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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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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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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 […]
read moreAustralian 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 […]
read moreTurning 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 […]
read moreScience 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 […]
read moreTeen 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 […]
read moreRemembrance 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 […]
read moreCelebrating 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 […]
read moreGirls' Volleyball Thriller!
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Our girls’ volleyball team kicked off their season with an exciting three sets to two sets win against reigning premiers, Haileybury. Coming from two sets down, the girls showed excellent skill and incredible fight to take the points. And both our girls’ touch football and softball teams started the year in great fashion with convincing […]
read moreLeader Sports Awards
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Congratulations to Year 10 students Elly and Tom who both received a Leader Sports Star Award in a ceremony held at Etihad Stadium Medallion Club on Tuesday night. Tom won the 2017 Darebin Junior Sports Star Award for his achievements in gymnastics, while Elly won the 2017 Heidelberg Young Sporting Spirit Individual Award for her […]
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Our boys’ cricket and tennis teams kicked off their seasons with commanding wins on the weekend. The tennis boys started brilliantly, winning all their doubles matches. However our singles results were not quite as good, and we had to be content with an 11-5 rubbers victory. In cricket, newly appointed captain Jessie King led the […]
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