Contents
Headmaster
Welcome Back to Term 4 Senior School Office Relocation Open Day – Saturday 12 October Mobile Muster at Open Day Grandparents’ Day School Appointments for 2020 VCE Art and Design Exhibition Free Public Forum: Adolescents Investing in Future Generations 2019 National Chemistry Quiz Colours AGSV Sports Representatives 2019/20 Summer Sport Season Captains and Vice Captains Debating (DAV)
Middle School
Parent Seminar - Adolescent Internet Use Koala Kids Year 8 Social ICT in Innovation Congratulations Basketball 2020 Senior School Production
Junior School Life Education
Walk to School Day and Health Morning Summer Uniform Dates Ahead
Sport Music Careers Calendar Support Groups Camberwell Grammar School 55 Mont Albert Road Canterbury Victoria 3126 T +61 3 9835 1777 registrar@cgs.vic.edu.au www.cgs.vic.edu.au
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Edition 66, 11 October 2019
From the Headmaster Welcome Back to Term 4 A warm welcome back to all members of our Learning Community to Term 4. I hope that all families enjoyed the three week break, and that our students were able to take the time to rest and to gather their strength for the big term which is ahead of us. It was not a three week break for our Year 12 students! It was good to see many of them visiting their teachers for classes, and they all sat practice examinations in the final week. Special thanks to our VCE Co-ordinator, Mr Marcus Jones and Student Services Office Administrator, Ms Jan Sangster, who organised and ran these examinations for our Year 12 and 11 students. We wish them all the very best as they make their final preparations for the coming examinations.
Senior School Office Relocation We have had a very busy term break at School, as our Senior School Office undertook a significant moving program. Our Deputy Head and Head of Senior School, Mr Rob French and his team have relocated to M46 on the top level of the H.R. McDonald Building in preparation for restorations and renovations to their Kingussie Offices, which we hope to have completed some time by the middle of next year. Mr Neal’s office has also been relocated to the top level of the H.R. McDonald Building, to M45. It has been a significant logistical exercise, and I am grateful to our Maintenance Team for their efforts at this time.
Open Day – Saturday 12 October We look forward to welcoming many of you to tomorrow’s Open Day. I hope that you will enjoy the celebration of our community, and to see some of the varied activities which take place at our School commencing at 10.00am. Our Parents’ Association and Friends of Groups have done a wonderful job once more in organising a range of activities and stalls for the day and I greatly appreciate the time and support they continue to give to our School. Many of our students will again act as ambassadors and guides for our visitors – they are our best advertisements. For the first time we will be running an Arts Hub in the quadrangle outside Kingussie – please visit it to see the various performances and activities. The day will conclude with our Cadet Passing Out Parade on the JTO, commencing at 1.00pm. We are delighted that our Cadets will be inspected this year by Major General Justin Ellwood DSC, AM. Please make the time to visit us tomorrow with your sons and to see all of our varied activities and facilities, and also visit our beautiful All Souls Chapel at the very centre of our School. A program for the day can be viewed here. There will be no parking for parents and visitors on site on Saturday. We therefore ask that you please observe our neighbour’s rights if parking in the local area, and I ask in particular that cars are not parked on grass nature strips or across the driveways of surrounding streets.
Mobile Muster at Open Day Towards2050 invites the School Community to visit the Senior School Quadrangle during the Open Day festivities. Amongst many things they will have a large Mobile Muster box set up. You can bring in your old phones, rechargers, headphones and phone batteries, and in one quick visit be rid of all that toxic waste and in exchange Towards2050 are offering a plant for you to grown in your garden. For further information please click the following link https://www.mobilemuster.com.au/recycling.
Grandparents’ Day Grandparents of all present students are warmly invited to visit the School the Tuesday 29 October from 10.00am. There will be a chance for grandparents to spend time with their grandsons commencing with a morning tea, followed by a concert and concluding with a School tour. I encourage all Grandparents to visit us and to see the work being done by your grandsons. A flyer at the end of this Bulletin includes booking details.