Principal`s Messenger

26 October 2012
Principal’s Messenger
Valedictory
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Monday 29 October
Monday 29 October
P-4 LOTE Excursion to Melbourne Zoo
Year 8 Student-Led Conferences
Thursday 1 November
Healthy Breakfast with Dr Feelgood
(see flyer below)
VCE Exams begin
Friday 2 November
Wheelathon Fundraiser
Eblana Grandparents’ Day
& fundraiser Sausage Sizzle Lunch
Prep 2013 Library Transition Activity 2pm
Monday 5 November
Mid Term Break
Tuesday 6 November
Melbourne Cup Day Holiday
Thursday 8 November
Eblana Instrumental Concert
Tuesday 11 December
End of Term
The new Year 9 Greenways Campus is
on track for its grand opening in 2013.
Over the last two weeks there have been a number of Valedictory
activities: House dinners and breakfasts, a Communion Service in St
Augustine’s, the Valedictory Assembly and associated activities last
Monday culminating on Tuesday with the Valedictory Service in St
Paul’s Cathedral and a Dinner at The International of Brighton. At all of these events
heartfelt tributes have been paid to and by our Valedictorians. It is obvious from the
various events that the Class of 2012 is endeared to the School and by the School. I
commend the Year 12s for the way in which they have left the School and l am sure
we all join in wishing them well for their studies in the weeks ahead and in leading,
what l am sure we would all want, extraordinary lives!
At the Valedictory Dinner our Head Prefects, Tristan Broadway and Tegan Johnson,
spoke eloquently about their journey through the School, what it meant to them
and how the School is seen as their second family. There can be no doubting the
importance of the School in their lives and the lives of their peers. The final roll call
saw all of the Year 12 students on their feet to toast their parents and teachers. Mr
Baker proposed the toast to the Valedictorians. It was a special night, once again,
and l thank those who have supported the Year 12s on their journey through the
School.
We congratulate the following students on becoming Old Mentonians and wish
them well for the future:
Anderson House
Deighton House
Drinan House
Finlay Anderson
House
Ben Anderson
Joshua Barlow
Katelin Brodie
Monique Brohier
Nicole Clarke
Nathan Daniel Floyd
Zhuo Fu
Alexandra Gore
Joshua Gowing
Jake Greenwood
William Harding
Hugo Hicks
Brianna Hollis
Lewis Oliver
Lachlan Petfield
Wenyu Rong
Dallas Sather
Yuchen Shen
Emma Thompson
Cong Wang
Peter Williams
Ruofan Xia
Jack Ahdore
Andre Abeyratne
Alexander Babanine
Jisiyi Cao
Thomas Cleugh
Comrey Edgeworth
Sian Hope
Alexander Ioannou
Clinton Johnstone
Steele Kemp
Petrice Mills
Benjamin Rossi
Kevin Shuai
James Strong
Christopher Thornton
Jayanath Weeraratne
Jordan Wilson
Jiayi Wu
Christopher Gibbs
Mitchell Adams
Amelia Barclay
Tristan Broadway
Irina Busygina
Alexander Cameron
Connor Downie
Kate Hore
Nelson Jiang
Christopher Lamb
Qian Li
Callan McCluskey
Jordan Robson
Chloe Wright
Anxing Xu
Brian Young
Thomas Zanca
Madison Christo
Edward Dixon
Thomas Feng
Nicholas Huttley
Andrew Johns
Tegan Johnson
Shulei Lai
Yunxiang Li
Lucy Maioni
Alexander Mok
Nicholas Murphy
Ishane Panagoda
Anton Sasson
Edward Vong
Sihan Wang
Ellen Webster
Jones House
Lionel Large
House
Were House
White House
Liam Schinina
Mitchel Brown
William Carvill
Kaitlyn Chase
Zhen Chen
Charlie Dillon
Yang Ding
Jordan Gill
James Kenny
Sashank Krishnamoorthy
James McNeill
Christopher Mottershead
Kate Mottershead
Vicki-Marie Papayianneris
Thomas Sheppard
Mincheng Zhao
Shuonan Zhou
Chloe Mirams
Harrison Bate
Anthony Bruce
Yixi Cao
Billy Chapman
Kelsey Cotton
Ashley Donaldson
Daniel Donato
Maddison Gabsch
James Gardiner
Owen Grey
Yunping Gu
Jingting He
Liuh-Jang Kwok
Yang Lin
Lachlan Mirams
Han Qian
Kayla Streatfeild
Taylor Ward
Yipeng Zhang
Cheney Dodson
Sam Bardoel
Terrence Bauer
Sean Benjamin
Erin Callaghan
Brett Curnow
Yao Deng
Scott Draper
Joshua Erdelyi-Götz
Serge Krikun
Jonathan Kuhn
Stephanie Low
Billie Pemberton
Nicholas Petrie
Joshua Shub
Ming Wei Xu
Bingkun Zeng
Daniel Kellett
Natasha Camm
Hayden Campain
Steven Dellora
David Eden
Calum Fryer
James Fuller
Alex Kalyvas
Corey Love
Matthew Lowe
Christopher Minton
Thanu Moulton
Thai Le Quoc Nguyen
Jessica Palegeorge
India Santoro
William Thompson
Robert Tunbridge
Jake Wonnacott
Labore et Honore
Deputy Principal
Having advised you in a recent Messenger of the appointment of Mr Ben Manifold as our new Deputy Principal - Operations
l regret to now inform you that, due to family reasons, he will not be able to take up his appointment. We will now engage
an Executive Recruitment specialist to fill this vacancy. Ms Frizza, Ms Bradshaw and myself will fill the void in the first semester of 2013.
