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Principal’s Say
Academic 3 Caring for each other online 4 Debating 5
Maths Enrichment
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F1 Team Momentum
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Hospitality Club
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Bay St Create Club
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No blues at Bay Street
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Capturing carbon through seaweed
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Art Show
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Important Dates 28-29 August Virtual Lit Fest 2 September Professional Learning Day 14-18 September Year 12 and IB Practice Exam Period 18 September Last Day of Term 3 5 October First Day of Term 4
Principal’s Say One of the unexpected results of the COVID-19 lockdown at APC has been the reaffirmation of the importance of the humanities. At times like this, ethical leadership and behaviour are needed as much as science. How many people across the world have caught COVID-19 and suffered because their leaders have forgotten this? This is what literature, history, philosophy and the arts generally give us: the idea of how to live well.
We made a conscious decision several years ago to become a leading public speaking and debating school. Normally these disciplines are the preserve of the top private schools, but there’s no good reason why public schools can’t shine at it too. Why did we do it? Because democracy, leadership and public speaking are inseparable. History tells us that democracy and oratory were born at the same time, and you only have to observe contemporary politics for a short time to understand that intelligent, ethical and persuasive leaders are needed like never before. Addressing that need is a public duty every school should take up. APC is leading the way. We’re blessed with excellent public speaking and
Producing debating champions and debating teachers, including Sam Sperling, who future leaders instructs our senior team, and Lisa Arons, who guides The lockdown has made me certain that APC Alumni are going to be among our country’s future leaders. In the past week one of our school captains, Oscar Pearce, once again reached the final of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s Plain English Speaking Awards, falling just short of victory. You can see his fantastic speech here. Our seniors team of Sofia Cofano and Alyssa Seckinger-Crow has made the finals of the Debating Association of Victoria Public Speaking Competition, and we wish them the best of luck. Our juniors also performed strongly.
the juniors. They tell me the secret to APC’s continuing success is that our students bring more to the podium than just good speaking technique: they are highly knowledgeable about contemporary issues and are good at putting together compelling arguments. Our emphasis on the humanities is clearly paying off.
Nurturing readers and future writers Especially at this time, we want our students to think deeply about the big questions of what it means to be human and how to be a virtuous citizen in a decent society. We therefore want them to develop a love of reading and literature—and if they’re inclined, to one day become leading writers as well. There could be no stronger expression of this than our very own Book Week (24–28 August) and Lit Fest (Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August). Our librarians and literature teachers have done a wonderful job overcoming the physical closure of the Library and the ban on public gatherings to keep students and staff reading and by turning Lit Fest into a virtual event. The Lit Fest this year features our very own students interrogating some of Australia’s leading writers, including Rosalie Ham, acclaimed author of The Dressmaker. Check out all the details here. Steve Cook Foundation Principal
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Caring for each other online It’s been many weeks, and for some students many months, since our students were allowed on campus, but we are amazed at how well they’ve managed to stay in touch with and look out for each other. Our student leadership team, for example, have created The Huddle — a weekly review of music, film, TV and online interests. They have turned Gratitude Hour into APC TV — a source of information about maintaining wellbeing and how to reach out for help. We have developed a Spotify playlist that we highly recommend as background music for those long afternoon and evening study sessions.
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Our Inspire clubs have been keeping creativity going online, including Bay St Inspire Club, Hospo Club has been cooking together, teachers have been swapping great recipes, and people have being playing online quizzes, bingo and exercising together. While the athletics and other carnivals haven’t been possible, the battle between the houses has been fought out in virtual spaces using FitBits, X-Boxes and other gaming devices. All this online activity, much of which the students themselves have initiated shows that our students are well served by their amazing online skills, and despite the lockdown, they will be just fine because they’re looking out for each other.
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Well may we say: well done APC debaters
Debating virtually
A global pandemic, two stints of virtual learning and the inevitable awkwardness of trying to engage with an audience through a screen has not halted APC’s public speakers from raising their voices to unpack some of Australia’s most pressing issues.
In a piece of much needed good news, debating is continuing despite the Covid-19 pandemic! The virtual environment has taken some getting used to but we’ve all managed to adapt. APC’s A grade team has continued its winning ways, finishing with an undefeated record. A particular highlight of the season was back to back victories against teams from crosstown rival MacRobertson Girls High School (whose principal is of course ex-APC legend Ms Anne Stout).
