the Lighthouse, and year and they finally came. We walked over the Trivia Night was really funny. The best to the IT lab. It was really cool seeing the thing was the flying fox, but everything was Senior School as well. In the IT Lab we awesome! received our slates in their covers and went Sam Cilmi, Michael Merceica, Sonia Pathak over to the Library. We learned some things and Jaden Yap but we all just couldn’t wait to get them home and try them out for ourselves! Joshua Alexander, Harry Bradshaw and Leo Pilkington

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“Oh yeah, I got my pen license!” In 4C we had to complete four steps to get our pen Two Great Excursions licence. We practised in our handwriting books and learned the joins we needed to In Term 2, the Year 4s went to the Werribee write neatly all the time. Mr Corcoran would Treatment Farm. We learnt a lot about saving set us tasks and then see if we could go water and what could go into the sewer. Our up to the next step. We started with pencils favourite things were the big ponds. You and an “L” plate, then a pen with a “P” plate. could see all the stages of the cleaning and We finished with our actual license that has by the end it looked clear! our photo and finger print on it! Our other excursion took us to the Ella Alexander, Alyssa Bradley, Maya Immigration Museum. The movies and El-Hawli and Kate Streeter photos were amazing. I can’t believe what people did to come to live here in Australia. Harry Avci, Josh Chen, James Chrisoulis and Hugh Krause

Athletics Day In Term Two we had Athletics Day. We went on the bus to Newport but some people came with their parents by car. We did events like 100m and 200m running, long jump and discus. It was really exciting to watch our House members running past and everyone cheered a lot. Some people did really well and were selected for District Athletics in Term Three. Miller won the carnival this year. Rachel Bowyer, Jack Horvath, Laura McPhail, and Nikala Patsolaridis

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Incursions Everywhere!

Wow! We are all really tired, we have been playing a different sport every week in Term Three. We have learned to play hockey, football, tennis, netball, basketball and badminton. Most of the Year 4’s had never played any of them at all. We have also had an awesome music incursion, science incursion with Professor Bunsen, a maths incursion involving problem solving and other visitors coming in to talk to us about our topics. James Cockram, Aymen Naseem, Grace Sadler and Abbey Taylor

Art Day in Africa

Western Water Treatment Plant

As I arrived at school on Friday 26th April all I could think about was what a great day I was about to have. It was Art Day. I always enjoy Art Day and today’s topic was my favourite… Africa!

On the 5th of May, the Year 4s went to the Western Water Treatment Plant. At first I thought it was going to be stinky but it wasn’t that bad.

My first activity was Zimbabwe Huts. Everyone started with a sheet of paper to do a draft of our design for our hut. After that we drew the design on a black piece of paper using Posca markers. Next we used a brown piece of paper for the roof. Some of the designs were amazing!

Our first activity was, ‘What goes where?’ We had to get into teams. There were buckets that said sewage, compost, recycle, rubbish and reuse. There were items that we had to put into each of the tubs. The second activity was in the Discovery Centre. We played a game called Raindrop. We were a raindrop and travelled around Victoria. The third activity was a bus tour around the sewage plant. I thought it was going to smell, but it wasn’t too bad. I found the sewage plant interesting. It was a lot of fun.

The next activity was making black and white African animal masks. I started with a black piece of paper and some different white pieces of paper. I made my mask symmetrical on both sides. It had eyelashes, Benjamin Fairbank hearts and flowers on it. All of the masks Athletics Day were very different.

My final activity was in Mrs Liston’s room. “Go MILLER, Go MILLER GO, GO, GO,” We made African dolls. We chose a bottle screamed the people in Miller House. On the or cone and grabbed some black cloth and 31st of May we had our Inter-House Athletics stuffing. We put the stuffing in the black cloth Carnival at the Newport Track. and put a rubber band around the stuffing My first event was the discus. While I was and cloth to make the head. Next we waiting for my turn, I watched the 8-9 year attached the head to the body and chose olds racing in the hurdles. When it was my the fabrics we wanted to use for our dolls turn, I threw the discus 1253cm. My next clothes and glued them on. Finally we glued event was the hurdles. I came first in my heat the hair, eyes and mouth onto our dolls. but third overall. We then had lunch. I had I had a great day and I’m looking forward one sausage, a Caramello Koala and a to next year’s Art Day. Creamy Soda. It was so tasty. Olivia Garra My next events were the 100m and 200m sprints. I came first in both heats and fourth overall. My last event was triple jump. I was not good at triple jump. I didn’t get any ribbons for that event.

I loved Athletics Day! Zachary Stojkovski

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Healthy Body Healthy Mind Incursions

Wow! Those Term Three incursions were amazing! I wish the whole term could start again. In Term Three our topic was Healthy Body, Healthy Mind. We had lots of incursions but 4J’s favourite was the Drug incursion. We learnt about the testing process for professional athletes and what our rights are. Big thanks to Mr Markovski for talking to all the Year 4 students. Amrat Gill, Blake Hodgson-Rushbrooke, Claudia Huynh and Rishika Rajagopalan

Our New Slates “Tap tap tap.” There go the Year 4s playing on their slates. The 28th of June was the date of when 4J got their slates, it was also the last day of Term Two. Everyone was so excited to receive them. We use our slates for researching things, creating word documents, doing oral presentations and downloading educational games. We also use our slates for homework. They have been a great addition to the class. Lachlan Galea, Ava Hatzopoulos, Ian Iqbal and Angus McNamara

Camp Wilkin “Broom! Broom!” The bus headed for Camp Wilkin on the 13th of May. We were all so excited! The activities we were involved in were; bike riding, volleyball, flying fox, low ropes, games room, frisbee golf and we even went to a real lighthouse! For dinner each night we had delicious food made by Ralph the cook. After dinner we had trivia and then a movie night. We had loads of fun at Camp Wilkin! Claudia Makris, Mikaela Sabini, Vineth Wetthasinghe and Ethan Wood

“Talking about the iGeneration…” Welcome to Year 4J and 4M PAF night! The Year 4 play is about a family going through different items to play with. They discovered that they could play with Barbies, Viewmasters, Boom Boxes, Board Games and Super Heroes. We had a great night performing our play in front of our families. Karla Davis, Julian Giambattista, Ashleigh Paull and Caitlin Scerri

District Carnivals This year, three District Carnivals were held. These District Carnivals were Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics. 4J had a number of students involved in these events, achieving outstanding results. The children involved in districts were Anya, Catlin, Ava, Keeley, Karla, Madison, Mitchell and Rishika. Congratulations to all the students who participated in the District competitions. Keep learning and striving to do your best in all sporting activities and competitions. Super job Westbourne Grammar. Anya Krbaleski, Madison Harries, Keeley McGuire and Mitchell Walker

Marimba Man Incursion It was Wednesday 7th August when the ‘Marimba Man’, John Madin came to school. As we walked into the room we were blown away by how weird and different the instruments were. We learnt a song on the marimbas and soundboxes called ‘Cabbage’. We also played a Queen classic, ‘We Will Rock You.’ Mr Madin made lots of fun instruments and it was a privilege to play them. Alex Blomberg, Rick Sarkar, Nicholas Singline and Joshua Smith

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Performing Arts Festival

On the night of the Performing Arts Festival, Year 4M and 4J performed a play called ‘Talkin’ bout the iGeneration’. The play is about four kids who have nothing to do. Their parents are shocked because they have iPads, iPods and all sorts of electrical devices. It was fun to perform and the time passed quickly. Timothy Gauci, Jasmine Wong and Ahmad Younes

Swimming Carnival Take your marks, go! The buzzer went and the swimmers dove into the pool, starting the race for the 2013 Swimming Carnival. There was 50m butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. One student from Year 4M, along with people from other classes, made it to the next stage at Regionals. Megan Llaneza, Max Simoni and Vita Whittaker

Term 3 Incursions Our first incursion in Term 3 was football when Ben and Chris taught us how to kick the ball like professionals. Dietician, Mrs Markovski, then showed us how many spoons of sugar were in unhealthy foods. Then Mr Markovski, the drug tester, came in and taught us why athletes should not take drugs. Bethany Krbaleski, Gabriela Moroney and Patrick Nguyen

Slates Year 4M was very excited as we received our slates at the end of Term 2. We went to the Senior Library to first learn about all the buttons on it. We were so excited to see our slates for the first time. It was amazing. We learnt all the things we needed to know. Mia Hodder, Shaksham Parihar and Uileam Wilson

In Term One, we discovered how our families migrated to Australia. In Term Two we learnt what our human footprint does to the earth. In Term Three we learnt about keeping a healthy body and mind and in Term Four we focussed on scientific experiments and electricity. Yusuf Al-Kamil Jake Pandzic and Saanivi Prabhakar

Art Day “AH! I got glue and glitter on my hands”. This year, Art Day was better than ever. Late in Term Two, the Year 4s participated in the Junior School Art Day. The theme was African art. Some activities included creating African masks, dolls, huts, zebra frames, patterns, lion faces and giraffe drawings. Over all Art Day was the best! Anton Cardaciotto, Elizabeth Croft and Christian Maprock

Cross Country “Go” yelled Mr Chrisanthou. As the under ten boys ran the two kilometre race. The track went around the Year Nine Centre and the first oval. We had Year Nine students leading us, on bikes. In the under ten boys, Max Deller came first, for the under ten girls, Keely McGuire came first. This year Miller won the carnival. We had a great day. Joshua Grobbelaar, Liliana Mill and Patrick Galati

Year 4 Camp Year 4 Camp was amazing. We packed our bags and got on the bus and then we rode into the dust. We saw mountains with rivers and rainbows galore. When we got there we got into our groups and set off to our activities. There was a flying fox, bikes, low ropes course but our favourite was archery by far. Hugh Grgic, Angela McKenzie and Charlotte Morton

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Athletics Carnival

Take your marks, get set and go! The gun was fired, the Athletics Carnival was finally here and everyone was excited and ready to go. On the 31st of May 2013 the Athletics Carnival was underway. The events included 100m, 200m ,400m, 800m, 1500m, hurdles, triple jump, long jump, shot-put and discus. Wow that was one of the best days in the school calendar, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait for the Districts Athletics Carnival. Chelsea Davis, Orlando Szulc, Jonathan Velevski, Elisha Walker and Nahda Younes

Market Day In week one we started making our products for market day to sell in week six. Our products had to be handmade and we had to do it at school. Each time we worked on our products we recorded the information into a business plan. In week six we sold our products and bought other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s products. Everyone had a turn at buying and selling. All our profits went to Kampuchea House. In total we raised $1461, which was a new record. All the year fives had a great time. Alex Brown, Liza Saverchenko, John Sirianni and Louis Yankos

Sovereign Hill It was a long bus ride to Sovereign Hill but it was all worth it. We went to the Old Lolly Shop and it was jam packed with hard candy and the best of all, raspberry drops. We ventured right down to the bottom of the mine and watched an interesting movie. We played old style games including bowling and darts, which was very entertaining. We played a fun gold rush game where we dug for gold and received money. Gold panning in the river was very hard and it was rare to find a speck of gold. Matthew Mercieca, Cassandra Muir, Liam Scerri and Christopher Tsoukas

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House Cross Country

On your marks, get set, go! The under 10 boys blasted down the road. Huffing and puffing as they completed their 2km cross country. The under 11 boys were next doing a gruelling 3km race. When the under 11 girls were about half way, the rain started to drizzle and the wind picked up. The 12/13 year old race was also 3km, by then it was raining cats and dogs. We all finished red faced and sweaty but we were thankfully rewarded with a cold icy pole. Charlotte Blazevic, Mai-Ling Darbyshire, Austin Marks, Navdeep Singh and Molly Sutton

Year 5 Camp Yay its camp time, we all put our bags on the bus and chose our bus buddies for our long bus ride to Valley Homestead. Our activities included a 20 km bike ride, an aerial obstacle course including a flying fox. We also went on a bush walk in Bright and a swim in the pool every night. The trivia night and movie night, were both highlights, as we watched Like Mike 2 in our pyjamas. On Thursday night we had a disco, we went abseiling and gold panning with Ray. We also had a billy boiling competition in which we made our lunch with the billy. Lachlan McLaren, Stephanie Murdoch, Tehya Nguyen, Chloe Penman and Alex Qu

We jumped off the bus, grabbed our stuff and raced to our rooms. We had arrived at Valley Homestead. Some or the things we did included: abseiling, bike riding, the obstacle course, going in the pools and spas, gold panning, making a fire, cooking lunch, trivia night and also the bushwalk. Lots of people liked the bike ride. It was really fun! We arrived back at school excited to do it again next year. Luke Grainger and Lewis Nguyen. We had an interesting music session in the music area. We got to a play xylophone, bell boxes, echo cellos and musical bikes. In the end we got to perform the pieces we learnt on each instrument. Maddison Hitchcock and Isabella Stojcevski

Chess Checkmate! We won again. We started on the second Monday of Term Two with 24 Year Five and Six students, competing together, to try and win a medal. We learnt new chess moves to use. We had a great season of chess with Frank our coach. George Pitliangas and Alex Zammit

WEST BOURNE Hands on Science WOW! Look how the Science Lab! We were doing activities to do with Forensic Science. We needed to find out who robbed a lady’s house. We had to test fingerprints, test powders, test markers and look at shoe prints. It was a fabulous incursion. Louisa Fantenberg, Chrysanthe Liontis, and Gabriel West

Art Day Splat went the paint brush into the pallet. Every year at Westbourne Grammar Prep to Year Six have Art Day. This year’s theme was African art. Art Day is a great highlight of the year. We made African dolls and masks. Everyone is already looking forward to next year’s Art Day. Romy Cantwell Poof! The cotton was gone was it magic? No it was science. Professor Bunsen amazed us once again with his science tricks. This time we learnt about physics and forces. He made cotton burn and he made a ball fly to the other side of the room. Joshua Acciarito, Bella Krbaleski, Shakeel Manuel and Cartier Vasta

“Welcome to 512 News, your hosts: Dominik Rawdanowicz, Luke Armatas, Nicholas Pavlidis, Liam Francis and Luke Eureka! We’ve found gold on our trip to Tarola presenting the Grade Five Market Day Sovereign Hill. The Year Five students went at Westbourne Grammar. The tension was to Sovereign Hill for the day. After we had our snack we spilt up into groups and looked high, sweat dripping from many people’s faces, all wondering how it will all turn out. around Sovereign Hill before we did our Hey Fred, I think we will all agree there first activity. were some embarrassing displays, of Muskan Jain and Lillian White nervousness, people were really taking this seriously.

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“As I understand all the money raised at the end of the day goes to Kampuchea House.” The products look marvellous, the prices are fair, what a day it has been. “Fred I think we have a few children, with a bright future of business ahead…” Luke Armatas, Liam Francis, Nicholas Pavlidis, Dominik Rawdanowicz and Luke Tarola

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5N In Term 3 we had the Performing Arts Festival. It was called ‘What a Knight!’ and it was about the black knight capturing princesses and a misfit saving them. We practiced during the middle of Term 2 to the end of Term 3. The director of the performance was Mrs Hillas. There were some cool props and very good characters. Some of the main characters were Watt Cobblers, Dusty Dragon, Princess Alice and Merlin the Magician. It was fun! Madison Borg, Joshua Cairns, Emma Kennedy and Bree Mittersteiner

On 25 March we began the long trip to Valley Homestead. As we pulled up to the camp site you could feel the excitement. It was exciting being in Bright as many of us hadn’t been before. We ran out of our cabins straight to the pool and spa. We then went and did activities which included abseiling, bike riding, aerial course, bush walk, gold panning and bush survival. We enjoyed it so much we can’t wait to return next year!

