Peter’s Official Bulletin Well it was most interesting to receive an invitation to attend a District 9810 Youth Exchange Program (YEP) presentation, through fellow RCBMC club member Geoff Gartly along with his family including Luiza (from Brazil) to join other returning YEP’s and incoming YEP’s that was held at the Mulgrave Country Club on Friday 23 rd February 2018. As RCBMC President it was very enlightening to join other District 9810 Rotary Clubs and have returning YEP’s relate their amazing stories and challenges that they faced with their host families and learning another language. For those RCBMC club members that have not been part of the Youth Exchange Program here is the background, duration and how the program has change and enhanced those students that have travelled far and wide. Rotary Youth Exchange Australia provides an opportunity of a lifetime for Australian high school students to live & study abroad Rotary Youth Exchange is registrated with State and Territory Education Authorities to provide Secondary Student Exchange Programs. Each year thousands of young people worldwide are given an opportunity to experience the cultures and accomplishments of people in other countries. During your exchange, you will grow considerably in self-confidence, tolerance and self-reliance. You'll also learn to accept greater responsibility in your everyday life. My youth exchange year was one of incredible change and growth for me. In addition to seeing so much of the rest of the world, and making such wonderful friends, I (Continued on page 4) Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 Peter O’Brien President 2017-18 Note re next week’s meeting featuring Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld. The meeting is ex- pected to finish a little later—around 8.30am. Please try to arrive early to ensure the meeting can commence on time
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Peter’s Official Bulletin
Well it was most interesting to
receive an invitation to attend a
District 9810 Youth Exchange
Program (YEP) presentation,
through fellow RCBMC club member
Geoff Gartly along with his family
including Luiza (from Brazil) to join other returning YEP’s and incoming YEP’s that
was held at the Mulgrave Country Club on Friday 23rd
February 2018.
As RCBMC President it was very enlightening
to join other District 9810 Rotary Clubs and
have returning YEP’s relate their amazing
stories and challenges that they faced with their host families and learning
another language.
For those RCBMC club members that have not been part of the Youth
Exchange Program here is the background, duration and how the program
has change and enhanced those students that have travelled far and wide.
Rotary Youth Exchange Australia provides an opportunity of a lifetime for Australian high school students to live & study abroad Rotary Youth Exchange is registrated with State and Territory Education Authorities to provide Secondary Student Exchange Programs. Each year thousands of young people worldwide are given an opportunity to experience the cultures and accomplishments of people in other countries.
During your exchange, you will grow considerably in self-confidence, tolerance and self-reliance.
You'll also learn to accept greater responsibility in your everyday life.
My youth exchange
year was one of
incredible change and
growth for me. In
addition to seeing so
much of the rest of the
world, and making such
wonderful friends, I
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
Peter O’Brien
President 2017-18
Note re next week’s meeting featuring Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld. The meeting is ex-pected to finish a little later—around 8.30am. Please try to arrive early to ensure the
meeting can commence on time
News from Club Meeting Wednesday 21st February 2018 Arrowsmith Program The International Toast by Grant Perry for the meet-
ing on Wednesday 21st February 2018 was to the
Rotary Club of Saint Lucia, District 7030 that was
chartered in 1966.
The President is Joanna Charles
Saint Lucia is an island in the West Indies, part of
the Lesser Antilles group.West Indies comprises of:-
Great Antilles
Lesser Antilles
Lucayan Archipelago (Bahama Archipelago)
The Lesser Antilles sit on the outer edge of the Car-
ibbean Plate.Many of the islands were formed as a
result of the South American plate sinking under the
Caribbean Plate The Rotary Club of Saint Lucia meets at the Sandals Halcyon Choc Kelly’s Dockside on Friday’s
at 12:15pm.
The guest speaker at our club meeting on Wednesday 21st Febru-
ary 2018 was Catherine Green from the Holy Trinity Arrowsmith program that went on to inform club members about the program. TO BEGIN WITH THE OBVIOUS - WHAT IS THE HOLY TRINITY ARROWSMITH PROGRAM? The Holy Trinity parish is comprised of three schools in local area – St Peter’s East Bentleigh, St Paul’s Bentleigh and St Catherine’s Moorabbin.
