MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Mrs Gina Kadis

Welcome back Students, Staff and Families Great to welcome everyone back to Term 3; it has been a smooth start. Thank you to Mr Karamoshos for Deputising for me whilst I was on annual leave, visiting my son who lives and works as an Engineer in Cambridge, England. Thank you to all our students for their fine work last term. Our focus in assembly was acknowledging ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE; acknowledging top students and those who have implemented strategies to improve. Please see the list of Semester 1 award recipients. Thank you to staff and families for encouraging your child to do their absolute best academically.

Welcome to our Sister School: Hangzhou Chongwen Experimental School On Sunday, 7 August we welcomed our international exchange students. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the following families who have opened up their homes to our visitors: Stephanie Kosmetos (2 girls, 1 boy), Julie Papafotiou (1 boy, 1 girl), Desa Dragicvic (1 boy), Tanya King (1 boy), Jana Livaditis (2 girls), Polyxeni Levendis (2 girls), Maria Miltiadous (2 boys), Alison Pearce (2 boys), Joanna Rodas (2 boys) and Karen Kelly (2 girls). Thank you to Mr James Tan from Cambridge Education & Investment Pty Ltd for organising this fabulous exchange and to Miss Stephanie Kosmetos for her outstanding organisation of this Study Tour.

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Homework Club (Year 5 to 12) Homework Club will operate in Term 3 from the Lighthouse Resource Centre, Senior Campus on Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 3:15pm to 4:15pm. Please contact our reception team on 8159 8100 to request a consent form if you would like your child to be involved. Thank you Daniella Marciano, Head of Co-Curricular

HOMEWORK CLUB

School Banking at St George College

Have you signed up yet?

Contact Senior Campus Reception for a School Banking enrolment form!

SCHOOL BANKING PARTNERSHIP

Welcome to students and staff from our

sister School in China:

HANGZHOU CHONGWEN

EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL

We hope you enjoy your time with us at

St George College.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

Monday 2:45pm to 3:45pm Tuesday 8:15 to 9:15am Thursday 2:45pm to 3:45pm Please contact Campus College Wear on 8346 0830 for any uniform enquiries

UNIFORM SHOP HOURS

Mr James Tan (far left), Stephanie Kosmetos (left), Peter Karamoshos (middle) and Gina Kadis (right) with the staff and students from

Chongwen Experimental School, and their Homestay Families

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Celebrating Academic Achievement On Friday, 29 July and Wednesday, 3 August we awarded the following students with a certificate at Senior Campus Assembly.

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We are listening

If you have any queries about anything we are doing in the College and have any ideas to continue to grow our College programs, I would like to hear from you.

Email me on gkadis@sgc.sa.edu.au or text me on 0447 177 939 and I will be in touch with you.

2017 and BEYOND

Year 4 – 8 families

Please join us

Tuesday 9 August

6.30 – 8.00pm

Lighthouse Resource Centre

Senior Campus

MIDDLE SCHOOLING

INFORMATION EVENING

2017 and BEYOND

ELC—Year 4 families

Please join us

Tuesday 16 August

6.30 – 8.00pm

Junior Campus Hall

JUNIOR SCHOOLING

INFORMATION EVENING

TRANSFORMATION

2017

Please join us

Tuesday 30 August

6.30 – 8.00pm

Lighthouse Resource Centre

Senior Campus

Early learning

centre

INFORMATION EVENING

Year 5—7 Presentations Year 5 | Most Improved Academic Award Alexander Angelo and Evie Tolis Year 5 | Academic Excellence Award Ritik Kundu and Daphne Mitropoulos Year 6 | Most Improved Academic Award Aryannah Apostolou and Harilaos Liakos

Year 6 | Academic Excellence Award Steven Gallos and Yebon Lim Year 7 | Most Improved Academic Award Jerri Balderanos and Angelos Haros Year 7 | Academic Excellence Award Nicholas Gekas, Despina Karahalios, Anastasia Tolis and Savva Toumazos