FLASH! That’s the cotton wool bursting into flames because of the energy in the cotton from the sun. In Term 3 we learnt about physics with Professor Bunsen as part of Science Week. He is a lover of science and physics. He talked about energy from the sun, light, sound and forces. It was amazing to see how everything gets energy from the sun. Archie Gumley, Cody Schallhammer and Mostafa Shirzada

In Term 3, Year 5 had Market Day! Tiffany Carlin, Connor Galea, Amber Liprino, We had a variety of products such as, Madison Muir and Lachlan Sutcliffe bookmarks, magnets, fun goo, origami and stress balls. We had six weeks to design the BANG! We were off like a shooting star! It best products we could make. We have had was the day of cross country. We had to some explosions and we had some laughs complete two laps of a 1.5 kilometre course. but in the end it turned out to be pretty Everyone tried their best. All had smiles on amazing. It was so awesome that we made their faces when they were running the track. so much money for Kampuchea House. At the end of the day, everybody got icy Thomas Braham, Philip Mirceski, poles as a reward for their incredible effort. Ethan Mullenger, Kimi Seok Nguyen It was a fantastic day and we can’t wait for and Vinh-Tri Nguyen next year. Leia Calderwood, Sophie Meath, Hannah Simpson and Sophie St Leon

‘Wow that discus is flying so high I feel like I am at the Olympics. I can’t believe it! These kids are excellent at their sport!’ There went the cork, the runners took off like Usain Bolt. We couldn’t believe how fast they ran. We thought they were like bullets. We knew that that they could be in the Olympics. Bang! There goes the gun again. The athletes took off like a speeding train then jumping like bunny rabbits over the hurdles. Yianni Blanas, Daniel Cassetta and Zachary Zammit

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WEST BOURN E Sovereign Hill During Term 1 the Year 5 students travelled to Sovereign Hill for an awesome excursion. We did a lot of fun things including; playing the gold game, gold panning, shopping at the lolly shop, watching gold being poured, going bowling and descending down the Red Hill Mine. Everyone had a prime time at Sovereign Hill. Ross Audley and Owen Bubek

Cross Country

What a way to start a cross country race. We were so excited to finally do a cross country race. We were all hoping to come first in our races. We all lined up ready to see how we would go, “on your marks” “get set” “GO!!” We were all sprinted at the start to get to the front. Once there, we held our pace but slowly we were running out of breath. We started to slow down our pace a bit but we were still in the lead. We were so glad to see the finish line. In the end Harvey and Jayden came 1st and Mohammed came 5th. Mohammed Abdul Latif, Michael Parks, Jayden Pisak and Harvey Watters

Athletics Carnival It was a nice sunny day and we were heading straight to the track. When we arrived we all ran to our House areas and we cheered on our team. When everyone arrived we were full of energy. We were all competitive. Then it was time to head out on to the track. The children were jumping up and down. We did many activities like hurdles, triple jump and the 100m sprint. After doing all our activities, we had a yummy sausage sizzle with a drink and a freddo frog. We all had a fun day. Fahad Elbelli and Peter Pitliangas

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In our cabin was Izabelle, Emily, Gabriela, Chrysanthe, Elisha, Sophie, Innes, Stephanie. On the first night we had a trivia game. We had a great first night. Night number two; the movie night, we had a fabulous time. We all walked down to the dining area to go to the disco, we had a fantastic time it was great. We danced through the night and Jayden was doing the worm with Will. Izabelle Azzopardi, Emily Frye and Gabriela Moraes The 24th of June was a great day for the teachers’ cross country. The morning was cold but the sun came out in time for the race. The students helping were Carla, Izabelle, Arrifa, Emily, Jennifer and Romaisa. We had some boys who were the rabbits. The boys were Mohammed, Fahad, George and Jayden. About two weeks before the race, Carla and I started making posters to put around the school. We asked Miss Edwards to get ribbons 1st to 10th and we had someone get medals for 1st to 3rd. The teachers who wanted to compete donated a gold coin to Kampuchea House. The race was on Monday the 24th of June and I think the whole Junior School came to watch. At the end of the race, the teachers got a freddo frog and a ribbon or medal. The day was a success and the teachers did really well. Layla Taleb and Carla Harrison

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Mini Mart

Camp

You could get a strawberry tart.

Day 1, we had lots of fun. Day 2, we built our own canoe. Day 3, we jumped from a platform taller than a tree. Day 4, we learnt about Ned Kelly and the law.

Mini Mart, Mini Mart, Buy a lolly or maybe two, There were awesome sodas for you. We had lots of food and drink, Selling goodies and floss that was pink. You could enter your name into a raffle

Day 5, I was glad I had survived.

To win a prize and jump on the jumping castle.

Jordan Kennedy and William Stomann

Daphne Ferabend and Duncan Hale

Art Day

Performing Arts Festival

To explain Art Day in a rush,

There was a young boy from Camelot,

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say we all picked up our brush.

Who used to mess things up a lot.

Painting and creating were the tasks,

He beat the Black Knight,

We even made some African masks.

With courage and might.

The masks were hairy,

And now they call him Sir Watt.

Some even scary.

Carly Gauci and Finn Hicks-Bullock

We hung them up so all could see,

Athletics Day

Now time to make some beaded jewellery. Twirling coloured patterns into tight beads, Even adding little bits that looked like seeds. We made necklaces and bracelets, That put smiles on many faces. Vivian Lam, Carol Meng and Bronwyn Pepper

One day in May, At the Newport track. Lots of little athletes, Competed for a shield. Four Houses, Only one could win. Gerity, Steedman, Miller or Price? At the end of the day there were cheers for Miller, As they were the House that was the winner. Aidan Kelly, James Plevnik and Maximillian Scobie

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6GM Buddies

Outdoor Education We sped on our racers,

The sweat poured down our faces. As the chill brushed against us, We trudged through the snow without a fuss. The splash from the oars caused many to scream, As we paddled our way down the stream. Mason Galea and Finn Walsh

Swimming Carnival We had our towel, goggles, bathers and cap, All ready to swim a lap. Off we dived into the pool,

At the start of the year,

The Preppies were shy. But we came along and gave Buddies a try. We met with their grandparents, and we planted trees. Now they will move into Year One with ease. Noah Straughan and Brendan Wood

Footy Day Cats, Bulldogs, Hawks and Crows, All different colours sitting in rows. Put down a coin for your favourite team, With the bag full of money it burst at the seam.

Oh, the water was quite cool.

Year 6 against the teachers in a great soccer game,

Freestyle, backstroke, breastroke and fly,

Crowds were cheering, it felt like fame.

We all gave it our very best try.

Kathryn Chrisoulis and Ella Bradwell

Touch the wall to finish the race, Now we have all been placed. Lily Foxall and Kiara Palmer

Cross Country It was May when the Year 6s had to run 3k. The House Cross Country and, oh what a day! Next came the District, where we ran at Fawkner Park. The gun went off, we ran the track and made our mark. Alana Anthony, Meg McConnell and Sanaya Sawhney

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6R PAF- What A Knight!

The Junior School Production for Year 5 and 6 students was based on King Arthur’s reign. To help the performance come alive and run smoothly the backstage crew helped make the sets, props and organise the stage. The play is set in the castle of Camelot, which is famous for its king. The castle has one major threat – the Black Knight and his henchmen. A rejected squire, a dragon and a princess go off and put their bravery to the test and fight the evil black knight.

Camp at Valley Homestead We enjoyed many exciting and fun activities at camp this year. It was a trip that outshone many camping experiences we have had in the past. We went on the flying fox, rafting, the drop slide, trivia night and red faces and even a disco. It was definitely a week to remember! Madeline Barakat, Ebony Dodemaide, Evan Houghton, Ronan O’Connor and Matthew Strmecki

Time with our Prep Buddies

Christopher Corbett, Sam Robinson and Sarah Zijlstra

We have enjoyed many special days with our Prep buddies this year. Tree planting, Grandparents’ Day and letter writing just to name a few. We have had an amazing year with our adorable prep buddies!

Leadership in Year 6

Tanisha Barrese, Liam Gunn, Sophia Liacopoulos and Sarah Turnbull

There are many leadership opportunities in Year 6. The major captaincy roles are School Captains, Vice Captains, Music Captains, House Captains and Sport Captains. Captains are asked to speak at assemblies and other formal gatherings. To achieve a position like this you need to be responsible and a good role model to your peers. Chloe Black, Lucas Cameron, Ben Johnson, Alyssa Kades, James McGuire, Dayna Olver and Cassandra White

ACMI Excursion Year 6 students visited the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). We attended the Screenworlds exhibit to find out how a moving image was created. We also visited the Hollywood Costume exhibit to see famous outfits from film and television. Some of our favourites were Harry Potter, Spiderman and Cat Woman. Visiting ACMI was a great experience and we would gladly go back! Luke Grana, Mariam Hamad, Andrew Kong, Mackenzie Singleton, Emily Thompson and Monique Tzambazakis

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WEST BOURNE

Term 1

Together we meet as leaders of the school, This year is going to totally rule. We meet our teacher the nicest of all, She is the beloved Miss Woodall. Together Year Six went to camp, After the disco we all had cramps. Rafting, hiking, we all had fun, But sadly the week was over and done. The Swimming Carnival arrived with a splash, We swam through the water quick as a flash. Once we finished we all were given, A blue, red, green, white or yellow ribbon. Kane Arnold, Jamisyn Briggs, Lucas Chrisanthou, Peter Dimitriou, Valentina Moroney and Brianna Trajcevski

Term 2 Athletics day we had to run, Of course we had lots of fun. We kept our pace in the race, And afterwards we found our place.

Term 3 We began Term Three with confidence and glee, Studying media took us to ACMI. Teachers against students in a soccer match, Everyone left the field without a scratch. A trip to the snow, Saw childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faces glow. Conquering the fight with snowballs and terror, We all knew we could have aimed better. PAF went off with a whiz and a bang, Entertaining the audience was King Arthur and his gang. Singing and dancing upon the stage, Mrs Hillas worked hard really earning her wage.

James Gabb, Sonia Joura, Darcy Nathan, On Art Day we put our creative minds in gear, Lachlan Rees, Guy St Leon and It was by far the best day of the year. Isabella Yoseski A day full of drawing and painting African art, Everyone one of us worked with lots of heart. Term 4 On Grandparentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Day we did colouring and writing, For the students it was all very exciting. All the cute little preps starred in a movie, Of course it was very, very groovy. Harriet Ashton, Jacqueline Cassetta, Charlotte Gorham Mackie, Regina Jayatilake, Bianca Krt, Nicholas Soppi and David Tran

A full fun day of sport, Against all the other schools we fought. Swish, shrash, sway, As we rowed the canoes away. We studied World War One, It was the topic that was most fun. Raising lots of money at the 2013 Mini Mart, All the products made were very smart. Transition Day in Year Seven, A day everyone agreed, was heaven Year Six Luncheon was a formal and fun affair, Our primary years are beyond compare. Matthew Grech, Alexandra Hately-Williams, Jennifer Lee, Kate Mitchell, Jenny Park and Wil Tattersall

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JUNIOR LOTE Whether it is Preps singing songs about Recently, we were taught by Barty sensei “Atama, kata, hiza ashi”, Year 3 having how to create Sumi-e and Shodõ. Sumi-e is conversations related to their families or an illustrative form of Japanese calligraphy. Year 4 reading Japanese books written in It includes inked pictures like animals and hiragana, we have attempted to challenge flora, most commonly rice plants and all students but still have a bit of fun at the bamboo. Shodõ is very detailed vertical same time. One highlight for some year Japanese script, once again with ink and a levels is the accessibility to explore the virtual fude (Japanese for ‘writing brush’). We both Japanese culture presented by the website created our own works of shodõ and sumi-e, called “Kids Web Japan”. This is a useful which turned out wonderfully and can be program which can be safely used at home. viewed in the Junior Library corridor. We At Williamstown Campus the Year Two used rice paper for the best standards and classes researched Okosama Lunch or traditional fude. It is said by great calligraphy “Happy Meal” for children and enjoyed artists that shodõ and sumi-e trains and learning about food in Japan. relaxes the mind. Communication at all levels is important, but it is not just grammar and vocabulary; it is also a matter of culture. Japanese is rich in culture and we hope to transfer the experiences of this culture throughout the learning of Japanese in the Junior School. Included with this is the desire to enhance the School values of Community, Courage, Creativity and Scholarship. Gary Barty and Keisuke Ogawa Japanese Teachers

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Sarah Zijlstra and Alyssa Kades Year 6R “I think that the food is yummy. I liked the plate that looked like the Bullet Train.” Ella Grech Year 2M

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LIBRARY What an exciting year 2013 has been in the Junior School Library! At Truganina we were very fortunate to receive a grant from the Westbourne Parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association, for a complete refurbishment of the Library. The refurbished Library was officially opened by Mrs Shona Taylor in the presence of invited guests and representatives of the students from our current Library Committee. Our new-look Library is a beautiful space in which to learn and work and the students and staff are thrilled and excited by this great improvement.

We have had some changes with the Library staff this year. Mrs Rachel Snowden is currently on maternity leave and has welcomed her third son James George into her family. Three people are replacing Mrs Snowden: Ms Cathy Dekievit has joined us for two days a week; Ms Julie Brophy works for one day per week; Ms Alison Birchall works for one day per week. Ms Brophy also works at the Williamstown Campus Library and in the Senior Library. Ms Birchall teaches in the Senior Library. Together with Mrs Jasmina Jakanovska, these talented ladies do a remarkable job in maintaining the smooth running of both our Junior School Libraries. Book Month this year was a great success with visiting authors, competitions and Book Fairs at both Truganina and Williamstown. The Book Fairs are a tremendous way to promote books and reading, and are always

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very well supported by our parents. The Book Fairs are an excellent way to raise funds for new books for our collections. A very talented group of authors visited us during August: Mini Goss, Kylie Dunstan and Michael Pryor. Mini and Kylie are both illustrators as well as authors and showed the students many fine examples of their work. Kylie taught the students some artistic techniques for drawing faces with a variety of expressions. Michael has written more than thirty books and has a keen interest in history and magic. His books are fantasy/ adventure novels which include magic, suspense and mystery. I would like to acknowledge the contribution of our Library Committee this year. These dedicated students from Years Four, Five and Six perform a variety of tasks which assist the Library staff at lunchtime. They are excellent role models to the younger students who visit the Library and have learnt a great deal about the function and operation of a Library. We also have a small but committed team of parents who assist us every week in the Library. What an outstanding job they do! I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of the Junior School Libraries during 2013. Kerry Whelan Head of Junior School Libraries

Are libraries important? Excerpts from Year 4 Truganina: Yes, it’s a source of entertainment and fun. During Library classes this year we asked our students essential questions about books and libraries. Here are some of the amazing responses from students at both campuses: What makes an award winning book? (1B Williamstown) The texture in the illustrations.

No, because you can buy books and keep them. If you need information you can go on the internet. No, because you can make your own books. Yes, because they are educational. Yes, because you can read a book for free. Yes, it’s a nice quiet place to read a book.

Jordan Martyn

Yes, it’s good for people who don’t have much money.

The words and pictures have to match.

Yes, because it’s somewhere you can use your imagination while you read.

Leah McKenzie A sizzling start. Laura Wood Why read? (2B and 2M Williamstown) Without books you don’t learn. Anika Choubey 2B You can get smarter. Kieran Gallagher 2B

It’s important for people who don’t have the internet access in their country. Yes, because when you borrow books you can imagine your own world. Yes, because you can relax in the library. You can trial a book in the Library to see if you like it. On-line libraries provide a lot of different information.

Books can make you laugh and feel happy.

Why do we read? Selection of responses from Year 5 Truganina:

Aiden Mantzaris 2M

To entertain us.

What will books and libraries look like in the future? (2B and 2M Williamstown) The books will fly to you because they’ll have a sensor. William Bendle 2M

To learn more information. To help us understand things better. To help us spell difficult words. It makes us smarter. It helps us with everyday life. It entertains when we have nothing to do.

