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Artwork by Amy Mottal, year-9
Principal’s Say
3 Some big surprises await you on your return 4 Meet our new Artist- In-Residence 5
Student Leadership goes online...
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Expressing emotions creatively in Year 9 Studio Arts
7 Makerspace Design Challenge 8
Inspire Club and Hospitality Blog
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Leaders in hospitality
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Spell it out to halt global warming
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Living more sustainably: learning continues at home
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Virtual Regatta
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The APC Musical pushes on!
11 That’s gratitude for you! 12
Women in Business
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Remote Learning Data
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Financial Assistance
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Important Dates
Principal’s Say
3-10 June — Year 9 Careers and Course Counselling
As I write this, nature has provided us with a brilliant sunny late Autumn day for the return of our year 11 and 12 students. What an omen! We’re delighted to have them back, ready to learn. Thanks to their hard work and the college’s preparedness, they’ve kept up to date with their studies and are on-track to IB and VCE success. In less than two weeks they’ll be joined by years 7–10, which will be another happy day. While some students will continue to learn from home, it’s going to be wonderful to have just about everyone back.
5-12 June — Year 11 Exams 8 June — Public Holiday, Queen’s Birthday 9 June — Years 7-10 students return onsite 15-19 June — Year 10 Exams 17 June — Year 12 Parent-Teacher Interviews 26 June — Last day of Term 2 Curriculum day – no students 13 July — First day of Term 3
While the break from on-campus learning has been a long one, we expect the return to the classroom to be a smooth one. We’re extremely proud to have maintained such a strong connection with the students while they have been at home — not just through our Portal and Google Meet sessions, but through innovations like Gratitude Hour, The Huddle, Instagram TV, online assemblies and the continuation of our enrichment programs. As you will see in this newsletter, the teachers and students have been active cooking, competing, writing and caring for each other, as well as keeping up with the curriculum. How extraordinary that despite the closure of theatres across the world, our students and teachers have continued to write the musical that they intend (fingers crossed!) to perform to the school community later this year. I’ve been incredibly impressed by the way everyone has taken on the job of learning differently. The level of innovation has been enormous, and we will certainly be trying to capture the lessons and use them to continually improve the way we teach and operate.
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While the gates have been closed, we’ve kept planning for the future. I’m delighted to announce that APC and the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School were recently awarded $12.5 million through the Victorian Government’s School Building Blitz program to commence Stage One of our Community Youth Arts Hub. Located in Gasworks Arts Park, the new theatre, rehearsal rooms and classrooms will enable both APC and VCASS to take our performing arts programs to the next level while relieving pressure on classroom space. The architects should be getting to work right away. The School Council President, Tim Walsh, speaks for all of us in thanking the member for Albert Park and Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, for recognising the importance of the project to APC, to the local community and to the artistic life of the city. As Tim says, the new Community Youth Arts Hub will allow the school to put back even more to a local community that has supported us so magnificently over our first decade. Continuing the theme of the Arts, I also want to announce the appointment of our new artist-inresidence, the musician Cameron Deyell, who will be composing and recording music — some of it influenced by his life at sea — and introducing music students to some of the secrets of the music industry. Based out of the Gatehouse campus, his work will complement that of Jeanne Brown, which concentrates on our coastline. This is a wonderful appointment that speaks once again to our school’s concern for the environment and our love of original artworks. Like our musical, we’re not copying anything, but are determined to be original and creative. Keep studying hard everyone. Your teachers and I are looking forward to seeing the vast majority of you back on campus very soon. Those at home will continue to get our full support. Steven Cook Foundation Principal
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Some big surprises await you on your return As everyone will discover when they return to school, Danks Street is getting a makeover as part of our tenyear celebrations.
Feeding the grid. There will be a new array of solar panels, new heating and new shading, including through vertical gardens on our northern side.
