30/06/2011 Volume 23

Have a lovely holiday break and stay safe

It has been a busy Term 2 and I wish all students and parents a safe and happy holiday. I look forward to seeing you all back on Monday 18th July. Staff and students both start on Monday 18th. We have a number of new students starting Term 3 so it will be a busy holiday for some parents. I en-courage all parents with new students who may be attending the College in 2012 to contact me very early in Term 3.

Gary Underwood

Principal

Reports and Parent Teacher Nights This is the last week of term and teachers are busy writing reports

for Semester 1. These will be sent home prior to the Parent-Teacher

Day and Night. Parent Teacher Night will be held on St Mina and St

Marina Church at 59 Saffron Drv, Hallam from 4pm to 8pm. Like

2010 we will hold the evening . For those who cannot attend at night

we will also be

holding interviews on the following day from 10am to 3pm at the

College. We were really pleased with the number of parents who

attended last year and to enable time for each family to speak with

their child‟s teacher we will be organising appointments with you to

discuss your child in these times.

I would like to remind parents of the promotion policy at the

College and the need for children to meet the criteria to proceed to

the next level. Even though this report is for Semester One, allowing

time for further improvement in Semester two, if you are not happy

with the progress of your child then I encourage you to speak to me

at these meetings or contact me at the College.

Under pressure paying fees? If you are finding it difficult to pay your school fees, then you are not alone. About one-third of our parents have a Health Care Card, some are still studying, while others are just between jobs. At these times your Coptic College is here to help. Please do not hesitate to contact me or our Business Manager Ms Mariam Matta, if you need our help with paying school fees. What is most important to us is your child‟s education and we would hate them to leave our College. We have a range of ways we can help. Please contact us.

Thank you for helping with health Care Card enquiries

Last week we contacted every family by phone to see if they were holders of a Health Care Card. The purpose was to determine families receive Government assistance which means the College can get more government finance and thus keep fee rises to a minimum, or support those who cannot afford their fees. As a result of this survey and your cooperation we now have identified that we have four times as many card holding families than we had records for. This also means that we can help these families by making them aware of Government assistance and how to receive it. I thank you very much for your assistance with this research.

Gary Underwood

Principal

Year 10 VCE information evening It has come to the time of year where our school is recommending year 10 students begin to

explore the variety of courses offered by different universities and their prerequisites. For

example their will be an information evening run by La Trobe University on Thursday 28 July

2011 at 6-7:30PM, Union Hall, Melbourne campus. This event is designed specifically for year

10 students and their parents, as a preliminary to starting VCE studies. It will be an ample

opportunity for students and parents to ask questions, collect information and discuss courses

with faculty course advisers

Interested students can register on line at www.latrobe.edu.au/year10

Does your child need extra help with Maths Maths Online is a completely independent maths tutoring website available free of charge to

every secondary school student in Australia. Provided by McDonald's Australia, high schools

have unlimited access to the program with the option to register an entire school, maths class,

or individual. To find out how you can get involved please visit: www.mathsonline.com.au

This will be the last newsletter for term 2. I would like to take this op-

portunity to thank all of the year 9 and 10 teachers for their exceptional

effort in improving our program and for the extra help they provided to

each student. I would also like to commend the students for their

well-mannered behaviours and academic progress displayed throughout

term 2.

Ninette Bebawi Year 9 & 10 Co-ordinator.

DEACON TRAINING /CHOIR

DEAR PARENTS OF YEAR 9 & 10 STUDENTS

“Know the God of your father,

and serve him with a loyal heart

and with a willing mind”.

(1 Chronicles 28:9).

I was recommended at the be-

ginning of this year to teach

Coptic hymns to the middle and

high school deacons at St

Anthony‟s Coptic Orthodox

College. Since I have arrived at

the school I have begun to form

the St. Anthony‟s Coptic

Orthodox College Deacons

Choir. My vision is to form a

deacons choir that will base a

strong foundation for Coptic Or-

thodox deacons now and in the

future of this school as later in

the coming years I would like to

implement a mentoring buddy

system. I have been doing this

through.......

Topics about deaconship each

level with its duties and

responsibilities

Retreats

Deacon Badges for motivation

and commitment to deaconship

Other outings

I would also like to encourage

other deacons that have not

heard about this deacon‟s choir

and would like to attend to

please come on Tuesday‟s during

lunchtime.

Simon Nashed

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VCE NEWS

VCE

Information night

A VCE information evening will be held on the evening of Thursday 11th August 2011. This evening is for all parents of students and students undertaking their VCE studies at St Anthony‟s Coptic Orthodox College next year.

It is expected that all current year 10 and 11 students and their parent(s) attend. During the evening a range of issues regarding VCE will be addressed including:

Requirements for successful completion of VCE

Scaling and the ATAR (Previously ENTER)

The VCAL program

Subjects available for selection

VCE teaching staff will be available to assist with selection of subjects.

July – Break

The upcoming break should be seen as a break from school and not a holiday. VCE students cannot afford to use the upcoming break as a holiday. For them it is simply a break from attending school. In year 12 I would still expect them to work 4 to 6 hours per day on:

Holiday homework

Preparing study notes for their subjects

Revising those study notes.

All VCE stu-dents will have homework to complete during this break. It is essen-tial that this work is completed so that the new term can commence with everyone at the same point.

Success in VCE

Too many VCE students do not want to have a successful year .In a previous edition of the newsletter I outlined what students need to do in order to succeed in their VCE. These included:

Time management (A weekly study/work timetable)

Preparing Study notes. (For each subject based on the study design)

Revising Study notes

Practice exams. Do as many of these as possible in the few weeks leading up to the exams.