They’ll just have rows and rows of Kindles.

To have an interesting hobby.

Ben Gill 2B

To improve our knowledge.

I think there’ll be touch pads that read your mind. It tells the computer what you want to read.

To relax and cool off my mind.

Zachary Murphy 2B Instead of books there will be Kindles. It will be different though because books have spines with titles. Kindles might have pictures on the back. You can’t just open the kindle.

To explore into different worlds. For fun. To get answers correct. There are lots of funny books that cheer us up. To improve our vocabulary. We read because it’s really fun!

Isabel Rigas 2M

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Junior Band This year the Junior Band worked very hard and the results of this hard work could be heard in their performances throughout the year. The Junior Band began the year smaller in size but as the year progressed, the band grew with many students joining after beginning their instrument in the Year Five Instrumental Program. During the year, students meet for a 40 minute rehearsal once a week. The aim of the Junior Band is for students to have a positive experience and to enjoy what they achieve from participating in and performing as a member of the Band. The Junior Band performed at School Assemblies, the School’s Band Festival, Junior School Speech Night and were also invited to perform at the School Annual Concert which showcases the School’s premier ensembles. Some of the more experienced musicians were invited to join the School’s Concert Band which is primarily made up of students from Years 7 and 8.

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The Concert Band performed at the Victorian Schools Music Festival at Federation Square where after their performance, they had the opportunity to work with the guest conductor as well as listening to bands from other schools. The Concert Band was awarded a Silver Shield for their energetic performance. This year we had many Year Six students in Junior Band and although we will miss them in the Band next year, I am looking forward to seeing and hearing them progress through the Band Program when they reach the Senior School. I would like to thank Mr Andrew Leach and Mrs Beulah Watson for their assistance with the Band throughout the year. Donna Zaharopoulos Junior Band Conductor Head of Woodwind

Junior Choir & Junior Concert Choir 2013 2013 has proven to be a fulfilling year for Westbourne’s largest choral ensemble, the Junior Choir. With 134 enthusiastic members, the choir proudly represents the talents of students from Years Four, Five and Six. The choristers rehearse every Thursday afternoon where they learn a wide selection of choral repertoire, enhance their vocal technique and performance etiquette, all the while discovering the art of singing and performing in a choir. In addition to the Junior Choir, Westbourne has continued to develop the expertise of the Junior Concert Choir, an auditioned ensemble of 52 members. Students who are selected to perform in this ensemble make a commitment to regular Wednesday lunchtime rehearsals as well as performing in School Concerts, Festivals and Eisteddfods outside of the school. The Junior Concert Choir were delighted to be invited to perform at the Newport Folk Festival with the Junior Strings Ensemble. Together they performed ‘Spy Kids’ and ‘Sad Movie’ and had the pleasure of listening to other schools and soloists who were also performing on the day. The Junior Concert Choir has also had the pleasure of performing at the opening of the Horsburgh Centre and was honoured to perform at a special Remembrance Day Service at Holy Trinity Church. The Junior Concert Choir was successful in receiving First Place at the Geelong Eisteddfod, second year in a row! Their adjudicator Mr Sonny Chua, commented on Westbourne Grammar’s immaculate appearance and their overall presentation. He made special mention of the Junior Concert Choir’s focus to their conductor, their unified vocal tone and the enthusiasm they displayed in their performance.

The Junior Concert Choir charmed their audience with their rendition of ‘For the Beauty of the Earth’ and ‘Song for the Mira’. Further performance success followed at this year’s Junior School Speech Night where all of our Westbourne Junior Music Ensembles ‘wowed’ their audience with a spectacular program of music. Once again, the Junior Concert Choir and Junior Strings collaborated their talents to perform a breathtaking performance of ‘The Water Is Wide’. The Junior Concert Choir finished a wonderful year of music with their angelic performance at this year’s Annual Carol Service. A special mention of thanks and praise must go to our Junior Choir Captains; Bianca Krt, Ella Bradwell, Carly Gauci, Nicholas Soppi and Wil Tattersall. Also to our Junior Concert Choir Captains; Isabella Yoseski, Katherine Mitchell, Guy St. Leon and Noah Straughan. I would like to thank our Junior Music Captains, Charlotte Gorham-Mackie and Harvey Whittaker, and all the Year Six Choir Leaders and choristers who give so much of their time, energy and effort throughout the year.

Junior Keyboard Ensemble The 2013 Junior Keyboard Ensemble provided an opportunity for several of our piano students to experience the benefits of creating music together with other musicians. These committed and enthusiastic students from Years Three and Four auditioned at the start of the year and then rehearsed every Thursday during the first half of lunch. They gave two skilled performances of ‘Fresh Start’ by Fred Kern, arranged by Phillip Keveren. Their delightful renditions drew appreciative comments from audiences both at the Piano and Strings Festival and at the Term Three, Bring a Friend Concert. The most wonderful outcome of this enjoyable adventure has been the improvement in the students’ comprehension of the music score. Ms Diana Hatton Junior Keyboard Ensemble Director

Many thanks also go to the team of staff who support the Junior Choirs each week. In particular, our accompanist; Mr Jason Smith, Head of Keyboard Studies, Mrs Dianne Robinson, Head of the Junior School Music Department and Mrs Sharon O’Brien, Head of Pascoe House. Students should feel extremely proud of the music they have made this year and we look forward to many more memorable performances to come. Belinda Rasen Junior Choir and Junior Concert Choir Conductor

Our annual Choral Festival was a fun night of choral music. The Junior Choir performed ‘Side by Side’ and a comedy piece entitled ‘Concerto for Singing Chickens and Piano’ which was well received by their audience.

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Mini Minors Choir

Junior Conchord Choir

Mini Minors Choir

A large number of students from our Years Four and Five classes enthusiastically auditioned for the Junior Conchord Choir at the start of this year. This choir consists of students who enjoy participating in choral activities without taking individual singing lessons. Our dedicated group of 38 students rehearse during lunchtime, one day per week and have continued to improve their ensemble awareness throughout the year.

Year 3 is an exciting year for most students at Westbourne Grammar. Our students are afforded the opportunity to sing in a choir for the first time at Junior School. This year proved to be an exceptional year of attendance, commitment and enthusiasm from 48 Year 3 students. They all attended a weekly rehearsal during the first half of Friday lunchtime and found much enjoyment from singing their favourite songs whilst learning valuable choral techniques. The students are encouraged to develop their singing voices as well as discipline themselves to work in a co-operative team environment. Each member of the choir was awarded a badge, which was worn with pride, early in the year.

Their performance of ‘Shut De Dõ’ and ‘A Celtic Blessing’ delivered at the annual Choral Evening was testimony of their dedication and enjoyment of singing. Megan Llaneza (4M) is to be congratulated on delivering a confident and highly accurate solo performance with the choir in the execution of ‘A Celtic Blessing’. During our weekly rehearsals the students thoroughly enjoyed taking turns in singing the solo part. They were given the opportunity to develop their vocal confidence in a relaxed environment. The choir was also divided into two equal voices and part-singing was explored in ‘Shut De Dõ’. Much encouragement was given to this group by Mrs Dianne Robinson and the students were constantly rewarded with colourful stickers as well as being assisted with singing the alto part. Mrs Diana Hatton, once again, provided the choir with expert accompaniment as well as assisting the soprano voices with their part-singing. This group of young choristers has shown potential throughout the year and are to be congratulated on their fine progress. Beulah Watson Choir Conductor

The choir learnt a variety of songs throughout the year and they became accustomed to requesting their favourite songs during rehearsals. The Williamstown and Truganina Choirs formed a Year 3 Choir on two special occasions, namely, the Choral Festival and Junior School Speech Night. There was great excitement displayed by these young choristers whilst learning the lyrics, rehearsing the actions and singing the perfect pitches throughout their performances. The Truganina Choir performed ‘When You Come to the End of a Lollipop!’ for the Choral Festival. Polished performances of ‘Whisper’ and ‘Humpty Dumpty’ were delivered by the combined choirs. This experience is most valuable and rewarding to both the students and staff of our two campuses. ‘What Will Be, Will Be’ rang out in the school Chapel during a ‘Bring a Friend’ Lunchtime Concert which was enjoyed by parents, staff and students. Many thanks go to Mr Jason Smith, our accompanist, and Mrs Dianne Robinson for attending and assisting with our rehearsals. Mrs Richardson and Mrs Xinomilakis, the Year 3 teachers, provided support to this cultural activity throughout the year. They are truly the best! Beulah Watson Choir Conductor

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Music Captains

Music at Williamstown campus

This year, we have had a fantastic experience being the Music Captains for 2013. We have enjoyed helping and learning from all the teachers, including Mrs Robinson, Mrs Hillas, the Music Department and our instrumental teachers.

The Williamstown campus has had a vibrant and rewarding year of music-making. Students have regularly shared the joy of music with their peers, parents and staff at assembly. During each assembly, many children who learn an instrument have had the opportunity to present an item as a soloist or as a duo.

The instruments we have been learning this year are; piano, tuba, violin and voice. We also had fun performing at different occasions such as Assemblies, the Annual Concert, Soirees, the Choral, Strings and Band Festivals, the Performing Arts Festival, the Victorian Schools Music Festival, the Newport Folk Festival and Speech Night.

The Williamstown Choir enjoyed their first public performance for the year singing at the annual Grandparents’ Day. The choir also performed at the Open Day, Fathers’ Day Breakfast, Choral Festival and Junior School Speech Night.

We are members of the Junior Band, Junior String Orchestra and the Junior Concert Choir.

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In Term Three, a special treat for all of the children was having Jon Madin visit our school. Jon is a very experienced teacher who specialises in the Orff Schulwerk It has been a busy but enjoyable year and approach to music education. Jon ran a we would like to thank our parents, teachers ‘hands-on’ workshop for all Prep to Year and friends for encouraging, supporting and Three classes where each group learnt how helping us. We wish the 2014 Music to play Jon’s hand-made, ‘wacky’ Captains the best of luck and hope they have instruments. A great day was had by all. an amazing year and as much fun as we did. Cameron Elston Charlotte Gorham-Mackie Junior School Music Teacher and Harvey Whittaker Williamstown campus Music Captains 2013

The Junior String Orchestra The Junior String Orchestra has had an outstanding year. They performed a recital program with the Junior Concert Choir for The Newport Folk Festival, which was well received by festival organisers, parents and friends. The group recently performed at the String Festival held in the Westbourne Grammar Auditorium. The Junior String Orchestra was well received by large audiences at both major events. Repertoire covers many musical styles and focuses on listening skills in a large ensemble setting. Other music events which the Junior String Orchestra has been a part of for the remainder of the year have included; the Junior School Speech Night, String Soirees, Assembly performances and Music Festival performance opportunities.

Junior School Strings Orchestra

Membership to the group is by invitation from String teachers in consultation with the group’s Music Director Sarah Busuttil. Sarah Busuttil Junior String Orchestra Conductor

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District athletics On Wednesday 4 September, we embarked on a journey with 62 Year 3 to Year 6 students to Hagenauer Reserve, Box Hill to take part in the District Athletics Carnival. It was a balmy spring day with a mid-20’s weather forecast. The excitement was building early and once the events started and the competitors began to scatter over the park, the competition was on in earnest. We were fortunate to have a number of parents there to support the students for what was ultimately a very successful day with 15 competitors advancing to the Division Athletics. Ebony Dodemaide was our most successful competitor who managed to progress in all three events in which she competed. The other successful competitors on the day were; Aidan Kelly, Hugh Krause, Daphne Ferabend, Dominik Rawdanowicz, Orlando West, Adel Barakat, Tehya Nguyen, Harvey Watters, Cartier Vasta, Chelsea Davis, Liza Saverchenko, Carla Harrison, Keeley McGuire and Lucas Cameron. The overall results were very pleasing and we were successful in both track and field events. Some of the credit for the success has to go to the Westbourne staff members who gave up their lunch times to train the students in each of the disciplines. When all the results were tallied at the end of the day Westbourne Grammar collected the trophy for “Best Co-Educational School”. A trophy we have only won three times in the past ten years, so this was quite an achievement. Carly Edwards and Joe Borg PE Department

District basketball On 29 April, the Beach Division Basketball Trials took place at the Oakleigh Recreation Centre. Representing South Yarra District were five Westbourne Year 5 and Year 6 students. The students were, Kiara Palmar, Alana Anthony, Ebony Dodemaide, Amber Liprino and Wil Tattersall. Junior School PE Staff member Joe Borg, was also the coach of the South Yarra District Girls Team.

For the students though there was a bigger carrot dangling in the form of selection for the Regional Basketball Tournament, which could see them then selected to represent Victoria in the School Sport Australia Nationals in Perth. Only 5 boys and 5 girls were selected from the 100 or so students who took part from all the Districts in attendance.

The students were required to play a minimum of four games on the day in a round-robin style event. The tournament was to decide the champion division team, which was ultimately South Yarra, as both the girls and boys teams went through the day undefeated.

On the day, 3 of our 5 players were selected to go onto the Regional Tournament. Ebony, Kiara and Will should all be very proud of their achievement. They were selected to represent the Edibone Region. Kiara Palmar was subsequently selected to go on to the final selection camp for the State Team. Well done to all students.

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District Cross Country

House swimming

On 20 May, a contingent of around 85 Junior School students made the journey to Fawkner Park in South Yarra to compete in this year’s District Cross Country event. It was an overcast day and the weather loomed large on the horizon to make the day less than pleasant for the competitors.

This year’s Inter-House Swimming Carnival was held on Monday 18 February, at the Werribee Outdoor Pool. The program ran smoothly and quickly, thanks to the revamped schedule that had been put in place due to the oppressive weather conditions which were forecast. The expected high temperature of close to 40 degrees celsius did eventuate, so we felt that the decision to only run the 50 metre events on the day was vindicated.

The early races were run in favourable conditions apart from the dew on the grass, however, as the day progressed the weather become more of a factor, as the last races in the 12 and 13 Year Old age groups ran in very heavy rain. Despite the gloom of the weather the children were very well supported by many dedicated parents and Junior School Staff. Our results weren’t as good as in previous years, perhaps due to having to reschedule our School Cross Country, as this set our training well back. Despite this challenge, there were some outstanding performances on the day. Year Five student, Harvey Watters, won the 11 year old boy’s race in a time of 11:59:77. It was a real highlight. Jayden Pisak, Cartier Vasta, Sophie Meath and Luke Tarola also qualified to progress to the Zone Cross Country held on Wednesday the 5th June. Most races had fields in excess of 80 students, so to finish in the top eight was an excellent achievement for these students.

District Swimming Carnival On Thursday 28 February, we had 51 enthusiastic children represent Westbourne at MSAC for the District Swimming Carnival. Prior to the District Swimming, the students met at Shawn’s Swim School for weekly training sessions at 6.50am. These sessions proved to be worthwhile, as our starts, finishes and relay change overs were all fantastic on the day. Westbourne achieved a great result on the day with six students qualifying through to the Divisions Competition held Friday 7th March. We congratulate Cartier Vasta, Charlie Beech, Megan Llanza, Hugh Krause, Dominic Radonowic and Jack Archer for making it through to this next stage. I wish to acknowledge the staff that assisted at the carnivals, and Mr Read for his time, dedication and expertise while training the squad. Also, to the many parents, family and friends that proudly cheered on our students, we thank them all for this support.

In the team rankings, the School placed second in the Co-Educational School Trophy, 3rd overall in the girls and 4th overall in the boys. Great results all round. The entire District Cross Country carnival is run by Westbourne Grammar School with the assistance of Christ Church Grammar School. We would like to thank Mrs Elliot, Mr Walker, Mrs Rogasch and Mr Barklamb for their assistance on the day, which ensured the smooth running of the event.

