APC Newsletter Edition 2 2020

NEWS

Edition 2 – March 2020

Contents 2

Principal’s Say

Academic 3

F1 Momentum Team Inspiring girls to take up STEM

Aboriginal Heritage Walk and Charcoal Lane – Enrichment and VCE Food Studies

4 F1 in Schools

Australian National Finals Co-Curricular 5 Chess Tournament

and Horse Riding Camp 6 Conference Call with Greece 7

Women’s Day Breakfast and Reusable Coffee Cups

8

Da Vinci Campus News

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Politicians grilled

Student Voice 10 Student Voice and

the College Leadership

Group, College

Captains speak at Port

Phillip Council and

Supporting the

Summer Bushfires Appeal Families 11

Privacy information for parents and carers

12 Extra space for APC students Advertisements

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NEWS

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Friday 27 March Last day of Term 1 Tuesday 14 April First day of Term 2 Monday 27 April Public Holiday Anzac Day Bob Stewart – Albert Park Store – Amended Hours Due to the current climate the Albert Park store will be closed Easter Saturday 11 April and Easter Monday 13 April.

Albert Park College Open Day Thursday 30 April 2.00 – 6.00pm As a result of the Victorian Health and Human Services directive concerning transmission reduction measures – COVID -19 – Albert Park College’s Open Day has been cancelled.

Principal’s Say

to ensure that your child is up, breakfasted and ready to go from 9 am until 3.10 pm every school day, from a good quiet study space at home. Counselling and “What we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than support from Positive Education Mentors will continue via Google Classroom and email. It’s not quite business to despise.” Albert Camus, The Plague as usual, but as close as is possible. Our many years of investment in creating our Portal is paying off.

As a literature teacher, I couldn’t help but begin with a quote from Albert Camus’ I would also like to direct you to the Parent Portal for great novel The Plague. Many of you – important advice on how to keep yourself and your students and parents – will already know its story of how a group of ordinary French children safe, and how you can discuss this matter citizens deal with an unexpected outbreak with your children. This video by child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg is particularly good. of the plague in Oran in the 1940s. The novel’s insights into how a community I want to end by saying something to our year-12 reacts to pandemic are profound and may offer as good a guide as any as to how we students, who are having to deal with this pandemic in this most important year for them. Special should behave in these difficult times. It’s a novel you will never forget and will make arrangements are being put in place to give them the extra support and assistance they will need to an extremely rewarding holiday read. continue their studies, including the creation of virtual classrooms using the Google Meet App. I know their Our college has closed early for the teachers will do everything possible to support them school holidays, at the direction of the to achieve the outstanding results we know they’re state government. I am extremely proud capable of. of the way the students and staff stuck at their tasks over the last fortnight or so as the COVID-19 pandemic increased in severity. Everyone displayed courage and professionalism in the best possible way.

As a public institution, it was important that we set a good example to our students and our community of calmness and steadfastness in the face of adversity – in contrast to the unseemly examples of panic and selfishness that have appeared on the television news. There are no upsides to this tragic situation, but we can at least take satisfaction from the fact that our students are gaining valuable lessons in how to be good citizens.

Thank you for your support. The school is determined to remain a source of community strength until the crisis is over.

I want you to assume that while the school is physically closed, most things will be operating as usual. If it can be done online, it probably will. The newsletter and communications with you will continue.

And we will be discovering new ways to keep the students and staff engaged, healthy and having fun.

Steve Cook Foundation Principal

Should the college need to remain closed after the holidays, we will be fully prepared to become an online school for as long as necessary. Indeed, the year-12 students are already operating online, assisted by their incredibly dedicated teachers.

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NEWS

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ACADEMIC

Aboriginal Heritage Walk and Charcoal Lane – Enrichment and VCE Food Studies On Friday 13 March, our little year 11 food class of 4 students went to explore indigenous and native Australian food and experienced a traditional Aboriginal smoking ceremony. We took a tour around the Botanical Gardens and learnt many things! We explored plants that were used for food and some even toilet paper (could be helpful right now in the world!). We then ended the day at Charcoal Lane and ate some amazing native Australian flavours!

We spoke to one of the head chefs who gave us some insight on why he enjoys cooking with certain native Australian ingredients and how he found cooking with these (sometimes) unusual ingredients!

