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The Kilmore International SchoolNewsletter

Issue 7, Friday 3rd of august 2018

Hudson House Wins Primary Swimming Carnival

A TKIS Community Publication

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ContentSchool Messages 2

Student Activities 10

Notice Board 22

Important datesAugust

8 Year 11 University of Melbourne9 Australian Mathematics Competition10 Year 8 Hanging Rock Fieldwork Trip14 Year 9-12 Soccer Finals14 Year 7-10 Music Recital15 Primary - Science Week Fizzics Incursion15 Year 9-10 Indo Film Fest16 Year 7-8 Soccer Finals21 Year 7-8 Badminton Finals22 School Photos23 Year 11 Group 4 Project23 Year 3 Book Week - Mark McBride Inc.24 -27 Ski Trip

Editor: Georgia [email protected]

Next edition: 20th of August

The Kilmore International School40 White Street KilmoreVIC 3764 AustraliaTel: (03) 5782 2211Fax: (03) 5782 2525Email: [email protected]: www.kilmore.vic.edu.au

Message from the Acting Deputy Principal

Hi All,

Just to keep you up to date with what is happening in terms of school organisation for Semester 2 here is the latest.

Tutorials: parents will notice the availability of 3.45pm IB tutorials Mon-day and Tuesday this term. Those day students who are not involved in CAS activities are able to attend and get extra tuition from subject teachers.

No phone policy/Social media: As a result of our policy this year, we are seeing lots of interaction among students. They are talking, getting physically active and involving themselves in activities. However there are some concerns about social media use at home affecting students’ interactions while at school. Please monitor and have conversations with your child about appropriate use of social media platforms.

Parent teacher interviews Aug 29th : bookings will open for parent/teacher interviews on August 13th. You will be notified via email and just follow the link.

Ski trip: students are getting excited about attending the annual TKIS snow trip. This will occur on August 24th til August 27th at Mt Hotham.

Emergency procedures: recently as part of our whole school wellbeing program we have educated all students on the procedures of emergen-cy and evacuation procedures. Fire and lockdown drills will be conduct-ed within the next couple of weeks.

Uniform: students are looking great in their winter uniforms, however there are still some students who require some attention to length of skirts and hair colour. Please refer to the uniform policy on the website to ensure your child is not being reprimanded for incorrect uniform.

IB centre: This year, the Year 11 & 12s have occupied the building previ-ously known as the Language Centre. This means that they are able to be within an area purely focussed on the IB and their future ahead. The access to Mrs McCormick our Careers Counsellor and Mrs Krilis our IB Coordinator has been a success along with the quiet study spaces that are available to the students. The Year 12’s are now focussing on exams ahead.

Jo Treanor

Acting Deputy Principal

Email: [email protected]


Message from the Head of Learning Science

Group 4 Project

This fun, collaborative day of student-designed investigations is a compulsory activity for IB Science students. Stu-dents have been assigned groups with a mixture of science disciplines and backgrounds. The aim is to experience the international collaboration that occurs in many real-life scientific endeavours. The planning took place on Wednes-day 1st August and the action stage will take place all day on Thursday 23rd August. I anticipate the students will have a great day. As this is a compulsory component of Science Internal Assessments we request that, where possi-ble, students do not have appointments or other commitments on this day.

Science Individual Investigations will be held later this year in Physics and early next year in Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Systems and Societies to conclude the Internal Assessment requirements.

Best wishes to all students and families for a wonderful Science Week, 11-19 August.

Cheryl Moulder

Head of Learning (Science)

Message from the Year 9/10 Wellbeing Leaders

WELCOME BACK!

After a much deserved break, the new academic program has begun. We welcome some new faces into our teaching ranks and some more again as new students into the school. This swells our numbers in the middle school to just over 130. The increase in student size has seen a third Yr 9 Homeroom being created with Ms Logan the Homeroom teacher. During our first assembly students were encouraged to remained focussed, use their time effectively, be consistent in their approach, meet their deadlines, listen to their teachers and colleagues and be proactive. These are some of the attributes that we believe are necessary for not only academic success but success in everyday life.

As always, there is plenty happening inside and outside of the classroom coming up. The Year 10’s have now submit-ted their subject selection. A lot of preparation and thought has gone into this program and we would like to thank Ms McMormick for her work in this area. Student selections will now go through a vetting process to make sure that subjects are suited to each individual.

This term will finish with a ball for the Yr 10’s with more details to follow. Their PE classes this term are geared to-wards ballroom dancing which is a great exercise for the whole co-hort.

