Frogmore Campus News

24 February 2012
Frogmore Campus News
Frogmore Key Dates
For all the latest updates please refer
to our website calendar:
www.mentonegrammar.net
Monday 27 February
Drinan House Service
Tuesday 28 February
Anderson House Service
Academic Awards
Congratulations to the following students for their academic
awards gained for their performances at the end of last year
Mr Trevor Stevens including some Units 3 and 4 studies in some cases:
Head of Frogmore
Year 9 (2011 Sem 2)
Certificate of Academic Merit
Andreas Baruhas
Year 9 (2011 Sem 2)
Certificate of Academic Endeavour
Paul Algeri
Jayson Broadway
Elizabeth Beer
ESPT testing (Year 10)
Jemma Ford
Gemma Cashman
GAT (Years 11 & 12)
Georgia Hopkins
Alistair Coutts
Parent Teacher interviews
Andrew Ji
Benjamin Douglas
(Years 5—9)
Cameron Lawman
James Ewart-Murphy
Hunter Scanlon
Jemma Glucina-Henderson
Luke Tarlinton
Michael Kernahan
Anika Vear
Minseok Kim
Thursday 1 March
Student free day (Years 5—9)
Wednesday 7 March
Old Mentonian Swimming Breakfast
Thorold Hall
Nicholas Malyaris
Thursday 8 March
Samantha McLean
Inaugural International Women’s
Day Breakfast
Cameron Milliken
Guest speaker—Sam Lane
Book online—places limited
Mikaela Moore
Alexander Nesic
William Newman
Friday 23 March
Hayden Nicholson
AFL Season Launch—Breakfast
Oscar O’Neill-Pugh
Jasmine Pearman
Parent Teacher Interviews
Caitlyn Rodrigues
Cameron Samy
Online bookings are now open
for the Parent-Teacher interviews taking place on Thursday
1 March and Tuesday 6 March.
Nicholas Shub
Jonathan Slocombe
James Stone
Trent Vu
Meghan Witherow
Year 10 (2011 Sem 2)
Certificate of Academic Merit
Kristian Bjarnason
Year 10 (2011 Sem 2)
Certificate of Academic Endeavour
Henry Blain
Georgia Coutts
Jenny Cao
Stephanie Coutts
Lewis Clark
Fiona D’Souza
Sudi Godagama
Laura Gollant
Patrick Grant
Arwel Lincoln
Jack Lazogas
Timoleon Maher
Thomas Manallack
Harry Martin
Lottie Morison
Tung Nguyen
Abbey Patterson
Vivien Pham
James Pedersen
Emily Pratt
Katie Sawford
Angus Todd
Joel Simondson
Full Academic Colours recipients (from left) Ben
Anderson, Sian Hope, Alex Kalyvas and Thai Le
Quoc Nguyen. Special mention to Alex Kalyvas for
winning the Monash Prize as our most successful
student in Year 11, 2011.
Liam Timms
Year 11 (2011 Sem 2)
Full Academic Colours
Ben Anderson
Year 11 (2011 Sem 2)
Half Academic Colours
Amelia Barclay
Sian Hope
Alex Kalyvas
Kelsey Cotton
Liuh-Jang Kwok
Thai Le Quoc Nguyen
Bingken Zeng
Shuonan Zhou
Shuonan Zhou
Thank you to Year 12s James, Josh and Hugo and
Jayson (Year10 - drums) for providing the entertainment at this week’s Assembly.
House services
The first of the, Principal inspired, student driven House Services was conducted by Were House this week. It was an
excellent service with contributions from Stephanie Low, Nick Shub, Jonathan Kuhn, Bryn Dodson, Josh Erdelyi-Götz,
Gemma Erdelyi-Götz, Laura Gollant, Billie Pemberton and Meghan Witherow. Congratulations to Cheney Dodson for
her excellent organisation of the evening.
Drinan and Anderson Houses have their services on Monday (27 February) and Tuesday (28 February) respectively commencing at 7pm.
Public Speaking: Ms Hicks
Congratulations to Kelsey Cotton (Year 12) who won the overall Club Award and Public Speaking Award for the Lions Club Youth of the Year. She now has the opportunity to move to the
next level and who knows she may even be a National winner travelling to the UK representing
Australia! The selection process involved being nominated, completing a very detailed application form, facing three judges in an interview as well as presenting a speech at the Lions Club
Annual Dinner.
AGIDEAS- International Design Conference: Ms Fuerst
Each year Melbourne is fortunate enough to host this amazing design conference.
