Issue 18 15 November, 2019 www.gleneagles.vic.edu.au | Reema Boulevard, Endeavour Hills VIC 3802 | T: 9708 1319 | F: 9708 1324 ACCESS MONASH MENTORING PROGRAM Access Monash were delighted to celebrate the 2019 Year 12 Mentees from Gleneagles Secondary College who graduated from the Access Monash Mentoring Program. An end of year celebration was held at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus on Thursday 10 October to commemorate the achievements of each mentee. Each mentee received individual mentoring from a current Monash University student throughout the year. Mentors provided invaluable advice and support to their mentees - providing insight into university life, clarifying future goals and supporting mentees with study tips throughout year 12. Congratulations to the following students who graduated from the program this year: Chantelle Duarte Kortney Eggleton Jeylan Cayhan Uzma Janjua Maya Ghassali Jordyn Thomas Adna Cosic Stephanie Tang Senuri Mahavithana Faisal Niazi Matthew Chmait Gia Nghi Dam Cooper Andrews Thank you to all of the mentors, parents/guardians and teachers who helped support the program throughout the year. Leokardia Lilikakis | Leading Teacher TABLE TENNIS Congratulations to Year 8 students Erin Qian, Abinesh Baskaran, Nicholas Stark and Dario Rosner for coming 2nd in the Southern Metropolitan Region Table Tennis Final. Georgia Evans | Sport Teacher
Access Monash were delighted to celebrate the 2019 Year 12 Mentees from Gleneagles Secondary College who
graduated from the Access Monash Mentoring Program. An end of year celebration was held at Monash University’s
Caulfield Campus on Thursday 10 October to commemorate the achievements of each mentee.
Each mentee received individual mentoring from a current Monash University student throughout the year. Mentors
provided invaluable advice and support to their mentees - providing insight into university life, clarifying future goals and
supporting mentees with study tips throughout year 12.
Congratulations to the following students who graduated from the program this year:
Chantelle Duarte
Kortney Eggleton
Jeylan Cayhan
Uzma Janjua
Maya Ghassali
Jordyn Thomas
Adna Cosic
Stephanie Tang
Senuri Mahavithana
Faisal Niazi
Matthew Chmait
Gia Nghi Dam
Cooper Andrews
Thank you to all of the mentors, parents/guardians and teachers who helped support the program throughout the year.
Leokardia Lilikakis | Leading Teacher
TABLE TENNIS
Congratulations to Year 8 students Erin Qian, Abinesh Baskaran, Nicholas Stark and Dario Rosner for coming 2nd in
the Southern Metropolitan Region Table Tennis Final.
Georgia Evans | Sport Teacher
FREE DRESS DAY
Last week’s Free Dress Day was a fun and successful day with a total of $1408.20 counted. Free Dress Day donations
go to State Schools Relief.
State Schools Relief is a not for profit organisation that has been supporting hundreds of thousands of Victorian students and their families to feel included and valued as part of their school communities since 1930 and the need for this support network continues to grow.
State Schools Relief make sure “that every student, regardless of their background, can fully participate in education.” If you would like more information about State Schools Relief go to https://ssr.net.au/
YR 7 & 8 SCIENCE HIGH ACHIEVERS
On Thursday 7 November, the High Achievers Science 7 & 8 class went to Casey Tech in Berwick. Our topic was to
learn about energy efficiency in houses. When we got there, we met Kim and Will (our instructors) for the day. They
explained what activities we were going to do on the day. We booked for the year 7-8 discovery program, in this program
we designed and built two types of energy efficient houses. The first house we built was made of cardboard and a
hummingbird electronic board. After we connected the wires and placed them into our cardboard house, we had to use
laptops to program what happens in our house. We had to remember that it had to be energy efficient so our house
lights would turn on when the house was dark and then turn off when the house was bright. The second house we built
was a more sustainable house. We used different types of materials such as wood, metal, cardboard, etc. for this house,
we had to try not tomake the temperature rise too much. My group’s house raised by 0.5 degrees, which Kim said was
very good. The record of the day was 0.1 degrees. My favourite part in Casey Tech was the touch ID lockers. At the
start we had to use our thumbs to activate our hire lockers for the day. After that, all we had to do was to scan our
thumbs and the locker would open. Overall the day was great!!
Stella Chang | Year 7 Student
YEAR 8 OASIS CAMP
Monday 28 October was an exciting day for Year 8 as 100 students set off for 3-days at Oasis Camp with Ms Turner,
Ms Sykes, Mr Hooper, Ms Neil, Mr Speirs, Ms Maudsley, Ms Hayes, Ms Ashford and Ms Mawal. Oasis Camp is situated
in Mount Evelyn surrounded by dense bushland, equipped with 20 cabins, dining hall, games room, reptile house, low
ropes course, climbing wall and large gymnasium. We were blessed with sunny weather and clear skies for the 3 days,
perfect conditions for the range of outdoor activities on offer.
On Day 1, students were assigned mixed activity groups which gave them the opportunity to get to know students from
different home groups. During the course of the camp, students could earn points for their groups by showing initiative,
teamwork and effort. After lunch, they participated in team-building games run by the Gleneagles staff including water
balloon toss, the ‘apple’ and spoon race, and the 3-legged race, among other ice-breaker activities. In the evening,
students toasted marshmallows around the campfire and made “s’mores” which were a hit amongst students and staff.
