A few weeks ago, on 15 February 2013 we had a great Chinese Cultural Day. We invited Sarah Brennan, the Hong Kong-based international author and publisher of the best selling Chinese Calendar Tales to our college for her new book reading “The Tale of Sybil Snake”. She ran four sessions in the morning in the […]
Author Archives: Collingwood College
VIC Department of Education–Victorian School Garden Awards 2011.
For the 3rd year in a row-Collingwood College school grounds won the BEST school grounds in our region. Desley, Lindy and Martin were thrilled to take a representation of our student cohort from grade 3-6, to the presentation ceremony in December at The Botanical Gardens. Our students cheered as our school also won a new […]
Government Scholarship : China Trip
Congratulations to Trung Tran and Ngoc Le in Year 10 who have both won the scholarship to the China Study Tour funded by the Chinese government! Every year, Victorian government school students in Year 10 who continue to learn Chinese language will be eligible to apply for the scholarship to China tour. Students will be able to learn […]
The Victorian School’s Garden Awards
ON WEDNESDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER – we welcome Anne Ada (judge) from The Victorian School’s Garden Awards, as she tours our beautiful grounds for this years schools garden awards. Students will help Desley host the tour. Our grounds are looking so very beautiful, Trevor has been doing amazing revegetation work on the back oval, Lindy and […]
Top Arts – NGV – Oliver Reade
We are all familiar with the amazing artwork created by Oliver Reade which graced our hallway at the end of last year. Many of us were sad when it vanished – no idea where to. So you’ll be elated to hear that it’s destination was actually the National Gallery of Victoria! Go to the exhibition. […]