APC Newsletter Edition 5 2022

EDITION 5 - JUNE 2022

YEAR 12 CELEBRATE

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JODHI’S SHOTS ARE TOP CLASS Congratulations to APC Alumni student Jodhi Ramsden Mavric (class of 2021) whose Studio Arts final work was selected to be exhibited as part of Monash Gallery of Art’s Exhibition TOPshots.

TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photomedia artists at MGA. The exhibition showcases exceptional photographic work produced by students who have completed the Victorian Certificate of Education each year. Jodhi’s work last year was exceptional, and this recognition of her hard work and dedication is very well deserved.

THE EXHIBITION IS ON UNTIL SUNDAY 26 JUNE.

↑ Jodhi with some of her top shots.

UPCOMING DATES

FRIDAY 24 JUNE

FRIDAY 15 JULY

FRIDAY 5 AUGUST

Second Hand Uniform Sale 8.30am - 9.30am Danks St courtyard

Music Concert Lawler Theatre 2pm and 7pm

Dance Show Lawler Theatre 2pm and 7pm

End of Term 2 Students dismissed at 2.10pm

18 JULY – 22 JULY

6 AUGUST

Senior Snow Camp

MONDAY 11 JULY

MONDAY 25 JULY

SEAL Exam 9am Gym, Danks St campus

First day of Term 3

VTAC Information Evening 5.30pm Drama Space, Danks St campus

11 JULY – 15 JULY

IB Practice Exams WEDNESDAY 3 AUGUST THURSDAY 14 JULY

Athletics Carnival

Senior Years Expo Pickles St campus 3.30pm - 6pm

THURSDAY 4 AUGUST

Dance Show Lawler Theatre - 7pm

Music Concert Lawler Theatre 7pm

COVER: The class of 2022 at the year 12 formal

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PRINCIPAL'S SAY

TIME FOR A BREAK Madeleine Campbell Acting Principal

It’s just a few more days to the end of term and a well-earned half-year break. It has been nine weeks of hard effort from everyone – doing schoolwork, assessments and plenty of extracurricular activities. Well done everyone! So it’s time for the alternative three-Rs: relax, rest, recharge. It’s a great time also to get through those novels and do all that background reading.

REVISE, REVISE, REVISE For our year-12s there is another set of three-Rs: revise, revise, revise. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to get ahead of the study wave. After catching your breath, you might want to set a plan, get stuck into revision and set yourself up for next term’s curriculum. I guarantee that when Swotvac starts you won’t regret it.

BIG EVENTS IN TERM 3 Next term is going to be huge, with a full schedule of events now possible once again. It kicks off with the Music Concert in Week 1. The Dance Show follows in Week 4. Make sure to get your tickets for both.

Plenty of camps are also going ahead and information about them is now being sent out. After a couple of years during which these really fun aspects of schooling weren’t possible, I urge you to get involved.

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE Term 3 is also when we all start planning for the future. What subjects will we study in VCE or IB? What course will we do at university? What career will we choose?

As usual, the college will be providing plenty of information and counselling for students and parents to make these

choices as the application deadlines approach – watch out for messages.

My advice is to think hard about what you love doing and what you’re good at and talk it around with family members and friends. For our senior students, university open days will also be coming up. Go along and explore.

generally has put a big strain on all of us this term. Everyone worked extremely hard, especially our teachers, and I know parents and students will join with me in saying how much we appreciate all they have done for us. You have been amazing.

ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS. SEE YOU BACK AT COLLEGE NEXT TERM.

THANK YOU TEACHERS One last thing. The combination of Covid, the seasonal flu and shortages of people

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FANTASTIC FORMAL A BIG SUCCESS

It was fantastic to finally be able to hold our Year-12 Formal this year after two years of Covid-related cancellations.

On Friday 3 June, our senior class got together at The Park on Albert Park Lake for a night of dancing and celebrating.

Those there will attest it was a major success and an incredibly enjoyable event. Everyone just seemed so happy to be there.

As you can see from the photographs, a lot of effort was made to look fabulous.

In typically creative APC style, some of the most amazing outfits were designed and made by the wearers themselves!

Mr Nolan thanked the students for the positive way they approached the event and their incredibly respectful and mature behaviour. ‘The Formal is one of the many events we hold for our year-12 students to mark the hard work they have put in during their entire education and it’s always wonderful to see everyone enjoying themselves so much.’

We thank everyone involved, especially the student organising committee members, for making it all happen. Next stop for the year-12s is their plunge into the freezing waters of the bay in August.

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APC COMMUNIT Y

LITFEST IS BACK ON CAMPUS

Last Friday and Saturday Lit Fest was held in the Library at Danks Street.