Carol Service
A reminder that this important service will be held in St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday 11 December at 7pm. All members of
Years 5, 7, 9 and 11 will be required to attend. All members of the School Community are invited to be part of this special
Christmas service.
M. J. Cater
Principal
News from Curriculum
Eight Ways Technology is Improving Education
Studies across the education systems around the world have identified that technology does help students learn by providing them with an education platform that appeals to them, is interactive and develops real world technology skills.
Standardised test scores across the USA showed that students were performing at least as well as they would have without
technology, most performed better. As part of the same study, students began taking more responsibility for their own
learning and teachers became more like mentors and less as presenters of information. Absenteeism also reduced. The
most important finding of this study was that students using technology regularly, and without prompting, employed inquiry, collaboration and technological and problem solving skills.
As reported by Sarah Kessler from the Education Tech Series, Don Knezek, the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education compared education without technology to the medical profession without technology.
He said that technology is helping teachers to teach in different ways to engage all students. The variety of ways that concepts can now be demonstrated, projects can be researched and assessment can occur has led to an improvement in student performance. Today’s teaching and learning is less about learning facts and figures and more about learning how to
learn, to sort through the masses of information available (and what is correct and what is not) as well as being more glob2
al. Problem solving and creativity are vital skills that our students will need as they enter adulthood.
Mr Knezek identified eight key ways that technology can improve education:
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Better simulations and models – digital simulations and models can be used for processes that happen too slowly or
quickly to be demonstrated in the physical classroom.
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Global learning – connections with students in other countries can be used to share information from a cultural perspective, as well as being language based.
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Virtual manipulatives – the best example occurs in Mathematics, where with the change of a single number in an
equation, a student can see how this may impact on graphs, growth patterns and develop a greater understanding of
the relationship between variables.
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Probes and sensors – used to create a graph motion in real time. Used in subjects such as Physics, Physical Education
and sports coaching.
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More efficient assessment – our LMS will allow students to complete quizzes and receive immediate feedback.
Teachers can track how a student is going on a longer task/project as well as how much time has been spent on each
element of the project. Plagiarism also becomes a thing of the past as programs identify whether or not the work is
the student’s own.
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Storytelling and multimedia – multimedia projects allow for collaboration, as well as the engagement of all the senses when presenting the outcome. Student are motivated that their peers will see the product they have produced.
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E-books – the better e-books have models, simulations and visualisations as part of their repertoire. There is still a
way to go with this one.
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Epistemic games put students in real world situations and ask them to solve real world problems. This makes the
learning more relevant, more engaging and more authentic. Creativity is also developed.
Schools need to stay abreast of the developments of technology because they nurture the workforce of tomorrow. Our students need to have the skills to be productive members of a highly technologically driven society. The teacher should not be
the only source of information and our students should understand how to access resources and tools on the internet.
Teachers still remain an important place in the classroom. John Hattie, in his research,
identified that the quality of the teacher is one of the major impacts on student performance. Technology, while a very valuable tool to assist in the education of our students,
needs to remain one of the tools available to us and not the only tool that we use. However, it would be disadvantageous to our students in future years to not provide them
with the skills to use technology to their benefit and in a responsible manner.
Deb Frizza
Deputy Principal – Strategic Implementation
News from The Mary Jones Early Learning Centre—Libby Chislett
Term 4 is well under way and the children have had a busy and exciting start to the term.
Our Kindergarten children and their families had a glorious day at Myuna Farm last Friday
where they experienced a touch of farm life first hand. By the look on their faces on returning to school on Friday it was a fun but tiring day. To complement this learning and
the Life Cycles science focus in the Pre-Prep rooms the Middleton family has kindly arranged for the children to watch baby chicks incubating and hatching in the ELC. No
doubt much petting of these chicks will occur before they are retired to the Middleton’s
sunny backyard.
Currently, the Kindergarten teaching staff are meeting and appropriating groups for next
year. The children are carefully placed with staff and other students who the current kindergarten staff believe will enhance
their development the most. Pre-Prep staff are doing the same for the entry into Eblana Prep classes Please remember that
Transition Day for all students staying on at Mentone Grammar is Friday 23 November. Children moving on to other schools
do not attend on this day. Monday 26 November is a student-free day as staff meet with their 2013 students and families
individually.
