Enter now to win 1 of 5 prize packages Great prizes on offer There are a limited number of tickets so get in early Only $5.00 per ticket Discounts for multiple tickets Go to: www.raffletix.com.au/vermontsecondary Some of the prizes include: Tickets to next year’s Formula 1 Grand Prix Lots of gift cards School photography discount vouchers Text book discount vouchers Surfing lessons Rock climbing vouchers Top quality hampers AND . . . a host of other assorted … Read More
Vermont’s production Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has been nominated for 5 Lyrebird Youth Awards. This involves a number of judges coming to see school shows across the state, and then voting for ‘the best’ of in particular categories. Best Sound Design in a Youth Musical – Mitch Tabe Outstanding Technical Design in a Youth Musical – Vermont Secondary College Outstanding Stage Crew – Vermont Secondary College Best Actor in a Youth Musical – Lachlan Rae Best Actor in a Youth Musical … Read More
Congratulations to the winner of the “Sarah Bussu Award” Tamara Barton with her VCE Studio Artwork “Confronting Perfectionism” which was developed from her folio theme “Perfectionism in the media vs reality”. The artwork “encompasses the idea that the more a person tries to force themselves into fitting the ideals of beauty, it increasingly damages their identity.
Vision 2019
Last Wednesday our Symphonic Band travelled into The Hawthorn Town Hall to perform 2 pieces for an audience of other competing schools and adjudicators, as part of the Victorian Festival of Bands. Our students played wonderfully and did the college proud with beautiful and measured renditions of HEAVENS LIGHT by Steven Reineke and Australian composer Brian Hoggs ACCELCIUS. Students were given some wonderful feedback on their music approach to the pieces and were awarded gold for their performance. We’d like … Read More
On the 28th August more than 100 students, staff and friends of the Vermont Secondary College community gathered in the Fallon Centre. This event was the first of its kind and aimed to celebrate outstanding writing amongst our junior students. The evening received great praise and all the students and staff involved deserve a congratulations, for it really was an outstanding event to celebrate literacy. In this newsletter we would like to take note of those students who were awarded … Read More
The construction of our new architecturally designed permanent modular $4.873 million building is now complete and classes will commence today. This dynamic new building is a part of the Government’s $200 million investment in the Victorian School Asbestos Removal Program. A huge thank you to Mike Stevens (Assistant Principal—overseeing buildings and grounds) for seeing this project through to completion, well done! The previous ‘C’ wing contained 8 classrooms whilst this new construction contains 10 classrooms including 2 purpose built junior … Read More
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the largest, oldest and most prestigious scientific Olympiad for high school students and this year Vermont Secondary College had our very own Preet Patel competing. The history of IMO dates back to 1959, when the first edition was held in Romania with seven countries participating: Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and USSR. Since then, the event has been held every year (except 1980) in a different country. Currently, more than 100 countries … Read More
An exciting evening in late winter to celebrate outstanding writing of young teenagers. Selected students from Year 7, 8 and 9 have will showcase some of their pieces at this event.
