Despite many weeks of lockdown, Haileybury students have achieved outstanding NAPLAN results once again.
In Term 2, we are excited to deliver the full breadth of Haileybury's academic and co-curricular programs as the School operates in the new COVID-19 normal environment. This is important for the development of students’ broader social and developmental skills—although the evidence shows that Haileybury students have continued their academic development at the same pace throughout the disruptions of the past two years.
In 2020, Victoria imposed around 21 weeks of school lockdowns on students and in 2021 there were a further 15 weeks of lockdowns. The 2021 NAPLAN testing reflects the outstanding work of Haileybury teachers and students and the support from families. Haileybury student results have consistently placed the School among the very top performers in the state and this is once again the case with 2021 results.
The reading, writing and numeracy results at Years 3, 5 and 7 were particularly impressive and I was delighted with the exceptional growth in student performance from Years 7 to 9, resulting in the best Year 9 performance in the 13-year history of NAPLAN. Haileybury students’ reading average is 646—this is 69 points, or multiple years, above the Australian average of 577. The outcome was similarly strong for writing (Haileybury 623, Australia 551) and numeracy (Haileybury 682, Australia 587).
These strong results across Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 also carried through into brilliant VCE results. For 2020 and 2021, 51% of all students achieved in the top 10% in Australia with an ATAR over 90, and 94% achieved in the top 40% in Australia.
A number of studies have shown the impact of recurring and extended lockdowns. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) data showed a medium size negative correlation between students’ reported mental health and their achievements in learning during school closures.
There is no doubt that Haileybury students have similarly felt the stress and pressures of lockdown and they have suffered from the isolation, lack of companionship and increased challenges of life through periods of school closure. The fact that this didn’t impact their academic learning is a great tribute to the brilliant teaching and wonderful support from families.
Derek Scott
CEO | Principal
Having all of our students and staff back on campus was a wonderful way to start Term 1, 2022. Walking around each campus, you can hear the laughter, the connections, the learning; all the things that make up being back on campus in a face-to-face environment. We trust you enjoy this new segment as we share all the wonderful things about campus life.
According to government figures and Beyond Blue, one in seven children between the ages of four and 17 experience a mental health condition in an average year – that’s around 560,000 young Australians.
Anxiety and depression are common mental health issues among young people and schools and families play an important role in helping them develop protective mechanisms so they are better prepared to face life’s challenges.
One protective mechanism is having a strong sense of self, which means young people knowing that it is OK to be themselves and to respect who they are.
“Young people need to be encouraged to feel positive about themselves and to accept themselves. Being kind to yourself and moving away from unhelpful self-criticism brings so many benefits,” says Maria Bailey, Haileybury Director of Counselling Services.
Haileybury’s new Student Code of Conduct places respecting yourself top of the list, followed by respecting the people around you and the school. The Code emphasises looking after physical and mental health, and encourages young people to be proud of who they are and to strive to be the best version of themselves.
“If you respect yourself, you can be your natural you. When you are comfortable in your skin, the best will come forward,” says Diane Furusho, Haileybury’s Deputy Principal (Student Wellbeing, Respectful Relationships & Consent).
So how can parents encourage their children to be their true self and to have strong self-respect?
We look forward to welcoming back our students to Term 2 on Wednesday, 27 April. I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter break and the chance to relax and enjoy time with family and friends.
A reminder that students may wear summer or winter uniform for the first two weeks of term. From Monday, 9 May, all students are required to wear their winter uniform, including a blazer.
Communication between home and school is important and working as a team to support students as they move through their educational journey is powerful.
Parent–Teacher Interviews will be held via Zoom during the third week of Term 2. Keep an eye on myHaileybury for further details.
Our Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students are busily preparing for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy, or NAPLAN. NAPLAN is a national program for students in these levels who sit common assessments in reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy.
These assessments will be completed online this year and tests will take place from May 10–13. We know that our students will complete the tests to the best of their ability. Further information is on the NAPLAN website.
There was much excitement as the ELC came together to celebrate the end of Term 1 with a bilby hunt. Each class followed clues that took them around the school grounds to find pieces of a puzzle which, when put together, created a bilby. We then gathered with parents on the North Oval for a picnic morning tea, chat and play.
On the last day of term, the annual Castlefield Coin Trail encouraged children to think about giving as they collected coins to lay along the trail. All money raised goes to the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
This term we are looking forward to inviting families in to our ELC as children are collected at the end of each day. At this stage, our morning routine will stay but parents will be signing in their own children.
Staggered times will continue and we expect all children to be picked up on time, please.
Please look out for the upcoming events for Term 2 and also for the parent security code on the Haileybury ELC app.
The annual Castlefield Coin Trail is always a great event with Junior School students decked out in their house colours. With care, they placed their saved coins on the lines marked out around the School to raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
On the same day, we held our annual House Music Competition. Mrs Jacob has worked so hard with our choirs this term in preparation for this event and they did not disappoint! Students sang loud and proud and really impressed the judges, including Head of Music (Junior and Middle School), Campbell Reither.
It was great to see so many Junior School students out and about early for our Active April mornings last term. From running or walking around the oval to ball sports and Zumba, students started their days in so many active ways.
Specialist departments and our HPFC are always thinking of ways to connect our families and our school and we love when there is lots of involvement. Special thanks to our Prep parents who recently came along to share their expertise with the classes as community helpers. Please come and join in and put your hand up when you can!
As our first term concludes, we acknowledge that the past 11 weeks have seen our students experience the whole gamut of school life. From assemblies, camps and assessments to Creative Arts nights and special events such as International Women’s Day and our Coin Trail, the school spirit is most definitely alive and well.
Having our students on site for a full term and immersed in our culture of learning and connectedness has been wonderful for our young learners and it has been a reminder of why school matters and why every student matters every day.
We wish all our families a well-deserved and restful Easter break.
Katrina Manson
Head of Castlefield (Brighton)
Haileybury Parents and Friends presents...our annual Mothers Day Stall.
Located in the Sholto Black Room, adjacent to the canteen, children will visit in their class groups to purchase gifts for their mums, grandmothers or special friend. There will be a fabulous range of gifts priced from $0.50 – $15.00.
Reception students only
Wednesday, 4 May, 1.00 – 2.00 pm
Prep – Year 8
Wednesday, 5 May, 8.20 am – 2.30 pm
Can you help?
Parent helpers are needed on the stall. If you can spare an hour, please sign up for a shift via the below link. Thank you for your support.
Ian Green
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Castlefield
Haileybury continues to work closely with government officials and the education bureaus within Wuqing and Tianjin and the School has completed a month of online learning. The school leaders are now planning for the opening of the school.
Even though the government and education bureaus have not officially set an opening date, they require Haileybury to prepare an in-depth document of how we will operate when the School brings all students and staff back.
