All year levels have had a fantastic start in English this year!  Year 7  Our new year 7 students have settled in quickly and are currently enjoying a creative writing unit based around the framework of Resilience inline with the school values. We have been doing many activities around building… Read More

The English KLA would like to bid Andrew Nyhuis and Alex Scott a fond farewell. They are both moving on to new positions in other schools and we wish them all the best in this next chapter in their careers as educators.  Our senior students have completed their orientation for… Read More

As we come to the end of our first year of the new Year 9 English Core Elective program, I thought it timely to get some student feedback on what they have been doing recently and what they enjoyed the most about being able to select from a wide variety… Read More

Year 12 English:  At the end of last term, our Year 12 English students read the play 'The Crucible' as a class. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the Salem Witch Trials and how seemingly insignificant actions can have dire consequences. Aside from developing our understanding of… Read More

Open Night  The English Faculty had a great night at open night. It was a wonderful opportunity to highlight some of the amazing work that our students are completing at all year levels.  We were able to showcase some of the new programs that have been introduced this year such… Read More

Year 8  Year 8 English students have just completed a unit on Microfiction where they experimented with telling stories in as few words as possible. The students found that punctuation becomes incredibly important when trying to create a big impact with only a few words and that every word must… Read More

Year 7  Our new Year 7 students have made a flying start in English this year, they have been creating Zines on a topic of their choice as part of their orientation unit and are now beginning their creative non-fiction writing folio which will see them explore autobiographies, biographies and… Read More

The English KLA would like to bid Lucy Badrock and Prue Bon a fond farewell. Ms Badrock is going to teach year 12 English Language at a Catholic school and Ms Bon is taking a year of leave to study.   Our senior students are busy doing orientation for VCE. We… Read More

Farewell and Good Luck to our year 12 students  The Year 12 English Team are proud of the work that students have put in this year and for the resilience that has been shown when overcoming the challenges presented throughout the last two years. A highlight of the year was… Read More

Year 7 English  Year 7 English has just finished their study of Things a Map Won’t Show You. The last story we studied was The year King by Michael Pryor which is a fantasy story. As a creative task Ms. Farrell’s 7E created their own fantasy characters and then brought… Read More