It was disappointing to see too many students had not completed the above in the lead up to the recent mid-year exams. Too many students were finalising study notes, did not have study notes, were photocopying other peoples study notes or downloading study notes. These study notes should have been completed weeks before the exams. In those last couple of weeks leading up to exams successful students would be completing practice exams.

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VTAC Selections

Year 12 students will need to select

courses through VTAC during August

and September. While this is still some

time off students need to start thinking

about and researching different course

options. Ways to research course

options include:

Attending open days at Universities and

TAFE‟s. All open days are available on

the VTAC website. http://

www.vtac.edu.au/opendays.html

Purchasing a VTAC guide.

Available from me for those that

ordered one at a cost of $15.00

each.

Using the coursesearch option on

the VTAC Website. http://

www.vtac.edu.au/

Searching the various University and

TAFE websites.

I will be spending time with the year 12

students ensuring that they know how

to and do complete their course

selections through VTAC.

If you have any concerns, issues or ideas

then please contact me at college on

9786 3145 or email me at

ajuresko@stanthonys.vic.edu.au.

Angelko Juresko

VCE Coordinator

Mid Year Reports

Mid-year reports are in the process of

being completed and will be ready to be

presented to parents on the evening of

Thursday 28th July. The reports will

have the same grading scale for

assessments in all grades up to year 11.

That scale will be the one on the table

below,

The reports will be in a new format and

I would encourage parents to give

feedback to the college regarding the

format. Feedback may include things

that you would like included in reports.

This feedback can then be considered

for future reports.

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Chemical reaction that involves acids and bases play an important role in our lives. They occur in

kitchen, in the laundry, in the garden, in swimming pools, and even inside our body. Acidity or

Basicity of a substance is measured by using a pH scale. Universal indicator is a mixture of

indicators that changes colour as the strength of acid or base changes. The above experiment

helps students understand the Theory of Neutralisation using acid and bases of different

concentrations.

YEAR 9 SCIENCE: UNDERSTANDING THE

FAULTS AND FOLDS

The earth‟s crust is not still-it is constantly moving and

changing .Nor is it dull- deep beneath the surface is a layer

of red-hot molten rock which sometimes burst through

resulting in volcanoes, mountains and sometimes even

faults. Students get a firsthand experience of how these

natural phenomenons take place when they make their own

models of cross section of earth and folds that results in

mountain ranges with synclines and anticlines.

MODELS OF SYNCLINES AND ANTICLINE

AND THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH.

YEAR 10 SCIENCE: UNIVERSAL

INDICATOR CREATING A RAINBOW

ARRAY OF

YEAR 11 BIOLOGY

Year 11 Biology Students

use agar blocks to study the

effect of surface area to

volume ratio in the uptake

of nutrients by cells.

YEAR 8 :SCIENCE:

Students are testing

different food for the

presence of starch ,sugar

and protein as part of

their unit on Nutrients

YEAR 9 SCIENCE :

FASCINATING

CHEMISTRY

All synthetic materials we

call plastics are polymers.

Polymers are very large

molecules that consist of

many repeating units

called monomers.

Monomers are small

molecules.

Most monomers contain

the element carbon.

Students are making

polymers using sodium

alginate and calcium

chloride solution.

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Year 7‟s break through

during some of their many

matches on the day.

The successful year 7 boys soccer team. After not losing any of their preliminary matches the boys

went on to win their final 1 – 0 in extra time thanks to a superbly curved ball from Meron Negassi

that flew between the top of the keepers hands and the top of the goals, a FANTASTIC strike.

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SOCCER RALLY DAY

This term has seen the College compete in all levels of

Inter school Soccer. Our College was extremely well

represented at these events, with both a boys and girls

team competing in all but one of the five days on offer.

We have had some fantastic results across all year levels

and students have displayed excellent sportsmanship to

other schools, as well as fantastic team spirit amongst

our own college.

This year St Anthony‟s won THREE pennants, in the

following year levels:

Year 10 Boys VCE (year 12) Boys Year 7 Boys

In addition to this, a number of our teams made divisional finals, an outstanding result for the

college.

SPORTS FOR SCHOOLS

Many thanks to all our college community for the great

work done in collecting Coles vouchers last year for the

„Sports for Schools‟ program that was run. The

response from all parents, students and friends of the

college meant that the school received over 33,000

reward points, which gave us the opportunity to

purchase over $3000 of new equipment. Some of the

items purchased are listed below:

Junior School

Egg & Spoon set Catchtail ball set Relay Batons

Portable passing target Colour band kit Curved balance beam

Pop up goals Flexible dome marker set Foam Javelin x 2 Tennis Bats x 10

Middle & Senior School

Interschool Basketball x 2

Soccer shin pads x 40 Netball kit Sports first aid kit Bucket of Frisbees-

Bucket high bounce balls Vortex Howler x 2 Gator skin ball x 2

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Measuring the

chosen land

VCAL co-ordinator

Ms. Sunitha Susan

Step by step development of Edible garden project (Term 2)

VCAL NEWS

Soil pH testing

Designing the garden

Dedicated, enthusiastic working team

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RAAF MUSEUM POINT COOK EXCURSION

Grade 1 and 2 went on an excursion to The Pont Cook RAAF Museum to learn about early aviation in

Australia. All Students sat in the cockpit of a Hercules cargo plane. Students were shown around the

Museum by retired pilots from the Australian defence forces.

Students were able to compare and contrast their learnt knowledge from integrated studies.

Students in Grade 1 and 2 highly recommended this experience to all.

Hercules C-31 Cargo plane

Hercules C-31 cockpit

Cargo hold of the Hercules

STORY LINE

St Anthony‟s Coptic Orthodox College

15 Alpina Street

Frankston North

VIC 3200

Phone: (03) 9786 3145

Fax: (03) 9786 3988

E-mail: mail.stanthonys.vic.edu.au