SCC General Notices

FRONT COVER AND ABOVE: QUEST Year 9 Students First Aid and Fibre Craft Skill Sets

On Friday, July 5th, students will participate in a variety of exciting events, including Nerf gun wars (please bring your own Nerf guns and bullets, some provided), STEM challenges, board games, and outdoor games in the bush. We'll also enjoy a BBQ, a cozy fire, damper, and marshmallows – a perfect way to warm up in the winter!

Students will rotate through the activities throughout the day with their year groups and will enjoy a BBQ lunch together. Students are required to wear their PE uniform unless they bring a gold coin donation, in which case they may wear warm, appropriate free dress. Funds raised will go to support Motor Neuron Disease.

This is an exciting opportunity for students to interact with teachers and peers in a totally different context and to enjoy school in a new way.

Year 6, 7, and 8 will be involved in all activities throughout the entire day.

Year 9 will participate in prearranged Quest activities and will join us for lunch followed by activities.

Year 10 will have time in the morning to work on their Passion Project before joining in the festivities.

Year 11 and 12 will follow their regular class schedule but will join us for the BBQ and treats during lunchtime.

Helping the Homeless fundraiser Wed June 26

The Primary RISE students have planned and organised a bake sale, where they will be cooking all the baked goods for sale themselves to raise money for the Homeless in Hobart.

All profits will be going to the Hobart City Mission to support the homeless in our community.

Canteen News

The final Canteen for the term will be held on the last day of term, Friday, July 5th.

The Qkr! app is now open for ordering for this canteen. Orders close Wednesday July 3rd at 6pm.

The available menu is:

Chicken burgers with lettuce and a choice of mayonnaise or tomato sauce
chicken nuggets (for smaller hands)
cheese stringers
mini choc chip muffins
orange or apple/blackcurrant juice box.

Head Lice Alert

Head lice has been reported in the secondary year groups. Please check your child's hair today. Thank you!

Winter Book Club (Repeat)

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-edg 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

Fundraising with the Entertainment Book

If you purchase an online Entertainment Book through the College, 20% of the sale of each book is donated back to us.

In the past these funds have been allocated to support various interests including DOULOS or Canberra trips, with funds raised this year similarly used.

The Entertainment Book could help you to save up to 50% on dining, shopping and things to do. Information on savings and how to purchase can be found on this link