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Celebrating the Class of 2017 - Thomas Currie
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Each year, an estimated 500 people apply for the Musical Theatre degree at the prestigious Queensland Conservatorium at Griffith University. It is a gruelling audition process with many hopeful performers applying and auditioning year after year before finally, if ever, being accepted into the final cut of just 24 students. Among this year’s elite intake […]
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Induction Service for Year 12 Students and Prefects
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On Tuesday 28 November, our senior students took part in our annual Leadership Service at the beautiful St Paul’s Cathedral. This is always an important and treasured event as our year 12 students are inducted as leaders of our school community, along with the newly elected Prefects. The Service includes traditions spanning back to our […]
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Best Exhibit at Whittlesea Show
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Year 10 student, Stephanie Dundon, recently won the W.T. Mott Prize (Best Overall Exhibit) at the Whittlesea Show. The prize is an annual short story competition and every year, English teachers and library staff encourage students to enter. This year, a number of students received ribbons for their stories and Stephanie took out the major […]
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Sports Report
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Boys Teams finish 2017 in style! Although we only had three of the 6 Firsts boys’ teams playing last Saturday, all were successful. Once again, our cricketers were almost denied a victory when dark clouds enveloped Chelsworth Park late Saturday afternoon. Fortunately, the rain stayed away and the boys maintained their focus and dismissed Peninsula […]
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Patrick Naish drafted to Richmond
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Recent Year 12 graduate, Patrick Naish, was selected to play for Richmond in Friday’s National AFL Draft. In many ways, it’s a fairytale ending for Pat, who is both a Tigers fan and the son of former Tigers player, Chris Naish. As a much-anticipated Father-Son prospect, Pat had a number of opportunities this year to […]
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Sports Report
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It was VERY good weekend for Ivanhoe Sport. It was a terrific round of sport last Saturday, culminating in 7 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws, and with one of the draws, the weather proved to be our nemesis! [[{“fid”:”45892″,”view_mode”:”default”,”fields”:{“format”:”default”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:false,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:false},”type”:”media”,”field_deltas”:{“1”:{“format”:”default”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:false,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:false}},”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“class”:”media-element file-default”,”data-delta”:”1″}}]] Our cricketers once again batted very aggressively to record a very competitive total of […]
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Australian Explorer at Ivanhoe
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On Friday, students at the Plenty Campus were visited by Australian explorer Dr Kate Leeming ahead of her supported attempt to be the first person to cycle across the Antarctic continent in 2018. Dr Leeming has cycled the equivalent distance of twice around the world at the Equator. She has written about her journeys in […]
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Turning self-doubt into self-belief
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Christina Bernardi is a very busy woman. At Ivanhoe Grammar School she is a PE Teacher, Year 7 Teacher and Girls’ Football Coach, but outside the School, she also had the great honour of playing for Collingwood in this year’s inaugural AFLW season. She played in the famous season-opening match against Carlton which made history […]
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Science Award Winners
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We have recently had some outstanding results by some of our Senior students in science competitions. Newly graduated students Sid Sriram, Sasha Stratov and Christos Lillis competed in the Titration competition at National level and each received a silver award. At the Australian Science Olympiads, Year 11 students Jacques Elias, Matthew Kauffman, Yusra Tawfic and […]
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Teen Resilience with Andrew Fuller
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Last night we hosted a free community forum to help parents nurture confidence and resilience in their teenagers so they can build healthy and respectful relationships. Noted psychologist Andrew Fuller explained the needs and strengths of boys and girls in building resilience, particularly in their relationships with others and themselves. Parents learned strategies to encourage […]
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Remembrance Day Poem honoured in Bronze
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Year 9 student Sarah Moad has had her poetry honoured in a Cenotaph at her old Primary School. Entitled ‘Lone Pine’, Sarah wrote the poem in Grade 5 for a writing competition organised by the Returned Servicemen’s League. As the winning entry, it was set in bronze in a Memorial Garden in Seymour to mark […]
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Celebrating World Kindness Day
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On Monday 13 November, staff and children alike got involved in various activities to celebrate joy, kindness, and community on World Kindness Day. In particular, the conversations around kindness focused on the ‘ripple effect’ – that a single act of kindness can spread by breeding kindness in others. “The purpose of World Kindness Day is […]
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