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It was unfortunate that the 25 metre races and novelty events could not proceed, however, doing so would have exposed our students to a long day in the searing heat. Despite the conditions, the day was a complete success with House pride well and truly on display. The competition was close all day and everything was done with enthusiasm. A highlight for me was the sportsmanship displayed, which was exemplary. The day would not have been so successful had it not been for all the parents, staff, Year 10 students and members of the Wyndham Sharks Swimming Club, who worked very hard in the heat, to ensure that everything ran so efficiently.

Interschool Snowsports 2013 “Snow: a form of precipitation that usually occurs three weeks prior to and the morning of your departure from your ski vacation.” ~Author Unknown For many, the 2013 ski season was a little disappointing but not for the 9 students from Westbourne Grammar and their parents who participated in the Victorian Interschools Championship at Mt Buller in August. Our team was blessed with plenty of fresh cold snow ideal for racing and having fun. Despite the wintery weather our competitors had fun and represented their school with pride and enthusiasm.

House Sports Shield Results Throughout the year, all Year 5 and 6 students have participated in various House Sport Competitions, to bring home the shield for their House. These House sports run on Friday afternoons when we are not competing against other schools in our CIPSSA competition. The sports captains are in charge of facilitating all House meetings, selecting the teams and helping in the organisation of the equipment. The four Houses have been having a great time playing, laughing and cheering each other on. The results for the House Shields are: Cricket Champions 2013

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Netball Champions 2013

Steedman

Handball Champions 2013

Price

Soccer Champions 2013

Gerity

Football Champions 2013

Steedman

Futsul Champions 2013

Draw – Miller and Gerity

Softball Champions 2013

Price

Tennis Champions 2013

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This year the School provided us with a banner. It flew proudly next to those of the nearly 200 Junior and Senior Schools that participate in this annual event. The Opening Ceremony was celebrated with an athletes’ parade and fireworks. There were 7 students from the Junior School and 2 from Senior School who raced against hundreds of other Victorian students in Alpine Giant Slalom, Skier Cross, Snowboard Giant Slalom, Snowboard Cross and Mogul events. Some of our team members had never raced before and to those students, well done! Special mention goes to Ricardo Esposito (3R). Ricardo qualified for the National Championships with top ten places in Snowboard GS, Snowboard Cross and Skier Cross. He won a silver medal in Snowboard Cross at the Victorian event and then went on to take Bronze in the same event at the National Championships. Thanks also to all the parents that helped get our athletes to the mountain. Each year our team grows in number. Hopefully next year we can field an even larger contingent. Beginners through to experts are all very welcome. Phil Corbett Snow Sports Team Manager and Parent

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Junior School House Athletics What a day! A perfect day for the Junior School House Athletics Carnival. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and the track was set to go. With weather worries in the back of our minds all week, I was starting to worry that the carnival may need to be postponed, but Mother Nature held out and the carnival went ahead and a great success it was. All Year 3 to 6 students participated in a range of Track and Field events gaining points for their sporting House. Events completed on the day included, 90m Hurdles, 100m and 200m Sprint, Discus and Triple Jump, with the remaining events taking place at school during class and lunch breaks. I would like to thank all parent volunteers for their help on the day, as they all worked tirelessly to ensure a fun and fair competition. A big thank you to the 12 Year Ten student helpers that came along and assisted. An extended thank you to the members of the Auxiliary, who ensured all students got their hot lunch and treat to help them through the day. All students demonstrated a great sense of sportsmanship and inclusion, and should be congratulated for this. The students competed to the best of their ability to gain points for their House which resulted in a close competition. Miller 3,794 1st Price 3,414 2nd Steedman 3,116 3rd Gerity 2,921 4th

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Junior School House Cross Country The weather was about to turn sour, but this didn’t stop the students in Year 3 to 6 participating in the House Cross Country Carnival. It was great to see so many parents supporting their children and their House as they ran in either the 2km or 3km course winding in and around the grounds of the Year 9 Centre and sporting fields. It was great to see all students displaying excellent sportsmanship while cheering each other on as they ran past the house area. The top 3 place getters in each age group are as follows: 12/13 Year Old Girls 1st Kiara Palmar 2nd Isabella Yoseski 3rd Ella Bradwell 12/13 Year Old Boys 1st Jayden Pisak 2nd William Stomann 3rd Matthew Grech 11 Year Old Girls 1st Cartier Vasta 2nd Sophie Meath 3rd Ebony Dodemaide 11 Year Old Boys 1st Harvey Watters 2nd Luke Tarola 3rd Shakeel Manuel 10 Year Old Girls 1st Keeley McGuire 2nd Laura Murdoch 3rd Christina Lavoir 10 Year Old Boys

Congratulations to all students for giving it their best, and to Miller, as they were our winning house. The shield was received by the House Captains, Lucas Cameron and Valentina Moroney, at the Junior School assembly. Below are the final Results: 1st Miller 323 points 2nd Steadman 267 points 3rd Price 254 points

VFL Football Clinic Williamstown Campus On Wednesday 26 June, the Williamstown Year 3 students were treated to an afternoon of AFL Football drills under the instruction of former Collingwood AFL and current Williamstown VFL player, Cameron Wood. Under beautiful blue skies at Greenwich Reserve, the children went through a variety of skill drills involving handball and kicking, as well as some fun games of “The Gauntlet”.

4th Gerity 250 points

Cameron was very welcoming of the questions fired at him by the curious students and at the end of the session he signed autographs for many of the children. Winter Lightning Premiership This session further strengthens the community bond with the Williamstown Westbourne’s Year 5 and 6 CIPPSA Sports teams had a great finish to the winter season. Seagulls, who had generously provided family entry tickets to the Williamstown With minimal training sessions during the Campus families in Term One. term, all students worked hard on the day, put in 100% and were consistent throughout the day in their chosen sport. We had close games in all sports with our competition putting up a tough fight to battle. Westbourne played against Christchurch Grammar, St Michael’s, St Leonard’s and Wesley at different venues and grounds. Football 2nd Handball A 5th Handball B 4th Hockey A 2nd Hockey B 2nd Netball A 3rd Netball B 2nd Netball C 3rd Soccer A 3rd Soccer B 4th Soccer C 2nd

1st Max Deller 2nd Zachary Stojkovski 3rd Orlando Szulc 8/9 Year Old Girls 1st Liana Tarola 2nd Alana Chrisanthou 3rd Elise Mitchell 8/9 Year Old Boys 1st Charlie Beech 2nd Christian Maprock 3rd Declan Kelly

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EXT R A CURRICU L A RAC TI VITIES Australasian Problem Solving Mathematical Olympiads (APSMO) The annual APSMO Maths Olympiads have been operating since 1987. Every year, schools from all over Australia, New Zealand and other neighbouring countries take part. The 2013 Olympiads consisted of five separate contests held approximately one month apart between May and September.

Chess Team

This year in the Junior School, 50 students from Years 4, 5 and 6 were entered into the Mathematical Olympiads (MOPS). While the students were required to complete each Olympiad individually, during the weekly preparation sessions they worked in co-operative groups to solve a range of assigned problems and were encouraged to share their multiple methods to the class. The overall aim of the Olympiads is to encourage students to develop important mathematical problem solving skills in an enjoyable environment. Although students were competing against other members of their team and teams from other schools, they were primarily competing against themselves.

Debating Team

Year Four MOPS Team

Chess It has been an eventful year for the Chess Club. Our coach Frank, from Chess Kids, taught the students many new chess moves and various tactics during their weekly chess sessions in the library. The program began with the Year Five and Six students in Term Two and involved the Year Four students Term Three. For many Year Four students this was their first time learning chess, by the end, their skills had certainly improved. Congratulations to the students in Years Five and Six who participated in their first chess tournament this year. They competed against students much older and more experienced. To their credit they all rose to the occasion and demonstrated grace under pressure. It was a great opportunity for the students involved. At the end of the sessions, all of the students were presented with certificates and the students in the top three positions were awarded medals. Mrs Liston and Mrs Davis

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During the year, a dedicated group of students from Year One to Year Six met as part of the Junior School Social Service Committee. The students planned a range of fundraising activities that would help raise much needed funds for our School charity, Kampuchea House. As a member of the In Year 4, the highest result was achieved committee, students were responsible for by Uileam Wilson, followed by Josh Chen. planning, advertising and running each event. Dominik Rawdanowicz and Luke Tarola were Some of the special events organised included a casual clothes day, football day equal top scorers in year 5 and equal overall top scorers with Lucas Cameron from Year 6, and a new and very popular activity, the lunchtime goal kicking competition. We are followed by Ross Audley in year 5 and Evan always amazed at the generous nature of the Houghton in Year 6. students in the Junior School and we thank Congratulations to all of the students who them all for being part of such a great team participated in the Mathematical Olympiads this year. for 2013. Kylie Baxter Deputy Head of the Junior School MOPS Co-ordinator

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Year Six MOPS Team

The Debating team of 2013 continued from where the team of 2012 finished up. After Westbourne won the competition last year, Team A consisting of Alexandra HatelyWilliams, Finn Hicks Bullock, Ben Johnson, Guy St. Leon and Wil Tattersall won all their debates and also made the finals. The members of Team B Kane Arnold, Ella Bradwell, Sonia Joura, Alyssa Kades and Noah Straughan gave their opposition a run for their money with several wins and a couple of very close losses. All members of the debating team worked very hard over the year and should be very proud of their achievements.

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Out of school hours car e WEST BOURN E Out of School Hours Care was a great place to be this year, for children and staff alike. We have all thoroughly enjoyed the year and had lots of fun in the bargain! The children welcomed new friends and the Preps quickly settled into the routines, learning how to occupy their out of school hours. With our large variety of toys and activities there hasn’t been a minute wasted. Lego and construction toys were very popular amongst our young engineers – they created battleships, base stations, aircraft carriers and things from Minecraft.

We play tiggy and down ball outside. I like Uno cards. I like Lego a lot – we can make houses, boats, ships and trains on tracks. We also make things from Minecraft.

Others chose to dress up or entertain us with a magic show, puppet show or talent competition. Art activities and cooking are always favourites among the children, with afternoon tea being the highlight of the day.

I like colouring in and playing Lego before and after school.

The following reflections give an insight into a day in the life of Out of School Hours Care. We build Lego, and we create things from Minecraft. We also play with blocks, making boats and ships. I do artwork and play card games too. Anton Cardaciotto 4M

Joshua Condon 2B It’s fun at After School Care, we play in the sandpit sometimes. We make new friends and play games. We do lots of colouring and have lots of toys. Afternoon tea is nice with fruit, bread and sometimes we have treats. Ella Fleming 2M

Hugh Curtis Prep H I like After School Care because I make friends there and play with them. I draw pictures and play tiggy and hide and seek in the playground. Rayan Miglani Prep H After School Care is a great way to spend time after school. It is better than waiting in the prep yard. There is also before school care. Poppy Murphy 3R

I like doing lots of games, drawings and playing Uno. I go to before school care and do skipping. I play with Mirabelle and Allanah. We eat fruit and cheesy toast for afternoon tea. Violet Greene Prep H Some positive comments from our satisfied customers! We seem to have achieved our goal to make the children happy. Personally, I have had a wonderful year with a very supportive team in Leahanna Domalik and An Nguyen. They are both extremely dedicated and caring with the children as well as helping deliver an excellent all round program, with energy and enthusiasm. I am most grateful to them both for their support throughout the year. Unfortunately all good things come to an end and I find myself retiring this year due to ill health, having run the OSHC programs at Westbourne, since the outset over 23 years ago! It has been a great career and I will cherish many happy memories over the years and the hundreds of families that I came to know. I have had the pleasure of looking after so many boys and girls who have gone right through the school to become professionals in various fields. I will miss you all, especially your wonderful children. I wish each and every family well and hope you continue to enjoy your days at Westbourne. Good luck for the future. Yours sincerely, Irene Perera Coordinator OSHC

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Out of school hours car e WILLIAMSTOWN CAMP AUSTRALIA’S OSHC PROGRAM The Williamstown campus OSHC has enjoyed another amazing year together. Watching the children develop and participate in so many memorable activities has been very rewarding. It has been a pleasure welcoming new children to the service, building new and existing friendships and seeing our program grow.

and how we, as individuals, can display these qualities. These discussions have assisted the children to manage their own behaviour, make positive choices and build confidence. It has been a wonderful year in OSHC at the Williamstown campus. We look forward to another exciting year together in 2014. Good luck and love to all the Year Three children who will move onto the Truganina Campus next year.

In 2013, we began working on a group project, ‘Our Mosaic’ display. The children Melinda Gomez Dobbin collaborated to decide on the design and Camp Australia OSHC Coordinator have been working hard with the tiles to create our vision. They have made wonderful Children’s Reflections progress, and at the time of writing, this project is currently ongoing. We are looking “I love afterschool care. I like playing with forward to seeing the finished product. my friends. Every day in aftercare, we sit in a circle and talk about our day and play The children at Williamstown are very group games.” talented and love to perform for others. Utilising props, dress ups, music and Jasmine Thompson creating scripts, the children have participated in so many wonderful and “I have enjoyed playing games like Zombies entertaining talent shows and performances. and Mad doctor.” During the year, we were very lucky to have Senior Conservation Ranger, Andrew Webster, from the Hobson’s Bay City Council, spend an afternoon with us. He explained the interdependent relationships that exist between humans, trees and many other species. The message we learnt was ‘No Tree, No Me’. Following this session, we explored ways we could help our environment. During the summer months we collected fruit scraps from afternoon tea and discussed the process of compost. I used these scraps at home in a veggie patch to create fresh organic vegetables for the children to share.

Eddie Camilleri “I like aftercare because I can play with my friends.” Sam Nowell “Group games are fun. My favourite game is Zombies.” Haylee Frazer “I liked learning about being sensible and listening. I liked playing Rock, Paper, Scissors and Time Bomb.” Brock Smith

Learning new group games has been a “I like having reading time, because it’s highlight. The children have also improved fun to read books.” their cooking skills making banana muffins, Ira Joshi chocolate cakes, macaroons and truffles. We all enjoyed the freshly made treats for afternoon tea. Art and craft making has been “I like cuddling Melinda, playing arts and crafts and playing Lego.” another popular activity and the children have completed many beautiful creations. Pace Hicks-Bullock During group time, we have discussed the “I have had fun in aftercare playing on the importance of qualities such as playground, playing hangman, and having ‘Responsibility’, ‘Respect’, ‘Honesty’, free choice with arts and crafts.” ‘Sportsmanship’ and ‘Kindness’. We spent time brainstorming what these terms mean

Anahatt Chhina “I like playing group games outside. My favourite games are Time Bomb, Chinese Wall, Octopus.” Mia Armatas

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CHILDREN’S CENTRE

2–3 room It is amazing how well you can get to know a child by sitting and listening to their conversations, ideas and inspirations. This year in the 2–3 room we have been blessed to have a wonderful group of children who have welcomed us into their world.

0–2 room What a remarkable year we’ve had in the 0-2 room, it has been amazing watching the children reach significant developmental milestones throughout the year. This year, the children demonstrated a sense of being and belonging by establishing and maintaining respectful, trusting relationships with their familiar Educators. We worked in partnerships with families and created a positive foundation for each individual child to provide a curriculum that enhances each child’s learning and development. The children made connections with and contributed to their world by going for walks though the School grounds, feeding the ducks, exploring the vegetable garden and focusing on the natural and constructed environment. The children continued to show a growing appreciation and care for our guinea pigs and worm farm located in their outdoor environment by helping with feeding, cleaning and being gentle.

