Gleneagles College Newsletter

27th October, 2017

YEAR 12 FAREWELLS

Our Year 12s had their final classes, attended the celebration breakfast and whole school assembly and then departed

on a bus for a day of fun and frivolity. The next night we all attended their Graduation Dinner.

At the Graduation Dinner the following awards were presented and all students received their graduation certificate

and commemorative sash. It was a great night for the school community to recognise our students as they came to

the end of thirteen years of schooling. They were proud of their achievements and we were so proud of them.

We wish them well in their upcoming exams and look forward to hearing of their future pathways.

Year 12 awards

English Lisa Li

English as an Additional Language Katarina Nikolic

Literature Vicky Woodward

English Language Connor Pittorino

Further Maths Vicky Woodward

Maths Methods Baaset Moslih

Specialist Maths Beini Zhong

Biology Katarina Kovacevic

Chemistry Baasat Moslih

Physics Soumya Sunil

Environmental Science Shannon Moore

Food Studies Orlaine How

Music Performance Emily Beckett

German Courtney Thomas

Informatics Jacob Clouston

Visual Communication Thomas Lawler

Media Zarita Pedreros

Studio Arts Beini Zhong

Sociology Vicky Woodward

Psychology Katarina Kovacevic

Global Studies Emmanthia Cerantola

History Revolutions Brianna Mondon

Business Management Orlaine How

Legal Studies Nikki Blythe

Geography Lisa Li

Health and Human Development Brayden Sharp

Physical Education Brayden Sharp

Principal’s Award Brianna Mondon

Caltex All Rounder Brayden Sharp

Valedictorian Lisa Li

Long Tan, ADF award Christina Riley

YEAR 12 CLASS OF 2017

Aarifa ABBAS Jamie COUTLEMANIS Aleksandra JOANOVIC Kyle NEWBOUND DANIELS Shabana ABDUL-RASHID Kayla CRAM Dejan JOVANOVIC Sarah NGO Achan ABRAHAM AMOL Ashlee CRISP Maira KANWAL Katarina NIKOLIC Njoud ABU-DUHOU Rebecca DAN Fatima KARIMI Melanie NORONHA Olivia ADAMS-TU Joshua DI SALVATORE Jessica KERNJAK Billy NUEBEL Aleena AHMAD Cassandra DONALDSON Miquaeel KHAN Chantelle PAGUIO Awais AHMED Jorja DOWNIE Nahid KHATTAR Stasi PANTSIS Samina AIJAZ Damjan DRAGISIC Farid KHOWEISS Lourdes PAN Shohana AKBAR Jade DURBIN Imaan KIMMIE Alexia PAPADAKOS Zaynah ALI David EMMANUEL Katarina KOVACEVIC Zarita PEDREROS Nadir ALI Janelle EVANS Adam KRISTANI Shaniah PEREIRA Akram ALI Jordan FAIRWEATHER Negena LAMHA Kunga PHURBU Chloe ALLISON Ali Asghar FAQIHI Thomas LAWLER Konrad PIENKO Saif AL-MUSAWI Bianca GORMAN Goldie LE Connor PITTORINO Benjamin ALVAREZ-MENDOZA Kyle GRAYSON Lisa LI Ramin POPAL Itagia AMATAGA Luke GREIG Chantelle LIM Naomi PUMNUT Elias AMIRI Chris GUNN Jovana LJUBINOVIC Matthew RADITSIS Ansu ANAND Dianna HAIDAR Alima MALAKYAR Smilja RAKIC Fatima ANABTAWI Sara HAKIMI Michael MANIATIS Danielle RAQUIZA Tooba ANUM Faizan HASAN Lachlan MAROLLA Brittany RICHARDS Brodie BAILLIE Devlyn HASLER Thomas MAXIMOS Christina RILEY Chloe BATTISTELLO Fotini HEROUVIM Heela MAYAR Carolina RIZKALLAH Emily BECKETT Jarryd HINZ Ashleigh MCDONNELL Gennie ROCHECOUSTE Travis BERTOCH Claire HOLDSWORTH Rhianne MCMAHON Jessica RODRIGUES Nikki BLYTHE Orlaine HOW Barbara MIKOLAJEWSKA Jack ROMANCZUK Dylan BODANAC Josh HUNT Kasey MOCKETT Fazil SAHEED Verity BOSANQUET Khatima HUSSAINI Briana MONDON Mirium SANDELIN-MCCANN Stephanie BOTROS Marzia HUSSAINI Shannon MOORE Zahra SAYEDI Josh BOTHA Mina HUSSAINI Jesse MOORE Jacob SCANLAN Virgil CARDENIO Charlee ISLES-PHILLIPS Baaset MOSLIH Brendon SCHWALLIE Emmanthia CERANTOLA Mariana IVANISEVIC Fatema MOZAFARI Brayden SHARP David CHHUN Hania JANJUA Tom MUTIMER Cameron SHEPPARD Alyssar CHOGHRI Christian JARA Victoria NARDUZZO Jessica SIKORA Jacob CLOUSTON Mel JOBB Reza NASR Jawahar SINGH Kyle CONTENCIN Eden JOHNSTON Zahra NAZARI Abbey SMITH Korey COONEY-MCLEAN Hartim JONUZOVSKI Anita NEATNICA Jude SOTIRIOU