During this term our Centre will be visited by assessors to ensure that our Centre is working towards the new framework
and national regulations that came into effect this year. You may be randomly chosen by these people to answer a few
questions regarding your experiences here in the ELC. This is the first year this has occurred and will be ongoing to ensure
that all Early Childhood Centres Australia wide are providing a program that meets the children’s needs and involves the
family in the planning of the program; so it is a collaborative process between home and school. If you have any questions
regarding this process please ask your child’s teacher.
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Sunscreen reminder: It is very important to apply sunscreen each morning as what might appear as an overcast day in the
morning may indeed be a day where your child gets sunburnt, so please apply each day before leaving home. If you forget
all rooms have sunscreen which you may apply on arrival. Sun hats are compulsory this term.
Don’t forget Grandparents’ Day is next week, we welcome any special adult visitors into our rooms - please advise staff
how many visitors will be representing your family.
Come November, a Christmas feel will descend on the ELC as we begin to prepare for the Christmas Pageant and making
gifts for our families. It is truly a magical time here and one we would love for you to share with us. If you would like to stay
and help the children with these special activities please see staff. Staff will inform you shortly regarding costumes for this
special event.
Have a great weekend; enjoy this spring sunshine.
News from Eblana—Mr John Nolan
Great Achievers
This week in Eblana words of praise included: diligence, wonderful, brilliant, enthusiasm, wise, interesting, discipline, excellent, endeavour and fantastic. I am delighted to present Achiever of the Week Awards to: Justin Pregnalato (Prep B),
Elke Madlender (Prep K), George Fennessy (1OC), Hamish Hughes (2S), Chanel Kilpady (3H), Livinia Stockdale (3L) Callum
Roberts (4HS)and Ruby Parkes (4E).
This week Mrs Watkins awarded the Art Award to Year 4E for excellent group work
shown when working together on the Picasso cow.
Mrs Burgess awarded the Music Award to Year 4HS for its quiet and productive group
work throughout music. This disciplined approach demonstrates a genuine readiness for
Year 5!
Eblana Instrumental Concert—Matthew Cohn
The Eblana Instrumental Concerts are a wonderful opportunity to hear the work the children have been doing in the Eblana Instrumental Program. Our Semester 2 Instrumental Concert will be held on Thursday
8 November 2012 at 3.45pm to 4.45pm in St Augustine’s Church - 90/92 Como Parade West, Mentone.
Students should make their way to St Augustine’s Church immediately after dismissal from classes and assemble in the
“tea serving” area at the back of the Church.
Eblana Chess Team—James Yerondais
Dylan Bradley, Kosta Avanitakis, Blake Rosenberg, Noah Bloch and Ethan Prabaharan worked hard all year and after our
last victory at Pakenham Secondary College these boys received such high accolades that they were awarded a position in
the Victorian State Finals. This was held at Monash University, with over 43 schools participating and 230 students attending from around the State. With our familiar foes Deepdene Primary and Trinity Grammar in the draw, we knew that we
had our work cut out for us.
The boys needed to battle their way through nine games, each game scoring them one point for a victory, half a point for a
draw and zero for a loss. After Round 5 the Mentone Team was sitting at a surprising 14 th position overall. I say surprising
as we have attended many tournaments and, thus far, been unsuccessful. So to have so many schools here that had beaten us in the past we were extremely proud of ourselves. With two schools undefeated, we set our sights on a top ten finish
rather than an overall victory. Confidence running high with excitement we had a rollercoaster final three rounds and finished a respectable 8th position overall.
I am extremely proud of the boys and congratulate them on their fantastic effort and fabulous sportsmanship. Our School
is slowly building a reputable name as an opponent to be respected, not just for our cunning and intelligent game play but for our friendly and playful disposition.
I would like to thank the School and staff for all their support this year and the students
who give up their Friday lunch breaks to play and learn alongside us. A special mention to
Year 12 mentor Thomas Feng for all his wisdom and patience. I would also like to thank
Mr John Nolan and Rev. Michael Prabaharan for supervising, driving and being huge fans
and, of course, Principal Mal Cater for backing the team all year. Without you all these
special times in the students’ lives would not be possible.
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News from Bayview— Mr Cameron Lancaster
This week has seen the Year 5 students undertake a Learning Journey to Maldon to conclude their current program of Bike
Education. This is the first Learning Journey beyond Year 7 that I have attended for some time and, while I will leave the
numerous highlights of the Learning Journey to our students for next week’s edition of the Messenger, it did again reinforce
the benefits that accompany such a learning experience for our students. Beyond the obvious benefits of skill acquisition
were the high levels of camaraderie and enhancement of friendships as students worked together to overcome a variety of
challenges, improved levels of confidence and decision making in unfamiliar surrounds, the sheer excitement of attempting
something new and subsequent exhilaration of successful completion and the continued development of trust in staff and
student relationships. What a wonderful addition to our classroom lessons these opportunities provide.
