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Eblana

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Bayview

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Greenways

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Frogmore

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Arts & Events

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Community

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Sport

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Group Photos

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Staff

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Awards

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The diverse talent in our School was most evident in our sporting success.

The culmination of hard work by the students and staff during the summer season resulted in six AGSV premierships. These were achieved in Boys’ and Girls’ Lifesaving, Tennis, Boys’ and Girls’ Swimming and Volleyball; all excellent examples of the School building on its previous achievements. This carried through to a competitive winter sports season where several teams were successful in also reaching AGSV finals. Our Athletics teams were also highly competitive and, in particular, the Girls’ team that achieved its highest score in the history of Girls’ Athletics at Mentone Grammar.

On and off the field students have been scoring goals, as we saw with

the coordination of senior student-led seminars. This saw record numbers of students share their knowledge to gain helpful guidance and structures for upcoming SACs and for the end of year exams.

Students were greatly inspired following this year’s Keith Jones Oration where Young Australian of the Year recipient Akram Azimi, gave invaluable insight on how to make an impact within the community and the importance of a strong community in achieving great things. We have seen this with our own Community Service team in its commitment to assisting those less fortunate by raising awareness, donations and funds for many local and international charities.

Again, the School’s annual Zaidee’s 24 Hour Marathon was a great success with $27,549 raised; an outstanding effort by all. Continuing the generosity, our 40 Hour Famine participants continued to amaze, with over $2000 raised for those in need. This is an incredible effort and we commend all involved in these activities.

The Cadet Unit is a unique structure where students can also develop their skills as leaders. Once again our Unit provided a challenging and rewarding experience for those in Years 9 to 12.

Our leaders volunteered for many functions commemorating ANZAC day, and showed great perseverance during one of the coldest and wettest Annual Camps in recent history.

Our Performing Arts productions have been a massive success once again.

Our senior production of Legally Blonde was spectacular following the amazing first ever cut opera production of Orlando. Our various music ensembles worked hard throughout the year and showcased their talents at the traditional Winter Concert and Spring Concert to the highest of standards. It has been exciting to see the amount of talent coming through the School, and no doubt with the opening of our new Creativity Centre, Performing Arts will continue to thrive.

There is no denying that the accomplishments and great success that Mentone Grammar has achieved this year are the result of a culmination of efforts from every student, staff member and individual at Mentone Grammar. As Head Prefects, we are so proud to have led this outstanding Community and cannot wait to see what great things the School achieves in the future. This School will forever be a part of us, and from the whole Year 12 cohort we are forever grateful for the countless opportunities we have been given and the School’s support in developing us into the young men and women we are today.

It has been an absolute honour to be your Head Prefects for 2016, and we have enjoyed every minute of this year and we wish our cohort well for life beyond our final exams.

Wesley Flavell and Eliza Harvey Head Prefects 2016

The changes to the infrastructure at Mentone Grammar continue with the Creativity Centre building approaching completion. Again, over the past 10 years we have witnessed dramatic change to the School education infrastructure which has been linked to the development of our age and stage appropriate programs.

At this time, completion of the Creativity Centre will be later than scheduled, due mainly to the inclement weather patterns through the winter period. The Board is confident that this new facility will deliver an outstanding cocurricular education opportunity for our growing student numbers.

With development of a new Years 5 & 6 Learning Centre, a new Bayview Canteen, roofing of the Bayview basketball court area and restructuring of some Naples Road properties, the School continues to facilitate growing student numbers.

Directors acknowledge the substantial contributions made by teachers and operations staff at Mentone Grammar during the planning and implementation of these developments.

Finance and Risk Mentone Grammar continues in a sound financial position. The Board constantly monitors progress with budgets and a rolling ten year forecast.

The Board acknowledges the excellent management of finance by the Business Manager under leadership of the Principal.

Risk management is a vital strategy in today’s education environment. The Board constantly receives updates on occupational health and safety matters, and has committed the School to the new Child Safety regulations.

We again acknowledge the excellent attention to ‘risk’ matters afforded by the Business Manager and the Risk and Compliance Manager.

Board Presentations and developments The education of Directors on ‘education’ continues. We are constantly made aware of evolving attitudes and protocols impacting on education of our youth and of society’s demands placed on them.

Parents and carers are also provided with opportunities to observe, and to learn, how to manage the ever changing social environment of the 21st Century student. The Board believes these opportunities to be another investment in the welfare for all at Mentone Grammar.

Foundation Awards The Mentone Grammar School Foundation presents awards to students who describe dedication to a particular pursuit. Students apply for these awards and are interviewed by senior staff and Directors.

The awards are presented at School Campus ceremonies.

This year 41 applicants were interviewed with 39 awardees being successful.

We congratulate these successful students on their presentations and, in particular, the five Jonathan Greening awardees and the two recipients of the Jane Gribble award.

(Awardees are listed on page 282 of this edition) Simon Appel OAM Chair

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We started with the House system, a vital component of any student’s journey through the School. To further motivate House members to support their teammates, show compassion and embrace what their House has to offer we, with the House Captains, introduced the House Spirit Cup. This resulted in greater involvement from all students at House events; it was a year of audience participation, passionate chanting and creative costumes.

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s 2016 comes to a close, the Board acknowledges the outstanding contribution made by the Principal, Mal Cater, over his ten years as Principal. Mal Cater has delivered a caring, contemporary and productive environment based on research.

We appreciate the many stories of Mal Cater’s concerns for all members of the School Community and his commitment to the Mentone Grammar education ‘model’.

hen one comes to think about what defines Mentone Grammar, you might ask, is it our competitive sports teams? Our outstanding academic achievements?

Our talented stage performers? Or even the amazing community? We don’t think you can say it is any one of these things individually, but rather all of them.

This year we set out with the goal of embracing the School’s diversity of talent and building upon the achievements of the previous year, which we can comfortably say we did!

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t Takes a Village to Raise a Child

You can, however, have all the best buildings in the country but the most important elements to a school are the less tangible ones:

– Seeing the smile on the face of a young person who has just managed to master some content they found really challenging.

– Walking past classrooms right across the School where there is a keen sense of wanting to teach and wanting to learn to the highest level.

– E xperiencing the support members of our Community give to one another when going through adversity.

– Listening to the laughter of young people enjoying each other’s company in the school grounds.

– Watching the positive interactions between our Greenways students and others in the Café.

– Enjoying the dynamic that comes with a sports team, a drama rehearsal, a dance ensemble, cross-age mentoring.

– Embracing the amazing experiential learning opportunities on offer at Shoreham and elsewhere.

– Feeling the richness that comes from an Assembly where people come together to celebrate one another’s successes.

– Attending a concert where our students display their incredible talent in a variety of genres.

– Engaging with our students when they are undertaking Social Service work for the betterment of other’s lives.

This is a short list of intangible moments that occur in a School year. They don’t come up on a Balance Sheet but they underpin all that is good at our School and in our Community. We don’t just talk community we actually embrace it and it is one of the most awesome parts of our incredible School.

Members of our Community come and go and the end of this year is no exception with the retirements of: Mr Rob Patterson (39 years of service), Mr Vic Evans (32 years of service), Mr Colin McGill (29 years of service) and Mrs Diana Henderson (25 years). We thank them for their service to our School and wish them all well for their retirement. They have served this Community exceptionally

well. We congratulate all four on their appointment as Master Emeritus.

Six Strategic Pillars Teacher Quality, developing the structures to support continued teacher development.

Academic Development, researching and implementing best practice in teaching and learning.

I thank all who have made a contribution to the School this year.

In particular, l thank the Chair of the School Board, Mr Simon Appel OAM, and the Directors of the School. I thank our Deputy Principals, Deb Frizza and Jarrod O’Neill along with all members of staff. I thank my Executive Assistant, Kathryn Lawlor, and Head Prefects, Eliza Harvey and Wesley Flavell. These young people, along with their School Prefects, have provided strong and decisive leadership for our School this year.

Cocurricular Opportunities, providing students with a range of choice from an extensive cocurricular program.

Mal Cater Principal

Enrolment Profile, continuing to promote Mentone Grammar as a coeducational school as our girls numbers continue to increase beyond 500.

Safe, Healthy, Caring Environments, researching and implementing best practice in student wellbeing and staff support.

Strong Governance, continuing our tradition of high level, transparent governance and ensuring sustainability across the organisation.

In striving to further improve these areas of strength, we continue to provide our students, staff, families and School Community with a school of which they can be proud.

Teacher Quality Throughout 2016, a Head of Teaching Practice was appointed along with

a variety of teaching ‘coaches’ to provide feedback and direction to our teaching staff. Alongside this, connections with the University of Melbourne and Monash University were explored. The structure of the day has moved to a 6 period, 58 minute lesson day, moving us closer to the amount of teaching time in the majority of other independent schools.

Academic Development We continued with our focus on Visible Learning, but in particular with formative assessment. In 2014-15 we had looked at: ‘Where does each student need to get to?’ (Learning Intentions and Success Criteria) and ‘Where is each individual student in his/her learning?’ (the use of formative assessment techniques such as random name generators, coloured cups, exit slips and white boards). In 2016, the focus became more on what to do to assist each individual student to identify: ‘What he/she needs to do to achieve the success criteria’ and creating opportunities for this to occur.

Cocurricular opportunities With the building of the Creativity Centre, Frogmore students will now be provided with the opportunity to apply to participate in one season of sport and one of ‘creativity pursuits’, including drama, dance, art, technological endeavours, debating and public speaking. The Years 5 & 6 Centre will house both a film studio and editing booths to complement the Creativity Centre. Sport continues to remain a focus, with the restructure of sport at Mentone Grammar, and the appointment of two Directors of Sports Coaching. Our summer teams for 2016 achieved remarkable success, with

premierships in volleyball, tennis, life saving and boys’ and girls’ swimming, along with grand final appearances for our cricketers and basketballers.

Safe, Healthy, Caring Environments The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) will be introduced for the first time in 2017 for Year 11 students, for those whom this is a more appropriate pathway. A VCAL Coordinator was appointed to support this change. A Head of Student Wellbeing was appointed to look at the student wellbeing structures and practices throughout the School and work with the School Community to consolidate and improve these.

A mentoring review was conducted throughout Greenways and Frogmore as a starting point.

Strong Governance Our Board continued to support the School through both its decision making and Board member attendance at various functions throughout the School. This support has been integral to the successful rollout of the Strategic Plan in 2016.

Enrolment Profile Our enrolments continued to grow for both girls and boys and we have reached the desired goal of at least 500 girls, while still continuing to have strong boys’ enrolment numbers.

Deb Frizza Deputy Principal – Strategic

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y the time this edition of The Mentonian is distributed, the latest teaching and learning resource centre, the Creativity Centre, will be nearing completion. With facilities for drama, dance, art, music, food technology, materials technology, robotics and animation alongside a theatre that will seat 450 people, this integrated Centre will further develop the amazing infrastructure at Mentone Grammar.

The beginning of 2016 saw the release of our Strategic Plan 2016 – 2020.

Using the traditional African proverb “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child” as a focus, the Plan outlined six strategic pillars that Mentone Grammar would focus on for the next five year period.

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hange is part of life and, as we move into a new model of Sports Coaching at Mentone Grammar and look towards the future, it is important we acknowledge the past.

David Barber

In 2016, we again evolve the program whereby, although possible, teachers will no longer be required to coach a sport, instead, focusing on what they do best – teaching in the classroom.

More time will now be dedicated to growing and developing our teachers and allowing more face-to-face time for students and teachers across all subject areas. And so, we now move to a model of expert Head Coaches for all sports who will lead Team Coaches, across all ages, following an ageappropriate sporting curriculum in order to offer all students the best coaching and sporting opportunities possible.

Rob Patterson

Given this evolution of the sporting program, it was entirely appropriate to recognise the commitment teachers have given to the Mentone Sports Program. There are many teachers who have coached teams over many years and we thank them for all they have contributed. In particular, we acknowledge and thank 16 special staff members. These are the staff who have coached for 20 years or more:

Mal Cater Leigh Chislett Wayne Essing Emma Heine John Horler Cameron Lancaster Michael Martin Paul Matthew

Adrian Payne Leigh Rowlands Brian Smith Trevor Stevens Michael Wilton Peter Zerman Reflecting on my own sporting journey, it didn’t occur to me until later in life that I was only involved in team sports.

I wondered why that was the case.

I was naturally attracted to these sports as not only did I enjoy the sport but, as I realised later, that part of that attraction was because I was participating, developing, improving, socialising and experiencing success with my friends – my teammates.

Reflecting on the so-called individual sports, such as swimming, athletics and the like, I would contest that these too should be considered a team sport.

All sporting endeavours, regardless of whether you swim along a black line, run around a track or swing a golf club, require teamwork. No athlete achieves success, whether it be in traditional

team or individual sports, without a team behind them, supporting them, coaching them. The 16 coaches listed are the people who have coached Mentone students, regardless of the sport, to be their best. Without coaches, there can be no improvement.

Upon this reflection, some extraordinary statistics emerge that speak of the commitment of these people. Consider just some of the following: – Between them, these teachers have combined over 500 years of service to Mentone Grammar – an average of 29 years each.

– They have coached over 19 different types of sport – with each of them, on average, coaching five different types of sports.

– Collectively they have coached over 850 different teams which means that over the years, if you average it out to say that each team has 15 players; these people have collectively coached over 20,400 students.

– On average, they have coached over 500 games each.

– They have run over 900 training sessions, marking a roll before and after training, plus at games, totalling over 2300 times.

– They have been involved in 41 premierships across seven different sports – something they all have mentioned as a highlight for them.

– On the way home from Assumption, they have each been asked by students over 30 times, ‘Can we stop at Macca’s on the way home?

Pleeeeease?’

– They have spent over 2000 hours on buses to training and games, which, if you break it down, they have each spent approximately 83 days nonstop on buses travelling to and from training and games! This equates over 24,000 kilometres – which, to draw you a picture, is going from Melbourne to Sydney and back over 13 times!

Some astonishing figures!

At an assembly earlier in the year, these coaches were asked to provide me with a summary of their involvement and to mention some of their highlights over the years. Every one of them spoke of the joy they had just being involved, regardless of the sport, the age of the students or the success: all simply enjoyed getting to know the students and to see them enjoy sport together. I am sure they all have some wonderful memories.

Each one of these special people was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award and were taken out to dinner, with partners, to say thank you and to also spend time together, sharing so many wonderful memories.

Labore et Honore.

Jarrod O’Neill Deputy Principal – Operations

Some astonishing figures!

500 years of service 19 different types of sport 850 different teams 20,400 students 500 games each 900 training sessions 24,000 kilometres 41premierships

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Throughout its history, Mentone Grammar has had its teachers coach its sporting teams. For many years, teachers were not only required to coach a summer and winter season team, they were also required to coach after school, twice a week, from 3.30pm – 5pm. In 2005, as the school continued its evolution into a more contemporary environment, this model changed to coaching one season only and training times were moved into the school day.

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Prefects 2016 Row 5: M atthew Pertich, Finlay Dodson, James Pearman, Nathan Booth Row 4: S amuel Callahan, Frazer Kemp, Sarah Cimino, Adam Pratt Row 3: L uc van Vliet, Galina Enright, Charlotte Wiffin, Emily Keogh

Reflecting upon the past year it can be difficult to look beyond the images of some of the terrible events that have taken place in our world over the last 12 months. As a School Community seeking to prepare young people to face the future, it can be challenging when some aspects of that future seem so daunting. From comments made in class and hearing some of their words spoken at assembly, teachers readily appreciate that students can find it challenging at times to reflect upon the future in a positive light.

One of the strengths of Mentone Grammar is the opportunity in the school day to engage with and reflect upon the deeper questions of life and to draw strength from the Anglican traditions that have underpinned our School since its establishment. These traditions find their contemporary expression in a number of facets of school life.

The opportunity in the classroom for students to engage with and explore issues of meaning and purpose in their Religion lessons: from relating the Bible to everyday life in Years 5 and 6, to some of the sneaking suspicions about faith in Year 7, from the life and contemporary relevance of Jesus in Year 8, to the teachings and practices of other religions in Year 9, unpacking the great themes of the Bible in Year 10, to discussing

contemporary issues in Years 11 and 12. The opportunity to think, reflect and question is eagerly taken up by many of our students. Young people’s capacity to question is actively encouraged and the Chaplains regularly find themselves heading off on unexpected tangents as the result of a classroom discussion and students desire to have their questions addressed.

Eblana and Bayview students regularly make the journey over to St Augustine’s to sit where generations of Mentone students have sat. Chapel Services are vibrant community times where younger students can participate and ponder the themes and issues that are addressed. Chapel is often a time for students to reflect upon the Values of our School and to grow in their understanding and practice of them.

St Augustine’s is also the venue for our voluntary communion services which take place at the beginning and the end of each term. Staff and students gather together in the busyness of a school week to uphold the life of the School in prayer and to draw strength as a community by sharing in communion. Special services were held to thank and farewell Bishop Paul as our regional Bishop and at the commencement of the VCE exams where our youngest students lit tapers for our oldest students as

they commenced their exams.

Communion also comes to the students with a service in the bush chapel at Shoreham as part of the Chaplain’s visits to Year 7 camps.

Services are held to mark Easter and Christmas with our end of year Carol Service at St Paul’s Cathedral, as well as key services to commence and conclude the Year 12 academic year. The Chaplains regularly feature in Bayview, Frogmore and Greenways assemblies providing a prayer linking in with the assembly theme and often having the chance to reflect upon the week’s events in the world and in the School. We have also enjoyed the opportunity to get out and about with students, accompanying them on excursions, camps and learning journeys.

The Chaplains offer a listening ear and are privileged to share in informal pastoral conversations that take place as we encounter students in a range of circumstances from moving in between classes to the sports field. In all we do the Chaplains strive to encourage students to think beyond their own self-interest and to engage meaningfully with the world around them and the God that loves and cares for them.

Rev. Andrew Stewart Chaplain Rev. Michael Prabaharan Chaplain

Row 2: R obert McIntyre, Lucinda McIntyre, Emma Doyle, Emily Fiddes, Gail D’Souza Row 1: W esley Flavell, Eliza Harvey, Mal Cater (Principal)

House Captains 2016 Row 2: S amuel Callahan (Were) James Davidson (Jones) Max Stammers (Anderson) Marc Shermon (Lionel Large) Row 1: L uke D’Alessandro (White) Frazer Kemp (Deighton) Emma Doyle (Finlay Anderson) Nathan Booth (Drinan)

Academic Captains 2016 Charlotte Hamilton Scott Moore Matthew Pertich Luc van Vliet Galina Enright Samuel Thiele

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hapel Services are vibrant community times where younger students can participate and ponder the themes and issues that are addressed.

Wesley Flavell Mal Cater (Principal) Eliza Harvey

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Row 2: X uanming Liang (International Students), Liam Grant (Visual Arts), James Pearman (Performing Arts)

Row 2: Adam Halliday, Joshua Madden, Callum Roberts, Ella Mairs

Row 1: E lizabeth Algeri (Public Speaking), Charlotte Wiffin (Community Service), Jessica Paterson (Community Service), Gabrielle Burton (Cross Campus), Emily Keogh (Performing Arts)

Row 1: B lake Rosenberg, Akul Saigal, Sarthak Singh, Nelson Jaden, Tom Spencer, Xavier Hogios Absent: Seb Zahra

Absent: Andrew Persic (Public Speaking)

Harrison Edwards Brittany Chambers

Bayview Community Service Captains 2016 William Roworth Chelsea McNamara Adam Laws Lily Bowles Adam Marrow Absent: Joshua Jackson, Marcus Le Gear, Felix O’Neill-Pugh, Kosta Osianlis

Cadet Leadership 2016 Row 2: D aniel Holman, Nathan Booth, Adam Pratt, Wesley Flavell, Frazer Kemp, Dylan Mann, Sarah Cimino, Kate Meehan Row 1: E mily Keogh, Lucinda McIntyre, Emily Fiddes, MAJ (AAC) Jon Wever, Sean Cunningham, Emma Doyle, Tiana Storti Absent: Finlay Dodson, Georgia Tarlinton

Bayview House and Sport Captains 2016 Row 3: Ace Brodie, Oliver Straw, Kosta Osianlis, Will Skinner, Jeremy Di Rosato, Seb Zahra Row 2: Lauren Malby-Luke, James Bull, Ethan Prabaharan, Tom Grant, Joshua Culley, Oskar Phillips, Jeremy Campbell, Grace Felsenthal Row 1: Lachlan Sinclair, Archie Padley, Hannah Schmidt, Chloe Garifalakis, Brooke McCullough, Kieren Dyer, Trent Meakins Absent: Matilda Armstrong

Bayview Captains 2016 Tom Spencer Joanne Kamp (Year 8 Coordinator) John Twist (Head of Bayview) Michael Martin (Deputy Head of Bayview) Ella Mairs

Bayview Performing Arts and Public Speaking Captains 2016 Row 2: C harlotte Holland, Tomas O, Harrison Dart, Lilyana Gorringe Row 1: C laudia Levey, Lachlan Howard, Jamieson Howe, Felix O’Neill-Pugh, Kira Walters Absent: Callum Prior

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Eblana Performing Arts Captains 2016 Isabel Ellix Callum Orr Aimee Lancaster

Eblana Chess Team 2016

Row 2: Sophie Frost (Deighton), Ayden Roos, Kyle Roos (Were House), Tomas Barlow (Anderson), Charlotte Cowan (Jones), Holly Nish (Lionel Large), Elise Laws (Deighton), Ashleigh Hopkins (Drinan)

Sarabjeet Dawar Aaron Britter Thomas Kurta Matthew Shing

Row 1: Ella Michell (Jones), Jordan Pyszczek (Lionel Large), Lachlan O’Hara, Charli Bucci (Finlay Anderson), Scarlet Park (Anderson) Absent: Noemi Sniezek, Nicholas Harris (White), Sienna Edwardes (Drinan)

Eblana Social Service Captains 2016

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Ellie Newman Ayden Tezay McKenzie Hood

ina Pertzel N Benjamin Stockdale Sally Stevens Absent: Alice Roberts

Eblana Reading Ambassadors 2016

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Brendan Sheppard Elisha Parkes Mia Castello Maria Anna Theofilopoulou Maddox Lewell

Dimitrios Rellos Jake Vorrath Thomas Kurta Anthony Mirhom

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am delighted to advise you that the Head Prefects for 2016 will be Eliza Harvey and Wes Flavell.

Eliza Harvey Eliza, you are involved in School Productions, the Choir, the Orchestra and various other music groups. You are a member of the First Volleyball Team, and will represent the School in Basketball in winter. You have been a loyal member of our School Cadet Unit and you are actively involved in Community Service initiatives such as 40 Hour Famine and the Zaidee’s Foundation. Outside of School you volunteer for World Vision and Special Children Australia, giving of your time to support others in need. Alongside all of these activities you achieve highly in our classrooms and your Learning Behaviours are extremely strong. You are well regarded by staff and students and you represent both your House and the School with great pride and you truly exhibit the School Values to the highest level.

Wesley Flavell Wes, you have recently attended the Cadet Promotions Course at Puckapunyal and your commitment to leadership through this activity has been a highlight of your Mentone Grammar journey. You are a member of the First Tennis team and, in winter you will represent the School in Football. You are also a committed member of our Athletics team. Wes, you were elected House Captain of Jones House this year such is the respect staff and students have for you. You participated in the Zaidee’s 24-Hour Run, and are a member of the Beaumaris Lawn Tennis Club outside of School. You represented the School over the summer break at the National Youth Science Forum having successfully negotiated the selection process for this. You are a fine young man who role models the School Values to the highest possible standard.

I commend to the School Eliza and Wes as our Head Prefects for 2016.

As a Community, we join in congratulating you both on these appointments and wish you both well for the year ahead.

M J Cater

Prefects Gail D’Souza Gail, you always give of your time to help out others, whether it be in the classroom or outside of it. You are a kind, caring and respectful person and you are always willing to offer advice or listen to anyone if need be.

You are actively involved in a broad range of programs on offer here at the School and you recently represented the School in the Lions Youth of the Year competition. Your Learning Behaviours reflect very positively on your academic endeavour. You exhibit the School Values and you do not turn your leadership on and off to suit your audience. Gail, you are a consistently good leader and l am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Finlay Dodson It is not unusual to see the significant frame of Finlay with several people hanging off him in the yard. This image highlights to me, your genuine caring nature in our community. You are an outstanding member of your House and in School sports. You regularly volunteer for a variety of School activities. You are involved in Cadets as a leader, working respectfully with

Sam, aside from being a reliable, enthusiastic, innovative and highly respected House Captain, your leadership of the First Basketball team was commendable. You are a quiet but dynamic leader who leads by example. Whenever you are a part of a project the work gets done. You listen to those around you and try your best to mentor your team mates in a proactive and affirming manner. When you make a mistake you are very quick to acknowledge it and learn from it.

Sam, your Learning Behaviours reflect favourably on your endeavour in your studies. You are respectful and loyal to our School. You work hard in every subject and you are respected by your teachers. You are a true leader within our School and l am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect.

Luc van Vliet Luc, you are innately driven and disciplined. You do not seek the spotlight and yet your endeavours have continued to better both the School and yourself for some time.

Your involvement in our Music program, Sport, House activities and in assisting others highlight the tenacious, resilient and caring individual that you are. You are a true gentleman in the way you go about things, always displaying our School Values. I am delighted to appoint you as a Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Emily Keogh Each year we recognise the breadth of involvement students have within this School and that the busy students seem

to be able to make time to do a lot of different activities whilst not hindering their studies. Your involvement in the Performing Arts program (where you are one of the Captains of Performing Arts), within your House, your strong commitment to Cadets and many other cocurricular activities highlights the breadth you bring to the School. You help others, you display a most mature approach to your schooling and l am delighted to appoint you as a Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Sarah Cimino Kind, caring, ‘supportive of others’ and ‘wonderful role model’ are a few of the words your nominators use to describe you – all wonderful qualities of a young person and a young leader within our Community. You go about your business in a quiet, effective manner and, in doing so, you make a difference, not only to your own life but to those around you. Your Learning Behaviours reflect most favourably on you. You are another student who displays our School Values to a high level. I am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect.

Emma Doyle As the leader of your House, as a member of School Sport teams and in our classrooms, along with your general involvement and role modelling around the School, I am delighted to appoint you as a Prefect of Mentone Grammar. You make a difference to our Community by what you do, more than what you say and this is, once again, a powerful style of leadership and worthy of acknowledgement. You also go out of your way to undertake activities that others don’t necessarily avail themselves of, such as leading in the Cadet Unit. I am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect.

Nathan Booth In your leadership positions in Cadets, where you are a Cadet Under Officer, and in your leadership of Drinan House you have displayed all of the qualities outlined in our definition of a Genuine Leader. You also display these qualities in our classrooms and outside of them.

Your selflessness is evident in the way you go about your business around the School and outside of it. You display high levels of courtesy; your Learning Behaviours reflect most favourably on you and staff and students alike have a high regard for you. I am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect.

Emily Fiddes Each year our School runs this special event (Zaidee’s 24 Hour Marathon) and each year a number of students go above and beyond in helping organise it. This year you are one of those people but, it is through your involvement in a range of activities and through your enthusiastic approach to life in general and, therefore, the strong role model you represent within our School that I am delighted to appoint you as a Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Some people come to School and go through the motions of school, others, like you, come to School, engage in it and all that it offers and, by doing so, make a huge difference to the overall environment in which we operate.

James Pearman Your involvement in a number of programs within our School is one thing – the way you go about them is another. You genuinely care about other people and you genuinely care about our School. You show this in your engagement, your endeavour and your willingness to support other people.

You role model the School Values to a high level and you contribute positively

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your peers, those younger than you and with staff. Finlay, you are a friendly and cooperative young man who continually demonstrates high personal values and the School’s Values.

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in our classrooms. You have often gone out of your way to perform at events which others have not. I am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Lucinda McIntyre One of the staff who nominated you described you as ‘a quiet, yet highly talented and creative student whose participation in a variety of programs has been exemplary’. You are heavily involved in the School Performing Arts program but also the Cadet Unit where you are a Cadet Under Officer.

Alongside this you have completed the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award which is a significant achievement in itself.

Your engagement in our classrooms is extremely positive, you role model our School Values and you accept challenges in your House which take you out of your comfort zone. I am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Robert McIntyre The list of activities you are involved in would take some matching across the School: Public Speaking, Debating, Cross Country, School Orchestra, Production Orchestra, House Music Leader, Senior Jazz Band, Flute Ensemble, Woodwind Ensemble, Orlando Orchestra, Creativity Centre Ball performances, the list goes on. You also find time to be a highly conscientious student working in the School library after hours regularly.

You role model our School Values to a

high level and you are highly supportive of others. I am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect.

Adam Pratt You are a diverse leader within our School. At one moment you are performing in an opera, the next you are leading in our Cadet Unit, then you pick up a hockey stick to play sport and off to the classroom you go. This is a small number of the activities you are involved in. In all that you undertake you set and achieve high standards. Your engagement with a broad range of age-groups through these activities testifies to the mentoring you provide within our School. You role model the School Values and it is my pleasure to appoint you as a School Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Frazer Kemp Many of us witnessed you receiving a Scholarship to attend the Australian Defence Force Academy in 2017. In order to achieve such an honour you have to present yourself as a well credentialed person who could be entrusted with the defence of our nation – you are certainly such a person.

The diverse range of interests you have pursued whilst being a student here is a testament to your willingness to engage and in doing so you have not only grown into a fine young man but you have positively influenced others.

You have demonstrated genuine leadership in a number of official

appointments but also in an informal manner, along with demonstrating the School Values. I am delighted to appoint you as a School Prefect.

Charlotte Wiffin You were a founding girl when we went coed and for several years you were, in fact, the only girl in your year group. To say that this has defined your resilience is an understatement. Throughout your time here you have immersed yourself in the holistic program of the School.

You are a compassionate person and an encourager of others, you support your House strongly and your teachers comment on the endeavour you show in and outside of our classrooms. You role model the School Values and l am delighted to appoint you as a Prefect of Mentone Grammar.

Galina Enright and Matt Pertich I have paired your citation together because you have both made a significant contribution to the academic leadership of this School not only this year but in previous years. You have done so by your role modelling of high level Learning Behaviours and through the support you provide to others. You have both been positive role models in other areas of the School including your Houses. You have run tutorials for others and have displayed the School Values to a high level. I am delighted to appoint you as School Prefects of Mentone Grammar.

EBLANA Head of Eblana “ Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination, take a look and you’ll see into your imagination.”

Willy Wonka or a journey into Eblana?

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Cheerfulness and laughter are encouraged and I like the fact we have humour, because it is through humour we develop.

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What a happy, joyful and lively environment we explore each day in Eblana. The tasks of a teacher are many, but the rewards for such an esteemed role are more. How lucky are we to work where we are greeted each day by a parade of smiling, laughing, hand shaking students; always confident, always enthusiastic about learning.

Although academic pursuits and attainment are at the forefront, it is the everyday gestures that make Eblana’s community shine. To me it is a place with genuine heart and soul. Of high priority for me whilst always aiming for academic excellence, is to cater for the healthy wellbeing of all students. I make it my goal that they are safe in their environment and importantly, socially and emotionally safe.

Coming to school is so enjoyable, when we experience an appreciative note or word from another; two students, arms around each other, sharing an interesting book; patience and persistence leading to achievement of personal goals; a student walking to the front of assembly and performs for their peers and their peers applauding wholeheartedly; students smiling

as they meet each other; caring for others; volunteering as reading and spelling tutors to younger students; teachers presenting awards to children who do the ‘right thing’; the entire staff arriving dressed as book characters and taking time after school to write cards to students who have done something special; an older student stopping to tie the shoes of a Foundation student; a parent stops to give the teacher a hug and a student stopping into the office to hand out flowers he collected on the way to school, or a picture he drew.

I congratulate and thank our students for the times they focused their efforts on achieving their best in academia, cocurricular activities and in friendships. Our admirable student leaders all adhered to our School’s Values of Respect, Caring, Resilience, Service, Discipline, Endeavour and Integrity. I truly thank all our Year 4 student leaders for the times they displayed maturity, involved in leadership and role modelling and I commend them for their achievements.

They are: Eblana Captains Hannah Wagner and Lachlan Fraser.

These inspiring moments of the good within our learning community all support the ongoing implementation and success of our RULER program instituted by Marc Brackett:

House Captains, Scarlet Park and Tom Barlow (Andreson), Sophie Frost and Elise Laws (Deighton), Ashleigh Hopkins and Sienna Edwardes (Drinan), Charli Bucci and Lachlan O’Hara (Finlay Anderson), Charlotte Cowan and Ella Michell (Jones), Holly Nish and Jordan Pyszczek (Lionel Large), Ayden Roos and Kyle Roos (Were) and Noemi Sniezek and Nicholas Harris (White).

‘The emotional climate of a classroom seems to be the best predictor of student engagement, student performance as well as student behaviour.’

Without doubt, Eblana is a dynamic and vibrant campus full of positive relationships. Cheerfulness and laughter are encouraged and I like the fact we have humour, because it is through humour we develop. We all know laughter is the best medicine.

‘i sea, i care’ Ambassadors: Nina Pertzel, Sally Stevens, Ben Stockdale and Alice Roberts.

Performing Arts Captains: Isabel Ellix, Aimee Lancaster and Callum Orr.

Social Service Captains: McKenzie Hood, Ellie Newman and Ayden Tezay.

Leading Reading Ambassadors: Mia Castello, Elisha Parkes, Maria Anna Theofilopoulou, Maddox Lewell and Brendan Sheppard.

Sports Assistants: Thomas Kurta, Anthony Mirhom, Dimitri Rellos and Jake Vorrath.

Their willingness and initiative to be involved was commendable and I thank them sincerely.

I sincerely thank my staff who have bestowed upon their students great opportunities to learn and grow, achieve and discover, laugh and love themselves. They not only brought learning, but great joy to the Campus.

I also take this opportunity to thank Brigid Hicks our Campus PA whose commitment and connection with the Eblana Community are so valuable.

I thank Jessica Richards, Eblana’s Curriculum Coordinator whose knowledge and guidance in the curriculum is progressive and again so appreciated and Mrs Libby Chislett, Director of the Mary Jones Early Learning Centre, whose great passion is early childhood education. These three wonderful, dedicated staff have

greatly assisted me in leading Eblana this year. Their leadership characterises Eblana’s undeniable professional, friendly and caring environment of which I have the pleasure to lead.

I also make special mention of Julee O’Flaherty and Leonie Binge, who are leaving Mentone Grammar and teaching at the end of the year.

Julee’s and Leonie’s contributions to the education of hundreds of students are immeasurable. We congratulate them on reaching this time in their life where they can take a more relaxed approach, with no need to worry about bells ringing or ongoing curriculum developments. We thank Julee and Leonie for all that they have brought to Mentone Grammar, for educating and nurturing hundreds of students throughout their successful and admirable careers. They will be greatly missed and we wish them well for their retirements.

I sincerely thank the parents who cheerfully contributed and supported our many programs and events throughout the year. You are valued, talented and delightful to have alongside us, so thank you for adding your special touch to Eblana.

We are not just an academic school.

We are much more than that. A range of curricular and cocurricular activities filled our busy calendar… excursions, incursions, instrumental ensembles, singing, tennis, chess, cross age learning, assemblies, swimming, camps, book week, environmental awareness, fitness activities, our DARE to Dream program, Maths, Language and Science events, reading challenges, Harmony Day, Read Aloud Day, Simultaneous Story Time, ELC family barbecues, Grandparents’ Day, Father’s Day Breakfast and Footy Morning, Mother’s Day Morning Tea and Keysborough sporting events, our annual Christmas Pageant and social service commitments … just to name a few.

I wish you all a peaceful, happy and safe holiday period. May it be a time rich in family adventures, friendship and laughter! I look forward to continuing our journey together again in 2017 and making it too, another wonderful year!

‘The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last’ – Willy Wonka or Mr Nolan?

John Nolan Head of Eblana

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Early Learning Centre This year, the ELC saw some significant works completed, with the establishment of a new indoor/ outdoor play space outside the kindergarten room, an expansion in all other rooms by adding a large glass alfresco area to the existing rooms.

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e have all really appreciated the commitment of all in our Community, to share in the role of providing learning opportunities for our students.

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This has allowed more flexible floor space for the children to learn and play within, but has also enabled a stronger link to the outdoor environment with many staff opening their rooms up so children can continue their learning outdoors.

In total, 103 children attended our Early Learning Centre, where strong relationships were built with staff and students alike, along with a great collaborative partnership with the families. It has been magnificent to see so many families actively involved in the program whether it be as a helper in the rooms, as a valuable class rep, assisting with the 4YO swimming program or enthusiastically attending

excursions with us. We have all really appreciated the commitment of all in our Community to share in the role of providing learning opportunities for our students.

Over the year the children attended several incursions starting with Sportacus, where the focus was on healthy bodies and healthy minds.

The visit to Sportacus taught the children to take on ownership of what foods are good for their bodies and what foods should be considered a ‘sometime’ food. Sports candy became a catchcry; which refers to fruit and vegetables being consumed to fuel young brains and bodies.

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t has been an absolute pleasure to be involved in each and every one of our students’ development and I cannot wait to see many of them next year as they move on to the ‘big school’.

During Term 3, the children were visited by Murrundindi, an indigenous elder who talked about our history and the aboriginal way of life. The children were taught symbols unique to indigenous culture used to communicate stories and history.

Imagination is an important component of a child’s development whether expressed verbally, or non verbally. A child needs to express how they see the world and how they are feeling. The children in each room spent a lot of time learning how to name and understand their feelings and behaviours in line with the School’s RULER program, followed by all Campuses.

To assist the children’s imagination and expressive language we hosted two memorable incursions: Dreamers in Space and Drama Tool Box. It was lovely to see children’s imagination soar, creativity develop, language skills improve all through the provocation of these performances and the follow up from staff within the rooms.

Father’s Day was another much anticipated event for our students.

They were so excited about inviting their dads! Many fathers were able to visit us for breakfast, spend time in the rooms and best of all, join in the Footy Morning on the Junior School oval.

In Term 4 our year cumulated with our excursions to Raine, Hayne and Shine in Balnarring and to Werribee Zoo. Both were wonderful learning opportunities as well as a nice way to celebrate a great year with our

classes and the ELC community.

This was followed by our very special Grandparents’ Day and, lastly, our Christmas Pageant and graduation.

It has been an absolute pleasure to be involved in each and every one of our students’ development and I cannot wait to see many of them next year as they move on to the ‘big school’.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a safe New Year. Wherever your travels take you, remember you and your children stay in our hearts forever and we hope to continue our special relationships for many years to come.

Libby Chislett Director

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We then had our fabulous Mother’s Day special morning within our rooms followed by a fun sports day at our Keysborough Playing Fields.

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Samantha Cunnington, Alana Leahy, Sally Smith, Marina Basin Isla Lettieri, Charlie Davey, Lila Forkes, Ashleigh Hooker, Kennedy Grant, Ethan Paice-Brandt, Alexander Coughlan, Dominik Buschkuehl Lachlan Waring, Hugo Donovan, Grace Newman, George Lyons, Alexis Antoniou, Pippa Leonard Mandel De Zoysa-Lewis

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Simone White, Marina Basin, Caroline Hegarty, Christene Orchard Lachlan Kirwan, Mia Lawson, Lucas Drummy, Harvey Dannals Archer Garnett, Jensen Rowsell, Alyssa Duman, Jules Alapont, Ryder Anderson Archie Swan, Lulu Hobart, Flynn Boettcher, Freya Richard, Indigo Thomas, Phillip Tsiatsias

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Libby Chislett, Jacqui Buchan, Melanie Di Rosato, Sue Bennett Sophia Pipito, Owen Roach, Zac Bainbridge, Jasmine Matulick Christian Burrows, Siara McCarthy, Liam Nassau, Daniel Shlimak, Amelia Shimmin Elke Plevritis, Harry Knott, Harry Bowers, Harrison Nuttall Luke Colliver, Violet Couzinwood-Lowe, Adam Tariq

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Melanie Di Rosato, Vicki Beaumont, Veronica Byrnes Sophie Apostolidis, Ryan Magliton, Summer Lettieri, Hudson Park Luca Pendrey, Maggie Tanner, Parker McGrath, Luke Phillips, Levi Dayaseela Madeleine Saunders, Charlie Weber, Addison Hamilton, Troy Goddard, Kaylee Lyons, Dylan Falvo

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Tammy Frankland, Ken Morrish, Jacqui Buchan, Megan Blake Hudson Swifte, Siena Ricci, Sebastian Malamatinas, Harrison Arendarcikas Taylor Sweeny, Ryan Wagner, Orlando Parry, Taron Clarke, Hudson Chan Harry Hodgetts, Lucy Piper, Harrison Edwards, Mia Basin, Maya Withington.

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Vikki Octigan, Megan Blake, Jaki Atwell Ella Wloszczak, Alexander Cook, Lily Walker, Oliver Barfoot-Eastwood Helena Chorianopoulos, Lawrence Walton, Thomas Newman, Jordi Poulios, Tiffany Te, Nathan Jones Issa Sabih, Linpeng Fu, Sara Yu, Callum Tzounos, Joseph Habib

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he 2016 Foundation classroom has been such a vibrant and dynamic space.

This first year of formal schooling has been one crammed with new learning experiences from start to finish.

The skills, knowledge and understanding students have developed since that very first day are enormous and it has been a privilege and a thrill to be a part of their learning journey.

Term 1 Everything was new, we settled into the routines of school, met our teachers and played with new friends. We shared stories about our families and personal history and researched creatures with claws, scales and tails! A wildlife ranger even came to visit and brought in his furry, feathery and scaly friends for us to meet and hold. We also began to read and write! We labelled diagrams and traced sentences with capital letters and full stops.

Term 2 We arrived back at school full of energy and with an eagerness to learn. We dived into studying farms and the importance they have in our lives. To consolidate our learning, we took a trip to Chesterfield Farm, where we fed hungry animals, rode on a tractor, milked a cow and discovered the food and materials that farms give us. Our emotional and social intelligence continued to develop through our involvement with the RULER program. Our Classroom Charter, Mood Meter Check-ins, Meta Moment investigations and Best Self explorations have enabled this development and continued throughout the year.

Term 4 saw us scurry into the world of Minibeasts, where we loved discovering all about insects, bugs and other creepy crawlies. As part of this unit, we also enjoyed our third exciting excursion for the year, visiting the Melbourne Museum Bugs Alive exhibition and watching Flight of the Butterflies 3D at IMAX. Back in the classroom, we consolidated our understanding of addition, subtraction and division and explored 3D shapes, patterns and money. We also developed our imaginative writing and informative writing skills. The year culminated in our Eblana Christmas Pageant, where we entertained everyone with our cheerful rendition of Aussie Christmas songs.

Meg Hayes and Laura Savage Foundation teachers

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Our second semester began with the Olympics! We also investigated Our Community, including visits from policemen and firemen as well as an excursion to the LEGO Education Centre, where we designed and built our own cities. Tying in with this unit, we explored mapping and location in Mathematics, as well as creating graphs and tallies, investigating weight and capacity and continuing to build our number and place value knowledge.

Complementing our Literacy focus on writing persuasive texts and poetry, along with improving reading fluency and expression, our wonderful Book Week activities included a book character dress up day and a visit from illustrator Jeanette Rowe.

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hat a fantastic year it has been for Year 1!

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To begin the year students created a timeline of their life so far. They loved sharing this with their classmates and it was great to learn more about each student’s life. Following this, pictures from the timelines were used to build a recount. The Year 1s took to this task with enthusiasm, describing and detailing these events to form their first completed writing piece for the year.

During Term 2 our focus shifted to life in the ‘olden days’. This was an enjoyable unit of work that culminated with an excursion to Yarrabee Yesterday’s World. Students were a little nervous at first but eventually warmed up.

They were taught what it was like to write, play, walk and talk in the olden days. They also found out what would happen if they didn’t obey certain rules!

Also during the term we looked at the changes that can occur with food when you cool it or add heat to it. These experiments involved eggs, water, chocolate, popcorn and a number of other items that the students certainly enjoyed.

Term 3 was all about poetry. Students learnt about alliteration, creating books full of interesting and unique tongue twisters. We moved onto free verse poetry in which the Olympics were our focus and then completed the unit by using Nick Bland as an ‘Author as Mentor’ creating our own bear stories.

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by Book Week where students went to great effort to dress up as their favourite character.

The final term was all about animals.

We studied many different species, researching using both books and the internet. We were able to go to both Werribee and Melbourne Zoos and witness how these animals interact and how they live in enclosures representing their natural habitats.

The students were able to take in all of this information and use it effectively within their PowerPoint presentations. We finished the term with our annual Christmas Pageant where the students learnt and sang their songs with great enthusiasm.

We have enjoyed the year immensely and wish all the Year 1 students and families well with their move to Year 2.

Jessica Richards, Kris Little and John Nolan

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nother busy year has almost passed and, as usual, the Year 2s have experienced many exciting events during 2016.

In Term 1, a huge highlight was having Mem Fox pay us a visit and read some of her much-loved stories to us. The children learned all about her childhood growing up in South Africa and were able to interact with her personally, asking questions about where she found inspiration for her amazing stories.

Our first excursion for the year was to the CERES Education Centre on Merri Creek, East Brunswick, where the children were immersed in aboriginal culture and sustainability studies. They learned how to throw a boomerang,

how to find bush tucker and how to make paint from rocks, gaining a new respect for these ancient customs.

gaining a deeper understanding of their Science topic: Living Things/ Marine Creatures.

In Term 2 students embarked on an underwater journey through the Melbourne Sea Life Aquarium. At the beginning of our journey, students were given tools to identify animals based on their unique physical characteristics. In doing this, the children were able to understand both the importance of marine environments and habitats and the life cycles of these beautiful creatures.

The students achieved their aim of

Another first was the Instrumental Concert which took place in the Bayview gym on a chilly Friday morning. However, this didn’t appear to dampen the spirits and enthusiasm of the performers at all.

The Year 2 Strings Ensemble was the first item on the program and the students showed their amazing skill and discipline as they proudly performed a variety of bowing exercises and open strings pieces.

By far the most popular experience, was our wonderful excursion to the MCG in Term 3 which coincided with the Rio Olympic Games. The children loved viewing the players’ change rooms, the cricket room and indoor practice facilities, the media centre and the famous Long Room as well as the National Sports Museum.

Our final highlight for the day was meeting Tamsin Hinchley. Tamsin is an Australian volleyball player. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, Tamsin Hinchley partnered with Natalie Cook in beach volleyball.

The children enjoyed interacting with her and asking questions about her sporting life and achievements.

Another memorable event was our immersion into the fascinating world of science, where the students had some serious FUN with a science incursion from the Mad About Science team!

Already natural born scientists, the children adored getting their hands

science-dirty and performing loads of hands-on experiments. Science was brought to life, leaving many students determined to become real scientists in the distant future!

In the final term it was a thrill to spend the morning with our grandparents who not only visited our classroom, but became part of the learning activities. As usual our year culminated in the colourful Christmas Pageant where we entertained everyone with our cheerful renditions of favourite Aussie Christmas songs.

We all agree that 2016 has been jampacked with learning experiences that have entertained and educated us from start to finish.

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season.

Leonie Binge, Briana Walker, Sheree Walsh, Anastasia Antoniadis and Julee O’Flaherty

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ear 3 2016 has been an outstanding year! We have enjoyed a range of exciting learning opportunities and have enthusiastically embraced the School values and the RULER program.

We supported each other in the classroom, on the sporting field and in the playground and we celebrated some remarkable achievements. We are looking forward to the challenges ahead in Year 4, including the leadership roles that many of us will accept.

We have studied so many interesting topics this year, particularly in Humanities and Science, where we investigated Celebrations, Birds and Flight, Chemical Sciences, Change in our Community and Space. A highlight of Term 3 was our study of the Olympic Games. We were visited by two Australian representative athletes

and held an Olympics Expo where we demonstrated a term’s worth of learning to parents and important visitors from the school community.

These units of work supported our literacy and numeracy programs and included visits to Healesville Sanctuary and Scienceworks.

We headed to Shoreham for the first time in May and enjoyed two fantastic camps this year. We explored the local area on bush walks, built amazing sandcastles and went body boarding at the beach. We loved the food and can’t wait to go back as Year 4 students!

Year 3 students have been involved in many exciting activities including Maths and Science Competitions, Cross Country, House Sport, Book Week and the Christmas Pageant. We particularly enjoyed the sessions with our ELC Buddies, where we taught the younger students how to make paper planes, write stories, play games of chance and practise sports skills.

We would like to thank the amazing Year 3 parents as well as John Nolan and Jessica Richards for their ongoing support of our vibrant, busy, fun-filled and happy Year 3 community!

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hat an amazing journey the students in Year 4 have had in 2016!

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They began the year eager to learn and we only saw this fostered and continue. The students embraced many opportunities offered to them, including taking on leadership roles, enhancing academic and social skills, performing confidently and shining bright on the sporting arena.

A major highlight of Term 1 was the selection of the Eblana Leaders, with students eagerly taking on their responsibilities. We wrote letters to pen pals at The Peninsula School and were introduced to our Foundation Buddies. Students thoroughly enjoyed cultivating a writing community through the Writer’s Workshop and relished the opportunity to create individual reading boxes filled with ‘Just Right’ books.

Term 2 began with much excitement as we received responses from our pen pals. During Science, we conducted many experiments as we investigated the properties relating to Force, and students thoroughly enjoyed creating magnetic racing cars. We visited Shoreham Camp and enjoyed beach walks and building huts. During Mathematics, students enthusiastically tallied, graphed and analysed data during their Jelly Bean Investigation. We continued to explore the art of writing and turned even our most reluctant participants into poets.

ability to create oral presentations and how to use feedback to enhance their learning. Students explored areas of interest within Sustainability and worked on finding practical ways to make a difference to our impact on the planet. We immersed students in their learning with an excursion to the Melbourne Museum and IMAX Theatre. Problem solving and technology were the focus of a much enjoyed incursion, ‘Lego Robotics’.

Students wrote a ‘Dreamtime Story’ for their Foundation Buddy and presented it as a gift during one of our sessions.

Term 3 saw the inclusion of some additional student leaders. Our Term 3 inquiry topics were Earth’s Changing Surface, Rio Olympics and Sustainability. We developed students’

Term 4 was an exciting and reflective time as students prepared to transition to Year 5. We returned to Shoreham Camp. We visited CERES Environment Park to learn about how

to better manage waste in our world.

Students learnt about natural and processed materials during Science, and built bridges to specifications to test their strength. Students learnt how to persuade an audience, which culminated in passionate debates.

Fractions were a focus this term and students enjoyed learning through real life, edible applications.

We witnessed wonderful progress and development in our students and have loved being a part of their learning this year!

Justine Hamilton and Michelle Brent

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his year, students from Foundation to Year 4 attended a 60 minute Chinese (Mandarin) session each week. Strong emphasis was placed on intercultural language learning and understanding.

Through learning a different language and experiencing a different culture, students also reflected on their own language and culture.

Eblana Chinese program use AIM (Accelerative Integrated Methodology) which has become increasingly popular in schools teaching Chinese in recent years to engage students in a fun manner. Students develop core functional vocabulary through gestures, storytelling, music and movements.

Some highlights of our learning…

Fun Chinese Character Learning Activities It is not easy to move from the alphabet writing to the character writing for young learners. Our students at Eblana were engaged with the online programs and fun games to develop their understanding on the Chinese writing form. Students

from Foundation to Year 2 built up the awareness of stroke type through ‘Stroke Dig’, traced and wrote characters on ‘Chinese Class’ with attention to stroke order and direction, recognised the meaning of each character by making characters with play dough and rubber bands.

Students in Year 3 and Year 4 explored a large range of pictographs and created their own imaginative character stories.

Chinese New Year Celebrations Students at Eblana enjoyed the celebrations of the Chinese New Year by colouring in the traditional Chinese clothes, Yin and Yang monkey paper cutting and Monkey King face making.

Dragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. To commemorate a great patriotic poet

Qu Yuan, Chinese people eat zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), drink realgar wine and row the dragon boats on this day. Students from Year 4 made their own dragon boat and decorated it with different patterns.

Language Perfect Awards From 16 to 26 May, the Language Perfect World Championships 2016 was held across the whole world. All the students learning languages in our school participated in this competition.

Six students from Eblana won the Silver, Bronze and Credit Awards.

It is not just about Chinese…

Year 1 and Year 2 students reviewed the Chinese words for colours in a different way. They made rainbow colours with three primary colours. Students applied previous knowledge to understand the experiment procedures which was mainly explained in Chinese, and

predicted the possible result of each step. They also completed a simple report in Chinese at the end.

After learning the topic of body parts, Year 4 students conducted a research on the life cycle of frogs.

They collected the information on the different appearances at each stage and summarised with key words in Chinese. Each student produced a mini book based on their research.

Students from Year 3 were engaged with the puppet show. They took different roles from The Three Little Pigs and retold the story in Chinese.

It has indeed been an exciting year in LOTE. Gracie Gao Chinese Teacher

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were visited by Jeannette Rowe who entertained the children with stories and her session focused on the idea of ‘character’ as a starting point for narrative writing. Jeannette delighted the students by demonstrating a clever way of creating multiple, illustrated characters through a combination of eye, nose and mouth shapes.

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he aim of the Finlay Anderson Library’s junior school program is to enhance literacy across the Eblana Campus and to ensure that by the time the students move from Eblana to Bayview they are competent, independent users of our library service and its resources.

Students from Foundation to Year 4 visit the Library each week with their class to borrow a wide range of books as well as to discover how the Library and its facilities are able to support them in their learning and recreational reading.

This year the theme underpinning our work in the library was ‘Curiosity’.

Curiosity makes learning more effective and enjoyable as curious students not only ask questions but actively seek out answers. When students visit our library space they are encouraged to question, explore, search and discover whether it relates to an unfamiliar word in their reading or seeking further information for a project or just expanding on a topic they are interested in, they are encouraged to engage their curiosity.

In May, we ran a competition for students to celebrate Library and Information Week. The task was to try and guess the number of pages in a package of books that was wrapped in plain paper. It was interesting to witness the different ways students formulated their answers – everything from wild guesses to mathematical calculations!

Children’s Book Week in August was one of the highlights in Eblana.

The theme for Book Week 2016 was ‘Australia, Story Country’ and to support the theme students were encouraged to think about how books and stories can make a difference to not only their reading life, but life beyond a book. Students were treated to two inspiring presentations by Australian authors. Foundation to Year 2 students

Former Mentone Grammar student and successful author, George Ivanoff, presented a writing workshop to our Years 3 and 4 students. George started with tasking the students to do two minutes of forced writing to ‘warm up’ to the writing process.

The key message was that to be a writer you need to write every day and ensure you write about what you find interesting and in the genre you like to read. George encouraged students to take little bits of their own lives and turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

George and the students collaboratively created a story that devised a character on a journey with a range of challenging problems and ways to get around the problem in order to achieve a successful outcome to the narrative. The students came away with renewed enthusiasm and fantastic ideas to enhance their own story writing.

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he Visual Arts program in Eblana aims to foster a love of creativity, self-expression and learning.

The purpose of our program is to engage and challenge students in a way that encourages them to take risks and have a go, apply their vision and to make artwork that is unique and individual.

Students are always welcome to come in to read books, browse through magazines, draw or play games. It is always pleasing to see students take the opportunity to make the best use of our wonderful library.

Our Art Room is fully equipped for creating artworks in a broad variety of media. All students have the opportunity to work with a variety of materials in 2D and 3D forms.

Many of our works are inspired by artists and artistic periods, teaching the students art appreciation while exploring their own creative ideas. The content covered in Art comes directly from the student’s interest and ideas, which helps to develop enjoyment and pride in what is created. Students’ artworks are prominently displayed throughout the School as we aim to foster an appreciation of art amongst our students.

Beverly Ross Eblana Teacher Librarian

Jillian Watkins Eblana Art

Towards the end of Term 3 we welcomed the 2017 Foundation students as part of the Eblana transition program.

In Term 4, we hosted the grandparents of our Foundation students on Grandparents’ Day where they had the opportunity to see our young students in ‘action’ during their regular Library session.

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n Eblana, instrumental music, music theatre, singing and dancing all played an important part in developing our students’ creativity and willingness to create and perform.

It was a year of great participation in many areas of the Performing Arts at Mentone Grammar. In Eblana, instrumental music, music theatre, singing and dancing all played an important part in developing our students’ creativity and willingness to create and perform.

Assemblies provided the children with regular performance opportunities and this year we saw many students work on special items to perform at assembly.

With regular lunchtime rehearsals in the music room to practise their items, the students really demonstrated a passion for Performing Arts.

One of our assembly highlights was the Foundation and Year 4 performance of; I bought me a Cat by Aaron Copland and Paul Jennings, with each Foundation student playing an instrument to represent an animal.

It was a delight to see the children performing alongside their buddies.

There were, of course, our formal instrumental concerts, which showcased our two major ensembles, the Eblana Strings and the Eblana Singers as well as our Years 2 and 3 instrumental groups and a variety of solo performers.

The Years 2 and 3 instrumental classes continued to produce some excellent work from our students.

The String Ensemble performed at each assembly and all string students were invited to play in this ensemble.

Students from Year 2 were also invited to sing with the Eblana singers, which rehearsed every Thursday morning.

In the classroom, children tapped out tunes with the boomwhackers and chime bars, composed music, danced and sang. We rehearsed eagerly for our Christmas Pageant and our Year 4 students were excited by a special invitation to sing the blessing for the Year 12 students at their Valedictory chapel service.

Overall, 2016 has been a busy year for all our Eblana performers. Thank you to our wonderful Performing Arts Captains, Isabel Ellix, Callum Orr and Aimee Lancaster for your leadership and for the excellent job you did introducing performers at assemblies and soirées.

