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Shaun Beovich

Newsletter Editor

Senior School Expo

Tuesday 15th August, 2017 for all the community

Come, see and hear about subjects on offer and other exciting opportunities for your child to learn, lead and serve in the St Andrews Christian College Senior School. This invitation is extended to ALL PARENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY, not just Senior School parents, as we would love for everyone in our community to have a sound understanding and to be prepared for their child’s secondary schooling.

John Presant

Head of Senior School

Save The Date!

21st September 2017

Invite your Pastor / Minister / Youth Pastor to St Andrews Christian College to introduce them to the wonderful ministry of Christian Education in this College.

Details coming!

Catriona Wansbrough

Principal

2018 Enrolments

We have commenced our planning for 2018 and are confirming places for new students to start in Term 1, 2018. Unless we have been advised, we are assuming that all current students will be returning to the College in 2018.

If a student is not returning to the College, in line with the enrolment policy, one term’s notice in writing is required. If the notice is not received on time, one term’s tuition fees in lieu of notice will be charged. This requirement is clearly noted in the enrolment Agreement and Declaration which all parents/guardians signed when their child(ren) was enrolled.

To assist with our planning, we ask you to advise the College by Monday 9th October 2017 if a student is not returning to the College in 2018. The notice should be addressed to the College Registrar and can be sent via email to registrar@standrews.vic.edu.au  It will be helpful to receive this notice as soon as possible as it will allow us to offer any vacant places to students on our waiting lists.

NEW SIBLING ENROLMENTS

If there are siblings of current students wanting to enrol at the College, it is important that parents submit an enrolment application at the commencement of the year prior to their planned entry. This allows the College to provide a priority place for siblings of current students.

Please do not hesitate to speak with the Registrar, Mrs Suzy Song (8847 8309) if you have any concerns regarding this information or if you need clarification in any way.

Darren Waterworth

Business Manager

You call that a 3D printer? This is a 3D printer.

In the last two weeks of Semester One, St Andrews Christian College hosted a huge 3D printer in a trial of the educational potential of this innovative machine. A common limitation for 3D printing in schools is the time and effort involved in managing multiple print jobs. 3D prints can take several hours, and cannot be queued like paper prints. This is a logistical challenge when printing a full class of objects on the typical small printers currently available to schools.

The large format printer was designed and constructed in Melbourne by local company 333D. It boasted an 80 cm by 40 cm build plate and was capable of printing objects for up to 30 students in one run.

Alongside my role as St Andrews’ IT Coordinator, I spent time in Semester One developing a series of Learning Activity Plans for 333D. These are tied to specific Australian Curriculum learning areas from Digital Technologies to Mathematics, to History and Geography.

For the trial, Year 6 homeroom teacher Ben Sheahan ran one of the activities with his class. Students were tasked with 3D modelling a Nautilus shell. This creature grows at a constant rate, so the chambers of its shell display a beautiful Mathematical pattern – a geometric sequence.

Students learned to use the online tool Beetle Blocks, which features a Blockly-like visual coding environment. To model the pattern of the Nautilus shell they wrote an iterative algorithm, one of the computational thinking skills in the new Australian Digital Technologies curriculum. By adding their names to the model, each student designed a small object that they could take home once printed.

While the 6S project was going, Yvonne Hughes ran activities with students from the Junior School. These students designed small tokens to signify data from a class survey, as well as famous world landmarks. Yvonne was impressed with the high level of engagement shown by the students, saying, “For a Junior School student, in particular, to hold something that they have created from a learning experience is really important across the board. But to be able to do it digitally was amazing for them.”

I recently presented the outcomes of this trial at DigiCon17, the annual conference run by Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria.

Nathan Alison

IT Coordinator

Special announcement from Mrs Mehanni

A special congratulations to Mrs Lauren Mehanni and her husband Sherif as they welcomed the newest member into their family last month.

Sherif and Lauren are thankful to God for the gift of their beautiful daughter, Lyla Juliette Mehanni. She is a gorgeous, Egyptian princess and is simply adorable. Lyla arrived at 11:48am on 1-7-17 weighing 3.58kg. She loves her food just like her dad as well as sleep just like her mum. Please pray for the Mehanni family as they raise their little girl to know and love the Lord.

New School Crossing

Dear College Community,

It is such a blessing to see that the new school crossing is going well!

There were smiling faces a plenty as Term 3 began and our children and their families enjoyed the safety provided by the new Tyner Road crossing. Cr Darren Pearce (Mayor) came along for the afternoon joining in the excitement as he, Mrs Wansbrough, Mr Waterworth and more of our lovely staff greeted and handed out lollipops to enthusiastic children/families using the crossing.

Please be reminded that we all need to set an example to our students to ensure everyone crosses the road at the CROSSING. All students and families crossing Tyner Rd, must use the crossing provided or cross at the lights at Burwood Highway or High Street Road.

Tony, our LOLLIPOP man directs us all when we cross before or after school. When he blows the whistle twice, that is the signal that it is safe to cross.

Thanks for your co-operation and enthusiasm. 

Don’t forget to introduce yourselves and say “Hi” to Tony when you cross the road at the crossing!

Darren Waterworth

Business Manager

College Bus

The College has purchased a new 12 seater bus, a Renault Master Bus.

It has recently been ‘decorated’ in the College colours and logo, and looks great! The bus will be used to transport small groups to sport events and other excursions.

Darren Waterworth

Business Manager

Working Bee Tomorrow!

We would like to invite you to our 3rd Working Bee for 2017, to be held on Saturday August 12th 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 of 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

Knox Young Leaders

Recently I attended the Knox Young Leaders Presentation Night, the culmination of the week-long program which Caylee, Chloe, Audrey, Yunny, Daniel and Ahdi were part of. I was there as a parent, but I was so proud of all our students, who participated confidently and enthusiastically. 

The students had to prepare a two minute presentation as part of their final day activities. Adhi was one of two participants, chosen by the group, to repeat their presentations on the night, and he did a fantastic job!

Judith Hendricks

Year 2 Teacher

On Sale Now!

With this wintery weather upon us it’s a good time to be prepared for those cold and rainy days. So we’re here to help! There are a limited number of beautiful new St Andrews golf umbrellas available to purchase for $40. See Ms Hoenen at the College office to purchase one now.

St Andrews Alumni

In our focus on growing community, our desire is to set up an ALUMNI group at St Andrews.

Dr Rebecca Lim is volunteering at the College to help set up this group and will be concentrating on putting together a list of past staff and students.

If you know of any past students/staff can you please let her know via our special ALUMNI email alumni@standrews.vic.edu.au

Catriona Wansbrough

Principal

Mission Cup - Coins for Change

We are collecting ‘change’ to help support our mission programs (Vanuatu/Cambodia/Pakistan) at St Andrews Christian College. 

Keep the cup in an obvious place in your home or car, drop your loose coins into it and if the cup is full send it to school to be added to the collection. Tubes will be available in Rembrandts to empty your coins into. The next week to do this is from Monday 4th September to Friday 8th September.

We hope you enjoy collecting funds this way, and we are looking forward to seeing how these small coins will grow into a mountain of help over the coming years.

Sally Wade

Vanuatu Mission Coordinator

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