I would like to thank our Chinese principal, Brian Gao, Head of Principals Unit, Joy An, Head of Junior School, Vivian Jia, Head of Senior School, Cathy Qi, Head of Logistics, Onasis Liu, and Head of HR, Adam Liu, for their tireless work.
It is also pleasing once again to inform the wider Haileybury community that we have been in contact with our staff, parents and students and they are all safe and healthy.
To stimulate students’ interest and enthusiasm in science and online learning during the pandemic, the government has provided opportunities for students to participate in online science competitions. So, Haileybury Middle School students and their science teachers have been busy testing their skills while in lockdown.
The competition requires students to design and perform an experiment that shows their basic understanding of simple science concepts and to submit a short video. Students have used simple materials found in their homes to complete experiments in mechanics, chemistry, biology, electromagnetism and astronomy.
Haileybury Senior School has continued to effectively run the School remotely. Using Teams, every academic department is holding their normal weekly meetings and school leaders are connecting via video twice a week to plan the upcoming weeks.
Homeroom teachers are also conducting their morning tutor periods and reading the daily student bulletin. The bulletin contains important daily online learning teaching tips from our Head of Senior School, Cathy Qi, important welfare notices from our Head of Welfare, Linda Liu, and interesting facts and quizzes from all the Heads of Department.
The focus has now turned to making sure that our Year 12 students are fully prepared for their return and upcoming examinations that start in late May.
Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN) is a world education charity and organisation that provides qualifications and accredited programmes for students and staff.
The first ASDAN China Teachers’ Forum on Quality Education in Schools was held online last week. The forum was an opportunity for several of our staff to discuss how to cultivate the learning ability and curiosity of students through an international education focus.
All Haileybury teachers received a quality education teacher training certificate from ASDAN.
Yanni Galanis
International Principal, Haileybury International School, Tianjin
We are eagerly looking forward to the start of Term 2 on Wednesday, 27 April. Students may wear their summer or winter uniform for the first two weeks of term. From Monday, 9 May, full winter uniform must be worn, including the blazer for Junior School.
Parent-Teacher Interviews are an excellent opportunity to discuss the progress of students academically, socially and emotionally.
Newlands Parent–Teacher interviews for ELC to Year 8 students will be held on Monday, 9 May, and Wednesday, 11 May, from 5.00 – 8.30 pm. All interviews will take place over Zoom.
Bookings will open on Monday, 2 May, and can be accessed via myPortal on the myHaileybury app. After booking your interviews, you will be provided with a separate Zoom link for each of the teachers you are meeting.
Mothers Day celebrations are a tradition within the ELC and are a highlight of the ELC calendar each year. This year the children would like to extend an invitation to their mums and special visitors to attend a classroom pampering session with their child in the week prior to Mothers Day.
On Wednesday, 4 May, Reception N and S, and Pre-Prep K mums and special visitors, are invited to come to the ELC between 2.15 – 3.15 pm for a session of fun and relaxation with your child.
On Thursday, 5 May, Reception W mums and special visitors are invited to visit the ELC between 2.15 – 3.15 pm.
The Pre-Prep children come together once a week with Julia Goodall, specialist music teacher, for a session of choir singing. The session is truly uplifting as the children enthusiastically harmonise their voices while singing traditional and well-known children’s songs.
The children have performed at a Pop-Up Choir for ELC parents during Arts Week, they have sung to Vice Principal Scott Doran and Head of Newlands, Jane Gibbs, and they will join the Junior School Choir for a shared singing experience under the musical direction of Julia Goodall and Rowena McDowell.
For the first time, the Prep cohort were part of an assembly at Aikman Hall which included a performance of some of the choir songs they have been avidly practicing this term. It was so lovely to see all the families join us for this special assembly to celebrate another successful term.
During the last week of term, Junior School and Middle School students embraced our Annual Walkathon, walking and running laps around Fisher Oval to raise money for the Good Friday Appeal. It was wonderful to see students enjoying the event and family members joining in. Everyone certainly enjoyed their Zooper Doopers at the end of the event, thanks to the HPFK.
Years 1, 2 and 4 are looking forward to swimming sessions early next term. Lessons will begin in Week 2 on Monday, 2 May, and run for two weeks.
Swimming lessons are extremely beneficial for children over the age of five as it enhances their knowledge of safety around water and furthers their stroke development and aquatic skills. Lessons also offer children the opportunity to gain confidence, provide another avenue of exercise, and promote health, wellbeing and social and personal skills.
Children develop at different rates and the swimming lessons will provide all Years 1, 2 and 4 students with the opportunity to learn to swim at their own level and with students of similar ability.
Preps and Year 3 students will take part in swimming lessons in Term 4.
Join us for an afternoon of fun activities with light refreshments. More details below:
The Biggest Playdate is a fundraising carnival that raises money for the Children’s Cancer Centre at Monash Children’s Hospital. Haileybury was proudly represented at the event by Year 8 Captains and Haileybury Pipes & Drums. The Year 8 Captains ran a lolly jar guessing game and demonstrated great leadership, organisation and collaboration. The activity raised $200.
Thanks and well done to Raena Umezu and Brody Lamb (School Captains), Deanna Maglaras (Sustainability Captain), Riley Zhao (Drama Captain), James Yab (Art Captain), Chelsea Armstrong (Kemp Captain), Chad Bryant (Kemp Vice Captain) and Adhithyan Rajiv (Shum Captain) for their effort and enthusiasm.
Tickets to this wonderful celebration are on sale now, get your tickets below:
Jane Gibbs
Head of Newlands (Keysborough)
A huge thank you to the Newlands community for generously supporting the Easter Egg Raffle and for raising a little over $3,700. Congratulations to all the Easter basket winners and thank you to all the amazing volunteers who helped make this event possible.
The HPFK Luncheon will be held on Friday, 27 May, and will support Feel the Magic, an Australian charity that provides early intervention grief education programs for kids experiencing pain and isolation due to the death of a parent, guardian or sibling. Please put this date in your diary.
We have plenty of stock of winter uniform to help you prepare for Term 2. The HPFK Uniform Shop opening hours during the school holidays and in Week 1 of Term 2 are:
Friday, 22 April, from 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Friday, 29 April, from 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Saturday, 30 April, from 9.00 am – 12.00 noon
This year our target is to reach 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Enjoy the school holidays!
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
On Friday, 8 April, the Year 12 Haileybury College Formal took place at Sofitel on Collins. The night saw in excess of 500 students gathered for one of the key celebrations of their final year and a great time was had by all. We could not be prouder of the way in which our students conducted themselves and of the positive and inclusive way in which they embraced spending social time together. It truly was a night of nights!
