The Heights, Lilydale Heights College Newsletter, is published each month and aims to collect important posts from our website, community notices and advertisements in downloadable files. We ask that all parents read our website or/and newsletter to stay updated with all the school news.

Welcome back to Term 4 everyone. The weather is warming and the festive season will be upon us shortly. The College continues to work at full pace and planning for 2018 is well underway.

Another term has ended, the days are longer and the weather is warmer (slightly). Lilydale Heights College continues to be an active learning environment where learning and extra curricular opportunities continue to be presented to students by highly committed staff.

This year's production is a re-telling of the magical story of Dorothy and her adventures in The Land of Oz.

It features all the characters that we know and love, with quirky twists that make their way into the piece...

The recent Curriculum Day saw teachers refining Semester 2 unit plans and embedding writing-to-learn strategies in the curriculum as part of the College’s literacy plan. These strategies are highly effective in improving students’ subject knowledge as well as their writing skills.

Welcome back to Term 3. I trust everyone had a warm winter break. The school term has started well and students are now well engaged in their classes as we move into the second half of the school year.

Clearly this has been a very busy Term at the College. I would like to take this opportunity to thank staff for their tireless work and wish all members of our College community a safe and warm winter break.

The month of May has proven to be a very busy period for staff and students at Lilydale Heights College. The classrooms remain a hive of activity and this has been supplemented by the various extra curricular programs on offer to students throughout the College.

Hello from China once again. I am currently part way through a visit to China, travelling with the Department of Education. The tour has taken us to many cities in central and eastern China including Xi’an, Beijing and Shanghai. This has been a wonderful opportunity for Lilydale Heights College to be represented on an international stage and for the benefits of the Victorian Education System to be shared across the world.

The 2016 VCE cohort completed a very successful year of study and produced some exceptional results. The top ATAR achieved at Lilydale Heights College in 2016 was 89.7, ranking this student in the top 11% of students in the state.

A very big congratulations to Summer Jenkins whose Food and Technology folio, one of only twenty eight students, was shortlisted into the Top Designs Exhibition.