Please feel free to use this Calendar to assist with planning around College events. We hope it is a useful document.

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. 

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.

www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/prep10/naplan/parents/index.html

On Thursday March 13, we have 4 teams competing in Round 1 of the Victorian Schools Debating Competition. We have been practising hard, and the students are confident they can continue the excellent results of previous debating teams from FHC. Stay tuned for results.

This program has many important benefits. Recently we witnessed our students who had successfully made their way to finals of Lions Club Youth of The Year Competitions speak in a most eloquent and confident manner. There is no doubt their exposure to this program had enhanced their ability to prepare a speech and make public presentations.

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.

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.

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.