Debra McLeod Eblana Music

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1. White 2. Lionel Large 3. Were 4. Jones 5. Deighton 6. Finlay Anderson 7. Drinan 8. Anderson

Foundation BOYS 1. Oscar Cox 2. Edward Forkes 3. Patrick Reynolds GIRLS 1. Ruby Castello 2. Lily Kerr 3. Charlotte Ellix Year 1 BOYS 1. Ben Fraser 2. William Adams 3. Benjamin Nish

A Day at Keysborough

GIRLS 1. Angela Hooker 2. Brooke Bernasconi 3. Annalise Di Tirro Year 2

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hat a wonderful day Eblana families had in May when we visited our Keysborough Playing Fields to enjoy a morning of Cross Country events, ELC Games and Mother’s Day. Weather conditions were magnificent for these much awaited events and it was indeed fantastic to have so many family members join us to support the young athletes and enjoy this magnificent venue. Eblana students should be proud and encouraged for their involvement in such healthy and physical pursuits. It was lovely to note the improved fitness and enjoyment levels of so many. I commend all those involved for their sporting endeavour, friendly participation and encouragement of others. The medals and ribbons were bonuses – the participants were all winners.

Congratulations to White House athletes: Noemi Sniezek and Nicholas Harris (Captains), Mika Arvanitakis, Ava Lucas. Julian May, Jack Wall, Harrison Lloyd, Baxter Chan, Amelia Hall, Christopher Lucas, Isabella Mirhom, Leahm Orfanidis,

Henry Walker, James Evans, Jae Hadjiyannakis, Reahn Orfanidis, Diesel Reid, Tyler Veza, William Clayton, Edward Hall, Robbie Hodgetts, Samaara Nakra, Siobhan Phillips, Flynn Walker, Anthony Mirhom and Nina Pertzel who were the overall winners of the Cross Country morning!

Mother’s Day Morning Tea Following the Cross Country and Games events our Eblana Leaders hosted a delightful morning tea for our Eblana mothers, grandmothers and guests in the clubrooms at Keysborough.

It was great to see so many present, making the most of this opportunity to be spoilt in return, by their wonderful children. What a fantastic morning it was!

John Nolan

BOYS 1. Ben Jackson 2. Lachlan Glotzer 3. Cooper Armstrong GIRLS 1. Alice Fletcher 2. Taj Reynolds 3. Mia Antoniou Year 3 BOYS 1 Angus Jackson 2. Flynn Walker 3. Luca Hayes GIRLS 1. Siobhan Phillips 2. Caitlin Smith 3. Sarah Chun Year 4 BOYS 1. Ayden Roos 2. Kyle Roos 3. Jasper Zdanius GIRLS 1. Noemi Sniezek 2. Elisha Parkes 3. Holly Nish

A DAY AT KEYSBOROUGH

We congratulate the medal winners for each year level:

Eblana

Overall House placements:

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Year 1L

Aneeb Ahmed

Archer Armstrong

Mika Arvanitakis

Chloe Britter

Oscar Cox

Zoe Dwyer

Charlotte Ellix

Ashanah Griffith

William Adams

Myra Arya

Zac Bartlett

Rhys Basin

Jack Bowers

Baxter Chan

Benjamin Fraser

Amelia Hall

Ava Glotzer

Christopher Hobbs

Connor Jackson

James Kerr

Ava Lucas

Lachlan Majstorovic

Sonny McKinnon

Raegan Nguyen

Angela Hooker

Vitya Kirsta

Dash Leonard

Christopher Lucas

Nikolas Lynch

Jada McLean

Zara Measures

Isabella Mirhom

Samir Rahhali

Patrick Reynolds

Anish Saigal

Alexander Tariq

Jack Wall

Dr Meg Hayes

Emily Murray

Benjamin Nish

Sullivan O’Donnell

Leahm Orfanidis

Henry Walker

Mr Kris Little

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Kallis Bernasconi

Evyn Boettcher

Ruby Castello

Junhao Fan

Eddie Forkes

Neal Gong

Lily Kerr

Mya Kilany

Emaan Ahmed

Brooke Bernasconi

Alexander Burrows

Sam Colliver

Stevan Dakic

Annalise Di Tirro

Oskar Edwardes

Paolo Fragale

Harrison Lloyd

Julian May

Brandon Milat

Giuseppe MontiPlummer

Hudson Nicholson

Claudia Piotrowski

Ashlee Schultz

Lachy Smith

Ariana Goralski

Elliot Grant

Alexandra Hooker

Jonathan Kalogerakis

Oscar Karras

Elise Lewell

James McGrath

Jake Pyszczek

Lucy Sweeny

Jessica Tabois

Hunter West

Miss Laura Savage

Blake Schultz

Sophie Shing

Levi Svec

Max Tan

Mrs Jessica Richards

Mr John Nolan

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Year 3 class photos

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Year 3E

Mia Antoniou

Olivia Apostolidis

Cooper Armstrong

Kristof Buschkuehl

Byron Castello

Hudson Close

Joseph Compton

Lachlan Dwyer

Panayiotis Bountroukas Montana Cheers

Sarah Chun

Hugo Flower

Jenson Flower

Cooper Gallant

Edward Hall

Lachlan Hecker

Emma Evans

James Evans

Alice Fletcher

Lachlan Glotzer

Jae Hadjiyannakis

Abigail Lloyd

Phoenix Park

Zakaria Rahhali

Robbie Hodgetts

Madeleine Lewell

Flynn McEneaney

Chase McLean

Samaara Nakra

Jack Newman

Ben Parr

Siobhan Phillips

Taj Reynolds

Luke Sheppard

Jack Townson

Harrison Tzounos

Oliver Tzounos

Lucas Wagner

Mrs Leonie Binge

Mrs Briana Walker

Zoe Richmond

James Salisbury

Poppy Samild

Matthew Shing

Grace Sibbald

Jaxon Stephens

Marlon Turco

Thomas Wale

Emma Adams

Abigail Barrett

Luke Bennett

Aaron Britter

Thomas Burton

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Year 2OW

Justin Yu

Mr Greg Evans TEACHER

Campbell Brown

Sarab Dawar

Riley Hamilton

Matthew Harford

Ben Jackson

Chloe Kalabun

Sienna Lyons

Jack Messina

Anika Cherney

William Clayton

Michael Di Tirro

Jake Frankland

Luca Hayes

Angus Jackson

Indy Mannix

Scott Marrow

Natalie Nomikos

Reahn Orfanidis

Alitsia Piotrowski

Ava Pregnalato

Kate Pregnalato

Diesel Reid

William Richardson

Mohammed Sabih

Oscar Mentiplay

Kai Mitchell

Zoe Nixon

Morgan Shearer

Caitlin Smith

David Sprung

Nate Trowell

Flynn Walker

Patrick Saunders

Amelia Tabois

Cooper Topp

Josh Turner

Tyler Veza

Mrs Julee O’Flaherty

Mrs Sheree Walsh

Andrew Wang

Sara Weeks

Atahan Yildiz

Ms Kate Lang

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Charli Bucci

Charlotte Cowan

Sienna Edwardes

Michelle Fong

Lachlan Fraser

McKenzie Hood

Aimee Lancaster

Elise Laws

Anthony Mirhom

Ellie Newman

Holly Nish

Lachlan O’Hara

Callum Orr

Dimitri Rellos

Ayden Roos

Kyle Roos

Brendan Sheppard

Sally Stevens

Benjamin Stockdale

Hannah Wagner

Mrs Michelle Brent

Tomas Barlow

Mia Castello

Isabel Ellix

Sophie Frost

Nicholas Harris

Ashleigh Hopkins

Thomas Kurta

Maddox Lewell

Ella Michell

Scarlet Park

Elisha Parkes

Nina Pertzel

Justin Pregnalato

Jordan Pyszczek

Alice Roberts

Riley Shilson-Josling

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BAYVIEW Head of Bayview

Noemi Sniezek

Ayden Tezay

Marianna Theofilopoulou

Jake Vorrath

Jasper Zdanius

Mrs Justine Hamilton TEACHER

One can only be impressed by the achievements of the Bayview community throughout 2016. All connected with the School have worked harmoniously to produce some wonderful outcomes in numerous programs undertaken during the course of the year.

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n Bayview, we are committed to the recognition of academic excellence. Many students performed exceptionally well this year in relation to their academic achievement.

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Students have had opportunities to display their unique talents in many fields, ably supported by a dedicated staff; I commend our Bayview staff and students on the work they have undertaken. The following reflections highlight a number of events and activities experienced by our diverse community during 2016. Many other activities undertaken by Bayview students this year will be highlighted in other sections of this publication.

In Bayview, we are committed to the recognition of academic excellence. Many students performed exceptionally well this year in relation to their academic achievements. Relevant Academic Awards were presented at special Award Assemblies at the conclusion of each semester to celebrate the accomplishments of those who demonstrated outstanding effort, dedication, academic achievement and improvement. Awards were also presented to students who performed admirably in a number of external

challenges, which included: the Maths Talent Quest, the Language Perfect Competition (World Champions!), the German Poetry Competition, the Science Talent Search, the da Vinci Decathlon, Tournament of Minds, Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians, the Australian Maths Competition, the Gateways Challenge and the 2016 NAPLAN Assessment.

Competitions, State and National Championships, in addition to the School’s House sports competitions.

Students are to be congratulated on their impressive efforts in the 2016 sports season. Special thanks are extended to our staff, our team of hard-working coaches and our wonderful parents who supported our students throughout the year.

Bayview students participated in a variety of team sports in 2016. By working together in their selected sports, students shared common goals endeavouring to create a climate of success. They learned the importance of being prepared and training to reach their goals. They were encouraged to be proud of their successes, without belittling their opponents. They learned how to deal with losses, learning how to improve and have a better chance of success next time. Bayview students had opportunities to represent Mentone Grammar during the year in the AGSV, APS, the local Cheltenham District

Many Bayview students have a passion for performance; they are creative and have the dedication to achieve.

Accordingly, they have been provided with many opportunities to participate in the School’s dynamic Performing Arts program throughout the year.

Some memorable performances were delivered in 2016 in drama, dance, instrumental and vocal music productions, which included The Lion King JR, the Bayview House Arts Competition, Stagecraft, the Bayview Soiree and Music Concerts.

Congratulations and thanks are extended to our talented students, supportive staff and parents involved

with Bayview’s exciting Program.

It goes without saying, all students and staff are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to perform and present in the School’s remarkable new Creativity Centre in 2017!

Bayview’s 2016 Learning Journey Program absorbed students in age appropriate learning experiences away from their school environment.

Essentially, Bayview Learning Journeys, sequential in design, provide an extended learning experience which link different learning areas and allow students to appreciate new environments which impact on their lives, whilst promoting teamwork, learning, cooperation and responsibility.

2016 Learning Journeys included: • Years 5, 6 and 7 visits to the School’s stunning Shoreham property • Year 5 three-day Learning Journey to Sovereign Hill, Ballarat • Year 6 five-day Learning Journey to Canberra

• Year 7 five-day Learning Journey to Central Australia

Deputy Head of Bayview – Michael Martin

• Year 8 ten-day International Learning Journeys to China, Cambodia, Vietnam and Nepal.

Bayview Campus PA – Nichole Hargreaves

Many relevant excursions and incursions were organised for Bayview students to assist with their studies throughout the year. Activities included the Year 8 Humanities Medieval Incursion and Market visits; the Year 5 visits to the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks, the Year 6 visits to Parliament House and Chinatown, and the Year 7 visit to the Melbourne Aquarium.

In conclusion, Bayview has had a marvellous year. Congratulations, once again, to our enthusiastic students and professional staff. Special thanks to the following people for their outstanding support in 2016: Principal – Mal Cater Deputy Principals – Deb Frizza and Jarrod O’Neill

Bayview Year Level Coordinators and Assistant Year Level Coordinators – Jo Kamp, Leigh Chislett, Peter O’Gorman, Amy Long and Jacqueline Cartwright Bayview School Captains – Ella Mairs and Tom Spencer Business Manager – Nicole Bradshaw Human Resources Manager – Richard Keely Property Manager – David Teasdale.

John Twist Head of Bayview

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his year energetic, persistent and excitable Years 5 and 6 students made up the initial year levels within the Bayview Middle School Campus.

One hundred and sixty of them, to be exact! Our patient and dedicated Mentors worked closely with these young adolescents and were committed to engaging and supporting them in ways that inspired them to be their best. Expectations were elevated and personal goals were always raised, just that little bit higher, for each individual. With expectations high, it was anticipated that students would strive for success and ultimately achieve no less than their best.

In the Years 5 and 6 area we endeavour to develop confident individuals who show resilience and a love of learning, whilst demonstrating respect for others, and even more importantly, for themselves.

Learning Journeys take our students out of the classroom and challenge them with real life learning and activities that truly involve the individual.

For our students, an old Chinese proverb is at the forefront of each Mentor’s mind when we investigate innovative ways to present curriculum.

“ Tell me and I may forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I’ll understand.”

This year, Year 5 students participated in many varied Learning Journey experiences to Shoreham, the Immigration Museum, Scienceworks and Sovereign Hill, where learning promoted absolute engagement.

Year 6 also had many opportunities

to experience Learning Journeys that included Shoreham, Canberra, State Parliament, Art Exhibitions, Chinatown and ACMI. The leadership opportunities presented to Year 6 included applying to become Kingston Council’s Junior Mayor for 2016 and the inaugural Community Leadership summit hosted by the Cathy Freeman Foundation. In addition, many students across both year levels volunteered to showcase their School at numerous open days.

The RULER program is now firmly embedded into our Mentor program and classrooms. Through the implementation of a class charter and the use of Mood Meters students can recognise, understand and label their emotions. The Middle Years is a time

when students experience heightened emotions, therefore the importance of implementing a program such as RULER cannot be underestimated.

Utilising the many aspects of RULER, students are better able to cope with difficult situations and generate a range of suitable solutions.

Mentors spend time developing working partnerships with the students to provide them with relevant feedback that empowers them to take control of their learning. Armed with this feedback, students have the capacity to truly reflect and develop their understanding across all subject areas.

Mentors have witnessed firsthand the development in our Year 6 students

as they prepare for Year 7. We have watched individuals progressively seek greater independence, develop their identities and make more decisions.

They have noticeably demonstrated a growing capacity for reflective and abstract thinking. This year we have once again had the opportunity to prepare yet another cohort of fine young adolescents who will be capable role models for the influx of newcomers into Mentone Grammar for their first year of secondary school. We can only marvel at the calibre of individual we send forth. For 2016 – our job is done!

Jacqueline Cartwright Years 5&6 Coordinator

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he transition into the life of a secondary school student often takes many twists and turns, yet is extremely rewarding for the staff lucky enough to work with these students

The beginning of the secondary school journey marks an important chapter in a young person’s life. The rollercoaster of emotions felt both as the primary years culminate and the future beckons, always ensures the Year 7 students approach this transitional phase with a range of emotions, often a mix of excitement, nervousness and hope as they embark on the next important chapter of their lives. This year was no different as we saw 166 Year 7 students begin their secondary school journey at Mentone Grammar, consisting of five Boys’ Mentor groups and two Girls’ Mentor groups.

From the beginning of the year, our students faced new challenges such as finding their way around a large school, working to a timetable that forms parts of the wider school

jigsaw, having a wide variety of subject specific teachers and in many cases, learning to develop a newfound independence that comes with travelling to school in different ways, using a school diary on a daily basis and planning ahead in order to stay organised. Combined with the physical, social and emotional development that occurs at this stage of a young person’s life, the transition into the life of a secondary school student often takes many twists and turns, yet is extremely rewarding for the staff lucky enough to work with these students and so it was throughout this year.

the impact they can have on each other, the community and the environment. In particular, the RULER program underpinned much of our in-class discussion, with students becoming more aware of the need for them to develop their emotional intelligence as they mature. Using the four anchors of RULER: Class Charter, Mood Meter, Meta-Moment and Blueprint, the students were encouraged to agree upon their expected feelings whilst at school, self-monitor and regulate their own emotions and understand the need to empathise with the feelings of others in a variety of situations.

Our Mentor program allowed students to develop their thinking in a variety of ways, encouraging them to think beyond themselves and understand

Year 7 students had the opportunity to participate in two Learning Journeys throughout the year, the first to Central Australia and the second to

our Shoreham camp. Whilst there are different focuses for each trip, the memories of both often stay with the students for their time at School and beyond. Whilst arriving at School for a 4.30am departure to Central Australia wasn’t enjoyed by many, the incredible opportunity to engage with our Indigenous population, spend time in a remote Aboriginal community called Lilla, walk around Uluru and over Kings Canyon and the chance to experience life in such a different setting, away from the normal day to day interaction of school and home life, provided our students with an amazing experience and one that many students will look back upon as one of their favourite cocurricular activities throughout their time at Mentone Grammar. In addition, the Shoreham Learning Journey

aimed to provide students with an opportunity to think beyond the now, encouraging them to contemplate the next steps in their physical, social and emotional development. Aided by an increased connection with the local community and environment, the program at Shoreham allowed students to strengthen their understanding of what it means to be a teenager in today’s society and prompted them to think about what might be next as they journey through adolescence.

The students were ably led by a group of Mentors who took pride in guiding the students throughout Year 7. Students face many ups and downs as they navigate their Middle Years of schooling and the role of the Mentor cannot be underestimated. Often

called upon for support in a variety of guises, these key staff members provide great guidance to our students and provide an enormous amount of behind the scenes support as the students work their way through the myriad of academic, sporting, musical and pastoral opportunities on offer.

Our thanks go to Mrs Leonie Redfern, Mr Rob Paterson, Ms Katherine Gratton, Mrs Gennie McNair, Ms Sabrina van Dort, Ms Anastasia Courtney, Mr Tim Clark and Mr Liam Bassett for their fine contributions this year. Special thanks to Mrs Amy Long who provided terrific leadership and guidance for staff and students, both as a Mentor and Assistant Year 7 Coordinator.

Peter O’Gorman Year 7 Coordinator

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Central Australia Reminiscing with older students within the School, the Year 7 Central Australia Learning Journey nearly always provokes strong memories, positive recollections and great appreciation for the opportunity to have visited such an historic and important part of our country. Again in 2016, the Year 7 students had the opportunity to visit a truly unique part of the world and, as has been the case previously, it didn’t disappoint.

A very early 4.30am departure saw an eager group of students (and a bleary eyed group of parents and staff!) board their bus for a flight to Yulara airport, via Sydney, arriving midafternoon. As the plane descended, students were given some amazing views of Uluru, gaining a sense of what was to come over the ensuing week.

Met by the infamous ‘Reg’ and his big purple bus that has now ‘toured’ nearly every Mentone Grammar student from Years 7-12, students were immediately given a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit Uluru, one of Australia’s most famous landmarks.

With its sheer size and significance to

boot, the students were educated on its cultural significance, with Aboriginal elders on hand to educate and support.

Over the year, our School has developed a close affinity with Lilla, a remote indigenous community around three hours drive from Uluru.

The highlight of this drive is the one and only left hand turn the bus makes.

At Lilla, students are often completely removed from their comfort zone, out of ‘range’ but surrounded by incredible landscape and terrain that for many were left to their imagination prior to arrival. Again with the assistance of the local community, our students are initially ‘Welcomed to Country’, before participating in a range of activities including learning some indigenous language, dot painting, jewellery making and storytelling. The Kings Canyon walk, located approximately 15 km from our campsite, is one of many highlights of the trip, with the views, fresh air and incredible history making it all the more worthwhile.

Returning to Yulara for the final night of the week allows each group to

experience the sunset at Uluru, before witnessing a sunrise at Kata Tjuta. Again, as well as incredible photo opportunities, the students are educated on the historical significance of each area visited and all return home with a far greater understanding of the incredible history and evolution of our indigenous population and the challenges they continue to face in a world changing around them.

Whilst in one sense the Learning Journey promotes the opportunity for independence and maturation for our students, simply by providing a week away from the home comforts, on the other hand the need for connection and interdependence is continually explained and encouraged throughout.

This experience has provided many students over the last few years with incredible memories, exposure to the natural beauty within our country and the importance of connecting with our past. This year’s trips to Central Australia were no exception.

Peter O’Gorman Year 7 Coordinator

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ee something, do something’, is a statement that former Deputy Head Mr David Baker used to exemplify leadership.

Leadership was a focus throughout the year and all Year 8s, as the most senior students in Bayview, were encouraged to be leaders whether they wore a badge or not.

At the beginning of the year several students attended a leadership conference and were then formally badged at assembly for their contribution to, and leadership in, Bayview. Congratulations go to all students who did an exemplary job at leading whether or not they were formally recognised with a badge; particular thanks go to Bayview Captains, Ella Mairs and Thomas Spencer for their excellent leadership throughout 2016.

Throughout the year our Year 8s immersed themselves in the Mentor program. Pastorally, the year level focused on relationships; relationships with themselves, their peers, friends, family and community. School Values and global issues were addressed and emphasised in both Mentor

sessions and in Chapel services, as their journey along the path called adolescence continued. All students were encouraged to lead by example and to instil within a sense of pride and responsibility for their own actions.

Students participated in the RULER program and each Mentor group came up with their own agreed charter of values.

During Term 2 we had a whole year level quiz afternoon where the stakes were high and competition fierce.

However, Year 8 wasn’t all just fun and games! Students were challenged academically and had a wide array of subject material to cover throughout the year. Students collated their work and set personal goals. They then presented tests, assignments and other pieces of work, completed during the year, to their parents at the Student-led Parent Conferences.

The conferencing certainly helped students take more responsibility for their learning.

The Learning Journey was an absolute highlight. Once again classroom walls were torn down, textbooks were brought to life and learning taken to a new level. This year, Year 8 staff and students travelled to China Beijing, China Guangzhou, Nepal, and Cambodia and for the first time, Vietnam.

Our intrepid students traversed the globe with respect for each other as well as the cultures they visited. They gained invaluable insight and perception into how others lived and how privileged they are. Their core values shone through; they were excellent ambassadors of Mentone Grammar.

Depending on the destination, students were able to walk the Great Wall, visit Angkor Wat, see the skyline of Hong Kong, help plant rice in the rice fields, shop for a bargain at the markets, travel on the bullet train from Hong Kong, trek the rice terraces of Guangzhou, learn traditional Cambodian dances, cycle the hutongs of Beijing, raft the river of

Yangzhou, visit local schools in each of the regions and help teach English for a day. The smiles on the faces and messages home to parents said it all.

At the beginning of the year students chose their ideal destination from the number of alternatives and from the end of Term 2 they met weekly in their Learning Journey groups to begin to familiarise themselves with each other the cultural differences, geography and currency. They learnt some basic greetings and how to count in the language of their chosen destination.

Also, as part of the lead up to the main trip, students enjoyed a day trip into the CBD in their groups as a ‘test run’ to travelling together, catching public transport, working together as a team to get from place to place, visiting a market, walking the ‘thousand steps’ in Ferntree Gully and dining on the cuisine of the country they were to visit.

In order to complete the community service aspect of the Learning Journey,

students held a BBQ fundraiser, a chocolate drive and casual dress day to raise funds for the local schools they were to visit whilst away. They used this money to purchase stationery supplies or other materials needed by each of the schools.

Upon return students put together a Travel Expo for their parents, Board members and other students to attend.

The classrooms came alive with the joy, learning and understanding of the places they had visited. Visitors had a number of activities to complete in order to receive a ‘stamp’ in their ‘passport’ as they too ‘travelled’ in the footsteps of our Year 8s.

Students then knuckled down and studied for their exams for each of their core subjects. Along with other activities such as House sport, Saturday sport, and personal challenges and highlights, this year has once again seen the Year 8s transition into mature young people, all suitably equipped with the skills required to

enjoy the myriad adventures and challenges in Year 9 and life beyond.

I would personally like to thank our Year 8 Mentors of 2016 for their dedication, support and enthusiasm: Mrs Lisa Turner 8A, Miss Holly Loughran 8B, Mr Jon Wever 8C, Mr Gary Colling 8D Mr Steve Kuruc 8E (Term 1) Mrs Kelly Brady 8E, Mrs Heather Stone 8F and Year 8 Assistant Coordinator Mr Leigh Chislett 8G. Last but not least, a huge thank you to the students of Year 8 for the interest they have shown to their studies and the way they conducted and challenged themselves throughout the year. The Year 8 Mentor Team would like to wish each and every one of you much success as you move on to the Greenways Campus.

Joanne Kamp Year 8 Coordinator

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Beijing Cambodia Our trip to Cambodia can be summed up in one word. AMAZING. School kids – amazing Bike ride – amazing Scenery – amazing Temples – amazing Cambodian people – amazing Walks and waterfalls – amazing Markets – amazing Food – amazing Developing new friendships – amazing.

It truly was an amazing experience one that we will not forget.

Lisa Turner, Laura Savage, Dave Bunyan and Kate Frazer

Cambodia Boys’ tour Will Durston – ‘It’s amazing how lucky we are’.

Jeremy Di Rosato – ‘We are so lucky to have this opportunity to go overseas at our age. The people in Cambodia cannot even comprehend it.’

Callum Prior – ‘It won’t hit you that you’re in a foreign country until you go back home.’

Ethan Murray – ‘I spoke to the school students and they were very grateful for our help and service. They wished me a safe trip home. Wow.’ Thomas Meldrum – ‘Seeing the children smile by giving them some simple stationery; that in itself was worth a nine hour flight.’

Will Currey – ‘I can’t believe these people are still happy without electricity’.

Beijing Blog We certainly hit the ground running in Beijing. After an early arrival it took us close to an hour and three quarters to clear customs. We checked into our hotel, freshened up and started our day with a Chinese lunch banquet at a local restaurant. Delicious! We then travelled by public bus to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. The size of the palace is quite unbelievable.

Beijing is steeped in tradition and history and we certainly got to see some amazing sights, the Summer Palace was an amazing experience with a tranquil boat ride from one side of the palace to the other. The views

from the Great Wall were magnificent and breathtaking. We have ticked an item off our bucket lists!

Our visit to a small local school was an interesting experience. The Chinese students’ morning break is exercise that consists of marching (in time). It was so precise and orderly for primary age children. It was wonderful to meet some of these students and see them in their learning environment, which is vastly different to our own.

Today has been a full schedule.

We have visited many of the local parks and experienced the majestic Cyprus trees that are 600 years old.

Students had a fantastic time with the local community in the parks. We were warmly welcomed everywhere we visited. We climbed the Drum Tower with exhaustion and visited the Lama Temple too. It was a wonderful experience to pray to Buddha alongside the locals.

The highlight was our bike ride through the markets and around the rivers of hutongs. Interacting once again with the local community, seeing the area on bike

and finishing with lunch at the home of a local family. We then had an adventure with a crowded subway and made our way to see the acrobatics show.

Our days were filled with fun, culture and sightseeing. We went to the Temple of Heaven, got involved in the traditional games, tried the abnormal exercise routines they do and danced alongside the locals and shared with them a bit of our authentic Australian dance, which they all loved.

Finally, we took the subway to the airport. Everyone was tired and exhausted after the amount of fun and happiness we experienced on this amazing trip. We discussed before we left, the bonding on the trip of us all and we would miss the funny ‘D&Ms’ we had and the relationships we created with people we hardly knew before :) Natalie McLennan, Andrew Stewart, Jess Richards and Mark Stembridge

China Hill Trek Each of the China Hill Trek groups met at Melbourne airport at their designated time chatting excitedly with one another about the 10 days that lay ahead. At about 9pm we said our final goodbyes to teary and proud parents, and embarked on our Year 8 International Learning Journey to China. The next week and a half flew by in a flurry of rice terraces, beautiful views, humid weather, rewarding school visits, sweaty hikes, bike rides, frantic markets, peaceful raft rides, chaotic public transport and scenery unlike anything that can be seen elsewhere on the planet.

Ask any one of the students in the China Hill Trek group and we will tell you that the greatest lesson we learned in China was to appreciate what we have; drinkable water at the flick of a tap, safe roads, excellent resources for education, and the freedom to spend a whole day in bed rather than work tirelessly in a field. This trip helped us to not only recognise what we have to be grateful for, but also how your attitude can

change a bad situation instantly.

Each of us encountered our own personal challenges while on our learning journey, and each of us was able to adjust our attitudes in order to overcome our challenges and make the absolute most out of this trip.

All groups would like to thank Mr Cater and the School Board for this opportunity; it will remain in our memories for years to come.

We would also like to thank the teachers for helping us with our many questions and issues, patiently and always with a smile.

Our Year 8 International Learning Journey has brought us closer together and has opened our eyes to the things in our lives that we are fortunate to have.

Thank you for your time, and to conclude we would just like to say ‘yeh choo’.

Gennie McNair, Meg Hayes, Jarrod O’Neill, Christine Altidis, Michael Martin, Bridgitte Roberts

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China – Hill Tribes China – Hill Tribes What the boys thought …

Will S – The trip was a great learning experience on how people, with not as much as what we have, live. The mountains and scenery were amazing.

Ace B – this year’s trip to South China was an absolutely fantastic journey and I enjoyed every minute of it. Going to the markets, trekking through great big rice fields, experiencing moon hill, but most of all experiencing it with my friends. The teachers were fantastic and were also a great part of the trip.

James M – Going to South China was such a great opportunity. Hiking, visiting schools, markets and the sights were all truly incredible.

Tarli R – Wow, what a trip! I have enjoyed South China so much and I’m so lucky to be able to have had this opportunity. Learning about the

culture has just been great. Doing all the different activities was just a great big memory that I will never forget.

Doug R – I was a bit nervous going to China without my family but once I got there I really enjoyed my time. My favourite part of the trip was going to all the night markets each night and practising bartering. The food there was really good most of the time also, it was nice to try new things.

Tom Sh – Going on the Hill Tribes learning journey will be a memory for life. My favourite part of the trip was giving presents to the young Chinese school kids and seeing the smiles on their faces. The many activities that we did in those nine days, I will remember for the rest of my life.

Ethan P – The trip to South China was an incredible learning experience, which allowed all of the students to step into a different environment and develop new skills.

Oscar P – The China trip was a great opportunity with lots of new learning experiences. I enjoyed every experience with this group of boys.

Every activity we did was a once in a lifetime experience.

Jeremy C – The learning journey was an unforgettable experience that will remain with me for my entire life.

The cultural differences were an eye opener to the other side of the world, sights and smells that impacted me that week will stay with me forever.

Spencer S – The China hill tribe learning journey was a great experience to learn about their culture, food and what they do in their everyday life.

Jimmy C – The trip was amazing.

The culture and food were so different to what we would do and eat here in Australia, almost better. I would definitely go back.

Joel R – The China trek was an amazing opportunity to have an insight into other parts of the world. The hikes, bike riding, and markets were definitely the highlights.

Archie P – I enjoyed playing games with the kids as well as the markets, sights, hotels, bike riding, culture and the raft. But if I had to choose one it would be the sights. This was a great opportunity.

Oskar P – The China Hill tribes were great. I loved hanging out with the kids and going on the bike ride. Bartering was a great experience and the hike, although I expected them to be boring, were actually really good.

What the girls thought …

Lauren – A great opportunity. The views were incredible and the school was a real eye opener.

Georgia – The trip was so amazing being able to feel a part of their culture. All the views were amazing.

Skye – It was a great experience, seeing the poor towns were really eye opening. I enjoyed every moment.

Ruby – This trip was amazing! It was good to experience other cultures and lifestyles.

Chloe – I absolutely loved the trip!

Being in China for 10 days with the School was unbelievable. It especially brought all of us girls closer together.

Grace – The trip was fantastic.

Through the bustling cities and rural villages, it was all amazing!

Kira – This trip was an opportunity of a lifetime. I loved every second of it and I’m so glad I went. The scenery was astounding, and the fact that we could experience other cultures was eye opening.

Jessica – Out of all the holidays that I have been to, this was the best. I loved every bit of this amazing experience.

I loved seeing the beautiful rice fields.

Anna – I absolutely loved this trip! I loved the views and the markets the best.

Hannah – I’ve overused the word incredible to describe this trip, but every moment was truly incredible.

Wishing I could go back!

Ella – I am so grateful for the opportunity we were given and I loved visiting the school.

Matilda – The trip was so amazing I loved every part of it. I am so grateful for the opportunity that I’ve had to explore this amazing place.

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Nepal Both groups enjoyed their learning journey to Nepal, being able to combine time in Kathmandu with a four-day trek in the Annapurna region.

Under the guidance of their very knowledgeable and friendly guides, Bikash and Money, each group spent the first two days gaining an understanding of life in an Asian city.

With roads crowded with buses, cars and most of all motorbikes the students saw how daily life was for most Nepalese. An interesting visit to one of the holiest Hindu shrines was a highlight with blessings from holy men (shadu), cremations and families offering tributes to family members who were no longer with them. The students gained an appreciation for the simplicity of Hindu life and the stark difference between their world and our western ways.

A flight to Pokhara brought us to the Annapurna region where our fourday trek took place. A challenging introduction saw us eventually arrive at an Ecolodge which would be our last regular sleep for a while. Over the

next three days the students trekked the range, encountered numerous leeches, slept under canvas, (some were rained out) and enjoyed a visit to a village and school. The visit to the school saw the students interact with local children, teaching and being taught basic information and playing football and frisbee. In the afternoon the students met with the school and local community where speeches were made, gifts from Mentone to the school given, and dancing and games undertaken. The friendliness of all of the Nepalese was something the students will remember fondly.

The next day saw the students complete the trek, with a great sense of achievement. From there, the journey back home began with a mix of sadness and eagerness to share every experience with family and friends.

Some thoughts …

Josh C – Money can’t buy happiness.

Adam H – Going to Nepal has really shown me how privileged we are because of the infrastructure we have compared to theirs.

Yassie – We have so much and take it all for granted They have so little yet they appreciate and cherish the smallest things.

Lily – In Australia it’s every man for themselves and we are all so selfish even though we have all the necessities of life. Where as in Nepal it’s a community and no matter how poor each person is, everyone looks after each other and shares like one big family.

Elyssia M – I used to take everything for granted and now I feel lucky for what I have.

Bailey R – The more you have, the more you have to lose.

Maddy R – We learnt from the kids, who give more than they have.

Alyssa S – The smiles that I saw from the kids changed my life.

Charlie W – The less you have the purer your heart is.

Simon C – You don’t need a lot to be happy.

Xavier H – I now appreciate the opportunity to have such a good

education compared to the disadvantaged kids in the Himalayas.

trekking through the enormous Ba Dinh pagoda, home to a 100 tonne Buddha.

Felix O – I now appreciate my school and the facilities I have from just one look at what I saw.

One of our many highlights was the sampan ride through the limestone caves. We spent two nights in Ninh Binh where we cycled to the Bich Dong pagoda, built into the limestone mountain. We hiked up to the highest area, a temple within a cave and we were able to enjoy a beautiful view of the surrounding countryside.

Vietnam On Sunday 28 August, 13 Year 8 boys from various classes ventured off to Vietnam for their Learning Journey.

Our first destination was the hustle and bustle of Hanoi where the temperature was hot and the humidity high. After enjoying the cultural experiences of the Museum of Ethnology, the Temple of literature and a water puppet show, we tasted the delightful food at Koto (which stands for Know One, Teach One) Restaurant. Founded by Jimmy Pham, a Vietnamese-Australian, the restaurant is a hospitality training centre that provides positive change to the lives of street and disadvantaged youth.

From Hanoi, en route to Ninh Binh, we stopped in a tiny village to watch the stonemasons at work, visited the unique Phat Diem Catholic Church (which was built according to traditional Vietnamese architecture), before

Our final destination, before heading back to Hanoi, was the area known as Mai Chau. Our accommodation was a homestay surrounded by hills and farms of rice paddies. We cycled and hiked through the area, stopping to visit a village where we enjoyed the opportunity to play with the children and give out our books amongst other gifts. We were hosted by a family in their home and were able to wander through a colourful local market. All in all, our trip to Vietnam was an extremely worthwhile experience. The people were friendly, gentle and welcoming.

Greg Evans and Heather Stone

Some thoughts …

Tomas – I think my favourite part of the trip was visiting the local people of Mai Chau, and socialising with the kids there. It was so nice to see the joy on their faces when I gave them some of the toy koalas.

Sam – I have had a great time in Vietnam. My highlight of the trip was meeting all the kids in Mai Chau.

I became friends with one of the kids.

Fitzy – I have really enjoyed my time in Vietnam and have enjoyed everything we’ve done. The highlight of my trip was going on the riverboat ride. We went through caves that were very low and floated past huge limestone mountains.

Chris – It is almost the end of what has been both an educational and enjoyable experience. I have enjoyed many things, but my highlights in Vietnam were bartering at markets and cycling through deep and muddy puddles. Everyone got dirty.

Tim – Vietnam has been amazing; the best part of this trip was the boat trip.

We rowed through a lake and caves.

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Yet again, it has been a busy year in the Finlay Anderson Library. There are very few times in the week when a class or individual students aren’t using the library. Even during lunchtime, the library is generally full with some students completing homework whilst others read, play chess or board games or spend time with friends.

Our collection of resources continues to grow as recently published books are regularly added to our shelves. In the second half of the year we have added an eBook platform to our library software and we are now able to offer students and staff the opportunity to borrow books to read on their devices, with Overdrive. Building up our eBook collection does not mean replacing hardcopy books but more so to offer our readers a choice of format.

For most, this has been a welcome addition to the library.

Our library ‘extra’ activities started early in February with Love your Library Day coinciding with Valentine’s Day. Bayview students were encouraged to borrow a book by choosing a lucky dip book. The books had been placed in bags with a label attached that gave clues to the type of book and the storyline but didn’t tell students the title or author of the book. It was a great success with over 40 students eager to be the first to select their book bag.

To celebrate Library and Information Week in May we held a guessing competition where students had to identify the number of pages in a bundle of books that had been wrapped securely in brown paper.

Sounds easy? Actually it wasn’t! But it was interesting to note the different methods that students employed to work out their answers. Whilst no one guessed the exact number of pages, there were five students who came close. Congratulations to Hayley Parr and Sarah Connell (6A), Shani Russell (6B) and Henry Mentiplay and Phong Phan (6C).

Book Week celebrations in August this year were a low-key affair. We revived our quiz but with a different format and held it at lunchtimes over four days with students able to complete the quiz when it suited them. Students were also able to research their answers.

This format was tried as previously numbers of participating students had declined because of so many other lunchtime activities. However, there were still only a few participants so perhaps this still isn’t the right format.

Congratulations to our three winners who tied for first place: Max Noble (5B), Emilie Toby (6B) and Brooke McNamara (7A).

During 2016 we have had two visiting authors visit. In May, Tristan Bancks

spoke to Year 6 students about writing books in general as well as talking about his own books, particularly Two Wolves. Then in August George Ivanoff came and spoke to Year 5 students about writing Information Reports. Our students were encouraged by both authors and left with some handy hints and ideas to use in their own work.

After school sessions in the library on Mondays – Thursdays have been well attended with students continually developing strong work routines as the year progressed. The students all came with the right attitude of trying to complete as much of their homework as possible.

Finally, for those who enjoy looking at statistics, the Finlay Anderson Library has just over 25,000 physical resources in the library. (not including our eBook collection). By the end of Term 3, our number of circulations (resources borrowed) was slightly more than for the same period last year and is on track for a total of about 27,000 loans for both Eblana and Bayview students and staff for the 2016 school year. I think this is a good indication of how valued our library is and a demonstration that there is definitely still a genuine need for physical books.

Alison Barnett Bayview Teacher Librarian

Chess Club

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ver the past six years, 47 students have had an opportunity to represent Mentone Grammar at 27 Chess Tournaments. Once again, our students have been enthusiastic participants and all competed with great sportsmanship and pride.

Chess Club met on Fridays at lunchtimes with an average Bayview attendance being about 20 players and an average Eblana attendance being about 15 players, most weeks.

Pleasingly, attendance has almost doubled this year compared to last year, showing a growing interest in Chess.

We had a new coach and mentor this year, Vinay Lakshman who stepped in to take over from Tom Feng who successfully coached our teams for the last five years. Usually Vinay conducted a short lesson at the beginning of Club before students played against each other.

Our aim was to take at least one group of students to one interschool zonal tournament every term. Once again Mentone Grammar qualified for the Chess Kids State Finals in both Primary and Middle Years Divisions.

For the fourth year in a row the Mentone Grammar Middle Years Team qualified for the Chess Kids National Finals to be held at Queens College, Melbourne at the end of November.

The top eight teams at the State Finals qualify for a place in the Nationals.

Students from 28 schools played nine back-to-back nail biting games of chess in 4.5 hours of unrivalled intensity – not for the faint hearted or weak minded. Joseph Shim’s first game exemplified this.

Playing against a very highly ranked player with much more tournament experience, spectators could hardly believe it but Joseph looked like he was going to pull off an upset victory, only to lose the game with three seconds on his opponent’s clock. But even against highly valued opponents Douglas Allen showed you can get

away by being cheeky by winning while playing a variant of the ‘four move’ check mate.

They represented the School with good sportsmanship and camaraderie.

The team was made up of Daniel Poberezovsky, Callum Roberts, Daniel Nikolayevsky, Ethan Prabaharan, Blake Rosenberg, Harry Durand, Leonard Liu, Joseph Shim and Douglas Allen.

Over the past six years, 47 students have had an opportunity to represent Mentone Grammar at 27 Chess Tournaments. Once again, our students have been enthusiastic participants and all competed with great sportsmanship and pride.

It has been terrific to witness the improvement in skill and strategy over the course of the year.

Michael Prabaharan Chess Mentor

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t has been an exciting year for all students with the creation of a wide range of Visual Arts in Bayview.

ART IN BAYVIEW

Early in the year our Year 5 students were involved in art workshops while they were on their Learning Journey at Shoreham. Students from 5A worked with Ms Wootton to capture the wet and windy foreshore on canvas. Students started by sitting on the foreshore at Shoreham Beach and completed a quick study using graphite pencil to explore the direction of light and tonal values. In the studio they completed further studies using water-soluble pencils to explore washes of colour before commencing a major artwork using acrylic paint on canvas.

Students from 5B and 5C worked with Ms Fuerst to produce artworks that reflected the natural environment.

Students collected found objects to produce hand built pinch pots with applied and incised textures reminiscent of the beach.

Our Year 6 students worked with a variety of media. This included

drawing using watercolour pencils, printmaking in the form of Frottage and lino, as well as producing textiles that focused on sewing techniques of embellishing as well as learning how to sew on a button. The Kooky Kreature soft toys that were produced were humorous and colourful.

This year all Year 7 students produced a self-portrait based on the RULER program and the Cubist portraits of Picasso. The Mood Meter is the second anchor in the RULER program where students have the ability to plot how they are feeling, in regards to energy and pleasantness, on a graph. Each quadrant on the graph has a particular colour to help portray feelings. Students portrayed an emotion and posed for the camera.

They then cut up their portrait photos and rearranged them into a Cubist style. Students then transferred these images onto canvas board. The Year 7s produced their monochromatic paintings using one of the four colours

red, yellow, blue or green. The RULER program helps students understand how they are feeling and where their energy levels are. These murals will be installed in Bayview once completed.

Year 8 students focused on drawing for one semester. Mr Rowlands and Mrs McLennan worked with the students to investigate a range of observational, imaginative and design tasks which resulted in outstanding drawings including Del Kathryn Barton inspired self-portraits, a world in a jar, ink blot monsters, old boots, rear view mirror perspective and futuristic structure design drawings.

The results of our students’ work were put up on display at the annual Mentone Grammar Art & Design Exhibition and, once again, showed how diversity in the Visual Arts is celebrated.

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he energy and colourful, sparkly enthusiasm presented from each House was exceptional.

In May, all Bayview students took to the stage to perform a Disney song as part of this year’s Bayview House Arts Festival: Has Your House Got Talent? The energy and colourful, sparkly enthusiasm presented from each House was exceptional. Audience members were blown away by the talent demonstrated in the big group numbers as well as by the individuals representing each House in the solo section. Notably Hannah Schmidt (Year 8) who took a break from her champion efforts in the pool to surprise everyone with her stunningly sultry sound.

Other soloists included Charlie Turner and Denzil Paranihi on vocals and guitar, Livinia Stockdale, Kira Walters, Priya Gill, Emilie Toby (vocals), Taya Brooks (dance) Freddie Liu on piano, Jed Zammit on trumpet and the crazily cool drum solo including choreographed drumstick twirling by the brilliant Shem Glasscock.

Other highlights from the day included a circus spectacular from flippers and dance crew from Were House, acting credits to Carson Mumford and his brilliant French accent as Lumiere in, Be Our Guest and the most outstanding Genie costumes designed and created

by Jones House for Friend Like Me go to Lachlan Howard and Jenni Harrison.

A huge thank you to all staff, student leaders and participants who made this year’s House Arts event one to remember. Also not to be forgotten was the brilliantly dressed panel of esteemed Disney judges – Minnie Mouse, Cinderella and Woody (who thoroughly honed the part of ‘deputy’ with that badge and cowboy hat!)

Thank you to Kylie Watson-Wheeler for her contribution of these gorgeous costumes, they really added to the excitement and Disney-fication of House Arts 2016.

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Bayview Concerts Our Bayview music events feature boisterous large ensembles, small ensembles and soloists.

a lovely mix. Together, they create wonderful sounds that express the joy and exuberance of youth.

They are highly anticipated events on the Middle School calendar. Students and their teachers all vie for solo spots. Unfortunately, there is only so much time available and we have to limit ourselves to a select few, such is the enthusiasm for performance in Bayview. We certainly have an enormous pool of talented students to choose from. Hopefully everyone will get their moment in the spotlight during their time in Bayview!

The Bayview Orchestra provides an opportunity for those students who have started their strings life in the Years 2 and 3 program and want to continue making music together. They are joined by new students who enter the School with a string pedigree.

The large ensembles include Bayview Band, Bayview Orchestra, Bayview Singers and the Year 7 Brass, Woodwind and Strings classes. The Bayview Band is made up of seasoned musicians who have been playing their instruments for years, alongside beginners who have had perhaps only six months’ experience;

The Bayview Singers is a wondrous ensemble made up of students who understand that happiness comes from singing together in a group. It is as elemental as breathing.

Other groups featured are the Bayview Brass Ensemble, the Bayview Flute Ensemble, The Rock Bands, our various woodwind chamber groups and our highly esteemed soloists.

Soloists who featured in the Bayview Soiree were: Leonard Liu and Frederick

Liu (piano), Lachlan Howard (vocal), Jed Zammit (trumpet), Hardy d’Alquen (trombone), Alex Jones (clarinet) and Avelyn Reynolds (violin).

Our soloists at this year’s Bayview Concert were: Andrei Krikun (piano), Priya Gill (vocal), Riley Wollen (Piano), Zac Sniezek (trumpet), Declan McNamara (violin), Matthew Scott (violin), Megan Smith (tuba), Keira Patron (cello), Hardy d’Alquen (trombone) and Avelyn Reynolds (piano).

All Masters of Ceremony did a fabulous job introducing the items and making the audience feel welcome.

Congratulations go to Callum Prior, Carson Mumford (Bayview Soiree) as well as Lachlan Howard and Blake Rosenberg (Bayview Concert).

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The Lion King JR

The Lion King JR opened to sold out audiences on Friday 25 November.

Graced by all manner of beast and bird, the epic pageant made its debut performance in a reimagined Bayview Gym. The cast worked tirelessly on creating the beautiful sounds of the savannah, under the musical direction of Ned Dixon, for 12 weeks.

The opening number brought tears to the eyes of many with the cast of 59 students bringing life to this magical storyline. Birds fluttered overhead, an elephant paraded by and crisp, rhythmic percussion poured fourth from the aisle of the seating bank. Visionary Director Vanessa Moore’s unmatched ingenuity and inventiveness provided a cavalcade of gorgeous stage pictures, both mighty and intimate in scope. While Rondel Ferrett’s costumes were a riot of lush colour it was her headpieces and masks (co-designed by Belinda and Denis Moore) that really set the production apart. It’s hard to capture the brilliant movement and expression of these design aspects.

While there were flashy effects and eye-popping moments, such as the deadly wildebeest stampede, the true mark of quality came in the musical’s generous patience with quiet, heartfelt moments. There was a time for ritual, time for tradition, time for affection and time for grieving.

Denzil Paranihi, as the noble Mufasa, demonstrated how to be a strong father and powerful man while still maintaining a gentle and sensitive side.

Harrison Dart dripped resentful venom as Scar, deftly projecting the bubbling wrath of a brother who felt unjustly wronged. Charles Dashwood achieved a dazzling range of expression as bristling do-gooder Zazu and Priya Gill captivated the audience from the top of pride rock. Priya’s dialect and body language were a delight, and the joy she felt from being on stage was infectious.

Lachlan Howard was well cast as Simba, his impressive performance found an impish, restless energy in a young adult Simba, before settling

into confidence maturity as Simba reclaimed his rightful place. Simba’s interactions with a sweet stage partner in the elegant Claudia Levey were beautiful to watch. Claudia showcased her extraordinary dance ability, physical acting and lovely singing voice.

The Energy lifted with the arrival of crowd favourites Pumbaa (Daniel Pate) and Timon (Cameron Berry). Cameron perfected his vocal inflection and comic timing, scoring plenty of laughs as madcap meerkat Timon, and Daniel threw himself into the daggy dorkiness of stinky, well-meaning Pumbaa.

Overall, the musical lived up to more than its hype and legend, The Lion King JR was a glorious treat for young and old.

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DEIGHTON

DRINAN

FINLAY ANDERSON

LIONEL LARGE

JONES

WERE

WHITE

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5

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6

3

2

8

7

FOOTY

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8

6

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3

4

7

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GIRLS BASKETBALL

1

4

5

6

2

3

8

7

SOCCER

5

7

4

6

3

2

8

1

FOOTY

3

8

5

4

6

1

7

2

GIRLS HANDBALL

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7

5

6

4

3

1

8

HANDBALL

4

2

1

5

6

7

8

3

BASKETBALL

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7

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2

1

5

8

3

GIRLS FOOTY

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3

2

1

5

8

4

6

CROSS COUNTRY

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2

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7

1

6

8

BASKETBALL

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8

6

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HANDBALL

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5

8

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GIRLS SOCCER

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1

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Year 5 class photos

Years 5&6 class photos

Year 5A

Year 5C

Lexie Allan

Alanah Becker

Zoe Crombie

Nichola Di Tirro

Madyssen-Elana Kalogerakis

Olivia Katsouranis

Alyce Kerr

Jessie Leembruggen

Alexander Barrett

Hayden Cooley

Nicholas Di Rosato

George Fennessy

Phoenix Hall

Jade Hanson

Anirudh Hariram

Christian Howe

Nalisha Ong

Lucy Page

Olivia Parkes

Keira Patron

Avelyn Reynolds

Keira Richmond

Ruby Samild

Jamie Shepherd

Sean Lai

Declan McNamara

Mathieson Meakins

Peter Natsioulas

Jack Rimanic

Hamish Roberts

Nicholas Saunders

Jude Scott

Jada Stephens

Tara van Straaten

Charlotte Wood

Emily Zallmann

Elizabeth King

Lachlan Smith

Jett Spence

Toby Straw

Gabriel Truelove

Lewis Wagstaff

Tim Wang

Baxter Wollen

Ro Richter

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Year 5B

MENTOR

Year 6A

Aidan Cafarella

Harrison Cowan

James Dennis

Makenzie Flower

Michael Krol

Joshua Lai

Nate Leonard

Frederick Liu

Emma Bennett

Madi Brown

Rhianne Brown

Emma Burton

Sarah Connell

Alexandra Djurovic

Molly Frankland

Victoria Gelbak

Samuel Morgan

Keegan Nguyen

William Nish

Max Noble

Hamish O’Donnell

Jackson Pastor

Luca Pinzana

Patrick Riley

Mia Georgantis

Priya Gill

Ella Heidecker

Ava Ivanov

Grace Laidlaw

Summer Leonard

Maddison Moore

Zali Morris

Adam Sabih

Matthew Scott

Jeremy Sheppard

Brandon Veza

Finn Vorrath

Steven Wan

Luke Weeks

Kate Frazer

Hayley Parr

Eleni Rellos

Maylin Roy

Ashika Sarma

Sophie Sibbald

Zoe Turnbull

Holly Wale

Mikayla Watson

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Lily Clements

Mia Collins

Catherine Galati

Jasmin Hadjiyannakis

Ulyana Kondratova

Daisy Laws

Sasha McLennan

Max Athanas

Hamish Berry

Hudson Bucci

Charlie Daddo

Kristijan Djurovic

Ethan Gorringe

Justin Grant

Alexander Hopkins

Lulu Moore

Madeleine O’Hara

Zoe Pertzel

Amelia Pritchard

Lily Riley

Shani Russell

Sienna Salisbury

Julie Shi

Hamish Hughes

William Hughes

Samuel Ingram

Thomas Jackson

Zaine Leonard

Tony Liu

Angus Macaulay

Charlie McFarlane

Tess Shilson-Josling

Riley Spence

Afroditi Theofilopoulou Emilie Toby

Charlie Turner

Hannah Watkins

Monique Zahra

Mandy Chamberlain

Tao Morgan

Sam Murphy

Jaden Prabaharan

Joshua Rabak

Zachary Sniezek

Enrico Tirta

Christopher Vorster

Tyrus Zdanius

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Jenni Harrison MENTOR

Michael Alford

Cameron Berry

Thomas Byrne

Ethan Esakson

Cooper Friso

Lachlan Harrington

Oliver Hughes

Jordan Kurta

Angus Marcombe

Tully McKinnon

Henry Mentiplay

Alex Morgan

Hamish Neumann

Phong Phan

Ashton Phillips

Kai Reed

Kate Bowcock

Jayde Boyd

Caitlin Burke

Milana Cherney

Lily Clucas

Mia Declase

Natasha Devers

Tiana Dimits

Carlos Reynolds

Ethan Robertshaw

Harry Rowan

Carter Staggs

Darcy Tadich

Dennis Tezay

Riley Wollen

Jed Zammit

Kate Jeoffreys

Brayden Johnson

Chanel Kilpady

Brooke McNamara

Danielle Pedersen

Sophie Porter

Megan Smith

Evie Sorrenson

Maeve Spargo

Lucia Taitoko

Issie Terry

Scarlett Trudgen Frances

Teah Vassiliadis

Jenna Wale

Ellie Wright

Amy Long

Wayne Essing MENTOR

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Year 7D

Denie Bellamy

Kate Bosa

Bethany Bratuskins

Taya Brooks

Mia Causer

Mikaela Cummins

Mia Derham

Ellen Fletcher

Yanni Anastasiadis

Ben Avni

Fynn Baxter

Jack Caughey

Singtong Chan

Samuel Chaplin

Jesse Clarke

Cooper Cox

Laura Forstner

Katie Goakes

Olivia Goodman

Olivia Hargreaves

Cassandra Newman

Zali Reynolds

Yani Ryan

Abbey Samild

Hardy d’Alquen

Jett Ellaway

Max Fraser

Toby Hynes

Matt Leembruggen

Damon Leffler

Thomas Lewis

Lloyd Macmillan

Elly Sfameni

Anna Siemering

Livinia Stockdale

Georgie Terry

Maya Thilak-Mathew

Lana Tilli

Annika Ulrich

Leonie Redfern

Campbell McDonald

Luis McLaren

Brayden Mitchell

James O’Day

Bailey Oregan

Simon Stevens

Oscar Tulloch

Kane Wilson

Thomas Charles

Cameron Connell

Ethan Dallas

Alex de Vos

Samuel Dyer

Christian Fowler

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Year 7C

Year 7E

Gennie McNair MENTOR

Theodore Bountroukas Elliott Carruthers

Maximilian Hine

Brayden Miller

Rob Patterson MENTOR

Dylan Hinton

Oliver Moran

Katherine Gratton MENTOR

Nicholas Casa

Lachie Hopkins

Angus Newman

Jake Dickson

Patrick Horne

Daniel Nikolayevsky

Jack Doulgeridis

William Jackson

Teddy Phillips

Harry Durand

Andrei Krikun

Aaron Pickering

Tom Harris

Hugo Marcombe

Lochy Taylor

Alex Hassan

Will Garbelotto

Oliver Halbish

Jake Harvey

Sam Howell

Isaac Jacques

Karson Kilpady

Thomas Kokkinos

Nicky Layton

Samuel Leahy

Jack Littleford

Ethan Martin

Owen McGindle

Harry Officer

Peter Papadopoulos

Ethan Pate

Angus Reark

Joseph Shim

Rory Thomas

Marcus van Straaten

Anastasia Courtney

Daniel Matthew

George Zacharis

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Douglas Allan

Daniel Althoff-Dowell

Andrew Archibald

Heath Belt

Luke Bouwmeester

Cooper Eckert

Ben Gerresheim

Max Gibb

Matilda Armstrong

Drew Barclay

Skye Carter

Eva Dallman-Bell

Yasmin Duffin

Jessica Dunkerley

Annabelle Eustice

Eliza Ewart

Luke Gold

Matthew Harris

Matthew Hayes

Connor Hewlett

Ryan Hornibrook

Thomas Hughes

Thomas Litsios

Nolan Martin

Grace Felsenthal

Tayla Fox

Ruby Gonis

Lilyana Gorringe

Alyssa Hardy

Tayla Langenfelds

Claudia Levey

Lauren Malby-Luke

Finn McCall

Declan McComb

Andreas Michael

Daniel Pate

Thomas Riley

Aidan Scott

Mo Sha

James Villanti

Brooke McCullough

Charlee Peachey

Georgia Povah

Hannah Schmidt

Alyssa Stuart

Claire Syme

Stephanie Warmuz

Ellie Wilson

Liam Beach

Lachlan Bourke

Brandon Bridge

Lachlan Brooks

Sammy Cartwright

Lisa Turner

Matilda Appel

Lily Bowles

Bethanie Bridge

Anna Caley

Ava Castle

Chloe Garifalakis

Jessica Grant

Cassidy Hardy

Sophie Hennig

Charlotte Holland

Jamieson Howe

Madeleine Johnson

Emily Kerr

Isabelle Leonidas

Eliza Leydin

Meg Magennis

Ella Mairs

Chelsea McNamara

Elyssia Middlemo

Sophie Peachey

Madeline Rickard

Amy Scopel

Kira Walters

Holly Loughran

Year 7G

Harrison Zammit

Tim Clark MENTOR

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Year 8B

Zane Cooper

Lachlan Jones

Daniel Poberezovsky

Charlie Dashwood

Leonard Liu

Andy Regester

Jacob Edwards

Alec McComb

Oscar Robinson

Jacob Farrow

Jordan Michell

William Frost

Mitch Owens

Keenan Haagen

Angus Perkins

Simon Hall

Adam Persic

Toby Hore

Nic Plevritis

Liam Bassett MENTOR

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Year 8C

Year 8E

Daniel Alston

James Carson

Alexander Fennessy

William Filer

Michael Giannioglou

Christopher Green

Lachlan Howard

Logan Kwan

James Bull

Jeremy Di Rosato

Jack Gardner

Will Gentle

Adam Halliday

Oliver Hamilton

Joshua Jackson

Alex Jones

Henry Lewis

Trent Meakins

Thomas Meldrum

James Mooney

Oskar Phillips

Bailey Reed

Tarlis Reed

Lucas Rowbury

Timothy Koulouris

Marcus Le Gear

Lachlan Leason

Benjamin Murphy

Tomas O

Archie Padley

Denzil Paranihi

Angus Rimanic

Lachie Rundmann

Akul Saigal

Thomas Shepherd

William Skinner

Tighe Taylor

Sam Tucker

Jon Wever

William Roworth

Blake Sharp

Sarthak Singh

Spencer Smith

Jake Turnbull

Charlie Webster

Steven Kuruc

Kelly Brady

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Year 8D

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Year 8F

Mitchell Callahan

Adam Carnegie

Josh Culley

William Currey

Harrison Dart

Kieren Dyer

Beau Forster

Shem Glasscock

Angus Armstrong

Jason Bartonek

Myles Brown

Simon Coubard

Sam Davie

Tom Fitzgerald

James Gowan

Euan Hood

Tom Grant

William Hibbs

Xavier Hogios

Adam Laws

Josh Madden

Adam Marrow

Ethan Murray

Thomas Mutton

Nelson Jaden

Alex Joynson

Max Leaver

Carson Mumford

Jake O’Brien

Kosta Osianlis

Harry Pertzel

Callum Roberts

Felix O’Neill-Pugh

Nelvin Ong

Oscar Page

Jack Pavlidis

Archie Rose

Thomas Spencer

Frankie Varsamis

Blake Williams

Lachlan Sinclair

Oliver Straw

Koby Thomson

Finn Wheeler

Seb Zahra

Alexander Zhu

Heather Stone

Gary Colling MENTOR

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Ace Brodie

Jeremy Campbell

Bodie Carter

Will Durston

Dougal Etheridge

Mathew Goedheer

Valdis Guppy

Ryan Hammer

Jack Heaven

Kevin Helmerson

Lawson Jones

Peter Katsouranis

Mitchell Kershaw

Ethan Prabaharan

Callum Prior

Dougal Rann

Remus Reynolds

Samuel Rose

Blake Rosenberg

Joel Rotar

Archie Rowlands

Samuel Ursprung

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Year 8 graduates

GREENWAYS Head of Greenways Each year, I am amazed at how the Year 9s embrace everything Greenways has to offer. Many people often make comment that Year 9 must be a tough year to be involved with in an educational setting. It is well-known that students can typically disengage at this age and stage and can often be challenging to deal with in a range of contexts.

