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News Headlines from Forest Hill College
Parent Teacher Night Reminder Tuesday 26 August. Online bookings can now be made. Go to the Intranet site for details.
2009 College Captains Nominations Open Now We are currently receiving nominations for the Years 7-9 and the Years 10-12 College Captains positions for 2009. We have been highly impressed, but certainly not surprised, by the standard of the nominations. Students are required to make a written submission by 5 September, then make a presentation to the entire College at Assembly on 16 September. They then undertake an interview in front of a selection panel, and on 23 October, we will announce the successful applicants.
Debating Success Our A Grade debaters won their final debate against Wesley College. This will be their final debate as they are in Year 12. We acknowledge their achievements over the years and look forward to following their public speaking careers with interest. Thanks to Nerida Longthorp, our Debating Teacher, who spends many hours preparing the students. It is her high quality teaching that has seen these students achieve such success.
Work Experience We are one of the few schools who still include Work Experience at Year 10 as a component of the curriculum. Our Year 10 students have recently returned with some fantastic stories of success. None more so than one student who did work experience at Unique Cars magazine, and actually had an article published in the August edition of the magazine.
International Student Volunteers Update Three FHC students are off overseas in January to work as volunteers in third world countries. We are tremendously proud of their committment to volunteering. It is a tremendous endorsment of the values program we run at the College. |
 Red Devils Gear up for House Performing Arts Festival Sep 10
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College Calendar Semester 2 2008 Please feel free to use this Calendar to assist with planning around College events. We hope it is a useful document. |
 Blue House Team Work. A Winning Combination |
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College Bulletin This week's highlights are Presentation Night, Leap Up 2008, New Year 7 Orientation and the upcoming VCE Scores. The newsletter will be uploaded every fornight during term on Friday mornings.
Please click on the links below to read about what has been happening at the College. |
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Senior School Course Handbook, Parent Packages and Annual Report Please select the attachment you need to access information that accompanies Interim Reports, Term 1 2008.
"cybersmart - kids online" helpful information for Parents regarding their child's internet access. www.cybersmartkids.com.au
"What Parents should know about ICE" information provided by the Government for all Parents with Children in Years 10 - 12. www.health.vic.gov.au/drugservices/
Year 7 & 9 NAP testing. Information for Parents with Children in Year 7 and 9. |
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Water Conservation Innovations at FHC In January 2007 our school was notified we had been successful in our application for a Federal Community Water Grant of 49,381 dollars for our proposed School Water Efficiency Project aimed at making all of our indoor water use appliances more efficient.
In order to qualify for the Community Water Grant, Forest Hill College had to develop an innovative water efficiency project that would provide positive and long-term benefits to the school and the local community.
The Project started with a Water Efficiency Audit of our school, which identified and quantified the water saving opportunities. The Audit recommended installing Constant Flow Control valves to 85 taps in vanity basins, sinks and troughs. In addition all inefficient toilets were replaced with dual flush toilets, which entailed fitting new suites and tiling the surrounds. The high use urinal in the Sports Stadium was replaced with a no flush bio-enzyme system which is timed to flush automatically over a 24 hour cycle.
We expect to reduce our potable water usage by at least 27 per cent or 1,012,000 litres per year with our project.
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Sport Results 2008
The recent House Athletics Carnival was an outstanding success. The student participation and the quality of the athletes in events was excellent. Most impressive, however was the manner in which the entire College Community has embraced the House system, successfully introduced by our College Student Leaders in 2008.
District Diving Results. Congratulations to the FHC Diving Team. They have achieved some great individual honours, and in the process finished second overall.
District Swimming Carnival Continuing our super start to 2008, our swim team has finished runners up. Several outstanding individual achievements were made. Well done to all students who represented the College. |
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RACV Energy Breakthrough 2008
Students are allready training and preparing the vehicles for yet another effort in the RACV Energy Breakthrough. It must be said that our technology area within the College is the envy of most. Where else can you see students designing energy efficient vehicles on state of the art computers, and then constructing the vehicle out of materials in the workshops using tools that most Tech Schools of old would only dream of having? This section of our College is unique. It is a great opportunity for students to experience hands on design and construction. |
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FHC Students Win Information Technology Award On Sunday 25 November, teams from Cisco academies across Melbourne and Victoria participated in the Cisco CCNA competition for students in the second year of their two year course. Forest Hill College entered one team in a field of 10 teams. Daniel Weldon and Chris Ritchie, both Yr 11 students took on others from mostly Yr 12 and TAFE courses. Our students gave it all they had and felt confident of victory, however the judges deemed their efforts worthy of a very close third place trailing the winners Luther College and Ringwood Secondary College. Each of our students received a Linksys wireless router for their efforts with a value of about $100, and Forest Hill College will receive routers and switches to the value of about $10,000. Congratulations to both Daniel and Chris on their achievement and Mr Krozian for his preparation of the team.
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