AGIDEAS offers a FUTURES night that is aimed at senior school students. The evening’s program will include 10 designers
from a wide range of careers who will discuss their work, accompanied by a huge colour PowerPoint. Students who have
attended this in the past have acknowledged how insightful the evening has been for them. This is a marvelous oppor-
tunity for students to understand the broad range of careers on offer in the area of Design. Past speakers have included the
designer of the Cube building for the Beijing Olympics, the Concept artist for George Lucas, international stylists, Hollywood
set designers, architects, landscape designers and so on. If you are a student in Years 10, 11 or 12 and considering a career
in Design, this night is for you. On this night there are also information stalls held by universities and TAFEs. Futures night is
on Wednesday 23 May at the Melbourne Convention Centre. The cost is $40 and payment can be made at Main Reception.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the Head of Visual Arts, Robyn Fuerst at
rf@mentonegrammar.net or call 95813234.
News from the Library: Ms Novak
It’s official! The National Year of Reading has been launched at Mentone
Grammar!!
In the presence of our Patron MGRA, George Ivanoff, and with the assistance of Principal, Mr Mal Cater, the ribbon was cut and the balloons released to herald the beginning of a year filled with events, activities and a
myriad of programs all aimed at encouraging and inspiring members of the
Mentone Grammar School Community to read, read and read some more!
A throng of students, teachers, parents and visitors, including local librarians and teacher librarians, joined MG library staff and our Patron MGRA,
George Ivanoff, to celebrate the launch of the National Year of Reading at our school. To the background music of the MG
Brass Band, a host of new books just begging to be selected for purchase and an opportunity to win one of the many door
prizes, visitors to the GFL, our senior campus library, were able to enjoy a delectable lunch while listening to words of welcome from our Head of Library, Miffy Farquharson. Explaining the impetus behind our year long program at Mentone
Grammar, Miffy said:
As part of our response to the creation of the National Year of Reading, the library team created a badge, a Brownlow for readers if you will, that aims to identify those members of our community who love to read and who are
proud to show it. Our MGRAs, Mentone Grammar Reading Ambassadors, will receive their badge today, and I trust
that they will wear their badges with pride and passion.
George Ivanoff is the author of more than 50 novels and fiction titles for children, avid blogger, Old Mentonian, “Friend and
Ambassador” of the National Year of Reading 2012 and our very own Patron MGRA. Describing experiences from his own
childhood and his engagement with reading at Mentone Grammar when he was young, George also mentioned books that
had inspired him to read and later to become an author. The key message presented though was “It’s never too late”. It’s
never too late to get hooked on reading, to engage with reading and to nurture a love and passion for reading.
In this, the National Year of Reading at Mentone Grammar, our Library Team together with our MGRAs, hope to ignite this
passion in each and every member of the Mentone School Community!
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is March 8 and we are having a special breakfast to celebrate at Mentone Grammar, featuring
Sam Lane from Channel 10 Before the Game and The Age. Come along and support this exciting new event, enjoy a delicious healthy breakfast with friends and family (bring your mum, grandmothers, aunties, sisters, cousins!) and support a
great cause – ‘UN Women Empowering Women in the Pacific’. Organise a table of your friends or family. Everyone of any
age or gender is welcome. Go to www.mentonegrammar.net for details and to book online. If you have any good ideas or
would like to get involved in some way with organising the breakfast, please contact Mrs Mayer in Marketing (upstairs Frogmore House).
94 Year 9 Program
The 94 class recently had some surfing lessons and one of the students, Patrick Nguyen, penned the following poem in
his journal to describe the experience.
SURFING
The tide was low,
the waves were down.
The sea was calm,
but not a frown.
All the boys were out for fun,
There was some surfing to be done.
It was only the very first day,
but it seemed as though we’ve been surfing since May.
The day was intense,
skill level quite high,
no-one heard moaning,
"its so cold, I'm gonna die!"
Overall it was fun,
surfing was sweet,
The privilege of surfing,
is always a treat.
13 February 2012
Cricket: Comrey Edgeworth
A chance at a grand final berth for the Mentone Grammar 1st XI added an extra spring in our step for this week’s game.
This week we were drawn to play Assumption at Assumption, the longest trip in the AGSV. After a 7am two-hour bus
trip the boys were excited to take on last placed Assumption, however, we knew they are always a hard task at Home.
We lost the toss and were sent in to bat on a wet wicket. After a solid opening partnership of 26, Mentone continued to
lose wickets at key points in the game leaving us 9 for 100 off 42 overs. Fraser Maclaren opened the batting and batted
superbly for a well made 50. But a great 10th wicket stand between Rob Tunbridge and Tom Zanca added 40 runs leaving us at a respectable 140 which was something to defend. Some big hitting by Rob Tunbridge at the end left his score
at 38 and gave his confidence a boost.
