Surf Coast Term 4 Week 7

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 4 2023

Week 8

Tuesday 21 November          Tabloid Sports –  Prep to Year 2 with Year 3s assisting – information has been sent via email

Thursday 23 November        Prep Day Camp – Ballarat Wildlife Park

Thursday 23 November        Bike Ed Week 7 – Year 4 & 5 Students

Friday 24 November             Assembly – Multipurpose Room 2.45pm – All Welcome

Week 9

Thursday 30 November       Coastal Bike Ride – Years 4 & 5

Friday 1 December                BLP Clubs – All Students

Our Fantastic Festival! 

This year’s Art, Technology and Design Festival was a spectacular success! Once again, we were proud to highlight hundreds of pieces of work from Christian College students ranging from Kindergarten through to Year 12, with all five campuses and two kindergartens represented.   

The feedback from attendees, including parents and families, Christian College staff and students, and other visitors. Our students have so much creativity and love to express themselves in different ways through art, technology and design. Our dedicated ATD staff work brilliantly with them to harness and develop their skills all areas we offer.   

The Festival Finale this year was a great event with hundreds of people gathering to take in the exhibition, hear from our inspiring guest speaker Bec Riddle, and attend the ‘Creators in the Spotlight’ sessions. It was wonderful to listen to our students talk about various aspects of their creative journeys in completing a whole range of different projects.  

Many people worked so incredibly hard in many different ways to make the Festival such a memorable and successful event – from ATD staff, the College leadership to marketing, maintenance, special events personnel and many other professional support staff, and of course the hundreds of students who created the artworks on display, and those who worked behind the scenes – a big THANK YOU. Your efforts have brought profound joy and many happy memories to our Christian College community in 2023. 

Preppies Build Communities

In our Integrated Studies unit, the Surf Coast Preppies have been learning about the features of familiar places and the importance of our local communities.

The Preps were given a creative collaborative task of building and drawing a community. They were given large pieces of colourful chalk, and happily discussed that their community would include playgrounds, pools, beaches, houses, library, a school and gardens. In the sandpit, they used plastic toys and tools to create a miniature version of their community in the sand. They made buildings, bridges, tunnels, and lakes. They pretended to be the residents of their community and worked so well together. All the Preppies had lots of fun and thoroughly enjoyed explaining their creations to their friends.

Year 1 – Our Little Einsteins

Our little Einsteins have been donning their lab coats, concocting wild experiments that gets our brains ticking. Equally impressive, our budding artists have put the finishing touches on their comic book masterpieces, where imagination knows no bounds.

In the realm of letters, our Year 1’s are reaching new heights, soaring through pages with fluency and comprehension that would make storybook characters jealous. Now, brace yourselves for the magic of mathematics! These mathematical maestros are continuing their number knowledge, mastering place value through ingenious strategies.

Stay tuned for more enchantment from our Year 1 superstars—it’s a journey you won’t want to miss!

Year 3s are Busy Bees

The Year 3 students have had another busy couple of weeks. Last week they moved up to Year 4 for a day and met their new teachers and classmates. By all accounts, Orientation Day was a success and the students are looking forward to 2024 already!

In class we have been exploring Poetry and Narrative text types. The Year 3 students have enjoyed reading different poems and analysing various poetry devices. They have been experimenting with rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia and have created some short, simple poems in preparation for using their poetry skills to create a masterpiece at the end of the term. Writing a narrative has also been a highlight for many of the Year 3 students and they have been imagining characters, settings, problems, and solutions to create their own stories.

As the end of the year draws near, the Year 3 students have been hard at work learning their musical item for the Celebration Evening. They have been invited to give their input with choreography and some of the students will also be playing their instruments – we can’t wait to show it off to you in a few weeks!

Year 4 and 5 Bike Education

This term, our Year 4 and 5 students are enjoying and participating in our Bike Education Program. Students are undertaking weekly sessions, developing their riding skills and knowledge. Bike games and activities are undertaken within the school grounds. Their skills and knowledge are put into practice on our ‘off campus’ 5km trail rides to Bellbrae Reserve. These shorter trail rides on undulating off-road terrain, help prepare students for our end of year, full day Coastal Bike Ride. We are blessed to have such a beautiful environment to enjoy.

Gold Fever!!

As part of Humanities and English, the Year 5 students have continued learning about the Victorian Goldrushes and the Eureka Stockade.

This week they have been challenged to earn a miner’s license, dig for gold and research the value of their gold, in today’s market as well as comparing to the 1850s. There were lots of moments where we all wished the nuggets we found were real!! Everyone has worked hard at thinking about how we would spend the little money we had if we lived on the Goldfields and had to save enough to buy a miner’s license every month!

In a true crossover of subjects, the Year 5 students have also been working on their own ‘artefacts’ in Art, these are objects that would be found on the Goldfields. These are items that would have been important and necessary to the miners.

These last 2 weeks have been a fantastic hands-on approach to our learning, showing that learning doesn’t only happen with computers, or even in the classroom. We are so blessed to be able to learn in the environment we have here at the Surfcoast Campus.

Student of the Week in Japanese

In Term 4, Year 5 is learning the school subject in Japanese. Lachlan Walters is an excellent achiever of listening, speaking, and reading of Japanese but also, he has an extraordinary ICT skills and leadership skills. He helped everyone in class to work on the online assignment with care and kindness. Arigatougozaimasu Lachlan, we are very lucky to have you in class.

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Cross Campus Drum Night – Are you Rolling?

Did you know the longest continuous drum roll on record was played for 16 hours, 41 minutes and 50 seconds? A great goal for our budding drummers, maybe?

The joy of drumming was evident at the RW Gibson Centre on Tuesday night as over 20 drummers from all 5 campuses came together to share an amazing night of percussive excellence! With students from Years 1 to 11 it was a joy for the audience to witness a variety of genres, beats and catchy tunes. Impressive coordination and precision were exhibited by students and the positivity in sharing cross campus and with great comradery was a highlight of the evening.

Please enjoy some photos from this great annual event on the College Calendar.

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!