WHATS ON IN AUGUST

Wednesday

AUGUST LUNCHEON

12:00pm for 12.30pm start

With guest speaker Associate Professor Graham Parslow who will be presenting on Vintage Radio. DineIn: Members $39, non-Members $44.

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Friday

SPECIAL MORNING ESPRESSO

7:30am – 8:30am

Special Espresso coffee for inhouse Residents at Graduate House, served from 7.30am to 8.30am only. Free for Resident Members.

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Wednesday

WOMEN’S FORUM

10:00am for 10:30am start

The topic of this forum is “Privacy versus the Right to Know”. The Women’s Forum group welcomes new members. Forum discussions are held in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

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Friday

MEMBERS DRINKS NIGHT

5:30pm onwards

Come along in your own groups or come meet new friends and enjoy a relaxing, convivial, no fuss wind-down to your working week. Members and non-Members prices apply.

02, 09, 16, 23, 30

BRIDGE NIGHT

7:15pm – 9:30pm

Wednesday

Join us for Bridge Nights every Wednesday evening. All levels of bridge players welcome. Player fees: Members $2, non-Members $5. Food and beverages at bar prices.

FOR BOOKINGS: phone: (03) 9347 3428 email: membership@graduatehouse.com.au website: www.graduatehouse.com.au

Cheryl is a mother of two and an educationist. Since beginning teaching in 1989, she has moved around and beyond classrooms in Australia and overseas, working to understand school education systems and the relationship between families and schools. What she has observed and experienced first-hand is an absence of the critical distinction between ‘student’ and ‘child’. This belief has been the driving force behind her family life, work and studies.

Your Children: Take the Lead on Their Education is Cheryl’s latest publication. In it, she places parents where she believes they should be: firmly at the centre of all decision making.

A great resource for parents and leaders of education. I only wish I had access to this information when my children were at school.

—Wendy Marquenie, Mother and Author, Queensland, Australia

Your Children

the book provides relevant, practical and informative content, which empowers parents to see themselves as leaders of their child’s education.

—James McHale, Family Law Specialist and Mediator, Melbourne, Australia

This is an important book for parents, grandparents and carers who need (or don’t know they need) a guide to schools and education. Put your feet up, have a coffee and enjoy an easy read. Then get together with others and start the conversations.

Cheryl believes it is parents’ business to know what happens to their children while they are at school.

Cheryl has a record of active involvement in community service, most notably her longstanding membership of the Rotary Club of Melbourne and her recognition as a Dame of the Order of St. John ofJerusalem, Knights Hospitaller.

In a conversational tone, she invites parents to value their role in their child’s school education and gives them an exclusive vantage point from which to view it. Reminiscent of a delightful childhood candy store, the book offers mothers and fathers nuggets of wisdom and sustainable guidance to support their child’s learning. Parents who believe in empowering other parents and want to join educators in fostering mutual trust and honesty must not only read this book but use it as a helpful resource.

—Maria Tsakalakis-Coate, Principal, Perth, Western Australia

—Dr. Deborah M. Vereen, Mother and Family Engagement Educator, Pennsylvania, USA

She has recently completed postgraduate studies in Parental Alienation, as part of the first group of professionals world-wide to complete such a course. Cheryl continues to write, speak and advise on the relationship between families and schools and how fundamental change begins locally.

Book you End-of-Year Private Event with us!

Christmas Barbeque Menu Function Menu

Available 6th November to 18th December 2023

Set menu for lunch or dinner

In the Graduate House Courtyard

Main Course

Porterhouse steak (gf) (df)

Marinated lamb skewers (gf) (df)

Gourmet sausages

Lemon garlic chicken (gf)

Vegetarian burgers (v)

Grilled haloumi cheese and summer vegetable platter (gf) (v)

Onions (v+) (gf)

Baked potatoes with herb sour cream (gf) (v)

Spicy grilled tofu (v+) (gf)

Selection of summer salads (v) (gf)

Desser�

Blueberry pavlova (v) (gf), Fruit salad and cream (v) (gf)

$67.50 per person

Minimum 25 Guests

(df) dairy free (gf) gluten free

(v) vegetarian (v+) vegan

Book you End-of-Year Private Event with us!