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Edinburgh College Character... through Nurture, Learning and Service

T3—Week 1 July 17 2019

For the last five years Prep teacher, Miss Brown, has used the winter holidays to lead a team of young people on a service trip to Camperdown. STORMCo, Service to Others Really Matters Company, chooses a regional town to run a holiday Kids Club and to engage in various community service activities. This year’s Kids Club attracted between up to 55 primary aged kids each day. This year Miss Brown led a team of 20 which included staff member, Miss Trish Shorney. Miss Shorney led out in the Storm Youth, a Secondary student leader-ship program, mentoring and nurturing them as they helped with the Kids Club program.

The community projects included a Woolworths supported “Pay it Forward” project where the team handed out free hot chocolates and chocolate treats to the community. Giving the local Anglican church hall a thorough clean, singing, giving gifts and sharing time with the residents of a low and high care facility was also very much appreciated.

Edinburgh Staff Serve Others Three staff members spent their well earned holiday break to serve others. Miss Edna Sao, Secondary teacher, joined a group of 20 young people from around Australia who travelled to the Philippine island of Iloilo. The group project, Share Him, is all about encouraging and equipping young people to share their faith and God’s love with others. Miss Sao was assigned one of 20 church communities and each night for nine days she shared the message of God’s love with those who attended. Miss Sao said each member of the team was welcomed with kindness and friendliness. They enjoyed a variety of wonderful food and the lovely warmth of the tropics. Between the 20 church communities, 124 people committed their lives to God through baptism and many more requested to have Bible studies with their local church.

Character... through Nurture, Learning and Service

Term 3 Underway In the middle of a very cold winter, we warmly welcome all families and students to a new term. We trust you have enjoyed a relaxing break with family and friends and look forward to what lies ahead for us as a college community this term.

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Staff Student Game

Report from Mr Brooks

The teachers beat the students - just! This was a close and exciting game, with some excellent basketball from both students and staff. Some students would like to play the staff again when our star practice teacher Mr Shaw is no longer at the College - staff are certainly glad for the timing of his visit. Teachers were in front by a couple of points, with some cunning outside shooting and by dominating the rebounding. But Martin Jones then hit a big three to make it a super close game in the last few seconds. The crowd was very much in the game at this point. Teachers fumbled, but Mr Shaw scored, and phew, it was over, teachers out of jail. This definitely deserves a rematch at some time.

Lunchtime Competition Grand Final Term 2 Grand Final—Team Cooper upset the top ranked team to earn a place against the favourite, Team Balaz. The bad news was the captain’s Achilles heel; Cooper was off basketball for a couple of weeks. The teamwork took some time to adjust, the 3 pointers weren’t dropping and tall Team Balaz just kept rolling along. They ended up winning by half a dozen points with Keenan French taking home the Finals MVP for his tidy and tough work around the basket. League Commissioner, Tom Gladwin, presided at the awards ceremony. He has run an excellent competition and shown tremendous organisational skills.

Staff Professional Development Do you ever wish you could repeat a day or a year again so that you could do things differently? On Monday the staff met for a combined PD focused on Brain Science. Mrs Karen Ferry, a child psychologist specialising in trauma, presented how a child’s brain develops and the effects on their brain under certain parenting or teaching styles. After 4 hours, I was willing to go back in time to do ‘life’ again. Unfortunately this is not possible but what I can do is to always remember that every word spoken has some sort of effect on each person’s listening. Our words need to reflect God’s love in all circumstances. - Mrs Pascoe

Year 12 Tour Yakult Mr Kane and the Year 12 Business Studies students visited the Yakult Factory Corporate campus in Dandenong South last term. Yakult manufactures probiotic drinks and distributes throughout Australia and New Zealand from a single site in Dandenong. Students visited the plant to consolidate learning about operations management within a thriving global business. Students heard from tour guide, Ms Tan, who spoke about concepts discussed in class and gave a tour of the plant to show how Yakult successfully applies operations management processes.

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Student Baptism Congratulations to Year 12 student, Jessica Phillips, who committed her life to Jesus in front of friends and family at Warburton Seventh-day Adventist Church last Saturday.