The builders are currently at work repainting in bright, fresh new colours, changing the carpets and giving the Edgy learning spaces. Our STEM place a lift with a modern feel. classrooms and Makerspace are being modernised to allow us to learn in Our intention is to create the best possible learning new ways. environment — with the same attention to quality finishes as in Pickles Street and Bay Street, our usual The changes will stand out the moment emphasis on environmental sustainability, and extra you return to campus. (Like the old lockers innovations that reflect new trends in education. currently in the courtyard!) Some will be finished, but others won’t, and we hope to More study spaces. As our student numbers continue reduce the inconvenience as much as to grow, we’re adding new study spaces, especially for we can. our year-12s. New lockers. We are installing new lockers that will ensure every student has their own secure storage space, despite the extra numbers of students on campus.
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Meet our new Artist-In-Residence What sort of school chooses an ocean sailor and member of a ‘punk art rock’ band called ‘The Liars’ as its artist-inresidence? Albert Park College of course. It’s our pleasure to introduce you to Cameron Deyell — composer, musician, sailor, APC parent and big supporter of our school. Cameron has recently returned from living in cities like New York and Los Angeles, where he’s been working with great Australian musicians like Sia and Katie Noonan, to live on his boat in Victoria Harbour. Yes, that’s right, to live on his boat. We figured this mightily impressed our ocean-going Principal, Mr Cook. Cameron says he was bitten by the music bug at high school and loves the idea of giving back to a new generation of music lovers.
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Cameron will soon be taking up residence in the Gatehouse alongside the painter Jeanne Brown, where he will be composing, recording and generally doing what ‘punk art rock’ band members do. He intends to turn his space into a mini composing and recording studio. Looking out over the water, there will be an inevitable nautical theme. The idea is to allow APC’s musicians to see the practical, creative musical process up close. Not just the elegant stuff like songwriting and cutting tracks, but the stuff they don’t tell you about the music industry until you become a musician: the dead-end songs that end up in the wastepaper basket, the bad takes, the cancelled gigs. THE REAL WORLD. Coordinated with Dean Gourlay, our head of Music, the residency will be a series of organised streams about the creative and practical elements of being a musician, topped off by a formal presentation of Cameron’s music to the college. Cameron, welcome to APC.
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Student Leadership goes online… On Friday the 22 May, the year level ambassadors and portfolio leaders gathered (virtually) for the leadership conference held each term. We were determined to get back on track to achieving our 2020 goals. Splitting up into our sub-groups of student voice, diversity, environment, and student pride and engagement, we brainstormed to come up with some fresh ideas, including a “buddy” system to bring together the junior and senior levels, and greater recognition in our regular school media platforms, including in ‘The Huddle’, of Indigenous artists, sportspeople and cuisine — in the cause of raising awareness of Indigenous issues. Overall, we had some amazing discussions, and we can’t wait to see them take form.
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To conclude our leadership morning, we had a fantastic presentation from Martin Foley, the state member for Albert Park and the Minister for Mental Health, Equality and Creative Industries, who gave us some great advice about leadership and how to increase awareness of mental health within our school. As captains, we are so proud of the work of APC’s leaders in maintaining the APC spirit during the lockdown. We can’t wait to continue once everyone is back at school. Olivia Gladwell-Bolte APC Vice Captain
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Expressing emotions creatively in Year 9 Studio Arts Year 9 Studio Arts students have been learning about Expressionism and how this style of art can be explored to make a portrait with deep emotion and meaning. For this particular task students were asked to take 12 selfies and aim to express a different emotion in each photo. From those 12 selfies, students had to choose one they liked the most and turn this into a digital expressionist portrait. Students
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used their devices to carefully trace around their facial features and the areas of light and dark before deciding on a colour palette that would reflect their chosen emotion. Using this colour in a range of tones, students have produced these self portraits, highlighting the connections we make between mood, emotion and colour.
students have found a way to express some of those feelings through art. Creating portraits that are vibrant, detailed and most of all, expressive!
After weeks and weeks of remote learning we are all feeling the pressure and these
Paige Lammin Creative Endeavour Coordinator
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We have been incredibly impressed with the work of these students and commend them on their hard work from home.
