Term 1 concluded with some exciting activities including the Schools On Air program, the completion of our first communal Jigsaw Puzzle, the TTRPG Club after school celebration, podcast recording and the logging of over 50,000 minutes college wide for the first term.
15 students attended our once-a-term Schools On Air program run through the Banyule Nillumbik Tech School and played on SYNfm. The groups learned about the radio industry and segment creation, worked together to plan their segments, worked across the term on finessing their delivery, and then recorded their segments in a professional level studio offering an excellent opportunity for students to experience a potential pathway. There were lots of laughs and fun with each group tackling their task with enthusiasm. Keep an eye out for when their show will be aired on the socials.
The College students and staff have blasted through the half-way mark on our semester goal of 125,600 minutes, with over 25,000 minutes read over the term break. The Term 1 winners were:
Treacy: Alexander Sigaras Year 7 T12, 746 minutes
Hughes: James Pantelids Year 7 H14, 903 minutes
Lynch: Nathan Drazic Year 9 L16, 2107 minutes
Bodkin: Benedict Raphael Glow Year 10 B09, 810 minutes
Nolan: Charlie Huxtable-Lawlor Year 7 N14, 638 minutes
Year 7: 7G Jess Deprost, 7327 minutes total
Year 8: 8D Tom Randell, 2837 minutes total
In addition to the 2025 Reading Challenge, we also have a term-based Scavenger Hunt Challenge with its own prizes. The Challenge can be found in the BeanStack website through the NLC Resource Centre page here.
The Tabletop Role Playing Game Club celebrated their Term 1 activities with an after school celebration including delicious food, painting of figurines, and some intense Blood Bowl battles. The TTRPG is back for Term 2 on a Tuesday in the Fire Carrier Room. The Pokémon Club also continues to draw new members and runs on a Thursday lunchtime in the Innovation Lab.
The Podcast Club has already kicked of unofficially with Preston student Year 12 Ziggy Keating H10A conducting two interviews so far this year. The Parade Now podcast now has 3 episodes available through the social media outlets. The Podcast Club will run on Fridays in the Fire Carrier Room.
The Communal Jigsaw and NLC Puzzle Wall continue to be hits with three students already walking away with prizes for successfully completing all puzzles, and we are on to the second jigsaw for the year.
The Year 7 students have been welcomed into the Nash both upstairs for the game playing and downstairs for reading and quiet chatting during Term 1. While the Year 7 students were given a VIP suite in the Fire Carrier Room during the first term, they will now join forces with the other year levels in the main NLC areas. Friends have been met, challenges have been set, and laughs have been had. We continue to welcome all students before school from 7:45am, recess, lunch and after school until 4:30pm (4:00pm Fridays). Homework Club is of course running each Tuesday and Wednesday from 3:15pm until 4:30pm.
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