School News
Sheltered Lip Balms
6 MGC girls have been working with YMCA’s Youth for Causes program since July to create a social enterprise that makes a real difference. A social enterprise involves creating a product or service that is sold and then all profits are donated to a Not-For-Profit Organisation of choice. The 6 girls, (Ella Jackson, Mia Richter, Isabella Codognotto-Parry, Sarah Simpson-Tuckey and Eve Crossett) all in Year 11 have created a lip balm range that is vegan and cruelty free. Each lip balms profits will be donated to Kids Under Cover, who work to prevent Youth Homelessness by running their scholarship and studio programs.
The girls have finished production of 500 lip balms and are waiting on their stickers before they start selling. The MGC community will be able to purchase these lip balms from their Chuffed page which is available at: https://chuffed.org/project/shelteredlipbalms
There are 3 flavours available (Vanilla, Tropical Coconut and Peppermint), and each are available for $10. It would be great to see the MGC community supporting the hard work of these students and helping Kids Under Cover in preventing Youth Homelessness.
SRC Congress
On Tuesday October 11th the second official MGC SRC Congress was held. Over 90 student delegates attended and debated issues like Vegan alternatives, Uniform, the Wellbeing Curriculum and Facilities. The SRC decided to hold a second Congress after a formal resolution at the end of the last Congress. The SRC is still in the process of working on the passed resolutions from March, but have seen positive results in regards to sock length, clocks in classrooms and the use of microwaves in the cafeteria. Below are all of the resolutions that were carried by a majority vote during Congress. These will continue to be worked on into 2017 and any student interested on joining the SRC as a volunteer to help continue our progress are more than welcome to attend our weekly Wednesday meetings that will now be held in room 110.
Resolutions Carried:
That the SRC request that the VCE study centres be given permanent ownership over a sandwich press and a kettle - Sponsored by Nell Crossett and Eve Crossett
That the SRC research vegan food alternatives and present them to be added to the canteen menu - Sponsored by Tess Monaghan, Natalie Warrick and Tess Wheller
That the SRC investigate the possibility of getting a myki top up machine in the office - Sponsored by Chantelle Daher and Xara Hudson
That the SRC request that the year 10 wellbeing coordinators integrate more elements of the health curriculum into regular wellbeing classes - Sponsored by Chantelle Daher, Natalie Warrick and Tess Wheller
That the SRC request that the rainbow flag be flown not only in diversity week, and flown on other occasions chosen by the SRC and SPECTRA - Sponsored by Nell Crossett
That the SRC support the creation of mental health ambassadors within MGC - Sponsored by Richa Akung and Elif Savas
That the SRC request that a member of the SRC sits on school council meetings and be given the right to vote - Sponsored by Nell Crossett and Xara Hudson
That the SRC investigate the possibility of adding green and purple coloured scarfs to the school uniform - Sponsored by Alex Garland
That the SRC investigate the removal of “arts” from the STEAM program - Sponsored by Sophie Jennings and Sarah Simpson Tuckey
That the SRC request that students should be permitted to wear non leather shoes - Sponsored by Tess Monaghan and Mia Sherman
That the SRC request that students be allowed inside when the weather is below 15 degrees and above 30 degrees - Sponsored by Xara Hudson
That the SRC investigate the possibility of using free range eggs in food tech classes and encouraging the canteen to source ethical produce - Sponsored by Tess Monaghan and Mia Sherman
That the SRC request that senior school and Year 9 students be able to wear their PE uniform at school if they have a PE or Outdoor Ed elective prac that day - Sponsored by Mabel Eldred
That the SRC hold Candy Cane mail at the end of term 4 and reclaim egg mail to hold at the beginning of term 2 - Sponsored by Georgia Wolfe and Emma Naismith
We would like to thank all of the hard work of the Congress Crew, Delegates and Workshop Participants for their contributions to the event. Also a special mention to David Mould and Spencer Gorman of Second Strike Productions and Roger Holdsworth of Connect Magazine and VicSRC for their assistance in the formality of the event.
Kathy Lu, Nell Crossett, Georgia Wolfe, Emma Naismith and Zack Pretlove
On behalf of the SRC
SCIENCE TALENT
SEARCH 2016
In August seventeen of our Year 9 students entered the Science Talent Search Competition. This is a state-wide Science Competition now in its 65th year that is conducted by the Science Teachers Association of Victoria. Our entries comprised videos, posters, games, working models and essays all relating to the world of Science. On Monday 24th October the recipients of bursary prizes Hannah Ross, Hannah Scallion, Stella Askey, Nyah Seelig-Schattner, Matilda Smithers and Emily Dunning will attend Latrobe University for their presentation ceremonies. It has been a pleasure to see such scientific endeavour from all of the girls who entered this long running competition. Congratulations and well done.
Chris Jurgens