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tudent wellbeing is of utmost importance to us. Greenways has seen enthusiastic involvement in the Fitness Sessions with record attendance in 2016.

HEAD OF GREENWAYS

As a parent of adolescents, I can certainly empathise with the challenges that many families can face at home. On the flip side, adolescents can also be entertaining, mature, witty and caring. Yes, at times, they even surprise us. Each child is unique and has a different set of needs. However, they all need to know that they are cared for, respected and valued.

The majority of students come to school because they want to learn and enjoy the benefits of being part of a tight community. In Greenways, we have established a robust learning culture. The campus opens at 7.40am to accommodate the early-risers for a study session. The growing attendance at morning study sessions has been exceptionally pleasing.

Most adolescents want to sleep at this time of day. There is much research about the importance and timing of adolescent sleep and you can investigate the work of child psychologist, Michael Fuller, to provide further information and evidence surrounding sleep. The fact that Year 9s are here and actively involved in

meaningful work at this time of day is something of which we are very proud.

The afternoon sessions are bursting at the seams and I honestly believe that this is one of the many successful aspects of the Greenways Campus.

Students can feel at ‘home’. They can purchase a snack or meal from the Café, complete a study session, collaborate with peers and access staff and tutors for additional support, all in the one space.

The work of Prof. John Hattie on Visible Learning lived in our classrooms and students continued to develop as successful learners. What does a successful learner look like at Mentone Grammar? Our Learning Behaviours embrace the attributes of a successful learner and we continued to encourage all families to have a conversation about how these are actioned in our classrooms. Teaching staff regularly reported on Learning behaviours via the LMS (Village Square). One of the most important aspects of this process was that students took responsibility for these behaviours in order to make progress.

Students were also encouraged to seek feedback from academic staff and to use this as a platform for improvement.

Student wellbeing is of utmost importance to us. Greenways has seen enthusiastic involvement in the Fitness Sessions with record attendance in 2016. The Greenways Sports Program has also been extended to offer yoga, relaxation, martial arts, dance and gymnastics to operate in conjunction with the AGSV training sessions and House Activities. It has also been wonderful to witness all Year 9s establish a fitness challenge for 2016, develop a training program to achieve this and fulfil their personal fitness goal.

This year, we also aimed to develop the emotional intelligence and awareness of our Year 9s. In line with the Mentone Grammar Strategic Plan, RULER has been rolled out at different stages across the School. RULER is an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that helps school communities integrate the practice of emotional intelligence into daily life.

In Greenways, we commenced the RULER journey by creating one of the four anchor tools – the Charter. The Greenways Cohort Charter established agreed upon norms and guidelines, rather than rules, to help create a more contented, emotionally safe environment. Everyone in Year 9 had a voice and responsibility for developing the Charter and for upholding it. Our cohort agreed to the above guidelines.

It has been pleasing to see the language associated with Yale University’s RULER Program not only used amongst staff and students but start to emerge between students in their everyday conversations. The language to articulate individual moods and emotions developed and was plotted on a mood meter at morning roll calls and in a variety of classroom situations. Students could make the choice to share these thoughts or keep them personal. Greenways staff focused on the conversation around transforming emotional states based on Yale’s research and this also had an impact on relationships and interactions within the Campus.

This year all students embarked on a journey of investigation and enquiry as part of the Greenways Personal Project. This was a project-based learning opportunity where students were encouraged to start with a big idea that explored an area of personal passion. One of the aims of this unit was for students to take responsibility of their own learning, to develop organisational skills and learn to manage their time.

The project ran for three terms with checkpoints along the way. It also allowed students to work within a selfpaced environment that was closely monitored by the Personal Project mentors. It has been pleasing to see our relationship with The Yarrabah School in Mordialloc continue throughout 2016. This has been endorsed via some of the students’ Personal Projects through their choice to get more involved in helping others within the community.

Yarrabah is a small school that caters for students with an intellectual disability and other associated

conditions. The students are of mixed ability and the school caters for students from Kindergarten to 18 years of age. Our students had the fortunate opportunity to work with various age groups. Many of these students face the day-to-day challenges of communicating and functioning within society. Socialising with adolescents and working as part of a team are an extremely important part of the learning process for Yarrabah students.

This year, the Greenways journey has continued to be dynamic, engaging and rewarding for both students and staff. I would like to personally thank the Greenways staff and the Mentone Grammar community. We continue to reflect and evolve this fantastic initiative. And to the students – I ask you to continue to strive for the very best in your learning journey at Mentone Grammar. Only expect big things.

Mrs Natalie McLennan Head of Greenways

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he chattering of plates, the whir of the coffee machine and the laughter that the Café creates is contagious.

In Terms 1 and 3 this year, our students ventured into William Angliss in the city to complete a short course in espresso basics. The course helped students to develop an understanding of the basic skills in coffee making.

Within the Café program, we worked on continuing to develop their barista skills; students were subsequently put to the test whilst in the Café with a steady stream of parent groups, staff and students filling the Café each day.

The lunch menus were agreed upon at the start of the week and, on average, 40 lunches were ordered and delivered each day. In a ‘normal’ week the Café would prepare up to 1000 cookies, 250 muffins, 70 fruit salads as well as other exciting options.

‘I really enjoyed going into the city and making coffee. I have now taken this new skill and now help out at my local cricket club.’ Brett There were also a number of exciting opportunities for students to test their skills with School Tours, ELC student incursions, BBQs fundraisers, Market Stalls and Greenways Learning Journey dinners, just to name a few.

The Learning Journey dinners in Greenways were met with anticipation from the students. ‘Which class are we serving? What will we make? Which side does the fork go on?’ These questions and more provided students with a valuable experience and insight into the hospitality industry.

There is no doubt that our Friday Market Stalls were a highlight of the program. Overseeing our students plan, prepare and produce their menu items was both demanding and rewarding. If students planned effectively they had a

positive smooth experience; students found that teamwork also played an important role. Some amazing food was produced and sold throughout the year: meatball subs, chicken wings, dumplings, stir fry dishes, interesting burgers and sweet dishes proved most popular.

‘Creating a market stall was stressful but so much fun. We made a stir fry and it sold out in the first 15 minutes.’

Dominique, Bronte and Ellen The confidence gained when students finish this program is something that we take great pride in. Many students are inspired to find a job with their newfound skills and we enjoy visiting them in their new roles.

Mark, Jess and I have thoroughly enjoyed the Greenways Café experience and we look forward to doing it all again in 2017.

Katherine Nish Greenways Café Coordinator

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Greenways Café

Everyday in the Greenways Café brings a new unique experience and another life lesson learnt. We have had a productive year in the Café with 174 students and five staff completing their barista and food handling certificates.

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Greenways CADETS & LEARNING JOURNEYS

Cadet Recruits Learning Journeys

As a part of the Greenways program, 175 Greenways students were introduced to the Cadet Unit and the core values of the Australian Army Cadets: Courage, Initiative and Teamwork.

Beginning with an introductory training day, every student was assigned to a platoon, met their senior officers from Frogmore and were issued with their personal army kit. It was the beginning of a great adventure for most.

Training days at Keysborough ensured recruits learnt a range of skills including elementary drill formations and the history and traditions of the AAC. Each platoon learnt bush skills that included setting up hutchies, cooking on trangias, first aid scenarios and navigation skills; all precursor skills for Annual Camp.

In September, 11 platoons ventured to Puckapunyal Military Base to challenge themselves in a new environment that

required tapping into newfound skills, resilience and teamwork. It was a wet and cold week. However, the recruits rallied together, supported one another and showed diligence and courage.

They were well equipped to deal with the challenges of the week and, overall, were impressive in their ability to overcome discomfort and relish the unique experience of Cadets. Recruits had the opportunity to visit the rifle range and spent a night bunking in together at the National Service Lines.

Overall, it was a memorable year which has resulted in many Year 9 students expressing interest in continuing on to the Cadet Unit, aiming to become Cadet Under Officers as part of the leadership program in Frogmore.

Thanks to OC Major Wever and his staff for their time in leading the Cadet Unit.

MGACU Leaders

Learning Journeys are part of life at Mentone Grammar. The Year 9 Learning Journey is a unique and exciting aspect to the year in Greenways. Each class spends a four-week block out of the classroom and while some experiences for these groups are the same as others, some are unique to a specific class.

Throughout the Learning Journeys Program at Year 9, we test our students and provide opportunities that enable them to cope with a vast variety of physical and emotional challenges. Students find themselves in a range of different environments they may not otherwise experience in a mainstream classroom which are challenging, stimulating and fun.

Shoreham

Dookie

While many of the days at Shoreham in Year 9 centred on how we can use the bay, our other focus was teamwork, communication and learning about one another. The living quarters rely on the classes working together to ensure we are in a safe and supportive environment that is looked after, and something of which our students are very proud. The students were required to work together in small groups to cook the evening meal, which was always a highlight for the group. Activities varied for each group and included a variety of exciting challenges, including horse riding, scuba diving and tree surfing. For our Year 9s, their last time at Shoreham on a Learning Journey will always hold some great memories for them.

The University of Melbourne’s Agricultural Campus in Dookie provided classes with a unique opportunity to work together and learn the characteristics of their classmates while spending time on a fully operational farm. Learning about life on the land allowed our students to see just how much work goes into providing the food that ends up on our tables. Whether it was working together to pick apples at the Dookie Orchard, learning about the importance of soil or even considering how to feed the growing population in years to come, our students now have an appreciation of farming life.

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Melbourne

Brotherhood of St Laurence

During the City week, students were completely responsible for themselves – whether this be meeting at a variety of locations around the city or reading the news at ACMI. Our students were always great ambassadors for our School and experiences in the City of Melbourne varied for each class. From learning about the history of Australian sport at the MCG or considering some cold cases at the Melbourne Museum, our students were able to see a side of the city that was new to many of them. A highlight for each class was a classroom session with The Big Issue.

This is a magazine produced and sold by people in Melbourne facing marginalisation and disadvantage. The culmination of these activities allows students to gain an appreciation of Melbourne while challenging them geographically and giving them independence.

Two of our classes were able to undertake an Urban Camp with The Brotherhood of St Laurence in Brunswick. This program seeks to educate and influence a new generation of young people to understand the issues facing disadvantaged Australians. Through a variety of observation, discussion and practical activities, our students were able to delve into the issues of social inequality, injustice and social exclusion. They engaged with Brotherhood clients and contributed to the welfare of disadvantaged people, both young and old. The Urban Camps had a positive impact on our students.

Through the camps, Greenways students were given an opportunity in which they expanded their knowledge and improved their wellbeing through appreciation of their own lives and the experience of helping others. One of the highlights for many students was working with 300 Blankets (www.300blankets.org.au), which is a not-for-profit charity providing warmth and discussion from a friendly face to

people experiencing homelessness in Melbourne. This was a unique and thought-provoking experience that will long be remembered by our students.

Our students also learnt about the Social Enterprise of The Brotherhood of St Laurence, which relies on donations from the public in the form of goods. These donations help them to stock their 20 stores throughout Victoria, where items are sold to raise much needed funds for the organisation.

The Learning Journeys Program allows our Year 9 students to participate in a wide variety of activities that they may not otherwise experience. While the four-week program is full of a variety of experiences, it flies by. Luckily, the time away from the classroom at Mentone Grammar provides a number of life long learning experiences and outstanding opportunities.

Catherine Poulton Learning Journeys Facilitator and Teacher

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Year 9 class photos

Year 9A

Year 9C

Piper Beretta

Charlotte Bratuskins

Grace Bunting

Isabella Daddo

Imogen Davis

Karly Georgantis

Madeleine Ghent

Lani Heidecker

Olivia Baumert

Hebe Best

Tess Campbell

Olivia Dickson

Abbey Dykas

Steph Giccominato

Yilin Ma

Dekota Mark

Mackenzie Howe

Ellinor Humphreys

Cyanna Ilic

Alana Jones

Zoe Lancaster

Erin Porter

Cate Rausz

Alexandra Richards

Jacquie Mendel

Elyssa Osianlis

Paris Papayianneris

Sarah Petfield

Bronte Reark

Gemma Reynolds

Eleanor Roberts

Jessie Rosaia

Lilly Salter

Holly Svojtka

Ruby Timms

Remi Trigg

Mia Watkins

Jenna Oliver

Emma Rothberg

Dominique Taylor

Alexandra Watkin

Stacey Gwilym

CLASS COORDINATOR

Year 9B

CLASS COORDINATOR

Year 9D

Mekhala Bera

Sienna Bolton

Bonnie Boys

Megan Bresnehan

Abby Leonard

Sophie Leonard

Amelia Morris

Helena Papasimeon

Jake Adderley

Mark Butler

Samuel Dimits

Lachlan Fraser

Hugo Gill

Nathan Harbutt

James Hornibrook

Blake Ibrhaim

Georgia Papayianneris

Charlotte Pate

Grace Phillips

Jacinta Reading

Emma Scherger

Alexandra Sheppard

Tarn Smith

Tiffany Spitzer

Dylan Johnson

Benjamin Jones

Edward Kent

Jeremy Miao

Aaron Moore

Tomo Owens

Mitchell Pattinson

Ben Pertich

Tessa Styles

Amelia Vise

Phoebe Wearne

Bridie Wilson

Vanessa Moore

Luke Ray

Damon Rimanic

Julius Schulze

Harry Siemering

Samasidh Siva Ram

Harvey Smethurst

Harry Terry

Dylan Tomlinson

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Not pictured: Philipp Martinez Silverio

Mark Stembridge CLASS COORDINATOR

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Year 9E

Year 9G

George Algeri

Lucas Bartlett

Jefferson Bauer

Frixos Bountroukas

Steven Chandler

Oscar Clarke

Cian Curley

Patrick Distefano

Callum Beach

Nicholas Berry

Michael Byrne

Sihan Chen

Jai Florent

Riley Friso

James Gold

Cooper Hamlin

Angus Grant

Angus Henry

Aiden Koniuszko

Phil Lan

Lachlan Milburn

Mitchell Newman

Huntar Pace

Max Pedder

Jonah Howell

Lachlan Hughes

Declan Latchford

Adam Leander

Huilong Li

Jayde Maluga

Nathaniel Ong

Chris Perkins

Samuel Pritchard

Finnbar Reinehr

Jakob Sloan

Vincent Thai-Chan

Kegan Timms

Jacob Tinker

Jesse Turner

Stuart Cleeve

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Theodore Politis

Brett Poll

Matthew Scott

Ethan Staggs

Timothy Syme

Zac Vallis

Umut Ersezer

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Year 9F

CLASS COORDINATOR

Year 9H

Lucas Armstrong

Joseph Childerley

Joel Cummins

Tyler Denton-Gillespie

Michael Garbelotto

Aaron Jones

William King

Nathan Klein

Zachary Angus

Torey Bernamoff

Spencer Blain-Bartle

Daniel Carruthers

Joshua Cooley

Jack Cullen

Thomas Dyer

Jordan Evans

Andrew Lancaster

Sean McCubbin

Max McCulloch

Finlay McKinnon

Jaylen Mure

Lachlan Nott

Ben Putamorsi

Hayden Richards

Finlay Heath

Lachlan Hiscock

Charlie Howell

Ethan Hunt

Ben Leembruggen

Alex McCann

Charlie Officer

Nicholas Opie

Nicholas Thiele

Max Tulloch

Daniel Walliser

Ryan White

Jack Williams

Jeremy Williams

Edward Yang

Cooper Zammit

Austin Parker

Dylan Perry

Benjamin Ryan

Finn Ryan

Carl Simondson

Ben Sorrenson

James Stavropoulos

Jaiden Watts

Michael Woolhouse CLASS COORDINATOR

Henry Kiss

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Frogmore HEAD OF FROGMORE

Having enhanced their sense of independence throughout their time in Bayview and Greenways, where our experiential programs have been designed to develop the individual beyond those lessons provided within the classroom, Frogmore students are well placed to meet the challenges of their final years in our School.

FROGMORE Head of Frogmore With the ever present focus upon the VCE in our Frogmore Campus, it has been wonderful to see our students demonstrate the many and varied aspects of their character and talents as they have involved themselves in myriad activities.

VCE, Teaching and Learning The VCE is seen very much as a three-year process within our Campus and the emphasis placed upon learning behaviours and work habits by our staff when students join Year

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ith an emphasis on happy, healthy and high achieving students, it is apt that the rigour of our academic program is well supported by nurturing pastoral programs, most notably through the House system...

10 is done with the end of Year 12 very much in mind. The evolution of teaching and learning within the Frogmore Campus continued throughout 2016 as staff moved to implement Formative Assessment within our Visible Learning framework.

Formative Assessment is based on the research of Prof Dylan Wiliam and involves, at its core, the process of asking questions about student learning and then collecting and analysing data to make informed decisions regarding the direction learning will take. Under the leadership of our Head of Teaching and Learning, Mr Tim Macdonald, Frogmore staff utilised a range of strategies, including coloured cups, finger voting, mini whiteboards, or question sticks, to identify the effectiveness of teaching and learning within our classrooms.

While these tools might initially appear simplistic, it is the ease of use and, more specifically, the data and insights they provide that ensure they are highly effective.

Our Library The Gregory Fish Library continued to be an excellent study venue for students looking to undertake revision or complete homework, beyond the end of lessons each day and I commend our wonderful team of teacher-librarians and tutors who support our students in these study

sessions. Our library staff continue to introduce programs designed to enhance the study skills and literacy standards of our Frogmore students, including numerous competitions, Top Readers and seminars from visiting authors and illustrators. In particular, we acknowledge the initiative and insight of Mrs Miffy Farquharson who is leaving us following seven years of excellent leadership in the GFL. We wish Mrs Farquharson all the very best in her new position.

Houses With an emphasis on happy, healthy and high achieving students, it is apt that the rigour of our academic program is well supported by nurturing pastoral programs, most notably through the House system, and challenging cocurricular programs.

The wellbeing and happiness of our senior students is facilitated primarily through our House system and I commend our House Coordinators, Mentors and House Captains for the roles they played in ensuring the nurturing and encouraging environments our Houses provide.

Our students enjoy a strong sense of commitment and pride in their House, which is always on show within the various House competitions, ensuring that the House Championship is

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always keenly contested. High levels of participation, skill and, often times, resilience, were evident in all activities. Congratulations to Jones House, including House Captain James Davidson, whose high levels of endeavour and persistence earned them the House Championship plate again this year.

Congratulations, and thank you also to Mr Vic Evans, who is retiring following his eleventh year as Finlay Anderson House Coordinator. Mr Evans has made an excellent contribution to both Finlay Anderson House specifically and our pastoral program in general.

Thank you also to Ms Belinda McNeil who is stepping down as White House Coordinator and to Mrs Terry Matthew who is moving from her role as Were House Coordinator to lead Year 7.

We wish them all every success moving forward.

Cocurricular Engagement Frogmore students were also heavily involved in our Cocurricular Program, which continued to provide students with a diverse range of opportunities to develop character, leadership and skills.

For students not involved in the Cadet program our Year 10 Life Skills Program provided students with opportunities to participate in activities in a non-academic setting. It promoted opportunities for positive interactions whilst undertaking new challenges, gaining information and learning new skills to assist them with positive decision making. In House groups, students attended: • Party Safe at the Mordialloc Surf Lifesaving Club with School Nurses and health educators.

• METEC driver education, where students had the opportunity to drive cars with qualified instructors and learn practical safe driving skills.

• Roadwyz run by Ambulance Paramedics and Victoria Police.

Students took part in discussions regarding positive lifestyle choices and the responsibilities of driving a motor vehicle.

• Mental Health Education and Indoor Rock Climbing & Bouldering – conducted by School Counsellors and health education staff. Students

visited Bayside Rock and undertook physical challenges under the guidance of Australian Champion Indoor Rock Climbers.

It is hoped that all students who undertook the program gained valuable knowledge, enabling them to make safer lifestyle decisions.

Our Performing Arts program encourages students to express their creative talents and continues to offer unique experiences, including our inaugural Opera, Orlando, and culminating in the wonderful School production of Legally Blonde and our Spring Concert, both held at the end of Term 3. Led by Mr Gavin Cornish, Ms Louise Daly, Miss Holly Loughran and our talented and endlessly enthusiastic staff they all continue to mentor students who produce entertaining and exceptional performances.

Mentone Grammar’s Public Speaking and Debating teams have again enjoyed excellent success in various competitions this year and our thanks go to Mr Mark Smith, in his role of Mentor to our students, and to

Elizabeth Algeri and Andrew Persic, our Public Speaking Captains.

Our Debating teams, in particular, enjoyed significant success, with our Year 11 team, comprising Harry Austin, Ryan Buckler, Victor Ding, Austin Hollingsworth and Tom Siedle, reaching State Finals.

Our sporting teams represented the School extremely well throughout the year, producing numerous highlights and personal best performances. In particular the efforts of our swimmers, with both our Boys and Girls teams winning their third consecutive AGSV premierships this year, our Surf Lifesaving team, the First Tennis and the Boys’ Volleyball team, who all claimed premierships, are deserving of specific mention.

Our thanks go to the numerous coaches and managers, and in particular Ms Leah Percy and Ms Erin Hunt for their leadership and organisation throughout the year.

Led by our Head Prefects, Wesley Flavell and Eliza Harvey, Frogmore has been well served by its student leaders who have made a wonderful

contribution to raising School spirit.

Covering areas including Academics, Community Service, Cross Campus activities, International Student involvement, Public Speaking/Debating and Sporting and Cocurricular activities, our leaders have developed and implemented numerous initiatives throughout the year, stimulating interest and enhancing student engagement within our School.

It was a pleasure to share in the Valedictory celebrations with our Year 12 students throughout their final week. We commenced with a Morning Tea in the Early Learning Centre for our long serving students, affectionately referred to as ‘lifers’, some of whom have been with us for up to 15 years.

They reminisced about their time in the ELC, their journey into the Junior School and those students they’d met along the way. Thank you to: Owen Adams, Abhijit Das, Frazer Kemp, Emmanuel Garifalakis, Marc Shermon, James Miller, Wes Flavell, Harrison Edwards and Lewis Cotsopoulos for all they contributed to Mentone Grammar.

Finally, congratulations and farewell to our wonderful Year 12 cohort who have provided an excellent example to our younger students and who have contributed much to our Campus throughout the year. We wish them all the very best for their lives beyond Mentone Grammar.

I am fortunate to be extremely well supported in my role and the vibrancy of the Frogmore Campus owes much to the assistance, support and wise counsel of Deputy Head, Mr Paul Stockdale, and the efficient organisation and planning of former Frogmore PA Ms Melanie Angliss and our new PA Rebecca Russell. My thanks also to the House Coordinators, Faculty Heads and staff who have also provided their support and encouragement and maintained their excellent work to ensure the Frogmore Campus continues to grow as a vibrant, productive and engaging environment for our students.

Cameron Lancaster Head of Frogmore

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English

Visiting Authors This year seems to have flown by, with the English Faculty department once again proving to be a hive of activity for our students.

New Programs Across the Faculty, we have adopted a greater focus on the drafting process when teaching writing this year, meaning our students have been given the opportunity to respond to teacher feedback and act on their focus areas. In many cases, this has meant students have been able to make significant improvements to their original attempt, leading to a better understanding of the choices that writers make in constructing a piece.

In the Middle Years, we have consolidated our reading comprehension strategies and started to extend these further in Year 9 using Visible Thinking routines. This approach provided a collection of practices that encouraged deeper understanding of content and increased curiosity about the material studied. Using these routines, our students ‘stepped inside’ minor characters and used ‘Claim-Support-

Question’ to develop more complex readings of texts.

In 2016 we also saw changes to the VCE English course, meaning that our Year 11 students were the first to grapple with a new Study Design. A greater focus on the analysis of argument to complement the analysis of language meant that students were encouraged to look at persuasive pieces more holistically.

The removal of Context writing also saw the introduction of a comparative analysis of two texts. Having studied comparison as part of their Year 10 option unit, students were well placed to address this challenge and produced some insightful analysis.

Incursions and Guest Speakers This year has also been a busy year in terms of incursions to enhance students’ English experience. In May, award-winning writer, Alice Pung, visited our EAL students, sharing her experiences as the daughter of migrants and her journey to becoming an author. This also supplemented

the specific study of the Year 11 EAL students as they analysed her text, Growing up Asian in Australia.

Similarly, our Year 10 students were given the opportunity to hear from nine visiting authors who talked about their process for devising plot and character, which they then put into practise in their own pieces.

Senior VCE presenters also visited the school, including Ross Huggard and Michael Daniel, who were able to consolidate our students’ understanding of the core concepts in preparation for their exam.

As another year closes, we would encourage parents of students from Years 9 to 12 to purchase set texts early, and for students to have read these before returning to school for the new year. This is an important habit to develop for younger students and essential for VCE students.

James Walton Faculty Coordinator – English

Gregory Fish Library Another jam-packed year in the GFL! This year saw the continuation of an integrated Wide Reading program for Year 10s, where students explicitly investigated how creative writing is structured and analysed. Year 9s battled it out for the Greenways Reading League, with 9D the eventual winners. Overall, Year 9 read more than 1000 novels in addition to their Literature Circles biographies.

During Term 3, Year 10 students were treated to presentations about Creative Writing from award-winning authors Nicole Hayes, Fiona Wood, Kim Kane, Gabrielle Williams, Bernadette Kelly, Emily Gale, Michael Panckridge,

Tony Wilson and George Ivanoff.

These presentations complemented the Wide Reading Unit, and prepared the students for their final English unit – Creative Writing.

Over the year we engaged an increased number of tutors for after-school study assistance across the three campuses of Bayview, Greenways, and Frogmore. This provided our students with access to high-achieving former students for help across a broad range of subjects and study skills. Each week more than 100 students, across the three campuses, took advantage of this fantastic service.

The GFL is always a vibrant and engaging place to study and read and by the end of 2016 the library will have undergone a massive transformation.

Fiction will be organised ‘bookshopstyle’, that is, the books will be arranged by genre rather than by author surname, and all the bays will have face-out shelving so that our fantastic collection can be seen.

It is just another improvement that encourages more engagement with books, reading and learning.

Thanks to everyone who has joined in our many events and sessions in the GFL this year.

Miffy Farquharson Head of Libraries

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Faculty HUMANITIES

Humanities Bringing Humanities based disciplines to life is a major aim for the Humanities Department, and through a series of events this goal has been actively pursued. Students have had the opportunity to be a part of many hands-on experiences this year in the classroom, as well as outside their learning spaces through incursions and excursions.

There has been a number of highlights in the Humanities Department this year.

Students have shown their passion for History by entering the National History Competition. Kiera Patron of Year 5 made it to the State Finals with her entry. Congratulations Kiera! We encourage all students to take part in all Humanities competitions.

Our Year 6 students experienced Asian culture through their excursion to Chinatown and the Chinese

Museum. This enhanced students’ understanding of the geography and history of South East Asia.

Year 7 started the year with a field trip to Mentone to understand the history and changes that have occurred in the local area. Students analysed the effect of change and why it occurred.

Undoubtedly the experience of Medieval Day has quickly become one of the more memorable occasions for students. The strength of the incursion itself lies in the ability of staff and students to breathe, live and think like Medieval people, bringing this part of the History course alive for our Year 8 students. Students were able to experience the weapons used, armour worn and the different dance styles of the time.

Students were able to reflect on the impact and tragedy created by World

War II by visiting the Jewish Holocaust Museum. Year 10 and Year 11 History students were given the opportunity to connect with survivors of the Holocaust through their excursion to the Museum in Elsternwick.

Students as well as teachers found it to be a very moving and informative experience. Year 10 also experienced a fieldtrip to Point Nepean to work on their fieldwork skills and to understand the history of the area.

Year 11 Business Management students once again thrilled the School Community with their innovative and well planned small business operations, which allowed for an authentic learning experience. The students were also able to show the School Value of ‘service’ by donating all profits to charity. Year 11 Legal Studies students were able to connect with what they were learning

in the classroom, by experiencing the consequences of disobeying the law in action through their excursion to Barwon Prison.

Year 12 Business Management students ventured to the Yakult factory, a hi-tech food processing facility to observe the manufacture of plastic bottles, filling and packaging lines and quality control rooms, to enhance their studies for the Year 12 exam. Business Management students also developed their knowledge further through many guest speakers spending time with students to discuss the roles of human resources and marketing in a business.

Finally, Year 12 Economics students attended a lecture presented by The RBA on its role and monetary policy.

Students were able to consolidate their knowledge on the role of the

RBA which includes overseeing the monetary policy, market operations, financial stability, payments systems and banking, this allowed students to have firsthand information to broaden their understanding for Unit 4.

Many thanks to the Humanities Faculty for their enthusiasm, commitment, hard work and support throughout 2016 as we all look forward to another great year of enhancing our curriculum to strengthen our students’ learning experience in the Humanities.

Kara Baxter Faculty Coordinator – Humanities

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hat a great day for all who participated in the annual Mentone Grammar Oktoberfest celebration!

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t has been a year of unprecedented success for Mentone Grammar students in external competitions.

Mentone Grammar World Champions It has been a year of unprecedented success for Mentone Grammar students in external competitions. The annual Language Perfect World Championships competition in May is always one of the highlights. Students vie fiercely online to score points for themselves, their class and their school. This year, spurred on by the enthusiasm of our Head Coach, Frau Jessika Rabe, Mentone students successfully answered 1,262,275 questions and were crowned World Champions in German. Across all languages Mentone was placed second in Victoria and sixth in Australia.

The top scoring student in the School was Alanah Heidecker of Year 9 who won an Elite Award and a $50 iTunes voucher for her incredible 14,055 points. Alanah placed 27th in the world for Japanese. Nelvin Ong in Year 8 also received an Elite Award and a $50 iTunes voucher as the top Bayview student. In addition, Mentone Students earned 30 Gold Awards, 27 Silver Awards and 103 Bronze Awards.

Valdis Guppy and Akul Saigul (Year 8), Yani Ryan (Year 7) and Zoe Lancaster (Year 9) were State finalists and award winners in the German Poetry competition. In the Alliance Française competition Luc van Vliet won two awards including second prize in the State for a Year 12 student.

The national Assessment of Language Competence (ALC) competition conducted by ACER saw 76 students presented at campus assemblies with either High Distinctions or Distinctions.

Chinese Continues to Grow The number of students studying Mandarin Chinese continued to grow in 2016 as the language moved into Year 7. To facilitate this expansion the school welcomed two new Chinese teachers, Ms Gracie Gao teaching in Eblana and Bayview and Ms Xin Yang in Bayview.

Language Assistants The introduction of native speaker language assistants in 2015 proved so successful that the program was expanded this year to enable Year

12 students to have one-to-one conversation practice weekly through the whole year. Students report that this has been a great resource as they prepared for their end of year oral examinations.

Exchange Students Mentone Grammar’s partner school relationship with Nagoya High School has this year celebrated 25 years.

The school welcomed Shinji Hibino into Year 10 as a one year exchange student and Jin Ikuta and Hiroki Kurabe into Greenways during Term 1.

As always the School is most grateful to the families who so generously hosted these exchange students.

Thanks go to the Adderley, Berry, Bernamoff, Buckler, Butler, Fong, Hamlin, Harbutt, Kawabata, Maluga, Richards and Thiele families.

Each year there is an opportunity for selected Year 9 students to participate in an extended exchange to Japan.

In 2016 Hayden Richards and Jayde Maluga represented the School as they spent an exciting and enriching seven weeks at Nagoya High School

hosted by Japanese families and attending classes each day with their host brothers.

New Faculty Coordinator At the end of 2016, I will be stepping down as Faculty Coordinator, although I shall be continuing in my teaching role. I would like to acknowledge my gratitude to the talented and dedicated language staff for their support over the last 10 years. It is their professionalism, commitment and hard work that makes possible the range of exciting and successful programs through which our students are challenged and equipped.

I congratulate Mr Aaron Richard as the new Faculty Coordinator.

The LOTE faculty is in very good hands for the future.

David Barber Faculty Coordinator – LOTE

Oktoberfest Important parts of the LOTE program are activities which enable students to experience the cultures of the languages that are taught at the School. By popular demand Oktoberfest once again returned to Mentone Grammar.

What a great day for all who participated in the annual Mentone Grammar Oktoberfest celebration!

Learning about a country’s culture is a vital part of Language learning, so on 12 October, Mentone Grammar’s German students and teachers had the opportunity to experience and participate in some of Germany’s unique traditions such as cow bell music, yodelling, Schuhplattlern (Bavarian slap dancing) as well as ‘schunkeling’, swaying from side to side to Oompa music! Wunderbar! Mentone Grammar may just have a few aspiring world champions in its midst.

German cuisine such as Bratwurst, apple strudel and pretzels were the culinary highlight of the day.

Students and teachers sported traditional German Lederhosen, Dirndl dresses, German colours, world famous German brands such as Adidas and Puma, German soccer and tennis outfits (just in case you don’t know, but Germany is the current Soccer World Champion and home to the current No 1 female tennis player Angelique Kerber – I do like to mention that!) and even shorts with fashionable suspenders as well as German hats.

By popular demand the Oktoberfest Photo Booth returned to capture all in their finest German inspired props and was again a big hit with students and staff alike.

All agreed it was a wonderful exhibition of German culture allowing students to gain further insights into their language studies.

Jessika Rabe German Teacher

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Europe Tour During September, 10 Years 10 and 11 students, along with Mrs Altidis and Mr Pate began a journey to Europe.

After enduring the 30+ hours of flying and transit you can say that all of us were very happy to arrive at our hotel in Rome. We then spent a few days in Rome seeing exactly what Rome had to offer. We explored the streets and engaged in the Roman way of life. Items ticked off our bucket list included; the Colosseum, the Vatican, Roman Forum and of course Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps which were beautifully lit at night.

Sadly, our time in Rome looking at ancient architecture and exploring the streets was over, but we were all looking forward to our road trip to Florence. On 20 September,

with our Trafalgar Tour mates and knowledgeable tour guide, Gianluca, we boarded the coach bound for Florence. We were all dreading the hours of driving we had ahead of us.

A welcome break along the way was the city of Pisa, where we were given time to walk around the Square of Miracles with the breath taking cathedral, baptistery and tower. Of course, the obligatory classic photos of each other holding the leaning tower up were a highlight. Then, it was back on the road to Florence.

Once we settled into our new hotel, we took a bus ride into the heart of Florence. We walked around and discovered a square filled with restaurants. Plenty of pizza and pasta for all. We explored food markets and

stalls selling everything from French sweets to cheese; jewellery and Pinocchios. Night time also brought out the street vendors selling glow-inthe-dark squishy balls and slingshots.

After we explored the market we went to have a look at the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower – a prime example of the amazing architecture Florence is so famous for. Deciding it was time to head back to the hotel, we headed for the public bus stop. After much asking for directions and lots of hurrying, we watched as our bus left without us.

A long hour waiting and a long walk from the terminal finally had us falling into our beds in the hotel.

famous for the Romeo and Juliet balcony. Lots of people crowded into a small square made it less than romantic – along with all the messages of love written on Band-Aids on the wall! Our coach took us to the port of Venice, across the long Liberty Bridge.

Then it was onto the water to see the incredible canals and waterways of this famous city. A serene ride on a gondola (notwithstanding the traffic jam and typical road rage – it seems even on the river, drivers are the same everywhere), glass blowing demonstration and many more ‘leaning towers’ highlighted our time in Venice.

Plenty of food and coffee, as well.

Next stop on the Tour was Venice.

Along the way over the Apennine Mountains we stopped at Verona,

Finally, after more than a week in Italy, we were all looking forward to the next leg of our trip – London. The afternoon

waiting in the sunshine for our ride to the airport, eating lunch and playing cards allowed us to relax after our hectic time in Italy.

The first thing that struck us in England was that all the signs were in English!

Sounds funny, but you don’t realise how much you rely on simple things until they aren’t there anymore.

Our time in London was dominated by shopping! We visited the whole gamut of wares that London had to offer; from street stalls in tourist areas selling £5 t-shirts to Harrods – one of the world’s most exclusive department stores. A clear favourite was our visit to the West End’s famous Drury Lane Theatre to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We travelled the tube, where missing the train

simply meant waiting two minutes for the next one, we had a cruise on the River Thames, caught a famous double-decker bus and wandered in the sunshine through Kensington Palace gardens. Historic monuments such as the Tower of London (actually 21 towers) and a day trip to Windsor Castle were among the features of London we explored.

By the final day, everyone spent a lot of time and energy trying to squeeze all their extra luggage into their suitcases and were once again dreading the long, long trip home.

Thanks to everyone who came for making the trip one to remember.

Harry Scopel and Andrew Pate

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Technologies What a great year 2016 was! We commenced the year knowing we had achieved praiseworthy VCE results with the 2015 Technology cohort.

Students in 2016 were exposed to a variety of experiences and activities within the Technology Faculty. In all disciplines students effectively: explored and investigated, designed, produced and finally evaluated. Throughout the processes, students reflected on: processes, techniques, tools and products.

In Design Technology – Woodwork, the students continued to explore, design and create a variety of projects using different techniques.

Year 7 students worked on developing their own unique clock designs. They did this by working from a Design Brief to complete set tasks and work through the Design Process in order to satisfy all the criteria. This involved undertaking effective research and using that research to develop their own concepts. Students had to refine design drawings and create cutting lists prior to production. They then cut and combined timbers to produce their concepts before applying finishes. Students worked with a range of timbers including reclaimed and recycled materials. They then were able to make their clocks with some outstanding achievements.

Greenways students used their past knowledge and experiences to extend their skills in Design Technology – Wood this year.

Once again, working from a Design Brief, the students came up with some fantastic solutions to making a box using finger joints.

They worked through the different skills involved in designing and then making their projects whilst being aware of the necessary safety issues using the equipment.

Year 8 Robotics: Robots are becoming more and more commonplace and more useful as time goes on. Year 8 students worked on gaining an understanding of robotics by programing Lego Mindstorms robots to complete challenges. Getting the robots to do what you want is no easy task.

The students had to experiment and apply complex programing concepts to achieve their goals.

Year 10 students extended their accumulated knowledge to design and create a piece of functional furniture.

They explored a variety of joints and researched which would be the most appropriate for their chosen design. Various drawing systems were used to create a comprehensive folio of work to document each stage of the Design Process before production could begin.

Year 9 Digital Technology, had two courses to select from being ‘Digital Storytelling’ and ‘Systems’.

In Year 7 3D Printing, students worked to 3D Print tiny lamps out of acrylic plastic.

The designs of the lamp were many and varied, but all sought to celebrate a festival, event or idea. The ability to create an object in conceptual 3D space on a flat computer screen is a skill of the future and our Year 7 students have risen to the challenge with great enthusiasm!

In Digital Technology – students used electronic media to resolve solutions to specific problems.

In Digital Storytelling students used a range of animation techniques including ‘stop motion’ and ‘rotoscoping’. For stop motion, students used their own devices to capture images and later resized them using batch processing. They then placed the images sequentially and adjusted exposure time, for visual effect. Students explored a range of ‘tweening’ effects for text and imagery and used this to create enticing introductions and closing credits.

Audio was: sourced, edited and inserted.

For rotoscoping, students imported moving image and then used tracing techniques to create their rotoscoping.

In Systems, students worked on web design. Designing web pages has evolved much over the years and will continue to do so. Year 9 Web Design students learnt

to apply some of the fundamental concepts of making HTML, CSS and JavaScript to work together to create a fully functional web experience.

Students worked along at their own pace and managed a complex series of projects around their Greenways commitments.

Students in Year 10 Computing spent Term 3 building web-based games. They worked in teams to develop interactive, fast-paced games designed to entertain and engage.

From the planning, through to the complex coding required, students followed a project management plan.

They constructed and worked hard to complete their projects.

where you play a corgi trying to rescue the Queen from her kidnappers, to ‘Straight Outta the Sand’, where you are a newly hatched turtle hoping to avoid near-certain doom on your way to the big sea for the first time. We had road trips, border security, ninja starfish, two-player infinite running and a good, old fashioned shoot ‘em up.

Each game had its own challenges and we pushed beyond our knowledge of 2D physics and circle geometry to develop these entertaining games.

Coding JavaScript objects, controlling multiple players, randomly spawning predators and those pesky bad guys, while interacting with a simple game library, students greatly expanded their knowledge of the world of software development.

This year’s VCE Software Development students undertook a School Assessed Task (SAT) for the first time. This required them to find a ‘need or opportunity’ and develop a software solution to meet it. It took a great deal of planning, time and effort to realise the ideas they had in March, but the end of Term 3 saw them complete their projects with much relief and pride. The range of projects chosen was varied – from online multiplayer turn-based games, to an airline tycoon simulator; from a find-a-friend app to a Cadet kit booking system, to an online diary.

After that, studying for the exams at the end of the year should be easy!

Drawn from a wide range of inspiration, games varied in genre and style from ‘Dog Save the Queen’,

VCE VET Interactive Digital Media continued to explore a range of skills. This included creating and

All students were heavily involved in finding and creating their own visual assets to bring their games to life, along with music and sound effects.

manipulating images for a variety of end uses, including marketing in print and electronic media. Units 1 & 2 students developed their thinking and experienced new software that they will use in Units 3 & 4. They created: logos, business cards and posters using vector based drawing in Adobe Illustrator. Later they manipulated pixelbased imagery in Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Flash was used to create Kinetic Typography animations based on songs and speeches. Toward the end of the year they created digital portfolios and published them to the web.

The Units 3 & 4 students developed their knowledge from their previous year and undertook three large internal SATs. They created: Book Covers, very successful 2D animations on the theme of ‘Mystery’ and a website for a clothing firm.

All this was made possible through the dedication of the talented and enthusiastic staff within the Technology Faculty. How lucky Mentone Grammar students are!

Peter Zerman Faculty Coordinator – Technologies

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Mathematics

T

he Mathematics Faculty focused on improving Formative Assessment strategies in conjunction with the School’s Visible Learning program to improve teaching and learning.

Eliza McDonald, Anastasia Courtney, Nadia Janetzki, Enzo Vozzo, Xin Yang and Alan Wilkes joined our staff to further strengthen our Faculty.

Maths Challenge and Maths Challenge Enrichment Stage Students in Years 5-9 participated in the Australian Mathematics Challenge and Maths Talent Quest as part of their Maths Enrichment program. The Maths Challenge involved answering a wide array of difficult problems using a variety of problem-solving skills, a lot of effort and many mathematical tools. High Distinction certificates were awarded to Daniel Nikolayevsky (Y7), Jake Dickson (Y7) and Blake Rosenberg (Y8) and Distinctions to Dylan Hinton (Y7), Oliver Moran (Y7), James O’Day (Y7) and Joseph Shim (Y7). Students in both Bayview and Eblana achieved excellent results for the Maths Talent Quest too. Special thanks to Tony McCrae, Mark Smith and Enzo Vozzo for their excellent work in running the Maths Enrichment program this year.

Australian Maths Competition and UNSW Maths Competitions Our students’ results across both the AMC and UNSW Maths competitions were excellent: 34 per cent of our students gained a distinction or higher and 77 per cent gained at least a Credit. Jaxon Stephens and Ethan Prabaharan won prizes in the AMC and Joshua Nung topped the state in the UNSW competition. High Distinction certificates were awarded to Hudson Close, Joseph Compton, Matthew Shing, Ayden Roos, Jaden Prabaharan, Daniel Nikolayevsky (AMC & UNSW), Oliver Moran (AMC & UNSW), Cameron Connell, Joseph Shim, Daniel Matthew, Jake Dickson, Aidan Scott, Callum Roberts (AMC & UNSW), Alexander Jones, Jason Bartonek, Alanah Heidecker, Mingyuan Gao, Joshua Nung (AMC & UNSW), Thomas Siedle, Mingjie Jin and Chengzhi He. Distinction certificates were presented to Sarabjeet Dawar, Alice Fletcher, Kate Pregnalato, Ava Pregnalato, Cooper Armstrong, Kristof Buschkuehl Edward Hall, Sarah Chun (AMC & UNSW),

Jaxon Stephens, Lachlan Fraser, Jasper Zdanius, Maddox Lewell, Sophie Frost, Ayden Roos, Lachlan Fraser, Ella Michell, Michelle Fong, Phong Phan, Christopher Vorster, Enrico Tirta, Phoenix Hall, Steven Wan, Ulyana Kondratova (AMC & UNSW), Jaden Prabaharan, Joshua Rabak, Angus Marcombe, Rory Thomas, Cameron Connell, Joseph Shim, Jake Dickson, Ethan Pate (AMC & UNSW), Daniel Matthew, Jack Littleford (AMC & UNSW), Rory Thomas, James O’Day, Daniel Poberezovsky, Ethan Prabaharan, Ella Mairs, Kieren Dyer, William Currey, Nelson Jaden, Akul Saigal, Josh Madden, Hannah Schmidt, Declan McComb, Denie Bellamy, Brayden Miller, Simon Coubard, Jason Bartonek, Euan Hood, Alexander Zhu, Jeremy Miao, Mekhala Bera, Grace Bunting, Blake Rosenberg, Zac Angus (AMC & UNSW), Imogen Davis (AMC & UNSW), Samasidh Siva Ram (AMC & UNSW), Jakob Sloan, Mia Watkins, Oscar Clarke, Torey Bernamoff, Philbert Lan(AMC & UNSW), Charlie Officer (AMC & UNSW), Joshua Cooley (AMC &

UNSW), Anna Lofthouse, Luke Shi (AMC & UNSW), Georgia Rowan, Callum Matthew, Luqi Huang, Fraser Angus (AMC & UNSW), Jonas Schulze (AMC & UNSW), Thomas Siedle, Xiyan Zhang (AMC & UNSW), Zheyuan Shi, Duo Xu, Deng Pan, Jeffrey Fong, Mingyuan Gao, Yaohui Wang, Fan Yinchun, Xuanming Liang, Adam Bouwmeester (AMC & UNSW), Xinyi Liu (AMC & UNSW), Scott Moore, Dooyeon Lee and Dhamsika Samarapathi (AMC & UNSW). Congratulations to all students who achieved such fine results in both Mathematics competitions.

VCE Mathematics Results 2015 Our 2015 VCE results were highlighted by 17 per cent of Specialist Mathematics students, 10 per cent of Mathematical Methods students and 21 per cent of Further Mathematics students achieving study scores of 40 or more. In Specialist Mathematics

Jaidyn Muhandiramge scored 44 and Tyler Bradley 42. The high achieving students in Mathematical Methods were Dooyeon Lee 47, Sam Thiele 44, Adam Bouwmeester 42, Michael Demura 42, Dhamsika Samarapathi 42 and Scott Moore 40. In Further Maths Tyler Bradley 50, Bray Morrow 50, Jonathan Koh 47, Patrick Anderson 45, Amitty Edgeworth 45, William Lancaster 45, Nicholas Capomolla 44, Georgina Gore 44, Casper Bjarnason 43, Mackenzie Sheridan 43, Matilda Maher 43, Connor Bourke 42, Stephen Clarke 42, Lachlan Fryer 42, Oliver Strong 41, Todd Blasse 41, Lin Qi 41, Oliver Richards-Grubb 41 and Joseph Blain 40 all achieved outstanding results.

Many thanks to all mathematics teachers in all year levels for their efforts in assisting our students to achieve their best.

Paul Matthew Faculty Coordinator – Mathematics

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t has been an exciting, challenging and fruitful year in the Science Faculty.

SCIENCE

Science

Firstly, the 2015 students of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Psychology produced one of the most successful set of VCE results for many years and we are all proud of their achievements.

In 2016 the Faculty continued to support the initiatives of Visible Learning and Formative Assessments and we are confident that the hard work of the staff will further improve the learning opportunities for our students. Across the board our Science students have had wonderful competition results. Mentone Grammar was very strongly represented at the Science Talent Search (STS). Some 23 students from Eblana and Bayview won monetary awards which was an outstanding result. These awards reflected the diverse talents of our students with projects ranging from creative writing and posters to board games and scientific models.

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Other students in Years 7, 8 and 9 competed in the ICAS Science competition and many High Distinctions, Distinctions and Credits were obtained. Data from this Australia-wide competition placed Mentone Grammar in a strong position, well above the State average in all measured categories. In Year 11 Chemistry, students also excelled in the National Chemistry Quiz. Two students, Tom Siedle and Joshua Nung, received the highest awards possible. My thanks go to the teachers who helped prepare all these students and in particular Mark Smith, Sabrina van Dort and Arena Nilsson in coordinating the respective competitions.

Several new initiatives have been introduced throughout the year.

Learning program ‘Stile’ and an equivalent ‘Edrolo’ have allowed some Years 9, 10 and all VCE students the

opportunity to continue their learning online. In the case of Edrolo, students take their learning at home, watch relevant video explanations and try quiz questions to test their learning.

This is done all under the watchful eye of their teacher who is able to also see their progress online. This initiative will continue in 2017.

Also in 2017 Year 10 students will have an opportunity to study ‘Investigating Science’ as an elective.

This experimental based subject is designed to give students an increased knowledge of the skills required to carry out controlled, systematic investigations for a range of physical and biological sciences. It has proven to be a very popular option with two full classes next year.

This year has seen a number of staff changes in both Bayview and

Frogmore. I thank the teachers who have moved on for their hard work and care of the many students they taught and I thank the teachers who have taken up the classes. I also welcome the new staff who joined the team in 2016. Stacey Gwilym and Kelly Brady, both have experience as scientists in their own right and have immediately made a positive impact on the students. The Science team, whether in the laboratory or the classroom, is to be thanked for its tireless, dedicated efforts in supporting our students and providing the wonderful activities that enhance the learning of Science at Mentone Grammar.

In conclusion I would like to acknowledge Year 12 student, Wes Flavell. Wes attended the Australian Science Youth Forum in January then went on to represent Australia

at the International Science Youth forum. His experiences and learning opportunities were vast and I include just a couple of his thoughts on the forum and support his encouragement of other Years 9 and 10 students to take up the challenge and potentially be the scientists of the future that the Mentone teachers hope they will be.

The EuroScience Open Forum completely changed my outlook on Science and for that matter the World! Being the largest general science meeting in Europe, the forum attracted some of the best and most highly regarded researchers and students from across Europe. ESOF is held every two years, with this edition being staged at Manchester, UK. I, along with two other students from Queensland and rural Victoria,

were accompanied by a chaperone, Jayson, a teacher from Sydney, as we experienced everything European science had to offer over six action packed days…

The National Youth Science Forum, quite literally, is a one of a kind experience, which is not paralleled anywhere else, and is something I highly recommend to anyone from Years 9 and 10 who have the slightest interest in science, as I believe it is something more people should have the chance to experience. Wes Flavell Michael Wilton Faculty Coordinator – Science

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o succeed today and in the future, our students will need to be inventive, resourceful and imaginative...

The Health and Physical Education faculty continues to follow a “game sense” approach to teaching in which students learn new skills through playing different types of categorised games. Throughout the year there are a variety of game sense approach categories which allow for students to not only improve skill, but to also increase their knowledge about the strategies involved to bring about successful performance. Net/Wall, Striking and Fielding, Invasion and Target games were all taught across the year levels. Students’ engagement is maximised as they try to improve not only their sporting skills but also their knowledge of the tactics of each sport.

The Year 10 program focused on student led programs such as SEPEP Softball, Volleyball and Netball which allowed students to not only improve their skills in each of these sports, but to also develop their interpersonal and

problem solving skills. Students again completed their final compulsory PE classes by participating in an elective program that allowed them access to a wider range of physical and recreational activities. Students chose to do Self Defence, Zumba or Personal Training classes.

Year 10 Health and Sport Science subject continues to grow and it is very popular among our Year 10 students. The course is designed to develop the practical and theoretical skills necessary for future VCE studies in Health and Human Development and Physical Education. Students visited the Victorian Institute of Sport where they undertook fitness tests and learnt about different training methods for different athletes. This exposed students to the practical side of our subject and allowed them to observe a first class training facility.

Unit 3/4 Physical Education continues to grow within our School and this year saw 45 students completing this subject. Students were able to fitness test their class mates and to learn about the different energy systems that fuel sporting performances. All students again visited the Exercise Research Australia facility. Students experienced lectures on Energy Systems and Fatigue Mechanisms – both major areas of study for their course. Students participated in running and managing laboratory testing in Student Body Composition Profile, Anaerobic Capacity Test, and VO-2 max Test (treadmill) with Blood Lactate. These activities provided students with the opportunity to experience the course in a more practical manner and all students involved benefited from the experience.

Andrew Hayes Faculty Coordinator – HPE

At Mentone Grammar it is the entire visual art process, the creative journey that each student takes that we value.

Students develop knowledge and aesthetic understanding through a growing comprehension of techniques, processes and skills. To succeed today and in the future, our students will need to be inventive, resourceful and imaginative and moving into our purpose-designed studios in 2017 will help to facilitate this.

Excursions are fundamental at VCE level; during Term 1, Year 12 students from VCE Art and Studio Arts undertook the ‘Kickstart Your VCE 2016’, organised by the Dax Centre and Arts Education Victoria.

Then during March and April, VCE Studio Arts, VCE Art and Year 10 Art students embarked on several excursions to the National Gallery of Victoria to see the annual Top Arts exhibition. Other exhibitions and art sites students visited during these excursions included: 200 Years of Australian Fashion at NGVA, Daniel Crook’s Phantom Ride at ACMI and the always inspiring walk through

Hosier Lane. Years 11 and 12 Visual Communication Design students went to Top Designs at the Melbourne Museum. Senior photography students went on an excursion to Without Pier in Cheltenham to investigate how a commercial gallery operates.

Independent Schools Victoria curated an exhibition of outstanding student artwork – we were extremely proud to have students’ artwork selected for the exhibition. Congratulations to Hannah Schmidt, Will Roworth, Josh Madden, Matilda Armstrong, Xavier Hogios, (Year 8); Lotus Jeffs, Harry Kingston, Eden Filikotzias, (Year 10); Tiana Storti, Jackson Palmer (Year 12) and Georgia Petfield, Jack Oyarzun (past students).

The exhibition was officially opened on 27 July with selected students, staff and families in attendance.

The opening gave students a chance to experience the professional setting of an art exhibition.

At Mentone Grammar we are extremely fortunate to have a talented group of past students and parents who volunteer to speak to our current

student body. In August, Nicholas Hogios (parent), a car designer for Toyota visited our Year 11 and Year 12 Visual Communication Design class.

He shared his passion for design and his inspirational story of the journey he took and what led him to study Industrial design and ultimately become a senior car designer at Toyota. He showed the students his past and recent designs and also demonstrated a range of sketching and rendering techniques.

During Term 4, the Year 11 Studio Arts students welcomed past Year 12 student Hunter Griffin (2015) into the classroom. Hunter went through his experiences from last year in Studio Arts and gave some important advice to the students prior to Head Start.

He also discussed what he has been studying at Photography Studies College and showed us his latest work, inspiring the students for the year ahead.