Emily ST JOHN Abdul SYED Niki VASILJEVIC Haibei XU Hayley STUBBS Blair TANNER Joel WILKINSON Peter YANG Megha SUJA RANI Courtney THOMAS Davin WONG Danny YOUSSEF Mustafa SULTAN Minahil TOUSEEF Vicky WOODWARD Omed ZAREY Soumya SUNIL Sarah VARAN Maddison WORRELL Beini ZHONG

SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH – GLENEAGLES RECEIVED THE SCHOOLS AWARD

Gleneagles Secondary College was awarded The Peter Craig School Awards. This award recognises the high quality of

entries submitted over the breadth of sections in the competition.

The following students were successful in either Creative writing, Games, Working Models, Video Productions, Science Photography or Scientific Wall charts.

Above: Khushi Sharma, Viranya Samarasinghe, Krish Rajavel, Chelsea Roy , Mariette Turner and Tirtani Santosa displaying their winning games.

Major Bursaries (top prizes awarded including a medal and cheque):

Year 7s: Rosemin Sidhu, Elena Shwaros, Laya Latheesh, Emily Kuok, Rachel Calabria, Tran Giang

Year 8’s Krish Rajavel and Lily Lunder and Mariette Turner from Year 9

Minor Bursaries:

Year 8s: Jess Fitzgerald, Erin Porteous, Viranya Samarasinghe, Khushi Sharma, Tirtani Santosa, Chelsea Roy,

Kimberley Lofthouse , Sean Silva , Zacki Rizwan , Keisha Nathan , Nikitha Ramkumar and Damian Aleksic from 9E

GSC also had more than 20 Distinction and Merit Certificates awarded to Gleneagles students. Thank you to the following science teachers :Pam Stratford, Mai Dang and Marta Ivkov for their involvement in encouraging students

and judging on the day.

Staff looking their

glamorous best at the

Year 12 Graduation dinner!

THE ART NEWS

MUSIC NEWS

It gives me pleasure to announce that Luke Wilson and Tara Karkas

received a high distinction for their AMEB grade two theory examination

which was held in August at the Box Hill Town Hall.

These students also have instrumental music lessons at school and are

undertaking AMEB practical exams and VCE music exams in their relevant

instruments.

Congratulations and well done! Kim Ball (Woodwind Teacher)

Year 7 NGV Excursion

The year 7’s went on an excursion to the NGV Art Gallery. The students spent the day there looking at different

varieties of artworks and were told to take photos of ones that inspired us.

Over all, the experience was great because, there weren’t just paintings, there were sculptures, furniture, landscapes,

portraits and much more. The NGV is a great place to go for entertainment or if you have a passion for art. It is

completely FREE!!! Written by Tiffany 7E and Amelie 7J

This is Leonard French’s stained glass

ceiling. It took him over 5 years to make as

he built it with his own bare hands and

there are over 10,000 pieces of glass.

This is Pablo Picasso’s famous

‘Weeping Woman.’ It costs over 1.6

million dollars to buy, but at the NGV

you can see it for free.

POP UP ART EXHIBITION AT MUMA

Our VCE Studio Arts and Visual Arts students displayed their work at a pop up exhibition at MUMA (Monash University

of Modern Art). They had the opportunity to learn how to curate an exhibition as well as having an opportunity to

display their work for family, friends and staff at a special celebration event. Congratulations to the following students

who had their work displayed. Thank you to all the staff who supported this event and a special thank you to MUMA

for once again hosting our school.

Chloe Allison Verity Bosanquet

Joshua Di Salvatore Melinda Jobb

Anita Neatnica Genevieve Rochecouste

Jessica Sikora Sarah Varan

Beini Zhong Elias Amiri

Dylan Bodanac Jorja Downie

Ali Asghar Faqihi Dianna Haidar

Fotini Herouvim Eden Johnston

Dejan Jovanovic Maira Kanwal

Imaan Kimmie Thomas Lawler

Mumtaz Monhammed Yahya Victoria Narduzzo

Matthew Raditsis Smilja Rakic

Carolina Rizkallah Soumya Sunil

Haibei Xu

Beini Zhong Still Life with fruit 2017

YEAR 10 & 11 EXAMS

The Year 10 and 11 exams are rapidly approaching. The Exam Navigator will be published to Compass for both students

and parents. In it you’ll find the expectations for GSC exams, equipment that is permissible to take into an exam and

of course the exam schedule. Students must attend all exams or risk failing the subject. Exams are an important

consideration when we decide whether a student has the skills and commitment necessary to be promoted to the

next year level for 2018. Please note, students are only required to be at school for their exams. Students are of

course, welcome to study in the library when they don’t have an exam. It’s important to note that students who chose

to stay at school cannot leave and then come back e.g. to go to the shops. If a student is unable to attend due to a

significant illness the school should be notified. A medical certificate would be required and only then would an exam

be rescheduled.