A range of students in Years 9, 10 and 11 were recently announced as members of the 2022 Student Representative Council (SRC). While there are too many names to mention within this short newsletter, I would like to heartily congratulate those who put themselves forward for leadership positions and were elected by their peers.
Haileybury offers many opportunities for leadership and supports students in leadership positions to work together to make the School a wonderful place to be.
On Tuesday, 1 March, the Year 11 and 10 House SRCs and other leaders from schools across the state had the amazing opportunity to attend the Australia-wide State Youth Leadership Conference. The event is designed to inspire, strengthen and empower us—the young leaders of today and tomorrow.
In this action-packed, one-day event we learned about the empowered, positive approaches to leadership, creative ways to develop teamwork, communication and coaching skills and how to overcome challenges throughout our leadership journeys. We were able to hear from many inspirational speakers who shared their experiences surrounding leadership and their own journeys to success.
One particularly intriguing story came from strategist and CEO, Holly Ransom, as she shared her impressive experiences such as when she interviewed the Obamas and had some interesting meetings with Australian senators. While her presentation was humorous and engaging, she led with an overarching message—step outside your comfort zone and into your courage zone.
Holly’s mission was to show that good leaders must step outside the box to successfully lead their team and achieve their goals. Everyone who attended the conference took away a lot from the day, whether it be Holly’s life lessons or meeting like-minded leaders from schools around the state.
The event placed a great emphasis on the immense importance for young people to take a stand and initiate change in this world. On behalf of Haileybury, we would like to greatly thank Youth Leadership Academy Australia for equipping us with the skills and confidence to become the young change-makers in our school communities and the broader society.
In Term 2, the subject selection process will begin for students in Years 9, 10 and 11.
Our upcoming Year 10 (2023) Information Evening for all Pre-Senior parents and students will be held on Tuesday, 3 May, and will be livestreamed. This session will also be recorded and available via myHaileybury.
The Subject Expo will be held on Tuesday, 17 May, and details for the event will follow. Parents and students will have access to material to help them make good subject choices and it may also be helpful to visit VTAC (the centralised admissions centre for most undergraduate university and TAFE courses), and the VCAA that sets guidelines for what students from Prep to Year 12 learn in Victorian schools.
Please remember that you can always make an appointment with one of our Careers Advisors to discuss these matters. Your child’s Head of House or relevant Head of Pre-Senior can help you make these appointments.
Armed with bags of Easter eggs and many delicious treats, Edrington held their annual Easter Egg Stall on Monday, 28 and Tuesday, 29 March. The baked goods and chocolate proved to be a hit with Edrington raising over $1,000 for their charity, One Girl.
During May, Haileybury will be competing in the Bond University Mooting Competition. This high school competition is the oldest in Australia, with over 100 schools across the country participating. This year, Dhimanya Dissanayake (Year 11), Rahul Deepak Kumar (Year 11) and Chiara Sgroi (Year 11) will represent Haileybury.
Mooting is a simulated court proceeding where student teams are presented with a fictional legal problem and they must formulate legal arguments and apply the law to their client’s case. They then present their submissions before real judges, barristers and members of the legal profession. This year, Haileybury will be making submissions on behalf of the defendant in a civil proceeding.
The preliminary rounds will be conducted via video-conference and this emulates the current landscape in which courts have had to advocate virtually. The Grand Final will be held at Bond University in Queensland. Haileybury has a proud mooting history and were finalists during the last competition. We wish the students the best of luck with the preliminary rounds.
Business Management Units 3 and 4 students visited the Yakult factory to practically apply their classroom theory to a real business. Students saw how an automated production line works in real time, how computer aided manufacturing makes 33,000 bottles per hour and why quality control is so important to a product. They also learned how a business applies Corporate Social Responsibility to many aspects of manufacturing.
Congratulations to Braya Jade Hanssen (Year 9) on receiving her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award.
Please remember that students wear winter uniform in Term 2, however, we will have two weeks at the beginning of the term when students may continue to wear summer uniform.
Pam Chamberlain
Senior Vice Principal and Head of Haileybury Senior Schools
This year our target is to reach 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical opens on Wednesday, 4 May, with more than 70 students taking to the stage to bring this award-winning production to life. There will be four performances, including a Saturday matinee, each bursting with colour, fun and magic.
Haileybury has so many dedicated, passionate and skilled creative artists that we have even been able to cast the show twice! The show is performed by a core ensemble supported by two alternating leading casts. The production boasts an impressive professional band and beautiful design, too.
Buy your tickets today to avoid missing out!
Nick Waxman
Head of Drama and Theatre Studies
During the final two weeks of term, Middle School instrumental students travelled to picturesque Mount Evelyn to take part in two large ensemble music camps.
They met at Oasis Camp early on Saturday afternoon and stayed overnight, attending rehearsals, having plenty of fun and enjoying the amazing food.
The two weekends were divided into a String Camp for the orchestra and a Band Camp for our concert band students. Almost 200 students attended with 30 Music Department staff.
Special thanks must go to Jo Heaton (Head of Bands), Myfanwy Bramble (Head of Strings) and Roslyn Rodgers (Senior Music Administrator) for the many hours of planning they put into these two events.
In the last week of term, 15 of our finest Senior School vocal students attended the Aria Night masterclass in preparation for the Aria Night competition that will be held in the David Bradshaw Chapel at Keysborough next term.
During the day, students worked individually with guest professional vocalist, Sophie Viskich. Ms Viskich performs regularly with Opera Australia and the Victorian Opera and she will adjudicate the competition on Wednesday, 25 May.
After working with the competition entrants, Ms Viskich and our Head of Choral Music, Robert Latham, will select nine finalists to perform at the prestigious event. Each finalist will perform two items—an aria from an opera, oratorio or operetta and an art song from the Western European tradition, such as a lied, chanson or English art song.
Rod Marshall
Director of Performing Arts & Head of Haileybury Music
After weeks of collaboration, curation, installation and a term’s worth of incredible VCE creative output, the end-of-term exhibition, Under Construction, opened. Record numbers of students flocked to see the art, design, media and folio work-in-progress.
Visual Arts Captains, Kayla Salter and Kendrick Goy, welcomed the enthusiastic crowd to the Keysborough gallery and explained the theme of the exhibition. Celebrating the Visual Arts students’ achievements was a wonderful way to usher in the Easter break.
On Thursday, 31 March, our Unit 3 VCE Product Design and Technology class had a fascinating tour of one of Australia’s truly great manufacturing success stories, the Maton Guitars factory in Box Hill.
Seeing and hearing how Maton precisely craft their beautiful musical instruments from Australian and exotic timbers gave our students a real appreciation of the entrepreneurial and guitar-making skills that Maton have relied on since Bill May began the business in his backyard in 1946. Maton remains a family-owned business and now employs over 75 people who create more than 8,000 of the world’s finest guitars each year.