With the final Learning Journeys of the year approaching, I would also like to take this opportunity to record my thanks to
the staff who attend and contribute so significantly to the success of these programs throughout Bayview.
Term 4 Key Dates
It was remiss of me that not all of the Term 4 key dates were included in last week’s Bayview edition of the Messenger so
that families can plan ahead. Please note the key dates for the remainder of the year:
Monday 5 & Tuesday 6 November
Friday 23 November:
Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 November:
Wednesday 28 November:
Saturday 1 December:
Tuesday 4 December:
Wednesday 5 December:
Tuesday 11 December:
Tuesday 11 December:
Melbourne Cup Exeat Weekend (please note that classes finish at the normal time
of 3:30pm on Friday 2 November)
Year 8 Graduation
Student Free / Report Writing Days
Bayview Spectacular commences
Year 8 transition to Greenways Campus
P&F Second Hand Book Sale
Bayview Spectacular and Prize Giving Ceremony
Bayview Transition commences
Bayview Transition concludes
End of Term 4 and Carols Service
State Short Course Swimming
The State Short Course Swimming Championships were held at MSAC from 31 August to 2 September. Sixteen students
from Mentone Grammar set the required qualifying times throughout the winter months in order to compete in this event.
Georgia Coutts, Molly Ford, Nicholas Georgiou, Justin Green, Frazer Kemp, Stephanie Sanderson-Pearce, Timothy Silvester and Brannan Smith all recorded personal best times throughout the meet.
Top ten places were achieved by Jessica Balleggi, Emily Bresnehan, Nicholas Capomolla, Georgina Gore, Isabelle Koh, Lotus Jeffs, Tyler Rix and Max Williams. In total, this group achieved 20 top ten finishes.
Tyler Rix finished in the top seven swimmers for his age group in seven events, including the 16yo Boys 200m Freestyle
where he collected a silver medal.
Emily Bresnehan competed in three events, finishing in the top half dozen in all of them, including winning the State Title
for the 11yo Girls 100m Backstroke.
Max Williams collected four Gold medals and one Bronze medal. He finished third in the 13yo Boys 200m Butterfly and won
the State Title in the 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke and 200m Backstroke.
Nicholas Capomolla won five events, capturing the 14yo Boys State Title in the 100m Individual Medley, 200m Individual
Medley, 100m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke and the 50m Freestyle Event. Nicholas set a new State Short Course record in
the 50m Freestyle with a time of 24.01s.
Congratulations to all of the students who competed in this event and well done on your achievements.
Stuart Bainbridge
Head of Swimming
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Gymnastics Success
On Sunday 21 October Charlotte Pate (Year 5) competed for the first time at the Victorian Gymnastics Championships Qualifier in Geelong. She was a National 5A competitor and was very
proud and excited to achieve qualification at the event. She will now compete at the Victorian
Gymnastics Championships Final on 11 November on all four apparatus.
Inter-School Chess
(Read about our five Chess stars in News from Eblana—page 4: Dylan Bradley, Kosta Arvanitakis, Blake Rosenberg, Noah
Bloch and Ethan Prabaharan )
Upcoming Events – Term 4
Monday 29 October
Tuesday 30 October
Monday 5 November
Tuesday 6 November
Year 8 Student-Led Conferences
Years 7 & 8 Summer Sport Training
Mid-term Exeat
Melbourne Cup Day
News from Frogmore—Mr Trevor Stevens
Valedictory
Our Year 12 students finished the formal part of their schooling this week and I would like to thank them for the dignified
manner in which they ended their time at the school. The Valedictory Service and Dinner were well attended and were a
pleasant and fitting finish to their time at Mentone Grammar.
Congratulations to the following students who received academic awards at the Valedictory Dinner:
Mitchell Adams
Jack Ahdore
Ben Anderson
Amelia Barclay
Harrison Bate
Erin Callaghan
Alexander Cameron
Kaitlyn Chase
Kelsey Cotton
Yang Ding
Edward Dixon
Cheney Dodson
Scott Draper
David Eden
Thomas Feng
Christopher Gibbs
Alexandra Gore
William Harding
Jingting He
Brianna Hollis
Sian Hope
Kate Hore
Alexandra Ioannou
Alex Kalyvas
Jonathan Kuhn
Liuh-Jang Kwok
Christopher Lamb
Stephanie Low
Christopher Mottershead
Kate Mottershead
Nicholas Murphy
Thai Le Quoc Nguyen
Ishane Panagoda
India Santoro
Dallas Sather
Kayla Streatfeild
Edward Vong
Peter Williams
Jiayi Wu
Bingkun Zeng
Mingcheng Zhao
Shuonan Zhou
Cheney Dodson
Special Awards presented at the Valedictory Dinner were:
Artissimo Music Award: Thanu Moulton
Artissimo Drama Award: Kelsey Cotton
The Principal’s Award for Art: Alexandra Ioannou
Good Samaritan Award: Cheney Dodson
The Gibson-Roberts Memorial Prize: Kate Hore
The W. S Leslie Medal: Tristan Broadway
I would encourage the Year 12 students to make use of the assistance available from their subject teachers who will be
available during timetabled Year 12 classes and also at other times.
