155 Verney Road, Shepparton VIC 3630 p: 03 58317790 f: 03 58317793 e: [email protected]Shepparton Chrisan College educating for eternity Touching Base Newsleer 3 rd May, 2018 Issue 7 VCE Careers Expo - Yr 12 (Caulfield) School Photos NAPLAN Big Science Compeon Mothers Day Stall Yr 11 Making Beer Choices Yr 10 Road Smart Oral Health Educaon Prog Grd P-3 Snr Winter Sports Yr 9-12 Grandparents/Special Persons Day Jnr Winter Sports Yr 7-8 Upcoming Events May Fri 4 Thurs 10 Tue 15 - 17 Wed 9 - 16 Fri 11 Thur 17 Fri 18 Thur 24 Tue 29 Wed 30 Compassion . Humility . Respect . Integrity . Service . Truth Principal’s Piece It is hard to believe that we are at the end of week 3 of Term 2. Time really does fly when you are having fun, and things happening in our College are fun, excing, engaging and focused on building into the lives of our amazing young people. We had our ANZAC commemoraon chapel on Tuesday 24 th April. A group of students were at the Shepparton RSL commemoraons on ANZAC day to both lay a wreath and represent out student body at this important event. Last week, out first full soccer team, playing in the under 10 age group, played their very first game. Our team scored 7 goals, with the St Luke’s team scoring 2 goals. The students involved had a great me. I look forward to seeing these students connue to develop as a team across the year. A special thanks to Mr Ross for coaching the team, and to Mrs Amanda Evens for being the team manager. On Tuesday this week we had our first ever whole school athlecs day. Previously we have ran athlecs days as separate primary and secondary events. The new structure and format worked well, with a great vibe generated by having all our students present. Coming up we have a couple of wonderful acvies. On Friday 11 th May we have a Mother’s day stall, ran by our P&F groups. Another date to note is the working bee that is scheduled for Saturday 19 th May. Please make sure you have marked this in your calendar as it is always a great day of both producve service and fantasc fellowship. Finally, let me talk about NAPLAN for a moment. NAPLAN are important tests, but we find some students and parents get anxious about this series of tests. There is no need. The purpose of the tests are to see what students have learnt, to assess their progress and to plan for future learning. As a school, we use the group results to evaluate our teaching and learning programs. All we seek from each of our young people is that they do their best. Regardless of the results of the NAPLAN test, or any other form of assessment, each of our young people are precious and valued. They are precious and valued as our children with a wide variety of giſts, talents and abilies, and as children of our Father God. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anx- ious for itself. ….. Mahew 6:34 ESV As a final thought for this newsleer, I was reflecng recently on our school, and as I reflected, I realised something that I already knew, but oſten forget. We have a really great school. Our kids (mine included) have so many fantasc opportunies to learn and grow. We have a commied and talented group of teachers. The students have fantasc friends in our school. Our co-curricular programs are really good, and our academic outcomes are amongst the best in this district as evidenced by VCE and NAPLAN measures. And, we have a school where Jesus Christ is honoured as Lord and Saviour, and a Biblical Worldview is evident. The final point to this reflecng is simply that we have not finished. God is connuing to work in this school. There are iniaves and programs happening to connue to build and do things even beer. Many of you are aware of our College Facebook page. We try to keep this up to date with photos from regular events. If you have not already done so, please like our page and keep informed. We also have a College Insta- gram account. This can be found by searching on In- stagram for “Shepparton_Chrisan_College”.
