St Andrews Christian College Newsletter 2023

     Middle School

VALUE CHAMPIONS

In Middle School, our passion is to develop faithfully devoted servants of Christ. On a regular basis, we love to celebrate our VALUE CHAMPIONS; the people who live out our values on a daily basis.

Well done to the following students:

Faithfully Honouring Commitments (Matt. 25:14-30)  – It’s about being faithful in the small things.

  • Our class ‘Fish Monitors’ Lynn Hyun and Bonnie Carline (5F) have been faithful in feeding and looking after our pet fish.
  • Sean Ortega (5S) working hard over the holidays to present a polished and impacting speech for the public-speaking competition
  • Oliver Lim and Joseph Zhu (5S) Faithfully Honouring Commitments: consistently leading the class line with diligence and faithfulness
  • Joseph Cho (6C) for doing his classroom job consistently every day without being asked.
  • Jun Xiang (6L) for doing his job everyday without being asked
  • Una You (7C) who Faithfully Honours Commitments by keeping track of the timetable and homework on the whiteboard on a daily basis.
  • Nicholas Kho (7C) for completing all requirements for the Victorian Premier’s Reading Competition before the end of Term 1.
  • Jayden Hung (7H) always at classes on time and brings all books required.
  • Timothy Adam (8K) comes in  early each morning and puts the chairs down to get the classroom ready for a 9am start 

Devoted to Growth (1 Tim. 4:14-15) – It’s about seeking the small improvement one day at a time.

  • Gabriel Armanyous (5F) consistently asks how he could improve upon completing his job as Mathematics Homework monitor. And he always acts upon advice given.
  • Anjali Malik and Ruth Liu (5S) making great contributions about wellness in Girls' Health
  • Leah Chong (5S) sharing stories with the class confidently
  • Noah Malpass (6C) for asking for feedback on his public speaking and practising to apply this.
  • Ruby Baxter (6L) consistently asking for feedback in writing to improve her work
  • Melissa Yao and Sofia Lopez (7C) for extending themselves and putting in an excellent effort in preparing for the Public Speaking Competition MS finals.
  • Christian Bligh (7H) working hard to complete homework and preparing for exams in Maths.
  • Hei Hei Yip (7H) amazing behaviour in Chinese, as well as answering questions and a determination to do well.
  • Charlie Penny (7H) work consistently getting neater, striving to improve.
  • Tylor Zhu (7H) working hard to improve his understanding in Maths and never giving up.
  • Andrew Tan (7H) in Health, suggesting prayer as having positive health benefits.
  • Grace Jeon (8K) asks questions to improve in her work and has shown a great attitude to learning.
  • Luca Nathan (8C) for consistently striving to attain excellence in his performance in Science

Servant Heart (1 Peter 4:7-11) – It’s about taking action to add value to others.

  • Evan Widjaja (5F) showed a servant heart by continually giving help to people who were struggling with using keynote (iPad app) in class.
  • Louis Sun (5S) volunteering to be the 5S eco-captain and contributing to the sustainability of the school
  • Hannah Chard, Tiffany Kim & Nicole Ni (6C) for creating a beautiful birthday display for their friend’s birthday
  •  Jaden Cheung and Josh Weldon (6L) for getting out each others books and supplies for every lesson and serving one another so well
  • Emily Yeng (7H) supporting others in Maths when they are confused.
  • Jed Forbes (8K) faithfully honours uniform rules and is always neatly attired in the correct uniform.

Keep up the great work!

Mr Daniel Lee - Head of Middle School

ECO-CHALLENGE WINNERS RECEIVE AWARDS

Towards the end of Term 3 in 2018, a number of St Andrews took on the 2018 Eco Challenge in teams of two. The Challenge annually provides an exciting and authentic learning experience for students through the online strategic game, Aqua Republica, to explore issues and solutions relating to water management and sustainable development. Over 600 teams took part from around the world and our St Andrews Christian College students were amongst the final winners. Joshua O’Donnell (8c) and Leon Hiew (8c), were the overall Australian winners, and also placed second in the global competition. In second place were Cyrus Ting (8K) and Matthew Baker (former student) and in third place Noah Low (8K) and Kevin Wang (8K). According to the organisers, the St Andrews teams in general ranked very highly across both the national and international events. What an amazing achievement for our students! 

