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Students outperform their year level Over the last two years St Anthony’s has focused on each student realising their academic

potential despite their grade level – we call this ‘Breaking down the walls’. We have seen

students in Year 10 undertake VCE subjects; students undertaking extension studies in

their class cluster e.g. Year 4 students working with Year 5 students in maths and

literacy ; and the extra literacy and numeracy emphasis in Middle school seeing students

2-3 years above their class level on nationally-normed tests.

I will be inviting some parents to meet with myself and teachers over the next few weeks

to consider promoting these students in the middle of the year. There are also others who

may benefit from Term 4 in a higher year level. The purpose is to challenge and excite our

students to reach their potential. You will be invited to discuss this possibility for your

child. This is an important academic and social decision made only with parent and teacher

consent. If we do not contact you and you think your child would benefit from this

opportunity, and has outstanding abilities for his or her level, please contact me at the

College on 97863145.

St Anthony’s Coptic Orthodox College

Date: 07-03-2011 Volume: 32

College News Principal’s Awards In 2011 the College instituted the Principal’s Award for students whose

work or participation in the college community was brought to the

Principal’s attention. They are rewarded by having their work displayed on

the Principal’s Wall near the entrance for all our visitors to see, as well as an

award certificate presented at assembly. Congratulations to these recent re-

cipients: Theodora Nan Year 3, Lol Wichthiel Year 2, Piear Baselyous Year

4 and this week’s recipient Mary Tadross for her great artwork!

May Awards: At the start of June awards were given to 2-3 students at every year level to

recognise their achievement and hard work.

This is a monthly celebration.

Congratulation to our may recipient of Awards

Canteen to open in Term 3 The college canteen will be open for business in Term 3. A contract has been

finalised with a new provider who will operate the canteen 5 days a week

from the start of term 3. New menus and details of how it will work for

lunch orders will be given to students at the end of this term and be placed

on the website.

College News Last day of school Term 2 Last day of school for students is Wednesday 27th June. They return to

Term 3 on Tuesday 17th July.

The last day of school is a FREE DRESS DAY. A $2 coin must be paid if

students are in free dress. This supports the College’s fundraising efforts.

Cookies and muffins will also be available for purchase with the funds

going to the Salvation Army Winter Appeal.

Thank you to Year 4 students for organising this event.

Why our school has a ‘no-touch’ policy? There has been lots of media coverage this week about a nearby school

which introduced a ‘no touch’ policy. There was lots of outrage about

students not being able to hug or touch each other.

At St Anthony’s we have had this policy for two years now. It discourages

students pushing, play fighting, physical bullying as well as unwanted

physical contact from students of the opposite sex.

The policy reflects our Christian ethos of respect, acceptance and care of

others as well as building a culture where students are responsible for their

own actions.

However, it is applied with common sense. Our students undertaking PE

or sport will be involved in contact sports and often one of senior students

is helping an upset or injured junior student to sickbay or the office. It has

worked very well in our environment where we have Prep to Year 12

students in a coeducational setting.

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy please contact me

at the College.

Gary Underwood,

Principal.

THANK YOU TO NEIL AND HIS TEAM AT

AMAX REMOVALS FOR PICKING UP ALL

THE FURNITURE FROM MONASH UNI

FOR US.

College News Need more help and live in Frankston? Live locally in Frankston? Want to learn more about government services available to you?

Want to know how your child can benefit from free assistance with homework? Then come

to the college on the 24th July, second Tuesday in term 3.

We have invited the Centrelink Multicultural Manager to speak to local parents on services

and funding available to them. We are also providing homework club places on a Tuesday

afternoon for no cost thanks to Ardoch Youth Foundation. Come and join us for morning

tea on the 24th at 9:30am to see how you and your children can benefit. Contact Mrs Kym

Frost at the College for more details.

New furniture, shelving and cupboards St Anthony’s would like to thank Monash University for their generous gift of ‘almost’ new

furniture which is no longer needed by the university. We have been able to supply almost

all our secondary classrooms with new adult size tables and adult padded seating.

The university also supplied shelving for library centres in the

primary rooms as well as cabinets for storage. On top of this we received 4 huge tables

which will be fabulous in our revamped art room and numerous white boards. Thank you to

the members of the Coptic community who helped make this possible.

Also a big thank you to Neil at AMAX transport and Storage for helping us get the

furniture from Monash to the College at a very low rate. In you need transport or storage

contact AMAX on 1300 305 861 or at www.amaxremovals.com.au Monday to Friday from

7am – 6pm and Saturday from 7am – 2pm.

A BIG thank you to Jake Waston, Emmanuel Araya, Kyrollos Botros, Daniel Saad,

Emmanuel Duoth, Dusan Vujic, Waki Puoch, Alex Salib, Mina Angellos, Emmanuel Otaw,

Rebecca George, Rebecca Nasem, Sandra Fashka, Nuhra Nebati, Yat Ruea, David

Abdel-Malek, Mose Desta, Abanoub Makarious, Paul Ghaly, Mina Basandra, Mimi Knezic,

Chris Mondous, Mark Salib, Bishoy Iskander, & Jason Abdallah. For all your help in

helping unloading & setting up the furniture Monash Uni so kindly donated to

St Anthony’s.