Kim Wootton Faculty Coordinator – Visual Arts

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nvolvement and interest continued to grow steadily in all areas: Music, Dance and Drama, as well as in the expanded cocurricular offerings.

PERFORMING ARTS

Performing Arts The Performing Arts at Mentone can point to another year of fabulous learning opportunities and artistic success. Involvement and interest continued to grow steadily in all areas: Music, Dance and Drama, as well as in the expanded cocurricular offerings.

An increased number of solo and ensemble tuition sessions were offered in an expanded program that offered a great diversity of style and genres.

Additionally, increased performance opportunities were created with the inclusion of small-scale soirees and involvement in external festivals and competitions in our Performing Arts calendar. The highly anticipated and exciting development of the Creativity Centre is moving ahead apace and we will see all productions eventually move to this new venue in 2017.

As predicted, the school productions in 2016 have created quite a buzz.

The musical and dramatic challenge of the Orlando opera project was

magnificent in performance and decisively broadened the base of possible experiences for those involved in the Performing Arts. The Bayview production launched into the African styling of the Lion King JR featuring impressive lead actors with surprisingly mature voices, magically evocative costumes assisting the stunning choreography.

costumes were colourful, the dance and choreography were sensational, the solos and choruses were rousing; overall, another great production. As usual, many students were involved on stage, back stage and in the technical support areas, all assisted and supported by skilled and motivated staff. All involved are congratulated on their efforts and achievement.

The 2016 senior musical production, Legally Blonde, involved students from Greenways and Frogmore as well as two little canine stars. Despite W.C Fields’ entreaty to never work with animals or children, the outcome was not only smooth but also highly entertaining. This musical followed the transformation of a seemingly simple and not overly ambitious student of ‘retail’, from a wealthy family background, to an inspirational and hardworking law graduate with an impending legal career. The characters were convincing, the

The Winter Concert and the Spring Concert, held for the last time in the Bayview Gymnasium, once again clearly demonstrated the broad nature of the current Performing Arts program. Featuring large and small ensembles, as well as chamber ensembles and selected soloists, a broad variety of styles and genres were presented. Weekly rehearsals, commencing the first week of Term 1 and continuing through to the very last week of the year supported the students in their achievements at these performances.

The Bayview Concerts featured Year 7 instrumental program items, soloists, small ensembles, the Bayview Orchestra, the Bayview Band and the Bayview Choir. These concerts also presented a variety of musical experiences across a broad variety of styles and genres.

The Eblana Instrumental Program involved students from Years 2 and 3. Throughout the year instrumental tuition was undertaken on a weekly basis in a classroom context. Concerts were held at the end of each semester and both provided a moment for students to demonstrate their learning to parents and staff.

The Singers’ Soirees, created for those students wishing to gain experience in front of an audience, proved to be very popular in 2016. Our annual ‘Sunday afternoon around the Piano’ moved to a Friday evening this year but still featured a sophisticated program of

piano and instrumental soloists. With a cornucopia of stunning performances and a cameo from the first school opera, Orlando, the evening attracted a capacity audience.

Fabulous costumes, glitter and impossible flexibility are always to be expected at the annual Stagecraft dance performances. As expected, it was a great success and credit to all those involved.

The Mt Gambier Generations in Jazz Festival and competition, now a regular feature of our calendar, witnessed our Froggers jazz band and jazz ensemble, The Cat’s Meow, rise up the competition rankings, making the journey to Mt Gambier all the more enjoyable.

We wish our 2016 VCE Performing Arts students all the success with their studies. Each year an increasing number of students tackle these very challenging subjects, which now

includes subject offerings such as Music Composition and Styles and VCE Dance.

The Carols Service this year featured our Carols Choir, comprising students selected from Eblana, Bayview, Greenways and Frogmore. This year’s featured vocal soloist was Aleisha Bernamoff, with the classic Ave by Gounod. Apart from leading the Carols, the Carols Choir performed The Heavens are telling by Haydn, from his 1799 Oratorio the Creation, with the Senior Orchestra. The Carols Service brings the school year, and the year of Performing Arts to a close in the beautiful and resonant St Paul’s Cathedral.

Gavin Cornish Head of Performing Arts Director of Music

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Frogmore ARMY CADET UNIT

Army Cadet Unit

It has been another sensational year for the Mentone Grammar ACU. Interest was strong in Years 10 to 12 with 68 Frogmore students undertaking promotional courses and advanced lessons at the bivouac in Term 1. We also witnessed strong participation from 175 Greenways students for whom cadet involvement is just starting.

With 11 platoons, including senior boys and girls and a specialist HQ team, the unit was well equipped to offer differentiated, challenging training programs that opened up myriad leadership opportunities. Importantly, targeted training allowed us to meet the changing demands of a unit which, this year, included a total of 260 cadets.

We encouraged our senior cadets to extend their training by participating in the AAC’s National Adventure Training Award and higher levels of achievement in the Duke of

Edinburgh’s Award. Competence at those advanced levels augurs well for the experience of our younger Cadets as knowledge is imparted ‘downward’ through the ranks. Congratulations to Year 12 CUOs Sarah Cimino, Frazer Kemp and Lucinda McIntyre who paralleled their cadet skills with that of obtaining Gold level in the Duke of Edinburgh Award program. A great achievement by all.

In addition to leading and mentoring their platoons on training days, our senior cadets also had prominent roles in several local commemoration services for ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day at the Beaumaris, Dingley and Mentone RSLs. Their ceremonial duties involved many hours of training to ensure that all AAC protocols were followed. All volunteer cadets, musicians, guards and ushers, carried out their roles with great respect and pride.

MGACU’s week-long annual field exercise took place in the last week of Term 3 at the Army’s Puckapunyal Military Area, and comprised a training program designed by our senior Cadet leaders to provide challenges to a range of ability and experience levels.

Throughout the week, I was constantly impressed by the perseverance our Cadets demonstrated: the weather was not kind to our Year 9s for their first camp but, to their credit and that of their leaders, they were able to overcome the discomfort and engage enthusiastically in the activities for the remainder of the week. Their enthusiasm and willingness to have a go was wonderful to see. The roadside hot breakfasts, campfire bonding and opportunities to visit the firing range and weapons training facilities were all highlights.

I thank all of the Officers of Cadets for their time and commitment to the

delivery of this unique educational experience. Thank you to all staff, in particular Mr James Farquharson, Mr Anthony Bingham and Mr Craig Deakins for their roles in guiding the recruit and senior training programs, and Mrs Deborah Heath has my gratitude for her tireless efforts as the Unit’s Quartermaster.

I am also indebted to our most senior leaders for 2016: Daniel Holman, Nathan Booth, Adam Pratt, Wesley Flavell, Frazer Kemp, Dylan Mann, Sarah Cimino, Kate Meehan, Emily Keogh, Lucinda McIntyre, Emily Fiddes, Sean Cunningham, Emma Doyle, Tiana Storti, Finlay Dodson and Georgia Tarlinton. The contributions they have made within their portfolios of responsibility have been impressive.

MGACU goes from strength to strength in no small part due to the professionalism and diligence of the students who lead it.

Awards The Ken Smith Perpetual Trophy is an annual award made to the member of the Mentone Grammar Army Cadet Unit who is judged by the Officer Commanding to be the highest performing cadet and who demonstrates the following qualities: • E xceptional leadership of peers, including the ability to maintain an appropriate and professional distance when exerting authority, • D iligence, conscientiousness and flexibility while managing responsibilities, • Superb performance under the pressure of multiple demands during Unit activities, • A caring and patient manner in all interactions with younger cadets, and respectful, cooperative interactions with Officers of the Unit.

We congratulate CUO Wesley Flavell on receiving this award for 2016.

Not surprisingly, Year 12 CUO Frazer Kemp was awarded MCC Cup in the Melbourne Schools’ Army Cadets Battalion for being the best individual marksperson in Victoria. Frazer now looks towards a career in the ADF, taking with him four years of dedicated service and leadership of our unit.

Jon Wever OC, Mentone Grammar Army Cadet Unit Commanding Officer, 31 AAC BN (Melbourne Schools)

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orld Challenge was a once in a lifetime experience. Being able to travel to Laos and Vietnam with my friends was great but helping out a village, going on an amazing trek and doing so many other amazing and interesting activities is what made this trip so much fun and very special. It is definitely a trip I will never forget!

KIARA DEVERS YEAR 10

WORLD CHALLENGE

World Challenge Laos and Vietnam share a border but, on the surface, not much else.

Adapting to two surprisingly different cultures, governments, currency, religion and food influences added to the excitement of this trip that included three weeks of incredible experiences, people and places.

This year, two teams, made up of 23 students cooked a lot of sausages so that families of a small village in northern Laos could, for the first time, access water. In addition, the children of the village returned to their school to find a swing and slide set, donated by our students. The smiles of the children made the deprivation, inevitable illness and sleeping rough all worthwhile.

Nothing comes easy in a small Laos village. Food and water collection is tedious and the weather is harsh but the quiet, peaceful nature of the people was infectious. In typical Mentone spirit, everyone pitched in and worked hard digging trenches, carrying heavy pipes and living like villagers in order to complete the pipeline that stretched kilometres through terraced farmland. The tradeoff for all the hard work was the unique opportunity to share in the day-to-day lives of Laotian families, even bath time

in the river. The locals shared their meagre food, traditional skills such as basket weaving and broom making and ultimately blessed each and every student with good fortune in a gentle thanksgiving ceremony. We all left wearing traditional cotton wristbands that, if worn for three days, would bring love and good fortune. So far, so good.

Discovering the joys of Luang Prabang was a blessing… baguettes, smoothies and the most relaxed night market in Asia. Waking at 5am to watch in silence as the monks received their daily meal reminded us all to be both mindful and grateful.

The World Challenge mission is to develop life skills such as resilience, empathy and leadership and both groups took on every challenge and, most of the time, juggled all three life skills at once.

In the chaos of Hanoi the groups found accommodation in the Old Quarter then discovered temples, water puppets and cheap pho. A two-day trip to the world heritage caves around Halong Bay was a relaxing break in a busy schedule. The six-hour boat ride was amazing and the caves spectacular.

Catching an overnight train to the mountainous beauty of the Sapa hill tribes was an interesting experience and a tough four-day hike through the harsh but beautiful farmland was unforgettable. Slippery hill climbs and an energetic entourage of locals added to the fun and memories.

Thank you to everyone for making a difference. There is a small village in northern Laos that now has endless fresh water and a shiny new playground. Good job!

Team 1 – Gary Kingston, Jen Blackburn, James Murphy, Alison Ahern, Caitlin Baxter, Charlotte Fryer, Grace Goodman, Guy Witherow, Jamie-Lee Munn, Lochlan Hennig, Luke Shi, Nicole Moore, Rebecca Hayes, Sasha Widelski and Trenton Johnson.

Team 2 – Tony Davis, Melanie Angliss, Tim Duivenvoorden, Megan Witherow, Holly Adams, Adam Mahmoud, David Fogarty, Harry Littleford, Jessica EwartMcTigue, Kiara Devers, Lucy Bowman, Madelyn Brooks, Madison Daley, Matthew Doyle and Rachel Watson.

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Social Service

Social Service can easily be misconstrued purely as fund raising.

This year we wanted to initiate a shift in emphasis by bringing the caring, serving and learning back into primary focus with our social service and to encourage students to give of their time and effort in helping and not by just raising money.

There were many health related initiatives. Under the leadership of Ryan Buckler, Nick Sheppard and Mrs Miffy Farquharson almost $14000 was raised for The World’s Greatest Shave by 26 students and staff members who cut, dyed or shaved their hair to assist families facing Leukaemia. The highly successful Zaidee’s 24 hour run

saw over 100 students volunteer in order to promote discussion about organ and tissue donation as well as raising over $27000 for the Zaidee’s Foundation. The library staff hosted Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea raising $600 for the Cancer Council and last November the 36 MoBros and MoSistas from the Staff raised $6600 towards Movember’s men’s health programs.

In empathising with those less financially fortunate than us, 30 students as young as 10 years old registered as part of the Mentone Grammar Team to give up something for the 40 Hour famine – to be reminded about the way most people

in the world still live. We raised more than $3600 for World Vision.

The Year 8 student leaders ran a number of pop up stalls and barbecues and a casual clothes day to raise money for the schools visited in Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam and China.

Many wonderful memories were created as they shared their time and gifts with students in those nations.

Our 23 Year 10 World Challenge students did the same, enabling them to do hands on building projects in Laos. Charlotte Wiffin, Year 12, led an amazing effort to collect clothes and non-perishable items to send to the people of Fiji after the devastating cyclone in March this year.

Year 9 students visited Yarrabah special school on a Monday afternoon to spend time with their students and help with their classwork. Their social interaction and friendship has been very much appreciated. Greenways has also hosted classes of Yarrabah students at Mentone Grammar while giving their student leaders, opportunities for public speaking and promoting their own welfare initiatives. Taking it a step further our Year 12 Social Service Team under the leadership of Jessica Paterson organised a sibling camp for Yarrabah families, hosting them for a fun day of activities at our Shoreham campsite.

Year 4 students led the Eblana

student body as they encouraged and promoted social awareness, donating almost $2000 to our annual Red Cross Appeal. The donations for the Keysborough Animal shelter resulted in two 4WD loads being delivered to the shelter, where they will go towards assisting staff at the Centre to continue to take in every abused, lost, injured or abandoned animal brought to their shelter, and care for each one while they find them a loving home.

Later in the year the Christmas Toy Drive for the Brotherhood of Saint Laurence Appeal took place. Last year Eblana students alone donated more than 320 toys and with the rest of the School we filled a truck with toys

for those less fortunate. Two Year 9 classes were privileged to attend a week with the Brotherhood in the city and experienced first hand the work they do with homeless and refugee families.

Finally a big thank you to this year’s Social Service Committee: Teaghan Avery, Brittany Chambers, Sarah Cimino, Finlay Dodson, Sarah Thompson, Sophie van Vliet and our hard working Social Service Captains: Jessica Paterson and Charlotte Wiffin.

Rev. Michael Prabaharan

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Year 7 and Year 8 The 2016 Years 7 and 8 Debating competition was held at Mentone Girls’ Grammar over four rounds.

In each round the students were given opportunities to learn about debating through workshops and demonstrations run by the Debaters Association of Victoria (DAV). Topics debated included compulsory after school sport, social media monitoring by parents and whether the Government should increase funding to the Arts.

Our teams put in a fine effort, winning a number of their debates. All those involved should be commended for their effort and commitment to their respective teams. The students are already excited for debating to return in 2017, where they can put their newly acquired debating skills and knowledge into practice again.

Hayley Lewkowicz Years 7 and 8 Debating

Year 9 to Year 12 A large cohort of students was involved in Senior Debating at Mentone Grammar this year. Prior to the commencement of the season we met to formulate teams and plan for the early debates. We competed in the Keysborough draw and participated in five rounds of competition at Haileybury College from early March to late July. We fielded two Year 12 teams, two Year 11 teams, one Year 10 team and one Year 9 team.

Topics were usually ‘set’ topics such as: ‘That the media should not be permitted to report on criminal cases

until after the trial’, where we either argued for the Negative or Affirmative sides. With ‘set’ topics, teams usually had a week’s notice prior to the debate. Sometimes, however, at Year 11 or Year 12 topics were ‘secret’, only being revealed an hour prior to the commencement of the debate.

A ‘secret’ topic could be something like: ‘That Australia should open all international borders’. Again we would be allocated the Negative or the Affirmative side of the debate and teams would need to prepare in the hour between topic release and the commencement of the debate.

Buckler and Joshua Nung (research), again saw this collective make the finals after the home and away rounds.

Something they also achieved as Year 10s. To do this they had to win four of the five rounds in the home and away season. In the first final they came up against a strong Trinity team at Kilvington Grammar and unfortunately were defeated. However, this has left them even more determined for next year when, as a Year 12 team, they hope to take it a step or two further.

They certainly have the potential to perform really well if they can continue to perfect their skills.

Mentone Grammar teams performed very well across the season winning many more debates than they lost. Our teams were usually well planned and highly organised and they approached debates with enthusiasm and confidence. Given the work involved for students it was a credit to our teams that they always presented so well. Our teams were very well supported by our Debating Co-Captains: Elizabeth Algeri and Andrew Persic. These students always led by example and they went above and beyond in terms of team support and communication. If a gap needed to be filled, our Captains ensured it would be. Thanks Lizzy and Andrew for your great work.

Debating has so much to offer our students. Not only do they become accomplished public speakers, but their ability to formulate an argument and provide authentic evidence is a key to success. Students also learn to collaborate and process information under pressure in an attempt to present clear, logical arguments.

Debating encourages our students to be risk takers and it encourages them to be persuasive. These are all really valuable skills for students both at school and in later life.

Aside from many students winning Best Speaker in individual debates, the performance of our Year 11 – Team 2 combination, consisting of Thomas Siedle, Harry Austin, Austin Hollingsworth, Victor Ding, Ryan

I would like to thank our debaters for their fine efforts during the season and I look forward to the ongoing involvement of many of these students next year and into the future.

Mark Smith TIC Public Speaking and Debating

Row 2: Hayley Lewkowicz, Akul Saigal, Hannah Schmidt, Ella Mairs, Josh Madden, Jeremy Campbell, Mark Smith Row 1: Blake Rosenberg, William Frost, Adam Persic, Joseph Shim, Adam Carnegie, Jack Littleford Absent: Daniel Pate, Ethan Pate, Alex Hassan, Daniel Matthew

Senior Debaters and Public Speakers 2016

Row 5: Row 4: Row 3: Row 2: Row 1: Absent:

Nathan Booth, Michael Demura, Abhijit Das, Piermon Schwarz Andrew Persic (Co-captain), Robert McIntyre, Tom Siedle, Austin Hollingsworth Joshua Nung, Ryan Buckler, Elizabeth Algeri (Co-captain) Mark Smith, Alexandra Siedle, Megan Siedle, Brandon Demura, Angus Goodwin Nicholas Berry, Emily Keogh, Tessa Styles, Sarah Cimino Gail D’Souza, Luc van Vliet, Michael Todd, Harrison Spencer, Sahishnu Siva Ram, Zac Scherger, Samasidh Siva Ram, Jack Cullen, Ethan Staggs, Joshua Cooley

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he Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is an amazing achievement which is revered world-wide and endows its Awardees with certain characteristics.

Sarah Cimino Bronze: 2014 Silver: 2015 Gold: 2016

Service – Volunteering at Cheltenham Library (12 month commitment) ‘She was always punctual, committed and showed a great interest in the tasks she was given. We’d be happy to have her back in the future.’

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Physical Recreation – Pilates (12 month commitment) Sarah is a very focused young lady and her overall body strength and awareness have improved greatly.

Natalka Kostraby, Sarah Cimino, Frazer Kemp, Lucinda McIntyre The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is an amazing achievement which is revered world-wide and endows its Awardees with certain characteristics. It tells a story to the wider community that: you didn’t wait for your break; you made it happen for yourself. You have not let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgement stop you from doing the things that will make you great, for often it is those activities which are difficult, uncomfortable and scary that pay-off in the long run.

Prominent employers including KPMG, Blackmores, Hungry Jack’s, Macquarie University and Aussie Home Loans look for prospective employees who have a Duke of Edinburgh Award as it helps to assess whether they are wellrounded and team players. ‘Leadership, responsibility and respect for fellow citizens are important qualities we look for in our young employees. We believe these valuable life skills are cultivated through participation in the Award.’ – Mr Jack Cowin, Executive Chairman, Hungry Jack’s Pty Ltd. At Mentone Grammar, we are extremely proud of each and every student who has committed to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program. The achievements of over 40 students will be recognised with a Bronze, Silver and/or Gold Award, which is the end of an impressive chapter and in many ways just the very beginning of what

their lives will be. As a Gold Awardee myself, I am honoured and completely humbled to enable and empower students at Mentone Grammar to also trust their own voice, their own ideas, their own ability and resilience through experiential and transformational learning, through sincere engagement in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program. It is these qualities and attributes that will enable them to change the world around them in small ways and in big and I greatly look forward to being a part of the future they will shape.

2016 Duke of Edinburgh’s Award participants Bronze Nicholas Berry Sarah Petfield Joshua Cooley James Gold Hebe Best Riley Friso Andrew Lancaster Mackenzie Howe Tarn Smith Jack Cullen Mia Watkins Imogen Davis Nicholas Thiele Hayden Richards Luke Ray Edward Kent Katherine Tsihlakis Lani Heidecker

Elyssa Osianlis Samuel Pritchard Tessa Styles Abbey Dykas

Silver Grace Goodman Alex Siedle Meg Siedle Georgia Rowan Finlay Heath Tom Siedle Conor Murray

Gold Luke Shi Harrison Smyth Jasmine Grey Ryan Buckler Stephanie Wilson Lucinda McIntyre Sarah Cimino Frazer Kemp Cameron McIntyre (2014)

2015 Awardees Tom Siedle (Bronze) Harry Austin (Silver) Casper Bjarnason – OM 2015 (Silver) Laura Cox – OM 2015 (Gold) In 2016 we would like to acknowledge the following students who have successfully completed the Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and will be presented by the Patron of the Award, Linda Dessau AM Governor of Victoria.

Adventurous Journey – Cadet Camp Puckapunyal (3 nights, 4 days) Sarah took a leading role in her group, with particular attention to providing for the needs of the younger cadets for whom she was responsible.

Residential Project – Lady Somers Camp (4 nights, 5 days) Sarah was an outstanding member of Lady Somers Camp exhibiting excellent relationships with other participants, involving herself fully in the program displaying a highly responsible, enthusiastic attitude and receiving and acting on feedback.

Cameron McIntyre – OM 2014 (Gold) Bronze: 2012 Silver: 2013 Gold: 2016 Physical Recreation – School Sport (12 month commitment) Cameron participated in Hockey and Tennis and received the award for Sportsmanship in First Hockey.

Skill – Clarinet (12 month commitment) Cameron committed to improving his playing ability with participation in numerous School bands/orchestras as well as playing the major solo piece, Oblivion, in his final year of School at the 2014 Winter Concert.

Adventurous Journey – Educational Music Workshop (3 nights, 4 days) Cameron embarked on gaining a better understanding of different methods of teaching music performance skills where he assisted and lead groups of young musicians who were participating in the Generations in Jazz Annual Competition in Mt Gambier, working with James Morrison and his faculty.

Residential Project – Volunteer Youth Leader – Diabetes Australia (4 nights, 5 days) Cameron assisted with the recreational programs and looked after groups of young diabetics many of whom were newly diagnosed and on their first camp.

Lucinda McIntyre (Gold) Bronze: 2013 Silver: 2015 Gold: 2016 Sport – School Sport (12 month commitment) Lucinda has been a valued member of the thirds soccer team this season.

She has demonstrated the ability to work well as a team player and has stepped up as team captain providing great leadership.

Skill – Singing (12 month commitment) Lucinda is a dedicated, hard working singer and had worked consistently to improve over the past months.

She continues to work hard and lead confidently. She is a real asset to our school and will be missed.

Service – Service Assistant: Church Group (12 month commitment) This role is important in Sunday worship as the service assistant effectively leads the congregation in worship, prayers and serving the altar. Lucinda has greatly grown in confidence, is poised, speaks beautifully and clearly, is relaxed yet maintains the dignity of worship. Lucinda is confident and deals calmly with unexpected changes or

Residential Project – Cadet Officer (4 nights, 5 days) Lucinda met the expectations of this course confidently and enthusiastically.

The completion of this qualification allows access to the highest rank a student can achieve.

Frazer Kemp Bronze: 2013 Silver: 2015 Gold: 2016 Physical Recreation – Swimming (12 month commitment) Not only has Frazer achieved national times in swimming, but he has become a great leader with his peers through positive determination in the sport.

Skill – Driving (12 month commitment) Frazer has developed skills necessary to obtain his licence. Frazer has shown great improvement and I commend him for his achievement.

Service – School Leadership Deighton House Captain (12 month commitment) Frazer demonstrated leadership and care in his role as House Captain.

He showed great enthusiasm and commitment to the group and encouraged students to take considered risks to improve themselves.

Adventurous Journey – Hiking (3 nights, 4 days) Frazer participated in an amazing journey trekking the Kokoda track.

His determination, resilience and leadership skills were constantly utilised giving encouragement and guidance to all.

Residential Project – Papua New Guinea village exchange (4 nights, 5 days) Frazer learnt that no matter how tough the situation is, there is always an end to it and if you persist long enough and hold on you will eventually achieve what you want.

Natalka Kostraby Duke of Edinburgh Award Leader

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Skill – Flute (12 month commitment) Sarah regularly attended rehearsals and has improved her technical ability.

Service – Mentor Woodwind Section of School Orchestra (12 month commitment) Cameron held the leadership position of Head of Woodwind in 2013-14. In this role he took a mentoring role with younger members and assisted with rehearsals.

Adventurous Journey – Hiking (3 nights, 4 days) Lucinda’s performance was of a high standard. She showed leadership skills and was central to maintaining high morale within the whole group. Her commitment was seen by younger participants who regarded Lucinda as an exceptional role model.

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“We are not a team because we work together, we are a team because we trust and care for each other” A team can only work if all members have a unified vision and all work together to build and maintain a strong culture.

When we all work together we win and not only in a literal but figurative sense.

“The only way is up… real quick!” That was the Anderson House motto (and catch phrase from our House Captain Max Stammers) for 2016 and our highly enthusiastic Anderson House students worked together to bring this idea to fruition. We began our year with a collaborative approach – we discussed what were our short and long term goals and what we wanted to achieve both personally and in the House setting.

The Leadership group decided that they wanted to use a vertical system of peer mentoring within the House – hence our Anderson House Units were born.

This consisted of 8 Units led by our Year 12 group encompassing a range of students from Years 10-12. This allowed our House to get to know one another on a more personal level – it also allowed for informal leadership to occur with the senior students as they were asked to guide and nurture those in their Units. The Units competed in fun activities in order to score points – the winning Unit was awarded a

The biggest challenges Anderson had faced over the years was unity across all year levels and maintaining a positive and optimistic attitude. Finishing in 8th place last year wasn’t all that bad, because it meant that the only way for our House was up! This year Anderson has become more unified than ever, and some great friendships have been formed amongst members of the House, across all year levels.

This year, the House competition has been awesome in both spirit and performance. Finishing two rungs higher on the ladder at the end of the competition and winning the House Swimming event were massive achievements for Anderson. We maintained very solid performances across all events, and displayed enthusiasm and effort that have improved out of sight! The input and manner everyone undertook in applying themselves in the competition made each and every event enjoyable for all.

Seeing individual members of Anderson run alongside me in the Cross Country event; dive through mud for the footy out at Keysborough or hit the hardwood in basketball was inspiring. In Oratory and Debating our speakers all projected their speeches in front of crowds and on the stage they performed musical pieces for House Music and gave it their best no matter what. It was both exciting and motivating. The lift in participation and attitude shown by each and every member of Anderson was inspiring and is very promising for the future of Anderson.

If this year is any indication, with the foundations that have been laid and the hard work of all the mentors and students, big things lay ahead for Anderson House. Congratulations for the great year this year Anderson, and best of luck for the many more to come.

Max Stammers Anderson House Captain 2016

prize at the end of the semester.

The collegiality and culture building can’t always be measured by external factors – it can be intrinsic and work as a thread to hold the group together.

A highlight of this year’s House Competition and example of our collegiality was winning House Swimming – this was a clear example of how the students in the House came together and worked to achieve a common goal. Each student set his or her own personal goals whether in the pool or, as a spectator on the day. Our sense of pride and excitement when we realised we had won was palpable. Of course winning is only the icing on the cake – the process of coming together to support and encourage one another is without doubt the most important element.

I want to thank all the Anderson House students who worked to achieve their personal best – whether that was on the sporting field, on the stage or in the classroom – your positive and ‘can do’ attitudes were more than appreciated.

I wish our Year 12 cohort all the best for their future endeavours and hope that they will look back fondly on their time in Anderson House.

Louise Daly Anderson House Coordinator

Year 10

Claudia Brown

Samantha Cooper

Timothy Edwards

Marcus Etheridge

Jessica Ewart-McTigue Kerry Feng

James Grey

Rebecca Hayes

Harry Kingston

Xuancheng Lai

Anna Laidlaw

Belle Leonard

Zhiyuan Li

Ken Lin

Anna Lofthouse

Jai Magennis

Gemma Mottram

Jamie-Lee Munn

Lachlan Newman

James Rickard

James Rosaia

Eddy Zhou

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Year 11

Tim Cansdale

Eliza Crane

Anna Daly

Henry Green

Jasmine Grey

Grace Howell

Ben Landgraf

Ben Lofthouse

Bianca Malby-Luke

Mia McCulloch

Lachlan Moorhouse

Olivia Pattinson

Adam Pavlakos

Ranjith Prasannan

Zac Scherger

Daisy Shurlin

Nicholas Spitzer

Emma Stephenson

Charles Styles

Georgia Bowen

Jamie Brown

Brittany Chambers

Jack Crane

Jack Cunnington

Bridie Easton

Edward Fisher

Year 12

Oliver Ball

Thomas Fisher

Cameron Moorhouse

Samuel Thiele

Daniel Holman

Courteney Munn

Sarah Thompson

James Humphreys

James Pearman

Louise Daly

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Ella Ryan

Jack Laidlaw

Riley Sawyer

Haoran Liu

Max Stammers

William McCann

Joshua Stephenson

Becca Mendel

Nicholas Stephenson

After the long summer break 2016 for Deighton House was looking bright.

Finishing second two years running and the Year 12s were determined to take the House that last step in their final year. Having won the Summer Sports Day during Changeover, with outstanding efforts from our talented Tennis, Softball and Volleyball players, we were ready.

There were strong performances across a range of sports and activities, including a memorable performance by a dedicated few in House Music to the ‘theme song of the year’ Horses by Daryl Braithwaite.

The sheer commitment from every member in the House, going out of their comfort zone for the team, was always evident – most notably when Ethan, Kieran and Harrison volunteered to speak at House Oratory. That is what teamwork and community spirit are all about. We made the final in three out of five events on the Winter Sports day and came equal second for Oratory and Debating, so Deighton had a mathematical chance of ultimate success going into the final event – Cross Country.

While we did not reach the destination this year (not our best running performance that day), there is no doubt the journey was all the richer for the companions we had along the way. This year has been one to remember. Special memories include Tuesday Challenge trivia competitions and Guess That Song where Mr Pate would play a selection of music that no one knew! Activities during Mentor period on a Monday were also a highlight, such as M&M sorting, teabag cap catch, table tennis ball cup catch and jelly bean-boozled. Who could forget eating Orioles from their foreheads without using hands? All these in-House events were great because no-one sat back and did nothing, instead everyone got involved and everyone enjoyed themselves.

This year has been the finest in all my years in Deighton because I was given the honour of being Captain of a House of dedicated, committed and genuine people, a dream of mine since I first sat in House roll call as a Year 10 student.

The continuing annual cycle of Year 12 students leaving us and incoming, fresh Year 10s provides opportunities for students to leave a legacy that those coming through can feel in a tangible way. Students in each year have supported each other through difficult challenges, both academic and personal, and it has been the security and consistency of mateship around the Deighton locker bay that has enabled many of our students to remain connected to our community.

We are richer for their experiences too.

Thank you to all the Deighton mentors who have shared our experiences with us and helped us in unmeasurable ways and thank you to all the members of a great Deighton House.

Fraser Kemp Deighton House Captain 2016 Andrew Pate Deighton House Coordinator

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Year 11

Jacob Althoff-Dowell

Fraser Angus

Will Armstrong

Lauren Bartlett

Keegan Brooks

Sarah Bryant

Ryan Buckler

Bailey Clarkson

Rees Emsley

Raymond Fair

Samantha Fifer

Jeffrey Fong

Jeremy Gonis

Yinuo Li

Lai Ma

Evan Mazur

Deng Pan

Tom Yorgey

Xiyan Zhang

Kentaro Bowden

Ellen Chick

Steven Daly

Lucas Filikotzias

Oliver Florent

Molly Ford

Emmanuel Garifalakis

Riley Ghent

Eliza Harvey

Trent Jones

Frazer Kemp

Emily Keogh

Yuqi Meng

Matthew Pertich

Kyle Solterbeck

Charlotte Wiffin

Max Williams

Alexander Wong

Hollie Wright

Yue Yu

Boyuan Zhang

Andrew Pate

Year 12 Year 10

Nina Alston

Kieran Fagan

Joshua Barclay

Lauren Fagan

Annabelle Kidd

William Leeds

Luke Turnbull

Briana Vassiliadis

Noah Brooks

Eden Filikotzias

Harry Littleford

Hongxiang Cai

Owen Griffiths

Tara O’Brien

William Carter

Shinji Hibino

Junchen Pan

Bradley Chick

Harry Houlahan

Ollie Pontifex

Georgia Cooper

Bella Houlahan

Alleisha Stephens

Jeremy Davie

Stephanie Kelly

Ethan Tribe

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This year in Drinan House we had a fun time where all 67 Drinan Frogmore students enjoyed a plethora of House events and daily interactions within the House. In Drinan we really value participation and getting involved in the wide range of events and experiences; even those that bring people out of their comfort zone.

Drinan looked forward to building on a strong 2015 and began by welcoming the new Year 10 group who were very eager to contribute right away. This was evident as far back as last summer.

Early success was had with Anthony Tamborriello leading the Tennis team.

Things were looking good and with solid support from his fellow players they managed a great second place finish.

The girls’ Volleyball team, with Sophie, Nicola, Nell, Chelsy, Tara and Christine also had a lot of fun and likewise finished in second place.

March saw us gearing up for the House Swimming. Now, whilst fortunate to have some good swimmers in the House, success would require an effort by everyone including those who are not known for their swimming capabilities. For those who were worried about their speed in the pool, Mr Moutafis reminded us that the only requirement was to ‘get wet’ – participation was key. Having said that, there were many great individual efforts on the day such as Nick Archibald and Jordan Fox who each took the prize as Year Level champions for Year 10. The Year 11 Relay team of James, Lucas, Tim and Tom also put in a memorable performance with a victory that crushed

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the opposition and had the members of the House cheering which resulted in a second place finish in House Swimming.

We were also proud of our first place in Badminton which was led by Year 12 students Andrew and Anthony.

House Music proved a fun event. Luc van Vliet performed a saxophone solo for the individual performance and then joined Hannah and other Year 12s in a stellar ensemble performance of the Spice Girls classic, Wannabe. A corny choice that had everyone joining in!

Next came House Athletics. The Bayview and Greenways students joined the Frogmore students and we once again showed our speed and strength on the track and in the field. Year 10 students Brady Watts and Geordie Hore dominated the long distance running events and led the way for many fine results. More importantly, it was great to see all students in the House supporting each other, which in the end helped Drinan to another fine result, second place.

The Winter Sport day was less successful as far as outright results, but it was still great to see everyone having a go in classically muddy conditions. With the girls having their own Football competition for the first time, there were equal opportunities for Jess and Nell to try to get as muddy as Lewis, Damian, Peter and Sean.

We think Jess almost succeeded.

The House Oratory and Debating proved to be a great event for the year 12 Drinan cohort with new

Year 12 student Zac Roberts debuting in the Debating team alongside Luc van Vliet and Galina Enright. Though they arguably drew the short straw on the debate topic, their organisation, adroit dissection of the topic and confident speaking yielded a solid victory for the House. In the Oratory, Nathan Booth leveraged his strong and well practised public speaking skills as he, and international student Dawei Cao, each provided a humorous but pointed take on what they would take to a desert island.

House Cross Country, once again, saw everyone putting in a last final effort to finish off the year. In his usual style, Brady put in a fantastic effort to take out the Open 6km race.

Overall, all members of Drinan are to be commended for their wonderful spirit and team efforts in supporting each other over the year. As well as being a great House Captain who worked tirelessly to ensure all students were involved in activities, special thanks go to House Captain Nathan Booth and also to Luc van Vliet for each competing in virtually every House activity, over the year. In so doing, they ultimately tied on points to be joint winners of the prestigious J. L. Wyatt medal for demonstrating outstanding House participation and spirit.

Year 10

Nicholas Archibald

Elly Blasse

Zeyang Chen

Peter Cotsopoulos

Kiara Devers

Eva Donaldson

Sean Enright

James Eustice

Jordan Fox

Sarah Green

Kimberley Henricks

Geordie Hore

Haochen Li

Kai Lindsay

Adam Mahmoud

Damian Papadopoulos

Maximillian Pena

Olivia Pukallus

Cara Scott

Tatum Sfameni

Maurice Smith

Kiaan Storti

Emile Tait

Miles Thomas

Peter Varsamis

Brady Watts

Sasha Widelski

Hanbin Zhou

Laz Moutafis Drinan House Coordinator Nathan Booth Drinan House Captain 2016

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Year 11

Nicola Briggs

Allan Cheng

Lewis Diggins

Chelsy Hardy

James Kerr

Thomas Lapa

Owen Leonard

Ellen Mooney

Winnie Panczel

Matthew Ray

Timothy Silvester

Jacques Steedman

Max Tucker

Sophie van Vliet

Nicholas Walliser

Lucas Waters

Tara White

Christine Zhong

Dawei Cao

Miaomiao Chen

Jinhong Cho

Lewis Cotsopoulos

Sean Cunningham

Matthew Dunkerley

Year 12

Mitchell Booth

Nathan Booth

Galina Enright

Tom Gamble

Jiin Jeon

Rhys Mahoney

Dylan Mann

Andrew McDonald

Sebastian Pena

Jessica Robson

Hannah Sinclair

Tiana Storti

Anthony Tamborriello

Luc van Vliet

Tianyi Yuan

Laz Moutafis

HOUSE COORDINATOR

Zachary Roberts

Finlay Anderson House has had a year to be proud of in 2016. With regard to the inter-House Championship, all Finlay Anderson students represented their House with great pride and commitment, enjoying success in many events, whilst at the same time sharing our defeats in a supportive, honourable and good humoured fashion as a good team should.

The Finlay Anderson themes of enthusiasm, support and participation were evident throughout the year and were demonstrated by all members of the House team. This resulted in Finlay Anderson House once again demonstrating a positive and inclusive team culture during all events that were part of the Frogmore House Championship. Finlay Anderson House members participated in numerous activities and it has been pleasing to see all members of Finlay Anderson

House competing to the best of their ability, with a record of competition to be proud of. Finlay Anderson House is proud of the efforts of all students whether they finish first at the right end, finish first at the wrong end or finish somewhere in between and I commend all members of the House for the way in which they conducted themselves throughout the many activities. All students can feel justifiably proud of themselves and each other for their achievements this year and their strong sense of team spirit.

I have felt it a privilege to be the House Coordinator of our fantastic House team this year. My thanks to Emma Doyle for her dedicated leadership and inclusive support of all members, old and new.

Congratulations and well done to all.

Vic Evans Finlay Anderson House Coordinator

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Year 11

Harry Austin

Joshua Bowles

Will Burmeister

Mingyuan Gao

Austin Hollingsworth

Mingjie Jin

Samantha Kershaw

Isabelle Koh

Kaibo Ma

Jamieson McKinnon

Jacob Michaelides

Kai Owens

Lexie Paterson

Edward Paton

Daniel Pearce

Piper Rausz

Jack Ryder

Zheyuan Shi

Alexander Tzimokas

Emily Webster

Owen Adams

Elizabeth Algeri

Tyler Anderson

Sophie Antonellis

Riley Baxter

Adam Bouwmeester

Yuxuan Chen

Sarah Cimino

Abhijit Das

Emma Doyle

Amelia Gardiner

Lachlan Hart

Keenen Marrier D’Unienville

Dhamsika Samarapathi Sumbaro Sarigari

Caitlin Shepherd

George Smethurst

Zachary Stagg

Sienna Trigg

Max Watson

Vic Evans

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Holly Adams

Ethan Gough

Jack McGindle

Caitlin Baxter

Eliza Hollingsworth

Joshua Miller Not pictured: Laure Margerand

Jun Zou

Tia Botakis

Jamie Hordagoda

Bridie Rann

James Bouwmeester

Trenton Johnson

Thomas So

James Bowles

Matthew Kolivas

Angus Spargo

Matt Doyle

Jacob Koniuszko

Benjamin Stone

Maya Dunne

Cayla Le Gear

Chloe Stone

Harry Goakes

Callum Matthew

Rachel Watson

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Julian Sasson

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Back-to-back Frogmore House Champions – 2015 and 2016 – Go Jaguars!! win the House Championship again.

One example of this was having the highest attendance rates across all House events, even including the demanding-for-some Swimming and the demanding-for-all Cross Country events, which reflects the great value of endeavour adopted by all in Jones.

It was a year to remember for Jones House, with many highs and very few lows both in the inter-House competition and in the broader context of school life.

Jones House placed well in a range of academic and non-academic events, including coming first in four events – Music, Athletics, Oratory/Debating, and Cross Country – and coming second in the Academic competition.

This allowed us to earn a total 52 points out of a possible 64, and meant Jones House won the Frogmore House Championship once again. This was a very well deserved result and meant we have won the House Championship two years in a row. Winning back-toback House Championships is a rare and cherished event and it meant that we achieved one of the main House goals of the year – winning the House Championship in an even year! Another proud achievement was coming third in the newly introduced House Spirit Cup, which is a separate competition, and involves non-academic and sporting events and is more of an intangible measure of participation and House morale displayed throughout the year.

The many great accomplishments throughout the year came as a result of living up to the goals and values to which the House aspires. We strongly displayed a sense of community and belonging within the House as we aimed to integrate the House in terms of international and local students. This unity amongst the House, as well as an important belief in resilience and persistence, is what we pride ourselves on – not only in the competitions but also amongst the School’s life as a whole. It was these core values of team building and full participation which assisted us on our venture to

Another example of team building was the introduction of the Jones House Jamborees. These consisted of groups of approximately 10-15, made up of about three to five students from each of Years 10, 11 and 12, led by a chosen Year 12 Leader. The rationale of the Jones Jamboree was to further enhance House unity by creating vertically arranged sub-families within the over-arching family of the House.

It was hoped to create an easier transition into the House system for the new-to-Frogmore-Campus Year 10 students and to build stronger relationships across all year levels.

The initiative involved numerous activities that included the Amazing Race, the Mandarin Speaking competition, and the inaugural House Footy Tipping competition.

Congratulations to ‘elder Jaguar’ Gabrielle Burton, who led her team ‘Gags for Jags’ to victory in this inaugural event. Congratulations also go to Gab Burton on winning the David Horton Medal – an award presented to the Year 12 Jones House student who has ‘contributed the most’ to Jones House in 2016 – as judged by her Year 12 peers. The House Captain and School Head Prefect are ineligible for this Award.

This year brought many highlights and fond memories for the House, from the “it’s not a funeral” Happy

Birthdays led by Mr Payne, to Whacky Wednesday and Casual Fridays Roll Calls, to singing, sometimes raucously and loudly, numerous House chants on House competition days. The invaluable help and tireless support of the two Vice House Captains, Ben Charnley and Jesse Reed, is acknowledged and much appreciated. They both stepped in whenever required to help run the House on a daily basis and their time and effort in running the House Footy Tipping competition was particularly noteworthy. Thanks also go to all the Jones House Mentors – Mr Barber and Ms Mancini (Year 12), Mr Wilton and Ms Fuerst (Year 11) and Mrs Farquharson and Mr Horler (Year 10).

Their hard work and commitment during the Monday Mentor period and during Thursday Mentor Roll Calls were greatly appreciated. Their efforts in covering Mr Payne’s absence on his Long Service Leave was also very much appreciated.

Finally a big thank you goes to our Jones House Coordinator, Mr Payne.

The influence he had on the House was huge and did not go unnoticed. A lot of time and effort goes into coordinating the day-to-day activities of the House, and, on behalf of the House, I would like to acknowledge this and thank him for all his hard work and support.

Finally, good luck and best wishes to Harry Spencer on his Captaincy of the House in 2017. I’m sure he and all the Jones Jaguars will take the House to even greater heights next year and, hopefully, win the House Competition for a third year running.

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GO JAGUARS! James Davidson Jones House Captain 2016

Pamela Bardis

Jordan Baxter

Billy Bromidis

Madelyn Brooks

Max Bull

James Campbell

Dylan Field

Troy Flavell

Emily Hill

Matthew Kerr

Markos Koulouris

Corey Lawton

Georgia Rowan

Arabella Scanlon

Benjamin Sheridan

Luke Shi

Alex Siedle

Meg Siedle

Bella Svojtka

Katherine Tsihlakis

Haoran Wang

Xuhong Yan

Yulin Ying

Zhiming Zhang

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Year 11

Sophie Appel

Alexandra Boys

Makenzie Boys

Devlin Brereton

Leina Cato

Caitriona Erskine

Samuel Hutcheon

Anna Mallows-Zejak

Pieran Pachiyannis

Max Rothberg

Harrison Scopel

Nicholas Sheppard

Tom Siedle

Harrison Spencer

Kris Stober-Taing

Callum Strack

Xichen Sun

Michael Todd

Yaohui Wang

Year 12

Amelia Brooks

Matthew Grigoriou

Alexander Shepherd

Gabrielle Burton

Charlotte Hamilton

Benjamin Thompson

Ben Charnley

Chengzhi He

Jacqueline Wang

Keling Chen

Ellen Liu

Felicity Warren

James Davidson

Lucy Mangion

Junlin Yan

Wesley Flavell

James Mullan

Adrian Payne

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Linzhi Fu

Andrew Persic

Liam Grant

Jesse Reed

To be a member of Lionel Large House is to live the School Values. In 2016, our House Captain, Marc Shermon led the way, providing strong and supportive leadership, and was ably supported by the ever-popular Vice-Captain, Teaghan Avery. It was wonderful to witness students bonding within their House and strengthening relationships. No doubt, this was driven by the excellent attitudes of the Lionel Large Year 12 cohort, that has grown together over time to form an incredible sense of service and respect, facilitated by Ms Sylvia Ponnusamy and Ms Siew Pyng Lim, their wonderful Mentors. It was also great to witness the 2016 Year 11 cohort through the support of Mr Hamish Yule and Mrs Ursula ErdelyiGötz, evolve into a cohesive and caring group. And, as they become more comfortable and confident within the House system, I look forward to the Year 10 (2016) group, through the direction of Ms Emma Heine and Mr Gavin Cornish, emerge into House Leaders, driving high standards within the House.

Our results in the House Competition did not reflect the nature of our efforts, with many individuals and teams producing thrilling performances. Every member of the House participated in the different sports and activities and demonstrated respect and endeavour throughout.

Our Boys’ Indoor Cricket team competed with great spirit and discipline and finished an unlucky fourth as part of the Summer Sport competition. The Lionel Large Badminton team performed admirably. The Swimming results for the House were disappointing, but it was the individual performances of Jessica Balleggi and Emily Bresnehan

that stood out. Both of these girls won their age group competitions displaying skill, endeavour and discipline, and are to be congratulated on their fine efforts.

The stand-out performance of the year, however, was the Boys’ House Soccer team that placed first for the second consecutive year. Their passion and endeavour were outstanding as they managed to concede only one goal in five games. Special mention goes to the Year 12 spine of the team who have been together throughout this successful period for House Soccer.

The House Athletics was a fantastic day for the whole House (from Years 5 to 12) to come together and demonstrate their colour and passion whilst supporting their peers along the race track. A special mention must go to Dhruv Rodrigues Chico for his phenomenal performance winning his four events, whilst displaying humility and care by encouraging young members to perform at their best. Dhruv’s passion for the House was echoed through the loud and emotional cheering from all members of the House which was a personal highlight for many. This spirit continued throughout the year, leading to a very close second in the House Spirit Cup. A goal for Lionel Large in 2017 is to win the House Spirit Cup. The Music Competition held in Term 2 produced our best result in the House Competition. This was in no small part due to the hard work, dedication and leadership of the McIntyre twins.

Robert performed an extraordinarily difficult piece on the flute in the individual competition, while Lucinda organised students across three different year levels to produce a wonderful group piece.

Another great performance came about in the Oratory and Debating, where Emily Giddens, Gail D’Souza and Robert McIntyre won the Rod Hardy Award for Year 12 Debating. The Cross Country was held on a beautiful afternoon at Braeside Park where every member of the House represented Lionel Large with pride, with Harry Smyth demonstrating his athletic abilities by winning the Year 11 Boys’ competition.

Respect and recognition must go to the four Lionel Large elected Prefects of 2016; Gail D’Souza, Emily Fiddes, Lucinda McIntyre and Robert McIntyre.

All have represented the School Values to the highest levels and have involved themselves in cocurricular activities over their time at Mentone Grammar.

They have always displayed true leadership and are worthy recipients of this prized honour.

A late highlight of the year was undoubtedly the House Service and Dinner. Fr Bob Maguire was the guest speaker and he amused and entertained with his own special take on the world. It was a great night to celebrate the efforts of our Year 12 students and send them off with a flourish after years of service to the School. We wish them well in their future pursuits.

With a new set of leaders in Year 12, and the next cohort coming through from Year 9, 2017 promises to be an exciting year for the Lionel Large Lions.

Go Lions.

Craig Best Lionel Large House Coordinator Marc Shermon Lionel Large House Captain 2016

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Year 11

Joel Amartey

Benjamin Awad

Jessica Balleggi

Patrick Bankin

Brooke Carson

Jason Chen

Annabelle Cosgrove

Taneesha Crowe

Yinchun Fan

Joshua Furneaux

Alexander Harris

Yawen Li

Oisin MacRedmond

Lola Oswald

Mitchell Scott

Harrison Smyth

Charlotte Sutton

Daniel Vise

Ben Xu

Shane Zahra

Teaghan Avery

William Avery

Joanne Donaldson

Gail D’Souza

Drew Evans

Emily Fiddes

Emily Giddens

Amy Gowan

Dooyeon Lee

Xinyi Liu

Lucinda McIntyre

Robert McIntyre

Aman Prasad

Dhruv Rodrigues Chico

Marc Shermon

Bryn Walker

Jacob Watson

Wujie Xu

Dean Zaharopoulos

Shengjun Zhang

Craig Best

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Year 10

Matthew Borys

Lucy Bowman

Emily Bresnehan

Harrison Bridge

Natalie Clucas

Emma Coubard

Kate Derham

Zhihang Han

Lachlan Howe

Thomas Jones

Andrew Kennedy

Jiyeon Lee

George Litsios

Jude Lowe

Patrick Myles

Isabella Parker

Adam Pitt

Aiden Renshaw

Peronel Taylor

Konstantinos Tsaousis Shihan Zeng

Yuchen Du

Conor Murray

Ari Zigouras

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Wow, what a year to be in Were!

This year in Were House, our theme was ‘We’re Family’. Our goal for 2016 was to develop as a group, a family, not only in the House competition, but within the House itself.

To facilitate the theme, Mrs Matthew, Finlay Dodson (our Vice Captain) and I devised an intra-House competition, which comprised seven different families, each with their own Family name, colour and emblem. Each group was assigned a Family Leader; a year 12 representative who was in charge of their own and a staff mentor. The rest of the family consisted of a mix of year 12s, 11s and 10s.

The House families were as follows: Red Bandits – led by Sam Callahan and supported by Mrs Matthew.

Ohana – led by Kirra Pemberton and supported by Michele Gill.

Ubuntu – led by Finlay Dodson and supported by Chris Te Lindert.

Woots of Wisdom – led by Harrison Edwards and supported by Kim Wootton.

Adam’s Family – led by Adam Pratt and supported by James Farquharson.

E-Lemonators – led by Bridgette Kelsey and supported by Anthony Bingham.

Great Ja – led by Jessica Paterson and supported by Trevor Stevens.

We aimed to bring each year level closer together and promote friendships between people who did not normally converse. The family leaders were there to support their family, under the guidance of their mentor. The families also underpinned our roll call and mentor program. Throughout the year the families took part in discussions, fun activities including general sports such as Volleyball and Basketball, Wednesday morning quizzes, The Amazing Race and challenges such as doing push-ups, solving puzzles or seeing who could eat the most chocolate in the shortest amount of time. Every activity provided a fun break from the stresses of class work and brought us closer as a cohort. It quickly became obvious that, no matter what challenge was thrown at them, Ohana was determined to win. Kirra proudly accepted the title of first place for her family, with E-Lemonators coming in second followed closely by Woots of Wisdom.

The family competition also sparked a new energy within the House.

Although we were unable to finish First in the House competition this year, we succeeded in bringing home the 2016 Spirit Cup; an accomplishment awarded to the House that demonstrated the most spirit and enthusiasm at House events.

We were honoured as a House to receive the Cup, which could be attributed to the

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consistent determination, passion and perseverance of Were House.

I am thankful to have been given the opportunity to lead and be a part of such an amazing group of people this year, and I cannot thank them enough for being so passionate and enthusiastic about whatever challenge was brought to the table. Our House Spirit Cup could not have been attained without the leadership of the Year 12s, plus the continued support and motivation provided by Finlay Dodson and Mrs Matthew. I am especially thankful to Mrs Matthew, the most kind, caring and considerate person in the House.

Her efforts within the House over the past six years are beyond comparison.

She will be taking on a new role in the school next year as Year 7 Coordinator, but will remain at the heart of Were forever. I would also like to thank the mentors for their continued support and energy, it helped to make this year special. Finally, thanks to Finlay Dodson for his constant enthusiasm and we all wish Stephanie Wilson well as she takes over leadership of Were House for 2017.

Year 10

Alison Ahern

Sean Butler

Sarah Caley

Daisy Causer

Ashley Dandoulis

Quayd Duffin

Minghui Fan

David Fogarty

Beau Glennon

Scout Glennon

Grace Goodman

Thomas Goodman

Jasper Gordon

Lochlan Hennig

Luke Huang

Josh Johansson

James Siadis

Theodore Theodoropoulos

Emma Vear

Isabelle Verrills

Henry Wang

Danyi Wei

Guy Witherow

Sam Callahan Were House Captain 2016

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Year 11

Alexander Bardoel

Mackenzie Bascombe

Annabel Best

Jingxuan Cheng

Jack Feng

Jemima Gordon

Paul Holland

Joshua Jaden

Kristi Lenton

Daniel Liacos

Qiqi Liao

Diah Marsh

Harrison McFarlane

Edward Newman

Jonas Schulze

Sahishnu Siva Ram

Brannan Smith

Stephanie Wilson

Tom Zallmann

Sean Callaghan

Samuel Callahan

Riley Causer

Finlay Dodson

Harrison Edwards

Matthew Hennig

William Howroyd

Year 12

Lachlan Brown

Bridgette Kelsey

Kirra Pemberton

Xuanming Liang

Tessa Petrie

Nanton Magee

Adam Pratt

Kate Meehan

Thomas Vear

Barclay Miller

Haili Wang

James Miller

Zhao Zhang

Zoe O’Neill-Pugh

Terry Matthew

HOUSE COORDINATOR

Jessica Paterson

The vibe in 2016 in the White House community has been positive with the White House Wolves celebrating another very successful year – second in the House Championship! This was possible through myriad arenas encompassing Academic, Sporting, Music, Community Service and Cadets. Our Year 10 students transitioned seamlessly into the Wolf Pack and were welcomed by the Year 11 students, Year 12 students and White House mentors. New students to join us in Frogmore included in Year 10: Lucy Burgess, Lily Horne, Zhehan Ping, Lyu Pinpin and Pengju Song. In Semester 2 we also welcomed Jericho (Heng) Liang and Zuxi Yang. In Year 11 a very talented Songyi (Eric) Li commenced at the beginning of the year settling into his ‘house away from home’. We also welcomed new to the house team, mentors for Year 10 – Ms Nadia Janetzki and Mr Rohan Murphy whilst retaining many of our Mentors from last year, Mrs Bernadette McGill, Mr Aaron Richard, Mrs Natalie Morgenstern, Madame Tour and Mr Andrew Hayes.

House spirit continued to be a motivator for the White House pack in the House competitions. During Semester 1 it was heartening to see students encouraging each other to do their best and get involved, especially in the House Swimming and House Athletics Competitions. Trivia quizzes, Vertical Mixing, ‘Sporting Bonanza’ Games in the Gym – facilitated by Mr Andrew Hayes (Year 12 Mentor) and Mr Rohan Murphy (Year 10 Mentor) were always a pleasure to see the White House family compete, laugh and enjoy each other’s company. Special lunches and valued time with the mentors and House Coordinators provided ample opportunities for everyone in White House to be united, connected and to feel valued as a White House family member.

Our Year 12s provided our younger members with excellent leadership.

The Year 12s, ably led by our House Captain, Luke D’Alessandro, displayed much endeavour as they worked consistently throughout the academic year to reach their aspirations and

VCE goals. We take this opportunity to wish them well and thank them for the manner in which they have carried themselves during their senior years in Frogmore. All the best for your journey after Mentone Grammar as you prepare for the next chapter in your life.

We would also like to acknowledge the work of our Mentors who have enabled us to be a strong and united House.

Our thanks go to the following White House mentors of 2016: Year 12 – A ndrew Hayes Natalie Morgenstern Year 11 – B ernadette McGill Aaron Richard Odrey Tour Year 10 – N adia Janetzki Rohan Murphy The vibe will continue to be strong in 2017 – White House Wolves – Hawooo!!!!!!!