Keep working hard,

Mr Peter Osborne and Daniel Mr Schembri

Year 9/10 Wellbeing Leaders

Message from the Head of Music Middle Years Recital

Our Junior and Senior students have both performed – now the students in Yrs 7 to 10 will have the opportunity. The Middle Years Recital will occur on Tuesday 14th August (Week 4) in Room 46 at 7pm, until around 8.30pm.

All students who learn instruments privately will be asked to perform and it would be great if you can also encourage your child to participate. The intermediate years are often when students begin to develop performance shyness. Continuing to perform despite that develops resilience and can create a sense of real achievement. Attending a Recit-al allows students to see what others are doing and to display what they themselves can play, which gives motivation for their individual lessons.

The Rock Band will be playing as well as various soloists, and several Instrumental staff will be in attendance Feel free to stay and have a chat with them, or perhaps even coffee and a biscuit!

Catherine Stringer

Head of Music

Vale Rod Mumford

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of our esteemed colleague Rod Mumford on 21 March 2018, aged 71.

Rod taught at TKIS from 2000 until the end of 2011. During this time he inspired many young scientists from years 7 to 10, and year 11 and 12 Biology and Environmental Systems students. Rod was also, at various times, Acting Principal, Deputy Principal, IB Coordinator, Head of Senior School, Year 12 Coordinator and an Examiner of IB Biology Internal Assessments.

Rod was passionate about photography and spent many hours lying on the ground to get a perfect shot of a spider or some other creepy-crawly. His holidays centred around photo opportunities: African safaris, a tiger conservation park in India, Machu Picchu, Easter Island, Pompeii, Rome, ….. We were always delighted to see the results of his latest trip and loved being given a calendar featuring his photography.

Rod is survived by his two sons, Nicholas and Alistair, and grandson Lucas.


Message from the Head of MathematicsHi all,

And welcome back. Next week is important in the Mathematics Department as we have the Australian Mathematics Competition underway on Thursday 9th of August. All students from Years 7-10 and a select few from Years 11-12 will participate in the competition. Students will be provided with time during classes to practise some of the interesting and often challenging question types that are part of this long standing and well know competition.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome new staff member Mr Tobin Connell to the Mathematics and Physical Education Departments. Mr Connell has been teaching for over 20 years and taught mainly in international schools, following a British Curriculum. Prior to coming to Australia, he worked in Switzerland (but lived in France and com-muted to a different country!) and before that was in Malaysia and the Middle East. He has visited 29 different coun-tries, including a trip to Antarctica! He is keen sportsman and coach, and loves to get involved in local sports. When in Malaysia he coached the blind Judo team for the Paralympic games – and interesting challenge! He has taught Maths and PE all his career and has now settled with his family in the Gisborne area, where he coaches basketball and has joined the SES. He had to give up rugby, but has now taken up AFL, and promises to call football soccer! The photo shows Mr Connell with Year 8 student Tanveer Kaur.

For the answer to the last edition’s question:

Level of difficulty this time is: Medium-Hard Grade 6-7

All of the digits from 0 to 9 are used to form two 5-digit numbers. What is the smallest possible difference between these two numbers?

Solution: The numbers must have different first digits, and so the smallest possible difference between them will be when the first digits differ by 1. To make the smallest difference the number formed by the remaining digits on the smaller number need to be as large as possible while the number formed by the remaining digits of the lager number will need to be as small as possible. The largest and smallest possible numbers formed from 4 digits are 9876 and 0123, so the two 5-digit numbers could be 50123 and 49876 and their difference is 50123-49876 which equals to 247…

And now for the new edition’s question:

Level of difficulty this time is: Suitable for all levels

Each row, column and diagonal of this grid should add up to 30. What number goes in the bottom-right corner?

2

812

?

Paul Szczur

Head of Learning (Mathematics)

Message from the Year 7/8 Well-being Leader

Students have been out and about exploring Visual Art since their return to TKIS following the semester break.

Year 11 Visual Art Students visiting MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art (left).

El Anatsui

Bleeding Takari II 2007

Aluminium and copper wire

MoMA

Students enjoying the interactive activities in the MoMA New York! New York! Installation (right).