I would also like to thank all of the Year 12 students for their outstanding contributions to the School and wish them all the
best for their examinations commencing with English next Thursday.
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A Lifetime of Memories
This week we also celebrated with eight graduating ‘lifers’ - students who
have spent their entire school lives at Mentone Grammar. Before leaving
they visited the Mary Jones Early Learning Centre to share morning tea with
some of their former Kindergarten teachers, Ms Marie Hanson, Mrs Jillian
Watkins and Mrs Nicola Hamilton.
Thank you to: Brian Young, Ned Dixon, Ben Anderson, Andre Abeyratne,
Jonathan Kuhn, Josh Barlow, James McNeill and Hugo Hicks for the
great contributions they have made to the School over the past thirteen
years; most notably in Academia, Sport and in the Performing Arts.
Academic Awards
UNSW Mathematics Competition
Year 9
High Distinction: Nicholas Capomolla, Tom Goodwin and Jaidyn Muhandiramge
Distinction: Patrick Anderson, Connor Bourke, Tyler Bradley, Stephen Clarke, Matthew Cooper, Laura Cox, Angus Hill,
Mitchell Johnstone, Jonathan Koh, Mats Manallack, Lachlan Pittard, Alexander Shermon and Andrew Todd
Year 10
High Distinction: Andrew Ji, Cameron Lawman and Shirui Lu
Distinction: Xiyu Cai, Yicheng Ling, Dhamsara Samarapathi, Nicholas Shub, Yimiao Wang, Zihao Xu and Qi Yu
Australian Mathematics Competition
Year 9
High Distinction: Tom Goodwin
Distinction: Edward Hall, Angus Hill, Jonathan Koh, Brayden Morrow, Patrick Nguyen and Isabel Shurlin
Year 10
High Distinction: Shirui Lu
Distinction: Xiyu Cai and Andrew Ji
Year 11
Distinction: Kristian Bjarnason, George Hamilton, Arwel Lincoln, Timoleon Maher, Kate Martin, Kenji Sokiransky and
Glen Thai-Chan
Year 12
Distinction: Bingkun Zeng, Thai Le Quoc Nguyen and Shuonan Zhou
Years 9 to 11 Examinations
The students in Years 9 to 11 are rapidly approaching their final examinations which commence on Monday 19 November
for Years 10 and 11 and Wednesday 21 November for Year 9 students.
With only three weeks to go all students are encouraged to prepare study programs to ensure that they prepare themselves
as thoroughly as possible for the challenges ahead.
Sport
Tennis: Jack Lazogas
The eagerly awaited 2012/13 Sports Season had finally arrived with Mentone travelling to Albert Park to play Ivanhoe
Grammar School. The departure of Year 12s: Taylor Ward, Alexander Babanine and Alex Kalyvas left the team with big
shoes to fill. However, three debutants were introduced for Round 1: Trent Jones, Kane Frances and Glen Thai-Chan. Mentone started strongly with seven out of the eight doubles matches being won, with a special mention to Anthony 'Tambo'
Tamboriello and Oliver 'Ollie' Florent who defeated the number one Doubles pair from Ivanhoe! The success in the Doubles relieved some of the pressure on the new boys going into the Singles. The brilliant form of William Dutt, Ben Gilliver,
Tambo and Ollie, clinched an emphatic victory for Mentone. Final result: Mentone 11 sets defeated Ivanhoe 5 sets.
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Table Tennis: Mr Dayton
A most encouraging start to season 2012/13 with a strong win over 2012 Runners-Up Premier Team Peninsula. We met
Peninsula twice last season and were beaten on both occasions, so this victory was a particularly satisfying one. Captain
Timo Maher won all three of his matches. Vice-Captain Aaron Mahoney also did well to win two out of three matches. Andrew Ji and Lachlan Ward both contributed two wins each whilst strong support was given by Nick Weldon with two wins
as well. We need to look at different combinations in our Doubles as Peninsula won two out of the three matches in that
area. Our 2nds went down fighting to Camberwell Blue – 5 rubbers to 10 and the 3rds lost to Ivan 14 rubbers to 1.