Mentone had the perfect start with Will Carvill collecting his first wicket on the second ball of the innings. Early wickets
continued for the away side leaving Assumption 6 for 42 at the half way mark. Mentone kept bowling well, however, a
few good partnerships still gave Assumption a sniff. Some more good batting left the home side needing 20 to win from
eight overs with two wickets in hand. However, a great last spell from spearhead Rob Tunbridge and all-rounder Jake
Bloomer got Mentone over the line by seven runs. A dropped catch and a few missed run-outs allowed Assumption to
get much closer than what they should have. The best bowlers included Will Carvill (3 for 23), Rob Tunbridge (4 for 32),
Nick Huttley (1 for 17) and Jake Bloomer (1 for 26).
Along with this season-defining win, we need to win our next two games to cement a grand final spot. We need to keep
a level head as Peninsula and PEGS are always good cricketing schools and most importantly we need to play our best
cricket.
1st Tennis vs Assumption
The boys came out after a long break from holidays fresh and ready to pick up where they left off. With the debut of
new star Ben Myles, the team looked better than ever to run over the struggling Assumption team. Once again, leading
by example were the young guns Ollie Florent and Anthony Tamborriello winning comfortably in their doubles matches. After the doubles round was done and dusted, the boys had a comfortable lead of 8-0 going into the singles. Alex
Babanine got off to a strong start but was challenged throughout the whole match and eventually became the victor, 84. Debutant Ben Myles showed his stuff winning with ease in his very first match of a good looking career at Mentone.
As the boys come up against PEGS in the next round they will need to be at their best if they are to overcome arch rivals
and also title contenders. Preparation and commitment will put the boys over the line, if they are up for it!
Final Score Mentone 16, Assumption 0
Captain - Taylor Ward
ADVANCED READING SKILLS COURSE
Presented by ICS Learning Group
for students in Years 10, 11 and 12
TO BE HELD AT
MENTONE GRAMMAR
DATES:
TIMES: 3.45pm to 6pm (This 9 hour program consists of 4 x 2 ¼ hour sessions)
COST: $140.00 (inc GST)
Do you want to learn the art of reading efficiently or do you want to continue reading the way you were taught in
primary school?
This reading program picks up where formal reading finished.
There is an art to coping with the amount of reading required from Year 10 onwards. Join the 1000s of students
who have benefited from the Advanced Reading Skills method.
Our program will assist students to :
read faster with better understanding
be less fatigued
improve memory
increase levels of concentration
achieve greater reading efficiency
save many hours of reading each week
NOTE: This course is not a remedial program. It is a practical and rewarding personal development course
aimed at improving all levels of reading ability.
For more information contact our office on 9585 0685 or save time
book online: www.skillscentre.com.au
ENROLMENTS IN THIS COURSE ARE STRICTLY LIMITED.ENROL EARLY.
Complete the form below and send to ICS. DO NOT RETURN TO SCHOOL
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BASKETBALL COACH REQUIRED
1st Boys’ and 1st Girls’ Teams
Mentone Grammar is currently seeking
the services of a suitably qualified person
to coach both our Girl’s and Boy’s 1sts
Basketball teams. This position will begin
immediately for the 2012 Girls’ Basketball
season and follow on into the 2012/13
Boys’ season. Please contact Andrew
Hayes on 9581 3232 or
ath@mentonegrammar.net) here at
school for more information.
us today to
Library Hours - 2012 Term 1 extended study times. All
students welcome
Gregory Fish Library (Frogmore Campus)
Mondays to Thursdays: 8am—6.30pm
Fridays: 8am—4pm
Parents and Friends—Dads at Mentone (DAM) is looking for
some new (or old) dads to join this growing social
group to help coordinate some fun events for 2012.
Please contact Debi Bloch, Community Relations
Manager on: 0400 120 570 or
debib@mentonegrammar.net if you would like to be involved.
HELEN NEW PILATES
Enquiries to 0412 756 921 or email helennewpilates@westnet.com.au
From the Registrar
Current Families—siblings: If families have siblings they are hoping to
enrol at Mentone Grammar for
2013 or 2014 please be reminded
that they will need to be registered
with the School, if you have not
already done so. We do not have
places available in all year levels, so
siblings could miss out on a place if
we don’t know they are coming.
Email: enrol@mentonegrammar.net