Rachelle Rae
Head of Visual Arts Senior School
Pipers and drummers from our competition bands performed at the The Biggest Playdate fundraiser at Aspendale Community Centre on Sunday, 3 April. Senior band members P/M Brodie Nash, Ruby Nuttall, Jennifer Short, Braya Jade Hanssen and Sofia Carollo put on an amazing display.
In typical Scottish fashion, Haileybury Pipes & Drums summoned the rain clouds and it looked like there was going to be a downpour. However, we were lucky and managed to squeeze in the performance before the rain came down.
The Biggest Playdate is an initiative of the Miranda Foundation and it creates awareness and raises funds for the Children’s Cancer Centre at the Monash Children’s Hospital.
Lincoln Hilton
Director, Pipes & Drums
Stewart Bell’s contribution to Haileybury over 40 years has been simply outstanding!
Since 1981, Stewart has directed more than 70 musicals, plays and tattoos and has had an enormous impact on thousands of students.
To celebrate Stewart’s profound contribution to our School, Haileybury Foundation will provide a scholarship to be known as the Stewart Bell Scholarship.
An annual contribution to this Scholarship will change a young person’s life forever and will give them the opportunity of a lifetime.
The scholarship will be provided to a student who would otherwise never have had the chance to attend Haileybury. They will have a special interest in Drama and be a strong contributor to the community in which they live.
The scholarship will commence in 2023 and will be open to applicants entering Year 7, 9 or 10 in 2023.
Congratulations to Chris Pfeiffer OAM (OH 1967) who has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Old Haileyburians Association (OHA) Medal.
The medal was awarded for the 14th time at the Founders Day Assembly in Aikman Hall, Keysborough and was presented by OHA President, Brad Hyde (OH 1982).
The Old Haileyburians Association Medal is awarded to an Old Haileyburian in recognition and appreciation of their exceptional achievement and their contribution to the community. The Association now has more than 18,000 members and being awarded this medal is a major achievement.
After 10 years working for Lindemans Wines, Chris and his wife Robyn purchased the Seppelt’s Distillery in Rutherglen and began Pfeiffer Wines. Over time, they have developed Pfeiffer Wines to become a winery with significant national and international distribution. The company has been a James Halliday Five Star Winery for more than a decade.
Chris represents the wine industry to government through industry groups and the wider business community. He was Chair of the Winemakers of Rutherglen for 21 years, was a Board Member of the Victorian Wine Industry Association, and was a Foundation Board Member of the Victorian Winery Tourism Council.
Chris has been recognised for his services to the wine industry on several occasions. In 2007, he received the President’s Medal for services to the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria and the Victorian Wine Industry Association Distinguished Service Award. The icing on the cake was being awarded an OAM for services to the wine industry in 2012.
Congratulations again, Chris.
The Class of 1982 was formally inducted into the ’40 Years On’ Club at the Founders Day Assembly where they were honoured on stage in front of current Senior School students.
Celebrations for this milestone began a few weeks earlier with the Old Haileyburians Association hosting a terrific evening at The Deck Restaurant in Brighton. The drinks and stories were plentiful and a wonderful night was had by all.
Russell Davidson
Director of Development & Alumni Relations
The Heads of the River Regatta was recently conducted in Nagambie. The event is the culmination of hours of training over the course of the year by our rowers and, under the guidance of Alasdair Aikman (Head of Rowing), they performed outstandingly well. Many crews achieved season Personal Bests but, most of all, they simply enjoyed the sport of rowing.
We thank the Magenta Club Parents Group for all their support this season and the Haileybury Rowing Team:
Alasdair Aikman, Head of Rowing (B&G)
David Alexander, Boatman
Madeleine Matheson, Girls Coordinator
Clare Gilheany, Boys Coordinator
Lisa Fraumano-Braddy, Student Welfare Coordinator
Charlotte Brady, Teacher in Charge
Belinda Malone, Rowing Administrator
On Tuesday, 29 March, Haileybury teams took part in the State Touch Rugby Championships. The boys’ and girls’ teams performed very well against some strong competition and all teams qualified for the finals, before succumbing to stronger opposition. All students represented Haileybury with pride and had lots of fun.
Winter Sport training has commenced and will return in earnest during the first week back in Term 2. Please be prepared for the sport change over and allow enough time to purchase winter uniforms.
Well done to all APS Swimming and Diving competitors whose determination and hard work throughout the season saw them finish 4th overall—a wonderful effort.
All girls swam amazingly well. Some exceptional performances included Alana McDuff (Year 8) who finished first in the Under 14 50 Metre Butterfly, Freestyle and Backstroke events. Anya Dong (Year 7) came first in her Under 13 Backstroke event. Injury saw Octavia Mahoney (Year 6) wearing a moon boot until a few weeks ago but she won her Under 13 50 Metre Freestyle event.
The girls in the Under 13 Relay also came out with a first place and congratulations to Yolande Wu, Imogen Murphy, Octavia Mahoney and Zara Evans who are all in Year 6.
The divers once again proved to be a developing squad with outstanding performances across the board. These included:
Makenzie Edwards (Year 7) Second place in the Under 14A division
Olivia Dunbar (Year 7) Winner of the Under 14B division
Ashlee Arendse (Year 11) Winner of Open A division
Luis Garnaut (Year 9) Second place in the Under 15A division
Anthony Simonelli (Year 10) Second place in the Under 16B division
Liam Davies (Year 10) Second place in the Under 17A division
Brodie Lawrence (Year 10) Third place in the Under 17B division
Blake Connors (Year 11) Third place in Open A division
Congratulations to all swimmers and divers who demonstrated a wonderful inclusive and supportive culture with everyone being supportive and caring towards each other.
The APS Representative matches will be played this week with teams comprised of the best players in their chosen sports. Teams will play against a representative team from the AGSV. Congratulations to the following students who were selected for their chosen sports:
Ryan Nguyen (Year 11), Daniel Noura (Year 9), Izac Ooi (Year 11), Lisha Dhulipalla (Year 11), Olivia Moir (Year 11), Amelia Zylberman (Year 10), Alana Brook (Year 11), Chanel Bryant (Year 11), Indi Marostica (Year 11), Bianca Anderson (Year 11), Gemma Constable (Year 10), Edie Piastri (Year 11), Ella Kirkwood-Scott (Year 12), Poppy Murdoch (Year 11), Ruby Murdoch (Year 11), and Christina Roberts (Year 11).
Haileybury Girls Sport Captain, Josie Lawton (Year 12) has been selected in the U21 Women’s Australian Hockey Squad—the Jillaroos. Josie will represent Australia at the Junior Hockey World Cup later in the year. We wish her all the very best.
