Quantcast
Viewing all 756 articles
Browse latest View live
↧

PERCUSSION CONCERT

August 11, 2014, 10:01 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
On Monday 11 August a hot night’s entertainment was provided by the fantastic percussion students and their teacher Mr Golovko.  Thank you to the many solos, duos and group performances that took place over the night as the level of musicianship was exceedingly high.  Congratulations on a fantastic effort.

Check out our photo gallery:
↧
Search

WINTER CONCERT

August 21, 2014, 9:54 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
We are absolutely thrilled with the level of performance and professionalism that was demonstrated in the annual Winter Concert on Thursday 21 August.  Congratulations to all staff and students for their commitment to the Music Department and willingness to continue to strive for excellence!  Thank you to the many parents and friends who came and supported the students and the Music Department.  

The premiere of the commissioned work “The Brave”, by Mr Brian Hogg, was well received by the entire school community and demonstrated a high level of musicianship by the students in both the Ovenden and Symphonic Wind ensembles.

Check out our photo gallery:
↧
↧

McKINNON 60TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

August 31, 2014, 9:30 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
On Sunday 31 August, 2014 we celebrated our 60th birthday in the school Hall.  This occasion was a special celebration and marked a wonderful milestone with the launch of our book, written by Mr Andrew Newton, ‘The Tradition of Excellence’.  

These anniversaries provide us all with an opportunity to reflect and pay tribute to those who come before us for all they have done to cement a wonderful tradition of educational excellence.

I sincerely thank many people for attending to help us celebrate such an amazing milestone in the history of this marvellous school.  I also thank my wonderful staff who have worked tirelessly to make the day possible.  

May I also acknowledge and thank the following students who attended and were instrumental to the success of this event: Andy Zhan, Mia Moadim-Lesimha, Max Meuleman, Amber Irving, Nick Angelopoulos, Caitlin Kalaja, Alex Jenek, Elisha Boland, Jascon Schwarz, Christopher Roach, Lily Mackey, Max Baker, Alex Olescoaga, Marom Schell, Indigo Erez, Matthew George, Elise Williams, Daniel Kourtaibe, Gracy Mackay, Arielle Cohen, Vicknan Arjuna and Irene Tartiris

I thank them for being such great ambassadors!

We are a jewel in the crown of Victorian Government Education and I am truly blessed to serve this extraordinary community.

May the McKinnon banner always fly high.

The book ‘The Tradition of Excellence’ can be ordered online via the following link

www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/the-tradition-of-excellence or purchased from the Bursar’s office at the college.


Check out our photo gallery:

↧

KINGSTON ATHLETICS

September 4, 2014, 9:42 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
It gave me great pleasure to be in attendance at the Kingston Divisional Athletics when the announcement was made that McKinnon Secondary College was the overall winner of the day. 

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Division Athletics held at Duncan McKinnon Reserve on Thursday.  It was a sea of “McKinnon Red” with so many participants, so much dedication, endeavour and skills. 

The tremendous sporting achievements of all the children was wonderful.  Thank you for being sporting champions and representing the school in such a successful way.

Check out our photo gallery:

↧

YEAR 8 GIRLS SOCCER

September 5, 2014, 8:40 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Congratulations to the Year 8 Girls Soccer Team for making it into the State Finals on Friday 5 September.  They beat Parkdale, Bentleigh, Brighton and Westall to become the Kingston Division Champions.


At the Southern Metropolitan Region Finals they beat Mentone Girls, Dandenong and Mornington to become the Southern Metropolitan Region Champions.  Determination and hard work got the girls into the State Finals.  They found it tough going without a full squad, but in true McKinnon style they gave it their all.  

Thank you to Mrs Hooper and Janette the AFL trainee for their commitment to training and great coaching.

Congratulations again girls for being great ambassadors for McKinnon!

Carole Hooper
Head of Junior Sport


Check out our photo gallery:

↧
↧

24/7 RELAY CHALLENGE

September 13, 2014, 8:39 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Our community truly rallied last week for our 24/7 Relay Challenge.  Community spirit is alive and well at McKinnon.  Money was raised for State Schools Relief.  This is a charity giving access to education for the many vulnerable and economically destitute families from State Schools in Victoria.

This is such a worthy cause that truly makes a difference to the lives of many.  It was indeed a wonderful sight as tent city arose early on Friday morning.

