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Newsletter 2017November 3 - Week 4, Term 4
To celebrate World Teachers’ Day, on Friday 27th October, the Marrara Christian College Council blessed all the staff with a lovely surprise – fresh coffee and donuts delivered right to their door!
Fofi’s Greek Kitchen set up at 7am, near the College staff room and began making fresh donuts, ready for delicious sugar coated yumminess. Spud, our cheerful barista for the morning, served all staff a fresh coffee, made to order. In two hours, they served 97 coffees!!!
A very big thank you to all our wonderful teachers, for the hard work they do all year around. They are not alone – they are assisted by all the teacher aides, education support and admin staff, maintenance and human resource teams, Heads of School and even the Principal.
This was a chance for the MCC Council to acknowledge this, spread some joy and celebrate being part of the amazing journey of Christian education.
Mrs Karen McNair - Executive Assistant/Office Manager
World Teachers' Dayz
Diary Dates
Monday 6thCouncil Meeting
Saturday 11th NovemberWorking Bee
(Last one for 2017)
Monday 20th NovemberThanksgiving Service 6:30pm Darwin Entertainment Centre
Saturday 25thYear 12 Formal
Wednesday 29thYear 9 Celebration Evening
Thursday 30thWhole College Awards Assembly
Monday 4thCouncil Meeting
Wednesday 6thNTCC students' last day
Thursday 7thWhole College
Christmas Assembly+
Boarders travel out+
Year 6 Celebration Evening
Thursday 14thRemaining students' last day
Friday 15thStudent free day
Saturday 16thHolidays begin!
Monday 29th Term 1, 2018
starts
November
December
January
Amity Community Service Visit
Marrara Christian College seeks to be a learning community where parents and staff partner together,
and where students are nurtured through a loving, biblically based school curriculum to build their faith, character and desire to serve.
On the 25th of October, we had the privilege of having Kylie Jericho from Amity Community Service to teach our Year 11 students about alcohol and other drugs. Amity is government funded and provide services for drugs and gambling issues for individuals, their families, friends and the community. Students found the information confronting but also interesting. This session will be followed up by another training session on the 15th of November. Students are looking forward to another attention-grabbing time with Kylie to understand alcohol and other drugs in a better way. This session also promises to provide insightful information in regards to the warning signs of drug and alcohol abuse.
Mr Eric Spangenberg - Teacher
Exiting Students
Please be advised that as part of the Terms and Conditions signed upon enrolment, we require 10 term weeks written notice. Failure to comply will render parents liable for 10 weeks school fees. Extraordinary circumstances will be taken into account. If you feel you have
extraordinary circumstances please include this with your exit form. Exemption is given at the discretion of the Principal.
Please be aware that upon exiting, your Compass Parent Portal will be deactivated. Please ensure you print copies of your child’s academic report(s), if required, as any copies requested after exit will have a $20 fee. An exit form can be obtained from Reception.
What’s Happening Around MCC?
We would greatly value any parents who could help with supervision for one or more of the written examinations. If you can help, please contact Teagan West in the Senior School office on 8920 2006 or email [email protected] with nominated examinations. Supervision is able to be registered against working bee times. Your help and prayers will be greatly appreciated. Each examination also has a 10 minute reading time.
Date 8am 12:30pmMonday 6 November Biology (3 hrs)Wednesday 8 November Modern History (3 hrs)Thursday 9 November Essential Mathematics (2 hrs)
General Mathematics (2 hrs)Mathematical Methods (3 hrs)
Friday 10 November Legal Studies (3 hrs)Monday 13 November Physics (3 hrs)Tuesday 14 November Psychology (2 hrs)Wednesday 15 November Chemistry (3 hrs) Spanish (continuers) (3 hrs)Thursday 16 November Physical Education (2 hrs)
Working Bee - Saturday 11th November
The last Working Bee for 2017 will be Saturday, 11th November, 8:00am - 1:00pm. It will involve outside work to get the College ready for the cyclone season.
All welcome and morning tea is provided. Please RSVP to the office for catering purposes:8920 2000 / [email protected]
If you cannot make this day, please contact the office for an alternative time during school hours. Please note that an Ochre Card is compulsory to do working bee hours at the College on non-working bee days.
