WHAT'S HAPPENING @ SCSC
ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day commemoration is always an important occasion at SCSC and for our community, as we gather together to pay respect to those that lost their lives fighting for our country, and honour those that still serve our nation today. This year was a bit different as we remember and commemorate at home, and pay our respects whilst keeping safe from COVID-19.
We would love to hear what ANZAC Day means to you and your family via this Newsletter Survey.
If you have any photos from the day or an ANZAC biscuit secret recipe, we would love to see them! Please send them to our email address surf.coast.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au and we will collate and post them (images only) on our Facebook page on Wednesday 29th April.
Thank you Steve Robertson for this ANZAC RECIPE and for joining our College community together from a distance via this video.
On behalf of the Surf Coast community, our college captains Lily Watterson, Laila McCristal and Charlotte Cook placed a wreath at The RSL Memorial at Point Danger on Saturday morning.
We thank them for this beautiful tribute.
Pete Raidme
LEST WE FORGET
House Points Board
Our current House Leader is BELLS followed by ROADKNIGHT, ZEALLY & BIRD ROCK
Library News
Intermediate School Baseball
On Friday 13th March the Year 10 boys went to Waurn Ponds baseball fields to compete in intermediate school baseball.
The Boys put on an amazing performance, including demonstrating some great sportsmanship, encouragement and skills throughout the three games they played.
In Pool B games SCSC played Belmont and won 9 v 4, however lost to Northern Bay 5 v 8. The result between these two teams saw SCSC proceed into the final against Grovedale which SCSC lost 0 v 9. However again in the final, great sportsmanship and acknowledgement was shown to the Grovedale players who were too good for the boys in the final.
Some special mentions must go to Kuiper Hede, Will Brady and Aidan D’Andrea who reluctantly played backstop position which sees the pitch ultimately throwing the ball at your face past the batsman.
Kuiper Hede held this position for much of the day which took great commitment and courage on his behalf, well done Kuiper.
All of the boys who attended should be proud of the way they represented SCSC and all enjoyed the experience of playing baseball which they do not do on regular basis.
Student Escape to the Country
Two SCSC Year 9 students, Ned Dodds and Cooper McInerney, recently escaped the confines of the class room for ten days, to an educational context on a higher level - Mittagundi in the Victorian High Plains.
Mittagundi, ( ”Mittagundi - noisy” ”gundi - camp” ) an outdoor education campus the brain child of educator, Ian Stapleton, some 40 years ago. It was Ian’s mission to provide a financially accessible outdoor education experience for any young person.
“Mum decided that it would be good for me to attend” says Ned, “but I was not so sure”.
Cooper added: “Then my mum got talking to Ned’s mum who said that Ned was going, so I decided to go. I was excited about attending the camp, but I didn’t know that I had to hike!”
What followed was an adventure that has broadened the thinking and experiences of these two young men.
A sleepover at Ned’s grandparents positioned Cooper and Ned to catch the train from Broadmeadows to Albury. Met by Mittagundi staff at the train station, the two were transferred to a park for lunch where they met the other 20 participants, aged 14-18 years from across the state, and some of the Mittagundi staff. A further car transfer to Ropers Hut in the High Plains was where some of the “surprises” began. No phones, no watches, no food packages, but a hike pack and a two day hike to get to Mittagundi.
The boys’ hiked too in Falls Creek and Mt Bogong. After sleeping in tents and communal cooking en route (and communal toileting in a “long drop” which the participants dug) the Mittagundi base was a welcome sight. Ned and Cooper spent the next five days based at Mittagundi participating in activities including: abseiling, wood chopping, sledding, gardening and chess. The conclusion of the camp was a 3 day return hike.
Cooper’s favourite activities were abseiling and sledding, “Sledding down the Mitta Mitta river was a high point for me” offered Ned. “I was forced to go on this 10 day camp when I didn’t really want to, now I am keen to attend the follow up camp and participate in either wood chopping or cross country skiing”. Cooper is equally keen to return to a wood chopping follow up camp.
A lesson from Ned and Cooper to share with other SCSC students is that trying activities that you don’t really want to do can prove to be very rewarding and worthwhile.
Leadership talk at Armstrong Creek
I was fortunate to take some our College Leaders to present some insights about leadership to a host of primary schools from the region in Armstrong Creek today. Lily Watterson, Charlotte Cook, Liam Wray & Zakhele Stevens were outstanding! The feedback from students and staff was overwhelmingly positive!
Lily conducted a great ice breaking activity she experienced at an earlier leadership camp - RAH which means 'Random Assembly Hype' which really got the primary school kids up and about.
Well done to all our leaders!
Peter Raidme
COVID-19 by Tyson Williams
Our community-minded Year 11 student, Tyson Williams, created this information report to support our local community with being aware about COVID-19 and best practices in staying safe. He interviewed some local medical experts and did this all on his own, on his holiday break, because he cares so much about the people in the Surf Coast. Well done Tyson, we are so proud of the wonderful young man that you are.
https://drive.google.com/a/scsc.vic.edu.au/file/d/1lMCjQ9Rc8ZHkVP5WBKvpYq5OPnrDrfEK/view?usp=sharing