This event highlights the culture of our school. Parents, staff, students and community members working together to bring about such a successful event -
148 teams of 7 students and staff walked or ran for 24 hours. This endurance highlights difficulties.  It was cold during the night but teams worked together to ensure the commitment made was realised.

Staff and parents supervised all night and I thank them for their tremendous support and commitment.

Entertainment from bands and the silent disco and games helped to pass the time and brought much laughter and enjoyment.

Thank you to the following members of the organizing committee who have worked for months planning:  Toren Abramovich, Ellie Adler, Aiyana Alexander, Brittany Arabena, Kelly Aromataris, Jeremy Bowen, Keeley Dang, Sian Evans, Chai Foreman-Sim, Thomas Herterich, Pranav Kalra, Myles Kelemen, Nicole Koloditzky, Sophie Liao, Yilin Lou, Brinda Manogaran, Deanna Manolas, Daisy Milopteris, Amy Moadim-Lesimha, Mia Moadim-Lesimha, Jason Moncrieff, Cara Morgan, Aron Murray, Nicole Olascoaga, Monisha Pal, Charlotte Pentland, Tali Pinkus, Austen Pope, Paul Poulios, Lauren Rosenberg, Hannah Rosenberg, Susan Snell, Gabrielle Steele, Sachin Sureshkumar, Jiawei Thing, Jiawen Thing, Breanna Thomas, Samantha Tonkin, Alexandra Torney, Jenny Tran, Daniel Tritt and Kristen Watkins.  Also a big thank you to staff on the Committee: Georgia Schmidt, Jamie Binnion, Daniel Farthing, James Bridges, David Machin, Phil de Salvo, Emma Mullane, Lauren Mauger and Jenny Pemberton.

Special thanks to Miss Georgia Schmidt, who has been the teacher in charge and a passionate advocate for this cause and Callum Lloyd (Year 11) who has been the key to the success of this event. His leadership, organisational and communication skills ensured the 24/7 was the biggest and best!!

Top 3 team results:
1. QWOP (Team 25)
2. F.I.B.S (Team 36
3. Spesh Crew Elite Taskforce 69 (Team 107)

To view all team results, click here

Check out our photo gallery:

↧

YEAR 12 MUSIC NIGHT

September 16, 2014, 8:41 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Congratulations to the Year 12 music students who have continued to inspire us with their developing musical skills.  

The Celebration Concert will be held Thursday 18 September in the Music Auditorium with all students presenting work for their upcoming examinations.  We wish you well in your exams. 


Check out our photo gallery:

↧

General Assembly October 2014

October 13, 2014, 5:54 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
The assembly was opened by the National Anthem performed by Morgan Dooley-Axup with accompaniment by Kurowsi on Piano. This was followed by a performance by the Year 12 Music Performance class. The year 12 class performed Ain’t it fun by Paramore and Up all night by Better Than The Wizards. After the performances, the School captains were then invited to the stage to conduct the assembly. Mrs Binnion welcomed the school with the principals address. This was followed by Mr Manolas who filled the stage with students to present the recent Maths competition award. Ms Hatch then presented recent IT awards for the NCSS Challenge and Bebras Competition.  As well, Mr Perry presented certificates for the recent Tournament of the Minds competition. Next Year 12 student and Chisholm House captain, Ash Haw came to stage to present a sports report. Some visual presentations were showcased including the 24/7 Relay Challenge by Georgia Schmidt. The 24/7 relay Challenge raised a tremendous $45,000 for State schools relief. CEO Stephen Iles collected the donation on behalf of State Schools relief. Another visual presentation was from Asia Week, where Mrs Nayyar present the recent festivities from the Asia Week which was on the last week of term 3. Roni Dyskin presented the upcoming Arts Show and Slip club presentation.To conclude the assembly, Mrs Binnion gave a farewell to the current year 12's in their last week of school.


Check out our photo gallery:


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.






↧
Search

Year 12's final week

October 15, 2014, 4:52 pm
$
0
0

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. In the last week of school for the year 12’s, there have been many celebrations. These celebrations include dress up day, where students dress up in any costume relating to their initials, the final day of classes where student’s farewell staff and fellow students and the year 12 assembly run by the year 12s to end their schooling. The valedictory graduation dinner will occur next week and the school wishes all year 12s the best of luck for their exams and for the future.


Check out our photo gallery:


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.




Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.   Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.         Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.



