This excursion enhanced our learning and made the topics we are learning about in class by actually seeing and tasting, some

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things people used to eat when all the ingredients we have today were not available. Lastly, thank you Miss Chang for this unforgettable experience!

Charisma Unit 1 and 2 Food Studies Students Participating in this excursion gave us, as leaders of the hospitality team, a greater appreciation and in-depth knowledge of ingredients close to home and their significance to Australia’s native tribes. We learnt about the cultural and traditional use of various native ingredients from our Botanical Gardens tourguide. We then had the opportunity to learn how to work with and hero native ingredients in cooking, as taught by Charcoal Lane’s sous chef. We feel very fortunate to have been a part of this experience and we look forward to relaying this new knowledge to our team members. We are excited to incorporate native ingredients and Indigenous elements in our future event catering at Albert Park College!

Johanna Tam, Harriette Christie and Lachlan Black Hospitality Leaders

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ACADEMIC

F1 in Schools Australian National Finals

In particular we would like to thank: • Global Victoria • Holden • Textron Systems Australia On 9 March the F1 in Schools Australian National Finals began. It continued through • RMIT University • Dr Amanda Caples, the Lead Scientist for Victoria to 13 March and was certainly a challenge.

• Ms Priya Serrao, Miss Universe Australia for 2019, a Momentum, an all girls F1 in Schools brand ambassador of F1 and our brand advocate team representing Albert Park College, • Ford competed at the 2020 National Finals • Driven Women along with 36 other teams.

• The Hon. Martin Foley, minister for creative industries and local member for Albert Park We competed over the course of the week, setting up our trade booth display and We would also like to mention Ms Rebecca Seel and Mr presenting our work through a series of stages. This included a verbal presentation, Andrew Burden, the leading teachers for F1 in Schools. marketing interview, engineering interview, They have put so much effort into helping us complete manufacturing interview and of course, the our F1 in Schools journey and we thank them both for that. The achievements that we made are not just racing of our car. about us, although we tend to take all the glory. At the Awards Ceremony, Ms Seel was awarded for being an At the end of the week Momentum took REA Fellow. If you see her around, please congratulate out the award for Outstanding Industry her on it. It is an amazing award to have won, she Collaboration. We placed tenth out of a field of 17. This competition has also taught was the only female to receive it and she has been an us many valuable life skills and we are very inspiration for the four of us. grateful that we were able to have this Below are some highlights of the week. For more opportunity. For this we must thank APC, our parents, our teachers, our sponsors and information you can visit our website at www. apcmomentum.com or see our Instagram mentors and all our supporters. @apcmomentum.

As a final note, thank you to the APC community for supporting us getting this far. We are very proud of our achievements and look forward to seeing more students taking on the F1 in Schools Challenge.

Momentum: Caroline Tan-Wong, Ami Farthing, Matilda Lester, Agnes McCallum

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CO-CURRICULAR

Chess Tournament On Tuesday 10 March, 8 students represented Albert Park College in the first inter school Chess Tournament of the year. Our team came fourth. Ashutosh Pande in year 11 qualified for the state finals. Enkhjin Buyanbat in year 8 qualified for the girls’ state finals. Well done to all students involved: Sophia Oman, Vihaan Dowwray, Gopal Pingili, Gauranga Jhamb, Benny Hea, Aidan Sinclair, Ashutosh Pande and Enkhjin Buyanbat.

Please look out for compass posts for future chess tournaments.

Beatrice Roberts

Horse Riding Camp On the 10 March ten students from years 7, 8 and 9 headed off to Coonawarra Horse Trails, East Gippsland for a horse riding camp. The trip was an awesome experience and everyone who went really enjoyed it.

While on the camp students learned not only how to walk, trot and canter, but properly care for and groom each of their horses. Every morning we were woken up at 7 am to have breakfast and start the day with the horses. First off was grooming, one important thing we learnt was how to pick the horses’ hooves to clear out any rocks that could hurt their hooves and how to brush their manes, tails and bodies. After doing all that we would move onto tacking up, learning how to properly tack a horse and how to tighten and strap all the saddles. We didn’t put the reins in ourselves due to the fact that if it wasn’t done properly the horse could get hurt. On the first day when we arrived we walked from the ranch where we got our horses to ‘the barn’ which was the accommodation for the camp. On the

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second day we had a lesson where we split into two groups and learned how to do a proper trot and canter. We then had lunch and then did a half day ride around the bush where we got to use all our new skills.

