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Kardinia International College

Locality: Greater Geelong (C)

Phone: +61 3 5278 9999

Address: 29-31 Kardinia Drive 3215 Greater Geelong, VIC, Australia

Website: https://kardinia.vic.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Congratulations again to Year 7 student Michael Jales for his amazing win in the Alex Rider short story competition, with his story chosen as the winner from entries across Australia and NZ by author, Anthony Horowitz, as covered by the Geelong Advertiser!

25.01.2022 We are excited to be celebrating the Geelong Business Excellence Awards tonight, and are very proud to be selected as a finalist and recognised within the Geelong community. To watch the Virtual Event from 7pm tonight, tune in to the live stream on the Geelong Business Excellence Awards Facebook page or via any of the links on the website https://www.gbea.com.au/virtualevent

25.01.2022 This week is Trans Awareness Week, a week to celebrate our trans mates, to learn about gender diversity, and to take real action to support the trans and gender diverse communities. For more information: https://www.minus18.org.au/campaigns/trans-awareness-week

24.01.2022 Bees with Backpacks Challenge State Final Pitch Success! As part of the Sustaining Our Planet (Level C Science) subject, students completed a four week program called 'Bees with Backpacks'. The program is a joint venture between the CSIRO and Victoria's Tech Schools, and it is the first time that Kardinia International College has been involved. Students completed five modules investigating bees, their importance, the issues surround their declining populations, how science ...is helping generate understanding and solutions of how we can help. The program finished with the team challenge of creating a bee friendly environment, a campaign of how to create awareness of the issues to the wider community and a team reflection on the overall process. The judges at Geelong Tech School were very impressed with our 13 strong entries and two Kardinia teams were deemed winners of the Geelong Region. On Wednesday 8 November our two teams competed in the State Finals where they had to pitch their 'Adopt-a-Bee' and '#saveourbees' campaigns. Our students did an amazing job presenting to the panel of judges and guests, and the two teams were awarded second and third place respectively. Well done to the students involved: Queen Bees Adopt-a-Bee Team - Annabelle Batty, Akaya Bohne, Claire Carboon, Issey Kendall The Queen Bees #saveourbees Team - Emelia Griffiths, Hannah Howe, Claudia Paul and Esther Mathers The program was a great success and we look forward to our continued involvement in 2021.

24.01.2022 This week's Storytime with Mrs Bowman is 'Nop' by Caroline Magerl. 'Nop is a scruffy kind of bear. He sits on a dusty armchair in Oddmint's Dumporeum surrounded by the beaders, knitters, patchers and stitchers who are much too busy to talk to him. So he watches the litter tumble until, armed with a new bow tie, he has an idea that will change his life forever.' If you enjoyed this story, you might like to have a go at painting Nop! Watch the Youtube video below featuring Caroline Magerl painting him using a cup of tea. Please send Mrs Bowman a photo of your painting and you could win your own copy of Nop! Competition closes Wednesday 9th September. Goodluck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UpJZuMmqOo

24.01.2022 A big congratulations to the following Kardinia International College International Baccalaureate students who have had their artworks selected for the Victorian IB Visual Arts Exhibition, which will be held in February: Cooper Downes - 'Local Reef' Hilary Cao - 'A place to be' and 'I dream of Meadows' Ella Verhagen - 'My Place'... The Exhibition features the fantastic artworks from students across the state. Well done Cooper, Hilary and Ella!

23.01.2022 Can we end 2020 with 2020 members? In six weeks you may be one of 20 lucky Kardinians to have randomly won a $20 gift card, just for being a registered Kardinian, if we reach our target of 2020! We currently have 1968 registered membersand are looking for another 52 alumni. Can we do it before the end of this year? We need something to celebrate! Please register now on https://kardinians.com/ The Kardinians

23.01.2022 This year, the world stood still...but our Duke of Edinburgh program continued! Here's a look at some of the activities our students got up to in 2020. Duke of Ed Victoria The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Australia

22.01.2022 Congratulations again to Year 7 student Johanna Kefaloukos on winning the Geelong Gallery Who's Who Portrait Prize, Levels 7 to 9, with her artwork of Australian former politician Neil Bell, as featured in the Geelong Advertiser!