 

Joshua O’Donnell deserves special mention, as he played the winning game! Both Joshua O’Donnell and Leon Hiew, his teammate, received a certificate and $250.00 Coles/Myer gift card for first place in Australia from Curtin University in WA, as well as a $150 Amazon gift card for achieving second place in Australia. They also each received certificates from the international organisers for first place in Australia and second place internationally.

 

Cyrus Ting and his teammate Matthew Baker, each received a certificate and a Coles/Myer gift card to the value of $150 for achieving second place in Australia, and also a certificate each from the international organisers, honouring this achievement. Noah Low and his teammate Kevin Wang, received a certificate and a $100 Coles/Myer gift card each for achieving third place in Australia, as well as a certificate from the international organisers, honouring their achievement. Congratulations to these students for taking on the challenge and being devoted to growth!

Christa Cloete - Head of Year 7/8 

2R CELEBRATES MOTHERS' DAY

Mother's day in 2R

We appreciate all our mother's do .... the love, care and support they give to us so unconditionally! The students made their mums a bunch of flowers and wrote acrostic poems for them. 

M - mum makes me feel special.

O - only one for me.

T - takes care of me everyday.

H - helps me.

E - encourages me.

R - really loves me! 

SUSTAINABILITY AT ST ANDREWS

It gives me immense pleasure to lead the Sustainability group at St Andrews. This year we had our Senior School members give a talk on Sustainability to our Middle School students informing them about our ‘Enviro Team’. Their efforts as well as the homeroom teachers’ encouragement resulted in many new members joining our Enviro Team from Years 5-8. Thanks Julia Pajor, Michelle McCabe and Timothy Chou.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce our new members to the larger school community. The new members are: Hannah Chard, Jonathan Chen, Ashley Cheng, Ruby Muggeridge, Aruvi Gopesh, Grace Jeon, Rueben Hogen, Tiffany Kim, Caleb Nah, Maya Nallathamby, Louis Sun and Irena Tan. If you teach or meet these students please encourage them for their commitment towards Sustainability at SACC.

 

Some of these fantastic students have visited all the classes to check if they have the Red Cycle bag. We have been notified the classes that don’t have these bags and we have replaced new ones for them. The Red Cycle bags are for wrappers that have no food remains. If we can encourage all our students to use those that would be great.

 

We are also constantly looking for some parent volunteers who would like to be a part of our Sustainability group. If you are interested in Sustainability or would like to learn about sustainability @SACC, please contact me or the school office. Your contributions in any sort and manner would be greatly appreciated.

 

God bless you all.

Mr Fernandes

PUBLIC SPEAKING FINALISTS

Congratulations to Melissa Yao (7C) who emerged as the winner and Gabriel Armanyous (5F) runner up, at the Middle School Public Speaking Competition. They delighted the audience with their riveting and inspiring speeches on the topic, “Jesus is the Light of the World”.

Well Done, Melissa & Gabriel!

YEAR 5 ENJOY THE THRILL OF THE SPOTLIGHT

There's something about being on stage when those spot lights shine directly on us. It very often brings out the hidden thespian in us all. Thats exactly what happened to our year 5s when Mrs Elbourne introduced them to the power of theatre lighting and it also helped illustrate power of Jesus transforming light and our College theme “Jesus is the Light of the World”.

THE 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIERS’ READING CHALLENGE

The 2019 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenege is a compulsory reading program for all Year 7 and 8 students.

The challenge aims to:

  • develop a love for reading and improve our students’ literacy skills, with the support of teachers, classmates and parents
  • promote a reading culture in school and at home

The Reading Challenge runs from February to August and students are required to read a total of 15 books and complete a number of activities based on the books.

A GOOD DAY FOR YEAR 7 & 8 GIRL'S SOCCER

It was a good day all round for the girls Year 7 and Year 8 soccer team. Not only did they take to the field in flashy new uniforms they also drew in their first match with Lighthouse Christian College 1-1.

Well done girls!