On day 3 we did a full day ride, we packed our lunch in our saddle bags, tacked up and set off for a trip around the bush and back. We got sweaty and tired, but before we could rest we had to give the horses a nice refreshing sponge bath and put them in the paddock for the night. On the last day everyone was very tired but keen for our final ride back to the ranch, after which we sponged the horses and packed all our stuff onto the bus for the 4 hour drive ahead.

Kendra Crocker, Year 7

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CO-CURRICULAR

Conference Call with Greece In line with the school’s value of International Mindedness, on Wednesday 4 March a group of students from years 7 to 12 participated in a group conference call to our sister school, Lyceum of Moudros, in Lemnos. Eleftheria Tachmatzidou and Zacharias Kapellakis led the charge, speaking in fluent Greek while they quickly jumped back to English to explain to the rest of us what they were saying. Other students who speak a little Greek with their parents and grandparents were able to pick up majority of the conversation. Other students who didn’t have a Greek language background spoke English and asked about Greek traditions around Easter time and what the celebrations involve. We also discussed ANZAC Day and the different ways we pay our respects. We look forward to our next call with Lemnos and wish them a ‘Kalo Paska’ (Happy Easter in Greek).

It was great to see a varying range of ethnic students participate in the skype call, as it wasn’t just Greek students who were able to get involved.

During the skype call we discussed ways in which students who have some recognition of the Greek language could learn the basics of the language to communicate to our sister school, i.e. Greetings, Names, Days of the Week, etc. Likewise students of the Lyceum of Moudros are very keen on practicing English conversations with students and teachers at Albert Park College.

Concluding the skype call, both schools had set a task of creating a presentation comparing how Easter and ANZAC day are celebrated in both countries; including: the traditional ceremonies, cuisines, social gatherings, and activities.

Zacharias Kapellakis, Year 11

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CO-CURRICULAR

Women’s day breakfast On Thursday 5 March, a small group of APC’s leaders celebrated International Women’s Day with Women in Rotary. We all had a very early morning, meeting at Crown at 6.45 am to eat breakfast with hundreds of other guests, reflecting on the idea of having ‘a seat at the table’ and how we are striving for equality for all genders.

Highly influential speakers spoke on the way in which they are fighting for quality, including Sally Capp, the Lord Mayor and the Assistant Commissioner of the AFP Deb Platz, who both told stories of discrimination they have faced in their careers and how they overcame these to get to the positions they are in now.

All the leaders left the breakfast, feeling motivated to continue our fight for equality for all genders.

Milly Clark, Year 12

Reusable Coffee Cups Albert Park College is excited to reveal their Reusable Coffee Cups in partnership with Frank Green. Then cups celebrate the 10 year anniversary of APC and demonstrate our efforts to reduce waste and gain star ratings as a ResourceSmart School. The idea to go disposable cup free at the Year 9 campus came about at the end of 2018. The initiative has developed and has become school wide much to the delight of initiator and designer, Year 11 Ambassador, Melisand Box. The cups have been available from the Bay Street and Pickles Street Cafés and the Danks Street Canteen since 16 March.

10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Staff: $20 Students: $20 Families: $25

Melisand Box, Year 11 Ambassador

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Da Vinci Campus news

fieldwork on local beaches, learning about human damage to our environment and It has been a very busy start importantly, real solutions. to 2020 at the Bay St Campus.

Students have been involved in All year-9 students also had a wide range of activities across the opportunity to attend all subject areas both onsite and Melbourne Zoo where they on excursion across Melbourne. participated in conservation education programs, getting Students experienced a real up close and personal with lots fieldwork event on Kerferd Rd of animals both living and in Pier run by the Oyster Watch skeletal form.

Program which aims to restore lost reefs that supported life It certainly has been a in the Bay for thousands of positive beginning at Bay years. With a renewed focus St with a clear theme of on the Bay, students have also ‘connectedness’ driven through been involved in important

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Positive Education sessions and assemblies leading to strong relationships between students and teachers. Student involvement in Inspire Clubs and offsite programs at Lagoon reserve has been excellent, and attests to the rich experience of life at the Bay St Campus.

