From the Acting Head of Campus
Movember
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV): This verse reminds young individuals that their age should not be a barrier to leadership and service. It encourages them to lead by example through their words, actions, love, faith, and purity, demonstrating qualities of good leadership and service to others.
I was reminded of this verse this week when I received a written request from a student who wanted to participate in Movember. As you may know Movember is an annual event that raises awareness of Men’s health issues in the month of November. After much deliberation around topics of inclusion, supporting student voice and grooming expectation this request was approved. We have worked closely with the students to identify three ways we can support this cause.
- Grow a Mo. Students must offically apply to the HoC for approval and to receive a moustache pass. Student may receive a Moustache pass with the following conditions.
- Year 11 students only
- Have an active Movember account
- Grow only a moustache, all other CCG uniform and grooming expectations must be followed.
- Moustache must be removed prior to Presentation Day. (November 27, 2023)
- Purchase a Mo. All students are welcome to purchase a moustache badge or stick on Moustache to wear during the school day.
- Move for Movember. Run or walk 60km to remember the 60 lives lost globally every hour to mental health. Students are encourage to walk or run during house group or lunchtime in an effort to achive 60km in November.
Thank you for everyone’s support of this cause.
Important dates
November
7 Orientation Day (Year 10 2024 only – NO current Year 10 or 11 classes on this day)
14 – 16 ATD Festival
19 Year 12 Graduation Ceremony
20 Year 11 Service and Year 11 official classes conclude
21 – 28 Unit 2 Examinations
24 Year 10 Service and Year 10 official classes conclude
27 – 28 Year 10 examinations
28 Presentation Afternoon
29 – Dec 1 Student free days
December
4 – 8 Transition Week (2024 Year 10, 11 and 12 students)
8 Students dismissed 2:30.
Drew Oliver, Acting Head of Senior School
Orientation Day
Families and current students in Years 10 and 11 at Senior School are reminded that they are not required to attend school on Tuesday November 7. This is due to it being Orientation Day for our 2024 Year 10 cohort.
Years 10 and 11 Examinations – Making Them Count
Whilst the Year 12 exams conducted by VCAA are well underway, it is just three to four weeks until our Year 10 and Year 11 CCG exams will take place. Students have been provided with timetables and detailed information regarding expectations on them over this time. In a nutshell:
- Year 11 exam week runs Tuesday November 21 – Tuesday November 28
- Year 10 English and Mathematics exams will take place on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 November. Other subjects may conduct exams in class time.
Expectations of our students during this exam experience are carefully considered to model what they would experience in a VCE exam. We expect students to take the examinations seriously and behave accordingly.
One of the most common questions teachers are asked at this time of year from Year 10 and 11 students are “Do these exams count?” Our answer to that is of course they do – not because of whether or not they count to a student passing or failing a subject and not because of whether the exam result counts for an overall grade or are reported on SEQTA, but because our education system at this time requires most students to complete end-of-year exams in Year 12, that will make a contribution to their overall results. We don’t want Year 12 to be the first time that students think that exams count. The more learning the students can do about study habits and exam preparation in Year 10, the more they will have to build on in Year 11, and then even more to build on in Year 12.
There is no doubt exams can be daunting and they can be a blunt tool in assessing learning in a subject, however, they are a tool we currently do have to work with and the very good news is that students can learn and improve their skills in preparing for and sitting examinations, just as they can in learning to play a musical instrument or sport.
The purpose of the Year 10 and 11 CCG examinations is for students to become more familiar and comfortable with the examination process and to learn from the experience. We warmly encourage all students to have a real go and give themselves the best chance to learn the most they can about preparing for and completing exams.
Elissa Huddart, Deputy Head of Campus
Our 2023 ATD Festival – Better than Ever!
We are excited once again to present our Annual Art, Technology and Design Festival. This year’s event runs from Tuesday, November 14 to Thursday, November 16 at Villa Paloma, our Senior School ATD centre, 25 Waurn Ponds Drive, Waurn Ponds.