How wonderful it was to stage the event in person. Friday evening in particular gained a large crowd, which enjoyed a party atmosphere, aided by some excellent food prepared by our Hospitality Club chefs.

On Saturday morning, the brilliant weather, which returned after its early winter vacation from Melbourne, bathed the Library in beautiful sunshine, making for a pleasant atmosphere indeed.

Our guest speakers were interviewed by our incredibly articulate students, who teased out the secrets of writing. Topics discussed included the joys of being a professional writer, as well as the tough realities of holding it together financially until that big pay day (hopefully) comes.

One of the biggest highlights was a stunning performance poetry reading from our writer-in-residence Saanjana Kapoor.

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Saanjana is leaving us for a residency in Singapore and we wish her well but are sure we'll see her on our bookshop shelves soon enough.

The event was made possible by the hard work of so many people, but we can't miss thanking Sean Watson, Liberal Arts Coordinator and our library team who do so much to promote reading and writing.

Guest writers: Jennifer Down, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Yves Rees, Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Rebecca Lim.

2022 APC CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION RESULTS I was extremely impressed by the submissions received, which ranged widely in style, form, and subject matter.

The entries transported me to worlds where characters explored outer space,

fought for their loved ones, built flying boats and faced their greatest fears. I am proud to announce Claire Seear (Year 8) and Agnes McCallum (Year 10) as the winners for the 2022 APC Creative Writing Competition, congratulations!

Saanjana Kapoor APC writer-in-residence

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LIBRARY CORNER

STUDENTS AND THE LIBRARIANS CELEBRATE BOOK WEEK WITH A RANGE OF ACTIVITIES Book Week 2022 has come and gone in a flash, leaving us with many happy memories! Thank you to everyone who joined us in the library from Tuesday 14- Friday 17 June in the lead up to Lit Fest weekend.

A highlight of the week was Friday’s book trivia Kahoot which was run

by Library Leader Maia Ryks and Deputy Qian-Yi Dawson. It was a fierce competition with the librarians also competing, but in the end the students were victorious!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the competitions and events. The winners are: CREATIVE WRITING OPEN MIC: NINA BUCHLER LIBR ARY SCAVENGER HUNT: ANNA LILL AND SHRIYA SAMPATH BOOK DRESS UP ‘BEST DRESSED’: AJ BARTON BOOK TRIVIA: (A DR AW BET WEEN T WO TEAMS) AJ BARTON AND OEXIA PAGE-RINITI, PIP HIRST AND LUCY MARKS BOOK SPINE POETRY: GAUR ANGI ABROL GUESS WHO’S READING?: JAMIE TALL MATCH THE BOOK COVER TO THE PASSAGE: SILVIA MENESES USEDA

Thank you everyone for another exciting term in the library! Students have been smashing the Premiers’ Reading Challenge (PRC) with 947 books completed so far.

The challenge is open until Friday 2 September. We have almost defeated last year’s PRC record, so we can’t wait to see what the final figure is in September!

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LIBRARIANS BEGIN NEW ADVENTURES

All students and teachers who use our Library will be saddened to hear that two of our big book promoters, Veronica and Clive, are leaving APC at the end of this week.

The good news is they won't be lost to the world of literature.

Clive may be retiring from the school, but will be continuing his work as a bookseller, and will even be helping out the Rotary secondhand book team who play such a great role in raising funds and promoting the reading culture at the college.

Veronica is heading to France where she will be taking up an internship at the American Library in Paris – one of the most famous libraries in the world, which was established after the First World War and is associated with the Lost Generation of writers that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald. The rumour is she's going to be filling notebooks with writing in Paris cafes in her lunch breaks.

WE'LL MISS YOU, LIBRARIANS! PLEASE DON'T FORGET US AND VISIT WHEN YOU CAN.

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STAFF AND STUDENTS

APC STUDENT IN ARCHIBALD PRIZE EXHIBITION

Imagine the surprise of Teaching Aide Jen Roper when she came across a familiar face hanging on the wall at the Archibald Prize exhibition in Sydney recently. Jen immediately recognised former APC student Ella Simons, the subject of a painting by award-winning artist Yvette Coppersmith.

Ella was 13 when she became an organiser for the School Strike for Climate movement in 2019. At 15, Ella was chosen as the Australian delegate to the Youth4Climate summit, ahead of the UN climate change conference COP2 in Glasgow. Ella was the youngest of the 400 international delegates who attended, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

In her written submission to the Archibalds Prize judges, Coppersmith said she met Ella in 2014, and immediately sensed her “vibrant energy”.

“I had a couple of sittings with Ella after her return. We looked for props and outfits in her bedroom,” Coppersmith said.

“I chose to create a quiet, calm tone for the painting, to amplify the seriousness of Ella and her message."

↑ Coppersmith’s portrait of Ella was a finalist in the 2022 Archibald Prize.

