Contents
Headmaster
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols Junior School Christmas Service Proposed Term Dates 2020 Important Diary Dates Beehive Proposal Scholarships 2021
Middle School
Casual Clothes Day - Friday 15 November Central Australia Information Evening - Tuesday 12 November Remembrance Day - Monday 11 November
Edition 70, 8 November 2019
From the Headmaster
I hope that you were lucky at the races, and more importantly were able to enjoy a restful day with your family or friends last Tuesday. Our Year 12 students continue to sit their examinations and reports so far suggest that they are feeling generally confident and that the papers have been fair. I wish the very best of luck to all of our students.
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols A reminder to our School families that our Annual Carol Service will take place at 8.00pm on Wednesday 11 December in St Paul’s Cathedral, Flinders Street, City. Following the Service, the Friends of Music are hosting a supper in the Church hall and all members of the congregation are warmly invited to join us. This is a lovely way to end the School year and an opportunity to get together prior to Christmas. Please ensure that you arrive early at the Church as this is always a well-attended occasion.
Junior School Christmas Service Parents and friends of our Junior School children are also warmly invited to attend St Mark’s Church, Burke Road, Camberwell on Thursday 12 December at 11.00am for the annual Christmas Service. This too is a very enjoyable service involving our younger students and will be their final event for the School year.
ICAS Science Medal
Proposed Term Dates 2020
Pre Prep Transition into Prep 2020 Parent Information Evening
I include our proposed dates for next year, to assist you with early planning of holidays or trips. Given that we circulate our dates so far in advance, I would ask that you try not to withdraw your son early from School Terms, as this can be very disruptive to their learning program.
Junior School
Wishing Tree Appeal Dates Ahead
Sport Careers Calendar Support Groups OCGA Year Level Dates Links to Flyers
TERM 1
TERM 2
Thursday 30 January - Friday 27 March
Wednesday 15 April - Friday 26 June
Labour Day, Monday 9 March
Student Free Day, Tuesday 16 June
Easter Friday, 10 April
ANZAC Day, Saturday 25 April
Easter Monday, 13 April
Queen’s Birthday, Monday 8 June
TERM 3
TERM 4
Tuesday 14 July - Friday 11 September
Monday 5 October - Thursday 10 December Melbourne Cup Weekend, Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 November
Important Diary Dates Attached are important dates for the end of this year and the beginning of 2020. It is important that the students are aware of the dates for orientation days, the book exchange and text book ordering. I encourage you to enter the relevant dates from this flyer into your diaries. 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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Beehive Proposal I have received a very persuasive submission from our Middle School Towards2050 environmental group regarding us hosting a beehive on our property. The boys, with the help of Ms Katrina Massey, have done a great deal of research about how important bees are to our environment, and how the human species depends on their pollination of plants. They have also met with a local company which supplies beehives in our local area – Backyard Honey – and have completed a feasibility study which shows that a hive would be well suited to Camberwell Grammar School. We propose therefore to run a trial with a beehive here next year. The hive will be located in a lockable area with direct access to the outdoors, and students will not be able to access it. It should produce us some of our own honey each year, but more importantly it will help to sustain the bee population in this area.