newsletter - Murraylands Christian College

newsletter
Term 1 Week 8 - 20 March 2015
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IMPORTANT DATES
Week 8 - MARCH
Thurs 19 “BULLYING NO WAY!”
(Recess and lunch time activities on the oval)
Fri 20
PRIMARY SPORTS DAY
(School Oval)
Week 9 - MARCH
Tues 24
Primary Assembly*
(Year 2 Class)
*Tea & Coffee provided for
parents afterwards
Wed 25
Year 8 Design & Tech
Showcase
(9.00am - 9.45am)
Westpac Rescue Helicopter Visit
(Primary Classes)
Thurs 26
SACSA Secondary Athletics Carnival
(SANTOS Stadium)
Nursing Home Visit
(Year 4 Class)
28 East Terrace, Strathalbyn, SA 5255 Phone: (08) 8536 3355
exciting
times ahead
The School is very excited to share
with you the following news regarding
capital projects that have been planned
for this year. The first project will be
the air-conditioning of our Gymnasium
and will include the cladding of the
side walls with acoustic material that
will not only enhance the sound quality
in the Gym but improve the overall
aesthetic look.
A second exciting capital project is
the relocation of our Early Learning
Centre (ELC) to our Chapel Street site.
This fantastic new facility is currently
in planning phase with floor plans
submitted for building approval. The
new ELC will consist of a refurbishment
of the multipurpose hall into a learning
space with a construction project
adding toilet facilities and a kitchenette
to the facility.
The street frontage of our School on
East Terrace will be landscaped to
enhance the appearance of our site.
Tender documents have been sent to
contractors and work should commence
soon. Information regarding other
projects will be communicated to our
Community when the planning phase
continued on page 2
is completed.
5 in a row for
mighty angas!
Week 10 - MAR/APR
Tues 31
Buddy Classes
Cabaret Evening
(Year 7 - 12, 7.00pm)
Wed 1
Parent Prayer Meeting
(9.00am - Auditiorium)
SACE Art Show Excursion
(Year 10 - 12)
Thurs 2
EASTER SERVICES
Fri 3 GOOD FRIDAY
- Primary - 12.15pm
- Secondary - 1.45pm
(School Auditorium)
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Full story on page 8
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PARENT NEWS AND NOTICES
exciting times ahead
We are very grateful for this opportunity
to engage in these capital projects
to provide upgraded facilities for our
students.
I have included a brief summary of the
history of the Tyndale Group of Schools
for your information.
Tyndale Christian School is named
after William Tyndale, one of the early
translators of the Bible into English.
Just as William Tyndale was determined
that everyone should have access to
the Bible in their own language, our
School is determined to provide a high
quality, holistic Christian education at
affordable rates so it is accessible to
everyone.
Our Salisbury East School was
established over 30 years ago by
Christian parents wanting their children
educated in an environment that would
support their family values and faith.
These foundational sentiments are still
our focus today, as we are intentional
about providing an excellent, inclusive,
Christian education that equips our
(from page 1)
students to serve God and His world.
We are an independent, co-educational,
inter-denominational Christian school
that commenced in 1983 with 137
students from Reception to Year 7
and 10 staff. Whilst the land had been
purchased at London Drive, Salisbury
East (now our Middle School entrance)
and four transportable classrooms
ordered, the students attended
Salisbury Baptist Church in an old
house on the property for the first year.
The Founding Principal, Mr Roy Magor,
served the School from 1982 to 1999.
By 1987, the School had grown to
become an R to 12 School, and by
1999 was servicing 790 students.
The Head of Schools, Mr Mike Potter,
joined the School in 2000 as Principal,
and enrolments had grown to 850 by
2003.
In 2003 the School entered into an
agreement to purchase the building
facilities of the former University of
South Australia Salisbury Campus that
abutted the School’s western boundary,
and moved its Senior School, Years
10 to 12, into the facilities at the start
of 2004. The School expanded its
enrolment as a result of this acquisition,
growing to a total of 1450 by 2015.
In 2015 Tyndale Christian School
acquired the ownership of Murraylands
Christian College and now the group
consists of three independent schools
under the Governance of the Tyndale
Christian Schools Group of Schools.
Tyndale Christian Salisbury East,
Tyndale Christian School Murray
Bridge and Tyndale Christian School
Strathalbyn are providing a future
through education for many children
and young people. We are proud to be
Tyndalians and we thank God for this
wonderful opportunity
to be part of a caring
environment.
Johan Griesel
Principal
Canteen
news
CONGRATULATIONS
to Caitie Green (Year 2)
who is the first student in
our School to complete
the Premier’s Reading
Challenge for 2015.
She is pictured above with
her book prize she
received for her good
effort!
Well Done Caitie!
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I would like to thank the beautiful
volunteers that assist in the
canteen. You are a huge help THANK YOU!!
Volunteers are still needed to fill
some days. Without volunteers
the canteen could not function
and our children would miss out.
So if you think that you can spare
some time to help
the
please
ring
myself or Anne on
8536 3355.