“The painting is a form of protest. It transmits Ella’s presence and wakes us up to this movement in human evolution and the window of opportunity to abate the trajectory of climate change.”

Jen said she was proud to see that Ella’s activism had inspired Coppersmith to enter the portrait into the Archibalds.

“I’m certain Ella will continue to inspire and do amazing things,” Jen said.

ALBERT PARK’S FUTURE SCRIPT WRITERS On the 27th of May, Ms Carroll and three outstanding students Ava H (9C), Aloysia (9C) and Nat (9i) ventured into Federation Square facing the unknown.

Little did they know, they were about to have their minds blown by the current Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series at ACMI, Melbourne.

Some of the highlights included learning how to build a basic understanding of scriptwriting and lighting a spark in an interest in screenwriting. After the workshop, students were exposed to

numerous visual wonders at the current ACMI exhibit ‘The Moving Image’.

The exhibition explored the history of film, and the innovations taken by brilliant minds and left the APC students feeling inspired and excited for the future.

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BE AWARE OF SCHOOL SUPERVISION TIMES

Student safety at Albert Park College is our highest priority and the safe and appropriate supervision of students is an important element of our duty of care to students.

Part of this duty is ensuring parents and students are aware of our student supervision arrangements before and after school.

BEFORE SCHOOL School grounds are supervised at all campuses from 8.45 am. Please note that students do not have access to classrooms prior to the beginning of period 1 lessons at 9 am, so supervision is only provided at entry points of each campus.

AFTER SCHOOL School grounds are supervised until 3.30 pm. Note again that classrooms are not supervised after this time and only exit points are supervised until this time.

LIBRARY Opening hours in the Library at the Danks Street Campus are from 8.15 am until 4.30 pm, and supervision is provided at these times.

Students on school grounds outside these times will not be supervised (unless they are attending a before or after school care program or supervised extracurricular activity, such as Homework Club).

Parents and carers are requested to ensure students do not attend school outside these supervised times unless they are attending before or after school care, or a pre-arranged supervised activity (i.e. sports practice).

For a copy of the college Yard Duty and Supervision Policy, see the Parent Portal, along with our other policies pertaining to the care of your child.

The Yard Duty and Supervision policy includes APC’s student supervision arrangements across the school day, including before and after school. deadlines approach – watch out for messages.

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YEAR 9 STUDENTS ARE CITIZEN SCIENTISTS

↑ Year-9 students check out the local pollution.

Year 9 Environmental Inquiry students have been participating in citizen science projects with the help of experts from the Port Phillip Ecocentre (PPEC).

The goal of these sessions is for students to learn what real world scientific data collection looks like, to practice collecting data, and then to analyse it.

Additionally, they’re able to see how the data they collect helps local organisations reach out to government policy makers asking them to take action on environmental issues.

The first session has been looking at plastic pollution. The data collected will go towards the current PPED Litter Audit. The second session will be a biodiversity audit.

In the past, the PPEC has been able to use biodiversity data to ensure the council plants indigenous flowering plants around the local area to protect our endangered local flora and fauna.

The data the students will collect in their second session will continue that work.

Year 9 also have been learning about the supply chain of a product of their choice, which is being assessed in their panel exams this week.

While learning about their supply chain, they investigated the disposal phase and different landfills that exist in Melbourne which are currently harming the environment and lowering the quality of life for local residents.

how to live sustainably and with a low carbon footprint.

The Environmental Inquiry teaching team organised for students to tour the park to see its practices first hand.

During their research, they also learnt about the CERES Environmental Park which used to be a mining and landfill site but has been turned into a beautiful community park, educating locals on

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DANCE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE SOON!

APC is excited to announce that tickets will shortly be on sale for this year's dance show at Southbank Theatre, The Lawler.

The show, which is called Rise and Fall, is a creative representation of the ebbs and flow of everyday life; how monotonous movements can become a part of our lifestyles until we are forced to find another way.

According to dance coordinators Holly Schnieder and Merran Paice, the show is “designed to represent the resilience that our students have developed over the past few years”.

‘Undulate’, the first half of the performance, has been choreographed

by Melanie West, and depicts the repetitive motions of life, nature and the ocean.

↑ Students hard at work during dance rehearsals.

‘Revolve’, the second half of the show, has been choreographed by Aimee Schollum. It represents the recurring cycles of life and how we can rise after we’ve fallen.

SHOW DATES: THURSDAY, 4 AUGUST, 7PM FRIDAY, 5 AUGUST, 2PM FRIDAY, 5 AUGUST, 7PM

Watch your Compass messages for links to the box office.

Students were involved in sections of choreography of this piece, drawing on their own experiences over the past few years of forced change and personal expansion.