Year 8—12 Presentations Year 8 | Most Improved Academic Award Raphaela-Irini Giannopoulos, Humanities Nikolina Lalusic, Modern Greek Seung Min Lee, Physical Education Peita Liaptsis, Drama Thimio Logothetis, Extension Science Donaldo Markaj, Science Donaldo Markaj, English as an Additional Language Donaldo Markaj, Music Pia Mavropoulos, English Isabella Taarnby, Mathematics Sonja Vitor, Visual Arts Year 8 | Academic Excellence Award Nikolina Lalusic, Visual Arts Donaldo Markaj, Physical Education Pia Mavropoulos, Drama Yejin Sur, Humanities Yejin Sur, English as an Additional Language Yejin Sur, Extension Science Isabella Taarnby, Music George Toumazos, English George Toumazos, Humanities George Toumazos, Science George Toumazos, Modern Greek George Toumazos, Mathematics George Toumazos, Music Year 9 | Most Improved Academic Award Finan Algheda, Humanities Finan Algheda, Drama Efterpe Arharidis, Food Technology Subin Bae, Physical Education Ethiopia Bayew, English Semon Berakhi, Extension Science Despina Christopoulos, Music Dongwoo Kang, English as an Additional Language Rosa Mulalem Maru, Visual Arts Eleni Pallis, Mathematics Dimitrios Tolis, Modern Greek

Year 9 | Academic Excellence Award Ethiopia Bayew, Drama Semon Berakhi, Pysical Education Dongwoo Kang, Visual Arts Theodoros Karahalios, Music Efthimia Koutsouridis, Extension Science Efthimia Koutsouridis, English Efthimia Koutsouridis, Music Faisal Malikyar, Humanities Rosa Mulalem Maru, Food Technology Alexandra Scounos, Modern Greek Pattamanant Srisuntisuk, English as an Additional Language Pattamanant, Srisuntisuk, Mathematics Dimitrios Tolis, Science Year 10 | Most Improved Academic Award Rahel Abraha, English as an Additional Language Rahel Abraha, Music Stavros Bakopanos, Food Technology Demi Balderanos, Physical Education Wai Yan Cheng, Visual Arts George Christpoulos, Humanities George Christpoulos, Modern Greek Nikolas Kakoulis, English Nikolas Kakoulis, Mathematics Year 10 | Academic Excellence Award George Christpoulos, Music Ayanfejesu Doherty, English Nikolas Kakoulis, Physical Education Alexandros Katsigiannis, Modern Greek Alexandros Katsigiannis, Music Eleftheria Pirintzis, Food Technology Eleftheria Pirintzis, History Jiyoung So, English as an Additional Language Jiyoung So, Visual Arts Jiyoung So, Science Jiyoung So, Mathematics

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Year 8—12 Presentations continued Year 11 | Most Improved Academic Award Niyat Algheda, Research Project Niyat Algheda, English 11B Constantinos Andresakis, Legal Studies Maria Bakopanos, Physical Education Maria Bakopanos, Biology Yat Hin Choy, Chinese (Background) Panagioti Danopoulos, History Panagioti Danopoulos, Drama Marta Knezevic, Mathematical Methods Marta Knezevic, Specialist Mathematics Maria Pallis, English 11A Maria Pallis, Physics Sophia Petropoulos, Music Naoum Scounos, Information Technology Constance Venetsanos, General Mathematics Vanessa Weah, Stage 1 Food & Hospitality Vanessa Weah, English as an Additional Language Year 11 | Academic Excellence Award Lula Asgede, English as an Additional Language Belay Bayew, Stage 1 Food & Hospitality Ioannis Canatselis, Information Technology Ioannis Canatselis, Research Project Ioannis Canatselis, English 11B Alexandros Katsigiannis, Modern Greek Anna Koutelas, Modern Greek (Year 12) Sarantos Makris, Physical Education Sarantos Makris, English 11A Josephine Mavropoulos, Music Josephine Mavropoulos, General Mathematics Maria Pallis, Visual Arts Kristina Perkas, Drama Evan Saloniklis, Mathematical Methods Evan Saloniklis, Chemistry Evan Saloniklis, Physics Evan Saloniklis, Specialist Mathematics Athena Stamoulos, History Athena Stamoulos, Biology Athena Stamoulos, Research Project Athena Stamoulos, Legal Studies Yunshan Wang, Chinese (Background)

Year 12 | Most Improved Academic Award Helen Antoniou, Nutrition Augustine Kim, English as an Additional Language Mariah Kosmidis, English Communications Zacharoula Ktisti, Physics Ruby Leventeris, Modern History Constantinos Logothetis, Specialist Mathematics Maria Pallis, Research Project Angelo Patsilivas, Physical Education Amanda Piliouras, Mathematical Studies Jacki Savva, Stage 2 Food & Hospitality Vasiliki Siapantas, Biology Athena Stamoulos, Modern Greek Evena Vlahos, Mathematical Applications James Zissis, Information Technology Year 12 | Academic Excellence Award Helen Antoniou, Stage 2 Food & Hospitality Mariah Kosmidis, Nutrition Zacharoula Ktisti, Chemistry Constantinos Logothetis, Physics Subin Park, Biology Subin Park, English as an Additional Language Subin Park, Mathematical Studies Subin Park, Specialist Mathematics Amanda Piliouras, Physical Education Amanda Piliouras, Information Technology Jacki Savva, Mathematical Applications Vasiliki Siapantis, English Communications Evena Vlahos, Modern History Jing Yi Zou, Chinese (Background)