In a terrific feat, Sofia Cofano and Alyssa SeckingerCrow made it through to the finals for the Debaters Association of Victoria’s public speaking competition. The adjudicators congratulated each speaker for their ability to construct a natural manner and draw their audience’s attention - not a bad effort considering they had to pre-record their speeches, imagining the faces in front of them! APC’s public speakers are often praised for their ability to offer fresh insight and steer clear of the well-trodden path of over-discussed arguments. Their attention is focused on the craft of speechwriting and varying the light and shade of their voices. It was no surprise that our school captain, Oscar Pearce, wowed adjudicators in the Plain English Speaking Award. Battling through multiple rounds of finals (conducted over video conference), Oscar made it to the state final, finishing in second place!
Junior Debating is set to kick off on August 26! So if you or your child is in year 7 or 8, keep an eye on Compass for details. Nothing builds confidence, public speaking skills or critical and creative thinking quite like debating. Be sure to give it a go! To our existing year 7 and 8 debaters, good luck — we’re sure you’ll smash it! Oscar Pearce
His speech on ‘Plain English’ warned of the dangers of unnecessarily complex academic writing. Oscar urged schools to ditch assessments that favour overcomplicated language, exposing the secret code of academia that often fuels cyclical disadvantage. He presented the entire eight-minute speech without cue cards and then competed in the impromptu round, delivering a speech on an unseen topic with only four minutes notice! Oscar is to be commended for his efforts in this incredibly challenging competition, especially while balancing his Year 12 studies, school captain commitments and numerous extracurricular activities. We are sure we will see many of his speeches broadcasted across our screens in the future! Samantha Sperling
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Ready for a puzzle at the Maths Enrichment Club Maths Enrichment club is back for term 3. Everyone is welcome to get involved, and everyone is welcome to get their household involved. Each week we will post a puzzle on Google Classroom. They are designed to be fun to complete and you will be able to solve it in a lot of ways. You and your household may complete part of the challenge or all of it, the point is you tried and you spoke about maths! If you are interested in joining in with Maths Enrichment Club please join our Google classroom. The code is pcqship. We will launch our puzzles on a Monday and you can join our Google meet on a Monday after school to discuss the problem and get started. Below is our newsletter challenge taken from nrich.org. Submit your answers and solutions to Google Classroom to participate and we will out the answers in the next newsletter. In the first example you can see how the squares are completed using the circles on each vertex of the triangle. Can you complete the circles just knowing the squares? We look forward to seeing your answers, Miss Roberts and Mr McGouran
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Library Corner — Big Book Week Bonanza is on! To salute the upcoming Lit Fest, the APC library will be lighting up everyone’s laptops with Book Week 2020 – remote style! Between Monday 24 and Friday 28 August the library will be presenting various activities and competitions for all to enjoy. We will be running competitions such as a week-long Library Bingo, book quizzes and a ‘recreate a book cover’ competition inspired by the Getty Museum Challenge. We will also be releasing curated material such as book industry information and an extra special Clive’s Corner. On the Friday we will hold a meeting where students will have the opportunity to share their creative writing with others over Google Meet. Book Week is foremost a celebration of reading, so during this week $5 will be donated to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal
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for every book recorded on the Premiers’ Reading Challenge website (instead of the usual $1). So far around $450 has been raised as part of this fundraiser so we are excited to see what will happen during Book Week! Students should email the library if they need help logging into the website and recording books they have completed. To keep in the loop with all the Book Week action students are encouraged to join the Library Space Google Classroom page (class code: p5qtyvk). As always, we invite everyone to borrow eBooks and audiobooks through our ePlatform site. There are also free audiobooks available to stream from Audible as part of the extended lockdown period. Meanwhile the Premiers’ Reading Challenge has been extended to September 18, so students have extra time to record their reading. Happy reading all! Veronica, Jess and Clive library@albertparkcollege.vic.edu.au
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F1 Team Momentum powers through the pandemic
has embraced these new technologies, and assisted by Garry Rogers Motorsport, they will be prototyping many designs for the upcoming competition.
APC’s all girl F1 in Schools squad, Team Momentum is preparing for the virtual State Finals in October this year. In pursuit of this, they have received sponsorship from many businesses, including Garry Rogers Motorsport. This has provided them with expertise and machinery that will assist them in learning more about the 3D printing process and will greatly aid them on their road to success.
