Secondary News
Week 8
Christ gave us the example of coming to serve others, rather than serving ourselves. Right from the beginning of the Hebrew Testament, in Deuteronomy 6:13 we are reminded to “fear the Lord God and serve him”. Matthew 20: 27 - 28 states ‘And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many”’.
Buddy class time provides our older students with the opportunity to come alongside the younger year levels and develop relationships with them. It is a great chance for the older year levels to serve the younger. This becomes extremely important as the younger children grow and prepare to transition into higher year levels. It gives the younger children a sense of belonging and know that there are other students who are watching out for them.
Our Buddies had their first opportunity to meet during Kindness week (Week 7) while the Senior Secondary students were doing the Cross Country. I had the opportunity of being with the Year 7 class in the ELC.
It was beautiful to see the students take the buddies under their wings and look after them. They did activities including drawing, painting, playing with blocks, playing in the sandpit and lots of other activities. The Year 7 class is already asking when we will get to visit our Buddies again.
More photos of other Buddy classes getting together are on "News from around the School" page of the Newsletter.
Please don’t forget that next week we have Parent Teacher interviews. If the allocated days do not suit please contact us and we will arrange an alternative time or conduct a phone interview. Bookings can be made at www.schoolinterviews.com.au with code 664p8
Please also remember our Easter and ANZAC service which we will hold in Week 10 on Wednesday at 9:00am. It would be great to see parents attending this special occasion as well.
NAPLAN testing is scheduled again for students in Years 3, 5, 7 & 9 for Week 3 of Term 2. If you have any concerns regarding this testing process for your child/ren, please speak with your child's class teacher before the end of term or directly with myself or with Mrs Emma Jones at EmmaJones@tyndale.sa.edu.au
Mr Nick Simons
Pastoral Care Leader - Secondary
Budding Artists contribute to local Surf Festival
This coming April, Surfing SA are again partnering with the local community to run another 'Southern Surfing Festival'. The Festival will be held over the 26th - 28th of April 2019 at Middleton Point.
Our Secondary students were asked to take up the challenge this year by creating fabulous art works for the Festival which will be on display for all to see. A display of 8 surfboards beautifully decorated by our Year 9/10 Art students are coming together and looking spectacular.
This event is more than a surf competition—it’s a true celebration of surfing in South Australia and has a unique, inclusive culture embracing the larger community and we are glad to have been invited to be part of it.
International Women's Day
Emma Van de Meulengraaf and April Sierat attended the Strathalbyn International Women’s Day Dinner hosted by the Strathalbyn Neighbourhood Centre Inc. Our students were sponsored to attend by the Strathalbyn Lion’s Club and jumped at the opportunity to be involved in such an important community event.
Narelle Kluge
Secondary Curriculum Leader
Science with the Model Railway Club
Earlier this month, several students from the lunchtime Model Railway Club participated in a small science experiment. We pulled apart 2 very similar old model trains- 1 from the 1950s and 1 from the 1980s.
In the electric motors there is a small permanent magnet. Over time, these magnets can lose their magnetism, due to the quality of the material they are made of. The older one’s motor didn’t work very well at all, but the newer one worked quite well prior to the experiment. We replaced the magnets in both these locomotives with modern ones which were sourced on eBay and measured the performance before and after to see if any improvement was made.
We did several tests on both trains with no load, and also pulling 2 carriages full of weights, and recorded the current drawn both by the motors while set at a constant 10 volts.
Quite a significant difference was made to the older loco, as the new magnet made it work much more efficiently, however, when we replaced the magnet in the newer loco, it detrimentally affected its performance, which we were not expecting.
The conclusion was: it is a good idea to replace the magnets in very old trains that have lost their magnetism, but it is not a good idea to replace the magnet if the original one is still good.
Through all of this, the students in the model railway club were able to learn about electric motors, magnetism, and electronics, while doing a very practical experiment.
James Leigh