Stylus 11 Nov 2010

The voice of St. Spyridon College

| December 2010 | NUMBER 11 |

Celebrating the

beautiful things in life

Painting by Elleni Mavrolefterou. Photography by Mr Anthony Condous , createv and Mike Flokis Photography

stylus Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia The ‘St Spyridon’ Parish and Community of South-East Sydney

Warmly Invites you to the

OFFICIAL OPENING OF SPORTS AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE To be conducted by His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos Senior School Campus 1130 Anzac Parade Maroubra 2035 Thursday, 19th May 2011 – 9.30 am

Address From Head Of College

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As a school community we are very excited that the new Sports and Performing Arts Centre will soon be opened. Many of our readers would know that in addition to sports and physical education, the Centre will provide excellent music and drama facilities as well as a gym. We commend our parents whose contribution to the Building Fund has been of enormous assistance. The Parish Committee together with Mrs Christina Tsaconas, Parish Executive Officer and Bursar, are warmly thanked for their work on this wonderful building.

A troupe of past students with their inimitable Director Mrs Mary Faletas, are already working on the Production of a play in Greek, A Cent’s Worth of Youth. As we prepare for the Opening to be conducted by His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos, we reflect on the Performing Arts program of the last ten years. Our students, with the professional guidance of our teachers have taken part in many spectacular productions, featuring the talents of our students in music, drama and dance – in English and in Greek.

In other words, whilst we are delighted that we have this new building (after much work over many years and with the invaluable support of the Commonwealth’s BER funds) we remember that “It’s not about the buildings”. It’s about the passion that our educators bring to “building young lives”.

It is this passion that inspires our students to excel in all that they attempt. It is this passion that leads our students to embrace opportunities to be a force for the good in the world, through community action and global connections.

When the Mathematics Team serves pies on day, we also know that we have a good sense of humour, as well as a strong sense of community.

In closing I quote from our Principal, Senior School, Mrs Katsogiannis.

“Education from an Orthodox perspective is not an isolated process but an activity which involves persons and their relationships to each other.”

We hope that this edition of the Stylus celebrates the connectedness that is at the heart of the St Spyridon learning world.

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Mrs E. Stefanou-Haag Head of College

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Learning to Know It’s Academic!!!

Preparing for the preliminary and HSC courses 2011 - 2012 Education is the lifelong process of intelligently dealing with the experiences of life, of learning to manage with these experiences and after reflection both upon the experiences themselves and our attempts to cope with them, learning to cope better. It is about using the talents or gifts that God has given us, developing them to their fullest, and sharing our gifts with others so as to bring joy, goodness and peace to all.

Here at St Spyridon College we talk about “Educating the Whole Person”. The development of the whole person involves the intellectual, social, psychological, ethical, moral, spiritual, physical, cultural and aesthetic.

Education from an Orthodox perspective is not an isolated process but an activity which involves persons and their relationships to each other. Education does not just happen to persons; a person actively participates in the process and in fact learns among other things to be a person. Να είναι άνθρωπος.

According to St John Chrysostom, whose feast we celebrate on the 3rd November, the acquisition of knowledge should not be the main goal of education because it is more difficult to act than to talk, and words are easier than deeds.

We often hear that children do not behave like they used to. In 4000BC Socrates is said to have stated: “Our youths love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their elders, and love to chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They contradict their parents chatter before company, gobble up food and tyrannise their Teachers.” So, what’s new? Nothing has changed!

Our challenge is to provide the best learning environment and to motivate you so that you may fulfil your potential.

We live in a society where to be well educated is a necessity.

Modern life demands that our citizens have the greatest possible range and depth of knowledge and skills. We are a ‘learning society’ - increasingly reliant on the creation of knowledge, the acquisition of new skills and the communication of information.

We must never stop learning; never stop asking questions.

Knowledge creatively derived and thoughtfully used, with God’s help, is our best defence against defeatism and despair

and with love we can transform knowledge into wisdom. Without love knowledge can be arrogant and selfish.

“A good education is about living with quite a bit of happiness;” welcoming change; character, quality of days - and with God’s grace achieving things we thought or suspected were beyond us.

The Ancient Greeks believed that happiness (ευδαιμονία) was not a passive state but rather an activity. Virtue, Αρετε means be excellent or outstanding. In the Ancient Greek mind happiness meant the act of living in accord with excellence… με αρετές... with virtues.

A term that you will hear throughout this program is “Stepping Up”. We expect you to step up, take your mark and run a good race. You need to extend your own abilities and make an effort.

You cannot do this completely on your own, you need each other and in particular you need your Teachers.

Your best allies over the next two years are your Teachers. Teaching has a long and proud tradition of service to children, young people and to society. Many can recall a Teacher who changed their life for the better by broadening their horizons and giving them new understandings about their potential as a human being. Over the decades, people have chosen teaching as their life’s work because they genuinely believed that they could make a difference to the lives of children and adolescents… some of you may become Teachers.

Aristotle taught that the ideal citizen is (great-souled). They are prudent, brave, open minded, and reasonable. They are just, truthful, thankful, witty and good tempered. They are generous and civilised. Friendship is very important to them.