Ms Belinda McNeil and Mrs Hanni Alston White House Coordinators

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Year 11

Jack Athanas

Jack Bunting

Patrick Burford

Madison Capsalis

Victor Ding

Samuel Hoggett

Songyi Li

Zoe Maggio

Corbin McCullough

Euan McTaggart

Jack Milligan

Joshua Nung

Adele Oyarzun

Massey Parker

Sam Ralph

Johanna Sawford

Not pictured: Zhihan Tan

Aidan Taylor

Ying Zhou

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Year 10

Alexander Aridas

Ruby Athanas

Mina Attia

Lucy Burgess

Madison Daley

Brandon Demura

Charlotte Fryer

Angus Goodwin

Aleisha Bernamoff

Conor Beveridge

Haoluan Chen

Luke D’Alessandro

Michael Demura

Lachlan England

Samuel Lucas

Marcus Marinelli

Chloe McLennan

Scott Moore

Zachary Murphy

Jackson Palmer

Georgina Phillips

Stephanie Sanderson

Piermon Schwarz

Louise Solomonides

Not pictured: Evan Bibby Fanglei Li

Ella Hassan

Callum Holland

Lily Horne

Lotus Jeffs

Heng Liang

Pinpin Lyu

Emma Maggio

Tyler Milburn

Nicholas Milledge

Nicole Moore

Rudy Porter

Cameron Rowbury

Imogen Schwarz

Sam Song

David Xu

Zuxi Yang

Not pictured: Zhehan Ping

Georgia Tarlinton

Renee Verginis

Belinda McNeil

HOUSE COORDINATOR

Hanni Alston

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ANDERSON

DEIGHTON

DRINAN

FINLAY ANDERSON

JONES

LIONEL LARGE

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8

4

7

6

1

5

3

SWIMMING/ BADMINTON

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5.5

7

2

3

1

4

5.5

MUSIC

7

2

3

6

8

5

4

1

ATHLETICS

3

6

8

5

4

1

1

5

ACADEMIC

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6

7

4

8

2

1

5

WINTER SPORT

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6

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5

8

ORATORY AND DEBATING

3

8

2

5

4

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7

6

CROSS COUNTRY

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6

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5

8

3

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7

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38.5

34

40

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18

31

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hey all performed superbly and astounded their audiences with sophistication well beyond their years.

In May, it was our privilege to stage our first in a series of Cut Opera productions for the School. Our intention was to provide our very talented senior students with the opportunity to explore the unique performance challenges that come with ‘sung drama’, opera. We chose Handel’s famous, Orlando, the story of one man’s descent into madness and back. With twists of magic and mythology, it is the story of a love triangle fraught with passion, valour and grief and, most importantly, what it means to be human.

Weaving both Japanese inspired costumes and the sensory elements of the seasons into the aesthetics, we created raked, circular staging that

worked beautifully to elevate the actors above and around the orchestra, pitted in the centre of the action. This created a very intimate connection for the singers, musicians and audience alike.

Technical projections and evocative lighting completed a simple but dramatic space where the real star of the show, the beautiful score and the wonderful singing, ensured a spectacular event for our seven performers and chamber orchestra of 14 musicians. They all performed superbly and astounded their audiences with sophistication well beyond their years.

We are all immensely proud of our talented Mentone Grammar students

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A Night at the Opera!

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who keep meeting the bar as we raise it – their passion, commitment and joy for theatre is truly amazing.

My sincere thanks to our staff and students who supported the production with musical, technical and artistic assistance beyond the stage.

Lastly, a big thank you to Musical Director Gavin Cornish whose passion for opera has led to this wonderful opportunity being created for Mentone Grammar. The standard witnessed on stage is testament to his musical brilliance.

Louise Daly Director

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Once again in 2016, Senior House Music was an event where all the talent, most familiar and some on debut, remind us why we are such a noted Performing Arts School. It is a show that always offers a compelling mix of brilliant confidence alongside quiet nerves as newcomers join established musicians to do their bit for their House. That’s what makes it such a wonderful celebration of onein-all-in House spirit.

All Houses presented a soloist and an ensemble piece to a panel of music experts. All eight immensely talented soloists: Nick Sheppard, Jeffrey Fong, Bridgette Kelsey, Aliesha Bernamoff, James Pearman, Elizabeth Algeri,

Luc van Vliet and Robert McIntyre impressed their peers and won new fans with stunning performances. The eight ensembles were a joyful mix of high energy and musical talent that produced a mix of fun, entertaining mash ups and remixes. The audience and judges loved them all. Like all House events, there has to be a winning House. Congratulations to the talented Jones House on their deserving win, just managing to overcome the very talented Anderson House.

Thank you to Performing Arts Captains Emily Keogh and James Pearman for performing and hosting the event and to all who entertained us on the day.

Performing Arts Judging Panel

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verall, it was a celebration of Dance achievements and highlights, with all performers combining as one in a finale filled with jazz hands and smiles.

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Our Dance Spectacular!

T Our 2016 Dance Performance Evening with a Star Wars twist took place on Wednesday 4 May. This evening highlighted how the Dance curriculum at Mentone Grammar has evolved over the past few years.

Dance is now part of the curriculum at Years 5, 6 and 8 and is offered as an Elective in Year 9, all building towards our VCE Dance studies. It is evident from the outstanding performances that the coursework is laying strong foundations for our cocurricular performance productions across all campuses.

On the night the entire cast joined together in celebrating the Senior Dance Ensembles recent achievements at the Crown International Dancing Championships, holding the trophies high with pride. Our Senior Dance Ensemble students followed this with their breathtaking lyrical performance that gained them 3rd place at the competition.

Throughout the evening we celebrated the achievements of some of our younger dancers: Taya Brooks who

had been recently accepted into the International Dance Organisation National Team that competed in Korea against other nations in July, as well as Scarlett Trudgen Frances and Stephanie Warmuz who were selected to attend the Dance Immersive Program in Los Angeles in June.

When the Junior Dance Ensemble took to the floor with excitement and precision, it was clear that the peer mentoring of our younger dancers

by Frogmore student Peronel Taylor and Greenways students Helena Papasimeon and Alex Richards has great benefit. These cross-campus relations were also evident in our Intermediate Dance Ensemble, Senior Dance Ensemble and a duo performed

by Charles Dashwood in Year 7 and Keegan Brooks in Year 11. This culture, where students across year levels and campuses come together to celebrate their passion and learn from each other truly encompasses what makes Dance at Mentone Grammar so special.

This night marked the end of a journey for three of our Year 12 students,

Lucy Mangion, Renee Verginis and Emily Keogh. Lucy performed her VCE Technique Solo, a dance that gained her selection in Top Class, as a high achiever in the State in VCE Dance 2015. Her performance showed strength, flexibility and grace. Emily performed her VCE Technique Solo, which she has been working on in class over Terms 1 and 2, showing great control and stamina. Renee performed a lyrical solo, which showed beautiful alignment and expression.

On the evening all three dancers were recognised for their mentoring, role modelling and devotion to the Dance Program at Mentone Grammar.

Overall, it was a celebration of Dance achievements and highlights, with all performers combining as one in a finale filled with jazz hands and smiles.

I just know that the friendships and memories made through performance will last as long as our students’ love of dance.

Vanessa Moore Mentone Grammar Dance

his culture, where students across year levels and campuses come together to celebrate their passion and learn from each other truly encompasses what makes Dance at Mentone Grammar so special.

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Winter Concert With 400 years since his passing, the Bard contemplates the power and ultimate beauty of music within his great work, The Tempest. The Winter Concert, held for the last time in the Bayview Gymnasium did indeed experience an opening of the clouds both figuratively and literally; musical riches flowed whilst the rain fell.

Froggers jazz band, recently returned from the Generations in Jazz festival and competition, opened the Concert with two emblematic big band pieces that demonstrate their growing strength and confidence in performance. The traditional spiritual Swing Low Sweet Chariot featured the silvery solo tones of Tom Siedle on trumpet, followed by Sam’s Boogie in a lively mid-20th Century dance style.

Our smaller music ensembles continue to grow in popularity, with five included in this year’s Concert. The Frogmore Trio, featuring Eliza Harvey, Robert McIntyre and Xinyi Liu performed Liebertango with the urgency and rhythmic style that characterises the modern Astor Piazzolla Tango. Astor Piazzolla, reimagined the Argentinian Tango during his lifetime and produced many works that continue to be played across the world. Supersax, performed a medley of well known

1960s spy movie themes, the Brass Ensemble played a Rondeau by the famous English Baroque composer Purcell. The Flute Ensemble played an Allegro by the oft’ underrated composer Anon. Bridgette Kelsey and Becca Mendel performed Valerie, the Amy Winehouse version. The School’s contemporary string group, Vibe, joined forces with a rock ensemble to perform an arrangement of the 1980s classic The Final Countdown. Although not a small ensemble, The Wind Chamber Ensemble performed a sonorous arrangement of the first movement from Schubert’s Symphony 5.

From our recent performances of the opera Orlando, three leading characters performed by Bridgette Kelsey, Eliza Harvey and Aleisha Bernamoff were back by popular demand and revisited the sublime Consolati o bella. Superb.

The Cat’s Meow jazz singers also performed at the Generations in Jazz festival, with inspiring results. Their performances of This Old Man and Fascinating Rhythm, set a new high standard in vocal performance. Luke Shi should also be commended for his fine accompaniment of the singers both at Mt Gambier and at the Winter Concert.

The Senior Vocal Ensemble performed a superb a cappella arrangement of Under Pressure, by David Bowie, Freddie Mercury et al. Of special note were the various original melodic and rhythmic components effortlessly transformed into vocal parts within the ensemble. Accompanied by a soulful band with a brass section, the ensemble finished with a medley of well-known songs by the Jacksons.

This year, our solo performers were all Year 12 students. Eliza Harvey reprised Vorrei Poterti Amar; her aria from Orlando. Bridgette Kelsey performed The Ships of Arcady by Michael Head, a VCE performance item. James Pearman performed an arrangement of Space Oddity by David Bowie, accompanied by the Senior Orchestra; which then performed Jupiter from Gustav Holst’s evocative Orchestral Suite, The Planets, in which each movement is named after a planet in our solar system. The concert closed with the highly percussive and decidedly Celtic Song of the Dragon Born from the video game Skyrim by Jeremy Soule.

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heatre is a place where every race, creed, sexuality and gender is equal, is embraced and is loved.

JAMES CORDEN

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Legally FUN #yesss #omg #DeltaNu #blondeisbest Whoever said tangerine is the new pink is seriously disturbed.

This year, 37 of Mentone Grammar’s most senior Performing Arts students and two furry professionals took to the stage for the dizzyingly energetic production of Legally Blonde. Together with a truly amazing production team, the cast and crew collaborated for seven months to bring the hit show to life on stage, for the final time at the Drum Theatre in Dandenong.

The extremely talented cast worked tirelessly with a dedicated group of choreographers, directors, musical directors, designers and vocal coaches to get ‘whipped into shape’ for roles that required skipping and singing simultaneously, dancing and leaping in heels, cheerleading,

dog training, sales assisting, golf buggy driving, violin playing, backflipping, American accent nailing and some very serious wig wearing.

Some students played up to six different characters, seamlessly altering accents and outfits from scene to scene while others, notably the challenging role of Elle Woods, required Anna Mallows-Zejak to be on stage for almost every musical number over the entire two hours, maintaining dialogue even when in the wings for quick changes.

As the Director of this year’s production, I could not be more proud of the bubbly, enthusiastic and committed cast of gorgeously gifted and supportive students who continued to encourage, motivate, congratulate, and reassure each other throughout the production process, despite every challenge that comes with producing a high calibre show.

‘Snaps everyone’, you have been amazing to work with and the success of the show is credit to your passion and work ethic. Congratulations Blondies!

So what did the audience and cast have to say?

‘Hi Miss Holly, Legally Blonde was incredible! The actress who played Elle was so inspiring! I hope I can be just like her some day.’

‘What a wonderful performance and what great student talent we have on display, actively developed by our committed staff! Well done.’

‘Thank you so much for the past six months, it has been the most amazing experience and I am so, so sad that it is over. This team has been

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‘Doing Legally Blonde is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have made so many new friends and I have had the best time of my life in the week just gone. I now regret not doing past productions!

I would just like to thank you for all of your support and for pushing me out of my comfort zone! I will never forget Legally Blonde!

I can’t thank you enough for the wide variety of challenges you presented to me. The last 6-7 months have been some of the most enjoyable and I can’t believe it’s over!

The story of Legally Blonde is based on the novel and film of the same name, with music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin and the book by Heather Hach. It tells the story of Elle Woods, President of Delta Nu sorority who enrols at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III. In order to succeed Elle must defy simplistic expectations of what it means to be ‘blonde’ and prove that what you see is not always what you get.

While on one hand, characters in Legally Blonde were presented archetypally; pink and fun, or dull and driven, on the other, we as the audience experienced the vibrancy that comes with breaking down these barriers and finding originality beyond the surface of each individual. We were asked to dispose of judgement based on stale and old-fashioned perceptions of how things ‘should

be’ and instead embrace diversity, uniqueness and aspiration against all odds.

Mentone Grammar’s 2016 production aimed to show that life is indeed more complex than a series of twodimensional stereotypes, through the process of theatre making.

I dedicate this production to all the women who suffer indignities every day by being judged on surface value over substance. Thank you to the amazing group of young men and women who supported my vision for this show and helped make it happen – you have made me so very proud – ‘who run the world?’ #omggirls Holly Loughran Director

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so amazingly supportive and patient with me, I couldn’t ask for a better family to help me get back into doing the things that I love.’

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he music was energetic and bluesy; the mocktail bar busy and colourful and the dance floor full and explosive.

Once again, the Jazz Cabaret reminded us just how much we all love jazz at Mentone Grammar.

For the last six years our jazz musicians have created their own night, solely devoted to jazz and its icons. It is now a showcase fixture on the Performing Arts calendar.

Following another successful trip to Generations in Jazz in Mt Gambier, the Greenways Campus was transformed into a glittering cabaret venue with festoon lights, white table cloths and flickering candles. Over one hundred guests enjoyed the sounds, a Blues Brothers vibe and dance floor. They were entertained by a full big band, Froggers, and myriad

singers including the Cat’s Meow jazz ensemble, all dressed in authentic 70s Blues Brothers style; suits, fedoras and sunglasses.

The music was energetic and bluesy; the mocktail bar busy and colourful and the dance floor full and explosive.

Thank you to all our jazz musicians and singers for spreading the infectious joy of jazz. We particularly thank our Year 12 performers who have been an influential part of establishing our talented jazz ensembles and making this event their own over the past six years.

Natalie Morgenstern Mentone Grammar Jazz

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Spring Concert Froggers opened the 2016 Spring Concert, the final Senior Concert of this year’s calendar with their characteristic style and vigour. On this occasion performing the theme from Hawaii 5-0 and the new swing styled Zuit Suit Riot. This leading school ensemble comprises a group of highly committed and experienced performers from across several campus’. Building on their success at the Generations in Jazz festival early this year, Froggers, equipped with dark sunglasses, black suits and white socks also presented an evening of Blues Brothers inspired music at the annual Jazz Cabaret in July.

The Senior Vocal Ensemble followed with an a cappella, voices only, arrangement of the unofficial national anthem of Australia, You’re the Voice.

The iconic song released in 1987 by John Farnham, remains the most popular and best selling songs of his career. The Ensemble performed this unconventional though beautiful version with skill and assurance, featuring all aspects of the choir.

On piano, Iris Liu performed The Hunting Song by Felix Mendelssohn, the much appreciated German composer, piano soloist and conductor of the early European Romantic period. Mendelssohn was a contemporary of progressive composers Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and Hector Berlioz but was known to be a little less adventurous in his musical tastes. However, his piece The Hunting Song features highly effective picturesque musical images, replete with tumbling notes reminiscent of galloping horses and bucolic hunting horn calls.

Bridgette Kelsey’s arresting performance of Music For a While by Henry Purcell, cast a spell across the audience. Her supernal voice, with the purest of tone, resonated throughout the space creating an exquisite atmosphere.

The ever popular Supersax, a saxophone quartet that explores various genres of music from classical through to jazz, presented an early

taste of Christmas cheer with The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, a composer of the Late European Romantic period.

The Orlando Orchestra provided the musical accompaniment for Mentone’s first opera production Orlando by George Handel. The Orchestra performed a suite of instrumental pieces taken from the production, comprising the Overture, Gigue, Sinfonia for the Heavenly Potion and the Act 3 Sinfonia.

The Frogmore Trio, formed in 2011, performed the Third Movement of Bach’s Trio Sonata BWV 1038. Eliza Harvey, Robert McIntyre and Iris Liu, all Year 12 students, will leave a legacy of fine trio performances and three chairs of excellence to be filled.

Eliza Harvey is a distinguished leader and a dedicated musician. Following the trio performance she rested her violin and stepped forward to sing An Chloe by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

In relation to voice matters, tone may indeed be everything. Strong in the

higher register and dark in the lower, Eliza gave a beautiful and commanding performance of Mozart’s famous Aria The Senior Brass Ensemble performed War by the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

The Chicago based Hypnotic Brass Ensemble comprises 8 sons of trumpeter Phil Cohran, famous for his work with the iconoclastic Sun Ra Arkestra, and the mystical Space Harp.

However, some may have recognised the piece War from the recent film, The Hunger Games.

equal measure. The Flute Ensemble performed Faded by Alan Walker and Louise Solomonides performed Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps by Osvald Farres with certainty, and a beautiful sound.

Vibe, the senior string ensemble, performed Adagio. Often attributed to Baroque Composer Tomaso Albinoni, but written by Albinoni’s biographer Remo Giazotto, this emotive and reflective work is widely used in films, notably in the 1981 Movie “Gallipoli” directed by Peter Weir.

The Cat’s Meow, a group of dedicated and high achieving singers from years 9 to 12, also veterans of the Mount Gambier Generations in Jazz Festival, performed an a cappella version of the heart wrenching Gospel standard Wayfaring Stranger arranged by Melbourne musician, Tracey Miller.

Solo performances at the Spring Concert are usually programed for Year 12 and VCE music students.

Robert McIntyre, on flute, played the exotic Bali Moods by Anne Boyd followed by Luc Van Vliet on saxophone with Café 1930 by Astor Piazzolla.

Callum Matthew and Shinji Hibino performed the second work by Bach in this year’s Spring Concert program. The Double Violin Concerto movement 1 is a popular concert item and features both soloists in

With an easy segue, the Chamber Wind Ensemble assembled on stage.

Comprised of senior orchestra members, the group performed the charming Minuet 1 and 2 by Seixas.

As expected, Kamikaze Crash Helmets blitzed the stage with a performance of the Beatles classic, Come Together.

Whilst the song featured blistering guitar solos and a tidy arrangement, Ben Landgraf, Sean Butler and Ben Lofthouse demonstrated how a fine rock rhythm section can unite in performance, while Nick Sheppard successfully navigated the absurdist lyrical content with style and energy.

The final item of the Spring Concert was provided by the Senior Orchestra.

The performance of the joyous Valse No.2 from Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake, based on Russian folk tales about a Princess magically turned into a swan by an evil sorceress, is a happy farewell to the Bayview Gymnasium (Keith Jones Gymnasium) as the venue for Senior concerts in anticipation of the new and fabulous Creativity Centre.

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A Year of Jazz Mentone Grammar is a thriving hub of jazz activity throughout the year. In the same sense that Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance Man, our Mentone Grammar students are Renaissance Musicians; they can play many styles of music with authority. But, Jazz has a way of stealing centre stage whenever we get together.

Froggers – Big Band Sunsets Festival After a long hot summer break, Froggers was back and our energetic team of seasoned young crooners, presented a one hour show on the Mordialloc Foreshore. Two weeks back into school with only a handful of lunchtime rehearsals under their belt, they were performance-ready! This is how we give back to our community and get the word out on some of the wonderful things happening at Mentone Grammar and the depth of talent of our crazy, hardworking, jazz-loving music students. Featured soloists on the afternoon included: Robert McIntyre (A Nightingale Sang on Berkley Square), Hardy d’Alquen (Love Potion #9), Luc van Vliet (Sway) and Tyler Milburn (Am I Blue).

Thanks to Andrew Persic for tinkling those ivories.

Our vocal Soloists on the day were: Anna Lofthouse (Pennies from Heaven, Sunny Side of the Street), Chloe Stone (Nature Boy), Aleisha Bernamoff (Stormy Weather) and Nick Sheppard (Can’t Take my Eyes off of You).

drive. We had to break open a few loaves of bread. As Jude Lowe said, ‘to feed the pigeons’. Miles Thomas established himself unequivocally as the person who can eat unlimited quantities of bread.

The band and singers were looking more amazing than usual (and that’s saying something). I’m sure the casual audience member would have been thinking that Mentone Grammar must have special standards for dress code.

A standard that goes way beyond ‘tuck your shirt in young man!’ Little did they know that half the band was jumping into a limousine and rushing off to their Year 12 formal straight afterwards!

On opening rehearsal (where everyone’s opinions are shared and rehearsal strategies are developed) Ben Stone offered this pearl of wisdom: ‘Let’s play it faster because when we play it slower everyone hears the mistakes’.

Shoreham Jazz Camp Frogs (Froggers) and Cats (The Cat’s Meow) join a new animal kingdom!

We drove to Shoreham on Friday directly after school. The Greenways Café team had prepared our weekend meals for us. The bus smelled deliciously of Spaghetti Bolognese.

This year we remembered to ask them not to freeze the sauce. Last year it took us at least an hour and a half to thaw it! The downside was that it made us so hungry throughout the

Ryan Buckler lost a bet to Eliza Harvey on which footy team would win the big game. Band and choir members were evenly spaced up and down the steep steps to the beach cheering Ryan on as he ran up and down those steps four times.

Tom Siedle and Austin Hollingsworth led the study momentum by buckling down between rehearsals, noses in books, getting school work done.

Generations in Jazz, Mount Gambier Both Froggers and the Cat’s Meow performed well in their divisions. Tom Siedle blew a ripping solo in, 3 to Get Ready, and Dawei (David) Cao’s gritty tenor sax solo in, Sam’s Boogie,

turned heads. The Cat’s bumped up their ratings substantially from last year. They incorporated some very funny dramatics into their performance with all of them twitching and mildly going nuts in their own individual way to, Fascinating Rhythm.

Also circulating throughout the crowd was a team led by Hardy d’Alquen.

They took selfies with everyone including festival officials and special guest Kaichiro Kitamura, a beat-boxing percussionist from Korea via Japan, with all the right moves.

The Improv Stage should be renamed, ‘The Mentone Grammar Stage of Stardom’. Our students entertained the masses throughout the entire weekend swapping instruments seemingly arbitrarily. What? Didn’t that Austin guy play sax? What’s he doing on guitar? And that Jude dude. What’s he doing playing bass? Even Louise Solomonides, who was not feeling very well (wrapped in scarves and white as a ghost) could not resist belting out a tune. The students from all around Australia (including Tasmania and New Zealand!) waved their arms madly and cheered in full voice; excitable groupies. What a community!

Speaking of Japan, Shinji saved the day by stepping up and being the official page turner for Luke Shi, our Cat’s Meow accompanist, who had a piano chart a million pages long. He enjoyed himself so much that he joined the choir after Mt Gambier!

Ben Lofthouse was our top ambassador. He introduced himself to everyone (there were 5000 students present) and made new friends at every mealtime. With his Mohawk beanie and his infectious, delirious enthusiasm, I could not think of a better mascot.

The Jazz Cabaret

Of course there were monster concerts after monster concerts and insanely amazing music. But a surprise poster boy for jazz emerged throughout the events: Harry the bassist! James Morrison’s son.

Huge, almost Frankenstein tall with his impressive mullet. Every time the roving camera lit upon his face the crowd went wild.

On 27 July, Froggers along with special guests The Cat’s Meow and a slew of solo vocalists took over the Greenways Learning Lounge and delivered a Blues Brothers extravaganza! Festoon lights, white

table cloths, flickering candles, liberally sprinkled glitter, a grand piano and a full big band set the stage for a rollicking night of entertainment.

The dance floor was packed and all performers were dressed in their 70s best. Even some brave members of the audience joined in and dressed up! As always, our Mocktail team served up beautiful liquid creations throughout the night. Our vocal soloists of the night were: Eliza Harvey, Ryan Buckler, Adam Pratt, Nick Sheppard, Anna Lofthouse, Anna Mallows-Zejak, Aleisha Bernamoff, Ben Lofthouse, Louise Solomonides, Emily Keogh, James Pearman, Becca Mendel, Charlotte Bratuskins and Helena Papasimeon.

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Following is an excerpt from the keynote address by the Visual Art Captain Liam Grant.

Art and Design have always been a passion in my life, even from a young age. As a dyslexic, the Visual Arts have provided me with a different avenue to express myself. It has given me the confidence to be able to stand before you here today, to speak in public.

Studying at Mentone Grammar has been crucial in my endeavours as an artist and designer. The last few years at this school have given me opportunities to work in a multitude of media, ranging from traditional processes such as ceramics and painting, to contemporary computer software. Each experience has been invaluable, as it helped refine my skills, my interests and, ultimately, my choice in tertiary studies in the Visual Arts.

This year I studied three VCE folio subjects – Art, Visual Communication Design and Interactive Digital Media. This

was a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with like-minded students and build friendships that will stand the test of time.

The relationships between folio students were strengthened by countless hours spent in the studio space outside of scheduled class time, that included lunch times and after school.

Art, Studio Art, Visual Communication Design, Interactive Digital Media and Wood Technology are subjects that go hand in hand together. They speak a universal visual language and there is a cross-over of ideas between them.

Furthermore, the analysis involved in studying Visual Arts subjects can provide students with a unique way of thinking, which is advantageous across all school subjects.

It is the staff at Mentone Grammar who have helped us realise the effect our

work can have on those around us and they have worked tirelessly to improve the art and design programs at this School, making it, safe to say, a program the entire School can be proud of.

I would also like to thank our parents for all of their support in what has been a very busy year.

So as you wander around the gallery space tonight, please take a moment to appreciate the amount of time, effort and emotion which have gone into the creation of these fantastic works. I hope you are inspired and, perhaps, even challenged. I look forward to seeing you next year in the new Creativity Centre.

Art and Design Exhibition Award Winners 2016 Year 5 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Year 6 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Year 7 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Year 7 Design Award for Technology-Wood Year 7 3D Printing Award Year 8 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Year 9 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Year 9 Digital Storytelling Award for Technology Year 9 Design Award for Technology – Wood Year 10 Paint Brush Award for Art Year 10 Paint Brush Award for Studio – Photography Year 10 Paint Brush Award for VCD Year 10 Design Award for Technology – Wood Year 11 Paint Brush Award for Art Year 11 Paint Brush Award for Studio Arts Year 11 Paint Brush Award for VCD Units 1/2 VCE VET Interactive Digital Media Units 3/4 VCE VET Interactive Digital Media Year 12 Paint Brush Award for Art Year 12 Paint Brush Award for Studio Arts Year 12 Paint Brush Award for VCD Packers’ Prize Principal’s Award for Art Old Mentonians’ Acquisitive Art Award People’s Choice Award

Jessica Leembruggen Maylin Roy Nicholas Layton Aidan Scott Milana Cherney Lauren Malby-Luke Olivia Dickson Lachlan Milburn Nicholas Opie Callum Matthew Matthew Borys Caitlin Baxter Troy Flavell Mackenzie Bascombe Isabelle Koh Ellen Mooney James Bouwmeester Scott Moore Tessa Petrie Brittany Chambers Liam Grant Liam Grant Max Watson Cameron Moorhouse Liam Grant

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COMMUNITY Our Community has enjoyed a busy year of big gatherings and inspiring guests as we celebrated our successes and great performances.

It was standing room only at our many events and we are grateful to our supportive friend-raising Parents and Friends Association, Events Manager Natalie Wilson and to Greg Wilkinson and Fiona Dallas from The Mentonians Association along with all our staff who helped us celebrate the many memorable moments of 2016.

The Mentone Grammar Parents & Friends Association is a highly valued and vital part of our Community. Our aim is to promote and facilitate friendraising events and generate fundraising for projects that have a direct benefit to the School and students.

Mornings to our beautiful Christmas Lunch and everything in between: the Mother’s Day stall, our P&F Shop, Easter raffles, Class Representatives, the P&F aims to make it easier for all families to be connected to this funloving Community.

Our friend raising events have been designed to introduce parents to each other, provide support where needed and promote friendship and goodwill amongst staff and parents within our Community. From Parent Welcome

Once again this year, we raised funds for projects and facilities that benefit the School and its students through our P&F Shop and specific events.

Our major fundraisers were our Community Golf Day and our annual Christmas Lunch. Funds raised by the P&F are redirected back into School projects and in 2016 the P&F funded the installation of five shade sails throughout the Campuses.

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nce again this year, we raised funds for projects and facilities that benefit the School and its students...

We have had another successful year of enthusiastic involvement but this has only been achieved with the dedication, time and humour of our Executive Committee and parent volunteers.

On behalf of the P&F Association we would like to thank all organisations and individuals, parents and staff who have been involved throughout the year; we could not make it work without your valuable contributions.

In particular we would like to thank Natalie Wilson, Events Manager,

for her tireless assistance and to all at Mentone Grammar for their tremendous support in 2016.

We look forward to another year of fun events in 2017!

P&F Committee

With thanks…

P&F Executive Committee 2016 President – Mia Le Fevre Taylor Secretary – Jo Howe Treasurer (Retail) – Karen Kemp Treasurer (Fundraising) – Rowena Thiele Vice President (Events) – Andrea Dyer Vice President (Community Relations) – Julie Ahern Vice President (Retail) – Neeri Widelski Vice President (Merchandise) – Renee Rimanic Dads@MG – Grant Holland Bayview Coordinators – Belinda Gourlay & Ros Carruthers Frogmore/Greenways Coordinator – Christine Davie Newsletter Editor – Andrea Schwarz

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For all of 2016, we have all watched as the landscape shifted and grew and the stunning new Creativity Centre emerged from beyond the colourful hoarding boards. What a sight! It now dominates the northern end of the Frogmore Campus and will open its doors early in 2017.

It is the largest development seen at Mentone Grammar for generations and will transform the School’s performing and visual arts, technology and senior school facilities. It will include a 450 seat theatre; inspiring learning facilities including light-filled purpose designed visual arts studios for painting, sculpture, drawing, digital photography, printmaking and visual communication design; specialist food and materials technology, robotics, animation and 3D labs, a recording studio as part of an extensive new music school, drama and dance studios, passive and active learning zones and courtyards, and a stunning gallery space.

In July, more than 400 members of the Mentone Grammar Community dressed up and headed into the

spectacular Atlantic, Docklands to celebrate our new Creativity Centre.

As part of the fundraising effort, guests were treated to a variety of entertainers including our very talented student performers, funny man Brian Nankervis and the gorgeous Kate Ceberano AM. There was something for everyone!

Some lucky guests also picked up a bargain in the live and silent auctions.

A big thank you and congratulations to all the Mentone Grammar staff and our parent group organisers who worked tirelessly to bring the night together: Margie Read Flavell, Heather Para, Trudy Brooks, Tim Leonard, Kristin McKinnon, Michelle Sfameni, Renee Rimanic, Gavin Cornish, Anne Louise Halliday, Nicki Wragg, Andrew Oxland, Caroline Phillips, Mia Le Fevre Taylor, Christine Davie and Jo Shermon.

A big thank you for the Creativity Centre Ball major sponsor, MercedesBenz Brighton.

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Mentone Grammar was founded in 1923 and, in March, the School came together to celebrate this momentous occasion. Our Founders identified the need for an Independent School in this area which, in those days, was a beach holiday location. A small contingent of loyal locals banded together to create this wonderful school, which is now renowned in educational circles as a contemporary, coeducational School offering high calibre educational and cocurricular programs.

The theme for this year’s Founders’ Day was Sport. Our Sport Captains, Harrison Edwards and Brittany Chambers, presented a slide show and accompanying speech highlighting the journey the School has been on in relation to sport. Sport has been an integral part of Mentone Grammar since its inception and remains, to this

day, one of the important elements of our overall program. The social integration of young people along with the obvious physical health aspects to this program make it an important part of a Mentone Grammar education. At a time when the media are obsessed with discussions about childhood obesity we stand out, as a school population, for being highly active and, generally, very fit. Our Year 9 students, for example, as part of their overall program are required to complete an additional fitness session each timetable cycle. This, like all of the sport programs on offer, not only enhances their fitness but also their academic performance.

On Founders’ Day, to name but a few, we reflected on our former Olympians who have come out of the School like Alex Hillhouse, Robert Frank and David Wilson, footballers like Glenn Nugent,

Chad Liddell and Mitch Brown, former World Champions like sailor, Mark Fisher, and our most recent high achiever, John Peers who represents Australia in the Davis Cup Tennis.

There’s a cricketer who did pretty well named Shane Warne and before him another international representative in Cricket, Dav Whatmore.

Sport is, at this time, in an amazing space. Our Volleyball, Basketball, Cricket, Tennis, Touch Rugby, Swimming, Life Saving and Sailing teams all competed in Finals, which resulted in six separate premierships.

Thanks go to our guests for attending our Founders’ Day presentation and to our two youngest ELC students who cut the Founders’ Day cake: Kennedy Grant and Mandel De Zoysa-Lewis.

Greg Wilkinson Alumni Director

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Community Sports Day Our Sports and Community Day again proved to be an outstanding success. In addition to the 11 different competitions played between Mentonians and current students there were also teams of young student basketballers and netballers. What a great innovation that proved to be as they loved being part of the day and also the medal they received as a keepsake. Hopefully, next year we will be able to add a couple more sports for the juniors. With bands and soloists again a feature and an Animal

Farm and Jumping Castle the event is now really starting to acquire a real community feel. As usual the day of friendly competition was capped off with lunch, this time in the Denyer Courtyard due to the Creativity Centre building works, where results were announced and best players acknowledged. In all, well over 350 attended what was a terrific day; a day that just keeps getting bigger and better every year.

Greg Wilkinson Alumni Director

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espite his circumstances of being born into a war torn Afghanistan, Akram highlighted how he felt so lucky to have a loving family and a meal each night when so many around him did not.

Akram Azimi On the occasion of the Keith Jones Oration in May, our students were privileged to meet with Mr Akram Azimi – 2013 Young Australian of the Year – a refugee of war torn Afghanistan.

Akram’s message centred on how our youth can help to ensure Australia becomes a truly multicultural nation.

In referencing his own upbringing, Akram challenged our students to look at another’s life through their lens; to challenge your own beliefs and cultural expectations and to truly see that what mostly separates us is something which we have no say over; where and when we were born.

Despite his circumstances of being born into a war torn Afghanistan, Akram highlighted how he felt so lucky to have a loving family and a meal each night when so many around him did not.

He showed our students that privilege is not about material possession or status, but the ability to have a choice.

He was lucky that he had a choice and was able to make a life in Australia.

He then used that privilege to focus on his studies to gain the knowledge that, while it enabled him to obtain outstanding marks, has allowed him to influence others to explore what it means to be truly grateful for what you have, which is so profoundly influenced by serving others.

This year we came together on many special occasions; welcomed new guests and created some great memorable moments.

Whilst sharing lunch with students from our Social Service Committee, Akram challenged them to think not only about how we must learn to look at cultural differences through a different lens, but to also consider how we can use our gifts to help others.

Students were encouraged to have conversations with their peers, their teachers and their families about what a truly multicultural society looks like.

As per our School’s Social Service Mission Statement, our aim is to: educate and encourage lifelong empathy and action. We thank Akram for bringing real life perspective to our most fortunate lives.

Cameron Lancaster

Once again The Mentonians Association shared some events with our current families and the wonderful synergy between ‘old and new’ added to our sense of community.

We celebrated our mums, dads and grandparents to thank them for the support they give the School.

Our Community also showed its endearing generosity again in 2016 by supporting all our fundraising projects, big and small. Whether it was for our international connections with developing countries or, closer to home, fundraising for our magnificent Creativity Centre.

Whenever we come together, there is always music. Students love getting up and entertaining the masses and this

year, again, provided some incredible performance highlights both on and off the Campus.

Sport is another great reason to get together and with six premierships this year, there was a lot to celebrate and everyone joined in the party.

Our Mentone Stories series of speakers was a sensational hit this year too, with all three guest speakers: children’s author Mem Fox, international speaker Dan Haesler on Future Proofing your Kids and a two-part seminar with Hugh van Cuylenburg on The Resilience Project, filling the Keith Jones Bayview Gymnasium.

We ended the year by farewelling our Year 12s in style before their final examinations.

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our year.

Enjoy the year in pictures…

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What an amazing Summer Season we have had at Mentone Grammar.

Historically this is the most successful Summer Season that Mentone Grammar has ever had, with six premierships, in Tennis, Swimming, Volleyball and Surf Life Saving.

Additionally, our First Boys’ Basketball, Cricket XI and Girls’ Touch Rugby teams also had a remarkable season, all making it to the AGSV Grand Final matches.

Measure of success at Mentone can certainly be determined by the number

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of premierships, but it is also in the participation, development, and the social and emotional wellbeing of our students.

There is still work to be done, but we are very proud of our students’ achievements this year. Summer success has not just happened in the nine weeks of fixture; it all began many months prior during many hours of preseason training, practice matches and events that have all come together to create the wonderful moments of premierships.

We all found success in the following summer sports:

Badminton With both our Boys and Girls Badminton teams making the leap into the First Division of the AGSV, they knew that every school they competed against was going to provide strong competition. Despite not recording a great deal of wins, our players are to be commended for their enthusiasm to improve and the resilience they showed in what was a tough first year in this division. We know that this year was a great learning curve for all involved and we look forward to establishing ourselves in the competition next year.

Cricket Cricketers require a lot of stamina and focus and our teams showed that throughout the entire season. One of the main highlights was the exceptional sportsmanship and effort all teams showed throughout the season. Our First team had a tough preseason with plenty of training sessions and numerous practice matches. This hard work saw them finish the season on top of the AGSV ladder and playing off in the Grand Final. After a tremendous season our cricketers fell just short of the premiership, after what was a remarkable year all round. Our Intermediate B Blue team also had a fantastic season, finishing undefeated.

Sailing This year’s Sailing team, led by our experienced Years 12s, had a great mix of students that included boys and girls from as young as Year 6 all the way through to Year 12. This has been a great recipe for success to ensure we always have up and coming sailors to continue a strong sailing legacy here at Mentone Grammar. The team had a great lead up to the Victorian Schools Championships and although all students produced a great day of racing on the day of the Final, the team was unable to come away with the silverware.

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Many thanks to Molly Ford and Julian Sasson and their families for the great contribution and support they have given Mentone Grammar Sailing over many years.

it has potential for great things in the near future. A special mention also to the players of our 10C team who finished undefeated.

Softball

With a couple of other AGSV schools dominating in Table Tennis for a number of years, it was always going to be tough season for our students. Despite this, due to strong coaching, determination and hard work, all of our teams did a great job at both trainings and games.

Players found some great form in the back end of the season which holds us in good stead for next season.

Our Softball teams all had a positive year, with not only a number of wins but the students really enjoyed themselves and were competitive week in and week out. Due to the great success of our Second team we will look at putting the girls back into the First Division next year.

Basketball With over 25 individual teams making up our Basketball program, it was a busy, fun and successful season. With many students having the opportunity to move between teams, all students endeavoured to give their all at training and games which was great to see.

Our First team also had great success making the AGSV Grand Final for the second year in a row. Unfortunately, they came up short by 4 points but with only two Year 12s in this team;

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Touch Rugby Touch Rugby is one of the fastest growing girls’ sports in the School and with healthy numbers comes new players with limited experience, in what is not a mainstream sport.

Despite this, all teams performed well and improved throughout the season.

Our First Girls’ team was extremely unlucky with how the draw panned out.

Unfortunately, the last round was called off due to extreme heat and, with no

Finals structure, the girls were unable to defend their 2015 title. They did, however, have a successful day at the Victorian Schoolgirls’ Championships to conclude the season.

Surf Life Saving Champions Surf Life Saving is a relatively new sport at Mentone Grammar. But thanks to the hard work of our highly enthusiastic competitors, we are quickly proving to be the school to beat. This year the students competed in harsh, gusty conditions at Mordialloc beach. Rather than being daunted by this, our students showed their resilience and skill and recorded outstanding results, being crowned champions in the Girls’ and Boys’ competition and, therefore, the overall competition. Congratulations to all.

Tennis – Girls Our teams had an up and down season, resulting in some impressive wins mixed in with some hard fought losses. We will continue building this program so we can establish a place back in the First Division. With a

number of experienced senior players and some talented youth coming through, we are excited to see where this program goes in the near future.

Tennis – Boys Premiers Overall, Boys’ Tennis had an exceptional year, recording the highest percentages of wins over all ages when compared to all other sports at Mentone Grammar. With a couple of teams finishing off the season undefeated, our First team finished on top of the ladder after the last round of AGSV. This First Tennis team has been developed over a number of years and has been led by great coaching and a supportive management panel.

The players put in a lot of hard work and rode the wave of momentum to eventually win the AGSV Premiership.

All those who have contributed to this success are to be commended. Not only did we win the First premiership, the Thirds, 10B/C Blue team and the 9A team all recorded undefeated seasons which is a fantastic effort.

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Swimming Premiers

Our Girls’ Volleyball results are not a true representation of how well the girls played during the season. A number of teams have had some close encounters, only to fall short at the final hurdle to just miss out on taking away the win. Our First girls trained hard both throughout the preseason and during the season, which will hold the team in good stead for the 2017 summer season.

Swimming is somewhat of an institution here at Mentone Grammar.

I am sure the students would agree that swimming can often be a lonely sport. Most often it is just you and the black line on the bottom of the pool. Occasionally, however, there are opportunities to come together as one, to compete as a team. Friday 18 March was one such night that provided this opportunity, and once again, the swimmers proved that all their hard work was worth it. It was a fantastic evening, with both Girls’ and Boys’ teams swimming brilliantly and bringing home both premierships.

Volleyball Premiers This season, Volleyball received a bit of a shake up with new coaches and new players, adding to our already strong list. This proved to be a recipe for success. All of our Volleyball teams had a great season with some really closely fought wins and losses, but none more outstanding than our First Volleyball team. In true Mentone Grammar spirit, the team took out the AGSV Premiership after a superb summer season. Proving our newfound depth in the sport, the Seconds and Thirds Blue team were also undefeated.

Congratulations to all on a truly memorable summer season that brought so much joy to so many.

Please enjoy a selection of Coaches reports from the season.

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Swimming Premierships

The 2016 AGSV Swimming Carnival consolidated Mentone Grammar at the pinnacle of AGSV Swimming: three in a row for boys and for girls.

No one has ever held both Cups for two consecutive years and now we’ve moved the goal further out to three: 2016 was our three-peat.

In all, 55 students represented Mentone Grammar on another incredible night to remember in March.

With the cheer squad in full voice, spectators witnessed every female event result in a ‘top 3’ finish and celebrating nine wins overall. The boys finished ‘top 3’ in 29 of their 39 swims, with 13 wins.

Our Girls’ team finished on 155 points, 12 points clear of our nearest rivals.

The opening six events set the tone for the evening with the team performing beyond expectations. Four of the medley relays collected a first place finish. These girls understand what it means to fight, and that is exactly what

they did. The girls led from start to finish. At the conclusion of the evening, nine School records were broken, with Emily Bresnehan claiming two AGSV records for her 50m Butterfly (28.89s) and 50m Backstroke (30.93s). The girls also competed spectacularly at the Victorian All Schools meet to come away with the Premiership against some very tough competition.

Our Boys’ team finished the night on 290 points, their highest score in five years. Knowing that a number of other schools were making a concentrated effort to challenge for this premiership, our boys prepared for a challenge and backed this up with performance.

The beginning of the night didn’t go as smoothly as anticipated, whilst the boys put up their best efforts, the increase in level of competition created a new, unforeseen challenge. The boys were always in it and the turning point was the individual freestyle events.

From then on the boys showed what it meant to have faith in one another

and the power of a champion team.

The boys broke two School records, the U/15 medley relay, who were a fingernail off an AGSV record and Josh Cooley broke the 50m Butterfly record in a time of 27.17s.

Being a Mentone swimmer requires a massive commitment. Thank you to all the parents who get up so early in the mornings; to the coaches for pushing the swimmers to perform to their best; to the staff who helped in their final year as Mentone Grammar sports coaches, both for this year and for all the previous years of service.

Mostly, my thanks to the swimmers, without you, your passion, drive and persistence there would be no Mentone Grammar Swim Team. You have earned all of the rewards and should be so proud of yourselves and each other; these memories can never be erased. Bring on 2017.

Amanda Barnhoorn TIC Swimming

Captains’ Commentary Max Williams: The opening individual events, where the strengths of each school are on display, are always a great start to the night. The 100s of Josh Cooley, Brannan Smith and Hannah Schmidt resulted in finishes slightly above what we expected and set the three of them up for a very big night. Josh set a new PB, Brannan was reliable as usual and Hannah the youngest in the field by three years, set a new School record.

Lastly, one of our captains stood up to show what can be done through years of hard work. Frazer Kemp’s 200 freestyle was brilliant and he powered to a very respectable second place and a new PB. Boys in front by four; Girls in front by two.

The medley events highlight the depth that each of the schools possess, and we looked okay going in: one sixth place finish, one fifth, three seconds and six first place finishes.

From the introduction of the new Year 7 swimmers to the legacy that is Mentone Grammar Swimming and allowing a few of the Year 12s to go out on a high, we had some great results. Three School records were broken by the U/15 Girls of Emily, Tarn, Bridie and Phoebe, U/15 Boys of Michael, Ben, Spencer and Jack and U/16 Girls of Brianna, Jordan, Lotus and Nat. Nothing beats the moment the tiny Year 7s, or in this case Year 5s, walk out onto the pool deck for the first time. Fingers crossed it ignites a passion for swimming that so many of the older year levels have developed across their time at School. Boys behind by one; Girls in front by seven.

Molly Ford: Breaststroke was next with only one first place finish from Brannan Smith in the 100; it was all about putting the best effort forward. Times for the evening were on par with what was achieved throughout the season.

Thanks to those who swam off minimal

training and in age groups that were not their own. Boys behind by 6 points.

The girls decided that this year our number was the number 3, all girls finished in third position. As we know it doesn’t matter the number, it matters how far behind the rivals are. They did a brilliant job and concluded the breaststroke, four points in front.

Butterfly was our most dominant stroke; we concluded the ‘fly’ events with five wins including Ben Putamorsi, and five in the top three. A highlight was watching our new Year 7 members of Lachlan Bourke and Nicholas Layton win their respective events. Emily Bresnehan set a new AGSV record and Josh Cooley set a new School record. Then Max made it to the end in second, and that’s all that mattered, at least he would never have to swim the 100 fly again. Boys behind by three; Girls in front by six.

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out a secret weapon of a swimmer, who barely swims and can smash out a 50 freestyle. The team did brilliantly with all finishes in the top four. Hannah Schmidt and Emily Bresnehan both achieved School records in their races, with Hannah and Josh Cooley claiming wins. Max Williams again got up to do the individual 100 and he made it look easier than probably he even expected; a solid second place finish.

And this was the moment people in the stands started breathing again.

Boys and Girls both in front by nine.

big names walk into a school swim team somewhere else and we are all done for. The twins, Alec and Declan, Matt who sneaked into the team at the last minute and Lachlan blew everyone away with a massive win.

Stephanie Sanderson: Our backstroke events were always going to be a gamble, with three Year 9 boys covering three different age groups it was a game of statistics, the wrong one in the wrong place could spell disaster. But it worked and the boys gave a valiant effort. They represented themselves brilliantly and collected a significant number of points for the team. Two first place finishes by Emily Bresnehan and Spencer BlainBartle and a new AGSV record to Emily.

Boys and Girls both in front by 10.

Then finally the Open Boys hit the proverbial jackpot, demolishing the competition, a perfect end for the male captains of the swim team and the remaining Year 12 boys… and then Ivanhoe were disqualified.

The Year 7 boys and girls always pose a conundrum; what will the other schools have picked up? One or two

The girls were actually hit with this exact problem from Ivanhoe Grammar, but it didn’t stop them from an incredible second place finish.

The Under 14s both came second; the Under 15 and 16 Boys’ and Girls’ relays won their four events.

School records were set by the Under 15 Girls Tarn, Bridie, Phoebe and Jess and the Under 16 girls Emily, Lotus, Emily and Jordan.

Boys in front by 25 and Girls in front by 12!

Frazer Kemp: The screens around School showed photos of the Captains this year in one

of their earliest years as a member of the Swimming team as well as the slogan of leaving it all in the water. And leaving it in the water was what we did. The boys scored 290 points, their highest score since 2011. The girls scored 155 points. Both teams scored well over 80 per cent of the possible maximum score.

It was a little bit of pressure to continue the winning streak to gain the three-peat this year as the targets on our back keep getting bigger. After a fantastic evening it is great that everyone played their part and made sure all of the talking was done in the water.

Well done to everyone who competed with so much focus and enthusiasm.

You represented yourselves, us as Captains and the School to the highest level.

On behalf of the Captains this year we would like to thank our parents, our coaches, our incredible cheer squad and most importantly each other for all of the support, spirit and effort that was on display throughout our season.

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Tennis Premiers After a couple of years of moderate results, we knew that our 2016 season’s success hinged on all of our top 8-9 players remaining fit – in particular, that of our Vice Captain Oliver Florent. After promising hitting sessions during the end of Term 3, it was quite apparent that we had the right blend of players to press for a potential premiership – experience, exuberant youth and good doubles players.

Our first match against Assumption College was, as expected, a onesided affair, winning comfortably 16/0.

However, the next match against the consistently strong PEGS side gave us a much better indication of our prospects, with a hard fought win – 10/6. Our Captain Anthony Tamborriello teamed well with Braden Watts to win both doubles, as did Wes Flavell and Jaiden Watts at No. 4 pair.

Game 3 versus The Peninsula School saw our boys assert their dominance, winning comfortably 14/2, with strong performances in all doubles pairings, and emphatic singles results from Trent Jones and Jaiden Watts.

Our next match was going to be our biggest challenge against the strong Ivanhoe Grammar team. True to our prediction, the match came ‘down to the wire’, with us winning narrowly by 15 games. Excellent results were

recorded by Oliver, Jaiden and Sahishnu Siva Ram in their singles.

Games 5 and 6 against Marcellin College and Yarra Valley Grammar saw impressive wins – stabilising our pairings and building confidence in all players’ singles play. A solid win against Camberwell Grammar, followed by a brutal win over arch rivals Trinity Grammar, saw us go into the Final undefeated and brimming with confidence.

The Final against Ivanhoe Grammar was going to be tough, but we knew that our doubles pairings were going to be the key. Hard fought wins by Anthony Tamborriello and Trent, Oliver and Braden, and Jaiden and Wes were crucial. However, it was the two inspirational wins by our third pair of Zac Scherger and Sahishnu which proved to be the dominant motivation for our singles. Knowing we had to win four singles wins to secure the Premiership meant that every hard fought game was crucial.

Wes battled gallantly to go down 6/8, as did Zac (4/8) and Trent (3/8), however, Sahishnu grinded out a great win (8/6), and the Watts brothers dominated their matches (Jaiden 8/3 and Braden 8/0). The last two matches on the courts were Oliver’s and Anthony’s – both playing against higher ranked players. Fortunately,

they both won enough games for us to get across the line by the bare margin of four games – 8 sets all, 100 games to 96!

It was a very tense and exciting climax to an extraordinarily close match.

All players are to be congratulated on their determination and poise to triumph under immense pressure and scrutiny. My personal thanks go to Anthony Tamborriello for his excellent leadership throughout the season, culminating in his second AGSV Tennis Premiership, his third AGSV Rep selection, and being named Captain of that team. Thanks also go to Oliver Florent, Trent Jones and Wes Flavell for their leadership and support, not only during this season, but over the past 5-6 years.

Finally, I would like to thank the teams’ external coaches in Marcus Petrou and Brad Crosher who did a magnificent job in keeping the boys focused on the task and providing consistently varied drills and tuition. Also, to all the parents and Mentone Grammar staff who supported the boys on a regular basis throughout the season. Lastly, I wish the younger players all the best for the future and hope they can continue to keep Tennis at Mentone Grammar in good shape.

Leigh Rowlands Team Manager

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Volleyball Premiers We started in third term with two less than inspirational trainings where most of the players were there just to ‘fill in’ time with Summer Sport. As coach, I asked the players to let me know if they were willing to commit to training hard and playing as a team.

Those who said yes were selected and we had a squad of 16. That slowly dropped down through the season to the 10 players we had through Term 1 and into the Grand Final.

Our season started against the most successful team in AGSV Volleyball history, Yarra Valley Grammar. We lost 0-3 but were very competitive. The boys agreed that we had a lot to work to do but our upside was massive and we had four months to prepare for the Grand Final, provided we made it, of course.

The very next week, we started to build our winning culture and attitude on court. We beat Marcellin 25-6, 25-6, 2624 to set the tone for what would follow.

Seven consecutive wins including three courageous five set victories in which we were well behind at times.

The hard work at training and attitude on court enabled us to get through tough moments in matches when we weren’t playing our best, but were willing to fight hard and scrap around for points. We were not necessarily the silkiest skilled team in the AGSV, but we were athletic and had an attitude that we would not be out played and weren’t afraid to throw our bodies around to keep the ball alive.

Our Semi Final versus Trinity we knew we’d improved out of sight since out five-setter in November and that was brutally obvious in the score line of 25-12, 25-22, 25-13.

The Grand Final was against Ivanhoe, who we went to four sets with in January, but it was obvious they didn’t play very well. Over the final two weeks we trained harder and more often with faultless attendance. This enabled us to revamp our block and defensive system specifically for playing against the Ivanhoe attacking style.

While there were some tight times in the Final we played consistent and aggressive volleyball to achieve a convincing 3-0 victory, 25-22, 25-18, 25-16. Winning 6-0 through the finals is quite an achievement after only a single 3-0 victory through the season.

It happened because of the attitude and attendance at training from the players. Nothing more could be asked of a group of players new to a sport.

Congratulations team!

Team Members: Cameron Moorhouse, Harrison Edwards, James Davidson (Captain), Josh Stephenson, Keenen Marrier D’Unienville, Matt Grigoriou, Mitchell Scott, Pat Bankin, Ryan Buckler, Will Burmeister Best Player: Cameron Moorhouse Coaches Award: James Davidson Luke Campbell and Hanni Alston Coaches

A hot, blustery day on the beach at Mordialloc did not deter our Surf Lifesavers as local knowledge and a summer of training brought out the best in our beach athletes. Both our Boys’ and Girls’ teams battled the gusty conditions and a strong field of schools to win both Premierships!

Life Saving Victoria runs the School Surf League which is open to individual and school entries from all schools in Victoria. The 2016 event took place with teams from 17 schools including Scotch College, Star of the Sea, Caulfield Grammar, St Leonard’s College, The Peninsula School, Yarra Valley Grammar, Toorak College and Mentone Girls’ Grammar.

The Girls’ team produced some excellent results in the team events including winning the U13 Board Rescue, U14 and U15 Beach Relays and U15 Board Relay.

There were also a number of victories in individual events including: Hannah Schmidt winning the Surf Race;

Chloe Garifalakis winning the Beach Sprint and Wade Race and Natalie Clucas also winning the Beach Sprint and Wade Race.

These victories were complemented by numerous second and third places in events throughout the program.

Overcoming the girls from Peninsula became our greatest challenge. We were able to achieve this by 9 points – Mentone Grammar 220 points and The Peninsula School 211 points.

The Boys’ team completed a demolition of our opponents, scoring 327 points with The Peninsula School finishing second on 186 points.

Team victories were recorded in: • T he Board Relays in U13, U14, U15 and in both Open heats.

• T he Aqua Cameron in U13, U14 and both heats in U15.

• The Board Rescue in U13, U14 and U15.

In the individual events, a number of students recorded first place finishes: • T homas Lewis, Declan McComb and Spencer Blain-Bartle winning their Wade event • Tarlis Reed winning Flags and the Beach Sprint.

• Alec McComb winning his 1km event.

• Michael Garbelotto winning the Surf Race, the Board Race and the 1km Run. A special mention to Year 10 student Trenton Johnson for winning his Board Race and 1km Run, but also for competing in multiple events in both U15 and Open age groups, often making his way from the finish line to the start line to compete again.

Our final overall score was 547 points.

Our victory margin was 150 points.

Well done to all students who represented the School with such determination.

Stuart Bainbridge and Team

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In 2016 the Mentone Grammar Sailing Team had a relatively successful season, and as a Captain I am really happy with our performances. This was my last year as Captain of the team, and along with fellow Skipper Molly Ford, it was our last chance to show everyone what we had in us. With thanks to the rest of team, I believe that we did just that throughout the year, with a lot of the credit going to our coach, Lewis Duncan.

The season started last October with our first Saturday at Sorrento, it was quite a trek to get there, and it paid off with a fairly successful day with Mentone winning four from five races! This continued much the same way up until Christmas with our worst performance, sailing out of Western Port Yacht Club, where we only won about half our races that day. After the summer holidays, we were all keen to get back in it and start winning every race that came our way. We had the end in sight, the State Championships! Unfortunately this side of the season was challenging as many

teams decided to do some training of their own over the holidays. We were a little unprepared, yet managed to pull back to our good form towards the end of the season. Going into the last round at Davey’s Bay, Mt Eliza, we were one point ahead of the other schools, but unfortunately didn’t have a great regatta, finishing 4th for the Middleton Trophy.

The State Titles were upon us! As a team we were going into this extremely keen to win! We arrived on the Friday morning to thunderstorms and a cold front sweeping through the area, with 40+ knot winds, the officials deemed the weather to be too extreme and cancelled the racing for the day, which was in favour of our somewhat light team. The next day we were keen as beans to get going, and with our racing going quite well, we held our own against many teams who should have beaten us. Our streak couldn’t keep going though and we ended up against St Bede’s, whose tricky tactics kept everyone on their toes.

Even though we sailed our best, we

ended up going down against the lighter, eventual State Champions.

We ended finishing 7th overall after some careless racing late in the day.

Although it’s not what the team had anticipated coming in, we were still happy with the result, and with Molly and I both finishing Year 12, we wish the best of luck to new Captain, Brandon Demura, and the rest of the team for the 2016-17 season!

We have had great support from our families, and those leaving will be greatly missed. It is an end of an era for the Sailing Team with Julian Sasson the last of the three Sasson boys, all Captains of the team over many years, and Molly Ford along with sister Jemma, also a past team Captain.

Thank you to all for the immense contribution you have made to Mentone Grammar Sailing.

