McKinnon's Senior Girls Cricket
On Thursday the 11th of February, the McKinnon's Senior Girls Cricket team played Parkdale in a 10/10 game. Batting first, Melina cracked the whip with a quick 23 runs, helped outstandingly by Cassie...
View ArticleMcKinnon's Senior Boys Cricket
The Senior Boys Cricket team rolled into King George reserve on Thursday 11th February for the annual round robin day to decide the Kingston Division Champions. It has been a while since we stumbled at...
View ArticleYear 7 Fieldwork Excursion
Year 7 C & G were treated to a big day out on Friday with a rather 'whiffy' trip to the Werribee Treatment Plant.Students were shown how sewage is turned into Grade A recycled water and...
View ArticleYear 10 Global Conflict Excursion
Last Thursday the year 10 elective Global Conflict class went to the Islamic Museum of Australia.The purpose of this excursion was to de-mystify the media's perception that anyone involved in heavy...
View ArticleAntips Abroad Practice Hike
In preparation for our trip to Vietnam and China in June, the Antips group went on a 'Training Weekend' from Saturday the 20th to Sunday the 21st of February. The weekend was spent in the bush lands at...
View ArticleSwimming Sports
Mckinnon Secondary College's annual Swimming Sports was held on the 17th of February under the dark and gloomy clouds of Carnegie swimming pool. It was really great to see so many students come and...
View ArticleMcKinnon Junior and Senior Lawn Bowls
Congratulations to the McKinnon Bowlers who took out the Junior and SeniorPennants on Monday 22 February at McKinnon Bowls Club.Competition was fierce resulting in some great precision bowling over the...
View ArticleBig Band Sunset Jazz Festival
Welcoming new members to the band, the Senior Stage Band kicked off 2016 with a a performance at the Big Band Sunset Jazz Festival in Mordialloc.Playing a program of old standards and new favorites,...
View ArticleMcKinnon Debating - DAV Round One
#McKDebating has found a new venue for interschool debating this year, at Kilvington Grammar. It is now far easier for students, staff and parents to attend debating rounds. A big shout out has to go...
View ArticleVCE Formal
The 3rd of March 2016, was the night of nights for the Year 11’s and 12’s, the McKinnon Secondary College Formal, held at Brighton International.The gentleman were sophisticated and the ladies were...
View ArticleKingston Swimming Championships
Forty six McKinnon swimmers returned to the Carnegie swimming pool to compete for the school in the annual Kingston division swimming championships.Thankfully the weather was much more inviting than...
View ArticleInternational Students Excursion
This year we undertook the Port Phillip Bay Experience to give students greater knowledge of the area surrounding Melbourne.Armed with maps and some historic notes on settlements along the bay, we...
View ArticleYear 11 Business Market
On Sunday the 6th of March, 60 Year 11 students from 3 different Business Management classes ranging from Ms Jobson’s, to Mr Verlin’s, and Mr Evan’s classes had to wake up bright and early at 6am and...
View Article2016 Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge
During the last two weeks of Term 1, Year 7 ICT, Year 9 Control Technology, Year 9 Coding, Year 10 ICT, and Year 8 Mathematics classes will be competing in the Bebras ChallengeBebras is an...
View ArticleSenior Boys Cricket
Call me a traditionalist, but I like my cricket to come with picket fences and cucumber sandwiches, so when we rolled into a lopsided horse paddock with gridiron goals for the SMR Finals I got a touch...
View ArticleSouthern Metropolitan Regional Lawn Bowls Championship
Continuing on their streak after winning Kingston Division, the McKinnon Lawn Bowls team has won the 2016 Southern Metropolitan Finals!The team played a series of intense matches against Melbourne...
View ArticleYear 10 Surf Camp
The Year 10 Surf Outdoor Education Camp was held on Wednesday the 16th to Friday the 18th of March in Ocean Grove.Students completed 2 x 2 hour surf lessons during the camp with the Go Ride A Wave...
View ArticlePi Day
On Wednesday the 16th of March, McKinnon celebrated Pi Day with our annual Pi Reciting Competition.We had class champions from all Mathematics classes battle it out to recite as many decimal places of...
View ArticleSenior Round Robin
On Monday March 21st the Kingston Senior round robin robin was played in surrounding suburbs.McKinnon won the Senior Girls Tennis, Senior Boys Basketball, Senior Softball and Senior Girls Futsal....
View ArticleIntermediate Round Robin
On Wednesday 9th of March Kingston Inter Round Robin was held across various venues.Congratulations to girls tennis, softball and baseball who progress to the next round of matches.Results:Girls...
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