College Athletics
And the winner is… GRANT HOUSE!
2nd Place: Lonsdale House
3rd Place: Phillip House
4th Place: Murray House
World Challenge 2017 – Nepal
BY NIKKI JOHNSON, YEAR 11
Going to Nepal with World Challenge was an incredible experience! It was my first time overseas and I cannot wait to travel again.
Our group had a lot of fun and made some amazing memories when we visited the bat cave, the Pagoda, the Monkey Temple, the Budha Stupa and the Dunbar Square. We also volunteered at a local primary school in Pokhara where we painted the walls of the classrooms and built a small room which became a canteen.
As rewarding as this part of the trip was the trekking phase was utterly unbelievable. Trekking through the Himalayas was perfect. The views were stunning, the actual trekking wasn’t too challenging and the group became good friends helping each other through tough times and playing cards into the late hours.
I strongly recommend this experience to anyone who wants to travel and be challenged. My advice would be to bring a camera, a journal to write in and an extra roll of toilet paper!
Antarctica Flight
Recounted by Olivia Mansfield and Adam Fowler, two Brighton Secondary College students.
I found the Antarctica experience exciting and interesting. When we first started to go over Antarctica, I wasn’t quite sure whether it would be an amazing experience because there was quite a lot of cloud and fog and I was worried that it was going to be like that the whole plane ride. But then once the clouds and fog cleared, the sight was breathtaking.
The ice was broken up into tiny pieces, with little ocean around them, creating a kind of ice mosaic. The further we went into Antarctica, it felt as if we were solving more and more mysteries and wonders of this earth. This feeling only went on even more when we walked down the plane and were presented with a type of science experiment that Monash University was doing, which was fascinating. They showed us how the magnetic south and north pole worked and how maybe in a couple of millions of years, it may flip, so the south pole will be the north pole and the north pole will be the south pole.
As we circled around the grand finale mountain from both points of view, I tried to get as many shots in as possible, after all, it was a once in a lifetime experience. In the end, I got about 200 photos and watched about three movies, which started and stopped again and again and again, all because of the beauty outside the window which I couldn’t tear my eyes off. The captain sometimes would talk to us about what we were looking at and the history behind it, which never bothered me. Overall, it was an amazing experience and I would most likely recommend it to every living thing on this earth.
OLIVIA MANSFIELD
The Antarctica Flight has probably been the most unique and amazing experience I have ever had. One of the most incredible things about the flight for me was just seeing how untouched and natural the land is as it has hardly been effected by humanity.
The second greatest thing about the flight was all the fun and interesting people I got to meet. I spoke people from all around Australia including researchers, students, teachers and people just there to enjoy the experience and learn some new things.
Overall I absolutely loved it and would do it again in a heartbeat.
ADAM FOWLER
2018 House Chorals Competition
Wednesday 14th March – 6:30pm at Kingston Arts Centre
The Brighton Secondary College Chorals is a program designed to foster leadership, togetherness and build friendships through music and singing. Having worked with many vocal groups and choirs over my career, never have I seen such a healthy and positive competition promoting music as a tool for engagement that involves such a large portion of the school community.
Through the experience of preparing for and performing at Chorals, the College has seen our students’ passion and dedication grow to incredible levels. The students proud to have brought together a wonderful show dedicated to the Soul and Motown music of the 60’s. This theme has opened up opportunities to so many talented vocalists and a changed format has given a solo to a student within a choir setting.
Our Cultural Captains have more than risen to the occasion. They have gone from strength to strength with each rehearsal, and their skills in leadership, building relationships, organisation and the understanding of working with a large group has developed greatly over the term. They have also learned skills in music, coordinating the harmonies for the choirs, and working in a very short timeline, which is no easy feat.
We are so very proud of the captains, choirs, and soloists this year, and we hope to see you at Chorals this year!
Success in Performing Arts
Past Student Success shared by Nyssa Bradsworth
DYLAN MURPHY
Dylan graduated Creative Writing at RMIT in 2016, guest starred on Upper Middle Bogan in 2014, and wrote and directed a web series ‘Feedback’ in 2016 going into its 2nd series. Wrote music for Musical “Tom Hanks: The Musical” in 2018 and won numerous awards for his work.
EMILY SCHNALL
Emily studied Jazz Vocal at Monash University, graduating in 2017, and performed at the Melbourne Recital Centre and jazz clubs around Melbourne, with world renowned performers and composers like Tony Gould, Esperanza Spalding and Kate Cebrano, and has recorded albums with those collaborations. She has toured to the USA and Europe and now leads 4 different bands as a front woman and band leader and manager. Emily’s original band ‘The Mamas’ has gained some national buzz and are touring to different states, sold out huge venues in Melbourne for our gigs and have had many interviews and public write ups on the work they do towards accessible feminism and talking about real worldly issues with humour. Emily has also won many composition prizes and the likes for work as a jazz composer.
AUSTIN KHOURI
Austin completed his Advanced Diploma in Film and Television at Swinburne in 2016 and has worked on music videos for Seth Sentry (play it safe) and Maribelle (Shout). Austin has directed many music videos and short flims, notably for his band ‘An Especially Dirty Hippie’ with Calum Bellofirore, and produced short films ‘Ice cream with Sprinkles’ (Winner of ‘Best edit’ at Swinfest), ‘Yellow Lid’ and ‘Afternoons’ (currently in post-production stage). Austin has recently started a small production company focusing on corporate/wedding/ music videos and has had clients such as Doig Architecture and worked with Westspace Art Gallery on two occasions.
MICHELLE GERSTER
While at Brighton Secondary College, Michelle was in the main cast from ABC3 show ‘Nowhere Boys’, which has
made a feature film and is still playing on ABC. After leaving the College, Michelle studied for a full year in Japan and is currently doing a 6 month cultural exchange program at Walt Disney World, Florida. She is doing International Studies and Japanese at Swinburne, with more acting and character work on the horizon.
CHRISTIAN RHODES WOLFE
Christian has been a member of the Australian Shakespeare Company for 5 years, touring ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in the
Czech Republic. Christian has also performed in ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at the Heidelberg Theatre, and has taken a keen interest in sound design.
MICHELLE MELKY
Michelle graduated with a BA in Creative Writing and Dip of Languages in French, both from RMIT. She produced the web series Feedback that’s going into its 2nd series and worked on the short film ‘Build – A – Film’, which placed 2nd at the Unscene Film Festival. Michelle started a part time embroidery business in 2016 and now works full time at Savage Film Services, a film lighting company that services all filmed media types as well as co-hosting the ‘New and Improved’ segment on SYN radio in 2018.
RYAN JEWEL
Ryan has embarked on a career as a music producer and DJ, with success with local acts ‘FOX ACHE’, ‘MAHWA’ ‘ROBIN GOOD’ and now ‘RY/LE’. His solo project ‘RY/LE’ is getting Triple J airplay and he is about to jump on the festival circuit.