Ongoing connections with the Old Michaelian community

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The strong presence and engagement of our Old Michaelian (OM) community continues to contribute to the enrichment of our students’ experience across the School’s Co-Curricular program. Our performing arts students benefited from the talent of many OMs including Tiernan Maclaren (OM 2017) who supported production set construction, Harrisen Hughes (OM 2021) who played in the Virtuoso orchestra and Harry Nguyen (OM 2018) who played in both the Virtuoso Concert and Hello, Dolly! orchestras. Harrisen also assisted with bump-in and bump-out for Hello, Dolly! Along with Luca Amodeo (OM 2021), Oliver Thompson (OM 2021), Alex Whaley (OM 2021), Hugo Monaco-Templeton (OM 2019) and Sam Deshayes (OM 2019). Kobe Vincs (OM 2021), who is studying a Bachelor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music provided artistic collaboration and guidance to the Scholastica band who undertook the challenge of learning and performing his composition – Voyage of the Beagle at the Music at the Centre concert. Kobe wrote this composition as the Victorian representative of the 2021 Young Composers’ Project of the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME). Winnie Laing (OM 2020) and Mima Golias (OM 2019) Coached the 1st XVIII Girls Football team who competed for the Geoffrey Ryan Cup at St Michael’s new football home ground at North Port Oval, home of Port Melbourne Football Club. Westbourne Grammar were the eventual victors in what was an exciting and competitive match. Many other OMs are working as coaches and provide inspiration and motivation for our St Michael’s sporting teams. Matt Walker (OM 2021) and Max Thompson (OM 2019) are coaching with the Swimming Club (SMGS Aquatics). Matt and Stella Smith (OM 2021) have also taught Prep, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 students in the pool. All four OMs were heavily involved with the Swimming program during their time at St Michael’s and Matt Walker and Max Thompson were both ACS Swimming Captains in Year 12. They have demonstrated a pathway and inspired some of our current Year 11 students to undertake their swim teaching qualification and start working with Aquastar, our Swimming school partner, after school. Students participating in our Experiential Learning program enjoyed the support of Evie Craig (OM 2019) who attended the Kosi to Coast Exodus and Nick Leach (OM 2018) and Tara Flynn (OM 2020) who assisted with the Bon Appetite Food Technology Immersion. Our wonderful Snowsports team who competed at the Interschools Competition held at Mt Buller, was very fortunate to have support from Saffron Rich (OM 2019) our Snowsports Coach, as well as Winter Olympians and OMs, Brodie Summers (OM 2011) and Tess Coady (OM 2018). We thank all Old Michaelians for their support and look forward to the ongoing contribution and engagement of our diverse and vibrant Old Michaelian Community with the School. If you are interested in engaging with the students, contributing to life at St Michael’s or learning more about the OMAC please contact oldmichaeliancommittee@stmichaels.vic.edu.au

1. Snowsports team at the Snowsports Breakfast 2. Saffron Rich (OM 2019) with Mr Stuart Whitehouse, Liam (12B) and Zac (11H)