We are very proud of the achievements of our students this term and as we move into Term 2, we look forward to more wonderful events and participation, particularly as the Da Vinci Project gathers pace.

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CO-CURRICULAR Politicians grilled

On Monday 17 February, APC and MacRob year 9s took part in a special Q&A-style session with the federal Labor Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Mark Butler and the federal member for Macnamara, Josh Burns.

coal-fired power generation – an issue vexing government and opposition at present.

Mark’s position was that the expansion of coal-fired power generation is fundamentally inconsistent with the 2015 Paris Accord’s goal of achieving netThe MCs for the event, school captains Eloise and Oscar, zero emissions by 2050 to keep global temperature from rising by more than 1.5 managed the 250 students with aplomb. to 2 degrees Celsius. The world’s economy, he said, was making up it’s mind. A big job Mark’s message was summed up in a quote he gave of political parties, he added, is to reassure from former US President, Barack Obama, who said workers and communities affected by the students today were part of the first generation to witness climate change and the last generation who can move towards net-zero emissions that they will benefit from the creation of new jobs avert it. and new sources of prosperity in lower emissions industries.

In true APC style, the students were keen to ask tough questions, especially relating to coal mining and

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STUDENT VOICE

Student Voice and the College Leadership Group

Supporting the Summer Bushfires Appeal

Australia recently experienced the most devastating season of fires the country has ever seen. As a student leadership team, we wanted to ensure that the College was addressing this and doing as much as possible to help vulnerable communities rebuild. On Thursday 19 March we did exactly that; as a school community we came together to raise funds that were to be passed onto an appropriate bushfire charity. On the day, students donated funds in lieu of free dress and APC held its first ‘Plants for the Planet’ stall - an initiative that saw students donate and sell succulents in an effort to increase biodiversity and sustainable practices. There was also a reflection period over the public announcement system that allowed for the whole school to stop and think about the effects that these fires had on communities and the environment.

Overall, it was a really special day and I’m very proud of everyone for treating this cause with respect and wanting to support Australians and the environment in times of need. Donations of succulent and other plant trimmings were repotted in recycled glass jars and sold to students and teachers. 40 plant sales raised approximately $150! All proceeds will be donated to the Carbon Neutral Charity Fund, who are replanting native College Captains speak at Port trees and shrubs using local seeds. This is an important Phillip Council process of regenerating Australia’s natural landscape in order to preserve our unique flora and fauna. The trees At the City of Port Phillip meeting on 18 planted will also join the fight against climate change March, the college captains participated as they absorb carbon emissions from the atmosphere. along with Ms Pritchard in the debate over These native plants, funded by your donations, will help a proposed licensing agreement that would prevent last summer’s unprecedented fires from ever formalise our use of Gasworks Arts Park and repeating themselves.

Lemnos Square. With the help of hundreds of school community members who wrote Eloisa Moses McMahon, College Captain and Johanna to the council to voice their support for our Tam, Year 10, Community Engagement Leader cause, we illustrated the value of Gasworks to students. Ultimately, the council agreed to move ahead with the license and expressed enthusiasm for continuing the positive relationship between it and the college. This is a fantastic outcome for the school community and a tribute to the groundswell of support we received from that community!

On 4 March, Eloisa and I presented to Leading Teachers about student voice and our plan for 2020 as student leaders. We outlined our four goals for the year, which are to: • to promote student voice • to increase school pride and student engagement • to protect our environment • to celebrate and enable diversity and inclusivity.

We also discussed our efforts to embed student voice in the college’s decision making processes through the new Student Voice Team, which will act as the central student leadership group. As school leaders, we are excited to make the most of the college’s emphasis on increasing student voice and agency and to continue working with college staff to increase student leadership.

Oscar Pearce, College Captain

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FAMILIES

Privacy information for parents and School staff will only share your child’s personal carers During the ordinary course of your child’s attendance at APC, school staff will collect your child’s personal and health information when necessary to educate your child, or to support your child’s social and emotional wellbeing and health.

