A brutal, bloody day of Drama at Alia College
Here are some takes from the stage fighting workshop run by Josh, the Drama Teacher, and the stage make-up workshop, run by Ruth, the Science Teacher, during Skills Week this year.
Suffering and Surviving at Colac Camp
by Hagan (English teacher) When Donald Rumsfeld stated the obvious about known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, he missed a category — the known unknowns, or the things you don’t want to know about. For some, the Colac camp is such a mystery. They have the opportunity to come face to face with a […]
Art Out of Lockdown
The annual Alia Arts Night was locked down this year. Teachers from Art, Music, Drama and Media uploaded student work to Google Classroom, and invited students to take their families on a virtual tour of the work produced by Alia students. A small collection of the work is provided here.
Student Opinion: We need legal changes to battle climate change
By Joshua (Year 11) Despite ongoing efforts by members of the public to convince governments, businesses, and consumers to reduce their contributions to climate change, the crisis continues. Recent climate change protests, while in good spirit, have had no measurable effect on greenhouse gas emissions. No-one wants to sacrifice their own lifestyles if they don’t […]
The Labours of Her: Chloe’s Teacher Registration Project
by Hagan (English teacher) An ancient tradition Before a teacher is really a teacher they have to complete a series of tasks worthy of an epic poem. Such a poem is beyond my skills as a chronicler. And so, a blog post. First, the teacher must confront a horde of angry townsfolk, then navigate a […]
Did somebody say “isolation?”
A collection of student work from Term II and Term III, 2020.
Surviving Lockdown — The Corona Chronicles
One of the tasks the Junior English class set ourselves this term was to interview different members of the Alia community and find out how they have been coping with the lockdown.
Messages from the Principal During COVID-19
Since March 2020, when COVID-19 concerns were raised and there were discussions of school campus closures, the staff at Alia College have been emailing the school community to keep them up to date and informed on the school’s approach and operations. Some of the emails to the community included ‘Messages from Bob’ which seemed to […]
Alia Whole School Online Google Meet
This morning I attended an online whole school meeting. I came into the meeting to hear people saying it was Jono’s birthday, naturally we all then sang Happy Birthday to Jono. Bob (Principal) was singing too, but had his mic off. There were calls for him to then sing a solo – with his mic on this time. He was saved when someone called out that it was also Aidan’s birthday. We again sang Happy Birthday, this time Bob’s mic was on.
Student Teachers at Alia College
For the last few weeks of Term II Alia hosted a couple of student teachers from the Master of Teaching course at the University of Melbourne.