Educators concentrated on instilling a sense of independence in the children, and the knowledge that they are capable learners. This wasn’t always easy, with children exploring the idea of coping with frustrations and difficulties, and seeing every opportunity as a chance to learn. We observed children slowly learning the skills required to wash their own hands, dress and undress, and understand the importance of hygiene. During the year, the children developed a Throughout this process we were in close strong sense of wellbeing by showing communication with families. The support independence and competence in personal hygiene. The children developed skills to wash was incredible and imperative for the success of each strategy put in place. their hands before meals and after nappy changing, as well as cleaning their own hands The children in the 2–3 room developed and face with a face washer after lunch. dispositions for learning such as curiosity, imagination, cooperation, confidence and The children also engaged in enjoyable enthusiasm as they explored different kinds of reciprocal interactions using verbal and projects which stemmed from an underlying non-verbal language with their Educators interest. The deep interest in animals began and peers, often articulating words heard when our guinea pigs Peppa and Ginger within their environment. The children took made our outdoor environment their new an interest in a variety of nursery rhymes home. Educators supported the children to and texts whilst in small groups and develop an awareness of human activity on independently. environments and the interdependence of Over the year, the children co-constructed living things. We guided their learning into two major educational projects, “Water” and other areas such as growing vegetables for “Nature”. The inspirations of these projects our guinea pigs and going for walks around emerged from the children’s own ideas and the School community to explore other interests. The children were curious and animal’s ways of living. An interest of enthusiastic participants in their learning using sustainability emerged from this project as play to investigate, imagine and explore. Educators and children thought of ways to protect our beautiful world. Pauline, Debbie, Christine and Kerry We hope that the skills and dreams gained this year continue to follow the children throughout their journey at Westbourne Children’s Centre. Chelsea, Lina, Doris, Naj, Kerry, Helen & Sharon

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CHILDREN’S CENTRE 3 year old Kindergarten Our first Three Year Old Kindergarten program has been a beautiful journey of learning, friendship and discovery throughout the year. Our Reggio Emilia inspired program has seen us become researchers in our own learning when investigating a plethora of different areas that make the world we live in today. As we slowly piece together this enormous puzzle, we are learning to become experts at investigation and research by developing our self-confidence to support us in exploring our curiosities, begin to question the world by asking how and why things work, whilst at the same time building on our skills when working together as a group and learning to appreciate and respect other ideas and opinions. Our most recent project involved exploring the Outdoor Garden and all that it has to offer. From our Lavender provocation, we began to explore the garden and other fruit and vegetables we could find whilst also starting a side project on our senses. We’ve explored gardening through various mediums such as paint and colour, built our own clay gardens, and also looked at a variety of print media including gardening magazines. We embraced the learning opportunities around the School campus and visited the Year 5 Vegetable Garden. We explored and identified the vegetables found there and brought back images and videos to share with our peers in the classroom. Together with our Resident Experts – the Westbourne Grounds Staff, we were also very fortunate to have been able to work on our own Vegetable Patch in our outdoor environment. This has allowed us to take ownership over our Vegetable Patch and therefore ensure that we take the appropriate measures to care and look after it. We have really embraced and enjoyed our Reggio Emilia inspired project work this year and are looking forward to continuing this wonderful journey of discovery in the coming years. Sandra and Renee

4 year old Kindergarten One of the key tenants of the Reggio Emilia Educational Project Approach is the ‘progettazione’ or project as they are often referred to outside of Italy. A project is not about simply finding facts or the right answers but it is a journey where children have time to exchange ideas, thoughts, hypothesis, and interpretations, challenge their peer’s perspectives, engage in research to discover where their theories fit and revise their previous understandings. Through projects new thoughts are generated, meanings are negotiated and children are seen as co-creators of their own knowledge. Projects provide an avenue through which relationships can be built and extended upon between the children and Educators as well as parents, families, the School and local communities. A project does not have a defined length of time, but when it does reach a point of closure there is a celebration of the work that has been done. In the 4 year old Kindergarten the children were immersed in a project about children’s gardens. Educators saw the construction of the new Early Learning Centre as a wonderful stimulus for the children as well as providing opportunity for Educators to act as advocates for the children and ensure they had a voice in how this space was created. The children shared their ideas and understandings about what a children’s garden is, considered different aspects of their current outdoor learning environment and visited the Ian Potter Children’s Garden which provided them with further ideas about what a children’s garden could look like. The children expressed their design ideas through conversations, clay and wire sculpture, paintings and sketches. Educators worked towards a group collaboration of a plan of the Children’s Garden that incorporated all of their concepts. We look forward to this project continuing to evolve as the children reflect and revisit their thinking, interpretations and ideas. Nadia, Stacey and Irene

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WESTBOURNE PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION The Friends of Westbourne Association (FOWA), which was formed at the beginning of this year, comprises a group of passionate people who work together to provide services and raise funds for the community of Westbourne Grammar School from K–12. The Association incorporates subcommittees such as the Parent Auxiliary, Friends of Music and Performing Arts (FOMPA), Friends of Sport (FOS) and the Swap Shop. Each sub-committee is run by a passionate group of volunteers with a particular interest in each area. We are all striving for the same outcome, and that is to be able to purchase items which are of benefit to the whole Westbourne Grammar School community. The Auxiliary volunteers meet on a monthly basis to organise special days for the School community’s enjoyment. The funds raised from events are directed entirely into projects that benefit the children at both the Truganina and Williamstown campuses. The combined auxiliaries organised an outstanding number of fantastic events throughout the year to raise funds for the School. The profits made from these events are directed entirely into projects which will benefit our students. Funds raised this year have been directed to the following projects: Refurbishment of the Junior School Library (Truganina), Senior School Library and the Year 12 Common Room. The sandpit at the Williamstown campus has had a magnificent overhaul, and the Year 1 classrooms across both campuses will benefit from a media system which will enable them to hear clearly within the classroom when the teacher is speaking, and in group activities with their peers. A portable PA system is also being purchased and will be most beneficial for all outdoor activities.

In greater detail, 2013 was another successful year for the Junior School Parents’ Auxiliary raising just over $18,000 through events such as whole-school sausage sizzles, icy pole Fridays at Williamstown, Art Day pizza lunch, Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day stalls and various raffles. Their gratitude goes to the Class Representatives who were instrumental in the success of these events, collecting and collating money and orders, and to the parents and carers who gave up their time to cook, serve or run the stalls. The Parents’ Auxiliary also held social events that included the welcome morning teas and the ever-popular Mothers’ Day Luncheon at Belle of the Bay. One hundred and fifty people from the School community were welcomed by the Senior String Quartet and then treated to the gorgeous candy bar and Prep presentation. The event was seamless and was a lovely way to celebrate being a Westbourne Grammar mother. The newly formed Friends of Sport have also been hard at work. Their focus is promoting an exciting culture for sport and physical activity within the School. They assist at various sporting events, raise funds to improve/ maintain the Sports Faculty, provide ideas to staff to develop the sports program and support students in their sporting pursuits. This year’s highly successful events included a Trivia night, held in the Auditorium, which was enjoyed by all and raised a significant amount of money, and the much enjoyed Second Annual Fun Run. This event is embraced by the School Community and was a great success again this year. Other FOS initiatives include the FOS Sports Awards. These Awards are sponsored by FOS and given at the School’s Sports Awards night in recognition of students who demonstrate outstanding leadership,

perseverance and dedication to training, encompass the School spirit, sportsmanship and cooperation and the introduction of the Geoffrey Ryan Cup; a football match contested between Westbourne Grammar and St Michael’s Grammar within the ACS competition. This annual event is played at night under lights. This year, before a crowd of approximately 300 spectators who braved the very wintery conditions, Westbourne were the victors in a very keenly contested match. Proud of what they have achieved, FOS intends to introduce a small line of apparel for parents to wear at School sporting events as a show of support, and to further add to the sporting culture at Westbourne. Friends of Music and the Performing Arts have also been hard at work running the selling refreshments at the various music events including Performer of the Year, this year’s Annual Musical – Honk!, Super Soiree Saturday and the Junior School Performing Arts Festival which fell over three nights – a huge effort. There was also the Annual Concert, the Choral Festival and the Staff and Friends’ Concert where the Reverend Tim Edwards and Belinda Rasen sang a beautiful duet. The funds which were raised by FOMPA supported the Music School: in particular, they directed funds to support the Senior School students attending a three-day Music Band Camp in Daylesford by funding the bus and a bush band – the latter enjoyed thoroughly by the students and staff in attendance. They also awarded two instrumental scholarships funded for next year to increase the range of instruments being played in bands and ensembles, and purchased a much needed second-hand bassoon for the School. The Swap Shop continued to provide a great service to School families through the preparation and sale of second-hand uniforms. Many thanks must go to all committee members for their dedication and enthusiasm. To our volunteers, thank you also because, without you, our activities and fundraisers would not be possible. Shona Taylor President Friends of Westbourne Association

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2013 STAFF LIST

ACADEMIC STAFF A. Ahuja, B.Com (Hons.), B.Ed, M.Com R. Almond, B.Sc., Grad.Dip.Edu. N. Armatas, Dip.Ed.(Prim), B.Ed.(Prim.) M. Avery, B.A., Grad.Dip.Edu.

COUNCIL

HEAD OF JUNIOR SCHOOL

M.R. Balfour

Office Bearers:

G.M. Barty

Mr. David Horvath

Mr. P.J.Barklamb, B.Ed, Dip.T.(Prim)., Grad. Dip. Ed.Admin., Grad.Sp.Ed., Cert.Gifted Ed.

Mr. Mark Krawczyszyn

DIRECTOR OF LEARNING

J. Beckitt, B.Mus(Perf.), M.Mus.

Mr. David Stewart

Mr. G. Finlay, B.A., Grad.Dip.Ed

E.J. Behrens, B.A.,Grad.Dip.Edu.(Eng.)

Mrs. Diane John

DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS & MARKETING

P.A. Bell, B.A., Grad.Cert.Comput., Grad. Dip.Edu.

Ms. E.C. Hogan, Grad.Dip.(TESOL), T.T.T.C, D.F.D.P., Cert. Marketing

A.J. Bennetto, B.Surv., Dip.Ed.

President Vice President Treasurer Secretary

Directors Mr. John McElvaney, Ms. Claire Brown, Mrs. Rocio Vucetich Karibian, Mr Ian Fox, Mr Ilija Grgic, Mr. Jason Wyatt Mrs. Shona Taylor

DIRECTOR OF ICT Ms. R. Elsom, B.Ed, PGradCompEd, MInfoTechEd

P. Basilio, B.A., B.Ed.(Teach.)

S.P Beraldo, B.Ed(Prim.) A. Birchall, B.A., B.Ed.Teach, M. Ed G. Boam, B.A., Dip.Ed.

DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE AND CULTURE

J. Borg, B.Ed., Dip. Rec.

PRINCIPAL

Mr. G.L. Hayhow, B.Ed.(Creative Arts), M.Ed,

D. Bradley

Ms. M.I. Hansen, M.A. (Hons.) Dip.Tch., B.A.,Grad.Dip. Arts,Dip.Sec.T,F.A.C.E.L., A.I.C.D.

DIRECTOR OF LEARNING JUNIOR SCHOOL

P. Burton, B.Vis.Arts (Graph. Des.), Grad. Dip.Edu S. Busuttil, B.Mus.(Violin)

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Ms. A. Elliott, Dip.T.(Prim), B.Ed.(Prim), Grad. Dip.Ed.

Mr. A. McGregor, B.Sc., Dip.Ed., M.Ed

BUSINESS MANAGER

D. Callan, B.Ed., Grad.Dip.Jap.

HEAD OF SENIOR SCHOOL

Mr. E Tongs, CA (NZ), ACIS

M. Callan, B.Ed.

Ms. L. Mahony, B.Sc., Grad.Dip.Dietitics, Grad. Dip. Ed.,Grad.Dip.RE

CHAPLAIN

A. Cameron, Dip.T. (Prim.), B.Ed.

Rev. Tim Edwards, O.M.C

C. Charles-Edwards, B.Ed.,B.B.E.

A. Buttigieg Cardona, B.Ed.(Hons.)

M. Chrisanthou, B.Ed.(Prim.) D. Ciavarella, B.Ed.(Phys.Ed) A. Cincotta, B.App.Sci., Grad.Dip.Ed. N. Cook, BSc (Hons), P.Grad.Cert.Ed. S. Corcoran M.J Davis, B.Ed.(Hons.) C.L. Degiorgio, B.Ed., B.Ed. J. Diery, B. Ed (Prim.) B. A C. Elston, L.Mus.A., B.Mus.Ed.(Hons.) B. Evans, B.A.(Sci.), Grad.Cert.(A.Sci.), Grad.Dip.Ed. S.A. Evans L. Farrell, B.Com., Grad.Dip.Ed. H.Fisher, B.A., Dip.Ed., M.A. (Stud.Welf.) L.G.Franklin, Dip.T., B.Ed.(Prim.), Grad. Dip.Ed., M.Ed.Stud. K. Galati, B.Bus., B.A., Grad.Dip.Ed J. Garnham, B.A., Grad.Dip.Ed., Grad.Dip. Lit.Ed.

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H. Gauci, Dip.T, B.Ed.

E. Macdonald, B.Sc., Grad.Dip.Ed.

C. E Grech, B.Ed.(Prim.)

C. Martin

J.I.Green, Dip.Tch.

J.J. Matthys, B.Sc., M.Sc., Dip.Ed.

D. Greene, B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D., Grad.Dip. Ed.

C.M. McGowen, B.A., Dip.Ed., T.C., Ass. Dip.A.o.

D.R. Robinson, Dip.T.,Grad.Dip.Ed., A. Mus.A.(Piano), A.Mus.A.(Pipe Organ)

D. Grieve, B.A. Grad. Dip. Sec. Ed.

M.S. McKean, B.App.Sci., B.Ed.

R.V. Griffin, B.A., B.Ed. (Hons.)

B. Menzies, B.Ed.(Prim.)

C. Rodgers, B. Sc. Ed., Postgrad. Dip Prof. Stud. Ed.

R. Haabjoern, B.Ed. (Teach.), B.App.Sc., H.Tch., M.Ed. (Sci)(Env), Grad.Cert. Sust. Prac.

L. Merritt, B.Ed(Phys.Ed.) R. Michael, B.Mus., Grad.Dip.Mus., Grad. Dip.Ed

R. Reber, B.A.(Fine Arts)(Hons.), B.Ed., Hon.F.A. J.L. Reid, B.Ed.

A. Roper, PhD, B.Sc.(Hons.), Dip.Ed. A.G. Rothwell, B.Ed. C. Ryan, B.Ed., M.B.I.T

D. Hahn. B.Ed. (Hons.)

A. Michielin, B.Psych., Grad.Dip.Ed.

L. Scerri, B.A.(Sci.), Dip.Ed.

T. Hannet, B.Ed.

M. Michielin, B.E(Mech), Dip.Ed.

J. Shutie, B.Ed.(Prim.), P.Grad.Dip.Ed.

D. Hatton, B.Mus., Dip.Ed., ACMM., L. Mus.A.

A.J. Mitchell, B.F.Arts., Grad.Dip.Ed.

J. Smith, B.Mus.(Hons.), Dip.Ed.

K. Mitchell, B.A., B.A.(Ed.Hons.)

N. Sutton, B.Ed., Dip.T.(Prim.)

L.Hayes, B.App.Sc., Grad.Dip.Bus.Mgnt., Grad.Dip.Ed.