F1 in Schools has opened new doors for both students and the wider APC community as it has provided many opportunities for collaboration with corporations. F1 in Schools helps students develop many skills that will prepare them for business and engineering industries. It encourages students to move outside of their comfort zone and work alongside other students and industries to create a car they can truly be proud of.
New technologies have revolutionised the world of automotive industries, and F1 in Schools is a prime example. Momentum
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You can learn more about F1 in Schools at the REA Foundation website or by contacting Ms Seel or Mr Burden.
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HOSPITALITY CLUB COOKING UP VIRTUAL STORMS Introducing the final junior leader for Hospitality Club Charlotte Balster year 8 “I joined the hospitality club because I have always liked cooking as well as serving. Then a teacher told me about this and I joined at the start of year 7 and had such a great time I kept going in year 8. During our first round of remote learning I loved the experience of our weekly meetings; they were fun and it also meant you got to communicate to other people. I have enjoyed cooking in this time as I got to cook what I wanted and also had the time and fun of doing it with my family. My favourite thing about the Hospitality Club is seeing what everybody else is doing, and the different cuisines and sharing what I’ve made. I don’t have a tip but maybe just cook something that you like and if you need a recipe the hospitality team has a lot you can find”
Join our Cook Along Hospitality Club has a new fun activity to get everyone connecting with each other and cooking healthy food for their families: Cook Along. Cook Along is held on Thursday Nights commencing at 5.30pm and runs for approximately for 1 hour. We have successfully held two so far, with great representation from both students and staff, these evenings have a great way to connect with each other. Thursday evenings have become lots of fun with our remote home cooking. The food has been yummy, just like having that night out that’s no longer possible. Our first Cook Along was Chicken & Mushroom Risotto night and the second was APC Parma Night. Come along and join us.
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Bay St ISO Cooking Challenges Whilst in 2.0 students have been invited to participate in cooking challenges. Of course with these challenges there is lots of room for creativity and flexibility. So far there have been two cooking challenges, the first one was for a favourite cookie recipe and the second one for a simple cake recipe. Students have been uploading their completed home baking videos which have been faboulour to see. Households I am sure have been very much enjoying some good old fashioned baking!!
More lockdown cooking ideas: APC Mille-Feuille Workshop A Mille-Feuille is like a vanilla slice on steroids. Unlike its anglo-counterpart where the custard often has the consistency of rubber, the French version contains an incredibly light vanilla custard, known as crème pâtissière. This delicate custard can also be piped between the thin layers (the thousand layers) of puff pastry creating a wonderful contrast in textures. Thanks to COVID-19, I adopted two stranded French backpackers, one of whom happened to be a patisserie chef. After sampling her Mille-Feuille I asked Mélanie to run a workshop for our Food and French staff. She showed us how to make the pastry layers from scratch, no frozen short cuts for this girl. Mélanie was a purist. Each layer had to be refrigerated for 20 mins and hand-rolled several times at intervals to ensure the butter was evenly distributed. We were unanimous after sampling the bespoke, vanilla beaninfused custard, that it was well worth the effort. Once the layers were baked and had cooled Mélanie assembled her creation and interspersed the rows of custard with home-made caramel, also piped. Jam is more commonly used in place of caramel. For visual appeal, a metal ruler was employed to create diagonal geometric designs of dusted icing sugar. Four hours later we sampled the exquisite treat. Until the workshop I believe most of us were unaware of the time involved in creating this desert, I for one will never baulk again at paying $7 for a true MilleFeuille! Suzanne Playfoot
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Bay St Create Club is going live Students and staff from our Bay St campus have recently been exploring their creative talents through the Year 9 Virtual Create Club. Each week a creative challenge is posted to our Google Classroom and members have the opportunity to respond to these challenges or simply share images of any creative endeavours they’ve been working on whilst at home. This selection of works comes from year 9 students and staff and is a shining example of the wide variety of styles, interests and creative talents we have amongst us.