The Festival includes a magnificent exhibition of selected students' work from Art, Technology and Design classes – ranging from Kindergarten through to Year 12.
The exhibition is open to all between 9am and 6pm on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15.
On Thursday 16, the exhibition runs from 9am to 9pm, with the ‘Festival Finale’ getting underway from 4pm. Highlights include art, food, music, workshops and interactive events featuring some of our CCG ‘Creators in the Spotlight’ who take us through a range of creative, design, technical and artistic considerations behind some of their amazing creations. Guest speaker for this year’s Festival during the Finale is ex-CCG student, Bec Riddle, who has been a driven professional in the fashion industry for the past nine years, including operating her own business Saint Blaire. She is currently Studio Manager running the textiles and graphics department for Cotton On Womens and Foundation.
For all details, including the program for the Festival Finale and a sneak peek at some of the art that will be part of the exhibition, please visit our website by clicking here, or on the homepage hotlink.
Sally Gray, Director of Art Technology & Design
Media Celebrates Four Students…
With Term 4 well underway it is time to celebrate some outstanding work by four Media students at Senior School. These four students have all completed the five stages of design in their folios and produced a Media product that reveals a narrative that engages their audience. Both their folios and final products will be on display at the upcoming ATD Festival at the Villa Paloma in November.
Year 10 Lachlan Challenger
Lachlan completed a Folio that represented his creative work in Digital Drawing. Some of his work consists of over 30,000 plus lines. Not only does Lachlan have a talent for drawing, his articulation of the narrative within his designs reflects a sophisticated tone that is beyond his level. His entire folio is littered with creative expression and examples of his drawing talent.
Year 11 Indie Allchin
Indie completed a Folio that reflected her understanding of mental health. Indie researched artists and narratives that propelled a visual representation of what it’s like to live with a mental illness. She then produced her storyboards where she was able to recreate her vision through a photography sequence. Indie has a talent that presents a dark theme in a beautiful way for her audience.
Year 11 Amelia Campbell-Reid
Amelia has only recently joined Media in Unit Two. Since this time, she has worked hard inside and outside the classroom to develop her skills in engaging audience. Amelia has more than one piece on display at the ATD Festival as she continues to produce an exceptional understanding of the impacts social media has on her audience and how the print code and conventions work together to sell magazines.
11 Alice Joyce
This isn’t the first time I have reflected on the talents of Alice Joyce. Below you will see her ability to tell a narrative through street art photography. Alice has a talent to see things that tell a story for her audience. Alice too, has multiple pieces on display at the ATD Festival. Both her folios and final products reflect her talent. She is passionate about photography, and this shows in her work.
A: Lachlan’s Folio / B: Amelia’s Magazine Covers / C: Indie’s Photography Sequence / D: Alice’s Street Photography.
Natalie Knite
Connecting with Community
Unit 2 Personal Development Skills students Harvey and Devan are seeking your help with donations non-perishable food items, canned goods, and other essentials for Feed Me Geelong which currently provides food relief support to 600 local families every week. Naomi, Deacon and Bailey are collecting quality children’s clothing and sporting goods like footballs, soccer balls etc to send to the Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory that our school is connected with.
Donations for Feed Me Geelong can be handed into the student office or will be collected in house groups on November 7. The Year 11 students will then collate and take the donations to Newtown when they volunteer again on November 8.
Donations of children’s clothing and sporting goods can be handed into the student office up until November 14.
Anyone with children at a different campus who want to donate can email Cathy Brew c.brew@ccg.vic.edu.au or Kerryn Fearnsides k.fearnsides@ccg.vic.edu.au and let us know. Then, if needed, an arrangement can be made for collection.
Thank you in anticipation of your support.