K. Mobilia, M.Edu., Dip.Ed., B.A.

S. Thom, M.Music(Perf )., B.Ed., A.Mus.A.

M. Healy, B.App.Sci. (P.E.), Dip.Ed.

M. Monaghan, B.Ed.(Hons.)

R. Thompson, B.Sc., P.Grad.Dip.Ed.

L. Hill, B.Ex.Sc., Grad.Dip.Ed.

S. Moxey, B.Bus.M., Grad.Dip.Ed.(Prim.)

V. Hillas, B.Mus.Ed., Grad. Cert.Orff Mus. Ed.

J. Mullenger, B.Eng(Hons.), Grad.Dip.Ed.

J. Tizard, B.Sc(Hons.), P.G.C.E.(Sec Maths)

T. Horton, B.A., Dip Ed.

A. Murdoch, Dip.T, B.Ed.

B. Howe, B.Ed. (Secondary)

S. Murphy, B.Ed., Dip.Sp.Ed.

J.J. Jenkins, B.A.,(Fine Arts.), Dip.Ed., Grad.Cert. TESOL.

M. Naito, B.A., M.A.

A. Wakida-Henderson, B.A., Grad.Dip.Ed., M.A.

A. Johnson, B.A., Grid.Dip.Ed.

R. Newbury, B.Sc., Dip.Ed., Grad.Cert. TESOL

D. Walker, Dip.T., Grad.Dip.Edu., Grad.Dip. Ed.(Admin)., M.Edu.

J.R. Johnson, Dip.Bus.Stu., B.App.Sci. (PE), Grad.Dip.Ed.(Sec.)

D. Newlyn, M.Sc.(Hons), P.Grad.Dip.Ed. B. Nisbet, B.Ed.(Hons), M.Ed.

R. Walsh, B.Sc.(Hons), Grad Dip Ed., Grad Dip Meteorology

D.M. Nowak, B.A., Grad.Dip.Ed.

B. Watson, B.Mus.

S. Oates, B.A, Grad.Dip.Ed.

K. Whelan, B.Ed., M.Ed.

S. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, B.Mus.Ed.

P. Wiggins, B.Sc.(Hons.), Grad.Dip.Ed. (Sec.)

K. Keller, B.A., LLB, Dip.Ed. E.A. Langwell, B.Sc.(Ed). A. Leach, B.Mus., Dip.Ed., A.Mus.A. S.M. Lill, B.Ed. D. Liston, B.Arts & Science(Hons.), Dip.Ed. G.W. Long, B.Sc.(Hons.), Dip.Ed. B. Maazi, M.Ed., BSc. (EEng.), BSc(Hons.), Dip.Tch., Assoc. Deg. B. Macdonald, B.A.(Lib.), Grad.Dip.Ed., Grad.Dip.Child.Lit.

S. Muller, B.Bus., Grad.Dip.Ed., M.Ed.

K. Ogawa, B.Bus., Grad.Dip.Ed. M. Papasimeon, B.Sc., Grad.Dip.Ed. M. Pilditch, B.Ed. K. Powell, B.A., Grad.Dip.Ed W. Pratt, B.A.,Grad.Dip.Edu. K.A. Price, Higher Dip.Tch.(Sec.)Hm.Ec.

T. Turczyniak, B.Ed. M. Turner, B.Ed., P.Grad.Dip.Ed. K. Volakos

T. Willman, B.A., Grad.Dip.Ed., M.A. K. Winter, B.A.(Ed.), P.Grad.Dip.Ed. E. Woodall, B.Ed(Prim.), B.Ed.Teach. H. Xinomilakis, B.Ed (Hons.), Dip.T D.J. Zaharopoulos, B.Ed.(Mus.)

V.A. Raimondo, B.A., B.A(Hons.), M.A.(Fine Arts), Grad.Dip.Ed. B. Rasen, B.Mus., Dip.Ed. R. Ratu, B.Ed.(Prim.)

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8th Row L-R: Mrs Michelle Pilditch, Mr Jason Smith, Mr Alex Johnson, Mr Justin Matthys, Mr Paul Wiggins, Mr David Newlyn, Mr Marcus Michielin, Mr Ragnar Haabjoern, Mr Andrew Leach, Mr Donald Mackenzie, Mr Timothy Horton, Mr John Johnson, Mr Murray McKean 7th Row L-R: Miss Jane Reid, Mr Joseph Borg, Miss Alison Birchall, Miss Sandra Lenon, Ms Kellie-Jane Winter, Miss Belinda Rasen, Miss Christine McGowen, Miss Lorraine Merritt, Mr Matthew Healy, Mrs Annemarie Rothwell, Ms Lauren Olcorn, Miss Nadia Durrant, Mr Simon Beraldo, Mr Brenton Menzies, Ms Michelle Monaghan 6th Row L-R: Mr Brahim Maazi, Mr David Ciavarella, Mr Cameron Elston, Mr Chris Binney, Mrs Rebecca Ratu, Ms Helen Fisher, Mrs Kate Galati, Mrs Beulah Watson, Mr Simon Corcoran, Mr Joseph Beckitt, Mrs Donna Bradley, Mr Alan Bennetto, Mr Paul Basilio, Ms Catherine Ryan, Ms Lou Callan, Mr Keisuke Ogawa, Ms Malamati Papasimeon 5th Row L-R: Mr Gary Barty, Mrs Vera Hillas, Mrs Diana Liston, Mrs Joanne Mullenger, Ms Stephanie Oates, Ms Lynette Franklin, Mrs Catherine Grech, Mrs Christine Degiorgio, Mr Evan Behrens, Mr Brendan Evans, Mr David Walker, Mrs Nicole Sutton, Miss Rachel Almond, Ms Kate Volakos, Mrs Dianne Robinson, Ms Kerry Whelan, Ms Diana Hatton 4th Row L-R: Mrs Donna Zaharopoulos, Mrs Janice Burke, Ms Emma Woodall, Mrs Nikola Cook, Ms Atsuko Wakida-Henderson, Ms Georgia Boam, Mrs Tracy Hannett, Miss Carly Edwards, Ms Michiyo Naito, Mrs Tanya Turczyniak, Ms Anne Richardson, Ms Bronwyn Nisbet, Ms Rachelle Walsh, Mrs Kim Mitchell, Ms Kimberley Powell, Mrs Helen Xinomilakis, Ms Annette Murdoch, Mrs Jane Garnham 3rd Row L-R: Mrs Melissa Davis, Ms Amrita Ahuja, Mrs Sonya Lill, Ms Susan Moxey, Mrs Audrey Buttigieg Cardona, Ms Barbara Howe, Ms Rachel Griffin, Mr Damon Grieve, Mr Adrian Michielin, Mr James Tizard, Mrs Helen Gauci, Miss Rose Reber, Miss Melissa Avery, Mrs Karen Price, Ms Kerstin Keller, Ms Paige Bell, Ms Dorothea Hahn 2nd Row L-R: Ms Lesley Hayes, Mrs Sharon Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, Ms Tracy Willman, Dr Debbie Greene, Ms Rosemary Michael, Ms Louisa Scerri, Ms Amanda Mitchell, Mr Warren Pratt, Mr Dennis Nowak, Mr Stephen Evans, Mr Desmond Callan, Ms Sharon Muller, Mr Grant Finlay, Mr Mario Chrisanthou, Ms Cate Charles-Edwards, Ms Sandra Jenkins, Ms Lori Hill, Mrs Julie Shutie, Mrs Andrea Cameron, Mrs Lisa Farrell, Mrs April Cincotta, Miss Bronwyn Macdonald Front Row L-R: Ms Rebecca Thompson, Mr Graham Long, Mrs Sophie Murphy, Ms Kylie Mobilia, Mr Robert Marshall, Ms Rose Elsom, Mr Geoff Poynton Ms Ellie Hogan, Mr Andrew McGregor, Ms Meg Hansen, Ms Louise Mahony, Mr Paul Barklamb, Mr Tim Edwards, Mr Geoffrey Hayhow, Ms Andrea Elliott, Mrs Kylie Baxter, Mrs Nicole Armatas, Mr Craig Rodgers, Ms Megan Turner

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ADMINISTRATION 3rd Row L-R: Mrs Juliet Cassar, Miss Meredith Beardmore, Miss Elizabeth Coutts, Ms Sarah Bravo, Ms Joanne Eveleigh-Whitford, Mrs Amanda Macreadie, Mrs Julie Brophy, Mrs Denise Cooper 2nd Row L-R: Mr Channa Herath, Mrs Margaret Bonavia, Mrs Heather Rich, Mr Errol Tongs, Mrs Robyn Leach, Mrs Tracey Lawson, Mrs Janet Leckie Front Row L-R: Mr John-George Micallef, Mrs Judy Bowyer, Ms Raelene Fisher, Mrs Jasmina Jakanovska, Mrs Judy Eads, Mrs Shirley Hanley, Mrs Andrea Cairns, Mrs Annette Matthews

MAINTENANCE 2nd Row L-R: Mr Ryan Wills, Mr Nick Summit, Mr Stuart Stanford, Mr Steven Biddle, Mr Nick Anderson, Mr Greg Johnson, Front Row L-R: Mr Jason Poggi, Mr Craig McDonald

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Class of 2012 VCE Results

The Westbourne Year 12 Class of 2012 achieved outstanding success in both their VCE results and tertiary offers. Each VTAC subject score was a massive six points higher (on average) than the state-wide average. As a consequence their Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks (ATARs) were significantly higher than ever before. Fifty four students achieved ATARs above 90 (placing them in the top 10% of the nation). Of these students, 35 ranked higher than 95% of students nationally and six ranked higher than 99%. This means that Westbourne students performed nearly four times above the national average at the elite end of the results scale (see accompanying column graph). At 85.6 our median ATAR was five points higher than in recent years and indicates that over half of our students were ranked in the top 15% of the nation. These magnificent results are a testimony to the strong and growing culture of collaborative and mindful learning at Westbourne and the concern and

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encouragement shown towards one another by both staff and students. Activities such as student-initiated study groups flourished and complemented the many extra support classes which were run by the teachers during lunchtimes and after school. One clear advantage of higher ATARs is that more students qualify for highly sought-after University courses. 70% of students were this year offered a place in their course of first choice and a further 14% were offered their second preference. All Westbourne applicants received a first round VTAC course offer and some also received offers to interstate and overseas universities. We wish all our students well in their future, for their tertiary studies and for the exciting career and life opportunities ahead of them. We also look forward to the class of 2013, matching and perhaps exceeding the wonderful outcomes of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group.

From left to right: Four of our top achieving students, Anisha Kidd, Jared Salloum, Ryan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rafferty, Patrick Lenagh

2013 ACADEMIC PRIZE WINNERS YEAR 7

YEAR 12

Emily Jinu Sophie Kozlowski Felicity Nguyen Isabella Ross Jackson Turner Thomas Yaniv

Outstanding Academic Achievement Award Christian Gashi Chi Hsuan Hu Tessa Marshall Chris Balnaves Art Award Selina Tassone English Jemina Nuredini NAB Commerce Award Laura Newman Health and PE Kate Emery Humanities Patrick Crowle and Jemina Nuredini LOTE Brigette Mercaldi Maths/Science Anh Khoi Tran

YEAR 8 Shihab Deen Mohamed Ashane De Silva Klara Rawdanowicz Albert Tu Alysha Yacono Xue Ning Yu

YEAR 9 Anastasia Busy Shayden Chrisostom Kiara Gashi Isabelle Mountford Brigitte Tattersall Dalia Yousif

YEAR 10 Kevin Enriquez Thomas Frick Kayla Mackenzie Emily Matejin/ Theodora Moritz Waka Okumura

YEAR 11 Year 11 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award Leo Featherstone Yvette Gasser Andrew Stainsby Arts Eliza Barnes Commerce Benjamin Kennedy English Fiona Andy Health and PE Philip Jakanovski Humanities Jeevan Haikerwal LOTE James Pallasis Maths/Science James Pallasis Victoria University Science Award Sarah Fenn

MAJOR AWARDS Simon Greig Award Sarah Fenn The Westbourne Grammar School Encouragement Award Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10

Henry Fenn Sachini Hewa Radalage Emily Spiteri Maddison Borg

Outstanding Achievement Award for School Prefects Hayden Azzopardi Nicholas Gray Laura Newman Mingyang Qian Madeline Ryan Olga-Louise Xinomilakis

Braxton Conroy Nathan Grech Brittany Olver Louise Rebesco Jack Sheehan

Jodie Dunstan Brigette Mercaldi Travis Phelan Keeley Ross Brendon Stankovic

Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Performing Arts Kimberly Chen School Council Award for Outstanding Performance at Sport Hayden Azzopardi Principal’s School Vice-Captains’ Awards Timothy Levar Jemina Nuredini John R. Pascoe Award for School Captains Tessa Marshall Jay Paton The Neville R. Hudson Award – Dux of 2012 Anisha Kidd

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Kush Ahlawat

Reet Gill

Jure Portelli

Daisy Aaron

Luke Armatas

Sonamjit Berreck

Sara Ahlawat

Harry Grosso

Aniela Rawdanowicz

Stanley Aaron

Elliot Armstrong

Bonnie Bertone

Yara Al-Kamil

Antariksh Gupta

Olwyn Richings

Lucy Abbott

Jake Arnold

Demi Bertone

Elizabeth Alderson

Anya Gurram

Eden Roseburgh

Ayeesha Abdul Latif

Kane Arnold

Nathan Bezzina

Ben Alexander

Lily Helleren

Caitlyn Rothwell

Dounya Abdul Latif

Caitlin Arnott

Yuvraj Bhargav

Isobelle Anderson

Sophie Helleren

Fatheyeh Abdul Latif

Hakeem Ashraf

Laura Bishop

Angalique Atlagic

Luca Henderson

Julieta SalasCordero

Kayla Ayhan

Mohammed Abdul Latif

Grace Ashton

Chloe Black

Carolyn Huang

Layla Bastick

Harriet Ashton

Oscar Black

Ethan Hunter

Alex Abela

Austin Beattie

Emilia Acciarito

Bogdan Astrakhantsev

Dimitra Blanas

Elijah Jewell

Toby Beattie

Flynn Jordon

Joshua Acciarito

Mitchell Atanasovski

Lucy Behrens

Morris Kerrison

Charlotte Blazevic

Rakshit Aggarwal

Cameron Atchinson

Oliver Behrens

Joseph Khouri

Oliver Blazevic

Chase Bernard

Daniel Agosta

Isabelle Atchinson

Sophia Khouri

Alexander Blomberg

Ethan Borg

Monique Atkins

Joshua Kubiangha

Joshua Shepherd

Laura Agosta

Maddison Blomberg

Jun Bortoletto

Nazif Ahmed

Tuong Au

Revika Kukreja

Aarvin Singh

Emmanuel Boahene

Samuel Aitken

Beth Audley

Grace Langton

Jeevandeep Singh Gill

Ryan Bolton

Phillip Audley

Grace Lavender

Quinten Smith

Oluwadunsin Akin Ojelabi

William Bombos

Ross Audley

Holly Liston

Andriana Stephanou

Leslie Borg

Harry Avci

Lucas Mabbott

Gabriella Stephanou

Oluwapemi Akin Ojelabi

Maddison Borg

Chad Maczkowiack

Aden Streeter

Madison Borg

Kavyaa Madaan

Ashlyn Streeter

Matthew Al Humrany

Nada Azar Hayden Azzopardi

Shannon Borg

Cooper Malone

Jack Streeter

Yasmin Al-Kamil

Izabelle Azzopardi

Hudson Malone

Summer Sundholm

Yusuf Al-Kamil

Kieren Azzopardi

Thammalack Bouahom

Aidan McGregor

Isabella Tabone

Humza Albarki

Fei Bai

Regan McGregor

Willow Talbot

Ella Alexander

Olivia Balassopoulos

Joshua Alexander

Prince Banzon

William Dalton

Kirby MonaghanLewis

Lilah Thompson James Tjeuw

Olivia Alexander

Adel Barakat

Jack Dowling

Charlotte Muir

Amber Turner

Ty Alexander

Bachir Barakat

Felix Dyer

Imogen Mullenger

Seth Turner

Elena Alexiou

Madeline Barakat

Eliza Evans

Alexander Nelson

Evangelos Alexiou

Nadine Barakat

Payton Firth

Jayden Nguyen

Lucas Van Blommestein

Chloe Allen

Kate Barber

Sarah Fleming

Zoe Nisbet

Dema Altaleb

Eliza Barnes

Max Formosa

Lincoln Partelle

Omar Altaleb

Rhys Barnes

Molly French

Ethelia Pataridis

Tanisha Barrese

Max Fullarton-Keller

Adele Peroulis

Abhilashah Amirthalingam

Xavier Garofalo

Celeste Peroulis

Ivan Anam

George Barsoum

Feronia Geng

Chloe Portelli

Maddison Zaharopoulos

Thania Andrade

Adi Basic

Charlie Gilham

Hailey Portelli

Daniel Zhang

Lucas Andrew

Azra Basic

Matthew Andrew

Muhamed Basic

Fiona Andy

Alyssa Bearzi

Alana Anthony

Jamie Bearzi

Thomas Brdar Alexis Bucciarelli Sienna Bunn Manuela Cano Salas Simone Cassetta Mikayla Chick Madeline Christo Geoffrey Christodoulou Samuel Christodoulou Audrey Cox

