News and Events: Author Archive
Cambodia Service Trip Student Reflection
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Students in Years 10 and 11 travelled to Cambodia as part of the School’s Round Square Cambodia Service Project.
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Alumna Shae Wissell
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Today we are sharing the story of a member of our School community who embodies the definition of a young person of character. Shae Wissell graduated from the Plenty Campus in 1997. As a student at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Shae loved reading and creative writing but was unknowingly struggling with dyslexia, a condition that she […]
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Student Radio Interview with Bill Shorten
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Persistence paid off when brothers Matthew (Year 12) and Chris (Year 11) Jones scored an interview with federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten for Ivanhoe Grammar School’s community radio station. The students secured a phone interview for the School’s Inner FM channel, which airs Ivanhoe Presents on 96.5FM from 4-5pm on Fridays. The show focuses on […]
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Round Square Cluster Conference
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What Does Service Look Like? On Thursday 14 September several of our Year 5 students worked through this question when they participated in the Round Square Cluster Conference at Woodleigh School, Minimbah Campus, in Frankston. During the conference, senior students lead conversations with younger students around the topic of Service as a ‘partnership for change’. […]
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Primary Sports Update
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Auskick at the AFL Finals On Friday 8 September at the Richmond vs Geelong AFL Final, some of our Year 2 – Year 4 Auskick participants got a chance to play a ‘Grid’ Game on the MCG at half time. It was a huge thrill for the boys and girls to go out onto the […]
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New University Campus at Ivanhoe Grammar School
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Ivanhoe Grammar School and La Trobe University have entered into an Australian-first partnership to establish a Year 9 campus to provide students with a university-school experience. The unique educational initiative will give Year 9 students an early taste of university learning that will challenge them, inspire them and prepare them for the next stage of […]
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Back-to-back Premiership for Girls' AGSV Athletics Team
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In a repeat of last year, our Girls’ Athletics Team comfortably won the AGSV Premiership by a whopping 55 point – the exact margin of their win in 2016! And although our boys couldn’t match this success, their efforts were commendable against the three large boys’ schools (Trinity, Marcellin and Camberwell) who tend to dominate […]
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Year 5 Trip to Scienceworks
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On Thursday, Year 5 students took a trip to Scienceworks as part of the ‘Discovery’ unit of Humanities and Social Sciences. Students took part in two programs. Design a Martian Mover was a project where their ‘secret mission’ was to design a vehicle that could move over Martian terrain. During the workshop, students explore the […]
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Cooper White Tennis Star
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Year 9 student Cooper White has had a very successful year in Tennis! A skilled singles and doubles player, Cooper has been touring Europe recently with great success. His current Australian Ranking is #276 but he is ranked number #1 for his birth year. He has also held the state #1 position for the past […]
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Victorian Schools' Canoe Championships
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Over the weekend 45 students participated in the Victorian Schools’ Whitewater Championships and we came home with the major awards. Taking out the Overall Best Team and Best Boys Team, we are also pleased to announce that after many years of trying we have finally won the Best Girls Team title as well. A great […]
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Moot Court at LaTrobe University
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On Tuesday, four Year 11 Legal Studies students attended a Moot Court Competition at La Trobe University. They were given a criminal case study to review and develop arguments for the prosecution and defence. They spent a day at the university in preparation for the mooting experience, where students worked with law professors and first-year […]
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Business Week
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Our Plenty Campus recently celebrated its annual Business Week and students studying Units 1 and 2 of Business Management put their heads together to create a business aimed at raising funds for the Royal Children’s Hospital. In an effort to learn about how a successful business can market their goods or services, students form teams […]
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