GLENEAGLES CUP

On Monday 16th of October, GSC welcomed primary students to participate in the annual Gleneagles Cup. The

weather was perfect and we couldn’t quite believe it. The Gleneagles Cup is a wonderful opportunity for our

students to develop their leadership, team work and organisational skills. It started out a number of years ago as a

student led project and is now an annual tradition. Over 600 grade 4 and some grade 3 students, their teachers and

a large number of parents spent the day at Gleneagles. Seven local primary schools competed in soccer, basketball,

netball and volleyball. The teams were coached by Year 9 students over the semester in the lead up to the big day.

Our students ran the day, fed everyone, umpired and coached the matches and did so with great maturity and

common sense. They can be rightly proud of their achievements. They were wonderful ambassadors for this school.

I’m confident that some of the primary school students are already looking forward to when they are at GSC and

they can be one of the year 9 students running the event. Bring on 2022!

We would like to acknowledge Ms Cooper and Ms Boudreau and also thank the many staff who gave generously of

their time and assisted with the Gleneagles Cup this year. Congratulations to Narre Warren North Primary School f or

taking home the Gleneagles Cup for 2017.

NEWSLETTER GOES MONTHLY

The College has invested a great deal of time over the past 18 months in establishing Compass as our primary means

of communication with our school community. As we shifted to ongoing reporting via Compass in 2017, we have seen

record number of logins and parents accessing information about their children.

Our staff have also been utilising Compass to communicate with parents via news feed about up-and-coming events,

homework, CATs, SACs and student achievement.

After much consideration the College has decided that the fortnightly newsletter will now be published via Compass

monthly. In between newsletters, families should continue to check Compass on a regular basis for announcements

about key events and information regarding their children.

GLENEAGLES SC STUDENT GP SERVICE

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Range of Service Offered

The GP will provide students with the same services at the school as those provided by GPs in the community, including

management of physical health, mental health, and sexual and reproductive health issues. GPs may also make referrals

to other health services as required. It is anticipated, that where possible, the GP will work with school health and

wellbeing staff to support the broader health and wellbeing programs at the school.

Eligibility

Students enrolled at GSC are eligible to be referred to the service.

The service is not available to staff, non-secondary school-aged students or parents/carers.

Operating Hours

Tuesdays 9 - 1.30pm during the school term.

Cost

There will be no out-of-pocket expenses for the consultation.

Accessing the service

The expected process to access the service is: 1) Students and/or parent/carer will contact their relevant sub-school to be referred to the service.

2) Referrals will be discussed by GSC Wellbeing.

3) Appointment will be made through GSC Wellbeing Manager with the GP or referral to other services will be

made. Students attend the appointment at the allocated date/time.

*Note: Students are expected to follow the process above but can, under exceptional circumstances, seek an

appointment directly with the Practice Nurse or GP by dropping into the school GP clinic at lunchtime. Students

should note that the Wellbeing Manager will be advised that appointments have been sought/scheduled directly

with the centre. This is to account for attendance and for monitoring of services delivery.

Confidentiality

Students have the opportunity to undertake appointments confidentially. Student health information will be kept

confidential.

Contact

GSC Wellbeing Manager Colette Davis provides leadership in the school around the implementation of the program.

She supports and collaborates with the GP and Practice Nurse to ensure effective management of the service, including

the making of appointments and supporting the maintenance of students’ confidentiality in the delivery of primary

health care to students. Integrating the GP service into the school’s broader health and wellbeing programs will also

be a focus, as well as facilitating positive relationships with the Medical Centre and partnerships with community

health providers. For further information, please contact Colette on 9708 1319.

FOR YOUR CALENDAR

Wednesday 1st November –

Wednesday 22nd November Unit 3 & 4 Exam period This link has the official timetable from VCAA

Thursday 2nd November –

Friday 3rd November Year 9 Outdoor Education Camp at Wilson’s Prom.

Monday 6th November Year 10 & 11 Study Day in preparation for upcoming exams

Special program for Year 7 – 9 students

Tuesday 7th November Melbourne Cup Day – Public Holiday – no classes

Wednesday 15th November MSO Open Rehearsal excursion for Band students

Friday 17th November to

Friday 24th November

Year 10 and 11 exam period. Students only required to attend when they have

exams. Private study in the library is available.

Monday 20th November to

Wednesday 22nd November Year 8 Camp (8A, 8E, 8I, 8J & 8L)

Wednesday 22nd November to

Friday 24th November Year 8 Camp (8B, 8C, 8D, 8F, 8G, 8H & 8K)

Wednesday 2nd November to

Sunday 26th November HPV Camp - Maryborough

Monday 27th November to

Friday 8th December Year 10 to 11 & Year 11 to 12 Transition Program

Compulsory for all students attending GSC in 2018 in these year levels

Monday 27th November Year 7 Summer Music Concert

Wednesday 29th November Year 7 2018 Information Night

Friday 4th December Year 9 Outdoor Education Trees Adventure

Monday 4th December Singing and Piano Concert

Tuesday 5th December Orientation Day for Year 7 SEAL class 2018

Tuesday 5th December –

Friday 8th December Year 9 exam period

Tuesday 12th December Orientation Day for Year 7, 2018 cohort