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Makerspace Design Challenge Creativity never stops! Especially not for COVID-19! That is why our marvellous Makerspace students in year 7 and 8 undertook a Weekly Design Challenge during our remote learning period. Each week the students were given a challenge and had 90 minutes to come up with a design or designs in response. They had to write 50 words explaining their idea and submit it with a drawing or diagram of their work. As you can imagine,
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the responses were incredible and there is no doubt we have future inventors in our midst! Each week the students’ classroom teacher awarded 3 points – one for the most creative response, one for the best presentation and one for the best explanation of the design. The competition was fierce and judging was the real challenge! All the students put in an amazing effort but in the end, one winner was crowned in each class.
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Congratulations to the Makerspace Design Challenge Winners! Aarika Lavania, 7J James Keating, 7F Mila Gleeson, 7J Amba Pala, 7A Dylan Johns, 7D Winston Hall, 8I Cooper De Ross, 8A Eliza Lambert Visual Arts and Communication Design Teacher
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Inspire Club and Hospitality Blog Hospitality Club has been keeping busy during isolation, Jitse from 10A creating his Cheesy Stuffed Pizza Rolls a great recipe to keep warm in the colder months and of course to share with his family. Check out his video here.
Leaders in hospitality This year has been the first time that the Hospitality Club has had four junior leaders. We took the opportunity to ask a couple of them about their time in isolation and how they’ve kept up their involvement in the Club during the lockdown.
Charliese Ryan-Foster 8J Hi my name is Charliese, I am in year 8 and I am one of the four junior hospitality leaders. I joined Hospitality club last year, as all my friends were doing it, they said it was really fun, and I love to cook. The weekly meetings have been a little fun way to connect as a club and check out how everyone is doing. I have always loved to cook — although being a germaphobe, there were certain things I wouldn’t cook. But now I’m fine with it and I love to experiment with my cooking. While in isolation it’s been nice to just have a fun little cooking session here and there and try different things. I think my favourite part about the Hospitality Club, especially at this time, is just cooking. I’ve always wanted to be a professional chef (my mum is kind of against it, as she’s done it before) but, yeah, I think of cooking as an art or science: you just have to experiment and if it doesn’t work at least you know you made an effort and tried it.
Hannah Lawrence 8E I first joined the Hospitality Club on open day last year. I was originally representing my food class, but then I met some of the people in the club and they were super nice and welcoming. After that, a few of my friends and I decided it would be really fun to join the club together. The weekly meetings during isolation have been really nice, and a good way to socialise with different people from other year levels. One of the things I really enjoy about cooking during this time is that I can make absolutely anything, and creating the videos is fun as well. My favourite thing about the club during the lockdown is the fact that we have stayed together, with a few changes, but still socialising and collaborating. We will definitely be able to incorporate some things we have done and learned remotely into the school environment when we return. A tip for cooking in isolation is to share your recipes with other people, whether it be family, friends, or members of the club. It’s a great way to build a sense of community and happiness during these difficult times.
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Spell it out to halt global warming One of our environmental leaders Ella Travis is leading APC in a community run project called Spell It Out — a project organised by ordinary parents from schools around Australia. The message is simple: we want our politicians and business leaders to commit to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. We need to act now to set up a renewable energy future and a zero emissions economy, to halt global warming to under 1.5 degrees. Why? This summer has given us a taste of things to come. The majority of Australians understand that allowing temperatures to rise further will have devastating effects on our lives and the lives of the animals and plants that we cherish and depend on.
