Activities
Greensborough College has a wide-range of activities. In the final week of year 12 classes, a dress up week is held, introduced several years ago to replace the 'muck up day' which has been deemed too dangerous due to incidents at other schools in the area resulting in severe injury and hospitalisations. The dress up week consists of 3 days of themed costumes, one of which is chosen by the VCE co-ordination staff, and the other 2 are chosen by the students. An annual Canberra Educational trip is also held for unit 3/4 Legal Studies and Economics classes.
There are also House Activities which include The Swimming Carnival (including the inaugural 'Bomb' Competition and Fashion By the Poolside), The Athletics Carnival (including Fashion by the Trackside) and other smaller activities such as the Chalk Art contest, Year 9/10 theatre sports and the Room Decorating Competition which are designed to help bring the houses together and also gain house points that go toward the Endeavor Cup, which is presented to the winning house at the end of the year.
Greensborough College holds many night activities and camps for the new Year 7's and their parents each year. This helps to make the young ones feel more at home, and to settle in more quickly. The year 7 camps to Barjarg (where the school co-owns a campsite) are a highlight of the students' year.
Greensborough offers a number of camps for year levels 8-11 including snow camps, waterski camps and surf camps. These run over 3-4 days each and offer the students a few days away from studying during the year.
Greensborough also offers overseas trips through the G'Day USA program, and an Italian tour run by the LOTE teachers, as the LOTE taught at Greensborough is Italian.
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