News & Events

The recent Curriculum Day saw teachers refining Semester 2 unit plans and embedding writing-to-learn strategies in the curriculum as part of the College’s literacy plan. These strategies are highly effective in improving students’ subject knowledge as well as their writing skills.

Seven students and one teacher from Kunshan Yushan Middle School in Jiangsu Province arrived in the College on 4 August and spent one week with our students.

Term 3 concludes the majority of our interschool sports with Basketball and Table Tennis being played for the Year 7-10’s, and Year 7 Hockey.

Congratulations to Yarra House who have won the 2017 House of the year winning both the swimming and athletics carnivals. They are also equal winners with Castella in the cross country.

During their English sessions with our EAL teacher, Ms Miller, our Chinese visitors enjoyed playing Chinese whispers and Celebrity Heads. They later created some entertaining short stories that included some of our well-known local natives.

Monday 7th August saw the Japanese Club practise for the Paper Plane competition.

Year 8 students were inspired by the movie Paper Planes, which they watched during Japanese Cultural Day, creating some very interesting looking planes, which could do some interesting manoeuvres in the air.

Our new Outdoor Education group in this semester started their activities off with mountain biking skills at school this week.

Welcome back to Term 3. I trust everyone had a warm winter break. The school term has started well and students are now well engaged in their classes as we move into the second half of the school year.

On Tuesday July 25, Lilydale Heights College hosted the International Middle Years Mathematics Olympiad. Over one hundred and twenty students from Asia and surrounding schools competed in the one-day event.

Music Rehearsal Camp offers many wonderful experiences for our students, including intensive rehearsals, sectionals, and workshops to enhance their musical abilities and ensemble performance skills.

Clearly this has been a very busy Term at the College. I would like to take this opportunity to thank staff for their tireless work and wish all members of our College community a safe and warm winter break.

Café Culture students had a great time keeping up with latest Café trends by making fabulous Monster Milkshakes.