Sean Allcock
Director of Haileybury Sport
In Term 2, we are excited to deliver the full breadth of Haileybury's academic and co-curricular programs as the School operates in the new COVID-19 normal environment. This is important for the development of students’ broader social and developmental skills—although the evidence shows that Haileybury students have continued their academic development at the same pace throughout the disruptions of the past two years.
In 2020, Victoria imposed around 21 weeks of school lockdowns on students and in 2021 there were a further 15 weeks of lockdowns. The 2021 NAPLAN testing reflects the outstanding work of Haileybury teachers and students and the support from families. Haileybury student results have consistently placed the School among the very top performers in the state and this is once again the case with 2021 results.
The reading, writing and numeracy results at Years 3, 5 and 7 were particularly impressive and I was delighted with the exceptional growth in student performance from Years 7 to 9, resulting in the best Year 9 performance in the 13-year history of NAPLAN. Haileybury students’ reading average is 646—this is 69 points, or multiple years, above the Australian average of 577. The outcome was similarly strong for writing (Haileybury 623, Australia 551) and numeracy (Haileybury 682, Australia 587).
These strong results across Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 also carried through into brilliant VCE results. For 2020 and 2021, 51% of all students achieved in the top 10% in Australia with an ATAR over 90, and 94% achieved in the top 40% in Australia.
A number of studies have shown the impact of recurring and extended lockdowns. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) data showed a medium size negative correlation between students’ reported mental health and their achievements in learning during school closures.
There is no doubt that Haileybury students have similarly felt the stress and pressures of lockdown and they have suffered from the isolation, lack of companionship and increased challenges of life through periods of school closure. The fact that this didn’t impact their academic learning is a great tribute to the brilliant teaching and wonderful support from families.
Derek Scott
CEO | Principal
Having all of our students and staff back on campus was a wonderful way to start Term 1, 2022. Walking around each campus, you can hear the laughter, the connections, the learning; all the things that make up being back on campus in a face-to-face environment. We trust you enjoy this new segment as we share all the wonderful things about campus life.
According to government figures and Beyond Blue, one in seven children between the ages of four and 17 experience a mental health condition in an average year – that’s around 560,000 young Australians.
Anxiety and depression are common mental health issues among young people and schools and families play an important role in helping them develop protective mechanisms so they are better prepared to face life’s challenges.
One protective mechanism is having a strong sense of self, which means young people knowing that it is OK to be themselves and to respect who they are.
“Young people need to be encouraged to feel positive about themselves and to accept themselves. Being kind to yourself and moving away from unhelpful self-criticism brings so many benefits,” says Maria Bailey, Haileybury Director of Counselling Services.
Haileybury’s new Student Code of Conduct places respecting yourself top of the list, followed by respecting the people around you and the school. The Code emphasises looking after physical and mental health, and encourages young people to be proud of who they are and to strive to be the best version of themselves.
“If you respect yourself, you can be your natural you. When you are comfortable in your skin, the best will come forward,” says Diane Furusho, Haileybury’s Deputy Principal (Student Wellbeing, Respectful Relationships & Consent).
So how can parents encourage their children to be their true self and to have strong self-respect?
We look forward to welcoming back our students to Term 2 on Wednesday, 27 April. I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter break and the chance to relax and enjoy time with family and friends.
A reminder that students may wear summer or winter uniform for the first two weeks of term. From Monday, 9 May, all students are required to wear their winter uniform, including a blazer.
Communication between home and school is important and working as a team to support students as they move through their educational journey is powerful.
Parent–Teacher Interviews will be held via Zoom during the third week of Term 2. Keep an eye on myHaileybury for further details.
Our Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students are busily preparing for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy, or NAPLAN. NAPLAN is a national program for students in these levels who sit common assessments in reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy.
These assessments will be completed online this year and tests will take place from May 10–13. We know that our students will complete the tests to the best of their ability. Further information is on the NAPLAN website.
There was much excitement as the ELC came together to celebrate the end of Term 1 with a bilby hunt. Each class followed clues that took them around the school grounds to find pieces of a puzzle which, when put together, created a bilby. We then gathered with parents on the North Oval for a picnic morning tea, chat and play.
On the last day of term, the annual Castlefield Coin Trail encouraged children to think about giving as they collected coins to lay along the trail. All money raised goes to the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
This term we are looking forward to inviting families in to our ELC as children are collected at the end of each day. At this stage, our morning routine will stay but parents will be signing in their own children.
Staggered times will continue and we expect all children to be picked up on time, please.
Please look out for the upcoming events for Term 2 and also for the parent security code on the Haileybury ELC app.
The annual Castlefield Coin Trail is always a great event with Junior School students decked out in their house colours. With care, they placed their saved coins on the lines marked out around the School to raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
On the same day, we held our annual House Music Competition. Mrs Jacob has worked so hard with our choirs this term in preparation for this event and they did not disappoint! Students sang loud and proud and really impressed the judges, including Head of Music (Junior and Middle School), Campbell Reither.
It was great to see so many Junior School students out and about early for our Active April mornings last term. From running or walking around the oval to ball sports and Zumba, students started their days in so many active ways.
Specialist departments and our HPFC are always thinking of ways to connect our families and our school and we love when there is lots of involvement. Special thanks to our Prep parents who recently came along to share their expertise with the classes as community helpers. Please come and join in and put your hand up when you can!
As our first term concludes, we acknowledge that the past 11 weeks have seen our students experience the whole gamut of school life. From assemblies, camps and assessments to Creative Arts nights and special events such as International Women’s Day and our Coin Trail, the school spirit is most definitely alive and well.
Having our students on site for a full term and immersed in our culture of learning and connectedness has been wonderful for our young learners and it has been a reminder of why school matters and why every student matters every day.
We wish all our families a well-deserved and restful Easter break.
Katrina Manson
Head of Castlefield (Brighton)
Haileybury Parents and Friends presents...our annual Mothers Day Stall.
Located in the Sholto Black Room, adjacent to the canteen, children will visit in their class groups to purchase gifts for their mums, grandmothers or special friend. There will be a fabulous range of gifts priced from $0.50 – $15.00.
Reception students only
Wednesday, 4 May, 1.00 – 2.00 pm
Prep – Year 8
Wednesday, 5 May, 8.20 am – 2.30 pm
Can you help?
Parent helpers are needed on the stall. If you can spare an hour, please sign up for a shift via the below link. Thank you for your support.
Ian Green
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Castlefield
Haileybury continues to work closely with government officials and the education bureaus within Wuqing and Tianjin and the School has completed a month of online learning. The school leaders are now planning for the opening of the school.
Even though the government and education bureaus have not officially set an opening date, they require Haileybury to prepare an in-depth document of how we will operate when the School brings all students and staff back.
