News & Events

Another term has ended, the days are longer and the weather is warmer (slightly). Lilydale Heights College continues to be an active learning environment where learning and extra curricular opportunities continue to be presented to students by highly committed staff.

This year's production is a re-telling of the magical story of Dorothy and her adventures in The Land of Oz.

It features all the characters that we know and love, with quirky twists that make their way into the piece...

This week we took the middle school outdoor ed group out on a trip. We were very excited, but the weather was very cold. As we walked up the 1000 Steps Memorial walk we rose into the clouds and fog.

Ms Doughty's 9/10 Global Conflicts class visited The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.

It was a great day with a full guided tour.

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.