Cricket
The First Cricket Team has been training hard in the lead up to the season including practice matches against the Old Mentonians, Victoria Police and The Crusaders which gave students vital experience under match conditions. Highlights of those
games included:
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Solid batting by Jake Bloomer (43), Damien Johns (25) and Josh van Cuylenburg-Reimers (27) which gave us the
foundation for a competitive total in the match against the OMs. James Grant, Nick Henricks, Damien Johns, Josh
van Cuylenberg-Reimers and Kane Wilson all bowled well against the powerful OMs batting line up.
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Good batting by Captain Jake Bloomer (35) and Ryan Stringer (28) and a fine spell of bowling by Daniel Borys (2 -12)
were features of the match against Victoria Police.
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The batting highlights in the match against a strong Crusaders team, which included former test cricketer Merv
Hughes, were an undefeated 50 to opener Josh van Cuylenburg-Reimers, 28 to Jake Bloomer and 21 not out to
Ryan Stringer. Ben Earney bowled well in his return from injury to capture 2 for 26. Fraser Maclaren also bowled his
legspin with great control.
Mentone had its first AGSV game against Ivanhoe on the weekend. With the majority of last year’s premiership team finishing school this year we had nine students making their debuts for the First XI: Fraser and Damien Johns, Daniel Borys, Ryan
Stringer, James Grant, Kane Wilson, Nick Henricks, Abhijid Das and Lachie Fryer.
Mentone started the game disastrously on a wicket that had a bit of life in it collapsing to 4 for 17. In a gutsy display against
a very good bowling attack Mentone managed a respectable 176 thanks to contributions from Jake Bloomer (55), Fraser
Johns (22), Daniel Borys (40) and Kane Wilson (21). A couple of careless run outs cost us an even more competitive total.
Mentone’s bowlers toiled hard on what had become a much better batting wicket, however, Ivan hoe passed our score with
6 overs to spare. James Grant was the pick of our bowlers with his opening spell of six over, where he picked up a wicket for
a miserly two runs, being particularly impressive. He was well supported by Jake Bloomer, Josh van Cuylenburg-Reimers,
Damien Johns, Fraser Maclaren and Kane Wilson.
First Badminton Mentone v Peninsula
Last Saturday the First Badminton Team, consisting of Allen Ling, Arwel Lincoln, Gabriel Brazil-Cornish and James Xu, faced
a strong Peninsula side in the first round of the Summer AGS competition. Having lost three Year 12 players from last season, the team realised it was going to be a tough game.
Nevertheless, Mentone started strongly with Allen and Arwel winning the first two singles. Arwel is commended for an outstanding performance in his debut for the First Badminton, winning a very hard fought victory in a tough game that went to
three sets. All members of the team played with determination and enthusiasm. Peninsula, however, fought back to take
the third and fourth Singles and, in the deciding second Doubles, Mentone succumbed in another close game. The final
score saw Mentone defeated by 2 Rubbers, 4 Sets, 201 Points to Peninsula 4 Rubbers, 8 Sets, 254 Points.
Allen Ling (Captain)
Sailing Team
The Sailing Team had a great start to the season, winning three out of our four races. Even after losing our captain, Anton
Sasson, we were lucky enough to gain a new member - Molly Ford. Molly (my younger sister) being brand new to the tactics
of teams racing was fairly nervous to begin with but helped to pull the team through, helping us lead to win against St
Michael's Grammar School, Haileybury, and Toorak College, losing only to St Leonard's College after not being able to recover from a bad start. After a good last season and a strong start to the new season back, we seem to being showing great
potential for the rest of this year.
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Jemma Ford
AGSV Athletics 2012
In September, the Mentone Grammar Athletics Team competed against the other AGSV schools at the new Lakeside Stadium at Albert Park. It was a fantastic carnival which was for the first time run with the boys and girls competing alongside
each other throughout the day. This created a great environment for all team members to get behind each other and support their teammates throughout the day. In what is always a tough season immediately after winter – the majority of the
squad worked very hard to improve on their personal bests across a variety of events.
This season Mentone Athletics Club got involved with the Mentone Grammar squad and provided expertise coaching across
the various disciplines. This addition saw many improvements and the students benefited enormously from their assistance
not only on the final day but right throughout the season.