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To communicate this message students will create a human sign spelling out 100%. To get involved, send ellatravis@albertparkcollege.vic.edu.au a photo of your whole body in the frame, standing flat up against a wall. We will then photoshop this and form the human sign. Or create your own unique sign spelling out 100%! Get creative, use leaves, buttons, pencils, anything to form the 100% symbol. Then email it to ellatravis@albertparkcollege.vic.edu.au For more information about the project, contact spell it out directly on: spellitout100@gmail.com For more information about how you and the APC community can get involved contact: ellatravis@ albertparkcollege.vic.edu.au
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Living more sustainably: learning continues at home Remote learning isn’t just for students — the whole family can get involved with this exciting series of online sustainability events from the City of Port Phillip and surrounding councils. Each session connects you with experts and inspires personal action on climate change — by growing fresh food at home, propagating plants, keeping healthy chooks, connecting kids to nature through play, plus tips on keeping your home cosy during winter, just to name a few. The best part? All sessions are free and you can participate from the comfort of your own home! Check out the full list of events here. Happy learning! Clara Simpson Environmental Inquiry Leader
Virtual Regatta On 19 May, the Sailing Academy competed in a virtual regatta against Stony Brook School in New York and Archbishop Spalding High School in Maryland, USA. It was a fun and exciting way to incorporate our co-curricular activities from home. Our year-9 competitors were: Tana Deyell, Charlie Armstrong, Ethan Rassias and Andreas Losifis. You can see all the action for yourself here. Eddie Gillespie
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The APC Musical pushes on! Shakespeare, so the legend goes, wrote King Lear (and Macbeth and Anthony and Cleopatra) during isolation for the Bubonic Plague in 1606 — so why shouldn’t APC’s playwrights do the same? From the safety of their homes, our Writing Team members have been chipping away at their masterpiece — the first ever, studentdevised APC Musical! Refusing to allow the lockdown to put a stop to their creativity, this group of students from years 8-12 has continued to (remotely!) meet each week to bring our characters and story to life.
While the performance of our show has unfortunately had to be postponed, our writers are relishing the extra time with this huge creative undertaking. We’ll be releasing more details throughout the year, so get excited! Shakespeare’s Globe eventually reopened and so will our stage. Nathaniel Taylor Performing Arts Coordinator
That’s gratitude for you! Over the past few weeks APC has run ‘Gratitude Hour’ on IGTV. Gratitude hour has given our students and staff the opportunity to reflect and be thankful for the little things we often take for granted. It’s been great to see students take on gratitude hour and host their own sessions, interviewing and chatting live to their peers. They’ve covered many topics, such as: who their heroes are, what they’re thankful for each week, and how their creativity is flourishing at home. You can check out the most recent Instagram live stream here.
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Women in Business On Wednesday evening 27 May, some of our senior students tuned in to an exclusive Monash event hosted on zoom. The Women in Business Zoom Conference was run by the Monash Marketing Student’s Society. A panel of three successful businesswomen gathered to discuss their business ventures and their marketing through social media. One APC student,
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Lara Portelli, shared that she found the “event very insightful and the three business owners of Australian companies spoke with charisma and you could tell that they truly love what they do”. An interesting takeaway from the talk was when Erika Geraets, co-founder of Frank Body and Director at Fluff Casual Cosmetics, discussed the importance of relationships in building customer report and said “longevity and a sense of fulfilment in my work has come from having a strong brand philosophy”.
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HELPFUL INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE AT HOME
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School Insurance and Liability Information Parents and carers are reminded that the Department of Education does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. Parents and carers of students who do not have student accident insurance or ambulance cover are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance or transport and any other transport costs. Parents, carers and students are reminded that any private property brought to school by students, staff or usurers is not insured and the Department does not accept any responsibility for loss or damage.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE INFORMATION FOR PARENTS Every Victorian child should have access to the world of learning opportunities that exist beyond the classroom. The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund helps ensure that no student will miss out on the opportunity to join their classmates for important, educational and fun activities. It is part of making Victoria the Education State and the Government’s commitment to breaking the link between a student’s background and their outcomes. CAMPS, SPORTS & EXCURSIONS FUND (CSEF) School camps provide children with inspiring experiences in the great outdoors, excursions encourage a deeper understanding of how the world works and sports teach teamwork, discipline and leadership. All are part of a healthy curriculum.
HOW TO APPLY
New applicants should contact the school office to obtain a CSEF application form or download from www.education.vic.gov.au/csef
The annual CSEF amount per student is:
If you applied for the CSEF at your child's school in 2019, you do not need to complete an application form in 2020 unless there has been a change in your family circumstances. You only need to complete an application form if any of the following changes have occurred: new student enrolments; your child has started or changed schools in 2020 or you did not apply in 2019. changed family circumstances; such as a change of custody, change of name, concession card number, or new siblings commencing at the school in 2020.
• $125 for primary school students
Check with the school office if you are unsure.
CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities. If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.
• $225 for secondary school students
MORE INFORMATION
For more information about the CSEF visit www.education.vic.gov.au/csef
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