What’s Happening at Surf Coast?
Is an up to date list of planned activities at Surf Coast Campus that you can use for planning purposes. Please be aware that these dates are set early in the term and occasionally items may need to be cancelled or dates/times altered. This itinerary is altered each week to reflect any changes – please check this list of events EVERY WEEK carefully when you read the weekly VINE newsletter.
TERM 3 2022
Week 4
Mon 01/08, Tues 02/08 Year 1 Camp
Tuesday 2nd Aug Bush Prep
Wednesday 03rd Aug Gymnastics – 4 week program – Year 1, 3 and 4
Thursday 4th Aug NATICD – (National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders)
Friday 5th Aug BLP Clubs
Fri 5th Aug Year 2 swimming
Week 5
Monday 8th Aug Father Day Stall – Gift Wrapping (9am-Multipurpose room)
Tuesday 9th Aug Hoop time – Year 3 and 4
Wednesday 10th Aug Prep 100 days at school
Thursday 11th Aug Japanese Day
Friday 12th Aug Assembly
Friday 12th Aug Year2 swimming
Week 6
Tuesday 16th Aug National Science Week
Tuesday 16th Aug RSPCA week
Tuesday 16th Aug Bush Prep
Thursday 18th Aug Werribee Zoo – Whole School
Friday 19th Aug BLP Clubs
Friday 19th Aug Year 2 swimming
Week 7
Tuesday 23rd Aug Beach Prep
Tuesday 23rd Aug Clean the beach visit (Front beach) – Year 1
Friday 26th Aug Book week parade – All Years
Friday 26th Aug Year 2 swimming
Friday 26th Aug East Timor Trivia Night – 6.30pm Geelong
Week 8
Tuesday 30th Aug William Buckley – Year 2 excursion
Tuesday 30th Aug Bush Prep
Tuesday 30th Aug “See Week” – Year 1
Thursday 01st Sept Footy Colors Day
Thursday 01st Sept Father’s Night
Friday 02nd Sept Father’s Day Stall
Friday 02nd Sept BLS Clubs
Friday 02nd Sept Year 2 swimming
Week 9
Wednesday 06th Sept Indigenous Literacy Day – All Year Levels
Thursday 8th Sept RUOK Day
Friday 09th Sept Assembly
Friday 09th Sept Year 2 swimming
Week 10
Tuesday 13th Sept Science Expo – All Year Levels
Thursday 15th Sept Visit to Spring Creek for 2nd Observations – Year 1
Friday 16th Sept BLPS Clubs
Friday 16th Sept Year 2 swimming
Save the Date!
An Important Parent Evening for all Families
Save the date for this event to partner with us in support of our young people’s wellbeing.
The past few years have been challenging globally, and at Christian College we have not been exempt from facing difficulty. Pleasingly however, through the ever-present blessings of God, and the hard work of our wonderful team, we have delivered “The Learning That Matters” consistently and effectively throughout this time and continue to do so.
Over this time, in the broader community and in our own College community, we have seen a range of factors influencing young people’s wellbeing and learning, including their digital wellbeing. We know that there is a relationship between young people’s attitudes and habits towards technology and their wellbeing and learning, and that this relationship can be either helpful or harmful. We’re committed to supporting our students with their wellbeing. We view helping them develop positive attitudes and habits towards technology as an important facet of “the learning that matters”.
We wish to work and partner with you, as parents of our students, in this digital wellbeing space.
Many parents will have noted in previous Vine articles this year, references to our new Cyber Safe Schools Program in partnership with Linewize by Family Zone. We’re excited to invite all parents to join us in attending an evening to explore this new program and how we can partner together.
Parents are encouraged to save the date and attend one of the two evenings listed below, whichever is most convenient, to join a gathering of College leaders, parents and families. We will share specific details of our Cyber Safe Schools Program, including how it operates at school to support students’ wellbeing and learning, and how parents can partner with us in the home as part of this program.
Following our formal parent launch of the program on this evening, all parents will receive an invitation to activate a complimentary Insights parent account from Family Zone.
- Thursday, September 1st at 7.00pm (Week 8) – R. W. Gibson Music Centre, Senior School
- Thursday September 8th at 7.00pm (Week 9) – Auditorium, Bellarine Campus
These two evenings will be identical and are expected to be completed within 45 minutes, with a light supper afterward. All parents are encouraged to attend, and more information will follow in the coming weeks.
