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JUNIOR SCHOOL THE STRAND MOONEE PONDS ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

YEARS 7 / 8

Reference: Clairvaux 1982

Today’s students would be interested in many of the following activities.

During Terms 2 and 3 we have been involved in the Activities Program conducted with the help of mothers and fathers of the students and the facilities of Footscray and Essendon Technical School.

The program has provided us with experience with arts and crafts which are not included in the usual school curriculum.

Essendon Technical School has offered us experience in Woodwork, Motor Mechanics, and Handcrafts. The mothers and fathers have helped in basketry and cane weaving, clay modelling, cooking, sewing, macrame, guitar, first aid, typing, woodburning, and the sports of tennis and table tennis.

Our thanks to Br. Hetherington who has been the organiser behind the program. Our gratitude goes to all those who have given up their Thursday afternoons to persist.

Library News

Library hours over the June/July holiday period

The Library will be closed over the June/July holiday period. Students are welcome to borrow for holiday reading.

Holiday Reading recommendations

Enders game by Orson Scott Card

Ender Wiggin is Battle School’s latest recruit. His teachers believe's he could become a great leader, and they need one!

A vast alien force is headed for Earth. Its mission: the annihilation of all human life!

Ender could be the only hope. But first he must survive the most brutal military training program in the galaxy.

A classic science fiction book, highly recommended. Junior Book Club are currently reading this book.

Victoire by Roland Phillipps

A true story in occupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carre, codenamed ‘the Cat’, later known as Agent Victoire. She is charismatic, daring and a spy: her story is one of heroism and survival against the odds.

With little training or support, Mathilde and her Polish collaborator, Roman Czerniawski, create a huge web of agents in a matter of weeks to form the first great Allied intelligence network of the Second World War. They risk torture and execution to deliver coded reports, London’s sole source of reliable information about the Occupation.

This is a story of a courageous, spy and hero. Highly recommended for those who like reading action/adventure and wartime stories.

Enjoy the holiday break.

After what can be called a ‘challenging’ 2 years, Santa Monica is back in ‘full swing’, the students are out in the surf again and the campus is alive.

For the students coming down to EasternView, we see them rising to the occasions and challenges that are presented to them as a part of their Year 9 studies at St. Bernard’s. For over 20 years this has and will continue to be a key time in these students lives, a modern day rights of passage if you like, where they have formative experiences in stepping up from being older children, to young adults.

The program is structured with intentional experiences over the 4 weeks. Sequential learning of concepts around engagement, leadership, environmental stewardship, communication and St. Bernard’s ‘3 R’s’ it leads naturally into a time of their lives where the students are starting to ask bigger questions and be challenged to become better versions of themselves. The staff are right there with the students in all the day to day activities, role modelling the behaviours we instil with them and demonstrating these concepts.

In the surf, the students are challenged to not just catch a wave, but to learn how to act in an aquatic environment safely with their peers. On the bikes, the guys are challenged with the desire to act recklessly or to be able to safely assess risk. We build from these experiences over those 4 weeks are as we do, we see the groups being able to take more responsibility for themselves, for others and for the wider communities to which they belong.

Service Learning has been a huge part of our program this year. In surrounding community groups, the boys dedicate their time to helping others. Partnering alongside members of the Surf Coast communities, they chat with these locals and gain skills, knowledge and wisdom, usually far greater than just on the task at hand.

We love the growth and development at this time of a student’s schooling. Like seeds, we sometimes don’t see the growth for a while, though under the surface they’re building strong foundations, gaining nutrients and then, all of sudden at an exceptional rate we see them flourish and rise up to that which is presented to them.

St Bernard's College is thrilled to be a participant in the Edmund Rice Education Beyond Borders (EREBB ) Global Classroom Project in 2022. The aim of the project is to build connections between students of Edmund Rice schools around the globe, with the hope of sharing in cultural experiences and exchange programs. This year, SBC are partnering with Stella Maris College, a bilingual Edmund Rice school in Montevideo Uruguay. Here are the students writing letters to their new South American friends in preparation for a series of videoconferences next Term.

The St Bernard's College Foundation is proud to announce the annual Gala Dinner has been locked in for Friday, July 22nd at the prestigious State Library, Ian Potter Queens Hall.

As of May 2020, the Uniform Shop will be operating by appointment only. This will help alleviate lengthy queues during peak periods.

With the phasing in of the new Sun-smart bucket hats next term, we will be selling the remaining stock of SBC baseball caps for $8 each. Please note that the caps will not be available to purchase from October onwards but students will still be permitted to wear them.

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If you know the sizes of the items you require, visit https://shop.sbc.vic.edu.au/ to order online.

For all other uniform enquiries, or to volunteer in the uniform shop, please email rbuhagiar@sbc.vic.edu.au or phone 9289 1176.