Mandy Batt
Canteen Manager
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PARENT NOTICES
prayer
corner
Praise God for
• Successful heart surgery of Mr Nick
Simons (Year 7 and 8 Teacher)
• A great Secondary Sports Day on
Friday 13 March
• The wonderful gift of health
Please pray for
• A speedy recovery for Mr Nick
Simons
• Mr Greg Miller who is Mr Simons’
replacement for the remainder of the
term
• All members of our School
Community suffering from ill health
• Primary Sport Carnival on 20 March
• SACSA Secondary Athletics on 26
March
• Board of Governors meeting on 30
March
• Secondary Cabaret on 31 March
• Year 10 to 12 students going on
an Outdoor Education Bike excursion
and Art Exhibition on 1 April
• Final preparations of the planned
Capital projects to commence soon
As Christians we believe that prayer is
a crucial and highly beneficial part of
life. We benefit as we take time out
of our busy schedules to intentionally
be still in the presence of God. Also
those that we pray for are benefitted
by the power of God being released
into their lives and the situations that
we bring before God.
It is exciting to be part of this group,
seeing prayers answered all the time!
Some within the day, others taking
longer. Part of the thrill is seeing
how God’s timing, as He answers our
prayers, is always perfect! Reminding
us over and over to put our trust in
His plans rather than our own.
Although we consider the prayer
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FROM THE OFFICE MANAGER
What an incredible privilege it was to
be part of the Chapel Street Play Date
& BBQ last Friday Night. Thank you to
all the families that came and enjoyed
an afternoon of activities with their
children and to the staff that had the
afternoon & evening running so well.
The fun times for Term 1 continue
with Primary Sports day this Friday
and Family Fun Day on the last day of
term. Your program for Sports Day and
a flyer regarding the Family Fun Day are
enclosed. Share it with your family &
friends and see the Office staff for more
copies if you need.
Family Fun Day
Our annual Family Fun Day is fast
approaching, as is the end of the term!
Classes from Reception to Year 11 are
busy planning their ideas for their stalls.
This is a fun day full of food, drinks
and games, all running at a small cost
to participate, with all proceeds going
to support Mission that the School &
students will be involved in for 2015.
Your children’s class teachers may send
notes home regarding areas that they
may need your help with. We’d love to
have your involvement on this day.
We will also be offering any of our
parents the opportunity to run a stall
that could promote their own small
business. Already booked in is one
parent with her Body Shop at Home
products. If you are a family with your
own small business and would like a
stall booked for this day, please send
me an email to:
admin@murraylands.sa.edu.au
Early Learning Centre
With our ELC at capacity for this
Semester, it is a timely reminder to all
of our existing parents that if you have
younger children nearing the age of 3
or 4 years and are not yet enrolled here
at the School, please see me urgently
for an enrolment form so we can secure
them a place for mid
year and beyond.
Lynette Whittaker
Office Manager &
Enrolments Officer
parent prayer group
group a very important thing
we are also relaxed and would
welcome any and all newcomers or
visitors regardless of your previous
experience with prayer.
This group is for anyone who wants
to pray for the school or learn more
about the power of prayer by seeing
it in action. If you just want to
listen to others pray while praying
along silently that’s fine, or a simple
one sentence prayer is also fine. Of
course if you want to jump right in
and pray more, then that’s great too.
You are welcome to bring your young
children with you. We have plenty of
toys to keep them occupied while we
pray and we are used to praying over
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their noise or with our eyes open to
supervise them.
Who
Mums, Dads, Grandparents, Carers,
Friends, Anyone.
Where
The auditorium of the Main
Administration Office on East Terrace
When
Every Wednesday of the term at
9.00am
For more information or to pass on
prayer requests please phone Kristy
Smith on 0438 442 172 or email on
ljccb2009@hotmail.com
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STUDENT NEWS
buddies in action
We had so much fun in buddy classes
where each Primary class pairs up
with a Secondary class to do some
different activities! Here’s a snapshot
of what we got up to last week!
The Reception and Year 8 class
enjoyed a craft activity together. They
made beautiful butterflies using pegs!
The Reception/1 class and Year 7
students spent some time doing
different activities together in the
classroom. The Reception/1’s enjoyed
showing the Year 7 children around
their classroom and doing activities
together!
The Year 1 and 10 classes shared
some books together. Mr Croser read
two of his books to the children, one
about Max and the clouds and one
called Good Dog. It was great to have
the Year 10’s and year 1’s reading to
one another!
The Year 2 and 8 Gold classes are
playing get to know you games
and having fun learning a range of
games to play with each other. The
competition will get fierce as the year
goes on!
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ELC NEWS
The Year 3 and 9 classes played some
sport games together. Some favourite
games are poison ball, chasey and
tails.
The Year 4 and 9 classes did painting
in the Art Room. Half of the students
did lovely, bright and colourful
acrylic paintings. The other class
experimented with black, red and blue
ink. The Year 4’s have been learning
about perimeter so we went out
outside and drew shapes that were
1m square in perimeter. The Year 9’s
were very helpful! Then we played a
game of Octopus and Rabbits, Hares
and Foxes on the oval.