Kerryn Fearnsides
Unit 2 Physics
Unit 2 Physics students were busy this week designing and conducting practical investigations as part of their latest Physics inquiry. This body of work gives them an opportunity to investigate and explore in further depth the concepts they have been learning about over the course of this year. Students have chosen a range of different concepts including the motion of a pendulum, flight of shuttlecocks, projectile motion using a catapult, and the motion of carts down various inclines. Armed with their raw data sets they will next organise and interpret this data to validate the concepts and relationships they have identified. I was particularly impressed with the way students were able to work together to problem-solve and adapt their experimental design throughout the course of the week.
Michael Lewis
Product Design at the Villa
As the Art Technology and Design Festival 2023 bears down on us like a freight train, students in Year 10 are busy working on their final projects, extending skills they have honed during Term 3. These projects range from laser-etched footy memorials to lazy-susans, epoxy river tables and assorted individual projects.
Year 11 students are working hard to get their group-product-line prototypes ready to display. The chosen product line is a variety of lamps with a theme of graffiti street art and the chosen material is moulded concrete. Students have experimented with moulding their hands using seaweed based moulding gel then casting replicas in concrete. They have also learnt about reinforcement, concrete mixes and formwork construction.
The Year 12s have completed their products and are well into exam season as this goes to print. We wish them luck with the rest of their exams.
All of us from the ADTEC faculty look forward to seeing you at our annual Art and Technology Festival in Week 7!
Duff Swanson
Parent Survey Reminder: Generative AI, Education, Society and Future
A reminder that all Christian College parents are invited to participate in a survey on generative artificial intelligence (AI), education, society and future to inform the College’s forward planning.
The parent survey is for all parents, regardless of their level of exposure to or confidence with generative AI. The survey closes this coming Monday, November 6 at 5.00pm.
Thank you to parents who have already completed the survey. Your participation is appreciated.
Parents who have not yet responded are encouraged to do so via the survey link above. The average response time for parents who have responded so far has been less than four minutes. We ask that you please contribute your perspective.
Brendan Vanderkley, Director of Digital Learning
MSO – Discounted Subscription for CCG Families
Music lovers take note, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra offers a discount subscription for staff, students and direct family of the Christian College Geelong community for a series of concerts held in Geelong.
The 2024 MSO Geelong program returns with a wide-ranging repertoire of the finest classical music, taking in revered masterpieces:
AMERICAN STORIES: BERNSTEIN, GERSHWIN AND MORE
Friday 12 April 2024 / 7.30pm
MOZART AND TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 24 May 2024 / 7.30pm
JAIME CONDUCTS RACHMANINOV AND DVORAK
Friday 28 June 2024 / 7.30pm
DVORAK AND BRUCKNER
Friday 6 September 2024 / 7.30pm
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Saturday 7 December 2024 / 7.30pm
*See the flyer for further details
Series subscription prices include all 5 concerts:
A reserve –$335.75
B reserve - $267.75
C reserve - $165.75
Please email Music Administration if you wish to take advantage of this offer - music.admin@ccg.vic.edu.au no later than Wednesday 8thNovember
Please indicate the number of seats required and which reserve is preferred, including your phone number. You will then be contacted at the end of next week for payment by credit card. School subscription seats are filled with the remaining seats after regular subscription (full payment) holders have renewed their seats.
Fiona Gardner, Director of Teaching and Learning – Music
CCG Big Band Musos Performing for 20 Thousand Crowd on the Waterfront!
Some CCG Stage Band Members are joining students from other Geelong Schools at the invitation of the City of Greater Geelong to perform at the lighting of the city's floating Christmas Tree on Saturday Night November 11. The students are rehearsing a very lively ‘Motown’ set with peers from school bands across Geelong to perform for a huge crowd with over 20 thousand expected to attend. Congratulations to Will Harrison Y10, Katie Gardner Y10, Felix Kelly Y11, Declan Pritchard Y8 and Thomas Moffatt Y8 for their great work and we are looking forward to their performances at this huge celebration!