The Create Club is now offering live creative sessions once per week with our first session being held on Wednesday 26 August at 3.30 pm. All staff and students are welcome to join and all sessions will be designed for novices and more experienced creatives alike. These sessions are intended as an opportunity for us to get off our couches and delve deep into a creative flow to better our wellbeing, learn some new skills and have some fun! Please check out our Compass announcement on 26 August outlining further details for our first live creative session and for a code to join our virtual create club Google Classroom. Looking forward to seeing you there! Paige Lammin Creative Endeavour Coordinator
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No blues at Bay Street It’s been a really busy term for teachers and students in our remote Bay St Campus. As we moved back into remote learning, we knew that we had our experiences from Term 2 to build on in learning and wellbeing. It has been incredibly inspiring to see the work teachers are doing in their classrooms, particular in their engagement with students during Google Meets. Our team has also been working really hard to support students’ wellbeing by running extra-curricular programs to build on the positive energy and strengths of our students. Our Wellbeing Day allowed students to explore ‘Digital Wellbeing’ through a webinar by Project RockIt, engage in creative and health-based activities led by teachers and a valuable screen-free afternoon. In addition, we have sent out native plant seeds to students and hope that the process of germinating the plants will be a symbol of resilience, mindfulness and growth. We hope that as they sprout, that they will add a touch of green to students’ home environment. Finally, Ms Cipolato who runs the Cafe is running a weekly ‘ISO-Cooking Challenge’ and ‘Cook Alongs’ to help bring aspiring chefs together. We are really proud of our team and how students have engaged so positively with our program of online learning. We are also grateful for the support and encouragement of parents and carers who are such a key part of our learning community.
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Capturing carbon through seaweed I know what you’re thinking, how could this slimy stuff In this review of Tim Flannery’s new book Sunlight and Seaweed, 9E student and environmentalist Hattie Nees, raises the question: can seaweed be part of the answer to global warming? If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past 20 years, you would be aware of the Earth’s climate crisis. It’s estimated that over the next 8 decades, for each year we need to cut our greenhouse emissions by 3 per cent as well as drawing out 3 gigatons of atmospheric carbon to halt the progression of climate change. These numbers are so large, seeming so unachievable, and I’ll tell you now trees aren’t going to fix things. Trees are an incredible asset for carbon storage. However, trees are problematic for short and long term solutions: they take years to grow to their carbon harnessing state, and there just isn’t enough room on Earth to plant our way out of climate change. So what is the ideal solution for stopping climate change? Our best bet: Seaweed.
do anything to help the planet? Well, seaweed, as well as trees, is excellent carbon storage, the difference is seaweed is incredibly fast-growing and is more sustainable, some species of seaweed grow a metre a day. We know that 71 per cent of the Earth’s surface is water, so if we dedicated 9 per cent of the ocean surface to seaweed farms, they would singlehandedly remove 50 gigatons of atmospheric carbon each year. In addition to seaweed, the farms could also grow shellfish and other marine foods. Seaweed makes water less acidic, creating the ideal environment for marine life to thrive, so if we dedicated seaweed farms to grow shellfish too, it would provide 200 kilograms of food for each person on Earth! Seaweed has the potential to save Earth from climate change, but this goal is many decades from our grasp, so what can seaweed do in the short term? Well, one farmer in Canada (Joe Dorgan) started feeding his cows washed up seaweed on the beachfront as a way to reduce costs. These cows became heavier and healthier. Agricultural scientists tested the seaweed mix he had fed the cows, and they verified that seaweed as an additive to animal feed reduced methane production while simultaneously accelerating growth. Livestock contributes to 15.5 per cent of total carbon emissions, so by adding seaweed to animal feed, it decreases methane production and overall carbon emissions. Scientists found one species of seaweed accelerating the others, Asparagopsis—a species of red algae native to Australian coastal waters. Asparagopsis reduces methane production by 99 per cent with doses of less than 2 per cent. It contains an active compound called bromoform, this compound has had an anti-methanogenic effect on livestock without affecting the taste or quality of produce. Bromoform prevents methane production by reacting with vitamin B12 at the last stage of digestion. This reaction disrupts the enzymes used by gut microbes which produce methane gas as waste during digestion. As a result, seaweed is ideal for climate change solutions. Still, for this to work we need planetwide intervention and significant investments, both biologically and behavioural, so talk to friends and family, write emails and articles like these, take action for a new climate solution. Hattie Nees, 9E
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ALBERT PARK ART SHOW 2020 Entries: Now open and close Monday 14 September 5 pm Opening Online event: Friday 16 October, 7 – 7.40 pm Virtual exhibition dates: Friday 16, opens 7.40 pm – Sunday 18 October, closes 5 pm Get ready for the VIRTUAL Albert Park College Art Show. Celebrate with us 10 years of the APC art shows this October. Entry is now open, so get creating! For key dates, terms and conditions and entry go to www.albertparkcollegeartshow.com.au The Art Show 2020 will run with a few changes due to COVID-19 restrictions. Changes include: • The exhibition will be solely hosted via the virtual platform Gallery247, allowing you to view, purchase and arrange delivery directly to your doorstep from the comfort of your home • We will have an online opening celebration and award ceremony • Entry is free for APC students.