The Year 6 and 11 classes played a
game of Seeya which is a favourite
with the students! They are enjoying
getting to know each other and
bonding together!
In the ELC, we have been learning
about a famous artist called Vincent
van Gogh.
Some of van Gogh’s
famous paintings were
of sunflowers and we
have painted our own
sunflower pictures.
Chris Rollins
ELC Teacher
Jess Schulz
Buddy Coordinator
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STUDENT NEWS
year 5’s explore the universe
Last week on Wednesday 11 March
we went to the University of South
Australia to The Planetarium. We
sat in a domelike room while our
lecturer, Martin talked about the
planets.
Geographic video about which
planet has the worst storms. My
opinion is that Neptune has the
worst storms because it rains
Diamond-like minerals as big as
boulders onto the surface.
After Martin finished introducing
the planets he turned the lights
off and we saw the stars. Where
we live in the country we see
more stars than the people living
in the city. This is because of light
pollution.
Martin has taught us lots of amazing
facts about the
universe, like that
Neptune is under
-218 degrees.
Later on we watched a National
Year 5 Student
Science is fun!
Alana Adams
primary students
Junior primary
family fun night explore science in
We had a wonderful time
after school last Friday. A big
“Thank you” to all those who
helped make this occasion
so successful. In particular
we would like to thank Kylie
Williams and Darryl McKellar
for cooking our BBQ, Val
and Keelyn Cosgrave for
face-painting, Kylie Herbut
for helping with craft and
Liz Thiele for supervising
the bouncy castle.
The
children had a brilliant time,
and it was lovely to see so
many families
there.
a fun way
Therese
Okkerse
JP Coordinator
On Friday of week 7, the Yr 3 - 6 students joined in celebrating
the opening of the latest section of the Convention Centre.
Science was the theme as students learned the finer
points of native Australian animals and the effects of liquid
nitrogen; as a point of interest, there were a number of curly
questions asked and the students from Tyndale excelled,
out answering students from the likes of Scotch College
- well done to the Tyndalian family! There
were various exhibits from 3-D printing to
stick insects and wind related experiments.
A fantastic time was had by all.
Cameron Lock
Year 3 Teacher
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WHOLE SCHOOL NEWS
year 9 rite
journey
program
commences
On Wednesday night 4 March we had
the Rite Journey Opening Ceremony.
It was a lovely occasion. Dan
introduced himself to the parents
and talked about his role in the
School.
The students gave their parents a
letter to thank them for the role they
have had in their life so far.
The girls went on a rather slow
journey to a very serene place (the
roundabout) to listen to some poetry
while the boys walked to the duck
pond and crossed the children’s
bridge to signify the beginning of
the journey into adulthood. Upon
return the girls were overwhelmed
and surprised by the memories that
their parents had dug up for them
(including a few raided bedrooms).
There were some gorgeous photos
of our students when they were
very young and a few tears and
sentimental moments were shared.
All in all it was a great night for
everyone to get to know each other
better and to support their children
as they flourish throughout the Rite
Journey program this year.
TYNDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
PRESENTS
YEAR 7 - 12
CABARET
NIGHT
TUESDAY 31 MARCH
7.00PM - 8.30PM
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
TICKETS ARE FREE*
*LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICE
courageous teachers
lose their hair for a cure
Last Friday during the Sports Day lunch break the Awesome Foursome (Mr Hand, Mr
Drury, Mr McGowan and Mr Dan) were left in the hands of 4 students (Tamara, Brianna,
Tayla & Rachel) as they had their hair shaved off to help raise much needed funds for the
Leukaemia Foundation.
The Student Leader Team also ran a BBQ
on the day to assist with the cause.
So far the students have raised over $600
from both the BBQ and donations. Their
target is $1,000, so if you would love to
help champion the cause, donations can
be made at the Main Administration and
Student Services Offices.
We would like to
thank you all for your
attendance.
Thank you for your support
Ellie Sih
The Fundraisins
Year 9 Teacher
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SPECIAL EVENTS
5 in a row for
mighty angas!
With the Swimming Carnival
behind us, it was time for the
landlubbers to strut their stuff
on the Sports Day stage.
And with the smell of freshly
cut grass in the nostrils, the
outstanding
performances
came thick and fast.
The Munyard sisters were a
force to be reckoned with as
they racked up the points for
Murray. Joe Goodman also
put on a spectacular show,
collecting a heap of points for
Finniss. Nevertheless, it was an
Angas juggernaut in the end
with dominant performances
from
Tahmika
Richardson,
Olivia Jansen, Matthew Harris
and Rhett Perry. They led their
house to a crushing victory. The
final scores were:
1st 849 - Angas
2nd
684 - Murray
3rd
681 - Finniss
4th
527 - Bremer
Despite the hard competing,
student attitudes and team
work were excellent on the day.
And a huge thank you to all the
student helpers and teachers
who made the
event
run
as
smooth as butter.
Ryan Mc Gowan
Secondary PE
Teacher
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