Notices

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

This will be such a blessing for all to get this group underway – thanks Rebecca!

Many blessings

Catriona Wansbrough

Principal

Annual General Meeting – Thursday 27th April 2017

An important part of the College’s governance procedures is the Annual General Meeting. All members of the College Community are invited and encouraged to attend. The AGM will be held on Thursday 27th April 2017 and 7:30pm in the Innovation Centre Meeting Room. The AGM notice is attached.

At the meeting nominations are received for Board membership. There is currently one vacancy to be filled by nomination from the College Community. Any nominations need to be received by the College two weeks prior to the meeting. Nominations need to be received by 4:00pm on Thursday 13th April, 2017. Please refer to the Board Procedure for Appointments which outlines the nomination procedure and other information regarding board membership.  

If any member of the College Community would like further information about serving on the College Board, please speak with a current member of the Board, Mrs Wansbrough or myself.

Darren Waterworth

Company Secretary/Business Manager

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. The cup will come back to you, so that you can start filling it up again. 

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

Learning and Teaching

Our College has made the list of Schools that have shown the greatest improvement in NAPLAN results. This is a great testament to the staff and students who have worked hard to bring about these results.

The new initiatives of the College that could be attributed to these results are the implementation of a Head of Learning and Teaching, initiating Heads of Faculty and building a more meaningful curriculum that is closely aligned to the Australian Curriculum. Whilst this is a great achievement, the long term benefits of these results will play a positive impact on the future enrolments of the College.

We will continue to grow in this area and build on the great things that have been implemented. Our future directions include strengthening our biblical understanding to bring a more explicit biblical worldview into the classroom.

Some members of the IT Committee have been investigating a range of programs that will help take the College forward in the area of technology and organisation. We currently are struggling with inadequate computer programs for Student Reporting and Curriculum organisation and timetabling. A new timetabling program has been purchased which will help with the whole school timetable and student subject selection.  

Merrick Brewer

Head of Learning and Teaching

Art - Easter Service

These paintings were created by students during the Easter service.

Tom Gibbs

Middle and Senior Art Teacher

Theme for 2017

Continuing on from the last newsletter, here is the second batch of entries from the poster competition for our 2017 theme, “Be Strong and Courageous”. 

Catriona Wansbrough

Principal

Open Day 2017

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

Community House Points

Barton 924

Deakin 1135

Parkes 1025