Teaching & Learning
Term 3 Bread Tag Competition Results
The Sustainability Club has counted up the bread tags and wish to declare winners for Term 3.
So, drum roll please…
In fourth place, with a very healthy 910 bread tags, is Grevillea – almost 10 times as many as last term!
In third place, with 953 bread tags, is Banksia – more than quadrupling last term’s efforts!
In second place, with a very impressive 1,479 bread tags is Waratah – almost tripling their winning amount from last term!
In first place, with a gigantic 1,725 bread tags, is ACACIA – not only a winning amount, but the largest increase of any House, going from last place to first place in the space of a term!
A big shout-out to Angelina Manolis of B6 who made a large contribution late in the game to bring her House up from 4th into 3rd place! Every tag counts!
A hearty congratulations to everyone for supporting this initiative which goes to a good cause (making wheelchairs), while helping the environment (reusing/recycling) AND getting points for your House #winwinwinning!
All students, staff and the wider SOC community are reminded to KEEP COLLECTING BREAD TAGS, as the competition will continue in Term 4 (and beyond!)
Jactina Marlborough
Sustainability Club Coordinator
Australia History Competition Results
Earlier in the year, students from 7-9 participated in the Australian History Competition. In the test students demonstrate their historical inquiry skills.
Year 7
Jason Raymer – Merit
Year 8
Sam Benson – Credit
Antonios Rentzis- Credit
Year 9
Sean Maisey – Distinction
Sara Robertson
Curriculum and Digital Pedagogy Teacher
Virtual Spring Concert
This year our spectacular annual Spring Concert was another wonderful highlight of the Performing Arts Department. Not to be deterred by the Covid lockdown, our students and staff put on a brilliant show via a YouTube livestream. The online medium allowed us to show off in brand-new ways, including digital multi-screens, sixteen-track audio and even puppetry! The digital concert involved the entire Music Department, including contributions from more than 120 students from Years 7 to 12, and featured performances from our Ensembles, Classes and a number of brilliant solos, duets and small groups.
The YouTube Livestream was pre-recorded to allow for the different combinations of performers to combine into virtual ensembles. The added inclusion of the YouTube comments allowed for a continual stream of wonderful and encouraging interaction from the live audience of more than 300, (and many more since!). We even received a huge compliment from an ABBA tribute band who tuned in to watch the String Ensemble perform Mamma Mia!
A huge thanks to Ms Sifris for organising the event, and to Mr Bennett for editing the footage together!
We know all the students and staff involved enjoyed themselves, and although we all prefer live concerts, this was a great way to perform online in style!
Rachel Sifris
Director of Music
Commemorating "Oxi Day" October 28, 1940
Oxi Day (sometimes spelt Ohi or OXI) is a national public holiday and commemorated on the 28th of October every year in Greece, Cyprus and by Greeks around the world. On this day 81 years ago, the Prime Minister of Greece, Ioannis Metaxas denied Benito Mussolini’s request to allow Italian troops to cross the border into Greece. He responded to the Italian ultimatum in French, the diplomatic language at the time, “Alors, c’est la gueree!” or “Then it is War!”.
In the days following, the word of Metaxas’ denial had spread around the capital and the Greek population took to the streets shouting “Oxi!”. His decision made on 28th October 1940 is commemorated each year as a day that represents bravery, solidarity and heroism for millions of Greeks all around the world.
Although Greece had tried to remain neutral in the early days of WWII, it was at this time it became allied with Great Britain. The Greek Army turned out to be a formidable force, holding back the Axis forces from entering Greece for almost six months. Winston Churchill commented at the time of the Greco-Italian war and famously said;
“Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.”
Our students who study the Greek language but also its culture and history enjoyed the day being creative and saying poems in the Greek language.
Dimitra Maniatsis
LOTE Coordinator