21.01.2022 Please join us for our Virtual Open Day on Wednesday 28 October. The live stream will begin at 5:00pm, and our Admissions Team will be available to answer questions during the event through an online live chat. https://www.kardinia.vic.edu.au//kardinia-virtual-open-da/

20.01.2022 Last month Year 9 Kardinia International College student, Steph Reade was announced as the U14/15 athlete of the year at the Life Saving Victoria Awards of Excellence evening. During the past season, she represented Victoria at the Australian Pool Lifesaving Championships in Perth and was also female captain of the Victorian team at the Interstate Surf Lifesaving Championships (Youth Pathway Cup) in Alexandra Headlands. Throughout the season she also won every individual surf (Swim) race for her age group and was the swim leg for the team medley events in which Ocean Grove (her club) won every event for the season. Steph was also nominated for the a Youth Athlete of the Year Award. Well done Steph!

20.01.2022 We are very excited to be a finalist in the 2020 Geelong Business Excellence Awards, and look forward to the Virtual Event next month! #gbea2020

19.01.2022 Here are the delicious 'Food Styling' entries we've received so far for this week's Wellbeing Challenge - great job everyone!

19.01.2022 A big congratulations to all of our students who participated in this year's MS Readathon. Our amazing team of 65 students raised $11,367 and read 1,037 books throughout August! Well done to everyone involved.

19.01.2022 We are very excited to share that Kardinia International College has been selected as a finalist in the 2020 Geelong Business Excellence Awards. This is the first year that we have entered the awards, and we are very proud to be recognised within the Geelong community. Well done to all of the finalists, and we look forward to the virtual event in October. #gbea2020

17.01.2022 It was very exciting to see all of our students return to Kardinia International College this morning! All of the smiling, happy faces (behind masks) was a very welcome sight. #WelcomeBack The Kardinians

17.01.2022 Congratulations again to Max Drake (Year 6) on completing the virtual Connor's Run as part of his PYP Exhibition project. Max has chosen to research childhood brain cancer and is working on raising money and awareness for the cause, as featured on IB Schools Australasia.

17.01.2022 Welcome to our Week 8 Remote Learning Wellbeing Challenges! This week the focus is on being creative through decorating a cake or a biscuit! The physical challenge involves taking photos of the 25 listed things below. The aim is to get you up and about and moving! If you choose to submit your entry, you might want to make a collage of some of the items you have collected.... Remember: Senior Students can upload their photos and submit it to the Drop Box on the Wellbeing Hub page. For our Junior students, they are welcome to take part and can submit their pictures to [email protected] 90-minute photo scavenger hunt: 1. Public transport schedule 2. Copy of the front page of your local newspaper 3. The best looking letterbox in your area 4. Your local park 5. Book you have recently read 6. A pet (if you don’t have one, someone else’s) 7. Someone doing a yoga pose 8. A street name from your area 9. Record the number of dogs you have passed in a 10 minute period of walking 10. Something Pink 11. 10 of the same items 12. A spiders web 13. A collection of flowers 14. A Stop sign 15. A black car 16. A weed 17. A native plant 18. A tall building (or the tallest one in your area) 19. A stuffed animal 20. A rubbish truck 21. A football (Aussie rules/rugby/soccer) 22. A Bus 23. Someone in a ‘cool/crazy/unusual’ mask (ask permission first if you don’t know them!!) 24. Someone laughing 25. Sunset Enjoy - we look forward to seeing your entries!

13.01.2022 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is a global campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The campaign runs every year from November 25 (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to December 10 (Human Rights Day). For more information about the Global 16 Days campaign check out: https://www.respectvictoria.vic.gov.au/16-days-activism-2020 Until the end of the term, we'll be sharing key ‘respect statements’ via out Tutor Groups to help create conversations and promote equality.