I would like to thank our Chinese principal, Brian Gao, Head of Principals Unit, Joy An, Head of Junior School, Vivian Jia, Head of Senior School, Cathy Qi, Head of Logistics, Onasis Liu, and Head of HR, Adam Liu, for their tireless work.
It is also pleasing once again to inform the wider Haileybury community that we have been in contact with our staff, parents and students and they are all safe and healthy.
To stimulate students’ interest and enthusiasm in science and online learning during the pandemic, the government has provided opportunities for students to participate in online science competitions. So, Haileybury Middle School students and their science teachers have been busy testing their skills while in lockdown.
The competition requires students to design and perform an experiment that shows their basic understanding of simple science concepts and to submit a short video. Students have used simple materials found in their homes to complete experiments in mechanics, chemistry, biology, electromagnetism and astronomy.
Haileybury Senior School has continued to effectively run the School remotely. Using Teams, every academic department is holding their normal weekly meetings and school leaders are connecting via video twice a week to plan the upcoming weeks.
Homeroom teachers are also conducting their morning tutor periods and reading the daily student bulletin. The bulletin contains important daily online learning teaching tips from our Head of Senior School, Cathy Qi, important welfare notices from our Head of Welfare, Linda Liu, and interesting facts and quizzes from all the Heads of Department.
The focus has now turned to making sure that our Year 12 students are fully prepared for their return and upcoming examinations that start in late May.
Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN) is a world education charity and organisation that provides qualifications and accredited programmes for students and staff.
The first ASDAN China Teachers’ Forum on Quality Education in Schools was held online last week. The forum was an opportunity for several of our staff to discuss how to cultivate the learning ability and curiosity of students through an international education focus.
All Haileybury teachers received a quality education teacher training certificate from ASDAN.
Yanni Galanis
International Principal, Haileybury International School, Tianjin
We are eagerly looking forward to the start of Term 2 on Wednesday, 27 April. Students may wear their summer or winter uniform for the first two weeks of term. From Monday, 9 May, full winter uniform must be worn, including the blazer for Junior School.
Parent-Teacher Interviews are an excellent opportunity to discuss the progress of students academically, socially and emotionally.
Newlands Parent–Teacher interviews for ELC to Year 8 students will be held on Monday, 9 May, and Wednesday, 11 May, from 5.00 – 8.30 pm. All interviews will take place over Zoom.
Bookings will open on Monday, 2 May, and can be accessed via myPortal on the myHaileybury app. After booking your interviews, you will be provided with a separate Zoom link for each of the teachers you are meeting.
Mothers Day celebrations are a tradition within the ELC and are a highlight of the ELC calendar each year. This year the children would like to extend an invitation to their mums and special visitors to attend a classroom pampering session with their child in the week prior to Mothers Day.
On Wednesday, 4 May, Reception N and S, and Pre-Prep K mums and special visitors, are invited to come to the ELC between 2.15 – 3.15 pm for a session of fun and relaxation with your child.
On Thursday, 5 May, Reception W mums and special visitors are invited to visit the ELC between 2.15 – 3.15 pm.
The Pre-Prep children come together once a week with Julia Goodall, specialist music teacher, for a session of choir singing. The session is truly uplifting as the children enthusiastically harmonise their voices while singing traditional and well-known children’s songs.
The children have performed at a Pop-Up Choir for ELC parents during Arts Week, they have sung to Vice Principal Scott Doran and Head of Newlands, Jane Gibbs, and they will join the Junior School Choir for a shared singing experience under the musical direction of Julia Goodall and Rowena McDowell.
For the first time, the Prep cohort were part of an assembly at Aikman Hall which included a performance of some of the choir songs they have been avidly practicing this term. It was so lovely to see all the families join us for this special assembly to celebrate another successful term.
During the last week of term, Junior School and Middle School students embraced our Annual Walkathon, walking and running laps around Fisher Oval to raise money for the Good Friday Appeal. It was wonderful to see students enjoying the event and family members joining in. Everyone certainly enjoyed their Zooper Doopers at the end of the event, thanks to the HPFK.
Years 1, 2 and 4 are looking forward to swimming sessions early next term. Lessons will begin in Week 2 on Monday, 2 May, and run for two weeks.
Swimming lessons are extremely beneficial for children over the age of five as it enhances their knowledge of safety around water and furthers their stroke development and aquatic skills. Lessons also offer children the opportunity to gain confidence, provide another avenue of exercise, and promote health, wellbeing and social and personal skills.
Children develop at different rates and the swimming lessons will provide all Years 1, 2 and 4 students with the opportunity to learn to swim at their own level and with students of similar ability.
Preps and Year 3 students will take part in swimming lessons in Term 4.
Join us for an afternoon of fun activities with light refreshments. More details below:
The Biggest Playdate is a fundraising carnival that raises money for the Children’s Cancer Centre at Monash Children’s Hospital. Haileybury was proudly represented at the event by Year 8 Captains and Haileybury Pipes & Drums. The Year 8 Captains ran a lolly jar guessing game and demonstrated great leadership, organisation and collaboration. The activity raised $200.
Thanks and well done to Raena Umezu and Brody Lamb (School Captains), Deanna Maglaras (Sustainability Captain), Riley Zhao (Drama Captain), James Yab (Art Captain), Chelsea Armstrong (Kemp Captain), Chad Bryant (Kemp Vice Captain) and Adhithyan Rajiv (Shum Captain) for their effort and enthusiasm.
Tickets to this wonderful celebration are on sale now, get your tickets below:
Jane Gibbs
Head of Newlands (Keysborough)
A huge thank you to the Newlands community for generously supporting the Easter Egg Raffle and for raising a little over $3,700. Congratulations to all the Easter basket winners and thank you to all the amazing volunteers who helped make this event possible.
The HPFK Luncheon will be held on Friday, 27 May, and will support Feel the Magic, an Australian charity that provides early intervention grief education programs for kids experiencing pain and isolation due to the death of a parent, guardian or sibling. Please put this date in your diary.
We have plenty of stock of winter uniform to help you prepare for Term 2. The HPFK Uniform Shop opening hours during the school holidays and in Week 1 of Term 2 are:
Friday, 22 April, from 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Friday, 29 April, from 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Saturday, 30 April, from 9.00 am – 12.00 noon
This year our target is to reach 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Enjoy the school holidays!
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
On Friday, 8 April, the Year 12 Haileybury College Formal took place at Sofitel on Collins. The night saw in excess of 500 students gathered for one of the key celebrations of their final year and a great time was had by all. We could not be prouder of the way in which our students conducted themselves and of the positive and inclusive way in which they embraced spending social time together. It truly was a night of nights!
A range of students in Years 9, 10 and 11 were recently announced as members of the 2022 Student Representative Council (SRC). While there are too many names to mention within this short newsletter, I would like to heartily congratulate those who put themselves forward for leadership positions and were elected by their peers.