Well done everyone! Mrs Kadis

MESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPAL

Mr Peter Karamoshos

Getting the Best out of our Students This year, our staff Professional Development focus has been on giving students the most stimulating and engaging learning experience possible. Given that students spend a majority of their time with their teachers in the classroom, we acknowledge that lessons must be interesting, interactive and relevant and that students should “learn my doing”. In the first semester, we created a document “The Road to Academic Success” where staff identified what a rich and effective learning experience should include in a classroom at St George College. The five key areas identified were: Climate Pedagogy Learning Space Content Feedback and Assessment

Within each of these key areas, staff listed relevant indictors which now gives us all a framework by which we can judge our own professional practice. During our Professional Development Day at the start of this term, three of our staff gave informative presentations to all staff. The focus was on pedagogy; specifically on how we differentiate our teaching to cater for students of varying strengths and weaknesses. The quality of the presentations reinforced the high level of expertise we have on our staff. Kelly Pridmore and Kylie Greenfield shared strategies on differentiating from a gifted perspective but which also support all students. They presented practical ideas on how to get students to be critical and creative in their thinking, activities to make them reflect and analyse, how student groupings can have an impact on learning, and tasks which ask students what they see, think and wonder. Vicki Sakellariou gave us strategies that focussed specifically on boys but again, supports all students. She reminded us that many boys do learn differently from girls and that in our lessons, we should include graphs, pictures and visual aids, hands-on activities, activities which are short and sharp, healthy competition, opportunities for movement and clear structure. She also reinforced the importance of the student/teacher relationship. Ben Hall shared strategies on differentiating from an EALD perspective. Ben teaches and supports many of our international students and the ideas he presented apply equally to all students. He reinforced how difficult the English language can be in terms of the same word having different meanings, words that sound the same have different spelling and many words having the same meaning. He suggested that pictures and graphs were important, that different forms of assessment be available and group work was essential. Ben also reinforced the im-portance of spending time to get to know each of the students. The three presentations were outstanding and inspired us all to improve our professional practice. Through this, we will provide our students with the highest quality learning experience possible.

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPAL Mr Peter Karamoshos

House Celebrations Tuesday, 5 July was OLYMPIA day. It was an opportunity for all Olympia students to come to school in their House colour (yellow) and participate in an afternoon of team bonding and House spirt. All Olympia students took part in an ‘Amazing Race’ style game. The objective was to find hidden letters around the school using cryptic clues. The first team to collect and return to base with all the letters would be crowned the “Olympia Amazing Race Champions”. Every team worked hard to win but in the end, the Year 11 boys efforts proved too strong. There was a lot of running around and flustered students all trying to find the strategically hidden letters however, a lot of fun was had by all and the student’s displayed great team work and enthusiasm. Well done to all the Olympia House students for showing great determination and exhibiting positive attitudes. Miss Vicki Sakellariou | Head of House - Olympia

Year 12 Mentoring At the beginning of this year, a group of Year 12 students volunteered to join the Junior Campus-Mentoring Program. The group of students were assigned a junior class and coordinated a time during our flexible learning time to visit the assigned class. When we walk in the door every week and see the young students smiling faces, we are excited and appreciative that we get to spend time with the Junior students of our College.

Year 12 is such a stressful year and often being at the Senior Campus all day can get us down; the fact we are able to go to the Junior Campus and see the younger students make us laugh and take our minds off of our work, even if it is just for 50 minutes. We have so much fun with the students, helping them with their class work and activities and we have built close bonds with each and every student in our class. We have had trips to the library, played outside and enjoyed time in the classrooms which has brought back so many memories that has made us reflect on the amazing journey many of us have shared at St George College.

Mentoring brightens up our day and we love being able to participate in other Junior Campus activities such as last term’s disco, which was a fun and successful event. We hope this years Year 11 students take advantage of this opportunity next year and really enjoy spending time with the younger students of our College.