Myeisha Samuel Mikenzie Santzaridis George Saunders Asha Scambler Harper Scambler Eden Schneider Dante Shearer

Hantang Wang Jun Yu Wang Oliver Witcombe Harrison Zaharopoulos

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Jianlai Chen

Yuqin Mo

Zonglin Ying

Yilong Chen

Zhenglin Shao

Jieyu Yu

Charles Aquilina

Alice Becker-Scott

Daiting Dong

Thi Khanh Linh Tran

Jieying Yuan

Cooper Archer

Grace Becker-Scott

Yiliang Jiang

Zengxin Wang

Wenzhe Zhang

Jack Archer

Ella Behrens

Shu Liu

Penghan Wu

Yuhang Zhou

Jayden Archer

Marc Belteky

Shuangwei Lyu

Run Yao

Yianni Blanas

Thammasack Bouahom Mitchell Boulos Jessica Bowyer Rachel Bowyer Leigh Boxer Benjamin Boyer Lachlan Boyer Rebecca Boyer Alyssa Bradley Matthew Bradley Harry Bradshaw Ella Bradwell Lachlan Braham Thomas Braham Hunter Braidie Cassidy Bremner Liam Bremner Jamisyn Briggs Summah Briggs Sophie Broadway Jackson Brook Alexander Brown

Kulunu Dharmakeerthi

Dean Eqbal

Lily Foxall

Hosna Eqbal

Thomas Frame

Priya Dhillon

Ethan Esakson

Liam Francis

Shareen Dhillon

Ricardo Esposito

Angus Freeman

Giacomo Di Natale

Arin Eyiam-Rutty

Mitchell Frick

Jemimah Di Natale

Christian Failla

Thomas Frick

Isabella Di Pierro

Emma Failla

James Frost

Myles Dickman

Benjamin Fairbank

Benjamin Frye

Rodel Dignadice

Kristina Fantenberg

Emily Frye

Robbe Dilissen

Louisa Fantenberg

Baichao Fu

Arthur Dimitriou

Romaisa Farhan

Fanlian Fu

Peter Dimitriou

William Farrall

Guangze Fu

Beau Dixon

Corey Farrell

Noelle Fuertes

Quoc Minh Do

Joshua Farrell

Alexander Fulton

Sarah Dobie

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Ebony Dodemaide

Guy Featherstone

Daniel Galati

Rhys Dodemaide

Leo Featherstone

Patrick Galati

William Doensen

Henry Fenn

Alisha Galea

Jessica Dong

Sarah Fenn

Annalise Galea

Bettina Dowling

Daphne Ferabend

Connor Galea

Madeline Dowling

Tristan Ferabend

Courtney Galea

Jack Downer

Hashan Fernando

Julian Galea

Lucas Downer

Kiara Fernando

Lachlan Galea

Sam Doyle

Ella Ferry

Mason Galea

Tiffany Draghiciu

Jack Ferry

Ashley Gallina

Deanna Dragovic

April Finlayson

Rohnil Ganjoo

Connor Dunn

Rebecca Finlayson

Yitong Gao

Blake Dunstan

Hayley Finn

Liana Gardy

Jodie Dunstan

Isaiah Finn

Francesca Garra

Daniel Duong

Ella Fleming

Olivia Garra

Matthew Duong

Michelle Fleming

Christian Gashi

Thieu Duy Duong

Alessia Cilmi

Shihab Deen Mohamed

Jarrod Flood-Bauce

Kiara Gashi

Vy Duong

Michele Cilmi

Celeste Defina

Kasper Fonsboel

Yvette Gasser

Salvatore Cilmi

Jayden Defina

Lachlan EdwardsDunn

Oliver Fonsboel

Carly Gauci

Emma Cockram

Christopher Dekleris

Sebastian Fonsboel

Timothy Gauci

James Cockram

Nicolas Dekleris

Taylah EdwardsDunn

Genevieve Fonseca

Casey Geard

Jeremy Coleman

Max Deller

Amani El-Hawli

Raquelle Fonseca

Julian Giambattista

Joshua Condon

Rebecca Den Ouden

Maya El-Hawli

Francesca Fontana

Luis Giambattista

Amani Elbelli

Isabella Fontana

Callan Gibson

Ayman Elbelli

Bryson Ford

Zara Gilbert

Sophia Deng

Fahad Elbelli

Emma Foulstone

Amrat Gill

Victoria Deng

Mohamed Elhouli

Liam Foulstone

James Gillespie

Anton DePasquale

Rachel Ellis

Emily Fox

Jessica Giordmaina

Tanveer Deswal

Kate Emery

Lachlan Fox

Nathan Giordmaina

Abby Dethick

Nicole England

Taj Fox

Steven Glencorse

Kevin Enriquez

Tara Fox

Christopher Glover

Ally Brown

Malena Catto

Claire Coulter

Harrison Brown

Emily Caudry

Elizabeth Croft

Sahra Brown Chloe Bubeck Owen Bubeck Xavier Bucciarelli Danny Bugarski Steven Bugarski Catherine Bui Crystal Bui Forest Bundy Mitchell Burgess Emily Burkhardt Matthew Burkhardt Nived Burugadha Catherine Bushell Javiera Bustos Anastasia Busy Greer Butcher Keely Butcher Brody ButlerMcPharlane

Megan Caudry Maddison Cavallo Christopher Chambers Cayley Chan Jiawen Che Jieming Chen Josh Chen Kevin Chen Kimberly Chen Sam Chen

James Cherry James Cherry Jason Chester Justin Cheung Brendan Chiem Terrence Chou Alana Chrisanthou

Nicholas Buykx

Shayden Chrisostom

Leia Calderwood Tara Calderwood Amy Caleo Lucas Cameron Oscar Campbell LingFeng Cao Adam Capek Vivienne Card Anton Cardaciotto Tiffany Carlin Lauren Carpio Georgia Carracher Tyler Carrington Sean Carroll-Taafe Olivia Casabene Jessica Cassar Daniel Cassetta Jacqueline Cassetta

Kayleena Cucerca Matthew Currao Natasha Currao Hugh Curtis Zara Curtis Gabriel Custodio Holly Cutajar Erica Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aluisio

Lucas Chrisanthou

Joshua Cairns

Patrick Crowle

Melanie Cvetkovic

Wil Butterworth

Alexander Byrne

Emily Cross

David Cheng

James Chrisanthou

Olivia Buysen

Daniel Cross

Yinglin Chen

Fin Butterworth

Jack Buysen

Grace Croft

James Chrisoulis Kathryn Chrisoulis Freddie Christie Matina Christou Peter Christou Olivia Ciberlin

Tristan Conradi Braxton Conroy Christopher Corbett Joshua Cordina Sabriina Costa Siena Costa Stefan Costa Jennifer Coster

Weiqi Dai Mai-Ling Darbyshire Joshua Dare Chelsea Davis Emma Davis Karla Davis Jacqueline De Kock Ashane De Silva Carla Deale Georgia Deale Mitchell Dean Hannah Debney Jarrod Debney Riley Debney Harmony-Jane Debono

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Vincent Hardy

Jackson Hopper

Alexander Jones

Amelie Kumar

Kepler Lill

Timothy Goh

Cody Harkin

Thomas Hopper

Alys Jones

Tarun Kumar

Calvin Lim

Tegan Goldie

James Harnden

Jack Horvath

Gwyneth Jones

Yashima Kumar

Rachael Lim

Charlotte Gorham Mackie

Madison Harries

Evan Houghton

Devjot Joura

Jasmine Lagamba

Rui Lin

Carla Harrison

Laura Houghton

Sonia Joura

Katelyn Lagerwey

Xi Lin

Georgia Grainger

Jack Harrison

Matthew Howe

Alyssa Kades

Priya Lal

Zhe Lin

Luke Grainger

Kimberley Harrison

Chi Hsuan Hu

Amber Kades

Aaron Lam

Chrysanthe Liontis

Luke Grana

Charlotte Harwood

Zhiwen Hu

Elizabeth Kanjer

Breeanna Lam

Thomas Liontis

Elyce Gray

Zeke Harwood

Eugene Huang

Angelea Karageorge

Calvin Lam

Amber Liprino

Nicholas Gray

William Hately

Ken Huang

Baran Karakas

Eythan Lam

Madeline Liprino

Angus Greaves

Alexandra HatelyWilliams

Yihan Huang

Melisa Karakas

Liam Lam

Jack Lishman

Yu-Yen Huang

Matias Karibian

Vivian Lam

Dun Liu

James HatelyWilliams

Yuan Huang

Costa Karlaftis

Cassandra Lapeyre

Linjing Liu

Charlie HudsonCzerniecki

Yanni Karlaftis

Jared Lapeyre

Megan Llaneza

Monica Keeler

Jasmin Larranaga

Jordan Lloyd

Laura HudsonJones

Carl Kellis

Ee Sing Lau

Jordan Lloyd

Aidan Kelly

Christina Lavoir

Shreya Lodhiya

Declan Kelly

Brianna Lay

Angus Long

Benjamin Kennedy

Brittany Lay

Katie Long

Emma Kennedy

Jarrod Lay

Kevin Long

Jordan Kennedy

Annabelle Lazarevski

Alexander Lonie

Madeleine Lazarevski

Long Lu

Matthew Grech Nathan Grech Morrigan Green Dallas Greene Lillia Greene Violet Greene Jack Grego Whitney GregsonBlack Hugh Grgic Ashley Griffiths Joshua Grobbelaar Jonathan Gubatanga

Ryokan Hatfield Ava Hatzopoulos

Jordan Hughes

Christian Hatzopoulos

Caleb Hunt

Daniel Hatzopoulos Yiyao He Zijian He Sachini Hewa Radalage Sineli Hewamanna

Ethan Hunt Renae Hunt Claudia Huynh Jennifer Huynh Nguyen Ngoc Tram Huynh

Maddison Kennedy Renee Kennedy Samuel Kennedy

Olivia Huynh

Christopher Kent

Tammy Huynh

Maleeha Khateeb

Feroz Ibrahimi

Emmanuel Kifle

Florence Ibrahimi

Pakhi Gupta

Natasha HidalgoCabras

Mahlia Kilner

Curtis Idda

Madeleine Kiss

Kendrick Ha

Camryn Hills

Ian Iqbal

Savva Koletas

Jana Hadji

Samantha Hills

Daniel Isaac

Andrew Kong

Zachary Hadji

Laura Hird

Yvette Koso

Jeevan Haikerwal

Maddison Hitchcock

Gabriel-Basem Isaac

Duncan Hale

Michael Ho

Jenny Isaac

Hugh Krause

Kelsey Hale

Giselle Hobden

Adam Isac

Jack Hall

Mia Hodder

Hannah Isac

Benjamin Krawczyszyn

Sasha Hall

Blake HodgsonRushbrooke

Alexander Jacques

Jacob Krawczyszyn

Muskan Jain

Louis Hogarth

Boris Jakanovski

Reuben Krawczyszyn

James Holland

Philip Jakanovski

Rebecca Holland

Dasith Jayatilake

Timothy Holland

Regina Jayatilake

Sebastian Holovka

Emily Jinu

Cameron HoloydaWeller

Ben Johnson

Archer Gumley Benjamin Gunn Liam Gunn Yubo Guo

Sophia Hallak Stephanie Hallak Mariam Hamad Xena Hamad Darcy Hamilton Jack Hamilton Charles Hancin Emily Hannett Sarah Hannett Disha Hara

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Finn Hicks Bullock Gwendolyn Hidalgo-Cabras

Judy Hong Nang Hong Vinh Hong

Jack Johnson Spencer Johnson William Johnson

Anh Le Benjamin Le Catherine Le Duy Le

Alexander Loughran Yunyang Lu Cecilia Lueddeke Georgette Lueddeke Grace Lueddeke

Michelle Le

Samantha Joice Lugay

Jack Leach

Evan Luong

Cheuk Lee

Christine Ly

Hae Bin Lee

Da Ma

Jaime Lee

Tara Macdonald

Jennifer Lee

Emily MacFarlane

Leon Lee

Kayla Mackenzie

Lesley Lee

Phoebe Maher

Meagan Lee

Huu Mai

Natasha Lee

Claudia Makris

Nathan Lee

Evelyn Makris

Anya Krbaleski

Emily Lerias

Selena Makris

Bethany Krbaleski

Julian Lescinsky

Niklas Malkin

Isabella Krbaleski

Timothy Levar

Rhodes Manakis

Bianca Krt

James Lewer

Ilija Manojlovic

Nicholas Krt

Matthew Lewis

Andrew Mansi

Khody Krueger

Christopher Li

Akeem Manuel

Jake Krueger-Strong

Tong Li

Shakeel Manuel

Krishiv Kukreja

Foti Liacopoulos

Christian Maprock

Abhey Kumar

Sophia Liacopoulos

Nathan Maprock

Sophie Kozlowski

Stefan Marakovic

Yiping Meng

Alisha Marfatia

Brigette Mercaldi

Aleksander Maric Michaela Markovski Austin Marks Brigette Marks Tessa Marshall Katelyn Masseni Kristian Mastrobattista Monique Mastrobattista Alexander Matejin Emily Matejin Enrica Matina James Maxwell Peter Mayer Thomas McAllister Eliza McCarron Meg McConnell Mark McDermott Clare McGavin Kirah McGrath Samuel McGrath Talia McGregor Bailey McGuire James McGuire Keeley McGuire Shyla McGuire Joshua McHenry Ella McIllree Thomas McInerney James McIver Charlotte McKenna Angela McKenzie Caitlin McLaren Lachlan McLaren

Matthew Mercieca Michael Mercieca Thomas Mercieca Liam Metcalfe Amne Mhamad Luke Micallef Olivia Micallef James Michaelides Rayan Miglani Tanishk Miglani Calvin Mijares Nada Milenkovic Liliana Mill Chelsea Miller Phillipah Miller Anita Mills Christopher Mills Lachlan Mills Madeline Mills Analise Milone Jonathan Milone Tasha Milone Todd Minehan Elena Mirceski Phillip Mirceski Katherine Mitchell Chutrin Mitpusaporn Bree Mittersteiner Jayde Mittersteiner Amanda Mobilio Avsar Modi Archie Modica Jenna Modica Nikita MoharWilliams

