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 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 Last Day of Term – dismissal at 2.30pm
Surf Coast Campus Canteen Kicks Off in Term 4!
I am very excited to announce that our Surf Coast Campus will begin a delivery canteen service for our students every Wednesday lunchtime starting next week September 14th. It has taken a while for us to find the right organisation to assist us with bringing a canteen to our campus. We believe the one we have chosen offers healthy nutritious food, food that fits different dietary requirements, food that is cost effective and a process that will be easy for families to navigate.
For the past decade Flexischools have been facilitating many schools with a canteen delivery service within and around the Torquay area. We have heard some great reviews from other schools who are using the same service. Therefore, we thought it would be great for our campus to have an opportunity such as this one for our students.
How does this process work?
Families are invited to download the Flexischools App on their phone and set up an account. Once the account is set and all your children are added to the Flexischools App a purchase can be made.
When Flexischools have all our orders they will prepare the food and transport it to our campus, and we will deliver it to your child’s/children’s classroom. Money does not need to be brought to school because all food purchases are made through the App.
Food orders must be placed by 9.00am the previous day (Tuesdays) for Wednesday delivery.
Attached to this email are some documents that will assist you with setting up Flexischools for your family.
If you would like to use this service and are unsure about what to do, please contact our Surf Coast reception on 52448799.
We look forward to launching this new initiative for our students on September 14th.
Debbie Riddle, Campus Coordinator
Prep Prayer Books
Our Surf Coast Preps have been working so hard this term on adding detail into their prayers.
The Preps were introduced to the conjunction word ‘because’ and have been encouraged to use this in their writing to expand upon their thoughts and feelings.
As a result of this, we are so proud of the beautiful prayers our Preps have written. They have come straight from their hearts.
Our prayers this week have focused on thanking the Lord for all that we have and all that we are grateful for.
The Preppies loved reading these out loud to their classmates.
Writing and sharing one another’s prayers is such a special highlight of our week!
Debbie Riddle
Caitlin Maher
Deep Creek Habitat
Throughout this term, Year 1s have had a focus on ‘How do we help living things thrive?’.
We have created our very own Deep Creek replica habitat. The students have all chosen an animal to focus on and created an amazing habitat. We used fishing line connected to the roof to recreate trees using pictures of our own native plants. We recreated the habitat under the ground by removing cupboard doors and painting the inside. We also used clay and papier mache to recreate plants around the bottom of the trees. All photos and decorations used were photos and materials from our very own backyard.
Tracy McDonald
Nick Hogan
Year 2s Exploring 2D and 3D Shapes
The Year 2 students have been learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects this term. They have been familiarising themselves with the language of sides, corners, faces, vertices, and edges so that they can describe the shapes and objects they see and make. The students have been getting creative and have been making their own prisms with toothpicks and Blu Tack. They explored the relationship between the number of faces, vertices and edges, and the Blu Tack vertices and toothpick edges assisted in identifying the features of these 3D objects. The Year 2 students also used nets to create paper pyramids and they enjoyed the challenge of cutting and folding their nets precisely to construct triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal and octagonal-based pyramids.
They are continuing to work through a collaborative ‘Shape Seeking’ quest, exploring the features of 3D objects and charting their results on grid maps as they go – the Year 2 students have worked together wonderfully to help each other determine the answers to the questions and they have been excited to see their town maps develop before their eyes!
Leanne Crole
Sharon Sutton
Week 9 Done and Dusted!
Last week we had Footy Colours Day which was a hoot! The kids looked amazing in their respective club colours. I also wanted to extend a big thank you to all the Year 3 Dads who made it to the father’s night last Thursday. It was great to see you all spending time with the kids and be able to catch up with many of you. They all had a fantastic time and were very tired the following day!
Yesterday was RUOK? Day. The kids wore yellow and explored the meaning behind the day by delving into the question- “What are the keys to a good friendship?” They also had a sausage sizzle lunch with thanks to Pratty and the Pastoral team.
One week to go for Term 3 and I know I don’t have to tell you this, but it is going to be busy!
Everyone has been working tremendously hard on their science expo submissions and I must say, they are looking incredible! We hope that as many parents as possible can make it to celebrate all of the hard work.
On Friday we will be venturing to Senior School with the Year 4s to take part in the Wearable Art competition. It is such a privilege to be invited.
