SCC General Notices

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Winter Book Club

Last year, we ran a Book Club for members of the school community, using Daniel Sih’s ‘Raising tech-healthy humans’.

This year, we invite parents, staff or interested community members to join me in reading Jonathan Haidt’s ‘The Anxious Generation’.

Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces - communities polarised by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world. In The Anxious Generation, Haidt shows how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared, including time spent comparing oneself to a vast pool of others. Time engaging face-to-face with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health. But this is not just a story about technology; this profound shift took place against a backdrop of declining childhood freedom and free-play, as parents over-supervised every aspect of their children's lives offline, depriving them of the experiences they most need to become strong and self-governing adults. In this book, Haidt makes a compelling argument that the loss of play-based childhood and its replacement with a phone-based childhood that is not suitable for human development is the source of increased mental distress among teenagers. The Anxious Generation delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show the four fundamental ways in which a phone-based childhood disrupts development - sleep deprivation, social deprivation, cognitive fragmentation and addiction. Haidt offers separate in-depth analyses of what has happened to girls, and what has happened to boys, offering practical advice for parents, schools, governments, and teens themselves. Drawing on ancient wisdom and cutting-edge research, this eye-opening book is a life raft and a powerful call-to-arms.

We have 10 copies of the book available that will be given to the first to email principal@scc.tas.edu.au. After that, book club participants will need to source the book either in print, as an eBook or audio book.

Each week, we will read one chapter on the book. I will post some reflections both in the newsletter and within a private Facebook group where I will invite group members to share their key takeaways.

Jodie Bennett

Principal

BBQ Hot Lunch Fundraiser - For the whole school!

The Year 6 students are preparing for their Sydney/Canberra Excursion in November this year. The trip is part of their Unit of Inquiry into How We Organise Ourselves, with a focus on Government.

They are fundraising in an effort to contribute to the cost of their trip. Their first event will be hosting a sausage sizzle at school for lunchtime on Friday 21 June. Sausages and juice boxes orders will be delivered to primary classrooms on the day and secondary students can collect their orders from the covered area outside the science building.

Pre-ordering is required. Orders will close at 9am on Wednesday 19 June. Orders with correct money can be posted in the letterbox outside the school office. Order forms were sent home via class and homeroom teachers today, extra forms are also available in the school office. There are gluten free and vegetarian options available.

This fundraiser is open to primary and secondary school students.

We appreciate your support in their exciting venture, the Grade 6 students are looking forward to serving the school community with this hot and tasty lunch on the day.

Parent volunteers please contact Susan Rowe susan.rowe@scc.tas.edu.au if you are available to assist on the day.

To download the order form, click here:

Hot Lunch Fundraiser BBQ Final 2024.pdf

ICAS Competitions 2024 (Repeat)

We are excited to announce that the College will again be hosting the ICAS competitions in August. All six competitions are being held at the College (English, Writing, Spelling Bee, Mathematics, Science, and Digital Technologies). We encourage our Primary and Secondary students in Year 2-12 who want to be challenged to participate.

If you would like to register your child for any of the competitions, please find here the link to a registration form which includes information regarding fees:

CLICK HERE

*Interested students need to be registered by Friday 28 June 2024.

If you have any questions about the ICAS, the registration process, or fees please contact Deanna Klaver, the Learning Enhancement Coordinator - deanna.klaver@scc.tas.edu.au