30am - 9.30am Danks St courtyard

STUDENTS AND THE LIBRARIANS CELEBRATE BOOK WEEK WITH A RANGE OF ACTIVITIES

Book Week 2022 has come and gone in a flash, leaving us with many happy memories! Thank you to everyone who joined us in the library from Tuesday 14- Friday 17 June in the lead up to Lit Fest weekend.

A highlight of the week was Friday’s book trivia Kahoot which was run by Library Leader Maia Ryks and Deputy Qian-Yi Dawson. It was a fierce competition with the librarians also competing, but in the end the students were victorious!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the competitions and events. The winners are:

CREATIVE WRITING OPEN MIC: NINA BUCHLER

LIBRARY SCAVENGER HUNT: ANNA LILL AND SHRIYA SAMPATH

BOOK DRESS UP ‘BEST DRESSED’: AJ BARTON

BOOK TRIVIA: (A DRAW BETWEEN TWO TEAMS) AJ BARTON AND OEXIA PAGE-RINITI, PIP HIRST AND LUCY MARKS

BOOK SPINE POETRY: GAURANGI ABROL

GUESS WHO’S READING?: JAMIE TALL

MATCH THE BOOK COVER TO THE PASSAGE: SILVIA MENESES USEDA Thank you everyone for another exciting term in the library! Students have been smashing the Premiers’ Reading Challenge (PRC) with 947 books completed so far.

The challenge is open until Friday 2 September. We have almost defeated last year’s PRC record, so we can’t wait to see what the final figure is in September!

LIBRARIANS BEGIN NEW ADVENTURES

All students and teachers who use our Library will be saddened to hear that two of our big book promoters, Veronica and Clive, are leaving APC at the end of this week.

The good news is they won't be lost to the world of literature.

Clive may be retiring from the school, but will be continuing his work as a bookseller, and will even be helping out the Rotary secondhand book team who play such a great role in raising funds and promoting the reading culture at the college.

Veronica is heading to France where she will be taking up an internship at the American Library in Paris – one of the most famous libraries in the world, which was established after the First World War and is associated with the Lost Generation of writers that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald. The rumour is she's going to be filling notebooks with writing in Paris cafes in her lunch breaks.

APC STUDENT IN ARCHIBALD PRIZE EXHIBITION

Imagine the surprise of Teaching Aide Jen Roper when she came across a familiar face hanging on the wall at the Archibald Prize exhibition in Sydney recently. Jen immediately recognised former APC student Ella Simons, the subject of a painting by award-winning artist Yvette Coppersmith.

Ella was 13 when she became an organiser for the School Strike for Climate movement in 2019. At 15, Ella was chosen as the Australian delegate to the Youth4Climate summit, ahead of the UN climate change conference COP2 in Glasgow. Ella was the youngest of the 400 international delegates who attended, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

In her written submission to the Archibalds Prize judges, Coppersmith said she met Ella in 2014, and immediately sensed her “vibrant energy”. “I had a couple of sittings with Ella after her return. We looked for props and outfits in her bedroom,” Coppersmith said.

“I chose to create a quiet, calm tone for the painting, to amplify the seriousness of Ella and her message." “The painting is a form of protest. It transmits Ella’s presence and wakes us up to this movement in human evolution and the window of opportunity to abate the trajectory of climate change.”

ALBERT PARK’S FUTURE SCRIPT WRITERS

On the 27th of May, Ms Carroll and three outstanding students Ava H (9C), Aloysia (9C) and Nat (9i) ventured into Federation Square facing the unknown. Little did they know, they were about to have their minds blown by the current Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series at ACMI, Melbourne.

Some of the highlights included learning how to build a basic understanding of scriptwriting and lighting a spark in an interest in screenwriting. After the workshop, students were exposed to numerous visual wonders at the current ACMI exhibit ‘The Moving Image’.

The exhibition explored the history of film, and the innovations taken by brilliant minds and left the APC students feeling inspired and excited for the future. Jen said she was proud to see that Ella’s activism had inspired Coppersmith to enter the portrait into the Archibalds. “I’m certain Ella will continue to inspire and do amazing things,” Jen said.