Julian Sasson Team Captain Max Marrow TIC Sailing

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Team Members Drew Barclay, Lily Bowles, Ava Castle, Yasmin Duffin, Charlotte Holland, Meg Magennis, Ella Mairs, Elyssia Middlemo, Charlie Peachey, Sophie Peachey

Girls’ Summer Sport First Touch Rugby

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Softball

This year, our Girls’ First Badminton team had a very difficult task to compete in the Open Grade but what they lacked in experience, they made up in spirit and courage. Some of them were new to the sport, so the season proved to be a ‘work in progress’ for most but with more training and commitment, they could certainly be competitive. Although the girls didn’t quite have the ability to win any games, they always had a positive attitude and were willing to take on the hard challenges to compete against their much more experienced opponents.

The Intermediate B Softball team had quite a successful season, only losing two games. It was a strong team with Cate leading the way on the pitching mound who was backed up in the field

by Charlotte P, Sarah, Elyssa, Helena, Jessie and Dekota. Ally S adjusted well to playing catcher and did a fantastic job and Paris did well when she was needed to come in to pitch. As well as being a strong fielding team, the girls were excellent batters and I could always rely on them getting on base and scoring each other home. I can’t wait to continue with this success next season.

Girls’ Intermediate A Badminton Caitlin Baxter, Lucy Burgess, Maya Dunne, Eden Filikotzias, Rebecca Hayes, Bella Houlahan, Isabelle Verrills and Rachel Watson all joined the Badminton team this season, playing in the intermediate A team. It was a steep learning curve but the girls showed much improvement over the season, developing skills and game technique. The girls won two of their seven games, and came very close in two others. Sets were won in each game, and win or lose, each of the girls won a number of their sets in either doubles or singles. I hope the girls continue with Badminton in the future, as they work towards becoming a competitive First team in the years to come. Thanks to our coach Margaret Lee for her assistance.

Tennis The Tennis season was a successful one for our team. As the girls began to develop and fine-tune their techniques, they quickly gained the skills and confidence to win a number of matches throughout the season. The team came to the training sessions eager to improve and learn and were supportive of each other during the matches. It was great to see the girls utilising new tactical moves during their games. Led by our captain Galina Enright, the sportsmanship demonstrated by our team during competitions was commented on by spectators and our opposition, and the girls certainly made the School proud.

Due to the large size of our team, we were able to create a few different doubles combinations to establish

what works best and to ensure everyone had the opportunity to learn from each other. Most commendably, Isabella Parker, Emma Vear, Nina Alston, Nicole Moore, Aleisha Bernamoff, Galina Enright, Charlotte Sutton, Anabelle Kidd, Chloe Stone and Jamie-Lee Munn are to be commended for the skill and consistent effort they demonstrated on the court. All players improved their technique, which will serve them well in the upcoming season. The girls showed outstanding teamwork, encouraging and supporting each other at all games and training sessions.

A great season, well done girls!

Senior Seconds Tennis Aleisha Bernamoff, Georgia Bowen, Sophie Antonellis, Amelia Brooks, Sophie van Vliet, Taneesha Crowe, Annabel Best, Charlotte Sutton, Galina Enright (Captain), Amy Gowan, Stephanie Wilson, Danyi Wei. Intermediate A Annabelle Kidd, Issy Parker, Nina Alston, Eliza Hollingsworth, Nicole Moore, Arabelle Scanlon, Chloe Stone, Emma Vear, Madelyn Brooks, JamieLee Munn, Sasha Widelski.

Intermediate C Pamela Bardis, Tia Botokis, Michaela Burgess, Alleisha Stephens, Daisy Causer, Olivia Pukallus, Jiyeon Lee, Cayla Le Gear, Kate Derham, Emma Coubard and Sophie Milligan.

The 2016 season was full of promise as emotions were still running high after our breakthrough Premiership the previous season. We knew we had lost three of our best players but the legacy they had left made us believe we had the quality to once again be there on Grand Final day.

Finals day would not eventuate as the new rule applied which meant that the team that finished on top of the ladder wins overall. We steadily knocked off teams and improved throughout the season, we beat our arch rivals The Peninsula School which set up what would be a decider against the experienced Haileybury team. We lost a strike weapon in Stephanie Kelly the day before the game to injury, and this would prove costly as Haileybury had too much leg speed to match and we went down by three. It was a tough defeat to take but we played with fewer players and less experience and played the game till the final whistle. Our only chance remained if TPS caused an upset and defeated Haileybury in the final round, which ultimately was called off due to heat, which meant handing the trophy to Haileybury.

In the All Schools competition we were missing our Captain Belle Leonard to injury as well as still having Stephanie Kelly injured on the sidelines. We also lost our reliable Siedle sisters half way through the season with previous commitments which left us struggling for numbers. This did not deter the team and we fought on.

Led by the season’s MVP in Lauren Fagan we battled to make the Grand Final and came up against Haileybury who had beat us convincingly during

the season. With a few new tactics we went in confident of causing an upset, which we almost did. The full time siren sounded with scores locked at 3-3. We would eventually lose the game in extra time but we definitely won a lot of praise as we were not expected to get close.

A big thanks to all the players involved as well as to the teachers and parents for their help and support throughout the season. We look forward to another big year.

Touch Rugby – Senior White Coach Chloe Sinclair Team Members Emily Fiddes, Hannah Sinclair, Bridie Easton, Jemima Gordon, Nicola Briggs, Felicity Warren, Lucy Bowman, Jamie Riddell, Alison Ahern, Charlotte Fryer, Abby Leonard The girls had a great season, winning all but one game. They were highly competitive and hard working in every game. With a mixture of seniors and juniors, the team had great cooperation and improved remarkably throughout the season.

All team members contributed immensely to every game, but special mention to Jamie Riddell for her great encouragement and hardworking attitude; Abby Leonard for her persistence and positive approach and Emily Fiddes for leading by example and always being a strong key player for the team. Finishing second in the Division, the team had a fun and rewarding season. Thank you to all the Year 12 players for their commitment to summer sport!

The Junior 1 Touch Rugby girls stood out. They trained hard, honed their skills and worked well together as a team. Most importantly they had the mindset to achieve and be the best they could in training and in each match that they played.

Drew – had the speed and ability to catch the opposition off guard.

Lily – a strong set of hands, she could be relied on to pass and receive the ball accurately.

Ava – a terrific link no matter where she played.

Charlotte – no longer doubted herself.

In the match against PEGS she scored a massive four trys of the team.

Meg – an ever-reliable wing or link demonstrated the ability to dodge, manoeuver and score for the team.

Ella – a fast reliable centre, always drove the ball forward.

Elyssia – a tough competitor and new team member this year brought strength to the team as wing and link.

Charlee and Sophie – often interchanged as centre and link playing side by side having the ability to read each other’s play so well, and move the ball forward for the team.

Yasmin – Her speed, tenacity to steal the ball and outsmart the opposition inspired the team. Every week she gave 100 per cent.

Together these girls can stand proud.

The final matches speak volumes for their Touch Rugby future together.

A roaring win over PEGS 8-5 and the final match against Ivanhoe a three try victory.

The Best player award for this team goes to Yasmin Duffin.

The Coaches Award goes to Ella Mairs.

Jenni Harrison

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Season Result Four losses and three wins for the season.

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Touch Rugby – Junior C Coaches Tayla Fiddes and Giancarlo Leung Team Members: Kate Bosa, Bethany Bratuskins, Mia Causer, Ellen Fletcher, Katie Goakes, Olivia Hargreaves, Sophie Porter, Abbey Samild, Anna Siemering, Megan Smith and Maeve Spargo Season Result Their overall record was four wins and one loss in their Division.

The Junior C Touch Rugby group, was made up of Year 7 students all new to the game. Over the training sessions it was important to show them the skills and tactics required to play the sport of Touch Rugby. Their ability to improve after receiving feedback was vital in understanding how to play better. Along with people showing natural talent derived from other sports, we saw their potential transfer in the matches. So, as coaches, it was extremely satisfying to see them apply it on the field. The development displayed by many of these girls looks very good for the School’s future success in the sport. So I hope they continue on and progress further over the next few years. It was great to have these students show an enthusiastic attitude about participating in Saturday morning sport and more importantly getting along so well with all their teammates. This made it a very enjoyable experience to see and work with them over the season.

First Girls’ Volleyball Going into this season, we had a strong aim to strengthen our skills, improve the volleyball culture within the School, and to set a really strong foundation for the next few seasons.

With only one existing player left on the team from last year, we had already

planned for a tough year. However, we were not willing to allow this to be an excuse and still set high expectations for the girls to do well. After only a few trials and training sessions, we were thrown straight into the preseason tournament against fellow APS schools.

The tournament got off to a flying start.

We played our first game against The Peninsula School and despite the limited amount of time the girls had played together, they instantly gelled.

Already we could see the work we did at trainings translate into the game when we won our first game of the tournament. The next two games were played against PEGS and eventual winners, Caulfield. The girls continued to provide the same effort and enthusiasm, however, they were just outclassed. That being said, we were happy with how the tournament went as a starting block for the season.

After a few more training sessions, the season was underway. We fought through a fair amount of ups and downs in the first few games. At times, the girls did some amazing things. However, they were not able to manage to hold that level for a full game. It gave us a lot of areas we needed to work on during the upcoming summer break when we ran well-attended training sessions.

It was great to see the girls willing to sacrifice their holidays in order to sharpen their skills. During this period, the girls showed much stronger progress as their improvement allowed us to progress to more advanced style. All the hard work was evident when we faced Peninsula again, this time beating them convincingly. The highlight of the year would be the strong win we had against Carey. In this game, everyone stepped up and contributed. We ended the season meeting the expectations we made at

the start and it was a shame to only just miss out on finals. It was a great season with the girls and we all look forward to next year!

Girls’ Fourth White and Blue, Inters Team Some of the biggest highlights of the Volleyball season often occurred at training. The Intermediate team fiercely challenged the Fourths Blue team, often coming out on top. Much was at stake with the losing team required to undergo five burpees per point if the team had not implemented three touches over the net. Needless to say, that all teams increased in fitness, commitment and bonded as a team. On match days it was pleasing to witness the girls adopt what was emphasised at training with strategies such as three touches, communicating and providing positive reinforcement.

Many strategic time-outs on match day provided us with an opportunity to take stock of what was working well and what needed to change. The Girls’ Fourth Blue had a particularly successful season with stand-out performances by Chelsy Hardy and special mention to Bianca Malby-Luke and Jasmine Grey who dived for balls and did all they could to keep our team competitive. Regardless of the final outcomes on, I was proud to be associated with these teams who took on constructive advice and still wanted to compete to their best whether it meant trying to win a ‘dead’ set when the result was already determined.

The sportsmanship that they displayed was evident in their interactions and something of which the girls should be very proud.

Belinda McNeil

Boys’ Summer Sport Boys’ First Badminton Coaches David Barber and Allen Ling Team Captain Keling (Colin) Chen Team Members Keling (Colin) Chen, Xiyan (Rocky) Zhang, Minghui (Peter) Fan, Dooyeon Lee, Fanglei (Francis) Li, Junlin (Samuel) Yan, Xichen (Gregory) Sun, Lucas Filikotzias, Yuanyuan (Arthur) Zhang, Haoran (Leo) Liu, Zeyan (Alan) Chan Season Result Seventh on the ladder (out of seven teams).

For Boys’ First Badminton this was another season of continuing to build the team and laying foundations for the future. With a squad of relatively inexperienced players it was important to develop the skills of individuals while also giving the opportunity for promising young players to step up into the Firsts and gain valuable experience and confidence.

Regular players were Keling (Colin) Chen (Captain), Xiyan (Rocky) Zhang, Minghui (Peter) Fan, Dooyeon Lee and Fanglei (Francis) Li. Joining them when regular players were not available were Junlin (Samuel) Yan, Xichen (Gregory) Sun, Lucas Filikotzias, Yuanyuan (Arthur) Zhang, Haoran (Leo) Li and Zeyan (Alan) Chan.

Victory proved hard to find, but undaunted, the team persevered with determination, commitment and outstanding sportsmanship. Under Colin Chen’s able and enthusiastic

leadership and boosted by training from Allen Ling, each member steadily improved their skills and confidence as the season progressed.

In the semi-final Minghui Fan played outstandingly, pushing his Trinity opponent in the singles to a third set.

Then he and his doubles partner, Xiyan Zhang, followed up with another onslaught, but unfortunately were not quite able to secure victory. The highlight of the season, however, was in Round 2 when Lucas Filikotzias and partner, Dooyeon Lee, in an extremely hard fought doubles match managed to snatch victory from their Trinity opponents 31:29.

Keling Chen did a great job as Captain and is congratulated on his award of Half Colours for Badminton. Looking ahead to next season, Mentone Boys’ Badminton can look forward to building on the solid foundations that have been laid this year.

David Barber

First Basketball Coaches Stephen Hoare and Kate Hore Team Members Sam Callahan (Captain), Ben Charnley (VC), Kai Owen, Bailey Clarkson, Joel Amartey, Finlay Dodson, Sam Ralph, Sam Lucas, Harrison Smyth, Barclay Miller, Harrison Bridge Season Result Runners up to Marcellin.

After a close loss in the final last season, a lot was expected from

the First Basketball in 2016. With most of the team returning from last year we began strongly by winning the preseason competition and headed into our first game against Assumption full of confidence. It was a much tougher and closer game than expected and took a clutch 3-pointer from Sam Callahan with 10 seconds remaining to seal the win.

The following week our first home game was against PEGS and resulted in a big 50-point win. It was a great opportunity for all players to get court time with both Finlay Dodson and Sam Lucas taking advantage of the extra time on court. Our next game against The Peninsula School saw another close away win. After leading comfortably early in the second half, it took a huge 3-pointer from Bailey Clarkson with 20 seconds remaining to get a 2-point win.

Next up was a solid win against Ivanhoe Grammar at home that saw Kai Owen continue his excellent form with great support from Joel Amartey and Ben Charnley. We entered the Christmas break 4-0 having played two great home games and two average away games in a trend that would continue for the rest of the season.

Our first game back was away against Marcellin and it was the first game for new player Barclay Miller.

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2 points with our ‘bigs’ dominating the game and we followed this up with another close game against Camberwell Grammar.

AGSV Representative team and to Bailey for being selected as a reserve even though he should definitely have made the team.

After coming from 9 points down at three quarter time it took a 3-pointer on the buzzer from Sam Ralph to win the game. The final game was against Trinity Grammar with the winner to play Marcellin in the final. Bailey came out firing and helped us build an early lead and from there we controlled the game.

Both Bailey and Kai were tremendous but they had great support from all players especially Harry Smyth and Harrison Bridge who made significant contributions off the bench.

A special thanks to Kate Hore for her assistance throughout the year and to all the guys who gave their best effort all season long. I loved coaching this team and I wish the seniors all the best for the future. For the rest, the elusive premiership remains the target again for next year. Thanks

The final was another rematch against Marcellin who had won the previous five AGSV Championships. With a great crowd in attendance it was an amazing game from both teams.

The first half was a high scoring, high quality game that saw Marcellin lead 32-28 thanks to some accurate outside shooting from the hosts. The second half was a defensive struggle with both sides struggling to score but neither side giving an inch.

Just like the previous year, it again came down to the wire. We lead by 2 with two minutes to play and had a chance to win the game with 15 seconds remaining but unfortunately came up short, eventually losing 4541. It was a heartbreaking loss but I am so proud of the guys and the effort they showed throughout the game.

We just weren’t quite good enough.

Congratulations to Kai for making the

Basketball Senior 2nds Coach Brian Moyle Team Members Lachie Brown, Matt Pertich, James Pearman, Tom Gamble, Shane Zahra, Fraser Angus and Lewis Cotsopoulos.

Season Result Three wins and six losses.

The team line up was unsettled throughout the season mainly due to injuries. With a full squad for our first game and some great team play we recorded a 37-point win against Assumption. Pieran Pachiyannis, after playing well in the first game, missed the rest of the season due to a knee injury.

With only five players for our second game we were away to PEGS. After matching them for most of the game, fatigue set in late and we lost by 12 points. The next game was a hard fought win by 4 points at home against The Peninsula School.

From this point we went on a threegame losing streak, teams such as

Ivanhoe Ridgeway and Marcellin had too much depth for us and we were unable to compete with them for the full 40 minutes. In the third game against Yarra Valley we had only four fit players available; I would like to thank Damian and Harry from the 10C team for playing in this game, again Yarra Valley had a little too much depth for us. The next game was the highlight of our season. Lewis Cotsopoulos joined the team for the first time and after a 20+ point game from him we won by 36 points. The next two games resulted in a loss to Trinity Grammar and a narrow loss to Ivanhoe Plenty.

I would like to thank Tom, Shane and Lachie who played every game and were the mainstays of the team. Tom was our top scorer for the season.

Playing point guard Shane ran the team for us while Lachie was a great team player. A few games into the season James Pearman joined the squad and showed great leadership.

After the Christmas holiday break three International students moved out of the team, they were replaced by Fraser Angus who acquitted himself well, moving up a grade and Lewis Cotsopoulos who, as mentioned, had an outstanding game against Camberwell Grammar.

The boys put together a great season and should be proud of their efforts and attitude. It has been a pleasure to coach the group and I would especially like to wish the Year 12s all the best for the future.

Basketball Thirds Blue Coach Ben Bruin Team Members Maxwell Stammers, Riley Causer, Alexander Wong, William Howroyd, Daniel Holman, Mitchell Booth, Steven Daly, Conor Beveridge The team ended the season with four wins and a number of close losses – a respectable season of basketball given the quality and height of some of the opposition teams. A committed core group of players gave their all throughout the season and participated enthusiastically in training sessions and practice matches. An unfortunate shoulder dislocation for Steven Daly saw the core reduced slightly; however, the return of Mitchell Booth provided athleticism and scoring power to the team. Riley Causer proved his worth defensively and offensively, while Maxwell Stammers and Conor Beveridge tied down the opposition’s big men as well as they could – a tough task required of them every week.

Wong improved immensely throughout the season and played as a small and tall player when required. Holman’s efforts off the bench were greatly appreciated and his skill level gradually caught up to his athleticism.

Basketball 4ths Blue Coach Sam Fletcher Team Jacob, Rees, Harry, Jacques, Kristian, Josh, Sam, Scott, Nick

It was a difficult year for the boys with fixturing and coaching changes interrupting the season, especially with the Round 1 team being split into two teams (Blue and Gold). Despite this weekly uncertainty and the loss of 3-point king Harry Scopel to the Gold team the boys put in a really great performance throughout the season.

The Blues were an undersized team, reliant on a team effort to support singular tall player Sam with the rebounds. However, this meant that we were often gifted a speed advantage which we utilised better and better as the season progressed.

With a focus on high pressure and aggressive defending we were able to create numerous fast break opportunities allowing us to score some easy baskets.

As a coach, one of the most pleasing sights was that we had contributions from different players throughout the season, with a new player stepping up each week when called upon. Whether it was Scotty or Harry’s shooting, Rees or Jacques’ physicality or Kristian’s vision and composure it was always exciting wondering who would step up to lead us on the day. Some highlights of the year included: • Holding Yarra Valley off in a thriller where they missed a buzzer beater to tie the match (Round 3) • Jacob’s quick burst of scoring to almost win from behind against Trinity (Round 5)

• J osh putting the nail in the coffin in our demolition of Peninsula (Round 4) Overall, I think it has been a successful season despite some of the inconsistencies faced by the team.

Six wins and three losses was a solid campaign and the boys should all be proud of their effort this year.

Basketball 8C Blue Coach Daniel Xiang Team Members Simon Coubard, Jake O’Brien, Myles Brown, Lachlan Leason, Marcus Le Gear, Max Leaver, James Mooney, Tighe Taylor, Will Gentle Season Result The 8C Blue was excited to get the season underway after showing promise in the training seasons. The team entered their first game against PEGS with high hopes of coming out victorious. After a powerful performance from Max Leaver and Marcus Le Gear, the team was well underway in to what would turn out to be a very successful season. After winning the first game, the team had built up the confidence that is needed to impact the season. Through every training season the team’s skills gradually improved, turning it into an almost perfect season only losing one game. Throughout the season we saw tremendous efforts from Jake O’Brien and Tighe Taylor being the leaders of this team, leading in points and assists. The team also received great help with players coming off the

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bench whom were able to provide an offensive spark, players such as Myles Brown, Lauchlan Leason, James Mooney, Simon Coubard and Will Gentle were able to provide the offence and defence that we needed to ensure a win. All in all, the team had a very successful season with only one loss and many fine wins.

Coaches Award – Simon Cubard Best Player – Max Leaver

Basketball 7A Coach: Mark Linnett The 7A boys had a season of mixed results. There were games when the team performed well and won convincingly, and there were games where we didn’t play as well and lost to the opposition. Overall, the boys did attempt everything asked of them, which is all a coach can hope for.

They should be proud of their wins, and hopefully learn from their losses.

I hope they enjoyed this season of Saturday Basketball, it was a pleasure to coach them.

Basketball 7B White Coach Zac Ibrhaim Team Members: Brandon Bridge, Tom Riley, Liam Beach, Oliver Halbisch, William Jackson, Theo Bountroukas, Elliott Carruthers, Connor Hewlett, Keenan Haagen, Max Fraser, Jack Caughey, Christian Fowler, Andy Regester, Ethan Dallas, Campbell McDonald, Harry Zammit

As an introduction to the Mentone Grammar Saturday sport program the Year 7 Boys were patient with the changing of players between teams and were always able to give 100 per cent each weekend. The 7B White team had some great successes early on in the season with outstanding performances from players Brandon Bridge, Patrick Horne, William Jackson and Liam Beach. With a greater focus on our defence and our ability to keep possession of the basketball, this team became a strong force in the competition, with majority of wins falling into a 20+ point margin.

The work ethic of players Tom Riley, Connor Hewlett and Elliott Carruthers at trainings was evident with big scoring games mid season. Coming into the final rounds with big success it was an opportunity to acknowledge the work efforts of players in other teams and new students to, as we said, find a better fit for each student in each team. The team list names all players that played on this team and each player deserves to be congratulated on their efforts for the season and are encouraged to return next summer season to improve upon the individual abilities and take part in another successful season of Basketball.

Team Members Jack Cunnington (C), William Avery (VC), Matthew Hennig (VC), Abhijit Das, Lewis Diggins, Sam Hutcheon, James Kerr, Edward Newman, Massey Parker, Aman Prasad, Aidan Taylor, Emile Tait, Callum Strack

Cricket First XI

The Peninsula School has been a strong cricket team in recent years and this was the case in 2016. Batting first we were in early trouble at 5/51 before a match winning partnership of 71 between Abhijit Das (48) and Callum

Coaches Everard Fenton, Michael Wilton, Trevor Stevens

Season Result 7 Wins, 2 Losses (Runners Up).

The 2016 season started with a road trip to Assumption College which is never an easy game but it turned out to be a very memorable day. On debut Massey Parker produced remarkable figures of 6/1 to set a new AGSV First XI record for best bowling figures since the introduction of the current format.

This performance had opposition schools worried we had unearthed the next Shane Warne. The win was achieved for the loss of just one wicket and before the lunch break.

Our first home game of the season against PEGS saw conditions favour the bowlers as wet weather left plenty of moisture in the wicket. No batter scored over 35 but a total of 9/139 proved enough as PEGS was kept to 79. Wickets were shared between the bowlers, however, Jack Cunnington starred taking five dismissals with the gloves.

Strack (29) rescued the innings. Tight bowling and early wickets put pressure on Peninsula with Ed Newman taking four wickets, eventually dismissing them for 98.

A victory against Ivanhoe Grammar, who again was kept under 100 runs, saw us the only undefeated team going into the holidays. In the new year we picked up where we left off and had Marcellin in early trouble at 8/31.

Pace bowlers Lewis Diggins and Aidan Taylor took three wickets each before some lower order hitting allowed them to reach 126. Two early wickets had us a little nervous but a 111 run partnership between Jack Cunnington (52no) and Sam Hutcheon (53no) reached the target without further loss.

Against Yarra Valley Grammar we looked on track for a huge score thanks to half centuries to Lewis Diggins and Edward Newman but a steady loss of wickets in the last 10 overs restricted us to 7/196.

This proved to be a winning total with Newman having an all-round impressive match taking four wickets to allow the boys a night of celebrations at the formal.

Camberwell Grammar had struggled with the bat in 2016 but we didn’t want to underestimate them as the battle for a top two spot was still up for grabs. Bowling first, an early run out by James Kerr triggered a collapse to see Camberwell all out for 59. Will Avery took three wickets before Abhijit

Das, Sam Hutcheon and Matt Henning scored the required runs in 16 overs and an important percentage boost.

With a place in the Final virtually guaranteed we were slightly off our game against Trinity in the last round of the season and lost by two wickets.

We still earned the right to host The Peninsula School in the Final a week later. Batting first we soon found ourselves in huge trouble at 9/56. A vital 36 run partnership between Aman Prasad and Aidan Taylor allowed us to scrape to 90. Early wickets would be vital and 1/0 then 3/31 saw us in the game at drinks. From there we toiled hard but couldn’t break the partnership but held our heads high until the winning run was scored in the 39th over.

Although disappointed to lose the Final, the season as a whole was filled with highlights and memorable moments that all players can be extremely proud. Of particular note was the camaraderie between our players on and off the field. Best wishes to the Year 12 players in their future cricket endeavours while the returning players are already looking forward to 2017.

As recognition for their outstanding seasons Jack Cunnington, Sam Hutcheon and Edward Newman were selected in the AGSV Representative team.

2016 Awards Player of the Season: Edward Newman Batting Award: Sam Hutcheon

Bowling: Massey Parker All Rounder: Jack Cunnington and Edward Newman Craig Chambers Award: Jack Cunnington

Table Tennis Years 7 and 8 Boys Team Mentone Grammar 1, 2, 3 and 4 Coach Jonathan Kuhn Four teams played in the competition this year under the guidance of Mentonian Jonathan Kuhn.

The boys worked hard to improve their skills, therefore becoming more successful as the season progressed.

We started off the season playing at home, then ventured out to PEGS and Camberwell Grammar for the rest of the games.

Challenging each other each week at training was important for the placement in teams and many boys took this on seriously, showing good sportsmanship and enthusiasm in doing so.

Congratulations to all the Years 7 and 8 Table Tennis players and good luck with your future Saturday sports.

Thanks to Jonathan for being a great coach and giving the boys a wonderful opportunity in the Summer Sport season at Mentone Grammar.

Ro Richter Teams Manager

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Tennis Boys’ 10B/C Team 10B Blue Manager Bernadette McGill Team Members Luke Shi, Troy Flavell, Billy Bromidis, Callum Matthew, Thomas So, Matthew Doyle, James Campbell and Sean Enright Season Result 8 match wins, 1 Bye (Undefeated!).

The 10B Blue Tennis team had an exceptional 2015/2016 summer sport season. The team was undefeated against Assumption College, Ivanhoe Grammar (Plenty), Trinity Grammar, Yarra Valley Grammar School, three Camberwell Grammar teams and The Peninsula School.

The team trained each Wednesday at Le Page Tennis Club together with the 10B White team. With the expert guidance of the EXCEL coaches, Will and Ollie, the boys’ skills steadily improved and their hard work certainly paid dividends when competing on Saturday mornings. The strongest win was against Yarra Valley with a score of Mentone Blue 12 sets: 72 games defeating Yarra Valley 0 sets: 11 games. However, this score was typical of most Saturday matches.

I commend the core group of players who consistently showed commitment, sportsmanship, camaraderie and a

great sense of fun: these were Luke Shi, Troy Flavell, Sean Enright, Callum Matthew, Billy Bromidis, Thomas So, Matthew Doyle and James Campbell.

Thank you to Markos Koulouris, Peter Cotsopoulos, Peter Varsamis, Matthew Borys, Tyler Milburn and George Litsios from the 10B White team who filled in as required and showed great enthusiasm.

I wish all the boys well for Senior Tennis next season.

Bernadette McGill Manager

Tennis Boys’ 9A The 9A Tennis team had a great season and won all eight matches.

This should place them as Rundas Trophy winners for 2016.

The Mentone 9A team had a great season in 2016, successfully winning all eight matches with no bye round.

All players continued to perform well and made sure that in each match they put as many games as possible on the scoreboard. Tom Dyer managed to win all matches in both singles and doubles. Finlay Heath also had a very strong season, winning all singles matches. All players improved noticeably over the season with Samasidh Siva Ram and Julius Schulze showing increasingly powerful returns. Mitchell Pattinson played one match with the Firsts but was a jovial support throughout the season. Jeremy Miao and Ethan Hunt

continued to be reliable. Fine efforts all around resulted in 9A being a top team at Mentone Grammar in 2016.

Year 8A Tennis The Year 8A Tennis Team enjoyed much success winning seven out of their eight matches. The ability to play well in not only their singles matches but in doubles matches, enabled them to regularly defeat the opposition. Calm heads, the ability to think through the point, precision of shots and excellent decision making skills, attributed to a great season.

The camaraderie on and off the court made coaching this team a delight. We were often successful because of our depth in covering players who were ill or injured. Congratulations to all boys and a special mention to Adam Halliday who remained undefeated in singles and losing only one doubles match. The team was ably led at the top by Jason Bartonek who lost only one singles match and Tom Shepherd who won six singles matches and lost only two matches. Mitchell Callahan also only lost two singles matches.

Michael Martin Coach

Year 7A Tennis The Year 7A Team started the season in Term 4 of 2015 with a handful of boys, and a Year 6 girl, Alex Djurovic. We had a disappointing start with players away due to illness and an opposition team needing to forfeit its match. Once the 2016 school year began, the new

Year 7 intake meant that there was a restructure of teams and we were able to field two teams for the remainder of the season, an A and a B team. Mrs Heather Stone was manager for the 7A tennis team and Mr Tim Clarke was manager for the 7B team.

At this level, the overall teams’ abilities across the AGSV competition varies between players with a few years experience under their belts and players who haven’t played much at all. As Term 1 progressed, it was pleasing to see the enormous growth and improvement in the players. We developed some depth in our singles order and as the doubles pairs became more familiar with their partner, their game improved too. Over time the players became tougher opponents, developing game strategies and by thinking through a point.

The teams developed camaraderie and friendship during the season aided by the (sometimes) long bus trips and early starts. I enjoyed getting to know the players on these bus trips.

Heather Stone Year 7 Tennis Team Manager

Boys’ First Volleyball – Premiers In our summer of sporting success, it was our courageous First Volleyball team that most surprised the competition with a team lacking in experience but full of Mentone Grammar spirit and bravado.

Captain James Davidson reports on the School’s first ever Volleyball Premiership: For the final time in our schooling lives the Boys’ First Volleyball Team travelled to Dandenong State Volleyball Centre. Although this may have seemed like just your average Saturday sport game, it was in fact very different. This round represented the Grand Final of the competition with the winners receiving the cherished Premiership Cup. With many excited yet nervous boys on the bus we couldn’t wait to get on court and play the rival school of Ivanhoe. It is with great pleasure that I can say we defeated Ivanhoe in straight sets to win the 2016 Volleyball Premiership. However, the scoreboard didn’t reflect the true result of the game. To their credit the Ivanhoe players certainly came prepared and were not willing to give up their chances at making history, by winning their school’s first ever Volleyball premiership.

This resulted in an increased amount of strategic gameplay and skills which, in comparison to last time we played, was significantly higher. Although they came prepared, we were ready to match it. Of course the game was not perfect as we had some downturns within the sets, however, we stayed calm and managed to play our way back to take the lead on many occasions.

It is with great pride and honour that I thank our Team Manager Mrs Alston, Ms Percy and Ms Hunt for organising the buses or taxis each week, and making sure we arrived on time and well prepared for the games. To our coach Luke Campbell, I don’t know how he managed to do it, but by gathering two previous inexperienced volleyballers, a drama fanatic and six footy players who didn’t even know the rules, he managed to turn us into an AGSV Premiership team, which truly says enough in itself.

Finally, I would like to acknowledge the boys: Matt Grigoriou, Mitchell Scott, Will Burmeister, Cameron Moorhouse, Keenen Marrier D’Unienville, Josh Stephenson, Pat Bankin, Ryan Buckler and Harry Edwards. It was a pleasure training until late on those Friday evenings, and even getting up early on our school holidays; the games we played together have given me memories that will last forever, and to do something that seemed impossible at the start of the year shows how determined and committed we were as a team. The trophy with the Mentone 2016 engraving is a great reward for our efforts. The year has been a great journey and I would be more than happy to do it all again.

James Davidson Captain (Year 12)

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gain, our season has seen a lot of personal growth and development, which is part of the intention of our sports program, to encourage accountability, dedication, and leadership within each team.

a few feathers. We fell just short of a Finals birth with our Boys’ Football and Soccer teams despite both putting in extraordinary performances in the AGSV Semi Finals.

We also had impressive results in the junior levels with some teams going through the season undefeated; a remarkable feat in itself. Again, our season has seen a lot of personal growth and development, which is part of the intention of our sports program, to encourage accountability, dedication, and leadership within each team. Putting all of this together by playing a sport is a winning combination that builds great teams for the future.

Cross Country Our AGSV Cross Country team finished fourth in the seven rounds of competition. Our Girls’ team finished second in the AGSV Girls’ race, reflecting the improvement that our girls have made in recent seasons.

This improvement has been reflected

in the number of girls in our team, increasing from 2 girls in 2011 to 23 current runners.

Individual highlights of the season were the individual AGSV medals for Corbin McCullough achieving Year 11 Bronze, Brady Watts winning Year 10 Silver and Will Garbelotto winning Year 7 Silver. Our girls were not to be outdone with Jessica Ewart-McTigue winning the Year 10 Silver medal, Lucy Burgess achieving Year 10 Bronze, Brooke McCullough winning Year 8 Gold and Hannah Schmidt winning Year 8 Silver.

Aerobics This season, seven teams represented the School admirably in the Victorian Preliminary Aerobics competition, with three Primary and four secondary teams advancing to the State Aerobics Championships.

The girls performed extremely well and were a credit to the School displaying excellent sportsmanship and resilience

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in a very tight competition. Two teams, Mentone Magic and Mentone Mystic went on to compete at the National competition, but, despite excellent performances, were unable to secure a medal. It was a terrific season full of fun and teamwork.

Basketball With our Girls’ First Basketball team taking the leap back into the First Division following great success last year, both Junior and Intermediate teams were placed in A Divisions.

All students knew that every school they competed against was going to provide strong competition. Despite the mixed results, our players are to be commended for their enthusiasm to improve and the resilience they showed in what was a tough, competitive season. We know that this year was a great learning curve for all involved and we look forward to rebuilding and developing the entire Basketball program in 2017.

Hockey Like our Basketball teams, both Junior and Intermediate Hockey teams were

placed in A Division. It was also a challenging season for them but they came away with a lot of experience and an understanding of what they could improve on for next year.

Overall, Year 8A had the most success throughout the season. However, with plenty of students playing above their year level, it shows great depth and confidence for future seasons.

Soccer – Girls Our Soccer teams had a very positive year. They all had a number of wins and the students really enjoyed themselves and were competitive week in and week out. Our Girls’ First Soccer team had a challenging year but with a number of our Junior and Intermediate students playing up a level, it has provided great depth in the team list. We saw a number of our First Girls’ selected to represent the AGSV in the Representative games which is a wonderful achievement.

Soccer – Boys Our Soccer program as a whole had a successful season. Sitting at about 50 per cent of win/loss ratio there was

improvement at all ages and greater participation and skill development.

Our First team, had a solid preseason, with plenty of training sessions and numerous practice matches. This hard work saw them finish the season fourth on the AGSV Ladder and playing off in the Semi-Final against PEGS. After what was a remarkable year all round the team fell just short of making the AGSV Grand Final.

All students and coaches are to be commended for their attitude and commitment to success.

mention of our Year 7 footballers, finishing the season undefeated, which is a great sign of the future.

Our First team finished fourth on the AGSV ladder after the last round, which set themselves up for a very tough Semi-Final against Marcellin.

The team showed tremendous talent, determination and courage in the SemiFinal but unfortunately they came up short by a goal in the dying seconds of the game. Although heartbreaking, all players and coaches should hold their heads high to a tremendous season.

Table Tennis

Netball

Our Girls’ Table Tennis team had a positive year with a number of wins and a lot of enjoyment. Along with strong coaching, determination and hard work, all of our teams showed great endeavour at both training and on game days.

With over 12 individual teams making up our Netball program, it was a busy, fun and successful season. With many students having the opportunity to move between teams, all students endeavoured to give their best at training and at games which was great to see. Our Junior and Intermediate programs had some great success and set a good platform for great things ahead. Our First players showed their commitment and endeavour with 7am Monday morning trainings; however, during the season they came

Football Overall, Boys’ Football had an exceptional year, recording the highest percentages of wins over all ages when compared to all other sports at Mentone Grammar. A special

up just short on a few occasions.

The girls are looking forward to putting their best foot forward and moving onwards and upwards in 2017.

ASGV Representatives We have had some great highlights in the 2016 season along with a large number of students selected to represent Mentone Grammar in the AGSV Representative teams. This is a great reflection of the hard work that all of our students have put into the program, their teams and with personal fitness training.

We proudly acknowledge our Mentone Grammar representatives: AGSV Boys’ Representative Team Kai Owens – Basketball Corbin McCullough – Cross Country Thomas Siedle – Hockey Lewis Cotsopoulos (GK) – Soccer George Smethurst – Soccer Nanthawat Magee – Soccer Max Williams – Football Matthew Grigoriou – Football Edward Newman – Football Oliver Florent (Co VC) (Inj) – Football

Emergencies Bailey Clarkson – Basketball Lachlan Moorhouse – Cross Country Jack Laidlaw – Football Riley Sawyer – Hockey AGSV Girls’ Representative Team Brooke McCullough – Cross Country Hannah Schmidt – Cross Country Grace Bunting – Cross Country Jessica Ewart-McTigue (Inj) – Cross Country Madison Capsalis – Netball Courtney Munn (Co VC) – Basketball Bianca Malby-Luke (GK) – Soccer Charlotte Fryer – Soccer Stephanie Giccominato – Soccer Alexandra Boys – Soccer Samantha Fifer – Soccer Congratulations to all players on a season full of personal and team highlights.

Please enjoy a selection of Coaches reports from the season.

Leah Percy Director of Sport – Administration

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Aerobics

Over the season our Aerobics teams trained very hard, both during Sports training times and in extra sessions early mornings and lunch times.

Aerobics is a demanding sport that requires a sustained level of fitness and great attention to detail. All teams are to be commended for their discipline and dedication throughout 2016.

Two teams, Mentone Magic and Mentone Mystic, placed in this event and then progressed to represent Mentone Grammar at Nationals in Queensland. This is an outstanding achievement and it was pleasing to see such talent and dedication rewarded with the experience of competing at a national level.

Seven teams represented the School admirably in the Victorian Preliminary Aerobics competition, with three primary and four secondary teams going through to perform in the Wildcard and State Aerobics Championships.

Competing at the national level in Aerobics is tough and although our students performed to an extremely high standard, this year we were unable to secure a medal.

The girls performed extremely well and were a credit to the School, displaying excellent sportsmanship and resilience in a very tight competition.

Congratulations to all on being excellent representatives for the School and your sport. The following girls were recognised for their contributions:

Coaches Awards Anna Caley Charlotte Holland Claudia Levey Ellie Wright Commendation Charlotte Bratuskins Emma Rothberg Distinction Madeleine Ghent Maya Dunne Half Colours Sarah Caley Full Colours Lucy Mangion Mentone Grammar Aerobics Coaching Team

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Cross Country The Mentone Grammar AGSV Cross Country team finished fourth after seven rounds of fiercely contested competition. Our Girls’ team finished second in the AGSV Girls’ race reflecting the improvement that our girls have made, improving from fifth place in 2011. This improvement has been reflected in the number of girls in our AGSV team increasing from two girls in 2011 to 23 girls in 2016.

Individual highlights of the season were the individual AGSV medals for Corbin McCullough achieving Year 11 Bronze, Brady Watts winning Year 10 Silver and Will Garbelotto winning Year 7 Silver. Our girls were not to be outdone with Jessica Ewart-McTigue winning the Year 10 Silver medal, Lucy Burgess achieving Year 10 Bronze, Brooke McCullough winning Year 8 Gold and Hannah Schmidt winning Year 8 Silver.

Corbin McCullough, Jessica EwartMcTigue, Grace Bunting, Brooke McCullough and Hannah Schmidt all represented the AGSV Cross Country team against the APS team with Lachie Moorhouse as first emergency, reflecting the quality of runners in our

team. Corbin was incredible as he won the 6km AGSV v APS race in a blistering average time of 3.10min/km in muddy conditions at Marcellin.

The top runners in each year level were: Year 12 Kyle Solterbeck, Luc van Vliet and Will McCann Year 11 Corbin McCullough, Lachie Moorhouse and Zac Scherger Year 10 Brady Watts, Callum Matthew and James Rickard Year 9 Michael Garbelotto, Jesse Turner and Edward Kent Year 8 Brooke McCullough, Hannah Schmidt and Alexander Jones Year 7 Will Garbelotto, Jordie Michell and Daniel Matthew Our most improved Senior, Intermediate and Junior runners were: Robert McIntyre, Edward Kent and Jordie Michell.

Mentone Grammar also achieved excellent results in the All Schools Cross Country championships at both Jells Park and Albert Park with the best results being the Boys’ U20 team of Corbin McCullough, Lachie Moorhouse, Kyle Solterbeck and Brady Watts finishing fifth and the Boys’ U14 team of Will Garbelotto, Daniel Matthew, Jordie Michell and Campbell McDonald finishing sixth. Corbin also finished third in the U20 Victorian Cross Country Championships at Bundoora, earning him a place in the Victorian team for the National Championships, where he finished 16th.

Finally, I would like to thank Lachie Moorhouse, Emma Doyle and Corbin McCullough for their tremendous leadership of the teams this season.

They have inspired others with their performances, their commitment to training and encouragement of others and by organising Strava membership to help our team monitor their runs and encourage each other to improve.

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Girls’ Winter Sport First Basketball Coaches Arran Batish and Kate Hore Team Members Eliza Hollingsworth, Madison Daley, Jamie-Lee Munn, Courtney Munn, Lucy Bowman, Ella Ryan, Sophie van Vliet, Stephanie Kelly, Georgia Cooper, Ruby Timms Season Result: 1 – 11.

The 2016 season was one to remember for the Girls’ Basketball program. With our resurrection back in to the First competition we had to be switched on. Only having two practice matches before our first game, it was always going to be tough to get off to a good start.

Coming up against Carey in Game 1 we did quite the opposite, with the game coming down to the wire.

Unfortunately, we fell short by three points: 44-47, just running out of time. This was our warning shot to the competition that we weren’t just back, but back to leave our mark and compete to the end.

the girls’ determination and hard work week in, week out; not giving up and pushing quality well coached teams to the wire. Due to representative and state commitments we were sometimes down to only six players but that made them more determined.

As coaches we cannot fault them.

I would like to thank Assistant Coach, Kate Hore, for her efforts this year, and Leah and Erin for keeping us organised throughout the year. A massive thanks goes to the girls, for not giving up when it got tough and not being deterred by the cold and wet mornings travelling all the way to Kilmore, Ivanhoe and beyond. We have definitely laid the foundations for future years, where one day Mentone will raise the AGSV Cup. Good luck to all the girls in the Basketball program with their future endeavours!

Intermediate Basketball Coaches Zac Ibrhaim and Daniel Xiang

In our next nine games, we fell short in six games by six points or less but went on to win our last game in Kilmore against Assumption, 50-47.

Team Members Piper Beretta, Hebe Best, Megan Bresnehan, Jordan Fox, Emily Hill, Sophie Leonard, Jacquelyn Mendel, Jacinta Reading, Holly Svojtka, Remi Trigg, Katherine Tsihlakis

As a team with a short playing history we have not focused on the win/ loss record as a measure of success this season as it doesn’t do the girls justice. The real results are reflected in

It was a frosty Saturday morning awaiting the arrival of the comfortable Ventura bus, but the players expected no such comfort when they arrived in hostile territory. Away games were

something these girls reveled in, this group of individuals had the mentality to walk into any gym against any competitor and come out on top, sometimes not in score but always in spirit. This quality in players is something that cannot be taught and can only be attributed to the strength of character of each of these girls. It was in these tough away games where we saw their strength.

Filling a team with players lacking basketball experience left us at a disadvantage but it was their efforts and determination that motivated them to develop an understanding of the game and make great improvements in their skill levels.

In any given game you could potentially see Jacquie Mendel and Holly Svojtka each go to score 15+ without breaking a sweat, if any player made it possible to get seven fouls in a game it was Megan Bresnehan only because she was determined to lock down the best player on any opposing side. Jacinta Reading caught every ball that came her way. When it came to raw shooting power you would find Piper Beretta and Remi ‘Stephen Curry’ Trigg spacing the floor for the open ‘3s’. When there was a need for a spark of energy off the bench, Sophie Leonard had the X factor, never failing to get everyone involved. The raw talent of Hebe Best showed her prowess as an inside scorer and the ability to defend any shots under the

basket and the pairing of Kat Tsihlakis and Emily Hill were a solution to any issue. They were game changers that could play make, score, defend and rebound. Lastly, Jordan Fox when available was known as the ‘ultimate scorer’ and was all over the stat sheet.

With a passion to play every single game, you could see in the eyes of each player donning the navy blue and the white jersey the respect they held for one another. In the season result, after being graded to a fair Division where they could truly compete, the team battled for their season filled with many tough wins.

From a coach’s perspective, it was a long yet successful season where we faced many challenges early on, but everyone should embrace the satisfaction of knowing that the efforts they exerted and trust that they held in themselves to improve, paid off. With many more wins than losses in the second half of the season they had reached the level of accomplishment they worked so hard for in trainings.

Ambitious goals make for outstanding achievements.

First Netball Coaches Leah Percy and Chloe Sinclair Team Members Ellen Chick (Captain), Emily Fiddes (Co-Vice Captain), Madi Capsalis (CoVice Captain), Teaghan Avery, Sarah Thompson, Alex Siedle, Meg Siedle,

Lauren Bartlett, Kim Henricks, Brooke Carson, Mackenzie Bascombe, Dominique Taylor

Netball – Open Seconds

The First Netball team had a competitive season, with many ups and downs and lots of high quality netball. With a range of ages, the team improved and grew each week. They worked extremely hard at weekly 7am trainings where they pushed each other and themselves to the next level.

Though only winning four games for the season, and having some close losses as well, every single game was hard fought and each player should be commended for the hard work and dedication they brought to every game. All the girls brought their best, but special mention to Madi Capsalis, Alex Siedle, Meg Siedle, Emily Fiddes and Ellen Chick who were dominant players every week.

Team Members Caitriona Erskine, Charlotte Wiffin, Chloe McLennan, Gabrielle Burton, Georgina Phillips, Hannah Sinclair, Lexie Paterson, Molly Ford, Sienna Trigg, Stephanie Wilson and Zoe Maggio

Congratulations to Madi Capsalis, our phenomenal shooter, for making the AGSV Representative team, and to Ellen Chick, our superstar defender, for being chosen as an emergency. Also, special thanks to our Year 12s: Ellen Chick, Emily Fiddes, Sarah Thompson and Teaghan Avery, for being great leaders and stand out players.

We are really looking forward to building on this again next year and we know that there are a number of strong juniors and intermediate players who will add to this First team over the coming years.

Coach Tobi Cunningham

The team had a superb season, with only three losses for the season. The girls started the season slowly, with the first two games ending in losses.

These results, however, made the girls realise that this season was going to be tough, and in order to finish with more wins than losses, they had to work hard at training and work together as a team. With the girls’ determination to win, training became more intense and the girls worked on their weaknesses, such as rushing their passes, and focused on their strengths, such as remembering set plays and definite hard drives to the ball. Our goaling combination was magnificent, with Georgina Phillips always being an option along with Molly Ford’s quick base line drives.

For that unexpected pop up, Stephanie Wilson with her determination and outstanding accuracy was also effective. The defence combination of Charlotte Wiffin with her tight defence in the circle; Chloe McLennan with her amazing ability to read the play; Gabrielle Burton’s rebounds and Lexie

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Paterson’s exceptional hunting skills and quick drives were all amazing.

Lexie was also a part of the impressive mid-court combination that involved Caitriona Erskine, Hannah Sinclair with their impressive ability to feed into the ring as well as pick off intercepts all down the court. Sienna Trigg had an outstanding ability to make a quick drive to reach the top off the ring with a great feed into the goals. Zoe Maggio applied magnificent pressure on the ball and her loud encouragement of her team mates was always brilliant. The energy and the encouragement on and off the court is what made this team successful and their phenomenal achievement made their coaches very proud.

Intermediate A Netball Coach Brooke Hiscock Team Members Emma Vear (C), Erin Porter (C), Olivia Dickson, Belle Leonard, Amelia Vise, Bronte Reark, Lily Horne, Sarah Petfield, Bella Daddo, Lucy Burgess The team enjoyed a very successful season with many memorable moments. The girls, when playing their best, would have convincingly beaten any team in their Division. Sometimes, however, they seemed to want to make

glorious comebacks to torment a very stressed coach and shock parents watching from the sidelines. Our captains Emma Vear and Erin Porter were exceptional role models and great team motivators that led the team in a fantastic season.

The girls’ development was tremendous from the start of the season; the training sessions with the First team may even lead to some of the girls stepping up next season into the top team. The girls have so much to be proud of this season not only in their results but also in their teamwork and cooperation on and off the court.

With the majority of the team being bottom age for this Division the team will look to next season to build and develop even further.

Junior A Netball The Junior A team demonstrated strength, tenacity and team spirit from the onset. Their pure dedication to the sport, to learn many new techniques and support each other made them a stand out against the best of other teams. They fought hard with gusto during every game and were supported by their peers and family at all home games.

The team comprised a very strong mid court including Taylor Fox, Sophie

Porter, Caitlin Bourke and Charlie Peachey. A relentless Taylor called tactic numbers and girls had them memorised for each and every game often defying their opponents. The goals were rarely missed by both Matilda and Sophie and they were well supported by Caitlin and Elly.

Elly, Bethany, Tiana and Lauren proved to be a formidable defensive system and were able to lead the ball out of the ring on every occasion. The GS and GA on the opposing teams found them very difficult to score against!

It has been an absolute pleasure to train with these fantastic girls, a team I shall never forget for their mateship, respect for the game and hard work.

Many an umpire spoke to me post game of their technique, ability and sportsmanship. We won most of our games and we walked away feeling very proud.

Girls’ First Soccer Coaches Theresa Deas, Team Manager Tegan Johnston Team Members Tiana Storti (C), Sophie Antonellis (VC), Brittany Chambers (VC), Bianca MalbyLuke, Chelsy Hardy, Holly Adams, Cassidy Hardy, Lauren Fagan, Cate

Rausz, Piper Rausz, Charlotte Fryer, Samantha Fifer, Alexandra Boys, Sasha Widelski, Alyssa Hardy, Stephanie Sanderson, Stephanie Giccominato The team performed with courage and conviction this season, steadily improving from week to week. Both Yarra Valley and The Peninsula School were unable to field First teams in the 2016 competition, two of our closest rivals, so Mentone looked for wins against the strong APS Schools.

The girls took every game in their stride and gave all the teams close, strong competition. A highlight was beating Wesley 2-1 mid season. The Year 12 leadership group of Captain Tiana Storti, Sophie Antonellis, Brittany Chambers (Vice Captains), and Stephanie Sanderson, gave clear direction on game day and through the course of the season.

Good performances all round from Bianca Malby-Luke (GK), Stephanie Giccominato, Charlotte Fryer, Samantha Fifer, and a late call up of Alexandra Boys were rewarded with AGSV selection.

Our ranks were bolstered this season with the inclusion of Alyssa and Cassidy Hardy (Year 8), who stepped up to First Soccer with ease and added speed and enthusiasm to assist

strong performances from Sasha Widelski and Lauren Fagan. Chelsy Hardy, Holly Adams, and Piper Rausz played pivotal roles as utility players without question, as did Cate Rausz in her first year in the First team.

If our results in the 2016 season were based this year on enthusiasm, spirit and improvement, Mentone would have finished top of the ladder this year.

Soccer Intermediate Blue The Intermediate Blue girls were looking to continue their great form from the previous season and that they did. The girls played some impressive soccer throughout the season, going through undefeated. Lotus Jeffs would prove to be the most consistent player during the season whilst Bec and Daisy were our two highest goal scorers. Whilst the girls went through without a loss they did so with great sportsmanship and humility.

Table Tennis – Girls Coaches Jonathan Kuhn, Ms Siew Ping Lim Team A Jacqueline Wang, Iris Liu, Jiin Jeon, Jinhong Cho, Jane Liao, Danielle Wei, Vicky Meng, Rebecca Wang

Team B Antonia Chen, Genevieve Li, Phoebe Yu, Elea Zhou, Mickle Chen, Ellen Liu, Louise Solomonides, Miranda Li Having only two schools competing against each other (Mentone Grammar and Haileybury) throughout the winter season, this year became more about the development in skills and attitude towards the game of Table Tennis.

Having lost many former Year 12s had a large impact on our overall skill level, however the remaining seemed unaffected by it.

Throughout the Wednesday trainings and Saturday games the girls showed enthusiasm, some plainly enjoying the sport and competitive vibe, while others were determined to improve their skill. Not only was it good to see such a positive attitude to their sport, but also how they maintained it throughout the season whether they were winning or losing. Well done on a wonderful season, even though Haileybury won in the end! I wish the Year 12s all the best for the remainder of their studies and future endeavours.

Well done!

Jonathan Kuhn

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Boys’ Winter Sport First XVIII Football Coaches Danny Ryan and Peter O’Gorman Season Result 6 wins and 2 losses – Lost to Marcellin in final, finished 4th on Ladder.

The season started over the Christmas holiday period with several of the First XVIII squad getting together for ‘Sat Nite Skills & Thrills’ on the School oval. Along with a Summer Running program, there was a real focus on improved skills to complement the ‘system’ of play at Mentone Grammar.

Preseason matches were mostly uneventful – but the dominating win over Aquinas College from Perth with close to our full squad, including the addition of the St Kilda scholarship holder in Barclay Miller. This gave Peter and myself cause for optimism going into Round 1 against Assumption.

Round 1 saw us play some good football in patches and we hung on to outlast Assumption and record a two point win; the first ever over

Assumption by any Mentone Grammar First team. Whilst that was cause for celebration, we were quickly bought back to earth with a thud, and had bad losses against both PEGS and Ivanhoe, over two consecutive ‘away’ Friday matches, as well as the unfortunate loss of one of our premier midfielders in Will Burmeister during the PEGS game.

A reset was needed, and it came in the form of the unbeaten Marcellin, who visited ‘The Keys’ on a damp Saturday morning in late May. They ran straight into an ‘ambush’ as the Mentone Grammar First XVIII set about a fierce ‘hard to play against’ game of football.

From the moment in the middle of the first quarter when Ed Newman tackled his opponent off the ground, into mid-air and over the boundary line, we were never going to be beaten – and the players set themselves a new ‘gold standard’ of team football.

The season played out with an unbeaten streak against Yarra Valley, Camberwell (where Barclay Miller

kicked six goals) and a strong win against Trinity to close out the season with a 6-2 win-loss record.

We then took on Marcellin in the first Semi-Final in a Top Vs 4th clash, for the right to progress to the Grand Final. In the end we lost by a solitary goal. Throughout the match we suffered significant adversity in the form of injuries to: Lachlan Newman (Q1: 3 mins), Matt Grigoriou (Q1: 10mins), Matt Hennig (Q2: 20mins), and Tom Gamble (Q4: 5mins). But to the players credit they ‘never ever gave up’ and indeed made the School and their families extremely proud, as they fought the game out right to the end – even hitting the lead late in Q4, before eventually losing by that solitary goal.

Marcellin went on to win the Grand Final, and have only lost the one game in the last two years – to the mighty men from Mentone Grammar!

Congratulations and a huge thanks to all the boys who trained with and played First XVIII throughout the 2016 Season – you have been magnificent and a

pleasure to work with. Also a big thanks to both Peter O’Gorman (Asst Coach), Greg Evans (Team Manager), and Rob Foyster (Team Physio) for your undying support for myself and the team.

Additionally, Matthew Kolivas and Patrick Myles regularly trained with the First squad and gained valuable experience that will greatly assist in their future development.

Lachlan Petfield. Regardless of the result, and they had many victories, they were always prepared, motivated and supportive of the students in their development.

Still with unfinished business in 2017!

In 2015, the team was dominated by Year 10 students, which allowed us to be one of the ‘stronger bodied’ teams; 2016 would not be the same with the majority of the team coming from the Year 9 cohort. And, while not as physically mature as much of the opposition, they showed a great deal of skill, courage and teamwork throughout the year.

Football at Mentone is bright with some very strong and able students moving through the Intermediate years and into the senior squad. I am confident a number of boys going into Year 10 will, like Lachie and Harry, be a part of the First XVIII Squad in 2017.

Danny Ryan

Intermediate Football With over 80 Years 9 and 10 boys on the list for the first training session, it was easy to see that AFL is alive and well at Mentone. After a successful 2015; with a number of victories, some narrow losses and most importantly, a number of boys getting the opportunity to play in the Firsts, the focus for 2016 would be the same – challenge the boys to be the best they can, regardless of the level they are playing.

While it would have been nice to have them, it was pleasing that two Year 10 boys, Lachlan Newman and Harry Houlahan didn’t play a single game with us as they played all games with the Firsts – a fantastic achievement.

Each game we discussed that the Intermediate years were about individual and team development and, while winning is nice, I was always more interested in the boys learning to play a certain style of football that will help them and the School achieve success as they move through into their senior years.

An enjoyable year was had by all and I appreciate the support of fellow coaches, John Horler, Ben Rossi and

Jarrod O’Neill

Football 7A Coach Craig Kernick Team Members Tom Harris, Declan McComb, Alec McComb, Lachlan Brooks, Lachlan Jones, Lachlan Bourke, Angus Newman, Angus Perkins, Peter Papadopoulos, Dylan Hinton, Jacob Farrow, Mitch Owens, Jacob Edwards, Nick Plevritis, Harry Officer, Oliver Moran, Sam Leahy, Harrison Zammit, Jack Caughey, Daniel Altoff-Dowell

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Boys’ Winter Sport Season Result 9 Games/9 Wins – undefeated.