↧
↧

Premier Napthine's visit

October 15, 2014, 4:54 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Premier Napthine visited our school with Elizabeth Miller, Member for Bentleigh, on Monday the 13th of October. The Premier announced a $9 million commitment for an upgrade at the College. This is wonderful news for the school. This now means that both the Labor and Liberal parties have made a commitment to fund the building of new classrooms for our students and staff. Given the growth of the school, Mrs Binnion has been working tirelessly with the Department and local political members advocating for this upgrade. Her endeavours and persistence has definitely paid off. The funding will go towards a New Year 12 Centre, another double storey wing replacing B & C Block as well as some of the D Block portables. The funding will also include new Music rooms. The school will continue to work with our architects H2o to complete the buildings project.

Check out our photo gallery:

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.






↧

Asia Week

October 15, 2014, 8:24 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Asia Week occurred in the last week of term three. The week aimed to address tradition Asian cultures. A range of activities were conducted during the week including Henna painting, lunch time karaoke and Karate training. The array of food ranging from Asian to Indian cuisine was served every day for the week. Classes in the year seven and eight level employed students with Asian language background to teach micro lessons of their language to the class. As well as students, staff participated in the festivities by dressing up in Indian Costume. The whole week would not be possible without the amazing organising by Rekha Nayyar and other staff.




Check out our photo gallery:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.              Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.              
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.










↧

Senior School Handbook

November 30, 2014, 4:48 pm
↧

McKinnonNEWS - Issue 15 - October 16th

October 15, 2014, 6:06 pm
↧
↧

Philosothon

October 23, 2014, 2:53 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
The Philosothon is in its sixth year at McKinnon. The first Victorian event was in 2009 and McKinnon philosophers in Years 7-12 have participated and enjoyed success ever since. Student philosophers engage in the collaborative philosophical dialogue using the Community of Inquiry based approached. The 2014 McKinnon team of philosophers included: Max Abrahms, Ellen Nichols, Izzy Blumberg, Lena Le, Chad Aizicowitz, Adam ElHorri and Liam Atchison.

In preparation for the event held at the City Cite in Melbourne on the evening of October 22, students met during lunch time and after school to discuss the following topics 1) The Good Life: "Are we entitled to live a good life?", 2) Science and Progress:  "Many people think that humanity has made much progress through developments made in science. Is there something or somewhere we should be heading towards? Can science take us there?" 3)Finding Yourself:"'Know thyself' was once famously inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece. What do we mean by 'self'? Is it something we can know?", 4) Freedom of Speech: Is it wrong to say what you think?"

Students collaborated with each other by learning and practicing the skills necessary for philosophical inquiry. As a good English essay has specific requirements of structure and content, so does a good philosophical discussion. For example, criteria used by the Philosothon Judges from Monash and the University of Melbourne, included how well students learnt to build on the ideas of others by listening intently, offering counter-examples to extend perspectives, and asking questions to clarify and come to a better understanding. Naturally, the skills practiced in unpacking the topics for better understanding also included critical and higher order thinking, and creative and caring thinking. It is necessary to explain 'caring' thinking here, as it is caring for the process of inquiry, not solely exercising compassion for fellow inquirers.

Congratulations to our McKinnon philosophers for achieving 2nd place in the 2014 Philosothon and for their enthusiasm in recognizing the value of thinking philosophically outside of the classroom. Please visit www.vaps.vic.edu.au for view the program and  www.philosothon.org for more details on the state and national Philosothons.



↧

Year 12 Assembly

October 23, 2014, 3:42 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. The annual year 12 assembly occurred last friday the 17th of October. A range of performances occurred, ranging from burlesque dancers to musical performances. The assembly ran smoothly with many videos including variations of television commercial and song covers. Performances on the day included a live song by James Landman on guitar and Immy Chuah on vocals. Another musical performance took place where a group of year 12s sung the song Valerie. The school captains presented gifts to the principal team (Mrs Binnion, Mr Kan, Mr Evans, Mr Noble), the year 12 coordinators, Mr Eddie mest who continues to support the year twelves with their career choices and to the year 12 students who helped organise and run the assembly. The assembly ended with the annual tradition of the baby photos. This video was accompanied by vocalists Emma Belotti and Jess Kroumer as well as James Landman on guitar.

Congratulations to the year twelves on completing a wonderful six years of schooling and all the best with your end of year exams.