Such information will also be collected when required to fulfil a legal obligation, including duty of care, anti-discrimination law and occupational health and safety law. If that information is not collected, the school may be unable to provide optimal education or support to your child, or fulfil those legal obligations.

Personal and health information may be collected through: 1.

APC first aid officer 2.

Student Support Service officers (SSSOs) 3.

NIRODAH psychologist 4.

APC wellbeing officer 5.

APC staff member.

If your child is referred to a specific heath service at school, such the NIRODAH psychologist or wellbeing officer, your consent will be obtained.

or health information with other staff who need to know to enable the school to educate or support your child, or fulfil a legal obligation. Please view the Department’s Privacy Policy for further information regarding our ‘need to know’ framework.

When our students transfer to another Victorian government school personal and health information about that student will be transferred to that next school. Transferring this information is in the best interests of our students and assists that next school to provide optimal education and support to students.

In some limited circumstances, information may be disclosed outside of the school (and outside of the Department of Education and Training). The school will seek your consent for such disclosures unless the disclosure is permitted or mandated by law.

Our school values the privacy of every person. All school staff will comply with Victorian privacy law when collecting and managing personal and health information. For more information about privacy including about how to access personal and health information held by the school about you or your child, see our school’s privacy policy: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/ schoolsprivacypolicy.aspx

Throughout this notice, ‘staff’ includes principals, teachers, well-being support officers, social workers, nurses and other allied health practitioners and all APC may use online tools and software (approved by the Department of Education other staff at our school. This includes employees, agents and service providers (contractors) of the and Training) to effectively collect and Department, whether paid or unpaid. manage information about your child for teaching and learning purposes, parent communication and engagement, student administration and school management purposes. When engaging with these online tools and software, APC will endeavour to take steps to ensure that your child’s information is secure. If you have any concerns regarding our use of these online tools, please contact us.

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FAMILIES

Extra space for APC students In a pleasing win for the college and the local community, the City of Port Phillip voted unanimously to grant an ongoing license to APC to use a section of the south-west corner of Gasworks Arts Park for supervised passive recreation space during recess and lunchtime.

As an inner-city school, APC has a small footprint, and this decision gives our students the extra green space we have all been craving.

We are incredibly grateful for the councillor’s strong support. In the council meeting, the mayor and councillors acknowledged the college’s valued place in the community, spoke of our wonderful success in educating the local community’s children, and stated their strong willingness to help us out in this way.

Our school leaders addressed the council during the debate in the eloquent and persuasive manner we have come to expect. Well done to them!

The college also wants to thank the many hundreds of parents and other members of the school community who sent emails of support to their elected councillors, demonstrating their strong support for more recreation space for our students. It’s a great result for the college.

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School Insurance and Liability Information Parents and carers are reminded that the Department of Education does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students.

Parents and carers of students who do not have student accident insurance or ambulance cover are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance or transport and any other transport costs.

Parents, carers and students are reminded that any private property brought to school by students, staff or usurers is not insured and the Department does not accept any responsibility for loss or damage.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE INFORMATION FOR PARENTS Every Victorian child should have access to the world of learning opportunities that exist beyond the classroom. The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund helps ensure that no student will miss out on the opportunity to join their classmates for important, educational and fun activities. It is part of making Victoria the Education State and the Government’s commitment to breaking the link between a student’s background and their outcomes.

CAMPS, SPORTS & EXCURSIONS FUND (CSEF) School camps provide children with inspiring experiences in the great outdoors, excursions encourage a deeper understanding of how the world works and sports teach teamwork, discipline and leadership. All are part of a healthy curriculum.

HOW TO APPLY

New applicants should contact the school office to obtain a CSEF application form or download from www.education.vic.gov.au/csef

The annual CSEF amount per student is:

If you applied for the CSEF at your child's school in 2019, you do not need to complete an application form in 2020 unless there has been a change in your family circumstances.

You only need to complete an application form if any of the following changes have occurred:  new student enrolments; your child has started or changed schools in 2020 or you did not apply in 2019.  changed family circumstances; such as a change of custody, change of name, concession card number, or new siblings commencing at the school in 2020.

• $125 for primary school students

Check with the school office if you are unsure.

CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

• $225 for secondary school students

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the CSEF visit www.education.vic.gov.au/csef

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