Gingerbread Men in the Making

On Thursday 24th May the students in Year 2 made gingerbread people. They measured and

mixed. The sifted and stirred. They rubbed and rolled. Each student made three gingerbread

people. They were able to choose from gingerbread boy cutters or gingerbread girl cutters.

They made a small, middle and large gingerbread person. There were many activities that

week that involved The Gingerbread Man story as well.

Tegy and Georgina checking the flour for lumps Marc and David mixing with great intensity

Rachel, Joshua, Indya and Bishoy rolling Mark and Ariyam cutting

Ajang working on the recipe Joshua enjoying finished gingerbread men

Anthea Christian

Head of primary

GE volunteers help create

Teddy Bear Day at St Anthony’s

GE volunteers help create Teddy Bear Day at St Anthony’s On Wednesday 6th June, many volunteers from the company GE came into St Anthony’s

Coptic Orthodox College and helped the Prep, Year One and Year Two classes to make teddy

bears. This was organised by Lucette Talbot through the Ardoch Foundation. St Anthony’s

students and staff sincerely thank GE and Lucette for the fantastic opportunity. Every student

went home with a teddy bear of their choice. Extra bears were made for students who were

absent on the day so that no-one would feel left out. We opened all the doors between the

classrooms and used the big open spaces we had. It was great!

This is the first step in making

teddies. Asad has the ‘flat’ teddy

Here is Asad putting stuffing inside the teddy

shape. It was tricky getting it inside the legs and

arms. We had white fluff all over the big space.

And finally, here is Asad with his finished

teddy, ready to be loved and cuddled.

Ivey Panicker Prep Teacher

Fundraising News

Students and parents have been doing a great job collecting the earn

& learn stickers. Woolworths has accounced that they are extending

the program until the 12th of August, so keep collecting.

Coles Sports for School 2012 starts as of the 13th June. Make sure if you

shop at coles to collect the tickets. This program runs through until 24th

August.

Our Cookie Dough Fundraiser for the school needs another 4 tubs to

place an order so if you have forgotten to hand your order in please do as

soon as possible. We have people waiting and we would like to place the

order to have 4 order delivered before school holidays.

Up Coming Events

Alumni Dinner on Sunday 22nd July 2012

BUY AT RITCHIES & EARN MONEY

FOR THE SCHOOL.

ALL TAGS WILL BE SENT TO YOUR

HOME SOON.

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER

Have you arrived in Australia in the last 5 years?

Would you like to improve your English?

You may be eligible for a tutor to visit you at home or, if more convenient, you could meet

your tutor at St Anthony’s when you drop your child or children off to school on the

morning.

AMES Volunteer Tutor Program now has an office at St Anthony’s

Paula Zavetchanos is the AMES Volunteer Tutor Program Coordinator and is happy to talk

to you about your options.For further enquiries please contact Paula on 0400 667 731 or

come in and meet Paula on Thursdays.

AMES comes to St Anthony’s

Year One and Two at the

Melbourne Museum

On Wednesday 13th June, 34 students and 11 adults (and one toddler) went to Melbourne

Museum. I would like to say a big thank you to the volunteers who came with us and an

even bigger thank you to the parents who gave up their time to attend. You were all

awesome.

The students were very well behaved and so excited about all the different exhibitions

they were going to see. After we got off the buses, we had morning tea and then entered

the Museum. Our first activity was the dinosaur walk. Students saw models of many

different dinosaurs including models of their teeth, which they could touch.

Teeth are very different depending on whether a dinosaur is a carnivore or an herbivore.

Second, we went to Bugs Alive! This was an awesome exhibition with real live bugs to

look at, listen to and even smell! After lunch most groups watched a 3D movie on how

rocks formed and later went to the Marine Life exhibit. Diane Kassiotis Grade 1 Teacher

ST ANTHONY’S COPTIC ORTHODOX COLLEGE

BUSINESS BREAKFAST MEETING WITH SCOTT MUNN

CEO of MELBOURNE HEART FC Wednesday 28th AUGUST 2012

Ticket $65 7:00 am – 9:30am

(Please arrive at 6:45am to be seated) Includes Breakfast, Tea and Coffee

(Book a table of 10 & receive 10% discount) AT THE ROTARY ROOM

FRANKSTON ART CENTRE Corner of YOUNG & DAVEY STREETS FRANKSTON (Melways Ref 100A D8)

WHEN BREAKFAST CONCLUDES There is a football clinic being held by Melbourne Heart

at St Anthony’s 15 Alpina Street Frankston North Booking Details please contact

Kym Frost 9786 3145 or kfrost@stanthonys.vic.edu.au

Year 6 and Year 1 Peer learning

More Teddy Bear Day photos