And the Arrowsmith Program is a pro-gram for people with LDs, which is a com-pletely different, innovative and life changing way of assessing and treating
LDs. SO WHAT IS THE ARROWSMITH PRO-GRAM AND WHY IS IT DIFFERENT? Why are over 70 Australian families currently living in Canada to access this program? - The AP was started 35 years ago in Can-ada by Barbara Arrowsmith Young. She has written a book called ‘The Woman Who Changed Her Brain’ which some of you may have heard of. - The AP is a completely different way to treat LDs and that is because it gets to the root of the problem. It is based on neauro-plasticity – the understanding that the brain is plastic and can be changed. Through
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thorough testing, the AP identifies where the problem is stemming from - literally the weak cognitive areas in the brain that are causing the LD - and then addresses those areas specifically, using repetitive cognitive exer-cises over a long period of time to strengthen those weak areas of the brain. The Arrowsmith classroom does not look like a normal classroom. Each child is working individually, on their own personalized cogni-
tive program, addressing their own specific needs. Some will be wearing an eye patch, some will be tracing green symbols with a red pen, some will be wearing head phones, some will be working on a 6-handed clock on a com-puter screen… None however will be working on traditional academic exercises. The other major difference is that there is 1 Arrowsmith teacher for every 10 students. We are now into the fourth year of running the
program, and significantly this is our first year after successfully completing our three-year pilot. We are now offering a fulltime program for primary students and a part time program
for secondary students and adults and as I have already mentioned, we have moved the entire pro-gram to St Catherine’s Moorabbin
and are reno-vating a dis-cussed part of the school to create a pur-pose build Ar-rowsmith Cen-tre. Pres Peter O’Brien
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changed in ways I never knew were possible. Thank you Rotary for the best year of my life!
You will have to adapt to unfamiliar and different surroundings and ways of life that are different from home.
For some this will be the first extended period of separation from their family. This will bring about many trials and tribulations which you will need to overcome and by so doing develop many "survival skills".
To live away from home for the 50 weeks duration of the exchange is a demanding yet rewarding experience. It is not always smooth sailing and requires a great strength of character, tolerance and an understanding of the acceptance personal responsibility.
The exchange provides a unique opportunity for young Australians to experience at first hand the many cultures of a different country, a new way of life and in some instances another language. Often, the friendships they make will be life long and important in achieving the aims of the exchange - the building of goodwill and understanding between countries.
As a Rotary Youth Exchange you'll have:
An opportunity to develop your personal self confidence and maturity
An opportunity to develop a lifetime of international friendships
An opportunity to develop a real understanding of many different cultures
An opportunity to develop new language skills
An opportunity to develop a base for future education and career goals
An opportunity to develop in many ways
International Conference on Lake Chad
The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), with the support of the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is organizing the International Conference on Lake Chad. The theme of the conference will be "Saving the Lake Chad to revitalize the Basin’s ecosystem for sustainable livelihood, security and development". The main objective of the International Conference is to create global awareness on the socio-economic and environmental challenges arising from the shrinkage of the Lake Chad, which are causing threats and inducing insecurity. The overall objective is to develop a comprehensive programme for action to save the Lake from extinction. The Sub-themes of the Conference are: i. Restoration of Lake Chad: State of the art scientific knowledge and technical innovations; ii. Lake Chad Water Transfer: prospects, challenges, and solutions; iii. Social, environmental, cultural, and educational aspects in the current context; iv. Security and regional cooperation aspects with a view to restoring peace in the Lake Chad basin; v. Funding of approved options. At RCBMC, we also celebrate occasions and events like birthday and anniversaries like the following birthday,
however, there is a birthday that is on or near the 28th February 2018.
Kevin Davidson 25th February
Famous people born on the 25th February
1398 Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
1714 Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
1811 Carl Schuberth, composer
Famous events on 25th February
1570 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England and absolves her subjects from
Today– Ron Brownless and Pres Peter—Market training 7th March Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld
7th April Clint Steele Dancing and dementia
2nd May Len Brear, Magistrate. A reminder that upcoming speakers can be reviewed on the Club website via the calendar. If you have any suggestions for guest speakers, please contact Peter O’Brien [email protected] CONTRIBUTIONS AND REPORTS: Pease use the email address [email protected] sending in any contributions to the Bulletin. Please have them in by Monday evening of each week.. Must be in format that allows for text to be "copied" NO scanned
Market Report February 25, 2018
RCBMC Team consisted of:Ian, Helen, Paul . From MM we had An-drew and Bo Other Helpers:Charles A assisted at the opening and closing Visiting Rotarians: Geoff Gartly with Luiza Weather conditions Chilly but no rain
thankfully Cars in the queue: 3 O'night parkers:about 3 Empty Stalls: approx 20 Other Comments:No inci-dents to report. There were a few e ticket holders who had-n't printed their ticket so needed to be told their stall number. Market leaders should be familiar with ac-cessing this info on the iPad. Also as the day was windy racks being blown over pre-sented a risk
Ian Ballantine, Leader
Special Guest Speaker—7th March Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld Congratulations Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld on being awarded a Companion (AC) in the general division of the Order of Australia. There were 16 such awards given in the 2018 Australia Day list. We have secured Jeffrey to address our Club breakfast meeting on 7 March 2018.
