Notices
Working Bee
We would like to invite you to our first Working Bee for 2016, to be held on Saturday March 4th from 9:00am – 12:00noon.
Our Working Bee will be a great time for you to get involved and take pride in our fabulous College.
We are working on creating a clean and tidy school with gardens and plants that are indigenous to this area.
We invite you and your children to help with this important school community event. It will create greater ownership of the College and encourage students to care for the gardens and facilities we are creating.
Even if you can only come for an hour it will be a great help.
We plan to undertake the following tasks:
- General garden maintenance including weeding, clearing leaves, some planting and replenishing the garden beds with mulch.
- Watering plants due to the amount of heat we have had for the first term so far.
- Cleaning of the drinking troughs.
- Washing of windows.
- Oiling the decking.
- Assemble additional garden bed/s
- Cobwebs eviction.
- Raking the sandpit areas.
- Rubbish collection.
And for those skilled at painting
- Painting of some of the high visible areas (steps)
- Painting of hand rails where needed.
If you have any of the following tools you can bring, that would assist as we only have a limited supply:
- Hand shovel
- Gloves
- Spade/ Shovel/ fork
- Wheelbarrow
- Window squeegee
Attendance at the Working Bee is also a way to ‘work off’ your Parent Participation Hours.
If you find yourself available and able to come, please inform me by email at twaterman@standrews.vic.edu.au so that we can adequately prepare the tasks and morning tea.
Ted Waterman
Grounds and Maintenance Manager
Open Day 2017
St Andrews Christian College is holding an Open Day on Friday 10th March from 9am – 11am. Come see the school at work, talk to staff and experience the St Andrews community.
Theme for 2017
Thanks to all who entered the poster competition for our 2017 theme, “Be Strong and Courageous”. It was hard for the judges to pick one as there were so many excellent entries.
The posters are currently displayed in Rembrandts and we will endeavour to put many of them in our newsletter over the year.
We congratulate Hannah Bligh in Year 12 for the winning entry.
Catriona Wansbrough
Principal
It's A Girl!
CONGRATULATIONS TO
ZOE AND LUKE WATSON
on the safe arrival of
Arielle Elise Watson
Born Saturday 11th February, 2017
Thanks be to God for this precious gift of life to Zoe and Luke.
Congratulations Dan Idrees!
Congratulations to Dan Idrees our Sport/Duke of Ed teacher for being a finalist for Outstanding Program Delivery in The Duke of Edinburgh International Award.
He attended the 2016 Excellence and Innovation Award Ceremony at the Hyatt in December, 2016.
Well done Dan - we are proud of you!
Catriona Wansbrough
Principal
Dedication Service
At the Dedication Service on Monday 13th February, the school captains were presented to the school and the year was committed to the Lord. The theme for the year is Be Strong and Courageous from Joshua 1:9.
Prayer Group
Wednesdays at 8:45am
This year the St Andrews Parent Prayer Group will be meeting every Wednesday morning at 8:45am in the meeting room next to the school office.
The St Andrews Prayer Group would like to welcome and invite all parents to come along and join in prayer, with other parents, for the needs of the St Andrews school community.
It is a great opportunity to join in fellowship with other parents.
For specific prayer requests, there is a prayer request box at the front reception desk for you to put your request in if you are unable to join us.
We are greatly blessed at St Andrews to have the opportunity to gather together for prayer. As Christians we are called to pray, and we encourage parents to join us. Be reassured that you don’t have to pray out loud if you are not comfortable in doing so.
Suzy Song
Prayer Group Coordinator