Haileybury offers many opportunities for leadership and supports students in leadership positions to work together to make the School a wonderful place to be.
On Tuesday, 1 March, the Year 11 and 10 House SRCs and other leaders from schools across the state had the amazing opportunity to attend the Australia-wide State Youth Leadership Conference. The event is designed to inspire, strengthen and empower us—the young leaders of today and tomorrow.
In this action-packed, one-day event we learned about the empowered, positive approaches to leadership, creative ways to develop teamwork, communication and coaching skills and how to overcome challenges throughout our leadership journeys. We were able to hear from many inspirational speakers who shared their experiences surrounding leadership and their own journeys to success.
One particularly intriguing story came from strategist and CEO, Holly Ransom, as she shared her impressive experiences such as when she interviewed the Obamas and had some interesting meetings with Australian senators. While her presentation was humorous and engaging, she led with an overarching message—step outside your comfort zone and into your courage zone.
Holly’s mission was to show that good leaders must step outside the box to successfully lead their team and achieve their goals. Everyone who attended the conference took away a lot from the day, whether it be Holly’s life lessons or meeting like-minded leaders from schools around the state.
The event placed a great emphasis on the immense importance for young people to take a stand and initiate change in this world. On behalf of Haileybury, we would like to greatly thank Youth Leadership Academy Australia for equipping us with the skills and confidence to become the young change-makers in our school communities and the broader society.
In Term 2, the subject selection process will begin for students in Years 9, 10 and 11.
Our upcoming Year 10 (2023) Information Evening for all Pre-Senior parents and students will be held on Tuesday, 3 May, and will be livestreamed. This session will also be recorded and available via myHaileybury.
The Subject Expo will be held on Tuesday, 17 May, and details for the event will follow. Parents and students will have access to material to help them make good subject choices and it may also be helpful to visit VTAC (the centralised admissions centre for most undergraduate university and TAFE courses), and the VCAA that sets guidelines for what students from Prep to Year 12 learn in Victorian schools.
Please remember that you can always make an appointment with one of our Careers Advisors to discuss these matters. Your child’s Head of House or relevant Head of Pre-Senior can help you make these appointments.
Armed with bags of Easter eggs and many delicious treats, Edrington held their annual Easter Egg Stall on Monday, 28 and Tuesday, 29 March. The baked goods and chocolate proved to be a hit with Edrington raising over $1,000 for their charity, One Girl.
During May, Haileybury will be competing in the Bond University Mooting Competition. This high school competition is the oldest in Australia, with over 100 schools across the country participating. This year, Dhimanya Dissanayake (Year 11), Rahul Deepak Kumar (Year 11) and Chiara Sgroi (Year 11) will represent Haileybury.
Mooting is a simulated court proceeding where student teams are presented with a fictional legal problem and they must formulate legal arguments and apply the law to their client’s case. They then present their submissions before real judges, barristers and members of the legal profession. This year, Haileybury will be making submissions on behalf of the defendant in a civil proceeding.
The preliminary rounds will be conducted via video-conference and this emulates the current landscape in which courts have had to advocate virtually. The Grand Final will be held at Bond University in Queensland. Haileybury has a proud mooting history and were finalists during the last competition. We wish the students the best of luck with the preliminary rounds.
Business Management Units 3 and 4 students visited the Yakult factory to practically apply their classroom theory to a real business. Students saw how an automated production line works in real time, how computer aided manufacturing makes 33,000 bottles per hour and why quality control is so important to a product. They also learned how a business applies Corporate Social Responsibility to many aspects of manufacturing.
Congratulations to Braya Jade Hanssen (Year 9) on receiving her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award.
Please remember that students wear winter uniform in Term 2, however, we will have two weeks at the beginning of the term when students may continue to wear summer uniform.
Pam Chamberlain
Senior Vice Principal and Head of Haileybury Senior Schools
This year our target is to reach 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical opens on Wednesday, 4 May, with more than 70 students taking to the stage to bring this award-winning production to life. There will be four performances, including a Saturday matinee, each bursting with colour, fun and magic.
Haileybury has so many dedicated, passionate and skilled creative artists that we have even been able to cast the show twice! The show is performed by a core ensemble supported by two alternating leading casts. The production boasts an impressive professional band and beautiful design, too.
Buy your tickets today to avoid missing out!
Nick Waxman
Head of Drama and Theatre Studies
During the final two weeks of term, Middle School instrumental students travelled to picturesque Mount Evelyn to take part in two large ensemble music camps.
They met at Oasis Camp early on Saturday afternoon and stayed overnight, attending rehearsals, having plenty of fun and enjoying the amazing food.
The two weekends were divided into a String Camp for the orchestra and a Band Camp for our concert band students. Almost 200 students attended with 30 Music Department staff.
Special thanks must go to Jo Heaton (Head of Bands), Myfanwy Bramble (Head of Strings) and Roslyn Rodgers (Senior Music Administrator) for the many hours of planning they put into these two events.
In the last week of term, 15 of our finest Senior School vocal students attended the Aria Night masterclass in preparation for the Aria Night competition that will be held in the David Bradshaw Chapel at Keysborough next term.
During the day, students worked individually with guest professional vocalist, Sophie Viskich. Ms Viskich performs regularly with Opera Australia and the Victorian Opera and she will adjudicate the competition on Wednesday, 25 May.
After working with the competition entrants, Ms Viskich and our Head of Choral Music, Robert Latham, will select nine finalists to perform at the prestigious event. Each finalist will perform two items—an aria from an opera, oratorio or operetta and an art song from the Western European tradition, such as a lied, chanson or English art song.
Rod Marshall
Director of Performing Arts & Head of Haileybury Music
After weeks of collaboration, curation, installation and a term’s worth of incredible VCE creative output, the end-of-term exhibition, Under Construction, opened. Record numbers of students flocked to see the art, design, media and folio work-in-progress.
Visual Arts Captains, Kayla Salter and Kendrick Goy, welcomed the enthusiastic crowd to the Keysborough gallery and explained the theme of the exhibition. Celebrating the Visual Arts students’ achievements was a wonderful way to usher in the Easter break.
On Thursday, 31 March, our Unit 3 VCE Product Design and Technology class had a fascinating tour of one of Australia’s truly great manufacturing success stories, the Maton Guitars factory in Box Hill.
Seeing and hearing how Maton precisely craft their beautiful musical instruments from Australian and exotic timbers gave our students a real appreciation of the entrepreneurial and guitar-making skills that Maton have relied on since Bill May began the business in his backyard in 1946. Maton remains a family-owned business and now employs over 75 people who create more than 8,000 of the world’s finest guitars each year.