Year 8 and Year 11 Art students visited MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Mod-ern and Contemporary Art. If you haven’t had the opportunity to vis- it this exhibition yet, please do add it to your diary. The exhibition is com-prised of numerous significant artworks that many only ever get to see in books. How surprising to see that Dali’s The persistence of memory and Kahlo’s Self-portrait with cropped hair, 1940, are so small while Lichtenstein’s Drowning Girl 1963 and Toulouse-Lautrec’s La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge 1891 are bigger than expected. That the colours really do glow and pop in Rothko’s No 3/No 13 1949 and Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe 1967. The quality of light in Hopper’s Gas 1940 is exquisite, while the level of detail in Seurat’s Evening, Honfleur 1886, is mind blowing. One gets a real sense of social and aesthetic transformation in the works of Mondrian, Duchamp and Leger, and warming nostalgia when viewing iconic 1960’s & 70’s album cover designs along with Tomohiro Nishikado’s Space Invaders 1978 video game software.

This week Year 8 students were following up on their viewing of Picasso’s The architect’s table 1912 at MoMA at NGV, with a ‘hands on’ activity in class (right).

Year 9 students have been out and about as well. Last week students went on a walking street art tour around the laneways of inner Melbourne where they discovered little gems, such as a Banksy parachuting rat and ACDC Lane, while considering various ideas relating to street art and street art culture. Juxtaposed with this was a viewing of significant Australian Impressionist artworks at NGV Federation Square.

Street art by Fintan Magee in Melbourne (right).

Lynda Allen

Year 7/8 Wellbeing Leader

Anastasia and Abigail Year 8.


School Photo ReminderSchool Photo’s will be Wednesday 22 August with Mop Up day for absentees on

Wednesday 29 August. Pre-payment / order envelopes have been sent home with students this week.

Lucas Edmonds Lucas Edmonds was awarded Australian Scout Medallion at 1st Kilmore Scout Group which Mr Taylor attended.

The Australian Scout Medallion is the pinnacle award in the scout section. Achieving the ASM is quite an achievement in itself and Lucas achieved it in 20 months, proof that consistent regular effort towards goals brings rewards. Lucas is highly regarded in the scout troop from both his peers and leaders.

Well done Lucas!

FAREWELL IAN & PETER

The staff and students of TKIS would like to fondly farewell Peter Morfea and Ian Bennett. We thank you for your time and commitment and wish you all the very best in your future

endeavours!


At the end of the day though, it was all the outstanding work put in by all the teachers, captains and vice captains that made the day possible. As all of us discovered, it is almost certain you will end up changing things last minute no matter how prepared you were before!

By Lucy Beaton

This year the primary school swimming carnival was held on the last day of term 2. It was amazing, and everyone enjoyed it.

It was held at the Kilmore Leisure center, where this year’s houses, Hudson, Hume, Rutledge and Mitchell all compet-ed with great pride for the 2018 primary swimming trophy.

The swim captains for the 4 teams were: Lucy Beaton -Hudson, Chloe Mott -Mitchell, Claire Gallagher -Rutledge and Ryan Knight –Hume

The day was well coordinated by Miss Garner, other assisting teachers, parent helpers and the swim team captains.

The Results

First place and overall winners was Hudson (congratulations)

Tying for second place was Hume and Rutledge (congratulations)

Third place went to Mitchell (congratulations)

In my opinion the day was a great success, and everyone will enjoy next year’s competition.

By Ryan Knight

Primary Swimming Carnival

On the last day of term 2, the entire Primary School participated in a house swimming carnival. There were both swimming and novelty events so everyone could have ago. It didn’t matter whether you came first or last you re-ceived a ribbon and points for your house. My favourite events included the medley relay and bridge ball. In the doubles backstroke, two people swam linked together down the pool. It was very funny watching the swimmers as their arms were going everywhere! Another popular event for many was the horse relay, where students were able to race on noodles down the pool. It was great to see the houses passing their coloured ball very fast through the pool in the last event, bridge ball. While the rest of their team was cheering them on! The most nerve wracking part of the day was when we were waiting to hear which house had won. Overall, Green placed 4th, Yellow and Blue tied with second place leaving, Red to come first. There was lots of chanting from all the houses throughout the day, and many students showed great sportsmanship! After lunch everyone seemed very tired and glad to go back to school and relax before going on school holidays. Thanks to the house captains; Claire from Yellow (Rutledge), Lucy from red (Hudson), Chloe from green (Mitchell) and Ryan from blue (Hume), their assistants, Ms Garner (who organ-ised the event) and all the other teachers involved, it was a great day out! I’m sure many students will be waiting for another fantastic swimming event next year where maybe yellow can win!

