Southern Metro Region Cross Country
On Monday 15th of June 61 McKinnon students represented the school at the Southern Metro Region cross country finals a Ballam Park Frankston.All McKinnon students performed expectionally well...
View ArticleSenior Ensemble Concert
McKinnon’s most experienced musicians gathered in the hall on Wednesday May 27 to present the first Senior Ensembles Concert for 2015. It was a very busy night for some individual student performers,...
View ArticleFrench Exchange students (Week two)
For their second week at our school, the French exchange students spent most of their time following their Australian partners to classes. They also had special classes taught by teachers from all...
View ArticleMusic Performance Brass Night
An evening of music. An evening of expression. An evening to be remembered.Brass players brought their trumpets, tubas, trombones and French horns to the Allan Lawrence Lecture Theatre on a chilly...
View ArticleYear 10 Drama Night
This term the Year Ten students were faced with the task of choosing the scripts they wanted to work with from a selection provided. After careful consideration and much debate they either chose the...
View ArticleLittle Shop Of Horrors Musical
Late last year in 2014 we held auditions for our musical production Little Shop of Horrors, after 4 grueling weeks of intensive auditions and some incredibly hard decisions we had our cast ranging in...
View ArticleIntermediate Round Robin
On Wednesday 6 May the Kingston Term 2 Intermediate Round Robin was held at various venues within the area. McKinnon was strongly represented and won the Inter Boys & Girls Squash, Senior Boys...
View ArticleYear 11 Camp
On Wednesday the 17th of June, four buses of year elevens and several teachers dreary eyed and tired for a 3:20am meeting at McKinnon began our adventure to the Gold Coast. Twenty minutes later we were...
View ArticleFrench Exchange Excursion
Our last French exchange excursion took us to the city, almost where we started in the first week of their time in Australia. This time, we visited the State Library of Victoria. This impressive...
View ArticleState Cross Country Championships
On Thursday, 16 of McKinnon's finest endurance superstars headed off to Bundoora Park for the State Cross Country Championships.Our day got off to a fantastic start, with Genevieve O'Brien (10th) and...
View ArticleYear 11 Music Performance Night
On the evening of Thursday 25th June the Year 11 VCE musicians hosted the Year 11 Music Night concert. The concert is a celebration of the students’ talents and ongoing hard work throughout the...
View ArticleYear 12 Music Performance
Held on the evening of Thursday 18th June in Mckinnon’s Alan Lawrence Theatre the Year 12 Music Night was a celebration concert that showcased the ongoing hard work and talent of our Year 12...
View ArticleYear 12 English Performance
On Friday, June 19th, all our Year 12 English students were enthralled by the Eagle’s Nest production of key scenes from Arthur Miller’s iconic post-modern play, Death of a Salesman.James Adler and his...
View ArticleYear 9 Drama Night
This term the Year 9 Drama students were faced with the challenge of writing their plays from scratch. All of the work performed had been created by the students through a workshopping and rehearsal...
View ArticleModel United Nations
The 14th - 20th June 2015 marked International Refugee Week. McKinnon Secondary College in cooperation with the UNAA Victoria hosted a Model UN Conference to raise student awareness on the topic...
View ArticleProject Rockit
On the 21st of June the company Project Rockit came to Mckinnon Secondary College to talk about bullying. They did this in quite a unique way.They showed the year 7s sheepishly gathered before them how...
View ArticleJunior Concert
The Junior Concert for first semester was held on Tuesday 23 June in McKinnon School Hall and featured spirited performances from all the Year 7 and 8 Band and String groups as well as the Junior and...
View ArticleYear 8 Survivor Sports
On the last day of Term 2 the Survivor Sport Day was held. Each Year 8 form was split into 3 teams to participate in the three different sports - netball, volleyball and soccer. Up for grabs was a...
View ArticleYear 8 Survivor Art Challenge
The Survivor Art Challenge was held on Thursday 25th of June. Each form in Year 8 was split up into their Island Groups to compete in one of the five Art tasks.The challenges where the Mask (Art),...
View ArticleFrench Model UN Conference
On Friday the 24th of July, four Year 12 students of French attended the French Model UN conference organized by United Nations of Australia and the Association of French Teachers in Victoria, the...
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