Check out our photo gallery:



↧
Search

Year 10 Market day

October 23, 2014, 3:48 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
On Monday, two classes of Year 10 Business students participated in Market Day. They have worked hard all semester putting together a formal Business Plan to ensure they have the knowledge and know-how to run a successful enterprise.

They also had to complete ‘The Pitch’ to a member of the Principal Team to finalise proceedings. Money will be raised for a variety of charities – from the Heart Foundation, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the Make a Wish Foundation, the Royal Flying Doctors, the Salvation Army, Diabetes Australia and State School’s Relief.  Students will be measuring their success against criteria set in the plan.

Students have gained many new skills since commencing this hands-on approach to learning. Notably, the ability to work alongside each other in a team environment; and the need for strong communication skills in both a written and verbal context. Students were required to delegate effectively to ensure all work was completed by the due date and they had to interpret and analyse market research data. Financial knowledge was key in keeping costs down and when deciding on pricing strategies. And visual learners were able to tap into their creativity with regards to packaging and logo creation.

Market Day is embedded culturally into the Year 10 Business course here at McKinnon Secondary College as it provides an excellent opportunity for students to engage themselves in a meaningful hands-on project that presents real-life challenges. Good luck to all of this semester’s participants!

Yours in Business,

Mrs Kate Jobson and Mr John Rorke



Check out our photo gallery:


↧

Year 12 Valedictory dinner

October 23, 2014, 3:58 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
On Wednesday 22nd October we celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2014 in the most spectacular style at the annual McKinnon Secondary College Valedictory Dinner.

This year's event was held in the home of the AFL Brownlow Medal and The Logies, the stunning Crown Palladium Room.

Over 650 staff, students and their families shared in the celebration. It was a wonderful night to celebrate the achievements of our Class of 2014. We thank everyone who attended and made the night a special finale to the students school life at McKinnon Secondary College.




Check out our photo gallery:

↧
↧

Year 7 Zoo excursion

October 23, 2014, 6:10 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. All Year 7 students visited Zoos Victoria this week to complete outcomes associated with the Year 7 Science AUSvels course.  At Melbourne Zoo students learnt about animal adaptation and classification in zoo classroom sessions and then applied the knowledge to tasks around the zoo.

The Year 7 ELMS students went to Healesville Sanctuary and spent the day researching the needs of some of Australia's most endangered animals.  By the end of the day the students had many great ideas about how we could improve the lot of some of our most vulnerable creatures.

 Ideas such as using recycled paper towel and toilet paper reminded all of us that there is a lot we can do in our community to help conserve vulnerable and endangered species.


A great day was had by all.



↧

Year 8 Maths Survivor Challenge

October 27, 2014, 2:37 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. On the 23rd of October the Maths Survivor leg of the Year 8 Survivor Program was run.This program involves all year 8 classes divided into 3 groups and it runs for 2 periods for each group.
The students are required to solve 22 challenges, no calculators are allowed. It relies on the islands applying logical deduction to obtain the correct answer,

This year the students excelled with excellent scores coming from all 3 groups.
The overall winner this year was Jamaica with a score of 58, followed by Madagascar on 55, while in third place with a score of 54 was the Falkionds.

All islands displayed a great deal of enthusiasm and competitiveness.
Well done to them all.
Check out our photo gallery:

↧

Year 11 Music Night

October 27, 2014, 2:41 pm
$
0
0
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. On the evening of Thursday 23rd October our twenty-two Year 11 VCE musicians hosted the biannual Year 11 Music Night concert. This  concert is a celebration of the students’ talents and ongoing hard work throughout the year.

The Alan Lawrence Lecture Theatre began to fill as a large and eager audience of family, friends and staff congregated inside. Courtesy of McKinnon’s dedicated audio and visual crew, the transformed theatre looked impressive resembling more of a concert hall than a school theatre.

The impressive trend was echoed as the night unfolded. Opening the concert with a whole class rendition of Lonely Boy by the Black Keys, the class showcased their mature musicianship and cohesiveness as a group. A wide diversity of music followed with solo performances, ensemble performances, band performances, with styles ranging from classical to contemporary. The standard of performance was exceptionally high and a great night was had by all. To conclude this celebration of Year 11 music at McKinnon, the whole class once again took the stage. This time they performed a class arranged of September by Earth, Wind and Fire. What a great night!


Check out our photo gallery:

↧
Viewing all 756 articles
Browse latest View live
Search