This team is one of very talented boys who were fortunate to have come together this season. All the boys showed great attitude to learning the game and all brought incredible effort and skill throughout the entire season.

Overall, it has been a pleasure and privilege to have the opportunity to coach 7A Football. A fantastic achievement by all the boys involved.

Football Year 8 Coach Peter Ryan Team Members Jeremy Campbell, William Durston, Tighe Taylor, Adam Laws, James Mooney, Angus Rimanic, Charlie Webster, Thomas Shepherd, William Skinner, Ben Murphy, Archie Padley, Josh Culley, Trent Meakins, Blake Williams, Tarlis Reed, Kieren Dyer, Ace Brodie, Oskar Phillips,

Koby Thomson, Lachlan Rundmann, Tom Grant, Sebastian Zahra, Thomas Spencer, Samuel Rose Season Result Played 9, Won 5, Lost 4 We had a slow start to the season being 0-3 after the first three rounds.

What was so impressive from this group of young men was their determination and effort each quarter and each week but, unfortunately, couldn’t put the score on the board.

Although, they kept their heads held high and stuck to the task asked of them each week. As their confidence in each other and the game plan grew, so did the score board, which culminated in finishing the back end of the season 5-1.

These boys have now completed their second year of a six year journey in School Football, so they are a third of the way through. As they continue to

develop as individuals and as a team in 2016, I look forward to seeing each year’s growth particularly when it culminates in Year 12, when fulfilling that elusive dream of a Football premiership for Mentone Grammar which could become a reality.

Hockey First XI Coaches Ed Fisher and Laz Moutafis Team Members Thomas Siedle (C), Riley Sawyer (VC), Steven Chandler GK, Elly Blasse, Dekota Mark, Tim Cansdale, Daniel Liacos, Cameron Moorhouse, Piermon Schwarz, Adam Pratt, Josh Miller, Nick Sheppard, Luke Shi, Geordie Hore, Jacob Althoff-Dowell, Jack Bunting, Jackson Palmer, Liam Grant, Guy Witherow, Steven Daly, Daniel Carruthers, Ranjith Prasannan(GK) Season Result 0 Wins, 7 Losses.

The 2016 season was always going to be a tough season for the Mentone First XI Hockey team, with only three squad members having previously played at this level. This meant that the majority of the team were playing in a much higher grade than they’d previously played. However, the team was determined to keep focused on playing as a team and improving themselves every week.

Special congratulations should firstly be made to Steve Chandler, who was the team’s main goalkeeper. Steve did an amazing job in goals for his First XI season debut, being a Year 9 student playing against senior players, some of whom also play at State and National level.

Round 1 was an eye-opening game against Camberwell; a team that always finishes in the Top 3. While Mentone was able to defend well and provide a solid opposing pressure

against the constant Camberwell attacks, the team’s combined inexperience at this level was evident and by the end of the match, Mentone had given it all.

game. Mentone provided strong opposition, even with Steve playing injured and Dekota missing in the backline due to injury, but Ivanhoe was just too strong.

Round 2 should have been a much closer game against Marcellin, but unfortunately the team had a lot of senior players missing due to School music and other commitments. While the team did step up to fill the gaps, again inexperience was our downfall and Marcellin was able to run away with their first win. Despite the second loss, Mentone players kept their heads high and, with the addition of the Round 3 Bye, trained well leading into Round 4 against Ivanhoe.

Round 5 was yet another tough game, but was Mentone’s best game to date. Facing PEGS, who were minor premiers this season, at home was a daunting task, but Mentone was determined. The first half saw Mentone actively pressing the PEGS backline thanks to multiple plays up forward by Riley, with ever present support from the rest of the team.

With this, the team managed to have three shots on goal and kept PEGS at five goals at half time. The second half was a continuation of the first half, with everyone playing as a team.

Unfortunately, PEGS was able to double their score thanks to multiple penalty corners and their State grade drag flicker.

Round 4 had a delayed start thanks to both umpires not turning up. A solution was found through Ivanhoe graciously putting forward two members of their supporter group to umpire the game and allow the teams to still play their

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Round 6 was an early and wet start against Yarra Valley at Croydon.

Mentone was wary of Yarra, who finished as minor premiers last season but were currently just above Mentone on the ladder. Mentone continued their improving form and were able to finish the game with the many positives to look on.

Round 7 was a home game against Trinity, another Top 3 team. As it had been the whole season, Mentone were determined to show their opposition that they were an improving team and they did just that. Our Mentone team gave everything it could against Trinity and, through some team basics, were resulted with Geordie scoring their first (and only) goal for the season.

Round 8 was a playoff final for last place against Yarra and unfortunately this meant another long trip to Croydon. Through the pre-game words of Piermon, ‘I am proud to play for this team’ and after the massively improving season Mentone had

produced thus far, the team walked onto the pitch with confidence in each other and the knowledge that win or lose, they were Mentone. The first half looked to be anyone’s game as both sides had multiple shots on goal, but Yarra Valley managed to get a single late goal. The second half saw Yarra Valley show their scoring experience by scoring four more goals, but thanks to Steve and a solid Mentone defence, Yarra Valley did have to work hard for them.

Hockey 9A Coaches Hayden Mitchell and staff support Kim Wootton Team Members Andrew Lancaster, Cooper Hamlin, Daniel Carruthers, Edward Yang, Jack Cullen, Jake Adderley, Jakob Sloan, Jeremy Miao, Joseph Childerley, Nathan Harbutt, Nathan Klein, Nicholas Berry, Nicolas Opie, Tarn Smith.

The Year 9A Hockey team demonstrated what it means to

never give in, play with discipline, teamwork, selflessness and a huge dose of courage. The final score was not our measure of success, it was the emphasis on team effort – all the contests and tackles laid on opposition players, the pressure, the will and commitment to help each other out.

Hayden Mitchell coached the team with passionate direction and the development of improved skill level and cohesion became evident during the season. Really pleasing was the improvement in individual basic skills (pushing, hitting and trapping), structure, decision-making and the willingness to make personal improvements. The defensive players exhibited working together and manning up to help the keeper in protecting the goals.

It is hard to imagine how it could have been any more tense for all of us who witnessed the ‘never give in’ spirit the team displayed. The season result did not reflect the true nature

of how the team played. There was a lot to be positive about – continued improvement in passing the ball, trapping and tackling skills. We are very proud of your effort, your courage against stronger opposition and your ‘never give up’ attitude. Amazing!

To all members of the team who contributed to such a great team effort – well done!

Kim Wootton and Hayden Mitchell

Hockey 8A Coaches Luke Linden and Arron Richard Team Members Adam Carnegie, Lachlan Howard, Simon Coubard, Harrison Dart, William Hibbs, Mitchell Kershaw, Joshua Madden, Jake O’Brien, Felix O’NeillPugh, Jeremy Di Rosato, Sam Davie, Myles Brown, Henry Lewis, Harry Pertzel, Angus Armstrong, Valdis Guppy, Kevin Helmerson, Denzil Paranihi When the season started I was confronted with a team of young

men who were largely uncertain of what was in store for them. However, as the season progressed the team was surprised with the early results.

Securing two draws and a win just within the first three rounds, the team could barely believe their own performance with only losing a total of two matches throughout the season I could not be more impressed with the development and performance of this group of young men who gave every match their all, regardless of the situation. Even though there were only a few boys who played club hockey all of them learned to better understand the game and play to a much higher standard as a team, compared to the beginning of the season.

deserved 2-0 lead at half time. Ivanhoe took the ascendancy in to the latter half of the second period and were rewarded with two goals, one with the last kick of the game salvaging a 2-2 draw for IGS. The team would use this game as motivation for the rest of the season and went on to win the next four games, 4-0 against Peninsula, 3-2 in the dying stages against Camberwell, 2-1 in similar circumstances against Yarra Valley and finally a commanding 2-0 victory against 2015 Premiership team, Marcellin. Unfortunately, the next two games would not go to plan, a 5-0 defeat to PEGS followed by a 2-1 loss to Trinity pushed Mentone down to fourth position for the finals series.

First XI Soccer

This meant a tough semi final trip to PEGS, who had won every game during the home and away season.

The trip to PEGS was made even harder after 25 minutes when the home side took a 1-0 lead; from here it was all Mentone for the following 25 minutes and this dominance was

The First XI Soccer team had an outstanding season. Following a tough preseason where the team was undefeated, the season proper began at home against 2015 Runners up, Ivanhoe Grammar School. A dominant first half display gave Mentone a

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The team had a few chances but was unable to convert; they were then hit by the ‘sucker punch’ as PEGS went up the other end to take a 2-1 lead. As we pressed forward for an equaliser, PEGS hit them on the break to score two more goals. The final result of 4-1 flattering the home side. The SemiFinal loss meant a third place play off game against Trinity, with the boys determined to make up for the regular season loss. This determination led to a 4-2 victory and a third place finish, the highest finish since the one and only premiership in the early 1990s.

An outstanding season punctuated with the selection of three players in to the AGSV team to play the APS and a number of other players unlucky to miss out.

Soccer Intermediate A

The 2016 season was a tough one where we promised much, but lapses in concentration cost us dearly. In many of the games, we held our own against some of the top teams in the competition, yet periods where we would switch off for a few minutes would see us concede goals that we were then unable to claw back.

approach from the outset. With some clinical finishing from Captain Will Carter, we took an early lead before Trinity got one back. It felt like a very familiar scenario but with some determined defending from Jamie Rosaia, Adam Mahmoud and Tim East, alongside strong midfield play from Mina Attia and Zac Vallis, we avoided our familiar pitfalls. In fact, we regained the lead just before half time with another sterling effort from Carter and, from a position in which we might previously have capitulated, we held out for a memorable win.

The highlight of the season was a memorable victory against Trinity away, a resolute performance that made up for a loss to the same team in a fiery encounter earlier in the season.

Despite arriving at the game with no subs, due to some late withdrawals, there was a sense of purpose to our

The Inter-As walk away from the season with a greater appreciation of the importance of a consistent performance, along with the knowledge that finishing is an area for improvement, but also with a strong core group who will no doubt rise to the challenge next year.

Coach James Walton Season Result 13 per cent win ratio.

Soccer Intermediate D Coach Giancarlo Leung Team Members James Bouwmeester, Alex Cai, Alan Chen, Tommy Du, Peter Fan, Tom Goodman, Jamie Hordogoda, Roy Li, Ken Lin, Lucas Lyn, Jayde Maluga, Sean McCubbin, Nathan Ong, Paul Pan, Ivan Ping, James Siadis, Sam Song, Henry Wang, Jack Zhang and Jericho (Heng) Liang.

Season Result 3 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw in their Division.

This squad was made up of Years 9 and 10 students, as well as a number of boys on international exchange to Mentone Grammar. While there were some challenges with self-belief in playing abilities and finding someone who wanted to play goal keeper,

they all gave their best efforts in training and in matches and their skills improved immensely. It was great to see a group of students encourage and support each other, which created a good team atmosphere. During the whole season the boys put more focus on the process of applying the skills which built their confidence to play the game. This team played eight matches over the winter and their development as a team to be competitive in all those games is very rewarding not just for themselves, but satisfying as a coach.

Soccer 7B Coach Jordan Johnson Team Members Jesse Clarke, Zane Cooper, Toby Hynes, Leonard Liu, Marcus van Straaten, Lachlan Taylor Singtong Chan, Andreas Michael, Ben Gerresheim, Daniel Nikolayevsky,

Cooper Cox, Matt Leembruggen, Elliot Carruthers, Daniel Poberezovsky, Karson Kilpady, Ed Phillips, Max Hine, Tom Litsios, Jack Littleford, George Zacharis, Simon Stevens The boys had a tough season in their first year of AGSV sport at Mentone Grammar, however, they approached every training and game with high levels of enthusiasm and determination. As the boys were in a high level competition, it was unfortunate to only draw once and end the season without a win.

Nevertheless, their skills improved immensely and their teamwork was remarkable, with every team member attending training and each of the games. I wish the boys the best in their sporting endeavours; they were a pleasure to train.

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On Wednesday 7 September, the Mentone Grammar Athletics team competed against the other AGSV schools at the Lakeside Stadium at Albert Park. It was a fantastic carnival which saw both the Boys’ and Girls’ teams compete alongside each other.

The Mentone Grammar students can be tremendously proud of the way they performed as individuals and as a team. The day saw the culmination of many training sessions come together for this one event. It is always a tough season due to the many commitments that the students have at this time of the year. The team performed with great distinction on the day and there were many personal bests across a variety of events, so well done to all.

The Girls’ team finished an excellent 4th and the Boys’ team finished fifth. With several injuries in the lead up and on the day – both teams should be very proud of their achievements. This is an excellent finish as both teams scored more team points than ever before.

Everyone should be very proud of what they all have achieved as a team.

Staff members put their own time in to

offer a program to coach the students to improve as best they can so their efforts are noted: I would like to thank the following staff members for their efforts over the season: Mr Andrew Hayes, Miss Jenna Oliver, Mr Michael Woolhouse, Mr Michael Martin, Mr Henry Kiss, Mr Craig Best, Mr Rohan Murphy, Ms Kym Willett, Mr Wayne Essing, Ms Robyn Fuerst, and Mr John Twist – your contribution has been fantastic. A special thank you also goes to Leah Percy and Erin Hunt from the Sport’s Department for their terrific support.

U16 800m – Lucy Burgess Long Jump – Lucy Burgess 100m – Natalie Clucas 200m – Natalie Clucas 400m – Lucy Burgess 1500m – Jessica Ewart-McTigue Discus – Stephanie Kelly Shot Put – Alex Siedle 90m Hurdles – Lauren Fagan High Jump – Lauren Fagan 4 x 100m – Rachel Watson Stephanie Kelly Lauren Fagan Natalie Clucas

Girls and Boys Individual Top 3 finishes are listed:

U15 Triple Jump – Bronte Reark 3rd Shot Put – Dominique Taylor 2nd 1500m – Brooke McCullough 2nd High Jump – Ella Mairs 2nd 80m Hurdles – Skye Carter 1st Long Jump – Lauren Malby-Luke 3rd 4 x 100m – Skye Carter 3rd Lauren Malby-Luke Bronte Reark Meg Bresnehan

Open 400m – Natalie Clucas U17 100m – Anna Laidlaw 200m – Anna Laidlaw 400m – Anna Laidlaw Discus – Jamie-Lee Munn 4 x 100m – A nna Laidlaw Rebecca Hayes Mia McCulloch Alison Ahern

2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd 1st 3rd

U14 Long Jump – Cassie Newman

1st 2nd 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st

2nd

U13 Triple Jump – Cassie Newman Long Jump – Olivia Hargreaves 100m – Summer Leonard 200m – Summer Leonard 400m – Riley Spence Discus – Lily Clucas Shot Put – Summer Leonard 80m Hurdles – Olivia Hargreaves 800m – Cassie Newman High Jump – Bethany Bratuskins 4 x 100m – Summer Leonard Cassie Newman Riley Spence Olivia Hargreaves

3rd 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd

Open 100m – Dhruv Rodrigues Chico 1st 200m – Dhruv Rodrigues Chico 1st High Jump – Barclay Miller 3rd 1500m – Corbin McCullough 2nd 3000m – Corbin McCullough 1st 4 x 100m – D hruv Rodrigues Chico 1st Harrison Edwards George Smethurst Jesse Reed 4 x 400m – Jesse Reed 2nd Luke D’Allessandro Dhruv Rodrigues Chico Tom Siedle

U17 Hurdles – Aidan Taylor Shot Put – Ben Awad

2nd 2nd

U16 1500m – Geordie Hore Trenton Johnson High Jump – Conor Murray 800m – Geordie Hore Shot Put – Damien Papadopoulos Triple Jump – Aaron Moore

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U15 Discus – Jeremy Campbell Long Jump – Chris Perkins

3rd 2nd

U14 High Jump – Ethan Martin Hurdles – Ethan Martin 800m – Will Garbelotto 1500m – Will Garbelotto Alec McComb 100m – Ethan Prabaharan 200m – Ethan Prabaharan

1st 1st 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd

U13 800m – Jordan Michell Long Jump – Mitch Owens High Jump – Mitch Owens

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Andrew Hayes Director of Athletics

Girls’ Team Result 1

Ivanhoe

318

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Yarra Valley

263

3

Peninsula

262

4

Mentone

260

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PEGS

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Trinity

530.5

2

Peninsula

446.5

3

Marcellin

409

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PEGS

400

5

Mentone

379

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Ivanhoe

376.5

7

Camberwell

348

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Yarra Valley

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Cocurricular

Swimming Squad

Row 5: Tighe Taylor, Hannah Schmidt, Brooke McCullough, Natalie Clucas, Carl Simondson, Phoebe Wearne, Maya Thilak-Mathew, Brannan Smith, Ella Mairs, Summer Leonard, Felix O’Neill-Pugh, Ben Sorrenson, Sophie Appel, Sammy Fifer, Alecsander McComb

Girls’ Swimming Premiership Team Row 4: Lulu Moore, Tayla Fox, Jenna Wale, Jayde Boyd, Tarn Smith, Teah Vassiliadis

Row 4: N icholas Layton, Lily Clucas, Lachlan Bourke, Olivia Goodman, Tarn Smith, Fynn Baxter, Jayde Boyd, Isabelle Koh, Jenna Wale, Lily Gorringe, Sam Rose, Tayla Fox, Evie Sorrenson, Kieren Dyer, Kane Wilson

Row 3: Jessica Balleggi, Emily Bresnehan, Brianna Vassiliadis, Bridie Wilson, Emily Webster, Isabelle Koh

Row 3: E mily Webster, Jessica Balleggi, Harry Dart, Bridie Wilson, Jack Cullen, Joshua Cooley, Chloe Garifalakis, Trenton Johnson, Kai Lindsay, Brianna Vassiliadis, Michael Garbelotto, Emma Scherger, Declan McComb, Max Rothberg

Row 1: Natalie Clucas, Amy Long, Kate Frazer, Stephanie Sanderson, Amanda Barnhoorn, Molly Ford, Stuart Bainbridge, Jordan Fox, Phoebe Wearne

Row 2: B rayden Johnson, Ethan Gorringe, Valdis Guppy, Jack Heaven, James O’Day, Brayden Miller, Teah Vassiliadis, Lulu Moore, Lotus Jeffs, Xavier Hogios, Angus Armstrong, Georgia Terry, Isabella Terry, Nalisha Ong

Row 2: Nalisha Ong, Samantha Fifer, Brooke McCullough, Chloe Garifalakis, Jessica Ewart-McTigue, Hannah Schmidt, Sophie Appel, Lotus Jeffs Absent: Grace Howell

Row 1: C ameron Connell, Sam Thiele, Amy Long, Jamie Brown, Stuart Bainbridge, Stephanie Sanderson, Frazer Kemp, Amanda Barnhoorn, Molly Ford, Max Williams, Kate Frazer, Jesse Reed, Emma Doyle, Finn Wheeler, Emily Bresnehan Absent: Spencer Blain-Bartle, Joseph Childerley, Matthew Harris, Grace Howell, Jude Lowe, Corbin McCullough, Bronte Reark, Emma Rothberg, Kyle Solterbeck, Lucas Waters, Guy Witherow

Junior AGSV Swimming Row 5: Jed Zammit, Ella Heidecker, Nalisha Ong, Michael Krol, William Nish, Emily Zallmann, Hayden Cooley, Charlotte Wood, Sean Lai

Boys’ Swimming Premiership Team Row 4: Brannan Smith, Alecsander McComb, Jack Williams, Tom Lewis, Tighe Taylor, Declan McComb Row 3: Carl Simondson, Oskar Phillips, Nicholas Archibald, James Rickard, Trenton Johnson, Joshua Cooley, Kieren Dyer Row 2: Lachlan Bourke, Quayd Duffin, Tom Lapa, Nicholas Layton, James Kerr, Ben Putamorsi, Max Rothberg, Michael Garbelotto, Fynn Baxter Row 1: Amy Long, Jamie Brown, Kate Frazer, Max Williams, Amanda Barnhoorn, Frazer Kemp, Stuart Bainbridge, Sam Thiele, Jesse Reed Absent: Spencer Blain-Bartle, Matthew Harris, Kyle Solterbeck

Row 4: Monique Zahra, Tully McKinnon, Carlos Reynolds, Alex Barrett, Ashton Phillips, William Hughes, Riley Spence, Alanah Becker Row 3: Sophie Sibbald, Sarah Connell, Zoe Pertzel, Summer Leonard, Sienna Salisbury, Amelia Pritchard, Grace Laidlaw, Lulu Moore, Madison Brown Row 2: Scarlet Park, Kyle Roos, Tom Wale, Mackenzie Hood, Ashleigh Hopkins, Ayden Roos, Jasper Zdanus, Nina Pertzel Row 1: Elise Laws, Jett Spence, Holly Wale, Hudson Bucci, Tomas Barlow, Alexander Hopkins, Nichola Di Tirro, Toby Straw, Holly Nish

SWIMMING

Row 6: Tom Lewis, Oskar Phillips, Jessica Ewart-McTigue, Ben Putamorsi, James Kerr, Tom Lapa, Quayd Duffin, Tim Silvester, James Rickard, Jordan Fox, Nicholas Archibald, Jack Williams

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Row 2: M r Leigh Rowlands Zac Scherger Wesley Flavell Braden Watts

Row 2: S am Ralph Joel Amartey Kai Owens Harrison Smyth

Row 1: J ason Bartonek Anthony Tamborriello Trent Jones Sahishnu Siva Ram

Row 1: H arrison Bridge Benjamin Charnley Steve Hoare Samuel Callahan Barclay Miller

Absent: O liver Florent Jaiden Watts

Row 2: M rs Hanni Alston, Ryan Buckler, Mitchell Scott, Patrick Bankin, Harrison Edwards, Matthew Grigoriou, Mr Luke Campbell Row 1: K eenen Marrier D’Unienville, Joshua Stephenson, James Davidson, William Burmeister, Cameron Moorhouse

First Netball Row 2: Alexandra Siedle, Sarah Thompson, Dominique Taylor, Lauren Bartlett, Mackenzie Bascombe, Megan Siedle Row 1: Emily Fiddes, Brooke Carson, Chloe Sinclair, Ellen Chick, Leah Percy, Teaghan Avery, Kimberley Henricks Absent: Madison Capsalis

Sailing Row 2: G race Phillips Lachlan Hughes Eliza Ewart Patrick Distefano Nicholas Berry

First XI Cricket Row 2: Everard Fenton, Michael Wilton, Massey Parker, Callum Strack, Aidan Taylor, Emile Tait, James Kerr, Lewis Diggins, Trevor Stevens Row 1: Edward Newman, Abhijit Das, Matthew Hennig, Jack Cunnington, William Avery, Aman Prasad, Samuel Hutcheon Absent: Harry Austin, Owen Leonard, Thomas Siedle

Row 1: P atrick Myles Julian Sasson Maxwell Marrow Molly Ford Brandon Demura

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First Boys’ Tennis Premiership Team

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Matthew Dunkerley Jack Ryder Dhamsika Samarapathi Joshua Jaden Allan Cheng

Row 2: Lucas Filikotzias Haoran Liu Xichen Sun Dooyeon Lee

Absent: Alexander Harris Jonathan Kuhn

Row 1: M inghui Fan Margaret Lee Keling Chen David Barber Xiyan Zhang Absent: Allen Jing, Fanglei Li, Junlin Yan, Boyuan Zhang, Zeyang Chen

First Girls’ Touch Rugby

Row 1: M adison Daley Stephanie Kelly Elies El Chaar Belle Leonard Lauren Fagan

Senior Aerobics Row 2: Tessa Scott Alexandra Sheppard Madeleine Ghent Madelyn Brooks Sarah Caley Row 1: M aya Dunne Lucy Mangion Bella Houlahan Alexandra Richards Sophie Appel Helena Papasimeon

First Girls’ Volleyball Row 2: T ara White Charlotte Wiffin Lauren Bartlett Eliza Harvey Charlotte Hamilton Row 1: C ourteney Munn Anthea Counsel Brittany Chambers

Senior Girls’ Badminton Row 2: Yuqi Meng Jacqueline Wang Yinuo Li Yawen Li Haili Wang Row 1: Q iqi Liao Ying Zhou Xinyi Liu Yue Yu Miao Miao Chen

First XVIII Football Row 2: P eter O’Gorman, Lachlan Newman, Edward Newman, Harrison Houlahan, Massey Parker, Nicholas Walliser, Lewis Diggins, Mitchell Scott, Max Rothberg, Joel Amartey, Finlay Dodson, Harrison Smyth, Sam Ralph, Jesse Reed, Tom Zallmann, William Armstrong, William Avery, Greg Evans Row 1: T homas Gamble, Barclay Miller, Kai Owens, James Davidson, Oliver Florent, Danny Ryan, Harrison Edwards, Matthew Hennig, Max Williams, Jack Cunnington

TABLE TENNIS, TOUCH RUGBY, VOLLEYBALL, BADMINTON, AEROBICS, FOOTBALL

Row 2: M egan Bresnehan Megan Siedle Madison Capsalis Alexandra Siedle Kimberley Henricks

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First Girls’ Soccer Squad

Row 3: D aniel Liacos, Piermon Schwarz, Jack Bunting, Adam Pratt

Row 3: Stephanie Sanderson, Chelsy Hardy, Piper Rausz

Row 2: Laz Moutafis, Steven Chandler, Tim Cansdale, Elly Blasse, Steven Daly, Josh Miller, Ed Fisher

Row 2: Samantha Fifer, Holly Adams, Lauren Fagan, Cate Rausz, Bianca Malby-Luke, Charlotte Fryer

Row 1: Luke Shi, Jacob Althoff-Dowell, Riley Sawyer, Thomas Siedle, Geordie Hore, Cameron Moorhouse

Row 1: Alyssa Hardy, Alexandra Boys, Sophie Antonellis, Tiana Storti, Brittany Chambers, Sasha Widelski, Cassidy Hardy

Absent: Harry Kingston, Dekota Mark, Jackson Palmer, Nicholas Sheppard, Guy Witherow

Absent: Theresa Deas, Stephanie Giccominato

First Girls’ Basketball Squad Row 2: S tephanie Kelly Jamie-Lee Munn Madison Daley Eliza Hollingsworth Georgia Cooper Ruby Timms Row 1: C ourteney Munn Ella Ryan Absent: A rran Batish, Lucy Bowman, Kate Hore, Sophie van Vliet

First Boys’ Soccer Squad Row 3: Harry Austin, Damian Papadopoulos, Paul Holland Row 2: Adam Leander, Kiaan Storti, Aidan Taylor, Lachlan England, Dhruv Rodrigues Chico, David Gibson Row 1: Nanthawat Magee, Riley Ghent, Luke D’Alessandro, George Smethurst, Marc Shermon, Rees Emsley, Julius Schulze Absent: Jack Athanas, Bradley Chick, Lewis Cotsopoulos, Tim Macdonald, Jacob Michaelides, Alexander Tzimokas, Peter Varsamis

HOCKEY, SOCCER, BASKETBALL

First Hockey Squad

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Cross Country Squad Row 4: M iranda Li, Shinji Hibino, Rocky Zhang, Scott Shi, Mingyuan Gao, Timothy Silvester, Lucas Waters, Luc van Vliet, Samuel Callahan, Mingjie Jin, William McCann, James Rickard, Braden Watts, Charlotte Hamilton

Cheltenham District Athletics

Row 2: K irra Pemberton, Zac Scherger, Hugo Marcombe, William Garbelotto, Brooke McCullough, Benjamin Stone, Jenna Wale, Phoebe Wearne, Campbell McDonald, Blake Ibrhaim, Jayde Boyd, Natalie Clucas, Thomas Charles, Cassandra Newman, Jordan Michell, Alexander Jones, Grace Bunting

Row 5: S ean Lai, Josh Lai, Jaden Prabaharan, Lachlan Fraser, Sophie Frost, Jack Rimanic, Lucy Page

Row 1: E mma Scherger, Hannah Schmidt, Daniel Matthew, Olivia Hargreaves, Carson Mumford, Teah Vassiliadis, Terry Matthew, Corbin McCullough, Emma Doyle, Lachie Moorhouse, Paul Matthew, Sabrina van Dort, Keenan Haagen, Holly Wale, Hudson Bucci, Tara van Straaten, Sienna Bolton Absent: Spencer Blain-Bartle, David Cao, Collin Chen, Jason Chen, Matthew Doyle, Michael Garbelotto, Leo Liu, Anna Lofthouse, Max Pedder, Paul Stockdale, James Stone, Xichen Sun, Hunter Wang, Shawn Wang, Lucas Ying, Joe Zhang

Row 4: M athieson Meakins, Holly Wale, Emily Zallmann, Jada Stephens, Madeleine O’Hara, Alanah Becker, William Nish, Tara van Straaten, Toby Straw Row 3: L achlan Smith, Lexie Allan, Carlos Reynolds, Zali Morris, Sienna Salisbury, Summer Leonard, Dennis Tezay, Max Athanas, Riley Spence, Hudson Bucci Row 2: J asper Zdanius, Ella Michell, Nina Pertzel, Ayden Roos, Tomas Barlow, Kyle Roos, Holly Nish, Elisha Parkes, Luca Hayes Row 1: M ia Castello, Catherine Galati, Jude Scott, Hayley Parr, Kai Reed, Angus Marcombe, Nichola Di Tirro, Thomas Byrne, Monique Zahra, Noemi Sniezek

AGSV Athletics Squad Row 5: Bronte Reark, Lauren Malby-Luke, Megan Siedle, Anna Laidlaw, Rachel Watson, Rebecca Hayes, Jessica Ewart-McTigue, Benjamin Charnley, Angus Marcombe, Alexandra Siedle, Mia McCulloch, Lauren Fagan, Georgia Rowan, Grace Felsenthal, Phoebe Wearne

Junior AGSV Cross Country Row 3: Jordan Kurta, Emily Zallmann, Riley Spence, Riley Wollen, Summer Leonard, Zali Morris, Alanah Becker, William Nish Row 2: Thomas Byrne, Alexander Hopkins, Ella Heidecker, Jack Rimanic, Kai Reed, Victoria Gelbak, Angus Marcombe, Tara van Straaten Row 1: Mathieson Meakins, Holly Wale, Toby Straw, Ayden Roos, Kyle Roos, Luca Hayes, Hudson Bucci, Maddison Moore, Cameron Berry

Row 4: P atrick Myles, Braden Watts, Ethan Martin, Brittany Chambers, Luke D’Alessandro, Lachlan Moorhouse, Aaron Jones, William Carter, Trenton Johnson, Geordie Hore, Jaden Prabaharan, Amelia Brooks, Cameron Connell, Matthew Grigoriou, Michael Garbelotto, Declan Latchford Row 3: J amie-Lee Munn, Corbin McCullough, Christopher Perkins, James Gold, George Smethurst, Harrison Edwards, Dominique Taylor, Benjamin Awad, Aidan Taylor, Barclay Miller, Wesley Flavell, Conor Murray, Jesse Reed, Chloe Garifalakis, Thomas Siedle, Jeremy Campbell, Lucy Burgess Row 2: H udson Bucci, Riley Spence, William Garbelotto, Dennis Tezay, Peter Papadopoulos, Cassandra Newman, Lily Clucas, Lucy Mangion, Livinia Stockdale, Mitchito Owens, Jordan Michell, Carlos Reynolds, Ethan Prabaharan, Thomas Byrne Row 1: E mily Bresnehan, Brooke Carson, Jenna Wale, Michael Martin, Michael Woolhouse, Craig Best, Dhruv Rodrigues Chico, Andrew Hayes, Ella Ryan, Wayne Essing, Kym Willett, Henry Kiss, Hannah Schmidt, Natalie Clucas, Brooke McCullough

CROSS COUNTRY, ATHLETICS

Row 3: F inlay Heath, Galina Enright, Robert McIntyre, Callum Matthew, Kaibo Ma, Edward Kent, Kyle Solterbeck, Mark Butler, Patrick Distefano, Corby Zoujun, Eric Li, Hollie Wright, Jesse Turner, Jessica Ewart-McTigue

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heltenham District C Boys Basketball Row 2: J oshua Rabak Ashton Phillips William Hughes Jordan Kurta Row 1: Alexander Hopkins Charles Daddo Kai Reed Hudson Bucci

Row 3: N oemi Sniezek, Holly Nish, Siobhan Phillips, Elisha Parkes Row 2: L uca Hayes, Flynn Walker, Angus Jackson, Lachlan Fraser, Jasper Zdanius Row 1: S arah Chun, Caitlin Smith, Ayden Roos, Kyle Roos, Nina Pertzel, Sophie Frost

Cheltenham District Girls’ Football Row 3: Mia Collins, Lulu Moore, Summer Leonard, Sasha McLennan, Madison Brown Row 2: Lily Riley, Eleni Rellos, Daisy Laws, Lexie Allan, Lucy Page, Hayley Parr Row 1: Keira Patron, Holly Wale, Keira Richmond, Mikayla Watson, Jamie Shepherd, Ava Ivanov, Olivia Katsouranis

heltenham District C Girls’ Basketball Row 2: M adison Brown Summer Leonard Sienna Salisbury Lulu Moore Row 1: H ayley Parr Riley Spence Mia Collins Mikayla Watson

Cheltenham District Swimming Row 4: Monique Zahra, Alexander Barrett, Ashton Phillips, Carlos Reynolds, Nalisha Ong Row 3: Ayden Roos, William Nish, McKenzie Hood, Elise Laws, Ashleigh Hopkins, Sean Lai, Kyle Roos Row 2: Holly Wale, Sarah Connell, Zoe Pertzel, Summer Leonard, Sienna Salisbury, Amelia Pritchard, Lulu Moore, Sophie Sibbald Row 1: Alanah Becker, Toby Straw, Alexander Hopkins, Tomas Barlow, Jed Zammit, Hudson Bucci, Emily Zallmann

CHELTENHAM DISTRICT BASKETBALL, CROSS COUNTRY, FOOTBALL, SWIMMING

Cheltenham District Cross Country

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Froggers

Row 3: Shem Glasscock, Benjamin Stone, Tyler Milburn, Kai Lindsay, Thomas Siedle, Alexandra Siedle, Luke Shi

Row 2: Miles Thomas, Benjamin Stone, Austin Hollingsworth, Jude Lowe, Tarn Smith, Ms Natalie Morgenstern, Luke Shi

Row 2: M iles Thomas, Ms Natalie Morgenstern, Shinji Hibino, Hanlin Wang, James Hornibrook, Austin Hollingsworth, Jude Lowe, Tarn Smith, Holly Adams, Mr Matthew Cohn, Ruby McGuinness

Row 1: Ben Lofthouse, Tyler Milburn, Kai Lindsay, James Hornibrook, Jed Zammit, Thomas Siedle, Ryan White Absent: Dawei Cao, Hardy d’Alquen, Benjamin Sorrenson

Row 1: Callum Matthew, Vincent Thai-Chan, Sarah Cimino, Mr Gavin Cornish, Eliza Harvey, Robert McIntyre, Xinyi Liu, Megan Siedle, Simon Stevens Absent: Dawei Cao, Hardy d’Alquen, Imogen Davis, Markos Koulouris, Jayde Maluga, Benjamin Sorrenson

Group Senior Vocal Ensemble

The Cat’s Meow

Row 4: Ben Lofthouse, Tyler Milburn, Ryan Buckler, Nicholas Sheppard, Maxwell Stammers, James Pearman, Andrew Lancaster, James Hornibrook

Row 3: Shinji Hibino, Andrew Lancaster, Nicholas Sheppard, Ryan Buckler, Tyler Milburn

Row 3: Miles Thomas, Jeffrey Fong, Bronte Reark, Louise Solomonides, Lucinda McIntyre, Georgia Rowan, Alexandra Sheppard, Callum Matthew

Row 2: A nna Lofthouse, Jude Lowe, Lucinda McIntyre, Aleisha Bernamoff, Eliza Harvey, Louise Solomonides, Luke Shi, Chloe Stone, Miss Lidia Mancini

Row 2: M r Anthony Bingham, Emma Rothberg, Isabella Svojtka, Ashley Dandoulis, Bridgette Kelsey, Megan Bresnehan, Holly Svojtka, Elizabeth Algeri, Charlotte Bratuskins, Peronel Taylor, Eliza Harvey, Miss Lidia Mancini Row 1: C harlotte Pate, Tessa Petrie, Anna Lofthouse, Kristi Lenton, Luke Shi, Lachlan Howard, Ryan White, Emily Keogh, Claudia Brown, Priya Gill, Helena Papasimeon Absent: Tiadora Botakis, Keegan Brooks, Jack Bunting, Bridie Easton, Karly Georgantis, Ella Hassan, Emily Hill, Benjamin Landgraf, Sophie Leonard, Anna Mallows, Rebecca Mendel, Jackson Palmer, Harrison Scopel, Renee Verginis

Row 1: Claudia Brown, Charlotte Bratuskins, Holly Svojtka, Callum Matthew, Megan Bresnehan, Emily Keogh, Helena Papasimeon Absent: Rebecca Mendel

SENIOR ORCHESTRA AND SENIOR ENSEMBLE FROGGERS AND THE CAT’S MEOW

Group Senior Orchestra

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Rock Band Kamikaze Crash Helmets

Row 2: N icholas Berry, Jake Adderley, Hamish Berry Row 1: Ryan White Absent: Mr Frank Recchia

Nicholas Sheppard, Benjamin Landgraf, Ben Lofthouse, Sean Butler Absent: Mr Frank Recchia

Cocurricular

Rock Band Hyper Social

Row 3: Joseph Shim, Danielle Pedersen, Riley Wollen, Harrison Zammit, Shem Glasscock, Brayden Miller, Dylan Hinton, Alexander Jones Row 2: M s Natalie Morgenstern, Megan Smith, Tess Shilson-Josling, Adam Marrow, Logan Kwan, Jake Harvey, Akul Saigal, Jason Bartonek, Elliott Carruthers, Jeremy Di Rosato Row 1: Andrei Krikun, Hamish Berry, Jed Zammit, Carson Mumford, Zachary Sniezek, Nicholas Di Rosato, Ethan Pate, Riley Shilson-Josling Absent: Jeremy Campbell, Hardy d’Alquen, Jake Turnbull

Rock Band Supernova

Rock Band Zone 5

Timothy Edwards, Henry Green, Chloe Stone, Benjamin Stone, Jude Lowe Absent: Mr Frank Recchia

Row 2: Livinia Stockdale, Bethany Bratuskins, Trent Meakins, Nicholas Casa, Row 1: Shem Glasscock Absent: Mr Frank Recchia

Bayview Singers Row 4: Mikaela Cummins, Kira Walters, Lachlan Howard, Grace Laidlaw, Callum Prior, Sophie Sibbald, Megan Smith Row 3: Felix O’Neill-Pugh, Tomas O, Harrison Dart, Maeve Spargo, Kate Bowcock, Denzil Paranihi, Jamieson Howe, Sienna Salisbury

Bayview Orchestra Row 3: Enrico Tirta, Anna Siemering, Daniel Nikolayevsky, Rory Thomas, Adam Halliday, George Zacharis, Victoria Gelbak, Brandon Veza Row 2: Keira Patron, Avelyn Reynolds, Ethan Pate, Matthew Scott, Nicholas Saunders, Baxter Wollen, Declan McNamara, Daniel Pate, Mr Matthew Cohn Row 1: Noemi Sniezek, Poppy Samild, Ella Michell, Anika Cherney, McKenzie Hood, Grace Sibbald, Michelle Fong Absent: Mia Castello, Anirudh Hariram, Daniel Matthew, Callum Roberts, Simon Stevens, Youran Wang, Mrs Debra McLeod

Row 2: S amuel Dyer, Victoria Gelbak, Blake Rosenberg, Lexie Allan, Lily Clements, Tess Shilson-Josling, Priya Gill, Charlie Turner, Camille Brewer, Miss Lidia Mancini Row 1: K eira Patron, Mathieson Meakins, Emma Bennett, Ulyana Kondratova, Nicholas Saunders, Daniel Pate, Ella Heidecker, Madyssen Kalogerakis, Ethan Pate, Avelyn Reynolds Absent: Emma Burton, Jasmin Hadjiyannakis, Xavier Hogios, Callum Orr, Eleni Rellos, Callum Roberts, Maylin Roy, Shani Russell, Livinia Stockdale, Georgia Terry, Isabella Terry, Emilie Toby, Emily Zallmann

ROCKBANDS AND BAYVIEW ORCHESTRA BAYVIEW BAND AND BAYVIEW SINGERS

Bayview Band

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Staff Register Executive

Deborah Frizza M Ed, B Ed Deputy Principal – Strategic Acting Head of Bayview (Term 4)

Wayne Reed M Sc, B Sc (Education) Student Performance Manager Cameron Lancaster B ASc (Digital Technology), Dip Ed, MLMEd, Head of Frogmore

Row 3: Sienna Lyons, Taj Reynolds, Caitlin Smith, Ella Michell, Zoe Richmond, Sally Stevens, Grace Sibbald Row 2: Amelia Tabois, Nate Trowell, Isabel Ellix, Emma Adams, Callum Orr, Abigail Barrett, Jordan Pyszczek, Oscar Mentiplay, Miss Lidia Mancini Row 1: Poppy Samild, Sarah Chun, Flynn McEneaney, Zoe Nixon, Riley Hamilton, Alitsia Piotrowski, Michelle Fong Absent: Olivia Aspostolidis

Natalie McLennan B Ed (Visual Arts), Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment) Head of Greenways John Twist (to Term 3) M Ed, B Ed, Grad Dip (Ed Admin) Dip Teach (Primary) Head of Bayview John Nolan B Ed, Dip (Primary Teaching) Head of Eblana Tim Macdonald B Comm (Hons), BIS, M Teach Director of Teaching and Learning

Row 3: Poppy Samild, Ella Michell, Hannah Wagner, Anika Cherney, Montana Cheers, Siobhan Phillips, Emma Adams, Taj Reynolds Row 2: N oemi Sniezek, Michael Di Tirro, McKenzie Hood, Jake Frankland, Angus Jackson, Edward Hall, Jaxon Stephens, Maria Anna Theofilopoulou, Lucas Wagner, Grace Sibbald Row 1: Oliver Tzounos, Hudson Close, Cooper Armstrong, Michelle Fong, Marlon Turco, Sarah Chun, Aaron Britter, Oscar Mentiplay, Harrison Tzounos Absent: Mia Castello, Robert Hodgetts, Mrs Debra McLeod

Hanni Alston B Sc (Hons), M Teach (Secondary) Mathematics/Science White House Coordinator Christina Altidis B (Mgt), Dip Ed, CPE, Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment) Faculty Coordinator – Humanities (Sem 1) Business Management/ Economics Teacher Head of Teaching Practice (from Sem 2) Anastasia Antoniadis (from Term 2) B Ed, Dip Teach (Primary) Eblana Teacher Year 2 Jaki Atwell Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator Stuart Bainbridge MLM Ed, BA, B Ed Daily Organiser/ Timetabler (Sem 1) Director of Sports Coaching (Sem 2) David Barber BA, MA, PGCE, Dip RSA Faculty Coordinator - LOTE/ International Exchange

Emma Heine B Ec, Grad Dip (Education) Head of Pastoral Care Frogmore Teacher

Alison Barnett Dip Teaching, M App Sc (Teacher Librarianship) Bayview Teacher Librarian

Nicole Bradshaw B Bus (Acc) CPA Business Manager

Amanda Barnhoorn B Comm, Grad Dip (Education) Commerce Teacher Head of Swimming

Richard Keely Dip Teach, B Ed Grad Dip (Human Resources Development) Human Resources Manager

Eblana String Orchestra

Debbie Agetzis B Ed (Secondary) Cert IV (Training & Assessment) Business Management/ Legal Teacher

Vicki Baron (Sem 2) BA (Business Studies), Dip Ed Expert Observer/ Humanities Teacher Lisa Barton B Ed (Secondary), B Sc Maths Teacher – Frogmore Marina Basin Certificate III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator Liam Bassett B Ed (P-12) Year 7 Mentor English Teacher

Kara Baxter BA, Dip Ed (Secondary ACU) Psychology/Humanities Teacher, Acting Faculty Coordinator – Humanities (Sem 2) Vicki Beaumont BA (Early Childhood Education) ELC Teacher Susan Bennett Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator Craig Best BSc Dip Ed, Grad Dip (Outdoor Education) Maths Teacher, Lionel Large House Coordinator Leonie Binge Dip (Primary Teaching) Grad Dip Ed Eblana Teacher Year 2 Anthony Bingham B Mus, Dip Ed Director of Choral Studies Megan Blake Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator

Veronica Byrnes Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Teaching Coeducator Jo Caley BA, LLB, Cert III (Education Support) Learning Enhancement Jodie Campain (Sem 1) Registered Nurse Div1 Cert IV in Training and Assessment School Nurse Colleen Carapetis Dip (Library and Information Services) Eblana/Bayview Library Assistant Sue Carey BA, Dip Ed, Grad Cert Careers Education Careers Counsellor Jacquie Cartwright Dip Teach (Primary), Grad Dip Special Education (Hearing Impairment), Grad Dip Deaf studies (Auslan) Years 5&6 Coordinator Bayview Mentor

Kerryn Bosdorf Cert Ed (Education Integration Support) Integration Aide

Mandy Chamberlain Dip Teach (Primary) Grad Dip (Information and Communication Technology) Bayview Mentor

Mark Bradley (to Term 3) BSc, DipEd Cert IV (Workplace Training Assessment) Science/Chemistry Teacher

Tim Clark B Ed (Technology and Applied Studies) Digital Technology Teacher

Kelly Brady (from Term 2) BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Ed Year 8 Mentor Science Teacher

Leigh Chislett BSc (Education), Grad Dip Bus (Comp), Grad Dip SpSc, FHR Bayview Mentor

Michelle Brent B Ed (Primary) Dip Teach (Primary) Eblana Teacher Year 4 Ben Bruin BA (Arts and Humanities), B Ed, Diploma (Creative Writing) Senior English Teacher

Libby Chislett M Ed (Special Ed) Dip Early Childhood Ed, B Ed ELC Teacher Director of ELC Nicky Chiswell BA (Hons) Psychology Psychologist/School Counsellor

Jacqueline Buchan (to Term 3) BEd (Early Childhood) ELC Teacher

Natasha Chrysanthou M Teach (Secondary) B Sci (Maths)

David Bunyan Dip (Outdoor Recreation) Outdoor Education Facilitator

Stuart Cleeve B Ed (Secondary), M Teach Greenways Class Coordinator

Sarah Byrne BA (Early Childhood Studies) BTEC Higher National Dip (Early Childhood Studies), Certificate (Nursery) Nursing (NNEB) CACHE, Cert III (Childminding Practice) ELC Coeducator

Matthew Cohn B Mus, M Ed, Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment) Head of Strings Music Teacher

STAFF REGISTER

Jarrod O’Neill B App Sc, Grad Dip Sports Sc, MSL Deputy Principal – Operations

Teaching and Support Staff

Staff

Malcolm J Cater B Bus (Acc), Dip Ed, MACE, MACEL, MLM Ed, MAICD Principal

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Gavin Cornish B Mus, Grad Dip Ed, Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment) Head of Performing Arts, Director of Music

Samantha Cunnington Dip (Children’s Services) Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator Integration Aide

James Farquharson B Ed (Secondary) Librarianship Cert II (Resource Operations) Humanities Teacher Cadet – Training

Louise Daly B Ed (Drama Dance Sociology) Senior Drama Teacher Anderson House Coordinator

Myfanwy Farquharson B Ed (Secondary) Librarianship Frogmore Teacher/Mentor Head of Libraries

Rhonda Deed Dip Teach (Primary), Grad Dip (Library and Information Studies), Cert (Reading Recovery) Reading Recovery Teacher

Miriam Floyd B (Early Childhood Studies), Dip Soc Sc (Child Care Services), Cert (Applied Social Sciences – Child Care Studies) ELC Teacher

Melanie Di Rosato Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator Troy Drinan B App Sci (Hons), DipEd Eblana Sport Teacher Frogmore Teacher Timothy Duivenvoorden Cert IV (Outdoor Rec), BSOR, B BusCom (HRM), M Teach Outdoor Education Facilitator Angela Eaton Grad Dip (Library and Information Management) B (Fine Art) (Hons) Library Technician (Audio Visual)

Tammy Frankland Dip (Children’s Services) Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator Kate Frazer M Teach (Primary/ Leadership), B Comm (Journalism) Bayview Mentor Catherine Friend B Mus (piano/singing), A Mus A (piano/singing theory), MIMT, Grad Dip Ed VCE Music Teacher School Pianist/Accompanist Instrumental Music Teacher

Barbara Edgar B App Sci (Library and Information Services), Grad Dip Sc (Arc Rec) Frogmore Librarian

Robyn Fuerst Dip (Art & Design – Ceramics), Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip (Visual Arts), Cert IV (Workplace Training) Visual Arts Teacher

Ursula Erdelyi-Götz LLB, BA, Grad Dip Ed Bayview/Frogmore LOTE Teacher

Jessica Galloway Certificate of Hospitality Dip (Tourism) Greenways Café Assistant

Umut Ersezer B Sc (Biology Major) Greenways Class Coordinator Science Teacher

Gracie Gao B Arts (App Linguistic: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) M Teach Chinese Teacher Eblana and Bayview

Wayne Essing B Ed (Primary) Bayview Mentor Greg Evans B Ed (Primary) Eblana Teacher Year 3

Michele Gill B Ed (Design) Visual Arts Teacher Frogmore and Bayview Amanda Gluyas Laboratory Manager Jonathan Gooley (Sem 1) BA (Fine Art - Painting), VCA Post Grad Dip (Teaching) Visual Arts Technician Katherine Gratton M Teach, Post Grad Dip (Humanities and Commerce), M AsiaPac (Hons), B Com (Marketing and Management), B AsiaPac (Anthropology), Grad Dip AsiaPac (Indonesian Studies) Business Management and Humanities Teacher Stacey Gwilym M Teach (Secondary), B Ec Hons (Biology), Grad Dip (Clinical Embryol) Greenways Class Coordinator Science Teacher Justine Hamilton BA, B (Teach) Eblana Teacher Year 4 Jenni Harrison Dip (Teach), B Ed Years 5 & 6 Curriculum Coordinator Bayview Mentor Andrew Hayes B App Sci (Human Movement), Grad Dip Ed (Secondary) Faculty Coordinator – Health and PE (5 to 12) Meg Hayes B Ed (Hons), Dip (Modern Languages – Indonesian) M Ed (Research) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Eblana Teacher Foundation Caroline Hegarty Dip (Children’s Services) Cert III (Children’s Services) ELC Coeducator Anna Hope B Eng, Dip Ed. Mathematics Teacher John Horler B Ed Frogmore Teacher Mary Howard Cert III (Education), Cert IV Disability (ACRACS), Cert IV Education Support Education Support Officer Learning Enhancement Bayview Campus Dimity Hughes Grad Dip Ed (Secondary) BA – Humanities and Social Sciences EAL and English Teacher

Nadia Janetzki B Sci, B Teach (Secondary) Mathematics Teacher Joanne Kamp B Ed (Science) Year 8 Coordinator Bayview Mentor Elizabeth King B Ed (Primary), BA Bayview Mentor Henry Kiss BA (Rec Management), Dip Ed, M Ed (Experiential Learning), Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment) Greenways Class Coordinator Kaylen Kornberg B Ed (Art & Craft), PASE Technology Teacher Acting House Coordinator Finlay Anderson (Term 2) Natalka Kostraby DipEd (Secondary), BA (Economics) Economics Teacher Duke of Edinburgh Coordinator Hong-Yi Kuhn Welfare Officer/ Homestay Manager Steve Kuruc (to Term 4) B Sci, Dip Ed (secondary) Bayview Mentor Science Teacher Jenny Lamb B App Sc, Cert App Sc Science Technician Kate Lang M Teach (Prim), BA (Media and Communication) Cert III (Sport and Recreation) Eblana Teacher Year 3 Alana Leahy B Ed (Early Childhood) ELC Teacher Hayley Lewkowicz B Mus, Dip Ed, M Ed (Gifted) Teacher – Gifted and Talented Jackie Liepa B Ed (Primary & Secondary) Eblana Year 3 Teacher Siew Pyng Lim BA, Dip Ed Frogmore/Bayview EAL/ Humanities Teacher Michael Linahan BSc (Hons), PGCE, Cert IV (Workplace Assessment) Senior Physics/ Mathematics/IT Teacher

Kris Little B Ed (Primary), B AppSc (Human Movement) Eblana Teacher Year 1 Amy Long BA, B Ed (Secondary), Dip Lang (French), Assistant Coordinator Year 7 Bayview Mentor English Teacher Holly Loughran BA, Grad Dip, Cert Music Theatre Cert IV (Dance Performance) English Dance/ Drama Teacher Bayview Mentor Yan Ma BA, Dip Ed Chinese Language Teacher Lidia Mancini Bachelor of Music (Hons) (Education) Classroom Music Teacher Max Marrow Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip (Careers Ed) Grad Dip (Bus Policy St), Ass Dip (Art Sculpture) Careers Counsellor Sailing Coordinator VET Coordinator Michael Martin Dip Teach, Grad Dip (Curric Admin) Deputy Head of Bayview Paul Matthew PhD, BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, MACE Frogmore Mathematics Teacher, Faculty Coordinator – Mathematics Cross Country Coach Terry Matthew B Ed (Hons) B Primary Ed Were House Coordinator English Teacher Cross Country Coach Bernadette McGill B Sc (Education) Mathematics Teacher Eliza McDonald B Eng (Chem) (Hons), M Teach (Secondary) Mathematics Teacher Colin McGill MA, BSc (Ed), Cert Ed (Int) Foundation Maths Teacher Debra McLeod B Ed (Secondary) A Mus A (Violoncello) Suzuki Piano/Violoncello Eblana Music Teacher Eblana Instrumental Music Coordinator

Genevieve McNair B Ed (Sec Arts) Cert IV (Training and Assessment) English and Drama Teacher Bayview Mentor Belinda McNeil M Ed (Special Education), BA, Dip Ed (Secondary) White House Coordinator Learning Enhancement Teacher Tony McRae B Ed (Hons) Mathematics Frogmore Maths Teacher Hayley Meeking Registered Nurse Div 1 Cert IV (Training and Assessment) School Nurse Vanessa Moore BA (Music Theatre), MA (Teaching) Cert III (Community Recreation) Deputy Head of Greenways Drama and Dance Teacher Natalie Morgenstern Grad Dip Ed, BFA (Jazz Studies) Head of Woodwind Music Teacher Ken Morrish B Ed, ECE ELC Teacher Laz Moutafis B Ed (Mech), B Bus (Banking & Finance), Grad Dip Ed Drinan House Coordinator Physics and Science Teacher Shelley Muir (Sem 2) BA, PG Dip Psych, Dip Ed (Secondary) VCAL Coordinator Rohan Murphy B Health Sci (Human Movement), Grad Dip Ed Frogmore HPE Teacher Arena Nilsson B Ed (Hons) (Secondary) Graduate Dip Genetic Counselling Maths and Science Teacher Katherine Nish B Ed (Secondary), B (Health Science) Cert IV (Training and Assessment) Greenways Café Program Coordinator Bev Novak Dip Teach (Primary), Trained Teacher’s Certificate Teacher of the Deaf (TTCTD), BA, MA (Education Hearing Impaired), Grad Dip Ed (School Librarianship) Frogmore Teacher Librarian

Vikki Octigan BA (Early Childhood Studies), Assoc Dip SocSc (Childcare), ELC Teacher Julee O’Flaherty Dip Ed (Primary) Grad Dip (Special Ed) Eblana Teacher Year 2 Peter O’Gorman M Ed (Leadership and Management) B Ed, B App Sci (Human Movement) Year 7 Coordinator Bayview Mentor English and Humanities Teacher, Director of Sports Coaching (shared, Sem 2) Jenna Oliver B Teach (Physical and Health Education) HPE Teacher Christene Orchard (Sem 1) Dip (Early Childhood), Certificate III (Community Services, Children’s Services) Integration Aid ELC Coeducator Chloe Otten B (Primary), Dip (Dance – Ballet & Performing Arts), Certificate III Dance Dance and Drama Teacher

Leah Percy First Aid Management of Anaphylaxis, Diploma in Personal Training Director of Sport – Admin Kirsty Petschel BA (Visual and Media), Grad Dip Ed (Secondary) Cert IV (Training and Assessment) Visual Art Teacher Sylvia Ponnusamy MA (Writing and Literature) BA (Writing), Dip Ed Frogmore English/ EAL Teacher Catherine Poulton B Teach (Primary and Secondary), BA (Criminology and Linguistics), TCRG: An Coimisiun Le Rinci Gaelacha (TCRG) Learning Journeys Facilitator and Teacher Greenways Campus Rev. Michael Prabaharan BTh (Hons), Dip Min, M Ed (Counselling), Dip (Training and Assessment) Chaplain, Religious Education Teacher

Gisela Paffenholz (Sem 2) MA, Dip Ed, German Teacher

Jessika Rabe 1st and 2nd State examination for Primary and Secondary School Teaching – Germany German Teacher

Michelle Palfrey BA, Dip Ed English and Humanities Teacher

Leonie Redfern B Ed (Secondary) Bayview Mentor Maths/Science Teacher

Andrew Pate B Ed, Cert IV (Program Technologies) Timetabler (Sem 2) Deighton House Coordinator

Penny Redgrave BA, Dip Ed, M Ed (Special Ed) Learning Enhancement Facilitator – Frogmore

Tracey Pate BA, Grad Dip Ed, Post Grad Dip (Psych) Literacy Coach English Teacher Bayview Mentor