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TEACHERS GET ARTY TOO

lifting more and more students from lower to middle and on to higher bands of grades. This is value-adding at its best.

At APC we pride ourselves on our creativity and artistic abilities. Now the teachers and support staff are getting into the act, with some after-school painting sessions.

Her address – Marvelous Mathematics: Contextualizing Department of Education Training and Numeracy Initiatives – Rachael demonstrated the methods the college has been using to lift and maintain high results in standardized numeracy tests through better curriculum and teaching.

On Friday afternoon 27 May, our art teachers staged a Cork and Canvas event to bring out their inner Van Gough, Banksy and Rembrandt.

A great time was had by all. It’s all part of the wonderful atmosphere our staff have created to build teamwork and support each other during what is proving to be a somewhat pressurized term, caused by Covid, the flu and resulting staff shortages that have been well reported in the nightly news.

Thanks teachers and support staff. Your dedication has been amazing. We really appreciate everything you have done!

APC’S MATHS SUCCESSES SHARED WITH OTHER SCHOOLS On behalf of her colleagues, our prize winning mathematics teacher Rachael Gore was recently asked to share to a statewide conference APC’s amazing success in improving maths teaching.

As reported in the Herald-Sun and in our newsletter, APC is now in the top three schools in the state for growth in numeracy skills for years 7 to 9 of the NAPLAN tests. In other words, we are

It’s a complex field, but Rachael puts the college’s success down to: our high-demand high-challenge curriculum; continuous feedback to students; differentiated work to meet each individual student’s need; and multiple exposure to mathematical concepts.

One successful teaching method has been to embed mathematical concepts in real world and game-based lessons – to instill problem solving and reasoning skills development.

Rachael also spoke on the methods APC uses to lead and implement curriculum and teaching change across our school.

We’re delighted as always to share our successes with all Victorian schools.

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ANNUAL MUSIC CONCERT: ‘ALL TOGETHER NOW’ – TICKETS ON SALE! Our Annual Music Concert makes its return in Week 1 of Term 3 and tickets are now on sale via this website: Tickets available here.

After a two-year performance hiatus ‘All Together Now’ will feature our senior ensembles and musicians with a focus on collaboration, celebrating the joy of playing music together. The show will be presented at the Lawler Theatre (Southbank Theatre).

Tickets are fairly limited so book now to avoid missing out!

SHOW DATES: THURSDAY, JULY 14 – 7 PM FRIDAY, JULY 15 – 2.30 PM FRIDAY, JULY 15 – 7 PM

GREECE IS THE WORD The Greek Inspire Club meets every Monday to celebrate the strong Greek culture of our community, but also to develop a relationship with our sister school in Lemnos.

The idea is for students and staff to get together and learn about the Greek culture by learning to speak Greek, tasting Greek food delicacies and sweets, listening to Greek music and more.

Ms Demi Lazarakis and Ms Ariadne Georgiou are both Greek speakers and have been working closely with Year 11 student Emmanuel Kapellakis and his

teacher Ms Fiona Wright to develop the club. They are looking forward to more members joining.

The club meets every Monday at 3.30 pm at the Danks St Food Room. Due to exams, the club’s next meeting will be on Monday 11 July. Everyone is welcome to join.

↑ Greek lessons have begun!

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MASTERCHEF CHALLENGE IN YEAR 8 FOOD TECH

In early June, Year 8 students arrived at their food tech class to a tray of mystery ingredients on their kitchen benches. Taking off the covers, students were excited (and several horrified!) to discover their ingredients with which they had one hour to create a meal out of.

Ingredients included fennel, tofu, pork, rhubarb, frozen spinach, lentils, chorizo, and for some lucky students, marshmallows and chocolate. Students then had five minutes in which they had to plan the dish they’d make using the selected ingredients, with some students opting to challenge themselves creatively and with others relying on classic recipes.

At the end of the class, our Mini Masterchefs presented their dishes to the class, explaining what they chose to cook with their mystery ingredients.

Overall, the Year 8 Food Tech students pushed themselves to think creatively and performed very well under time pressure.

↑ Some of the fantastic dishes cooked up by the Year 8 masterchefs!

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YOUTH VOICE

e h t Be u o y e g n cha o t t n wa see

Exploring mental health and climate action

YOUTH VOICE FILM PROJECT Dates & Time

JUNE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS - 2 full days MONDAY 27 JUNE 10am-4pm Film production workshop storyboard, shot list, writing, artwork TUESDAY 28 JUNE 10am-4pm Film production workshop filming, reviewing, editing plan Editing film TUESDAY 19 JULY 5.30-7.30pm Editing review and launch/distribution planning 40 Grattan Street Prahran (Prahran Community Learning Centre) TEXT 0459 988 353 or email youthvoice@starhealth.org.au

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