Fiona Gardner, Director of Teaching and Learning – Music
Jam for Refugees
Christian College Music Students and staff performed in support of the Jam for Refugees last Saturday at St Paul’s Church in Latrobe Terrace, Geelong.
The Highton Year 5 string quartet, under the direction of Mrs Carnie, presented a very mature performance; Katelyn Yi - Violin, Emmi Sekine – Violin, Anna Wood – Viola and Isabel Shiu – Cello, impressed the audience playing their two pieces beautifully! Congratulations also to the VCE Wind Quartet composed of Alexis Jane Y11– Clarinet, Ella Ryan Y11 – Bassoon, Lucas Gelicrisio Y11- Bassoon and Mrs Mantelli on flute, who performed their entire VCE Music Repertoire Performance program, as a warmup prior to their final exam on the next day. Katie Gardner – Y10 and Mr Gardner performed a clarinet duet and three senior vocalists, Angel Lawrence Y12, Chloe Bailie Y11 and Nieve Smart Y12 performed solos accompanied by Mrs Thomae.
These performances contributed an hour of beautiful music to the daylong event. Congratulations and thanks to the CCG Musicians who demonstrated wonderful musicianship and poise in support of this fundraiser for refugees. The donations at the door, throughout the day, raised $5,334.60 for the work of the Combined Refugee Action Group Legal Fund.
Fiona Gardner, Director of Teaching and Learning – Music
Get Some Unique Christmas Cards and Support Williams House
This year Williams House is selling packets of Christmas cards designed by our own little artists!
We are selling our Angel/Shepherd cards for $5 for a pkt of 6 and our Nativity cards are $7 for a pkt of 10. Each packet contains either 6 or 10 different designs.
If you would like to support the kinder and share our creations with the community this Christmas, the cards are available at all CCG campus receptions and of course at Williams House. Payment can be made with cash or card.
We also take over-the-phone orders with direct deposit. Phone 5241 3556
All money raised will go towards making some new additions to our outdoor yards!
We hope you love these gorgeous creations and enjoy sharing them with your family and the community this Christmas!
With thanks from all the children and the team at WH!
Stephanie Butler, Director Williams House Kindergarten
Qustodio Parent App Resources
Supervise and Support Your Children on School and Personal Digital Devices
A reminder to parents that the Qustodio Parent App is available to all parents to help them supervise and support their children with their online and digital interactions at home, on both school laptops and on personal devices.
In addition to information available on the College’s Online Safety Hub, parents also have access to some helpful ‘bite-size learning’ video tutorials to help them navigate and user the Qustodio Parent App as part of our school program. There are lots of short videos to help parents get the most out of the app and use it confidently.
Some recent additions to these tutorial videos for parents include:
I hope that these resources empower parents to continue to supervise and support their young people at home and engage in supportive and positive dialogue about digital wellbeing.
Brendan Vanderkley, Director of Digital Learning
VET Information
Students who have applied for a VET course for 2024 should now know if they have been offered a position or have been put on to a waitlist. Students who have been waitlisted will be put into one of their reserved CCG subjects until a position becomes available.
Students and parents should regularly check emails as the training organisations will be in touch directly with course specific information this term. The Gordon will be inviting new first year students and parents to an information session and tour at the City Campus on November 22 from 5.30 – 6.45pm and at East Campus on November 27 from 5.30 – 6.45pm.
The training organisations prefer that all VET correspondence comes through the school. If you have any questions or require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me, k.fearnsides@ccg.vic.edu.au or Cathy Brew c.brew@ccg.vic.edu.au in the student office.
Kerryn Fearnsides, Vocational Pathways Coordinator
Foundation Golf Day 2023
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, we are delighted to announce the Christian College Foundation Golf Day tournament for 2023.
Save the date: Thursday November 9.
We are seeking prizes for this event – if you own a local business and are interested in creating partnership opportunities with Christian College, please contact Fiona Provan on 0400 477 467, or email f.provan@ccg.vic.edu.au
Uniform Shop Clearance Sale!
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