By Claire Gallagher

Year 6 Yellow House Swimming Captain

At the swimming carnival that T.K.I.S had on the last day of semester one everyone was excited to race in events such as, the freestyle relay (which is when four people take turns swimming twenty-five meters up the pool), the year three and four back kick (in this race the students raced kicking on their back for twelve meters) and the twen-ty-five-meter breaststroke. We had a helpful group of parents that helped make the day run perfect so on behalf of Green house I would like to say thank you to the parents. I would also like to thank the teachers that were very well organized and essential to making our day run smoothly. Ms Garner did a fabulous job and looked amazing in her ringmaster coat. Throughout the day all the houses were supportive of each other and at one time Anika (the swim-ming house assistant captain for yellow house) and I had two houses chanting ‘let’s go green, yellow, blue and red house.’ Overall, the carnival was extremely successful with Red house finishing first, Blue and Yellow tied second and Green house coming last. Even though my house didn’t win our whole house contributed with some taking home a 1st 2nd or 3rd and that’s what matters most because it was a team effort.

By Chloe Mott

The primary school swimming carnival took place on Thursday the 21/06/18. All the children divided into their house colours at the primary school and when they were ready, walked down to the Kilmore Leisure Centre. From there, we had a 9:30am start. First, there were swimming races. This was followed by a 15-minute break to set up novelty events and have something to eat. Soon novelty events were underway.

The primary students showed great team spirit. Some year 6 students from each house had created posters which were used throughout the day. Accompanying the posters, chants were belted out by many houses, encouraging swimmers. Everyone had a go despite not everyone feeling as confident in the water as others. Some swimmers cele-brated the house spirit by wear swimming caps the colour of their house!

When all the events were finished, the points were added-up. It was soon discovered that all the points from each house was very close. In the end red house won. (Each primary school student who swam represented their house colour. The events included swimming races and novelty events. For each place a competitor finished, they were given a ribbon and their house received points.)

Still in our house groups, the teachers took all the students back to the primary school. After a short run around out-side, we all went inside to watch a movie.


Primary Kids Go ‘Shopping”The Year 6’s created a ‘shopping’ experience for the Year 3’s to be able to test out their skills using money.

Book FairThank you to everyone that visited the first ever Primary School Book Fair. This was an initiative that came from the Primary Students and supported through the SRC. A huge success and very enjoyable event!


German Cooking Fun!Spaghettieis is a German ice cream dish made to look like a plate of spaghetti. In the dish, vanilla ice cream is extruded through a modified Spätzle press or potato ricer, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. It is then placed over whipped cream and topped with strawberry sauce (to simulate tomato sauce) and either coconut flakes, grated almonds, or white chocolate shavings to represent the parmesan cheese. Besides the usual dish with strawberry sauce, one may also find variations like ice cream with dark chocolate ice cream and nuts, simulating Spaghetti Carbonara instead of Spaghetti Bolognese.

Spaghettieis was created by Dario Fontanella in the late 1960s in Mannheim, Germany. Fontanella recalls serving his innovative creation to children who broke into tears because they wanted ice cream and not a plate of spaghetti.[4]He received the “Bloomaulorden”, a medal bestowed by the city of Mannheim, in 2014.For many years, the dish was not well known outside Germany, and could only be found at some gelaterias and special-ty ice cream parlors, special events, and hotels and restaurants around the world. Recently, Spaghettieis has begun to appear as a novelty in more restaurants and has had some attention on social media.

Vietnam VisitLocal student, Charlie Nuske met up with Alexis Nguyen, Hazel Vu and Jack Le when she visited Vietnam during the holidays. The three Year 10 Vietnamese students were more than happy to show Charlie around Ho Chi Minh City. How nice it is that our students can get together overseas!

Sports News Regional Badminton Finals, Wangaratta - July 26, 2018All the students did their best and had fun however they unfortunately lost all of their games.

Intermediate Boys: Bryan Handoko, Arthur Xu, Jim Meng, Jackson DaniellsCobram AnglicanLoss 43 to 126 pointsCathedral CollegeLoss 71 to 126 pointsTallangatta Loss 84 to 126 points

Senior Girls: Isabelle Huang, Kelly Woo, Huiting He, Ruiyuan Lu, Annie YuWanganui ParkLoss 51 to 126 pointsWangaratta HSLoss 50 to 126 pointsRutherglenLoss 75 to 126 points

TKIS Interact ClubTKIS Interact Club were fundraising towards their AU$1,000 donation to the Umoja Orphanage Kenya (Rotary Austral-ia World Community Service) RAWCS project which is an Australian non-profit organisation raising funds to build a self-sustainable children’s village in Ukunda, Kenya for orphaned and vulnerable children. This year a wonderful bene-factor matched all donations $ for $, so their efforts were worth AU$2,000 All Interact Clubs must support at least one International project. This project is well established and we know the funds raised are used fully to support building development for this children’s’ village and their rapidly expanding sustainability farm and permaculture projects.