Written by | Year 12 Mentor Group

The “Olympia Amazing Race Champions”

MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Miss Angela Drakopoulos

Junior Campus Report This term, I have been grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the students and staff at the Junior Campus. In the past fortnight we have definitely learnt valuable lessons from each other and have grown to appreciate the fact that even though we work on different ends of the street, we are one school and we are here to support and learn from each other. To be kind and caring were the focus words of the first week that I asked the students to remember and to act upon, as these behav-iours are not only part of human nature but also reflective of our school ethos. Students showed examples of being kind and caring by bringing a peer to the office to be cared for because they fell over in the yard at playtime, by sharing, by caring about the environment and keeping the school neat and tidy. Our focus words in week 2 were to be grateful and giving. Grateful for our good health, our loving family and friends and that we have everything we need to live a healthy and happy life. The students and staff across both campuses participated in Jeans for Genes Day, giving them an extra reason to be grateful and giving. Jeans for Genes Day is a national event organised by the Children’s Medical research Institute where very important research is conducted to find cures for childhood diseases. Thank you to all families who donated a total of $500.00 towards this very worthwhile cause. It is important for our students to understand that everything we do for others, the big and little things, are equally as important. It was wonderful to get to know the students and their parents, celebrate their successes and share prayer time with them every morning in the Junior Campus Hall. The key to a child’s success is the positive relationship between parent, teacher and the school. This shows solidarity and support of one another to form a winning team between child, teacher and parent. Thank you to our Principal Mrs Gina Kadis for giving me this opportunity and to all the staff, students and their families at the Junior Campus for making me feel so welcome. We welcome back Miss Kosmetos in week 3 and I return to my duties at the Senior Cam-pus, however, I will come for a walk down the street more often from now on because I will miss the big smiles and hugs! Congratulations to our Junior Campus Student Representatives, Year 4 students, Kalliope Demetriou and James Angelis. As the senior members of the Junior Campus they will play a very important role in being the voice of all the students at the Junior Campus.

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Please join us

TUESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 6.00 – 6.30pm

Barbeque - Senior Campus Quadrangle

6.30 – 7.30pm

Vision Statement Forum - Performing Arts Centre

OUR VISION / MISSION / VALUES

2016 - 2020

Junior Campus SRC, Kalliope Demetriou and James Angelis

L to R – Tiah Gekas, Savva Miltiadous, Ruth Kabongo, John Bakopanos and Katya Petropoulos, sporting their denim outfits for Jeans for Genes Day!

SATAC News The SATAC Guides and University Guides have arrived! All Year 12 students should have collected their set. I will be making a time to speak to those who would like some help with their preferences. These books contain valuable information and I encourage you to sit down with your son or daughter and go through them to find out about relevant Tertiary Courses. Students who are not going to University are encouraged to visit the TAFESA website and enrol in relevant courses. I am available, along with our VET Coordinator, Miss Penglis to discuss such options with students. More information about SATAC What does SATAC do? Publishes information about courses and application procedures Processes undergraduate, post graduate and TAFESA applications Acknowledges each application in writing Assesses applicant’s qualifications according to the rule set by the institutions Ranks eligible applicants for each course preference Sends out written offers to applicants selected by its member institutions Answers queries about the outcome of applications. What doesn’t SATAC do? Make the rules for assessing applications Decide how many offers should be made for each course. Provide career counselling Process applications for interstate universities except for CDU, Torrens University and CQ. Please visit their website for more information: www.satac.edu.au

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with Mrs Gates

Flinders University | New Courses Bach of Exercise Science

Bach of Exercise Science/Master of Exercise Physiology

Bach of Human Nutrition

Bach of Human Nutrition/Bach of Exercise Science

Bach of Engineering (Agriculture & Biosystems)

Bach of Science/Master of Engineering

Bach of Information Technology (Digital Systems)

Bach of Engineering (Maritime)

Bach of Creative Arts (Costume Design)

Bach of Sport, Health & Physical Activity

Bach of Letters (Sports Performance Coaching)

Bach of Letters (Innovation & Enterprise)

Bach of Business (Innovation & Enterprise)

Bach of Health Sciences (Health Management)

Bach of Business (Human Resource Management)

Bach of Engineering—Flexible Entry—This allows students to delay their decision on which engineering pathway they want to pursue

Visit their website at: www.flinders.edu.au

University of South Australia | New Courses Bach of Aviation (Pilot)

Bach of Aviation (Management)

Bach of Engineering (Civil & Project Management)

Bach of Human Movement/Nutrition & Food Sciences

Bach of Human Movement/Bach of Psychological Science

Bach of Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience)

Diplomas in Health

Visit their website at: www.unisa.edu.au

University of Adelaide | New Courses Bach of Criminology Bach of International Development Bach of Liberal Arts & Sciences Diploma in Arts Bach of Engineering—Flexible Entry Bach of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic) Bach of Health & Medicine Sciences Bach of Health & Medical Science (Advanced) Bach of Science (Wildlife Conservation Biology) Bach of Science (Energy Geoscience) Visit their website at: www.adelaide.edu.au