For more info, contact [email protected]
TUESDAYS8.45AM - 9.45AM
MARRARA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE LIBRARY
GOLD COIN DONATION
COFFEE + TEA PROVIDED
BRING A PIECE OF FRUIT TO SHARE
Contact usMCC 08 8920 2000 • NTCC 08 8920 2006 • www.mcc.nt.edu.au
[email protected] • PO Box 84 Karama NT 0813 combined campus of NT Christian Schools
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What Else Is Happening?
As technology continues to advance and our lives become more immersed in everything digital, the challenges faced by parents can often feel overwhelming.
We know that the technology is here to stay and we also know the many benefits that we can reap from the digital world. There are amazing ways we can connect and collaborate, raise awareness, create, learn and share. We are also frequently made well aware of the dangers and pitfalls of this connected world. We hear often about the predators, the pornography, the paedophiles, the gaming obsessions, the screen-time addictions and the cyberbullying.
So how do we ensure that our kids are getting the very best that the technology has to offer whilst avoiding those negative elements?
One of the best ways we can do this as parents is to remain relevant. But how do we stay relevant in a world that seems to move so fast? In a world where our kids already seem to know so much?
It starts by taking the time to get to know the world your children are growing up in and work to understand the challenges they face. Because kids do face challenges and they will make mistakes. We need to ensure that those mistakes are ones they can learn from and aren’t life changing.
Be the Wise ones
Well they may well have a lot of knowledge when it comes to all things technical. But they are not necessarily wise like us. Now I use the word ‘us’ very loosely here in referring to the adult population, because anyone who has spent any time online knows there are many adults who are not wise. But generally speaking, adults have a lot more understanding of the intricacies of interactions, relationships and the complexities of human behaviours than kids do. Our kids are interacting and connecting with others in a world that is often beyond what they are developmentally and emotionally ready for. We need to help them with that.
Play and interact
Sure we all love the lure of an iPad to ensure we can finish our coffee whilst its hot or get the dinner cooked uninterrupted. But if we also take the time to play and interact with our kids and their devices, we get a different perspective about what they enjoy. We get the bonus of the interactive element as well as time to bond and enjoy something together. We also put ourselves in a much better position to set relevant boundaries and help them understand those boundaries.
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insightsStaying relevant in a Digital Worldby Martine Oglethorpe
TECHNOLOGY AND PARENTING
Listen to others and listen to your child
If your friend’s child is playing a game, has an account on social media or enjoys certain websites, then there is a good chance your child does too. Just as we would play at the park or hang out at the milk bar where our friends were when we were young, so too our kids will hang out where their mates are playing. So listen to those parents in the playground. Listen in to which popular apps and games are spoken about in the media. Listen to your child. Ask them what they like to do. Ask them about their concerns or their challenges. You may never keep up with every single app or site that your child visits, but if you have a good understanding of the ways kids are using technology and the sorts of things the technology is capable of, then you are in a much better position to help them use it safely and smartly.
Be open and honest about what is out there
Whilst there are times we certainly lament the passing of the good old days where screens, and social media were not such an integral part of our lives, we cannot afford to be in denial about the role technology is and will continue to play in the lives of our children. So rather than shut it down and try to avoid it, we need to be ready to have conversations that we may prefer not to have. We need to know that the average age a child first sees pornography is about 11, so we should understand that this is a very real possibility for our children. So how are we going to prepare them for that?
What conversations would we need to have if we suspect this has happened? Because we do want to make sure that the education they are getting comes from us and not from the online world itself.
So seek out knowledge, interact, talk to your kids and put yourself in the best position to remain relevant to your child’s world. Be the one they come to should things go wrong. Be the one they come to to share the positive experiences they have online.
Our role as parents is not to shut down the accounts and take away the screens, but rather to ensure we are giving them the skills, the understanding and the thinking to make the very best decisions every time they go online.
Martine Oglethorpe
Martine Oglethorpe is a speaker, counsellor and educator with a passion for building resilient kids in a digital world. Martine is available for student workshops focused on positive online behaviours, for teacher professional development on how the digital world affects what happens in the classroom and for corporate and parent information sessions.For more information head to her website themodernparent.net. Contact details: [email protected] facebook.com/themodernparent
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