The day was approached with great enthusiasm and the students should be proud of their performances as both the Boys’
and Girls’ Teams improved significantly in 2012. There were some excellent efforts across the different events and age
groups on the day. The Top Three finishes are listed below:
Girls
Age Group
Event
Name
Position
Open
4 x 100m
Natasha Camm
3rd
Cheney Dodson
Sarah Cousins
Katie Sawford
U17
U16
U15
U14
U13
100m
Sarah Cousins
3rd
Triple Jump
Sarah Cousins
3rd
800m
Laura Gollant
3rd
1500m
Kimberley Myer
2nd
100m
Melissa Chambers
2nd
200m
Melissa Chambers
3rd
800m
Monique Maitland
3rd
Discus
Monique Maitland
3rd
1500m
Ciara Scott
3rd
Long Jump
Mikaela Moore
2nd
Triple Jump
Mikaela Moore
2nd
Long Jump
Isabella Kane
2nd
Shot Put
Caibiran Deas
1st
800m
Sam Fifer
2nd
1500m
Madison Daley
3rd
High Jump
Ella Ryan
1st
Shot Put
Courtney Munn
3rd
100m
Anna Laidlaw
1st
200m
Anna Laidlaw
1st
400m
Anna Laidlaw
1st
High Jump
Anna Laidlaw
2nd
800m
Madison Daley
3rd
1500m
Lotus Jeffs
3rd
Long Jump
Jessica Ballegi
3rd
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Boys
Age Group
Event
Name
Position
U16
400m
Andreas Baruhas
3rd
High Jump
Daniel Borys
2nd
Shot
Daniel Borys
3rd
Triple Jump
Liam Hiscock
2nd
100m
Nick Capomolla
3rd
400m
Jesse Reed
2nd
100m Hurdles
Liam Hiscock
3rd
800m
Hamish McGowan
3rd
1500m
Hamish McGowan
3rd
Lachlan Moorehouse
3rd
High Jump
Tom Lapa
3rd
Long Jump
Rhys Mahoney
1st
Hurdles
Aidan Taylor
1st
High Jump
Aidan Taylor
3rd
1500m
Brady Watts
3rd
Lachlan Newman
3rd
Ben Awad
2nd
U15
U14
U13
Shot Put
Although we acknowledge these individual results, special mention should go to all of the Athletics Team for representing
Mentone Grammar to the best that they could. The improvements made across both teams were significant (Boys improved
by 37 points, Girls improved by 25.5 points) and the future of the Mentone Grammar Athletics team is looking bright. The
final team standings were:
Girls
1
2
3
4
5
6
Peninsula
Yarra Valley
PEGS
Ivanhoe
Mentone
Assumption
Boys
332.5
281.5
269
229.5
217.5
176
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Trinity
PEGS
Peninsula
Camberwell
Ivanhoe
Marcellin
Yarra Valley
Mentone
Assumption
529
433
412.5
405
393
373
333
294.5
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I would also like to thank the following staff members for their efforts over the season. Staff members put their own time in
to offer a program to coach the students to improve as best they can so their efforts should never go unnoticed. Mr Stuart
Bainbridge, Mr Wayne Essing, Ms Heidi Gilmour, Mrs Jenni Harrison, Mrs Terry Jeoffreys, Mrs Kaylen Kornberg, Mr Michael
Martin, Dr Paul Matthew and Mr Rohan Murphy.
Images from the Carnival can be viewed at: http://www.mentonegrammar.net/gallery/agsv-athletics-2012
Mr Andrew Hayes
Sport Arrangements for Term 4 Summer 2012/13
Welcome to the 2012/13 AGSV Summer Sports Season. Mentone Grammar is conscious of how important the role of sport plays in the physical and social development of young people. It is our aim to provide as many games as possible for all students to experience competitive
sport. Training has already commenced this term and the first round of Boys’ Sport was played on the weekend. Matches for the Boys’ competition will be on Saturdays 27 October, 10 and 17 November. Matches for the Girls’ competition will be on Saturdays 10, 17 and 24 November. Students are expected to attend training sessions every week during the season and to be available to play on the dates mentioned
above.
For all fixture and transport information please refer to Mentone Grammar website, the School's online communication tool. Just follow the
links from Cocurricular to Sport Fixtures and the weekly details are listed. www.mentonegrammar.net/cocurricular/sport/sporting-fixtures
Please note that all students are playing in their 2013 year level teams (i.e. Year 6 teams are named as Year 7; Year 7 teams are named as
Year 8 etc.). Students should check sports noticeboards on Friday at recess for final team confirmation.
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Secondhand Uniform Shop
(just off the Venice Street Driveway)
Uniforms Urgently Required
The Secondhand Uniform Shop is desperately short of stock! If you have any items no longer being
worn, please leave them either at the Shop:
Monday 2.30pm—4pm
Wednesday 8.15am—9.15am
or with Jill and Melanie at Main Reception between 8.30am—4.30pm on school days.
Please note that blazers, long grey trousers, ties, skirts and pinafores should be drycleaned and all
other items should be washed, free of tears or damage and should not have paint or other stains.
Neerie Widelski
Coordinator
pandf@mentonegrammar.net
Ph: 9581 3287
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‘Wheelathon’
for Wheelchairs for Kids
Bayview Oval, Bayview students
9am – 3pm Friday 2 November
Wheelchair Wheelathon!
On Friday 2 November from 9am – 3pm, there will be a
Wheelchair Wheelathon on Bayview Oval to raise money
to buy specially designed wheelchairs for children in third
world countries. All Bayview students will be taking part in
a relay style event, tag team style. In addition to raising
money for a very good cause, we are hoping that students
will learn a little about the challenges of life in a wheelchair. All funds will go to Rotary Club of Mordialloc who
will then buy the wheelchairs for Wheelchairs for Kids
(www.wheelchairsforkids.org). There will be a sausage
sizzle run by Rotary with the help of students. A great opportunity for the school to support our community. Families are invited to come along and watch their children
complete the Wheelathon any time during the day.
