We’re celebrating the College’s 50th birthday with an art competition! Two people will win a $25 Village voucher and your artwork will be included in the school magazine, Malonga. Entries must: Be submitted on A4 paper to library or follow submission instructions available at the library. Include the number 50 or the concept of celebration. Be the students’ original work. All artwork must be submitted by October 13th. Entries may:…
Mehdi shares his amazing Kokoda experience with Star News Group journalist Kyra Gillespie. Read the story here.
We need your help with the following items: Toiletries Socks Blankets (can be used but in good condition) Drop your donated items between 7th – 14th September at: Sub-school areas General office Staff room All donations will be delivered to the 4Cs.
Year 10 photography students did a mighty job at keeping us guessing with this challenging game. Well done! Congratulations to Brad Yeo, the winner for the most correct answers. A certificate and prize awaits you on first day back of term 4. Answers from left to right.. Also a big shout out to the following people who were the 1st to answer correctly 6: Michelle Burns, 7: Brad Yeo, 8: Brad…
Win a $25 Village gift-card and have your work published in Malonga! We’re celebrating the College’s 50th birthday with a writing competition. Two prizes up for grabs, one for Years 7-10 and one for Years 11-12. To help celebrate the College’s 50th birthday we’d like to reflect back on how much we’ve grown or look at ways we can continue to grow. Therefore, we have chosen ‘growth’ as our…
Pakenham Secondary College put on a spectacular performance at Chairo Christian College Regional Chess tournament. The path to glory wasn’t an easy one though. In the Middle Years division 102 players from nine schools battled for seven rounds, with the winner being decided only in the last one. Pakenham took gold, with Corey Smerdon, Matthew Blanco, Sterling Stuski and Fabian Bonaudi scoring 5 wins. Danien Kho and Hayden King remained undefeated…
To call Year 11 student Sarah McDougal a ‘Pocket Rocket’ is an understatement. Only starting the Australian Army Cadets in February this year, Sarah is already showing a promising career. Strongly encouraged to attend by a school friend, Sarah agreed ‘for one time only’, and well, the rest is history. She has not missed a week since. When asked why she loves it so much, ‘I now have an insight…
Read about how Tamika Watters used her voice to express concerns about waste. Inspired by watching the ABC documentary, ‘War on Waste’, Tamika decided to take it all the way to the top. Writing to the Prime Minister was the first step of this young woman using her voice on a topic of great concern to her and her family. Read the full article here.
Pakenham Secondary College SLC are raising money for the RSPCA. To do this we are ordering doughnuts from Krispy Kreme. 100% of the profit raised through the selling of doughnuts will help rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home some of the 135,000 animals that come through the RSPCA each year. The options for sale are a box of a dozen glazed doughnuts for $19 or a dozen of assorted (including 6 original…
Welcome Dr Ferghal As you may be aware, our school was successful in being selected to participate in the Victorian Government’s Doctors in Secondary Schools program. As part of this program, an adolescent-trained GP (general practitioner) Dr Ferghal Armstrong from Black Fish Medical Clinic will be operating on school grounds each Thursday from 17th August to provide free access to primary health care for secondary students at our school. We…