13.01.2022 Senior School teacher, Ian Nash-Gilchrist and his son, Jasper (Year 4) have written and illustrated this brilliant coronavirus inspired parody of Mem Fox's 'Where Is The Green Sheep'! Click on the link below to view the story. Well done Ian and Jasper! https://www.youtube.com/watch

12.01.2022 Well done to the 12 Kardinia International College Year 9-11 students who have been volunteering with The Smith Family throughout remote learning in the student2student peer support program, which helps disadvantaged young readers across Victoria. Lara Skerratt Sam King Mannix Vincenzino... Joshua Hughes Mia Eastman Claudia Tippet Georgia Borschmann Liam Long Caitlin Rea Amelie McConnell Flora Retallack Isabelle Vincenzino Our students are currently completing the Duke of Edinburgh Award, and will receive recognition in the service component. It has been a rewarding experiencing for everyone, with Lara and Isabelle providing the following feedback: ‘The s2s program was a way for me to connect with a student who needed support with their reading. I feel that this program was beneficial for both myself and the student as I was able to learn to be encouraging towards the student, hopefully motivating them to continue to enjoy reading. I was also able to witness the reader progress as they gradually began to read more challenging books.’ Isabelle Vincenzino, Year 11 ‘Being a part of the Student2Student program has been an amazing experience. It took a few calls for my reader to warm up to me, but now I truly look forward to our calls. My reader loves reading, and she often does the character’s voices, adds sound effects and eagerly debates what we think is going to happen next. Especially in lockdown, s2s has been a great way to connect and help out in the community even when we can’t see anyone.’ Lara Skerratt, Year 11 https://www.theage.com.au//reading-buddies-help-bridge-gap Duke of Ed Victoria The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Australia

11.01.2022 Kudos to our very brave alumna and obstetrics and gynaecology resident, Dr Stephanie Yacoub (Class of 2008). Stephanie gained international attention, delivering babies during and after the catastrophic chemical explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, as recently featured on The Project and in the Geelong Advertiser. Follow The Kardinians to stay up to date with more alumni news and events.

09.01.2022 Big congratulations to Year 9 Kardinia International College student, Lily Gogarty who has recently been accepted to the Queensland Ballet Academy for 2021! We wish Lily all the very best as she pursues her dream to be a professional ballerina. We will miss you Lily!

09.01.2022 This Thursday is R U OK Day. 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone and circumstances have made it even more important for us all to stay connected and, for those who are able, be willing to support those around us. Let’s look out for each other - https://www.ruok.org.au/join-r-u-ok-day

09.01.2022 St Joseph's College Geelong is hosting a free eSafety webinar for parents next Tuesday 8 September from 7:00pm - 8:00pm, focused on how to support adolescents to make positive, safe and responsible choices online. Parents from our College community have been invited to join this webinar. To register, visit this link - https://register.gotowebinar.com/regist/5810339919029270030

08.01.2022 Welcome to our Week 9 and 10 Wellbeing Challenges! We have decided to run this challenge over two weeks as these challenges may take a little more planning for you. The creative challenge will focus on you (and your family or friends) being creative by busting out your inner rock star with a Lip Sync Challenge! The physical challenge involves signing up to Strava or another mapping app and creating some mapping art. You could try to do as many streets in your 5km radius in on...e hour, create a shape, or even write a message. Doing a web search for Strava Art is a great way to get inspiration, then all you need is to plan out your adventure and then go run, ride, surf, walk or swim it! Remember- senior students can upload their photos and submit it to the Drop Box on the Wellbeing Hub page. For our Junior students, they are welcome to take part. They can submit their pictures to [email protected]

07.01.2022 Thank you to Senior School teacher, Ian Nash-Gilchrist for sharing this amazing lip sync video for #RUOKDay!

06.01.2022 Congratulations long serving staff member, Glenn Storey meeting a major milestone of 20 years of service! Thank you Glenn!