Bayview Students! start asking your friends and family to
sponsor you now…
Who can do the most laps? Which class will raise the most
money? Who will raise the most sponsorship?
For further information, please see Mr Patterson.
School Name Mentone
Grammar OSHC phone:
0412 153 177 Coordinator Beth
Rayson
OSHC NEWS
REMINDERS
Dear Parents,
This week in Oshc we have made
Cupcake flowers, hand print
flowers and butterflies. We have
enjoyed making things out of our
cardboard boxes with lots of great
inventions being created.
We are also busy preparing for our
Halloween party by making ghostly
and spooky decorations. We are
looking at the history of
Halloween from its’ beginnings.
Our Halloween party is scheduled
for next Wednesday afternoon
31st. of October.
As we are now heading towards
Summer and the afternoons are
longer, we will be spending more
time outdoors. It is important that
the children bring a hat for outside
play. We have a hat box where the
children can leave their hats with
us in order to avoid forgetting to
bring one from their classroom.
In order to keep our program
Interesting and varied, we would
appreciate the donation of any
recycled goods such as boxes,
paper, cartons, books, toys or
clothes for dress up.
Have a great week,
Beth, Maxx, Suzanne and Rose
How to get started before using our
programs you must register online for an account.
Registering is quick and easy. Visit our website to
begin www.campaustralia.com.au
Once registered you can make bookings and
cancellations, view your statements and manage
your details anytime of the day online. Keep in
mind we are able to take bookings at short notice
to help busy families.
Save on Care You can save 50% or more on
Before and After School Care fees with the nonmeans tested Child Care Rebate. Almost all
families are eligible. To find out more call our
Customer Service Team on 1300 105 343 Monday
to Friday.
NQF Update
In line with the changes due to the rollout of the
National Quality Framework, we have implemented
a new system of programing and reflection. On the
sign out table you will now find a reflection book with
a page for each week of OSHC. The children are
encouraged to write their feedback on the various
activities they participate in as well as any
suggestions for future activities they would like to see
as part of our program. We would like to encourage
the children to use this book as much as they would
like so we can continue to provide activities that they
will enjoy.
This week at Oshc: Spiders and ghosts,
cupcake craft, clay animals, baking, colouring and
puzzles, shrinky bugs,
Leggo, mobilo, masks, box craft, magic pictures,
outdoor games and much more….
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Education Maintenance Allowance - information for parents
currently receiving EMA
Changes to the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for 2013:
The EMA continues to help families on lower incomes with financial assistance to cover the cost of
educational expenses including textbooks, stationery, uniforms and excursions for their child up until the
age of 16.
From 2013, the Victorian Government is restructuring the EMA to better target financial support to families
on lower incomes. Payments made direct to parents will be increased for eligible recipients at all year levels
up to age 16, with an additional increase for parents with students in Years Prep and 7 in recognition of the
additional costs at these transition points.
In 2013 the annual EMA payment for families with children in primary school (years 1 -6) will receive a
payment of $150. Families with children in secondary school (Year 8 up un til the age of 16) will receive an
annual payment of $250.
The School Start Bonus which was previously received by EMA families has been discontinued as a
separate payment from 2013. However, additional funding has been incorporated into the EMA meaning
that parents of children in Prep and Year 7 will receive boosted EMA payments of $200 and $300
respectively in those years.
From 2013, the EMA will no longer be paid 50/50 between the parent and the school. The 50% school
portion of the EMA will no longer be paid to schools on behalf of parents. However, $62 million over four
years will be redirected to the State’s most needy schools to assist families on lower incomes. These funds
will form part of the school Student Resource Packages to be allocated at the local level.
New EMA payment option
From 2013, on the EMA application form you can choose to have your EMA payment;

Paid by direct deposit (Electronic Funds Transfer) into your nominated bank account or

Paid by cheque which will be posted to the school for collection or

Paid to the school to be held as credit which you can use towards education expenses
The introduction of the new payment option to have the EMA payment directed to the school provides
parents with extra flexibility to assist with budgeting towards education expenses.
Eligibility:
To be eligible for the EMA in 2013, you must:

be either a parent or guardian of a primary or secondary school student up to the age of sixteen;
and

be an eligible beneficiary of a Centrelink pension, allowance or benefit within the meaning of the
State Concessions Act 2004* or be a Veterans Affairs (TPI) pensioner or be a temporary foster
parent.
* i.e – the parent/guardian must be the holder of a valid Health Care Card or valid Pension Card.
The eligibility criteria must be met as at 29 January 2013 (Instalment One) and 15 July 2013 (Instalment
Two).
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