Aaron Richard BA, BSc, Grad Dip Ed French, Chinese and German Teacher

Rob Patterson Dip Teach (Primary), B Ed Bayview Mentor Tanja Pausenberger BA/BSC (Hons), P Grad Dip Psych, M Psych (Counselling) MAPS, Psychologist/ School Counsellor Adrian Payne BA (Hons), Grad Dip TESOL Jones House Coordinator Humanities Teacher Sarah Peng (Term 4) B Sc, B Ed Science Teacher

Jessica Richards B Ed, B (Teach) Curriculum Coordinator Eblana Teacher Year 1 Prue Richards BA, Grad Dip (Secondary) Senior English and Humanities Teacher Rosemary Richter Dip Ed, B Ed, Grad Dip (Maths Leadership) Bayview Mentor Bridgitte Roberts M (Psych), Grad Dip (Adolescent & Child Psych), BA (Psych/Comm) Mediator Psychologist/School Counsellor

STAFF REGISTER

Anastasia Courtney (from Sem 2) M Teach (Secondary), BSc (Hons) Bayview Mentor

Vic Evans Grad Dip Soc Sc (Student Guidance & Welfare) Cert IV (Workplace Training & Assessment) Cert IV (HR Operations) Cert IV (OH&S Training) Cert (Prof Studies) Cert (Youth & Adolescent Dev) Student Services Officer Finlay Anderson House Coordinator Cocurricular Coordinator International Student Coordinator

Staff

Gary Colling BA, Dip Ed Bayview Mentor Maths/Science/ Technology Teacher

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Staff Register Trevor Stevens BSc, HEd Frogmore Science Teacher

Beverly Ross BA, Dip Ed (Secondary), M Ed (Teacher librarianship) Eblana Teacher Librarian

Rev. Andrew Stewart BEc, MA, B Div, Adv Dip Theo, Dip Ed Chaplain Religious Education Teacher

Kerry Rowan Cert III (Education) Cert IV (Integration Aide) Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment) Integration Aide

Ruth Same (Term 4) B Sc (Hons), Dip Ed Science Teacher Laura Savage B Ed (Primary) Eblana Teacher Foundation Deb Sewell B Ed Eblana Learning Enhancement Teacher Karen Sheehy BA, B Ed (Primary and Secondary) Post Grad Cert (Education - Maths Leadership) Bayview Mentor Michelle Shepherd (from Sem 2) Dip App Science (Nursing), Bachelor Nursing (Hons), Grad Dip (Midwifery) Registered Nurse Division 1 School Nurse Mark Smith M Ed, Grad Cert (Gifted Ed) B Ed, Dip (Teach) Gifted and Talented Coordinator Head of Learning Enhancement (Sem 2) Sally Smith ELC Coeducator Lalene Souter B Soc Sc, M Ed (Psych) School Counsellor/ Psychologist Mark Stembridge Grad Dip (Tech Ed) Cert IV (Professional Cookery), Cert IV (Training and Assessment) Assistant Café Manager Food & Technology Teacher Rebecca Stembridge M Ed (Specific Learning Difficulties), BA, Grad Dip Ed (Middle Years) Grad Dip (Journalism) Learning Enhancement Teacher Eblana and Bayview

Heather Stone Higher Dip Ed Bayview Mentor Maths Teacher Chris te Lindert BA, Grad Dip Ed (School Librarian), Dip Ed Frogmore Teacher Librarian Frogmore English Teacher Madeleine Thomas B AppSc, Grad Dip Ed, M Ed (Special Education) Learning Enhancement Bayview Facilitator Marianna Tour Comb B Arts and Education VCE French Teacher Daniel Truscott (Sem 2) Visual Arts Technician Lisa Turner BA (Psychology), B Ed (Primary & Secondary) Aerobics Coordinator Bayview Mentor Sabrina van Dort (to Term 3) MSc (MedBiol), MSc (Comm Ed), Maths and Science Teacher, Bayview Mentor Enzo Vozzo (from Term 2) Bachelor of Technology (Computer Studies), Grad Dip (Secondary Education) Mathematics, Science and Technologies Teacher Frogmore Mentor Briana Walker BA, B Teach Eblana Teacher Year 2 Sheree Walsh B Teach (Primary) B Ed (Primary) Eblana Teacher Year 2 James Walton BA (Hons) English Studies, PGCE Secondary English Faculty Coordinator – English Jillian Watkins B Teach, Grad Dip (Children’s Services) Eblana Visual Arts Teacher

Sessional Music Tutors

Jonathan Wever BSc, M (Ed Management), Grad Dip Ed, Cert III (Outdoor Recreation) Bayview Mentor/ Maths/Science Teacher eLearning Coordinator Commanding Officer 31 Battalion (Melbourne Schools) MAJ (AAC), Officer Commanding Mentone Grammar Army Cadet Unit

Chris Bieniek (Guitar)

Simone White BA (Early Childhood Studies) ELC Teacher Tanya White (Sem 2) Dip (Early Childhood Education and Care) ELC Coeducator Alan Wilkes (Sem 2) BE (Chem) Hons, MBA, M Teach (Secondary) Mathematics Teacher Kym Willett MHRM (Training and Dev), B Ed HPE and English Teacher Michael Wilton BSc, Dip Ed, Grad Dip (Health Ed) Faculty Coordinator – Science Michael Woolhouse B App Sci (Human Movement), Grad Dip (Ed), Greenways Class Coordinator, HPE Teacher Kim Wootton BA (Fine Art), Dip Ed (Secondary) Faculty Coordinator – Visual Arts Xin Yang M Teach (Secondary), B (Arts), Mandarin Chinese Teacher (Bayview) Mathematics Teacher Jennifer Yoffie BA, B Teach (Secondary), M Ed (Special and Inclusive Education) Senior English Teacher Hamish Yule BSc, M Teach Japanese Teacher Peter Zerman BA, Grad Dip Ed, MMM, Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment), Faculty Coordinator –Technologies

Susan Batten (Oboe/Piano)

Justine Clark (Suzuki Violin/Violin)

Operations Melanie Angliss (to Term 4) B (Exercise Science) Grad Dip Ed (Secondary) PA to Head of Frogmore Suzanne Ashley (from Term 4) Alumni Relations Manager

Niran Dasika (Brass)

Robyn Baldrey PA to Business Manager HR Coordinator

Kirstin Drew (Strings)

Sharon Bates Accounts Receivable Officer

Stephanie Evison-Williams (Musical Theatre/Voice)

Jillian Baxter School Receptionist

Julia Kaplan (Piano)

Bonnie Bester B Bus (Acc), CPA Finance Manager

Victoria Landy (Flute/Piano) B.Com (Economics), BA (Indonesian), A Mus A (flute), STCA Int. (Suzuki flute) Reave Maloney (Guitar/Bass/Double Bass) Cameron McCormick (VCE Tutor) Catherine Narayan (Suzuki Violin/Strings) Cinzia Posega (French Horn/Brass) Frank Recchia Classroom teacher (Drums/Guitar/Bass/ Rock Band Experience) BA (Mus), Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip Hum, Grad Dip Arts (Mus) Samantha Robertson (Voice) Kirra Sebbel (Music Theatre) Andrew Strano (Voice/Speech and Drama/Improv) Serena Thean (Clarinet/Piano) Angela Wasley (Voice) Felix Watson (Brass)

Jennifer Blackburn MA (Prof Comm), Grad Dip (Communications), Dip (Prof Writing and Editing) Publications Manager Isabella Blair Catering Services Campus Supervisor Rae Byrom (from Term 2) Dip BDMA Direct Marketing, CAM (Cert Communications) Cert IV (Prof Writing and Editing) Director of Development Judy Cleverley PA to Teaching and Learning Daily Organiser (Sem 2) Fiona Dallas Alumni Office Manager Craig Deakins Double Dip (Network Engineering and Internet working), MCE, MCP Systems and Network Administrator Liz Dimitriadis Cert (Accounting) Accounts Payable Payroll Officer Pernilla Eklund Allan Registrar Julliet Eksiyan Adv Dip Business (Acc) Management Accountant Claire Forbes Accounts Assistant Alicia Gerasimou (Sem 1) BA (Fine Arts) (Technical Production) Performing Arts Coordinator Nicole Gray BA (Social Science) (Psychology & Marketing) HR Coordinator

Hugh Green BA, Dip Ed, Grad Dip (Lib & Info Sc), ALAA Archives Coordinator Yana Hall BA (Business Administration) MA (Ergonomics, Health and Safety) Risk and Compliance Manager Will Harding ICT Assistant Nichole Hargreaves PA to Head of Bayview Gwen Harper International Administration Deborah Heath Cert IV (Frontline Management) Facilities Manager MGACU Quartermaster Diana Henderson Archives Administration Brigid Hicks PA to Head of Eblana Erin Hunt BA (Sport and Recreation Management), Sports Administration Assistant Kathryn Lawlor PA to Principal Jan Longworth Dip (Secretarial) Enrolments Officer Jessica Matthews (from Sem 2) BA (Film & Television) Performing Arts Coordinator Janine Mayer MPRIA, Adv Dip Bus (PR) Marketing and Communications Manager Man-Chi Nguyen B App Sc Database Administrator Colleen Robinson School Receptionist Rebecca Russell Cert iV Service Coordination (Aged & Disability) PA to Head of Frogmore Georgina Scully (from Term 2) B Comm (Human Resources), BA (Criminology) Human Resources Coordinator Karen Sherburn Cert III (Business Administration) PA to Deputy Principal Fiona Slocombe PA to Head of Greenways

Brian Smith B App Sc, DipEd Registrar of International Students Mathematics Teacher David Song BSc IT Administrator Jack Styles (from Term 2) Adv Dip Business (Public Relations) Marketing and Communications Assistant Paul Watson Cert III (Printing and Graphic Arts) Dip (Printing and Graphic Arts) (Digital Production) Xerox Printing Services Sarah Wells (Sem 2) BSc (Math/Statistics) Data Analyst Greg Wilkinson B Ed, Grad Dip (Curric Admin) Alumni Director Natalie Wilson D Dip (Business Management and Event Management) Dip (Tourism, Meetings and Events) Events and Catering Manager Danny Yardis Dip (Art & Design – Graphic Design) FXA Senior Graphic Designer Alex Zolkover (to Term 4) Assoc Dip (Engineering Computer Technology and Electronics) PRINCE2 Practitioner ITIL V3, ICT Manager

Bayside Aquatics Chris Dixon (Sem 1) B Ed (Physical Education & Outdoor and Environmental Studies) Aquatic Centre Manager Tim Mulvihill (from Sem 2) BA, B Ed, M Ed, ASCTA Silver Licence Head Swimming Coach Wendy Davidson Schools Program Coordinator Eric Du B Sc (Physiology and Management), ASCTA Bronze Licence Learn to Swim Coordinator Bayside Aquatics

Shoreham David Coghlan BEd, DipEd, Dip (Educational Administration) Shoreham Camp Caretaker

Grounds and Maintenance David Teasdale Property Manager Barry Watts Maintenance Supervisor Chris Larson Maintenance Patrick McCarthy Grounds & Gardening Assistant Steven Petrellis Maintenance and Technical Support Henry Zalega Groundsman

Security Graeme Mitchell Peter Francis

Keysborough Tom Donnell Keysborough Supervisor Wayne Fuller Groundsman

STAFF REGISTER

Leigh Rowlands B Ed Visual Arts Teacher

Paul Stockdale B Ed (PE & Health), MEd (Leadership, Policy & Change) Deputy Head of Frogmore

Fiona Watts Dip Ed (Primary) B Ed, M Ed (Special Education) Learning Enhancement Facilitator Eblana

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Dean Rogers Dip Ed, B Com Senior Business Teacher

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Debbie Agetzis

Hanni Alston

Christine Altidis

Melanie Angliss

Anastasia Antoniadis

Jaki Atwell

Stuart Bainbridge

Robyn Baldrey

Liz Dimitriadis

Chris Dixon

Tom Donnell

Troy Drinan

Eric Du

Timothy Duivenvoorden Angela Eaton

Barbara Edgar

David Barber

Alison Barnett

Amanda Barnhoorn

Vicki Baron

Lisa Barton

Marina Basin

Liam Bassett

Sharon Bates

Pernilla Eklund Allen

Julliet Eksiyan

Ursula Erdelyi-Götz

Umut Ersezer

Wayne Essing

Greg Evans

Vic Evans

James Farquharson

Jillian Baxter

Kara Baxter

Vicki Beaumont

Susan Bennett

Craig Best

Bonnie Bester

Leonie Binge

Anthony Bingham

Mifanwy Farquharson

Miriam Floyd

Claire Forbes

Tammy Frankland

Kate Frazer

Catherine Friend

Deb Frizza

Robyn Fuerst

Jennifer Blackburn

Isabella Blair

Megan Blake

Kerryn Bosdorf

Mark Bradley

Nicole Bradshaw

Kelly Brady

Michelle Brent

Wayne Fuller

Jessica Galloway

Gracie Gao

Alicia Gerasimou

Michele Gill

Amanda Gluyas

Jonathan Gooley

Katherine Gratton

Ben Bruin

Jackie Buchan

David Bunyan

Sarah Byrne

Veronica Byrnes

Rae Byrom

Jo Caley

Jodie Campain

Nicole Gray

Hugh Green

Stacey Gwilym

Yana Hall

Justine Hamilton

Nichole Hargreaves

Gwen Harper

Jennifer Harrison

Colleen Carapetis

Sue Carey

Jacqueline Cartwright

Mal Cater

Mandy Chamberlain

Leigh Chislett

Libby Chislett

Nicola Chiswell

Andrew Hayes

Meg Hayes

Deborah Heath

Caroline Hegarty

Emma Heine

Diana Henderson

Brigid Hicks

Anna Hope

Natasha Chrysanthou

Timothy Clark

Stuart Cleeve

Judy Cleverley

David Coghlan

Mathew Cohn

Gary Colling

Gavin Cornish

John Horler

Mary Howard

Dimity Hughes

Erin Hunt

Nadia Janetzki

Joanne Kamp

Richard Keely

Elizabeth King

Anastasia Courtney

Samantha Cunnington Fiona Dallas

Louise Daly

Wendy Davidson

Craig Deakins

Rhonda Deed

Melanie Di Rosato

Henry Kiss

Kaylen Kornberg

Natalka Kostraby

Hong-Yi Kuhn

Steve Kuruc

Jenny Lamb

Cameron Lancaster

Kate Lang

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Christopher Larson

Kathryn Lawlor

Alana Leahy

Hayley Lewkowicz

Jackie Liepa

Siew Pyng Lim

Michael Linahan

Kristopher Little

Aaron Richard

Jessica Richards

Prudence Richards

Rosemary Richter

Bridgitte Roberts

Colleen Robinson

Dean Rogers

Beverly Ross

Amy Long

Jan Longworth

Holly Loughran

Yan Ma

Tim Macdonald

Lidia Mancini

Max Marrow

Michael Martin

Kerry Rowan

Leigh Rowlands

Rebecca Russell

Laura Savage

Georgina Scully

Deb Sewell

Karen Sheehy

Michelle Shepherd

Paul Matthew

Terry Matthew

Jessica Matthews

Janine Mayer

Eliza McDonald

Bernadette McGill

Colin McGill

Natalie McLennan

Karen Sherburn

Fiona Slocombe

Brian Smith

Mark Smith

Sally Smith

David Song

Lalene Souter

Mark Stembridge

Debra McLeod

Gennie McNair

Belinda McNeil

Tony McRae

Hayley Meeking

Vanessa Moore

Natalie Morgenstern

Ken Morrish

Rebecca Stembridge

Trevor Stevens

Andrew Stewart

Paul Stockdale

Heather Stone

Jack Styles

Chris te Lindert

David Teasdale

Lazaros Moutafis

Shelley Muir

Tim Mulvihill

Rohan Murphy

Man-Chi Nguyen

Arena Nilsson

Katherine Nish

John Nolan

Madeleine Thomas

Marianna Tour

Daniel Truscott

Lisa Turner

John Twist

Sabrina van Dort

Enzo Vosso

Briana Walker

Bev Novak

Julee O’Flaherty

Peter O’Gorman

Jarrod O’Neill

Vikki Octigan

Jenna Oliver

Christene Orchard

Chloe Otten

Sheree Walsh

James Walton

Jillian Watkins

Paul Watson

Barry Watts

Fiona Watts

Jonathan Wever

Tanya White

Michelle Palfrey

Andrew Pate

Tracey Pate

Rob Patterson

Tanya Pausenberger

Adrian Payne

Leah Percy

Steve Petrellis

Simone White

Greg Wilkinson

Kym Willett

Natalie Wilson

Michael Wilton

Michael Woolhouse

Kim Wootton

Xin Yang

Not pictured: Suzanne Ashley Peter Francis Will Harding Patrick McCarthy Graeme Mitchell Gisela Paffenholz Kirsty Petschel

Sylvia Ponnusamy

Catherine Poulton

Michael Prabaharan

Jessika Rabe

Leonie Redfern

Penny Redgrave

Wayne Reed

Danny Yardis

Jennifer Yoffie

Hamish Yule

Henry Zalega

Peter Zerman

Alex Zolkover

Sarah Peng Frank Recchia Ruth Same Sarah Wells Alan Wilkes

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Awards Valedictorian Awards

Artissimo Award for Music Robert McIntyre Artissimo Award for Dance/Drama Lucy Mangion The Good Samaritan Prize Jessica Paterson The Principal’s Award for Art Liam Grant Art and Design Acquisitive Prize Cameron Moorhouse The Gibson-Roberts Memorial Prize (Awarded to the best all-round sports person in Frogmore in 2016) Jesse Reed The W.S. Leslie Memorial Medal (Awarded to the Year 12 student(s) who has been most outstanding in their final year in Scholarship, Leadership, and Sportsmanship) Eliza Harvey Wesley Flavell

Ken Smith Perpetual Trophy The Ken Smith Perpetual Trophy is an annual award made to the member of Mentone Grammar Army Cadet Unit who is judged by the Officer Commanding to be the highest performing cadet and who demonstrates the following qualities: – Exceptional leadership of peers, including the ability to maintain an appropriate and professional distance when exerting authority, – Diligence, conscientiousness and flexibility while managing responsibilities, – Superb performance under the pressure of multiple demands during Unit activities, – A caring and patient manner in all interactions with younger cadets, and respectful, cooperative interactions with Officers of the Unit.

Wesley Flavell (Year 12) Matthew Gouldthorpe Award Charlotte Sutton Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Awards Sarah Cimino Lucinda McIntyre Frazer Kemp

Frogmore Academic Awards Semester 1 Year 12 Full Academic Colours Adam Bouwmeester Chengzhi He Dooyeon Lee Scott Moore Matthew Pertich Samuel Thiele Luc van Vliet Half Academic Colours Fraser Angus Joshua Nung Jonas Schulze

Certificate of Academic Excellence Bradley Chick Alexandra Siedle Megan Siedle Certificate of Academic Merit Holly Adams Nina Alston Matthew Borys James Bouwmeester Sean Butler Peter Cotsopoulos Jeremy Davie Brandon Demura Matthew Doyle Sean Enright Jessica Ewart-McTigue Troy Flavell Angus Goodwin Lachlan Howe Luqi Huang Cayla Le Gear Jiyeon Lee Anna Lofthouse Callum Matthew Conor Murray Olivia Pukallus Georgia Rowan Luke Shi Alleisha Stephens Sasha Widelski Harry Austin Ryan Buckler

Leina Cato Anna Daly Jeffrey Fong Mingyuan Gao Jemima Gordon Austin Hollingsworth Isabelle Koh Kristi Lenton Johanna Sawford Zac Scherger Nicholas Sheppard Timothy Silvester Sahishnu Siva Ram Charlotte Sutton Michael Todd Sophie van Vliet Xiyan Zhang Christine Zhong

Senior Chorister Award Emily Keogh

Bayview Band Leader Carson Mumford

Senior Contemporary Award Ben Lofthouse

Bayview Orchestra Leader Daniel Pate

Senior Percussion Award Benjamin Stone

Eblana Singers Leader Callum Orr

Senior Piano Award Xinyi Liu

Eblana String Leader McKenzie Hood

Senior String Award Eliza Harvey

Music – Full Colours Robert McIntyre Adam Pratt Eliza Harvey Aleisha Bernamoff Bridgette Kelsey Louise Solomonides Luc van Vliet Nicholas Sheppard Ryan Buckler Emily Keogh Kristi Lenton James Pearman Shinji Hibino

Senior Woodwind Award Robert McIntyre Senior Vocal Ensemble Leader Aleisha Bernamoff

Greenways Academic Awards Semester 1

Senior Orchestra Orchestral Leader Eliza Harvey

Academic Excellence Award Zachary Angus

Senior Orchestra Woodwind Leader Robert McIntyre

Academic Merit Awards Jefferson Bauer Mekhala Bera Charlotte Bratuskins Grace Bunting Oscar Clarke Joshua Cooley Jack Cullen Isabella Daddo Imogen Davis Olivia Dickson Alanah Heidecker Angus Henry James Hornibrook Blake Ibrhaim Abby Leonard Jayde Maluga Charlie Officer Elyssa Osianlis Benjamin Pertich Bronte Reark Alexandra Sheppard Samasidh Siva Ram Jakob Sloan Tessa Styles Harrison Terry Vincent Thai-Chan Nicholas Thiele Kegan Timms Jesse Turner Mia Watkins Jack Williams

Senior Orchestra Brass Leader Thomas Siedle Senior Orchestra Percussion Leader Benjamin Stone Froggers Leader Miles Thomas Greenways Artissimo Award (Dance/Drama) Helena Papasimeon Greenways Artissimo Award (Music) Tarn Smith Senior Dance Award Anna Mallows-Zejak Senior Drama Award Nicholas Sheppard Bayview Artissimo Award – Dance/Drama Claudia Levey Bayview Artissimo Award – Music Lachlan Howard Bayview Brass Award Hardy d’Alquen

Performing Arts

Bayview Chorister Award Blake Rosenberg

International Music Student Excellence Award Shinji Hibino

Bayview Strings Award Simon Stevens

Senior Artissimo Award – Dance/Drama Lucy Mangion Senior Artissimo Award – Music Robert McIntyre Senior Brass Award Thomas Siedle

Bayview Woodwind Award Alexander Jones Bayview Piano Award Riley Wollen Bayview Percussion Award Hamish Berry Bayview Singers Leader Blake Rosenberg

Music – Half Colours Dawei Cao Xinyi Liu Sarah Cimino Ben Lofthouse Austin Hollingsworth Thomas Siedle Bridie Easton Rebecca Mendel Lucinda McIntyre Anna Mallows-Zejak Tessa Petrie Jackson Palmer Maxwell Stammers Music – Commendation Valdis Guppy Shinji Hibino Henry Wang Callum Matthew Holly Adams Vincent Thai-Chan Luke Shi Claudia Brown Georgia Rowan Anna Lofthouse Helena Papasimeon Charlotte Bratuskins Meg Bresnehan Charlotte Pate Lachlan Howard Priya Gill Holly Svojtka Benjamin Sorrenson Jude Lowe James Hornibrook Drama – Full Colours Anna Mallows-Zejak James Pearman Bridie Easton Adam Pratt Drama – Half Colours Ryan Buckler Nicholas Sheppard Tessa Petrie Rebecca Mendel

Maxwell Stammers Lucy Mangion Lucinda McIntyre Hannah Sinclair Jackson Palmer Caitlin Shepherd Eliza Harvey Aleisha Bernamoff Bridgette Kelsey Louise Solomonides Gail D’Souza Drama – Commendation Peronel Taylor Emma Maggio Claudia Brown Dance – Full Colours Anna Mallows-Zejak Lucy Mangion Renee Verginis Emily Keogh Dance – Half Colours Peronel Taylor Dance – Commendation Claudia Levey Alexandra Richards Helena Papasimeon

Social Service Full Colours Teaghan Avery Aleisha Bernamoff Conor Beveridge Nathan Booth Gabrielle Burton Brittany Chambers Sarah Cimino Emily Fiddes Jessica Paterson Charlotte Wiffin

Cadets Full Colours Sean Cunningham Frazer Kemp Adam Pratt Half Colours Nathan Booth Sarah Cimino Emma Doyle Emily Fiddes Wesley Flavell Emily Keogh Dylan Mann Lucinda McIntyre Tiana Storti Georgia Tarlinton

Public Speaking Full Colours Elizabeth Algeri Nathan Booth Abhijit Das Michael Demura Gail D’Souza Emily Keogh Robert McIntyre Andrew Persic

Piermon Schwarz Luc van Vliet Half Colours Harry Austin Ryan Buckler Victor Ding Austin Hollingsworth Thomas Siedle

2016 Australian Mathematics Competition Sponsored by the Commonwealth Bank.

In 2016, 162 Mentone Grammar students from Years 3-12 participated in this year’s Australian Mathematics Competition.

Competing against school students world wide, 42 per cent of our entries gained at least a distinction and 84 per cent of our students gained a credit or higher.

Best in School Jaxon Stephens (Year 3) Ethan Prabaharan (Year 8) High Distinction Winners Year 3 Matthew Shing Year 7 Daniel Nikolayevsky Oliver Moran Cameron Connell Joseph Shim Daniel Matthew Jake Dickson Aidan Scott Year 8 Callum Roberts Year 9 Alanah Heidecker Year 11 Mingyuan Gao Joshua Nung Year 12 Chengzhi He Distinction Winners Year 3 Edward Hall Sarah Chun Year 4 Lachlan Fraser Jasper Zdanius Maddox Lewell Sophie Frost Ayden Roos Year 6 Phong Phan Christopher Vorster Enrico Tirta Ulyana Kondratova Jaden Prabaharan Joshua Rabak Angus Marcombe

AWARDS

Special Valedictorian Awards

ADF Long Tan Awards The Australian Defence Force Long Tan Leadership Awards recognise students in Years 10 and 12 who demonstrate leadership and teamwork within both the School and wider community and who display strong values such as ‘doing one’s best’, ‘respect for others’ and ‘mateship’, that are integral to Australian society.

Our award winners for 2016 are: Year 10 – Luke Shi Year 12 – Lucinda McIntyre

Thomas Siedle Sophie Antonellis Ellen Chick Michael Demura Emma Doyle Gail D’Souza Galina Enright Wesley Flavell Molly Ford Riley Ghent Emily Giddens Liam Grant Charlotte Hamilton Frazer Kemp Emily Keogh Mia Labozzetta Xuanming Liang Haoran Liu Xinyi Liu Samuel Lucas Rhys Mahoney Marcus Marinelli Chloe McLennan Yuqi Meng Courteney Munn Zachary Murphy Jackson Palmer Andrew Persic Tessa Petrie Aman Prasad Dhamsika Samarapathi Julian Sasson Piermon Schwarz Caitlin Shepherd Louise Solomonides Kyle Solterbeck Renee Verginis Hollie Wright Constantinos Zaharopoulos

Awards

Academic Merit Awards – Certificate of Excellence Academic Merit Awards are based on the ranking of students from all classes as judged by their various subject teachers. The two criteria considered for an award are general excellence in a number of subjects and outstanding results in particular subjects.

Sophie Antonellis Adam Bouwmeester Gail D’Souza Michael Demura Galina Enright Emily Giddens Liam Grant Chengzhi He Mia Labozzetta Dooyeon Lee Xinyi Liu Scott Moore Courteney Munn Zachary Murphy Matthew Pertich Tessa Petrie Dhamsika Samarapathi Caitlin Shepherd Kyle Solterbeck Samuel Thiele Luc van Vliet Renee Verginis Hollie Wright

The Spirit of Mentone Grammar Award (Awarded to the Year 12 student who based on a peer vote demonstrates ‘the spirit’ of what our School stands for) Finlay Dodson

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Awards German Poetry Competition

Year 8 Simon Coubard Jason Bartonek Euan Hood Alexander Zhu Blake Rosenberg

State Finalists – Year 9 Zoe Lancaster

Year 10 Anna Lofthouse Luke Shi Georgia Rowan Callum Matthew Year 11 Fraser Angus Jonas Schulze Thomas Siedle Xiyan Zhang Zheyuan Shi Duo Xu Deng Pan Fan Yinchun Year 12 Xuanming Liang Adam Bouwmeester Xinyi Liu Scott Moore Dhamsika Samarapathi

2016 University of NSW Mathematics Competition A total of 218 students from Years 2-12 participated in this year’s UNSW Mathematics competition. Mentone Grammar students achieved: 1 Prize – Josh Nung, Year 11 won a medal for highest score.

12 High Distinctions 54 Distinctions 80 Credits Prize Winner Joshua Nung of Year 11 High Distinction Winners Year 2 Hudson Close Joseph Compton Year 4 Ayden Roos

State Finalists – Year 8 Valdis Guppy Akul Saigal

2016 ALC (Assessment of Language Competence) Competition Year 6 Jaden Prabaharan Year 7 Daniel Nikolayevsky Oliver Moran Year 8 Callum Roberts Alexander Jones Jason Bartonek Year 11 Joshua Nung Thomas Siedle Mingjie Jin Distinction Winners Year 2 Sarabjeet Dawar Alice Fletcher Kate Pregnalato Ava Pregnalato Cooper Armstrong Kristof Buschkuehl Year 3 Sarah Chun Jaxon Stephens Year 4 Lachlan Fraser Ella Michell Michelle Fong Year 5 Phoenix Hall Steven Wan Year 6 Ulyana Kondratova Year 7 Cameron Connell Joseph Shim Jake Dickson Ethan Pate Daniel Matthew Jack Littleford Rory Thomas James O’Day Daniel Poberezovsky Year 8 Ethan Prabaharan Ella Mairs Kieren Dyer William Currey Nelson Jaden Akul Saigal Josh Madden Hannah Schmidt

Year 9 Zac Angus Jeremy Miao Mekhala Bera Imogen Davis Grace Bunting Philbert Lan Samasidh Siva Ram Charlie Officer Joshua Cooley Year 10 Luqi Huang Luke Shi Year 11 Jeffrey Fong Mingyuan Gao Jonas Schulze Fraser Angus Xiyan Zhang Yaohui Wang Year 12 Adam Bouwmeester Dhamsika Samarapathi Xinyi Liu Dooyeon Lee

Science National Chemistry Quiz ICAS Science Competition Year 7 Distinctions Anna Siemering Lana Tilli Oliver Moran Daneil Poberezovsky Year 8 High Distinctions Alexander Jones Callum Roberts Year 8 Distinctions Akul Saigal Josh Madden Nelvin Ong Adam Halliday Jason Bartonek Alexander Zhu Ethan Prabaharan Blake Rosenberg Year 9 Distinctions Zac Angus Torey Bernamoff Samasidh Siva Ram Tessa Styles Mia Watkins Alanah Heidecker

Science Talent Search Years 7 and 8 Danielle Pedersen Anna Siemering Cameron Connell Joseph Shim Brayden Miller Oliver Moran Harry Officer Ethan Pate Hannah Schmidt Matthew Leembruggen Lauren Malby-Luke Isabella Terry Chemistry Quiz Year 11 – Excellence Awards 100 per cent Tom Siedle Joshua Nung High Distinctions Sahishnu Siva Ram Sam Ralph Fraser Angus Jeffery Fong Austin Hollingsworth Paul Holland Distinction Deng Pan Charlotte Sutton Leina Cato Mingyuan Gao Henry Green Samuel Hoggett Joshua Jaden Kai Owens

LOTE Awards Alliance Française Berthe Mouchette competition Luc van Vliet (two prizes) Writing: 3rd prize and Runner up for all of Year 12 participants.

All students of languages in Year 8-12 participated in this competition. To earn a distinction student must achieve in approximately the top 25 per cent of the cohort and students who have gained a High Distinction have scored in approximately the top 15 per cent.

Frogmore French Certificate 2

High Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Alexandra Siedle Julius Schulze High Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Megan Siedle French Certificate 3 Distinction Listening Sophie Antonellis Aleisha Bernamoff Emma Doyle Kristi Lenton Kate Meehan High Distinction Listening Lola Oswald Luc van Vliet High Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Sahishnu Siva Ram

High Distinction Reading Daisy Causer

High Distinction Reading Distinction Listening Harrison Smyth

High Distinction Reading High Distinction Listening Emma Coubard

Japanese Certificate 3

Japanese Certificate 2 Distinction Reading Ryan Buckler Distinction Listening James Eustice Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Jeffrey Fong Henry Wang High Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Jack Feng Austin Hollingsworth Eddy Zhou High Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Shinji Hibino Joshua Nung David Xu German Certificate 2 Distinction Listening Brandon Demura Sean Enright Anna Lofthouse Imogen Schwartz

Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Jessica Paterson High Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Leina Cato Dhamsika Samarapathi German Certificate 3 Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Conor Beveridge Michael Demura Alexander Harris Marcus Marinelli High Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Sarah Cimino High Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Jonas Schulze Emma Stephenson Nicholas Stephenson High Distinction Reading Distinction Listening Luc van Vliet

Greenways

Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Jessica Ewart-McTigue Lachlan Howe

French Certificate 1

High Distinction Reading Distinction Listening Bradley Chick Kiara Devers

Distinction Reading Eleanor Roberts Nicholas Thiele Edward Yang

Distinction Listening Mark Butler

High Distinction Reading Hayden Richards Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Gemma Reynolds French Certificate 2 High Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Samasidh Siva Ram Japanese Certificate 2 Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Alanah Heidecker Distinction Reading High Distinction Listening Tomoya Owens

Bayview Chinese Certificate 1 Distinction Listening Mo Sha High Distinction Listening Leonard Liu Japanese Certificate 1 Distinction Reading Eliza Ewart Josh Madden Skye Carter Tayla Fox Kieren Dyer Eva Dallman-Bell Alyssa Stuart High Distinction Reading William Currey German Certificate 1 Distinction Reading Anna Caley Harrison Dart Grace Felsenthal Lilyana Gorringe Nelson Jaden Lachlan Leason Lauren Malby-Luke Tomas O Sophie Peachey Oskar Phillips Angus Rimanic Thomas Shepherd Sam Tucker Distinction Listening Valdis Guppy Sophie Hennig Ethan Murray Kira Walters Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Tayla Langenfelds Adam Laws High Distinction Listening Jack Gardner High Distinction Listening Distinction Reading Alex Jones

High Distinction Reading Distinction Listening Ella Mairs Callum Roberts High Distinction Listening High Distinction Reading Akul Saigal High Distinction Reading Sarthak Singh Language Perfect World Championship Results Elite Awards Alanah Heidecker Year 9 Japanese Nelvin Ong Year 8 German Gold Awards – German Lauren Malby-Luke Blake Rosenberg Thomas Shepherd Jeremy Miao Ethan Prabaharan Zoe Lancaster Georgia Bowen Trent Meakins Sean Enright Joseph Shim Valdis Guppy James O’Day Gold Awards – Japanese Samuel Pritchard Mia Watkins Imogen Davis Benjamin Leembruggen Finlay Heath Tessa Styles Madison Daley Georgia Rowan Aidan Scott Mackenzie Howe Annabelle Kidd Karly Georgantis Ethan Hunt Gold Awards – French Nathaniel Ong Jack Cullen Sean Enright Emma Coubard Gold Awards – Mandarin Nalisha Ong

Bayview Awards Mark Dreyfus Community Spirit and Leadership Award William Frost

Eblana Awards Academic Foundation H – Christopher Hobbs Foundation S – Lily Kerr Year 1L – Rhys Basin Year 1R – Sophie Shing Year 2BW – Joseph Compton Year 2OW – Ava Pregnalato Year 3E – Jaxon Stephens Year 3L – Aaron Britter Year 4B – Michelle Fong Year 4H – Ella Michell

AWARDS

Year 9 Zac Angus Imogen Davis Samasidh Siva Ram Jakob Sloan Mia Watkins Oscar Clarke Torey Bernamoff Philbert Lan Charlie Officer Joshua Cooley

State Finalists – Year 7 Yani Ryan

High Distinction Listening Kai Lindsay Conor Murray

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Year 7 Rory Thomas Ethan Pate Declan McComb Jack Littleford Denie Bellamy Brayden Miller

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Visual Arts Year 4 – Nicholas Harris Musical Excellence Year 4 – McKenzie Hood Speech Year 4 – Aimee Lancaster Drama Year 4 – Callum Orr Cashion Brothers Writing Award Year 4 – Ella Michell

LOTE Awards Language Perfect World Championship Results Silver Awards – Chinese Matthew Shing Bronze Awards – Chinese Aimee Lancaster Ella Michell

‘Dare 2 Dream!’

Award Winners and Special Program Participants Science Talent Search Major Bursary – Year 2 Alice Fletcher Major Bursary – Year 4 Noemi Sniezek Hannah Wagner Major Bursary – Year 5 Peter Natsioulas Major Bursary – Year 6 Sarah Connell Riley Wollen Minor Bursary – Year 2 Hudson Close Minor Bursary – Year 3 Abigail Barrett

Equal Top Year 8 Team Scorer – Top 10 per cent overall Keiran Dyer Callum Roberts

Minor Bursary – Year 4 Sophie Frost Ayden Roos Kyle Roos

Maths Talent Quest High Distinction – Year 2 Joseph Compton

Year 8 Top 20 per cent Ethan Prabaharan Hannah Schmidt William Curry Joel Rotar Akul Saigul Ella Mairs

Merit Award – Year 2 Cooper Armstrong Kate Pregnalato Ava Pregnalato Lucas Wagner

Distinction – Year 2 Kristof Buschkeuhl Sarabjeet Dawar

Top Year 7 Team Scorer – Top 10 per cent overall Cameron Connell

Distinction – Year 3 Emma Adams

Year 7 Top 20 per cent Daniel Nikolayevsky Joseph Shim

Merit Award – Year 3 Edward Hall Nate Trowell Emma Adams Merit Award – Year 4 Callum Orr Michelle Fong Lachlan Fraser Ella Michelle Project Completion – Year 6 Ella Heidecker Project Completion – Year 5 Lucy Page Jude Scott Ruby Samild Keira Patron William Nish Hamish Berry Aiden Cafarella Project Completion – Year 4 Maddox Lewell Jordan Pyszczck Holly Nish Project Completion – Year 3 Jack Newman Matthew Shing Sarah Chun David Sprung Siobhan Phillips Jaxon Stephens Aaron Britter (Selected for State Level Competition but unable to attend) Project Completion – Year 2 Oliver Tzounos Harrison Tzounos Natalie Nomikos Zakaria Rahhali James Evans Diesel Reid Campbell Brown Kristof Buschkuehl Sarabjeet Dawar Tyler Veza Joseph Compton Patrick Saunders

Distinction – Year 4 Ella Michell Noemi Sniezek Hannah Wagner Credit – Year 2 Cooper Armstrong Hudson Close James Evans Alice Fletcher Natalie Nomikos Diesel Reid Oliver Tzounos Harrison Tzounos Lucas Wagner Credit – Year 3 Aaron Britter Sarah Chun Edward Hall Jack Newman Siobhan Phillips Jaxon Stephens Matthew Shing Nate Trowell

Top Year 6 Team Scorer – Top 10 per cent overall Angus Marcombe Year 6 Top 10 per cent Jaden Prabaharan Year 6 Top 20 per cent Charlie Daddo Sarah Connell Ulyana Kondratova Maylin Roy Top Year 5 Team Scorer – Top 20 per cent overall Aiden Cafarella

Aurecon Bridge Building – Innovation Award Year 8 Joshua Madden William Currey Akul Saigul

Credit – Year 4 Michelle Fong Callum Orr Jordan Pyszczek Ayden Roos Kyle Roos Credit – Year 5 Aiden Cafarella James Dennis Makenzie Flower Michael Krol Keira Patron William Nish Avelyn Reynolds Baxter Wollen Credit – Year 6 Sarah Connell Ella Heidecker Maddison Moore Jaden Prabaharan Ashika Sarma Christopher Vorster Credit – Year 7 Jacob Farrow Declan McComb Cameron Connell

Phoenix Hall Keira Patron Lucy Page Avelyn Reynolds Ruby Samild Baxter Wollen Year 6 Sarah Connell Ethan Esakson Sasha McLennan Sienna Salisbury Ashkia Sarma Riley Wollen Gateways Challenge Year 3 Emma Adams Aaron Britter Edward Hall Poppy Samild Year 4 Callum Orr Kyle Roos Ayden Roos Hannah Wagner Year 5 Aidan Cafarella Keira Parton Avelyn Reynolds Year 6 Cameron Berry Sarah Connell Hamish Neumann Maddison Moore Enrico Tirta Gateways Leadership Seminar

Special Program Participation Da Vinci Decathlon Year 7 Bethany Bartuskins Cameron Connell Ellen Fletcher Cassandra Newman Daniel Pate Ethan Pate Joseph Shim Livinia Stockdale Tournament of Minds Year 5 Aidan Cafarella George Fenessey Mackenzie Flower

Year 6 Sarah Connell Emilie Toby Justin Grant Sophie Sibbald Debating Year 7 William Frost Alex Hassan Jack Littleford Daniel Matthew Daniel Pate Ethan Pate Joseph Shim Year 8 Jeremy Campbell Adam Carnegie Joshua Madden Ella Mairs Blake Rosenberg Hannah Schmidt

Year 9 Tessa Styles Jack Cullen Nicholas Berry Samasidh Siva Ram Ethan Staggs Joshua Cooley Year 10 Angus Goodwin Megan Siedle Alexandra Siedle Brandon Demura Year 11 Ryan Buckler Austin Hollingsworth Thomas Siedle Victor Ding Harry Austin Michael Todd Harry Spencer Year 12 Michael Demura Nathan Booth Luc van Vliet Piermon Schwarz Gail D’Souza Abajit Daas Andrew Persic (Co Captain) Elizabeth Algeri (Co Captain) Lions Youth of the Year 2016 Local Winner and Regional Public Speaking Award Emily Keogh Year 12 Representatives Sarah Cimino Gail D’Souza Luc van Vliet Lions Youth of the Year 2017 Elected Students Ryan Buckler Zac Scherger Ainger Public Speaking Year 12 Piermon Schwarz Gail D’Souza Rotary Public Speaking Elizabeth Algeri Screen It! – National Finalist Junior Animation Year 3 Edward Hall Screen It! – Encouragement Award – Games Year 5 Phoenix Hall

Screen It! Animation and Movie Making ‘Mystery’ Theme: School Representation Year 3 Emma Adams Abigail Barrett Aaron Britter Sarah Chun Edward Hall Robert Hodgetts Angus Jackson Oscar Mentiplay Siobhan Phillips Poppy Samild Matthew Shing Year 4 Mia Castello Michelle Fong McKenzie Hood Elise Laws Ella Michell Holly Nish Callum Orr Jordan Pyszczek Ayden Roos Kyle Roos Noemi Sniezek Sally Stevens Hannah Wagner Year 5 Aidan Cafarella Phoenix Hall William Nish Lucy Page Ruby Samild Year 6 Sarah Connell Ella Heidecker Phong Phan Jaden Prabaharan Ashika Sarma Enrico Tirta Emilie Toby Riley Wollen Year 7 Daniel Nikolayevski Jack Littleford Luke Bouwmeester Hugo Marcombe Oliver Moran Brayden Miller Year 8 Ella Mairs Hannah Schmidt Tayla Fox Year 10 Alexandra Siedle Megan Siedle James Bouwmeester

Connor Murray Jeremy Howe Screen It! Animation and Movie Making ‘Mystery’ Theme: Completion Year 2 Cooper Armstrong Kristof Buschkuehl Joseph Compton James Evans Jae Hadjiyannakis Ava Pregnalato Kate Pregnalato Diesel Reid Lucas Wagner Campbell Brown Sarabjeet Dawar Alice Fletcher Natalie Nomikas Patrick Saunders Harrison Tzounos Oliver Tzounos Hudson Close Tyler Veza Year 3 Madeleine Lewell Year 4 Tomas Barlow Charli Bucci Charlotte Cowan Isabel Ellix Lachlan Fraser Sophie Frost Nicholas Harris Ashleigh Hopkins Lachlan O’Hara Scarlet Park Elisha Parkes Nina Pertzel Riley Shilson-Josling Year 6 Max Athanas Cameron Berry Charles Daddo Angus Marcombe Maddison Moore

AWARDS

Sportsmanship Foundation H – Jack Wall Foundation S – Claudia Piotrowski Year 1L – Angela Hooker Year 1R – Elliot Grant Year 2BW – James Evans Year 2OW – Diesel Reid Year 3E – Siobhan Phillips Year 3L – Scott Marrow Year 4B – Ayden Roos Kyle Roos Year 4H – Nicholas Harris

Maths Olympiad

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Citizenship Foundation H – Zoe Dwyer Foundation S – Lachlan Smith Year 1L – Baxter Chan Year 1R – Blake Schultz Year 2BW – Mia Antoniou Year 2OW – Natalie Nomikos Year 3E – Poppy Samild Year 3L – Sara Weeks Year 4B – Brendan Sheppard Year 4H – Nina Pertzel

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Year 8 Oskar Phillips William Currey Akul Saigal Joshua Madden Sarthak Singh Lauren Malby-Luke Matilda Appel Callum Roberts Alexander Jones Blake Rosenberg Jason Bartonek Jeremy Campbell Ethan Prabaharan Year 10 Anna Lofthouse Holly Adams Luke Shi Luke Huang Ink About It! Kingston Youth Services Writing Competition ‘Hero’ Year 7 Hugo Marcombe Brayden Miller Ellen Fletcher Cassandra Newman Daniel Poberovsky Year 8 Ethan Prabaharan Jeremy Campbell Callum Roberts Matilda Appel Year 10 Luke Shi Bradley Chick Meg Siedle ‘What If?’ Writing Competition – Fantasy Year 3 Siobhan Phillips Sarah Chun Matthew Shing Madeleine Lewell Abigail Barrett Oscar Mentiplay Jaxon Stephens Ben Parr Edward Hall

Art & Design Exhibition Award Winners 2016 Year 5 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Jessica Leembruggen Year 6 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Maylin Roy

Unit 1/2 VCE VET Interactive Digital Media James Bouwmeester Unit 3/4 VCE VET Interactive Digital Media Scott Moore Year 12 Paint Brush Award for Art Tessa Petrie

Year 12 Paint Brush Award for VCD Liam Grant

Summer Sport Awards Badminton

Table Tennis

Packers’ Prize Liam Grant

Coaches Award Liam Grant

Principal’s Award for Art Max Watson

Half Colours Keling Chen Xinyi Liu Yuxuan Chen

Coaches Awards Alexander Zhu Benjamin Stone Matthew Dunkerley

Mentonians’ Acquisitive Art Award Cameron Moorhouse

Year 7 Design Award for Technology – Wood Aidan Scott

People’s Choice Award Liam Grant

Year 8 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Lauren Malby-Luke Year 9 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Olivia Dickson

Year 12 Liam Grant – Creative Arts Marc Shermon – Photography Gabrielle Burton – Hospitality Ben Thompson – Building & Construction Lucy Mangion – Performing Arts Luc van Vliet – Music Renee Verginis – Performing Arts

Foundation Awards 2016 Year 4 Ella Michell – Writing Year 5 Lucy Page – Animal Welfare Olivia Parkes – Creative Arts Matthew Scott – Writing

Cricket Coaches Awards Christopher Perkins Ethan Pate Max Bull Tom Siedle William Roworth Half Colours Aidan Taylor Aman Prasad Lewis Diggins William Avery

Year 6 Hamish Berry – Sailing Riley Spence – Athletics Emilie Toby – Performing Arts Hamish Neumann – Design Angus Marcombe – Cricket Sam Murphy – Baseball

Full Colours Edward Newman Jack Cunnington Massey Parker Samuel Hutcheon

Half Colours Lachlan Hughes Patrick Distefano Patrick Myles

Year 10 Paint Brush Award for Studio Photography Matthew Borys

Year 7 Taya Brooks – Dance Charlie Dashwood – Dance Benjamin Gerresheim – Tennis Mitchita Owens – Basketball and Football Sammy Cartwright – Basketball Olivia Goodman – Equestrian

Year 10 Paint Brush Award for VCD Caitlin Baxter

Year 8 Skye Carter – Athletics Adam Halliday – Futsal

Year 10 Design Award for Technology – Wood Troy Flavell

Year 9 Phoebe Wearne – Swimming Charlotte Pate – Gymnastics Dominique Taylor – Netball Karly Georgantis – Soccer Grace Phillips – Sailing

Year 9 Digital Storytelling Award for Technology Lachlan Milburn Year 9 Design Award for Technology – Wood Nicholas Opie Year 10 Paint Brush Award for Art Callum Matthew

Year 11 Paint Brush Award for Art Mackenzie Bascombe Year 11 Paint Brush Award for Studio Arts Isabelle Koh Year 11 Paint Brush Award for VCD Ellen Mooney

Joshua Madden Liam Beach Luis McLaren Luke D’Alessandro Max Leaver Oliver Pontifex Owen McGindle Riley Causer Thomas Gamble Zac Angus Full Colours Benjamin Charnley Samuel Callahan Bailey Clarkson Kai Owens

Year 12 Paint Brush Award for Studio Arts Brittany Chambers

Year 7 Paint Brush Award for Visual Arts Nicholas Layton

Year 7 3D Printing Award Milana Cherney

Corbin McCullough – Running Tom Zallmann – Alpine ski racing Callum Strack – Golf Lachie Moorhouse – Cycling

Year 10 Jordan Fox – Swimming Imogen Schwartz – Fine Arts Massey Parker – Cricket William Carter – Athletics Year 11 Lucas Waters – Lifesaving

Sailing

Full Colours Brandon Demura Julian Sasson Molly Ford Softball Coaches Awards Alexandra Sheppard Madeline Ghent Basketball Coaches Awards Bailey Reed Ben Pertich Callum Beach Daniel Althoff-Dowell Daniel Vise Elliot Carruthers Fraser Angus Harry Houlahan Jacques Steedman Jesse Turner

Half Colours Jayde Maluga Full Colours Chengzi He Dhamsika Samarapathi Joshua Jaden Touch Rugby Coaches Awards Emily Fiddes Emily Kerr Emma Maggio Sophie Porter Full Colours Lauren Fagan Half Colours Belle Leonard Madison Capsalis Surf Life Saving Half colours Jesse Reed Jessica Balleggi Quayd Duffin Full Colours Jamie Brown Jessica Ewart-McTigue Kyle Solterbeck Natalie Clucas Stephanie Sanderson Trenton Johnson Tennis Coaches Awards Alex Aridas Luke Shi Michael Todd Nathan Booth Sam Pritchard Sophie van Vliet Thomas Hughes Tiadora Botakis William Hibbs Full Colours Anthony Tamborriello Braden Watts Jaiden Watts

Oliver Florent Sahishnu Siva Ram Trent Jones Troy Flavell Zac Scherger Volleyball Coaches Awards Bianca Malby-Luke Caitlin Shepherd Callum Holland Gabrielle Burton Jeremy Campbell Kentaro Bowden Max Watson Mikayla Cummins Nick Stephenson Peronel Taylor Sienna Trigg Half Colours Joshua Stephenson Ryan Buckler Full Colours Brittany Chambers Cameron Moorhouse Harrison Edwards James Davidson Keenen Marrier D’Unienville Matthew Grigoriou Mitchell Scott Patrick Bankin William Burmeister Swimming Half Colours Grace Howell Quayd Duffin Sam Thiele Samantha Fifer Sophie Appel Tom Lapa Full Colours Brannan Smith Brianna Vassiliadis Emily Bresnehan Emily Webster Frazer Kemp Hannah Schmidt Isabelle Koh James Kerr Jamie Brown Jesse Reed Jessica Balleggi Jordan Fox Joshua Cooley Lotus Jeffs Max Rothberg Max Williams Molly Ford Natalie Clucas Stephanie Sanderson

Full Colours Lucy Mangion

Katie Goakes Tara white

Half Colours Sarah Caley

Full Colours Madison Capsalis

Basketball

Half Colours Ellen Chick Emily Fiddes

Coaches Awards Charlotte Sutton Claire Syme Makenzie Boys Megan Bresnehan Full Colours Courteney Munn Half Colours Sophie van Vliet Cross Country Coaches Awards Edward Kent Robert McIntyre Zac Scherger Full Colours Brooke McCullough Corbin McCullough Grace Bunting Hannah Schmidt Jessica Ewart-McTigue Lachlan Moorhouse Half Colours Kyle Solterbeck Luc van Vliet Football

Coaches Awards Aleisha Bernamoff Alexander Aridas Alexander Wong Aman Prasad Benjamin Gerresheim Callum Roberts Dougal Rann Isabella Parker James Bouwmeester Lotus Jeffs Nicholas Spitzer Thomas Fisher Torey Bernamoff Trenton Johnson Full Colours Alexandra Boys Bianca Malby-Luke Charlotte Fryer George Smethurst Lewis Cotsopoulos Nanthawat Magee Samantha Fifer Stephanie Giccominato Dhruv Rodrigues Chico

Coaches Awards Fynn Baxter Jack Pavlidis James Bowles Joshua Stephenson Ryan White Thomas Vear

Half Colours Jack Athanas Sasha Widelski Tiana Storti

Full Colours Edward Newman Harrison Edwards Jack Laidlaw Matthew Grigoriou Max Williams Oliver Florent

Athletics

Half Colours Jack Cunnington James Davidson Joel Amartey Matthew Hennig Hockey Full Colours Thomas Siedle Half Colours Riley Sawyer

Winter Sports Awards

Netball

Aerobics

Coaches Awards Abbey Dykas Abby Leonard Alleisha Stephens Stephanie Wilson Yani Ryan Imogen Schwarz Kate Meehan

Coaches Awards Anna Caley Charlotte Holland Claudia Levey Ellie Wright

Soccer

Tony Dunkerley Award Finn McCall

Full Colours Dhruv Rodrigues Chico Corbin McCullough George Smethurst Harrison Edwards Jesse Reed Luke D’Allessandro Tom Siedle Aidan Taylor Ben Awad Natalie Clucas Anna Laidlaw Jamie-Lee Munn Half Colours Rebecca Hayes Mia McCullough Alison Ahern Barclay Miller Please note that not all award recipients are listed as some had not been decided at the time of publication. Additional awards and competition winners will be noted in the School’s newsletters, available on the Mentone Grammar website: www.mentonegrammar.net

AWARDS

Year 7 Jacob Farrow Declan McComb Daniel Pate Daniel Poberezovsky Tiana Dimits Cassandra Newman Livinia Stockdale Ellen Fletcher Ethan Pate Leonard Liu Douglas Allan Joseph Shim Sam Chaplin Dylan Hinton

Year 4 Lachlan Fraser Callum Orr Michelle Fong Ella Michell Sophie Frost Aimee Lancaster Hannah Wagner Noemi Sniezek McKenzie Hood Jasper Zdanius Isabel Ellix

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Hamish Neumann Joshua Rabak Christopher Vorster

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Year 12 Houses Oliver Ball Georgia Bowen Jamie Brown Brittany Chambers Jack Crane Jack Cunnington Bridie Easton Edward Fisher Thomas Fisher Daniel Holman James Humphreys Mia Labozzetta Jack Laidlaw

Haoran Liu William McCann Becca Mendel Cameron Moorhouse Courteney Munn James Pearman Ella Ryan Riley Sawyer Max Stammers Joshua Stephenson Nicholas Stephenson Samuel Thiele Sarah Thompson

Amelia Brooks Gabrielle Burton Ben Charnley Keling Chen James Davidson Wesley Flavell Linzhi Fu Liam Grant Matthew Grigoriou Charlotte Hamilton Chengzhi He

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Deighton House Emily Keogh Yuqi Meng Matthew Pertich Kyle Solterbeck Charlotte Wiffin Max Williams Alexander Wong Hollie Wright Yue Yu Boyuan Zhang

Teaghan Avery William Avery Joanne Donaldson Gail D’Souza Drew Evans Emily Fiddes Emily Giddens Amy Gowan Dooyeon Lee Xinyi Liu

Lucinda McIntyre Robert McIntyre Aman Prasad Dhruv Rodrigues Chico Marc Shermon Bryn Walker Jacob Watson Wujie Xu Dean Zaharopoulos Shengjun Zhang

Were House

Drinan House Mitchell Booth Nathan Booth Dawei Cao Miaomiao Chen Jinhong Cho Lewis Cotsopoulos Sean Cunningham Matthew Dunkerley Galina Enright Tom Gamble Jiin Jeon

YEAR 12 HOUSES

Kentaro Bowden Ellen Chick Steven Daly Lucas Filikotzias Oliver Florent Molly Ford Emmanuel Garifalakis Riley Ghent Eliza Harvey Trent Jones Frazer Kemp

Ellen Liu Lucy Mangion James Mullan Andrew Persic Jesse Reed Alexander Shepherd Benjamin Thompson Jacqueline Wang Felicity Warren Junlin Yan

Rhys Mahoney Dylan Mann Andrew McDonald Sebastian Pena Zachary Roberts Jessica Robson Hannah Sinclair Tiana Storti Anthony Tamborriello Luc van Vliet Tianyi Yuan

Lachlan Brown Sean Callaghan Samuel Callahan Riley Causer Finlay Dodson Harrison Edwards Matthew Hennig William Howroyd Bridgette Kelsey Xuanming Liang Nanton Magee

White House

Finlay Anderson House Owen Adams Elizabeth Algeri Tyler Anderson Sophie Antonellis Riley Baxter Adam Bouwmeester Yuxuan Chen Sarah Cimino Abhijit Das Emma Doyle Amelia Gardiner

Lachlan Hart Keenen Marrier D’Unienville Dhamsika Samarapathi Sumbaro Sarigari Julian Sasson Caitlin Shepherd George Smethurst Zachary Stagg Sienna Trigg Max Watson

Aleisha Bernamoff Conor Beveridge Haoluan Chen Luke D’Alessandro Michael Demura Lachlan England Samuel Lucas Marcus Marinelli Chloe McLennan

Scott Moore Zachary Murphy Jackson Palmer Georgina Phillips Stephanie Sanderson Piermon Schwarz Louise Solomonides Georgia Tarlinton Renee Verginis

Valedictorians

Jones House

Anderson House

Kate Meehan Barclay Miller James Miller Zoe O’Neill-Pugh Jessica Paterson Kirra Pemberton Tessa Petrie Adam Pratt Thomas Vear Haili Wang Zhao Zhang

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