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Headmaster Happy Chinese New Year!
Staff Departure Parents’ Association Start of Year Social Functions Exchange Students Scholarship Examinations 2019 Australian Government Student Residential Address Collection Traffic Controller VCE Season of Excellence 2019 Duke of Edinburgh Presentation Grey Wolf Scout Award Towards2050
Middle School
Settling In
Meet the Form Teacher Year 8 Surf Camp Homework Club Curriculum and Wellbeing Information Evening Sport Update Choir Practice Absentees
Junior School
2019 Junior School ParentTeacher Meetings Parent Information Session 2019 Prep and Year 1 Reading and Writing Together Anaphylaxis Management Dates Ahead
Edition 38, 8 February 2019
From the Headmaster Happy Chinese New Year! I would like to wish all our families a Happy Chinese New Year for Tuesday 5 February. Our Chinese Department have led us in a range of activities to celebrate the Year of the Pig. Our exchange students from China have been helping our students make Chinese lanterns and design posters to celebrate Chinese New Year and they will have dumplings with visiting students on 19 February to celebrate the end of Chinese New Year celebrations. They will also give presentations to various classes about Chinese New Year as well as their school life in China, our students are thoroughly enjoying this week’s activities.
Staff Departure I am very sad to announce that Ms Paulene Clarke, our Senior School counsellor, has decided to retire at the end of the Term after 35 years of excellent service at our School. Paulene has helped thousands of students to negotiate their way through school, and has proven to be a wonderful asset to students, parents and staff members. We will greatly miss her positive contribution to the School. We will also miss Molly, her “Assistant”, who has been much loved by students and staff. I have now commenced a search to find a suitable replacement for the important School Counsellor position.
Parents’ Association Start of Year Social Functions Tonight we will hold the Senior School Parents’ Association start of year function in The Camberwell Room in the Sports Centre. Thanks again to the Parents’ Association and to the Development Office for organising and hosting these functions. I have appreciated the opportunity to welcome parents from the various year groups of the School to a new School Year.
Exchange Students I would like to welcome twelve students from Xi’an Tie Yi High School, and their supervising teacher, Ms Shiyu Yao, who arrived earlier this week for a four-week exchange. Students have been paired with Year 9/10/11 Chinese language students and will follow their timetables. They will participate in classes and experience a range of different activities whilst also helping our boys with their Chinese.
Scholarship Examinations Tomorrow morning – 9 February – we will be holding scholarship examinations at School. Some three hundred students have registered for these examinations including some of our own students. We wish them all well, recognising that only a very few candidates will be awarded a scholarship, and that examination results do not define one’s worth as a person.
Sport
2019 Australian Government Student Residential Address Collection
Dates Ahead
The Australian Government Department of Education and Training is seeking to confirm the current residential addresses of our students and their parents/guardians to assist in their determination of funding arrangements. We are required to provide you with a copy of the Data Collection Notice which can be found here. Many of you will have received a request from me earlier this month to complete, sign and return the School’s Administrative and Medical Information Form. This current request from the Department is in addition to, and does not replace, that earlier request from me. If you have moved address recently and have not yet advised the School of your current address, could you please contact our Student Records Office on 03 9835 1777 or sro@cgs.vic.edu.au no later than close of business Monday, 18 February 2019. No action is required by you in relation to this data collection notice. If you have not however, returned your completed and signed Administrative and Medical Information Form, could you please do so at your earliest opportunity.
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Camberwell Grammar School 55 Mont Albert Road Canterbury Victoria 3126 T +61 3 9835 1777 registrar@cgs.vic.edu.au www.cgs.vic.edu.au
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