Thank you again for the wonderful support this term, the Christian College community is truly amazing, and I hope that everyone can get some well-deserved rest over the holidays and get ready for a GIANT term 4! Who thought it could get any bigger?!!
Adam Stewart
Preparing to Shop in Japan!
The topic of Year 3 Japanese unit this term is ‘fruit’. Building on their prior knowledge of numbers and adjectives for colours, students learnt new vocabulary for fruit. Then they applied it to the shopping phrases such as;
あかいりんごはいくらですか。Akai ringo wa ikura desuka. (how much is a red apple?)
五十円です。Go juu yen desu. (It is 50 yen)
きいろいバナナをください。Kiiroi banana o kudasai. (Can I have a yellow banana?)
はい、どうぞ。Hai, dozo. (Here you are.)
After practising these phrases with the teacher, students engaged in a shopping role play which provided a real-world scenario to help them learn useful skills. We talked about going to Japan one day and buy many things that we can only buy in Japan. Students certainly had a great start to preparation for shopping in Japan!
Yukiko Valent
RUOK? Day 22
On Thursday, we joined other schools and groups around Australia in participating in RUOK? Day!
This is an important day on our school calendar, and it was great to be able to take time in our classrooms to learn and talk about friendships and asking if our friends are okay if we notice they’re a bit down or not themselves.
I’ve observed these kind of interactions so beautifully almost every day around the playgrounds and classrooms and it’s so heartwarming! It’s also something I see reflected amongst our staff too and I know that filters into our day to day.
We celebrated today by having a morning tea for the staff that consisted of vanilla slice/custard squares or whatever you are inclined to call them and other yellow yummy treats! And at lunch time we had a big sausage sizzle, with many kids enjoying up to four snags! The Year 4 Project Care representatives were a massive help in cooking and preparing and serving lunch to our students, so a big thank you to Lachlan, Georgia G and Darcee!
The children also participated in activities in their classrooms that involved tracing their hand on yellow paper and writing on each finger a trusted person they could go and talk to if they ever feel sad. It’s such a great opportunity to reinforce and create awareness around looking out for each other and being willing to have a chat.
Thank you to all the parents that got their kids looking amazing in their yellow gear too!
I just want to share a last thought with you. Have you ever had a moment where someone pops into your mind or that thought “oh I should get/do ____ for ____” and then forgotten about it only to remember or hear later that there was something to that thought or gut feeling? I’ve experienced this a few times, and I’ve also experienced what happens when I have, and boy, I’m so glad I listened to that thought! Sometimes it comes in a thought, a gut feeling, intuition or as the amazing Liz would say “I could feel it in my waters.” I believe that those things are actually what the Bible refers to as God’s still small voice or promptings. God cares for and is so invested in people’s lives but he wants to use every day normal people like you and I to love, care for and reach out to those in our lives that may need some love and encouragement.
Can I encourage you, next time that thought or feeling comes, stop what you’re doing, pick up the phone, make the call or send that text, whatever you have the sense you need to do in that moment, and follow it through! That small action of “hey I’m thinking of you today, do you want to get a coffee tomorrow?” could make all the difference in someone’s day or life.
Thanks so much for your time, and if you’re ever not feeling okay, don’t hesitate to swing by for a chat!
Blessings
Pratty
Nathan Pratt
Uniform Shop Hours Over the Holidays
The Uniform Shop in Centreway Arcade, Belmont will be closed from Monday 19th September and reopening 26th September 2022.
Opening hours in the second week of holidays are from 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday 26/09/2022 through to Friday 30/09/2022
The Uniform Shop resumes normal trading hours from Monday 3rd October 2022.
Canteen not Open on Last day of Term
Please note that on the last day of Term 4, Friday December 9, the canteen will not be open.
Thank you to all volunteers for your fantastic help during the course of this term, and throughout 2022.
Recycling Uniform Items
As part of the transition to our new College wardrobe it was important that we consider the environmental impact of clothing items no longer required. Whilst it is still possible for students to wear items from the traditional uniform, when items are no longer able to be worn, they can be recycled.
Any such items can be dropped off and placed in recycling bins at each campus. We are working with our wardrobe manufacturer to ensure that these can be recycled as part of the introduction of our new wardrobe over the next 18 months.
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.
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: The Foundation Golf Tournament
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