↑ Coppersmith’s portrait of Ella was a finalist in the 2022 Archibald Prize.

BE AWARE OF SCHOOL SUPERVISION TIMES

Student safety at Albert Park College is our highest priority and the safe and appropriate supervision of students is an important element of our duty of care to students.

Part of this duty is ensuring parents and students are aware of our student supervision arrangements before and after school.

BEFORE SCHOOL School grounds are supervised at all campuses from 8.45 am. Please note that students do not have access to classrooms prior to the beginning of period 1 lessons at 9 am, so supervision is only provided at entry points of each campus. AFTER SCHOOL School grounds are supervised until 3.30 pm. Note again that classrooms are not supervised after this time and only exit points are supervised until this time.

LIBRARY Opening hours in the Library at the Danks Street Campus are from 8.15 am until 4.30 pm, and supervision is provided at these times.

Students on school grounds outside these times will not be supervised (unless they are attending a before or after school care program or supervised extracurricular activity, such as Homework Club). Parents and carers are requested to ensure students do not attend school outside these supervised times unless they are attending before or after school care, or a pre-arranged supervised activity (i.e. sports practice).

For a copy of the college Yard Duty and Supervision Policy, see the Parent Portal, along with our other policies pertaining to the care of your child.

The Yard Duty and Supervision policy includes APC’s student supervision arrangements across the school day, including before and after school. deadlines approach – watch out for messages.

YEAR 9 STUDENTS ARE CITIZEN SCIENTISTS

↑ Year-9 students check out the local pollution.

Year 9 Environmental Inquiry students have been participating in citizen science projects with the help of experts from the Port Phillip Ecocentre (PPEC).

The goal of these sessions is for students to learn what real world scientific data collection looks like, to practice collecting data, and then to analyse it.

Additionally, they’re able to see how the data they collect helps local organisations reach out to government policy makers asking them to take action on environmental issues.

The first session has been looking at plastic pollution. The data collected will go towards the current PPED Litter Audit. The second session will be a biodiversity audit.

In the past, the PPEC has been able to use biodiversity data to ensure the council plants indigenous flowering plants around the local area to protect our endangered local flora and fauna. The data the students will collect in their second session will continue that work. Year 9 also have been learning about the supply chain of a product of their choice, which is being assessed in their panel exams this week.

While learning about their supply chain, they investigated the disposal phase and different landfills that exist in Melbourne which are currently harming the environment and lowering the quality of life for local residents.

During their research, they also learnt about the CERES Environmental Park which used to be a mining and landfill site but has been turned into a beautiful community park, educating locals on how to live sustainably and with a low carbon footprint.

The Environmental Inquiry teaching team organised for students to tour the park to see its practices first hand.

DANCE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE SOON!

APC is excited to announce that tickets will shortly be on sale for this year's dance show at Southbank Theatre, The Lawler.

The show, which is called Rise and Fall, is a creative representation of the ebbs and flow of everyday life; how monotonous movements can become a part of our lifestyles until we are forced to find another way.

According to dance coordinators Holly Schnieder and Merran Paice, the show is “designed to represent the resilience that our students have developed over the past few years”.

‘Undulate’, the first half of the performance, has been choreographed by Melanie West, and depicts the repetitive motions of life, nature and the ocean.

Students were involved in sections of choreography of this piece, drawing on their own experiences over the past few years of forced change and personal expansion.

↑Students hard at work during dance rehearsals.

‘Revolve’, the second half of the show, has been choreographed by Aimee Schollum. It represents the recurring cycles of life and how we can rise after we’ve fallen.

Watch your Compass messages for links to the box office. SHOW DATES:

THURSDAY, 4 AUGUST, 7PM FRIDAY, 5 AUGUST, 2PM FRIDAY, 5 AUGUST, 7PM

TEACHERS GET ARTY TOO

At APC we pride ourselves on our creativity and artistic abilities. Now the teachers and support staff are getting into the act, with some after-school painting sessions.