Indonesian Trip 2018

Early in the morning on Friday, 29th of June, while most Melbournians rested, two teachers (Mr. Winardi and Dr. Kaur) and twelve students; Siobhan and Anastasia Minter, Casey Jensen, Lachlan Partridge, Tyler Leditschke, Sara Knight, Sneha Sathish Kumar, Lavanya Vohra, Rain Szczur, Charlie Nuske, Bilaal Elakkoumi and myself (Oscar), arrived at the Melbourne Airport at 5.00 a.m., ready for the trip we had been looking forward to for the past year. After a minor hiccup (a volcanic eruption at Mt. Agung resulted in our flight being cancelled), we later miraculously returned to the airport for our flight after 5.00 p.m. via Garuda airlines. We flew to Denpasar, Bali, then to Jakarta and then to Yogya-karta, arriving at around 8.00 a.m. Indonesian time the next day.

After starting with a bang (literally) Indo trip was well and truly on its way - woohoo!! We drove by bus to Solo which was our first stop. Once arriving at the Solo Paragon Hotel, we met with Jadon Subrata and Mary Lias, bringing our number to fourteen. Over the next two days in Solo we visited the beautiful Tawangmangu waterfall, ate authentic Indonesian cuisines at local restaurants, attempted to gate crash a Javanese wedding, took a cultural tour through the Sultan’s palace, learned to design batik, learned how to dance traditionally, visited a picturesque kampung (village) and drank fresh coconut water. We enjoyed helping to prepare our own lunch and ate a delicious meal amongst the locals. Our form of travel between these different activities was not only bus, but also becak (trishaws), traditional bicycles and andong (horse-drawn carts). These experiences were not only enjoyable but helped us grasp an understanding of authentic Indonesian culture, traditions and customs we had only read about in our text books.

On Day 4, we departed from Solo and made our way to Yogyakarta. Here over the next two days we visited Borobudur - a breathtaking Hindu temple with a rich history; a keraton (Sultan palace), saw Mt. Merapi - a spectacular volcano we admired from the lush green farming fields below, spent time at a wax museum and visited a New York - themed indoor park with multiple arcade games and a fairly scary, harrowing and heart sinking rollercoaster ride. Naturally, some of us went on this rollercoaster over five times! In Yogyakarta, we stayed at another great hotel with a shopping centre connected to it where we shopped during our free time. After one night spent here, we flew back to Denpasar to spend the remainder of our Indo trip in Bali.

After the first night, eating dinner at a restaurant and relaxing in the hotel, the rest of the trip was very busy with many more experiences to be had. Here we saw a Barong, traditional dance performance accompanied by a gamelan en-semble show, visited Water Bom Bali waterpark and visited the Ubud Village. Here we learned about herbal medicines, made coconut oil, had morning tea, ploughed the land pulled by bulls and did some paddy planting ourselves. On the last night, a great highlight was cruising on a dream boat where we saw a beautiful sunset. Later we had dinner in the lower deck and danced on the top deck to our favorite songs and to our heart’s content. Our last day in Indonesia was largely spent shopping. A highlight for some of us was practicing bargaining using the Indonesian language learned in class in the local bazaars/markets. This was truly fun and life changing. We got off to a shaky start doing this but soon caught up with the lingo and markedly improved our bargaining skills. However, by the end we all agreed that it was a mind game and our fluency in the language got us a good bargain as we employed new tactics (some more ruthless than others) to get the cheapest prices possible.

On a high note, we left Indonesia, our bags stuffed with bargained goods like Gucci bags, Ray-Ban sunnies and Bintang singlets and our stomachs stuffed with the delicious nasi goreng and mie goreng we had eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner the entire trip. After arriving home, we were happy to see our families. However, I am sure most of us would agree we desperately wanted to go back to Indonesia the second we stepped out into the cold, Melbourne air.

Of course, this incredible trip could not have happened without the driving support and undivided pastoral attention of our teachers Pak Winardi and Bu Ranjit. Thank you for organising, taking care of us and giving us an unforgettable cultural experience. Finally, a large thank you to Bu Susi, our tour guides, bus drivers and travel agents, without whom this trip could not have gone forward and left fond memories of a life changing experience that will forever remain etched in the deep recesses of our mind. To the next group of students visiting Indonesia in 2020 get ready and book your seats now!