Brendan Vanderkley
Preps Discover the Seasons
During this week’s discovery and investigation session, the Preppies explored the four seasons. The multipurpose room was divided into four sections and was filled with clothing items, photographs and images. The Preps had so much fun sorting, describing, and explaining what the items were and which season they are suited to.
The Preps were able to identify how the weather affects our daily lives and our daily activities and how we should appropriately dress to accommodate to the weather conditions.
They loved creating a 4-seasons collage where they identified which months belonged to each season and in which season, they were born. The Preppies also focused on the impact that seasons have on trees and looked at what happens to an oak tree over the course of a year.
The Preps were also introduced to the Indigenous seasons of the Noongar people and their country, and discussed how these were similar to and different from ours.
Debbie Riddle, Campus Coordinator
Caitlin Maher
Fun Ways to Learn Hiragana – Japanese
The students in all grades from Prep to Year 4 have been learning hiragana, the basic phonetic script representing the sounds of Japanese. There are 46 basic hiragana characters. First, the students brainstorm what each character looks like, for example, the hiraganaあ(a) looks like an antenna on the roof. The little hints help them to memorise the characters as pictograms. Then the students practise writing them, paying attention to the stroke order to write them accurately. Finally, they are encouraged to read words and phrases without English letters and comprehend what they mean.
The students are mastering the script through various fun ways such as card games, online learning tools and even hiragana exercises. They are now ready to order ‘すし‘ from a menu in a Japanese restaurant!
Yukiko Valent
Year 1 – Chicken Fever
Chicken fever has taken over Year 1! It was sad to say goodbye to our chickens last week. So, in Year 1, we put our head together for a way to keep them next time. We are designing our very own chicken coops to build here at Surf Coast. All the students have been amazing in their designing phase. From their planning to 3D models of their coops, Year 1 have been super creative. We have made sure that our designs will allow chickens to thrive in their environment with comfort, water, food, and lots of room to roam around! We cannot wait to introduce chickens to our school next time our cute chicks stop by Surf Coast!
Tracy McDonald
Fairytales
Upon their return to school this term, the Year 2 students have enjoyed reading about, and considering, the characters, settings, problems, and resolutions presented in some traditional fairytales. They have discussed the moral of the story in The Ugly Duckling and then investigated the differences between swans and ducks in Integrated Studies, noting the changes which take place as the ducklings and cygnets hatch and grow through to adulthood. When reading the story of Peter Pan, the students considered Peter Pan’s desire to never grow up and in Integrated Studies they explored the changes humans go through from birth to old age.
Jack and the Beanstalk was a popular tale amongst the Year 2 students, and they examined Jack’s motivation for trading his precious cow for magic beans. The quick-growing beanstalk, the giant and his castle in the clouds, as well as a golden-egg-laying-hen, sparked their imaginations and they have been writing their own ‘fractured fairytale’ based on a well-known tale but tweaked with their own clever ideas. In Integrated Studies the Year 2 students have planted their own ‘magic beans’ and will record how quickly and how high a beanstalk can actually grow. They will record their findings and compare them with their original hypothesis.
It has been a joy to witness the excitement and enthusiasm with which the Year 2 students have approached their Reading, Writing and Integrated Studies tasks this term.
Sharon Sutton
CCG Basketball Extravaganza 2022
Yesterday students in Years 3 and 4 participated in our College’s annual ‘Basketball Extravaganza’ held at AWA Stadium in Belmont.
Our Surf Coast students enjoyed participating alongside their classmates and played teams from our Belmont and Bellarine Campuses.
Our ‘Future Star Cats’ team played successfully to win all three of their games. The ‘Future Star Giants’ team were very competitive and developed their skills and game sense. Our ‘Rookies Blue’ team celebrated one win out of their three games.
Coaches Deretic, Stewart and Pratt were very proud of their teams in the way they conducted themselves both on and off the court. We are thankful for all the work our College Sport Admin staff put into making the event so enjoyable, successful, and well organised. Thank you, Flora Murdoch, Matt Murnane and Olivia Cameron. Congratulations to our wonderful students, you were all amazing.
Joanne Richardson
Year 4s Head to Senior School
On Wednesday afternoon our Year 4 students were lucky enough to be invited to take part in the Senior School House Food competition. We were given the honour of being the invited guests to the House Food restaurants where our students, alongside Senior School staff members, were treated to restaurant level food. The students were then given the opportunity to vote for the food that they liked the most. Safe to say we were all rolling home with very full bellies. We were treated to delicious soup, amazing mains and then desserts that were out of this world.