Spending Time with the Elderly Year 5 joined their buddies from the ELC Purple Room to visit an aged care centre in Lilydale. Together they sang songs and presented their elderly friends with gifts. The Year 5 and ELC buddies went on to spend an afternoon sharing hot chips and playing together at Lillydale Lake Park.

Colonial Australia Experiencing what life as a ship hand in Australia’s past was like is something Year 4 students will remember for a long time.

Student highlights included turning the big ships wheel, being in the grand captain’s cabin, learning about the life of a convict sailing out to Australia and looking at photos and reading diaries in the museum.

Service Projects Year 11 are organising two service projects to help oth-ers in need. The first project is for women who have had to leave their homes due to violence and abuse and have been housed in a women’s refuge. Toiletries and winter clothing are always needed to pass on to women who often arrive at the refuge without anything. The second project is for summer clothing for 140 orphans in Nepal. If you have clothing suitable for children between 5 and 15 years of age, they would really appreciate it. Please pass all your donations on to Mrs Sawicki, the Primary office or any Year 11 student.

There is no exercise better for the heart

than reaching down and lifting

people up.

- John Holmes

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Held at Edinburgh Primary

each Wednesday, 3:30pm.

Bookings can be made through

Reminder Any RED NOSE collection bags you have filled should be returned to the Early Learning Centre or Primary office tomorrow. Note: If you have run out of bags, garbage bags are accepted.

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PRIMARY CALENDAR

JULY

23 TRISKILLS Commences—Sport Uniform

23 Year 1 & 2 Incursion

24-26 School Nurse Visit

26 Year 3/4 Hooptime

29 Year 6 Kids 4 Cause Market Day

31 ASV Basketball Competition

AUGUST

1 Year 3 Melbourne Zoo Excursion

8 Combined Schools Day of Worship

12-16 BOOK WEEK

Primary Basketball News The Primary Junior teams have been training hard for the Hooptime competition to be held on July 26. On July 31st, two teams from the Primary will represent Edinburgh College in the Adventist Schools Victoria basketball competition. Many thanks to Mrs Hassan, Mrs Shorney and the Secondary students who have been coaching the students in preparation for the competitions.

Chaplain/Student Wellbeing Team Pastor Ryan Vidot—College Chaplain

ryan.vidot@ec.vic.edu.au

M: 0433 173 187

Jamie Stanley (Secondary Student Wellbeing)

jamie.stanley@ec.vic.edu.au

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 8:00am to 4:30pm

Liz Borgas (Primary Student Wellbeing)

NOTE: Liz will be away until mid term.

liz.borgas@ec.vic.edu.au

Monday 9:00am—3:30pm

Tuesday 11:30am—3:30pm

Wednesday 8:30am—4:30pm

SECONDARY CALENDAR

JULY

18 Year 12 Chemistry Excursion

24 The Challenge—Youth Homelessness

24 Year 11 Biology Excursion

25 VCE Futsal

26-28 Year 10 Melbourne Careers Expo

30 Australian National Chemistry Quiz

30 Year 10 Futsal

31 Survivor Sports

AUGUST

1 Australian Maths Competition

7 Year 9 The Challenge Aged Care Visit

9 Combined Schools Day of Worship

12 Year 9 Futsal (SEISS)

19-23 Year 10 Snow Camp

Uniform Shop Opening Hours Monday 8:15—9:15am and 3:00—4:00pm Tuesday 8:30—9:00am

Parent Information Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD). Each year, data on the number of students that are sup-ported under NCCD at Edinburgh College is submitted as part of census reporting. The date Edinburgh College will be reporting is August 9 this year. Please follow the link below if you would like more information. https://docs.education.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/2019-05-13_information_notice.pdf

Looking for a Magician The Primary staff would like to hear from a parent,

grandparent or friend who can perform a few magic

tricks during BOOK WEEK—August 12, 13 and 14. They

would be required to perform just one trick at 9:30am

and again at 10:15am. Please contact a teacher or Mrs

Pascoe if you can help.