Sekian dulu dan terima kasih!

Oscar Micik, Year 10


Principal’s Awards


Welcome new students to TKISTKIS welcomed 21 new international students last week. Publications Captains, Marina Sato and Alexis Nguyen caught up with some of them to find out more about them and how they are settling in.

Ngoc Mihn Tri, LukeNationality: VietnameseWhat motivated you to study abroad? I want to learn about a different culture, lifestyle and learn how to be independent.How are you finding the classes here? Good but I need to work hard and catch up!What problems are you facing by studying abroad? Homesickness is the only problem I have right now.How can you get over this difficulty? I’ll try to get used to it by making friends and call facetime to my parents.

Tran Taho Hisen, DaisyNationality: VietnameseWhat motivated you to study abroad? I want to have a better future by learning in an international learning environment. How do you feel about TKIS and Kilmore? The teachers and students are friendly and knowledgeable and the facilities are good and convenient. How are you coping with your studies? I use tutorials to help me with my studies and I ask my teachers in class when I do not understand some work.

Konoka ItoNationality: JapaneseCity: NagoyaWhy did you come to TKIS? To get an IB Diploma How has your first week been? I found the studies to be really hard because of the language. But I have made some friends here. What do you think about Kilmore? It is too cold! What are your goals? I want to make more friends, improve my English, and pursue my interests further. What are your hobbies? Watching movies.

Sonya Potchamanawong Nationality: ThaiCity: BangkokWhy did you come to TKIS? To improve my English. How has your first week been? The classes were difficult, but I think I will be okay. What do you think about Kilmore? It is located on a very rural area and is very cold. What are your goals? /what do you hope to achieve here? My goal is to improve English and make many friends from different countries. What are your hobbies? Reading books

Taiyu Mori Nationality Japanese City TokyoWhy did you come to TKIS? To improve my English.How has your first week been? It had been tough because it was my first time attending classes in English. On the week-end, I was alone because I had no Japanese friends, but I will try to make more friends by communicating with others. What do you think about Kilmore? It’s a rural place without any distractions. It very liveable compared to Tokyo. What are your goals? o master English and make a use of it in my ideal future job related to business. What are your hobbies? Playing tennis and computer games.

Oddom Nationality CambodianCity Phnom PenhWhy did you come to TKIS? To get a better education and to meet my friend from Cambodia. How has your first week been? It was exciting and fun because I made more friends.

What do you think about Kilmore? I have not really gone out this weekend so I did not get to know about this town well. What are your goals? To have a long-lasting friendship and valuable experiences.

Jutaphat Clungratana (Beaw) Nationality: Thai (studied in NZ for five years) City: BangkokWhy did you come to TKIS? To experience new cultures and to get an IB diploma How has your first week been? I found some differences between this school and my old school in NZ. The school life has been very fun and I’ve already made a lot of friends. What do you think about Kilmore? I like it because it is quiet, peaceful and has friendly people. What are your goals? I want to pursue my interests and want to study architecture and arts. What are your hobbies? Hanging out with friends, making animations, and athletics.

Publications captain, Sophie Lin interviewed some of our new students from China too. Here is what she learnt about them.

Wenxu (Alex) Bao is from Beijing. His first impression of Kilmore is that it is a nice place with lovely views. Alex hopes to improve his English at TKIS as well as making friends from different countries. His interests include drawing and playing the piano

Minglu (Catherine) Sun comes from Dalian, a port city on the Liaodong Peninsula. While she’s feeling a bit homesick, she has started to make friends. Catherine loves art and is interested in painting.

Yujing (Jennifer) Zhang is from Beijing. Her dream is to study at the Australian National University or Melbourne University so she plans to study hard while she is at TKIS. Although she is finding understanding the teachers a little difficult, she is confident that with time her English will improve and she will be able to understand more easily. Jennifer says that com-pared to school in China, the lessons in at TKIS are shorter and the homework involves giving personal opinions. She added that the teachers respect and listen to students ideas. She enjoys Peking opera, writing poetry, singing, playing musical instruments and swimming.

Hui Lam (Helen) Mak is from Hong Kong. She says her roommate is very nice and has been very helpful. Her ambition is to study in England or America and knows she must study hard to achieve her goal. She feels there is less pressure here compared to Hong Kong and is enjoying the food! Helen likes to read and draw in her free time.


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