Rachelle Rae
Head of Visual Arts Senior School
Pipers and drummers from our competition bands performed at the The Biggest Playdate fundraiser at Aspendale Community Centre on Sunday, 3 April. Senior band members P/M Brodie Nash, Ruby Nuttall, Jennifer Short, Braya Jade Hanssen and Sofia Carollo put on an amazing display.
In typical Scottish fashion, Haileybury Pipes & Drums summoned the rain clouds and it looked like there was going to be a downpour. However, we were lucky and managed to squeeze in the performance before the rain came down.
The Biggest Playdate is an initiative of the Miranda Foundation and it creates awareness and raises funds for the Children’s Cancer Centre at the Monash Children’s Hospital.
Lincoln Hilton
Director, Pipes & Drums
Stewart Bell’s contribution to Haileybury over 40 years has been simply outstanding!
Since 1981, Stewart has directed more than 70 musicals, plays and tattoos and has had an enormous impact on thousands of students.
To celebrate Stewart’s profound contribution to our School, Haileybury Foundation will provide a scholarship to be known as the Stewart Bell Scholarship.
An annual contribution to this Scholarship will change a young person’s life forever and will give them the opportunity of a lifetime.
The scholarship will be provided to a student who would otherwise never have had the chance to attend Haileybury. They will have a special interest in Drama and be a strong contributor to the community in which they live.
The scholarship will commence in 2023 and will be open to applicants entering Year 7, 9 or 10 in 2023.
Congratulations to Chris Pfeiffer OAM (OH 1967) who has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Old Haileyburians Association (OHA) Medal.
The medal was awarded for the 14th time at the Founders Day Assembly in Aikman Hall, Keysborough and was presented by OHA President, Brad Hyde (OH 1982).
The Old Haileyburians Association Medal is awarded to an Old Haileyburian in recognition and appreciation of their exceptional achievement and their contribution to the community. The Association now has more than 18,000 members and being awarded this medal is a major achievement.
After 10 years working for Lindemans Wines, Chris and his wife Robyn purchased the Seppelt’s Distillery in Rutherglen and began Pfeiffer Wines. Over time, they have developed Pfeiffer Wines to become a winery with significant national and international distribution. The company has been a James Halliday Five Star Winery for more than a decade.
Chris represents the wine industry to government through industry groups and the wider business community. He was Chair of the Winemakers of Rutherglen for 21 years, was a Board Member of the Victorian Wine Industry Association, and was a Foundation Board Member of the Victorian Winery Tourism Council.
Chris has been recognised for his services to the wine industry on several occasions. In 2007, he received the President’s Medal for services to the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria and the Victorian Wine Industry Association Distinguished Service Award. The icing on the cake was being awarded an OAM for services to the wine industry in 2012.
Congratulations again, Chris.
The Class of 1982 was formally inducted into the ’40 Years On’ Club at the Founders Day Assembly where they were honoured on stage in front of current Senior School students.
Celebrations for this milestone began a few weeks earlier with the Old Haileyburians Association hosting a terrific evening at The Deck Restaurant in Brighton. The drinks and stories were plentiful and a wonderful night was had by all.
Russell Davidson
Director of Development & Alumni Relations
The Heads of the River Regatta was recently conducted in Nagambie. The event is the culmination of hours of training over the course of the year by our rowers and, under the guidance of Alasdair Aikman (Head of Rowing), they performed outstandingly well. Many crews achieved season Personal Bests but, most of all, they simply enjoyed the sport of rowing.
We thank the Magenta Club Parents Group for all their support this season and the Haileybury Rowing Team:
Alasdair Aikman, Head of Rowing (B&G)
David Alexander, Boatman
Madeleine Matheson, Girls Coordinator
Clare Gilheany, Boys Coordinator
Lisa Fraumano-Braddy, Student Welfare Coordinator
Charlotte Brady, Teacher in Charge
Belinda Malone, Rowing Administrator
On Tuesday, 29 March, Haileybury teams took part in the State Touch Rugby Championships. The boys’ and girls’ teams performed very well against some strong competition and all teams qualified for the finals, before succumbing to stronger opposition. All students represented Haileybury with pride and had lots of fun.
Winter Sport training has commenced and will return in earnest during the first week back in Term 2. Please be prepared for the sport change over and allow enough time to purchase winter uniforms.
Well done to all APS Swimming and Diving competitors whose determination and hard work throughout the season saw them finish 4th overall—a wonderful effort.
All girls swam amazingly well. Some exceptional performances included Alana McDuff (Year 8) who finished first in the Under 14 50 Metre Butterfly, Freestyle and Backstroke events. Anya Dong (Year 7) came first in her Under 13 Backstroke event. Injury saw Octavia Mahoney (Year 6) wearing a moon boot until a few weeks ago but she won her Under 13 50 Metre Freestyle event.
The girls in the Under 13 Relay also came out with a first place and congratulations to Yolande Wu, Imogen Murphy, Octavia Mahoney and Zara Evans who are all in Year 6.
The divers once again proved to be a developing squad with outstanding performances across the board. These included:
Makenzie Edwards (Year 7) Second place in the Under 14A division
Olivia Dunbar (Year 7) Winner of the Under 14B division
Ashlee Arendse (Year 11) Winner of Open A division
Luis Garnaut (Year 9) Second place in the Under 15A division
Anthony Simonelli (Year 10) Second place in the Under 16B division
Liam Davies (Year 10) Second place in the Under 17A division
Brodie Lawrence (Year 10) Third place in the Under 17B division
Blake Connors (Year 11) Third place in Open A division
Congratulations to all swimmers and divers who demonstrated a wonderful inclusive and supportive culture with everyone being supportive and caring towards each other.
The APS Representative matches will be played this week with teams comprised of the best players in their chosen sports. Teams will play against a representative team from the AGSV. Congratulations to the following students who were selected for their chosen sports:
Ryan Nguyen (Year 11), Daniel Noura (Year 9), Izac Ooi (Year 11), Lisha Dhulipalla (Year 11), Olivia Moir (Year 11), Amelia Zylberman (Year 10), Alana Brook (Year 11), Chanel Bryant (Year 11), Indi Marostica (Year 11), Bianca Anderson (Year 11), Gemma Constable (Year 10), Edie Piastri (Year 11), Ella Kirkwood-Scott (Year 12), Poppy Murdoch (Year 11), Ruby Murdoch (Year 11), and Christina Roberts (Year 11).
Haileybury Girls Sport Captain, Josie Lawton (Year 12) has been selected in the U21 Women’s Australian Hockey Squad—the Jillaroos. Josie will represent Australia at the Junior Hockey World Cup later in the year. We wish her all the very best.
Sean Allcock
Director of Haileybury Sport
In the spirit of reconciliation, Haileybury acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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