Fundraising Event
The Art Show is our major fundraiser for the year with monies raised this year going into funding: • the transformation of our Danks Street library into a dedicated study centre • our environmentally sustainable design space, Makerspace 2.0 • and exciting new upgrades to our STEM facilities. This year because of Covid 19 restrictions we are unable to generate funds from ticket sales, raffle or auction items, so we ask any parents and friends of the College that may have generously supported past events, to consider sponsoring an art prize, or part thereof. As the Art Show is an APC building fund fundraiser, monetary donations are fully tax deductible.
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$2000 Best in Show (acquisitive prize to APC) $500 People’s Choice $500 Curators Choice $500 Judges Choice
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STUDENT ART AWARDS • • •
$500 Best Student Artwork Show (acquisitive prize to APC) $250 Judges Student Choice $250 Curators Student Choice
To donate towards an art prize please email artshow@ albertparkcollege.vic.edu.au or contact Carolyn Menzies on 0423 608 697. Like our Facebook Page to keep up to date: www. facebook.com/apcartshow/ Share the page and let your artist friends know! Art prize money is comprised of sponsorships, primarily donated by local businesses and APC families. As our landscape for seeking sponsors is different this year, we need to reflect this in our offering. Therefore, we propose a ‘Sponsor Prize Pool’, where the total donated amount is spread across prizes in varying increments, unless the prize is specified at the time the donation is made by the sponsor, whereby the donation amount is attached to a particular prize.
ENTRIES NOW OPEN (Close Monday 14 September 5 pm)
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Staying connected in Iso 2: Student Leadership
On Thursday 13th August, our student leaders from Years 7-12 gathered together (virtually) for our termly Student Conference. This time around, we were lucky enough to be joined by Katherine Copsey, a Councillor for Lake Ward in the City of Port Phillip. We asked Kat a number of leadership-based questions, including “what is the best piece of advice you can give to young leaders who want to make a change within their community?”; and also discussed her involvement and career in politics. Kat’s inspirational messages, particularly with regards to how we can approach some of our leadership goals within areas such as diversity, as well as her advice for those students who wanted to be involved in politics, were deeply valued by the APC student leaders.
Rising to the challenge of a wild year, our Student Leadership team at APC has been very busy recently! With the help of leaders from Year 7 through to Year 12, we’ve been doing what we can to keep the school community together. We’ve been putting out The Huddle each week with contributions from members of the SRC. Similarly, Gratitude Hour has been reborn as APCTV, with weekly episodes put together by our Portfolio Leaders covering everything from maths to art and even cooking. We’ve launched a Student Wellbeing page, created and driven by Pia Martyn Y11. On top of all that, the SRC has been meeting weekly to come up with initiatives to promote connectedness amongst each year level at a time when it’s so easy to be disconnected. The result has been countless trivia nights, Netflix parties, weekly Meet catch ups and so many other great ideas! The SRC have also begun planning ways we can engage with the Positive Education curriculum and have real student voice in that space.
It’s been a very interesting year for student leadership, however, we have an amazing team who have been innovative and resilient throughout! This leadership conference was a great opportunity to reflect on the achievements that have been made by all student representatives.
Once again, a massive thank you and We’ve also been making huge strides in sustainability, one of our student leadership foci for 2020. Recently, congratulations to everyone involved! I got approval from the APC School Council to set up a Olivia Gladwell Bolte Sustainability subcommittee that will lead the way as we move towards being carbon neutral. With students School Vice Captain Alyssa Seckinger-Crow (Y10), Ella Travis (Y10) and Ella Simons (Y8), as well as some staff and members of the broader APC community, I’m certain that our subcommittee will make quick and meaningful progress in the coming months. Watch this space! Oscar Pearce School Captain
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Appreciation of The Arts At APC we are lucky to have a passionate team of create teachers who throw themselves into promoting innovation and design on a daily basis. They’ve collated some student work for you to enjoy!
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