On Friday afternoon 27 May, our art teachers staged a Cork and Canvas event to bring out their inner Van Gough, Banksy and Rembrandt.

A great time was had by all. It’s all part of the wonderful atmosphere our staff have created to build teamwork and support each other during what is proving to be a somewhat pressurized term, caused by Covid, the flu and resulting staff shortages that have been well reported in the nightly news.

Thanks teachers and support staff. Your dedication has been amazing. We really appreciate everything you have done! APC’S MATHS SUCCESSES SHARED WITH OTHER SCHOOLS

On behalf of her colleagues, our prize winning mathematics teacher Rachael Gore was recently asked to share to a statewide conference APC’s amazing success in improving maths teaching.

As reported in the Herald-Sun and in our newsletter, APC is now in the top three schools in the state for growth in numeracy skills for years 7 to 9 of the NAPLAN tests. In other words, we are lifting more and more students from lower to middle and on to higher bands of grades. This is value-adding at its best.

Her address – Marvelous Mathematics: Contextualizing Department of Education Training and Numeracy Initiatives – Rachael demonstrated the methods the college has been using to lift and maintain high results in standardized numeracy tests through better curriculum and teaching.

It’s a complex field, but Rachael puts the college’s success down to: our high-demand high-challenge curriculum; continuous feedback to students; differentiated work to meet each individual student’s need; and multiple exposure to mathematical concepts.

One successful teaching method has been to embed mathematical concepts in real world and game-based lessons – to instill problem solving and reasoning skills development.

Rachael also spoke on the methods APC uses to lead and implement curriculum and teaching change across our school. We’re delighted as always to share our successes with all Victorian schools.

ANNUAL MUSIC CONCERT: ‘ALL TOGETHER NOW’ – TICKETS ON SALE!

Our Annual Music Concert makes its return in Week 1 of Term 3 and tickets are now on sale via this website:

Tickets available here.

After a two-year performance hiatus ‘All Together Now’ will feature our senior ensembles and musicians with a focus on collaboration, celebrating the joy of playing music together. The show will be presented at the Lawler Theatre (Southbank Theatre).

Tickets are fairly limited so book now to avoid missing out!

SHOW DATES:

THURSDAY, JULY 14 – 7 PM FRIDAY, JULY 15 – 2.30 PM FRIDAY, JULY 15 – 7 PM

GREECE IS THE WORD

The Greek Inspire Club meets every Monday to celebrate the strong Greek culture of our community, but also to develop a relationship with our sister school in Lemnos.

The idea is for students and staff to get together and learn about the Greek culture by learning to speak Greek, tasting Greek food delicacies and sweets, listening to Greek music and more.

Ms Demi Lazarakis and Ms Ariadne Georgiou are both Greek speakers and have been working closely with Year 11 student Emmanuel Kapellakis and his teacher Ms Fiona Wright to develop the club. They are looking forward to more members joining.

The club meets every Monday at 3.30 pm at the Danks St Food Room. Due to exams, the club’s next meeting will be on Monday 11 July. Everyone is welcome to join.

↑ Greek lessons have begun!

MASTERCHEF CHALLENGE IN YEAR 8 FOOD TECH

In early June, Year 8 students arrived at their food tech class to a tray of mystery ingredients on their kitchen benches. Taking off the covers, students were excited (and several horrified!) to discover their ingredients with which they had one hour to create a meal out of.

Ingredients included fennel, tofu, pork, rhubarb, frozen spinach, lentils, chorizo, and for some lucky students, marshmallows and chocolate. Students then had five minutes in which they had to plan the dish they’d make using the selected ingredients, with some students opting to challenge themselves creatively and with others relying on classic recipes.

At the end of the class, our Mini Masterchefs presented their dishes to the class, explaining what they chose to cook with their mystery ingredients. Overall, the Year 8 Food Tech students pushed themselves to think creatively and performed very well under time pressure.

↑ Some of the fantastic dishes cooked up by the Year 8 masterchefs!