Karina MoralesCastillo

Bao Long Nguyen

Dayna Olver

David Phan

Cao Nguyen

Will Olver

Heath Phelan

Theodora Moritz

Cynthia Nguyen

Joshua Orchard

Travis Phelan

Gabriela Moroney

Daniel Nguyen

Kayla Orchard

Kelly Pickard

Valentina Moroney

Dennis Nguyen

Caitlin Orr

Jasmine Pickup

Emily Morris

Doris Nguyen

Murray Osborne

Madeleine Pickup

Charlotte Morton

Felicity Nguyen

James Pallasis

Leo Pilkington

Christian Moso

Jasmine Nguyen

Damon Palmar

Joshua Pineda

Isabelle Mountford

Jenny Nguyen

Inessa Palmar

Jayden Pisak

John Mouratidis

Johnson Nguyen

Kiara Palmar

Jordan Pisak

Marko Movre

Lewis Nguyen

Yuting Pan

George Pitliangas

Sarah Mudaliar

Martin Nguyen

Jake Pandzic

Peter Pitliangas

Jake Muddle

Minh Nhat Khanh Nguyen

Luke Panoutsos

Emma Plevnik

Riley Muddle

Nicole Panoutsos

James Plevnik

Cassandra Muir

Patrick Nguyen

Shaksham Parihar

Samantha Pliaskin

Harry Muir

Simon Nguyen

Hyoin Park

Alexander Poole

Madison Muir

Tehya Nguyen

Woohyun Park

Jacob Poole

Ethan Mullenger

Tran Hoang Yen Nguyen

Byron Parkinson

Zachary Poole

Michael Parks

Christina Popa

Shanaya Parussalla

Julia Popa

Isabelle Pascua

Matthew Popa

Efstathios Pataridis

George Popovitch

Sonia Pathak

Josefa Porflit Espinosa

Zachary Mullenger Laura Murdoch Stephanie Murdoch Charlie Murphy Poppy Murphy Charley Muscat Madison Muscat

Vanessa Nguyen Vincent Nguyen Vinh Nguyen Vinh-Tri Nguyen Montana Nicoloutsopoulos

Sam Paton

Taylor Muscat

Amaya NicolsonBiggs

Kristofer Musura

Stefanie Nobilo

Ashleigh Paull

Rachael Nadalin

Jack Nolan

Laura Paull

Simon Nahyna

Jessica Novakova

Nicholas Pavlidis

Porshian Naidoo

Aisha Nuredini

Timothy Pavlidis

Abraham Naim

Jemina Nuredini

Alexandria Peck

Kiahann Namana

Rabiah Nuredini

Nicholas Peck

Tahlia Namana

William Nuttall

Jiayu Peng

Ujjwal Nandal

Chloe Penman

Amirrul Nasarudin

Robert NyblomPrice

Arrifa Nasarudin

Dominic O’Brien

Aymen Naseem

Ella O’Brien

Jayla McLennan

Alanah Moir

James Nash

Ronan O’Connor

Angus McNamara

Connor Moir

Talia Nash

Ciara O’Dwyer

Kelsey McPavian

Riley Moir

Darcy Nathan

Sinead O’Dwyer

Michael Nedelcu

Kali O’Meara

Mia Nelson

Zac O’Meara

Laura McPhail Logan McPhail

Matthew Molinaro Henry Monahan

Evangeline McVicar

Henri Monching

Laura Newman

Callum O’Rafferty

Sophie Meath

Gabriela Moraes

Sarah Newman

Rhys O’Rafferty

Sarah Mebrahtu

Alexis Moraitis

Miranda Newton

Nimesh Mehra

Chloe Moraitis

Jamie Ngo

Oluwadamilola Okedara

John Moraitis

Albert Nguyen

Tatyanna Mendoza Carol Meng

Jay Paton

Ashley Nguyen

Waka Okumura Brittany Olver

Nikala Patsolaridis

Claire Pepin David Pepin Bronwyn Pepper Elka Pepper Sureni Perakotuwa Chelsea Perera Benjamin Petkov Caitlin Petkovski Igor Petrenko Cameron Petty Tara Petty Harry Pham Charles Phan

Navi Portelli Zoe Powell Saanvi Prabhakar Shaurya Prabhakar Cormack Pratt Edward Prevot Mingyang Qian Yue Qiu Alex Qu Liping Qu Jasmine Quick Samuel Quick Chelsey Radley Dylan Radley Avishka Raj Rishika Rajagopalan Gowri Rajmohan Shiva Rajmohan Caitlin Ramsay Don Avin Ranasinghe Tarun Rao Arsheeya Rattan Mia Raunik

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STUDENT ROLL Dominik Rawdanowicz

Aarvinder Sandhu

Mac Short

Katherine Stevens

Luke Tarola

Nicholas Tsaloukis

Akeisha Sandhu

Djenaba Jonda Sibal

Zali Stiefel

Chelsea Tassone

Christopher Tsoukas

Kamil Rawdanowicz

Kaajal Sangar

Christopher Silva

Sean Stinson

Selina Tassone

Albert Tu

Klara Rawdanowicz

Lilijana Santzaridis

Stephanie Silva

Philip Stojanovski

Brigitte Tattersall

Hai Nhi Tu

Helena Rayward

Sofia Santzaridis

Max Simoni

Ethan Stojcevski

Wil Tattersall

Lou Tumalad

Oliver Rayward

Matthew Sappenberghs

Hannah Simpson

Isabella Stojcevski

Abbey Taylor

Laura Turnbull

Farbod Razban

Aryan Singh

Liam Stojcevski

Alana Taylor

Sarah Turnbull

Cooper Read

Yasemin Sargin

Navdeep Singh

Zachary Stojkovski

Alex Taylor

Jackson Turner

Bianca Rebesco

Aditya Sarkar

Simran Singh

Daniel Stolfa

Ashton Taylor

Ines Turnor

Louise Rebesco

Peta Saul

Sumail Singh

Jake Stolfa

Elizabeth Saverchenko

Mackenzie Singleton

William Stomann

Alexander TaylorBrown

Anchal Tuteja

Thomas Rebesco

Nicholas Singline

Ava Stone

Matthew Teasdale

Deana Sirianni

Liam Straughan

Joshua Tebbs

Monique Tzambazakis

John Sirianni

Noah Straughan

Tiffany Temuskos

Peter Tzambazakis

Erin Sivies

Ryan Straughan

Joshua Tencic

Farhan Uddin

Sasha Skilton

Kate Streeter

Madeline Tester

Chloe Smith

Michael Streeter

Rory Theodore

Lachlan Van Heerwaarden

Joshua Smith

Ruby Streit

Deepinder Thind

Max Van Niel

Alannah SmithFrowd

Matthew Strmecki

Emily Thompson

Tyler Van Niel

Dana Sucic

Valborg Vang

Tayler Smith-Frowd

Erin Sucic

Madeleine Thompson

Jordan Sobin

Finley Sumner

Sarah Thompson

Paris Vasta

Mikaila Sobin

Kendall Sumner

Lauren Thorpe

Michael Vaughan

Mia Sokolic

Ziyuan Sun

Michelle Thorpe

Robert Vaughan

Tanay Solanki

Raiysnu Sunderarajan

Elizabeth Tintaru

Harshita Vazirani

Manli Tong

Jonathan Velevski

Ivan Suslov

Emily Trajcevska

Thomas Velevski

Pavel Suslov

Brianna Trajcevski

Holly Vella

Lachlan Sutcliffe

Jack Trajcevski

Jack Vella

Maisy Sutcliffe

Mikayla Trajcevski

Edison Vergara

Jarrod Sutton

Mitchell Trajcevski

Gabrielle Vincent

Molly Sutton

Anh Khoi Tran

Charlotte Vincent-Lord

Lachlan Rees Shaun Rees Kimlynn Reid Mikhael Reid Mishani RentonLove

Tanish Sawhney Satwik Sayala Caitlin Scerri Liam Scerri

Millie Renwick

Carl Schaap

Rhys Renwick

Naomi Schaap

Jordan Reynolds

Cody Schallhammer

Emily RichardsonBrown

Harrison Schier

Jonathan Rigas

Georgia Scholes

Nicholas Rigas

India Schuurmans

Aiden Ristevski

Alexander Scobie

Jackson-Lee Robbins

Maximilian Scobie

Jack Robinson Kate Robinson Samuel Robinson Eric Rodgers Toussaint

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Sanaya Sawhney

Darcy Schneider

Tiara Scognetti Madelyne Scott Ruby Scrimizzi Jarryd Scully Luke Scully

Ning Ning Song Thomas Song Cala Songur Luke Soppi Nicholas Soppi Benjamine Sourivong

Arth Tuteja

Cartier Vasta

Manon Rogotowicz

Matthew Scully

Isabella Ross

Hanine Seifeddine

Isobelle Sourivong

Brianna Svilar

Cameron Tran

Keeley Ross

Hussein Seifeddine

Emily Spiteri

Gisele Szulc

Daniel Tran

Beth Von Alpen

Christopher Rothwell

Sawsan Seifeddine

Kate Spiteri

Michael Szulc

David Tran

Elisha Walker

Kim Seok-Nguyen

Sean Spralja

Orlando Szulc

Hoang Tran

Mitchell Walker

Alana Rushworth

Anthony Serovski

Chan-Sol Sprenger

Ricky Ta

Jacqueline Tran

Connor Wall

Adam Russell

Ashley Sevior

Guy St Leon

Anthony Tabone

Kelly Tran

Aengus Walsh

Claire Russell

Darby Sexton

Sophie St Leon

Layla Taleb

Kelvin Tran

Finn Walsh

Dale Russell

Vidhi Shah

Luke Stack

Sarah Taleb

Ngoc May Tran

Tara Walsh

Lachlan Russell

Arjun Sharma

Andrew Stainsby

Nicholas Tam

Stephanie Tran

Jack Walton

Madeleine Russell

Karan Sharma

Mitchell Tamanika

Vince Tran-Dang

Junge Wang

Jessica Ryan

Kiana Shay

Christopher Stainsby

Andrew Tan

Simon Trenker

Tyrone Wang

Madeline Ryan

Jack Sheehan

Brendon Stankovic

James Tan

Reece Trewhella

Yumin Wang

Mikaela Sabini

Tameika Sheldrick

Martin Stankovic

Zhou Tan

Sean Trewhella

Zichen Wang

Chanel Sabotkoski

Yuhong Shen

Ailis Steele

Nathan Tang

Lochlann Trinh

Madeleine Ward

Grace Sadler

Arnav Shesham

Alana Stepanovski

Xiaojing Tang

Jordan Truong

Adam Warren

Tehara Samaratunga

Mostafa Shirzada

Adam Stevens

Liana Tarola

Michael Tsaloukis

Luke Warren

Byron Watson

Nicola Wevling

Ethan Wood

Annabel White

Mitchell Wood

Cassandra White

Oliver Wood

Jane White

Keone Wright

Harvey Watters

Lillian White

Cade Wroblewski

Asami Weaver

Harvey Whittaker

Jonathan Wu

Jialin Wei

Vita Whittaker

Hannah Weller

Jack Whitty

Marcus Weller

Hamish Williams

Donghui Weng

Lachlan Wilson

Olga-Louise Xinomilakis

Gabriel West

Liam Wilson

Alysha Yacono

Isabella Yoseski

Melrose Zaldarriaga

Orlando West

Uileam Wilson

Fengqi Yang

Michael Yoseski

Alexander Zammit

Alysia Westcott

James Winterton

Thomas Yaniv

Adam Younes

Laura Zammit

Samantha Westcott

Mirabelle Witcombe

Louis Yankos

Ahmad Younes

Zachary Zammit

Katie Weston

Jasmine Wong

Tuscanny Yankos

Nahda Younes

Joel Zarebski

Vineth Wetthasinghe

Brendan Wood

Alexia Yankoulas

Jackson Young

Hongtao Zhang

Louis Abbott

Anahatt Chhina

Flynn Harvey-Wills

Maia Marinkovic

Sylvie Pilkington

Erin Stojcevski

Angad Ahuja

Christian Chiriano

Rayann Hasna

Lachlan Martin

Ermioni Pitliangas

Lucas Stojkovski

Olivia Alexander

Julian Chiriano

Jordan Martyn

Kathleen Pitliangas

Noah Stojkovski

Tana Alispahic

Anika Choubey

Lachlan Hatzopoulos

Luca Mazzaferro

Chelsea Pivk

Mia Armatas

Elaina Crozier

Peter Hatzopoulos

Jack McAuliffe

Sienna Armstrong

Pace Hicks Bullock

Amelia McConnell

Jaren Tan

Mary Attard

Joshua DeDomenico

Jacqueline Ramanan

Scarlett McConnell

Brydie Read

Athena Avci

Benjamin Di Lisio

Cassandra Homewood

Layla Rickman

Oliver Azzopardi

Samuel Di Lisio

Tyler Hourmouzis

Lachlan McGuire

Konstantina Theodoropoulos

Oliver Rickman

Cameron Bailey

Zac Ellis

Hayden Huang

Leah McKenzie William McLaren

Isabel Rigas

Jasmine Thompson

Kayden Bartolo

Samara Fernando

Thomas Hughes

Lily McLeod

Persia Rigas

Max Tran

Keera Beasley

Haylee Frazer

Liam Huntington

Oscar McNaughton

Kane Roseburgh

Charlise Turczyniak

Daniel Behringer

Isaac Fulton-Grover

Zain Memon

Kieran Gallagher

Sebastian Sabotkoski

Vivian Tzavaras

William Bendle

Tabish Jahanghir Majeed

Gemma Board

Zachary Garnsworthy

Jordan Watson Nikhila Watson Connie Watters

Shuqi Wu Lana Wyatt Louis Xevgenis

Christos Yankoulas

James Young

William Zheng

Chong Yao

Dalia Yousif

Ying Zheng

Jaden Yap

Xue Ning Yu

Jiajian Zhong

Brennan Yates

Cameron Yuille

Benjamin Yaziji

Najib Yusuf

Alicia Yeoman

Zakaria Yusuf

Emily Yeoman Oliver Yiangou Ho Min Yoo Brigitte Yoseski

Stephanie Zaharis

Kevin Zhong Jiaqi Zhu Sarah Zijlstra

Victoria Zaharis

Xingpu Zou

Kristian Zaharopoulos

Yiming Zu Ghaleb Zumot

Ameer Zaki

WILLIAMSTOWN

Joseph Bradwell Mackenzie Braini

Claudia Giambattista

Timothy Jose Ira Joshi Antonia Kallifidas

Sophie Mills Elise Mitchell

Jessica Salvalaggio

Rafael Moraes

Holly Seddon

Zachary Murphy

Jeremy Seddon

Emily Nascarella

Caleb Sheehan

Oliver Struhs

Jacob Thompson

Nathaniel Varsamakis Alec Vass Christopher Vourvahakis

Oscar Brajkovic

Benjamin Gill

Alexandra Karagiannis

Beau Brecely

Lulu Graham

Saskia Kerrisk

Cooper Newman

Joan Silva

Zuben Khan

Chloe Nikolovski

Joseph Silva

Christian Konstantinidis

Ethan Nikolovski

Grace Simoni

Stephanie Norton

Javyn Singh

Deng Lam

Samuel Nowell

Sarah Singh

Kai Lawson

Zahra Nuredini

Stephanie Singline

Madison Luis-Geale

Liam Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien

Oliver Smaragdas

William Wonson

Aiden Mantzaris

Georgina Parks

Brock Smith

Laura Wood

Joseph Marek

Theodore Pedley

Grace Speight

Edward Wright

Mia Marinaccio

Stella Pilkington

Charlotte Steel

Jessica Zhu

Anabelle Breiss Sandra Breiss

Ella Grech Montana Green

Madeleine Bryant

Harrison Grgic

Sophie Bryant

Meher Grover

Lara Cameron

Giles Gumley

Edward Camilleri

Imogen Gumley

Freya Cantwell

Reilly Gunn

Derrick Cee

Alexis-Sofia Harvey-Wills

Aarush Challa

Angelina Waddell Ashley Walker Bax Whiting-Fraser Edie Whittaker Oskar Williams

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