Following this we were taken on a tour of the senior vegie garden. We got to taste test smoothies that used home-grown ingredients. We got lots of ideas for our own Surf Coast vegie garden. Finally, the Year 4 students got to cook with the Year 12 Food Studies students in the Senior School kitchen.
It was an absolutely amazing afternoon, and one that the Year 4 students will remember and cherish for a long time.
Claire Deretic
Crazy Hair and Casual Dress Day
Colour, fun and craziness certainly flooded into our Surf Coast Campus this week for our Crazy Hair and Casual Dress Day. Our children literally let their hair down to raise money for such a worthy cause. All money raised was donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The children had a wonderful time showing of their crazy hair creations.
Debbie Riddle, Campus Coordinator
BLP Clubs
As a new term begins so does a new round of BLP clubs. The excitement filled the air as the children joined the rest of their new club members and their new club leader. BLP clubs help foster many Building Learning Power dispositions. The clubs give the children the chance to develop skills such as collaboration, perseverance, resilience and managing distractions. As the term continues the children will continue to develop these skills while having fun in their Term 3 club.
Debbie Riddle, Campus Coordinator
A Call out to all Families……
We are looking for any old uniforms from sizes 8+ for the Surf Coast sickbay – we have had an overwhelming number of students falling in muddy puddles or getting very dirty due to this winter’s bad weather and we do not have enough uniform pieces in our wardrobe to sustain us!
If you can assist us that would be AMAZING!
Thank you.
Liz and Stacey @ Reception
Father Day Stall Gift Wrapping – Help Needed
This year our Surf Coast Campus Fathers’ Day stall, where students can purchase a special gift for their dad/grandpa/pop/or even uncle, will be held on Friday 2nd Sept.
This event is such an exciting time for students as they ponder over the gifts to purchase. However, as our campus grows, so too do the number of gifts that need to be wrapped.
On Monday August 8 at 9:00am, straight after drop off, we will be wrapping presents. Anyone who can offer an hour of their time please let Liz or Stacey at reception know via email at surfcoast@ccg.vic.edu.au
This normally doesn’t take very long – many hands make light work!
Thank you in anticipation!
Scholarship Applications for 2024 Entry now Open!
Each year we offer Academic Excellence Scholarships for entry at Year 5 (Middle School-Highton, Bellarine and Surf Coast campuses); Year 7 (Middle School-Highton and Bellarine); and Year 10 (Senior School-Waurn Ponds).
These scholarships have been designed primarily to encourage and support new and current students who wish to attend Christian College and who demonstrate high levels of academic excellence.
We are now seeking scholarship applications for entry at any of those year levels in 2024.
For more information, and to apply, please see our website. Use the hotlink from our homepage or click here
Applications close on Thursday September 29. The examination date is Saturday October 8.
East Timor Trivia Night
National Collection of Data on Students With Disabilities
Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). With data collected on the first Friday in August (this year, on the 5th), the NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD Guidelines (2021).
Please see the attached NCCD Fact Sheet for more information.
All In Reunion 2
We are pleased to confirm an additional All In Reunion for the Classes of 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 (and 2010) is set for Saturday, 8 October 2022. Join us at CENTRA from 5:30pm-8:00pm. Tickets are $15 each and RSVPs close on Friday, 23 September 2022 at 5:00pm.
Come along to hear all about our new alumni association and catch up with some old school friends. On this night we will be celebrating the following milestones: If you were in one of these peer years, register today! Book online at www.ccgfoundation.org.au/allin2
Golf Tournament
The Foundation Golf Tournament is set for Thursday, 27 October 2022. Join us at 13th Beach Golf Links from 8:00am for a shotgun start. Tickets are $190 each ($150 for members) or $750 for a group of four. RSVPs close on Thursday, 6 October 2022 at 5:00pm.
Funds raised from this event will be allocated to our Foundation Scholarship Fund, supporting current students who are in need of financial assistance.
Book online at www.ccgfoundation.org.au/youngprofessionals
A MYTERN Thought for This Week
During these challenging times it's easy to feel overwhelmed.
You are not alone. Many people are feeling this way.
Whatever road you are now on, just take a deep breath and know that everything is going to be ok. Even if you can't change your circumstances, you always have the option to change the way you feel 👍🙏😊👏
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