05.01.2022 Kardinia International College students met online yesterday for week two of the nine week GoKIC program. GoKIC is our new online 'zoom pal' program that connects Kardinia students with our sister school, Gotemba Nishi High School in Japan. Around 20 Kardinia students logged on to ‘meet’ Gotemba Nishi High School students yesterday, using online meetings to replicate the old pen pal system which will allow new friendships to develop. Students are building international connections, developing understanding of culture, improving their Japanese language skills and also learning how to work in a digital world, which will be so important for their futures.

04.01.2022 Congratulations to Claudia Gunjaca (Class of 2015) on winning the 2020 Mostyn Medal, AFL Sydney's Women’s Premier League Best and Fairest Award!

04.01.2022 Well done to Year 6 student Max Drake who completed the virtual Connor's Run on the weekend, as part of his PYP Exhibition project. Max has chosen to research childhood brain cancer, and decided that his action was to run to raise awareness and money for local group Rory's Warriors. The funds Max has raised will be donated to the RCD Foundation-Robert Connor Dawes. Max has been training for this event and ran his furthest ever distance of 18.8km, while also raising $965! Amazing work Max.

03.01.2022 A big congratulations to Year 12 Kardinia International College students, Kyle Jdali and Lewis Taranto who have raised over $4,300 for headspace Geelong through their mental health virtual resource, Atman. Kyle and Lewis recently hosted a 24-hour live stream fundraiser where they did a range of challenges, including dyeing their hair pink, shaving their eyebrows and running 2km for each $1000 raised. Atman is available on Facebook and Instagram (@atman.au). Well done Kyle and Lewis!

03.01.2022 Free webinars on returning to school - preparing for change As COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease, schools across Victoria are once again preparing for students to return. For students on the autism spectrum, returning to school again may present challenges and opportunities. Be part of an interactive hour where you will have the opportunity to listen, share and learn with parents/carers, teachers and others who support individuals on the autism spectrum. There are separate sessions offered with a primary and secondary school focus. To register for a webinar, visit www.positivepartnerships.com.au Positive Partnerships

03.01.2022 It was fantastic to see Year 7 Kardinia International College student Taylor Siddall in today's Geelong Advertiser, participating in our new GoKIC program! GoKIC is an online 'zoom pal' program that connects Kardinia students with students from our sister school, Gotemba Nishi High School in Japan.

02.01.2022 Wishing our Kardinia International College community a safe, happy and well-deserved holiday break! We look forward to welcoming our students and staff back in Term 4. There are a number of services available across the Geelong region that offer important health and wellbeing support for youth and families. These include: A flyer with phone numbers and contacts for local mental health services, as well as National helplines. "If Your Friend Is Not Ok" headspace factsheet ...for young people aged 12-25. The Geelong Holidays programs brochure. Please also check out Geelong Youth on Facebook and Instagram for updates on activities. Here is also a link to the Cyber Cats Parent Resources website, which includes information about a parent webinar focused on encouraging safe online interactions, in the local context https://www.geelongcats.com.au//cyber-cats/parent-resource/ See more

01.01.2022 Tomorrow (Saturday 10 October) is World Mental Health Day with the focus on challenging the negative perceptions around mental illness and encouraging people to take a more positive view of mental illness. We can all support this by making a #MentalHealthPromise; just visit https://lookafteryourmentalhealthaustralia.org.au/ for more information, and make a promise to look after your own mental health. Each day next week, we’ll be sharing a suggested activity to connect with... others, have a bit of fun, and to look after your mental health. Keep an eye out on KICOnline for these activities. Mental Health Australia #WMHD2020

01.01.2022 Today is R U OK Day. This year it’s been even more important for us all to stay connected and, for those who are able, be willing to support those around us. You don’t have to be an expert to keep the conversation going when someone says they’re not OK. By knowing what to say you can help someone feel supported and access appropriate help long before they’re in crisis, which can make a really positive difference to their life. Watch the video below, and check out the Tip Sheet, for some great info to help support others and continue the conversation. #RUOK #RUOKDay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHLP29tzPE&feature=youtu.be