These are their virtues. Today we would also add that they possess humility and compassion. Does this sound like anyone you know? Look at the person next to you… these are the qualities of an ideal St Spyridon College student. This is your challenge.

So how do you manage all of the above? In a great part through good routines, discipline and the wearing of your uniform with proper pride.

Mrs Amelia Katsogiannis Principal Senior School

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Day: November 10

This article is about Mathematics.

Wait! Don’t turn the page.

It’s about a special number called ‘pi.’

Pi sounds like pie and is approximately equal to 3.1415926... and is one of the most important constants in Mathematics.

It represents the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter. The Greek letter , often spelled out as ‘pi,’ was adopted as a symbol for the number from the Greek word perimeter, “περιμετροs“. This amazing number helps us calculate circumference and area of circles and volume of any sphere or cone.

So why is this number celebrated on particular days of the year, all over the world?

So many of us Maths enthusiasts all over the world, are fascinated by this number . It is an irrational number, that is, it cannot be written as a simple fraction or as an exact decimal with a finite number of decimal places.

Pi is a transcendental number, meaning it will continue infinitely without repeating! With the use of computers today, pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion digits past the decimal point!

One of the days Pi is celebrated on is March 14, because of the Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes’ first rough approximation of as being 3.14. However, 22/7 is actually a closer approximation of than 3.14. Thus, a more “accurate” Pi day is on July 22.

We, at St. Spyridon College, chose to celebrate Pi on November 10, being the 314th day of the year. We celebrated this day by selling hot, delicious Pi’s! There were apple Pi’s, chocolate

Pi’s, Choc-caramel Pi’s and blueberry Pi’s and all these were served with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream. This day was such a fun and successful day for the whole school community. It was fantastic to see students being so aware and excited about the “humble Pi.” Also, in promotion of this day, all of year 7-9 maths classes spent a couple of lessons researching and investigating this great number. Some students were able to recite over 15 decimal places of Pi!!

On behalf of the Mathematics team, we would like to thank all the teachers that donated Pi’s, ice cream, chocolate sauces, serviettes, plates and spoons. Without your generosity this day would not have been successful.

We, as a school community raised over $450 in that mad rush at recess. Money raised will go towards purchasing a ‘state of the art’ overhead projector for our school.

A special thank you to all the teachers and Year 12 students who helped in the kitchen on the day.

In ‘rounding up,’ I’ll leave you with a couple of interesting facts: 1. A British man named Daniel Tammet once rattled off Pi up to 22,514 digits from memory in just five hours! (Which landed him on the David Letterman show a few years ago).

2. The ‘humble Pi’ manages to have 5,333 friends on Facebook so far...

Till next year, “HAPPY Pi DAY!!

Ms Kalithrakas Maths Team

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Learning to Do Community Action Book Week Grandparents Day

Legacy Fundraising

Year Two participated in Grandparents Day as part of our Infants School Book Week celebrations. The students came to school dressed in their pyjamas and robes, and brought their teddies and favourite books to show their classmates.

In September, four Year 9 representatives; Leonidas Andrew, Petro Stefadouros, Maria Mio and Estelle Krassas, along with their Year Adviser Mr Condous, sold Legacy Merchandise at Eastgardens. Well done and congratulations. Your efforts resulted in $700 being raised in only 3 hours !!!

In the afternoon Grandparents came and read their favourite stories to the students. The Grandparents read books both in English and Greek to the children.

Ms G. Kokinelis Dean, Middle School

The children were delighted to welcome their grandparents.

It was lovely to see all the expectant faces on each child as they were being read to, in both Greek and English.

Our thanks to all the grandparents who attended, making this a very special afternoon for the children.

Mr s C. Bartlett Librarian, Junior School

The Badge of Legacy symbolises in its torch the undying flame of service and sacrifice handed to us by our comrades in war who have passed on. In its wreath of laurel, with its points inverted in remembrance, is the guerdon of honour; that is the meed of those who gave their lives for their country.

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Year 6 Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Our Junior School took part in the Mad Hatter’s Breakfast.

This was to raise money for The Cancer Council. Cancer is a disease that can affect you in many different ways. It can be in the blood or even bones.

On this day we raised money. Some of the Year Six students came to our classroom to serve us breakfast. We ate apples and corn flakes with milk. We also wore our craziest hat and brought in a gold coin donation. I hope we raised enough money to help the scientists find a cure for this awful disease.

Desi Kapodistrias Yr 6 What an eventful and successful fundraiser!

Congratulations to Ms Tsokas, Year 6 students and all staff involved who presented an impressive and well-organised breakfast for our College families. Students had a great time displaying their funniest and coolest hats to their friends while they shared their healthy morning meals together in their classrooms – a unique and fun-filled experience!

A sincere thank you to the Year 6 parents who contributed to the Morning Tea feast offered to all parents in the old KC cottage classroom where P&F assisted in the set up of tea and coffee and arrangement of delicious homemade finger food. We appreciate the support with this major College fundraising event for Cancer research.

P&F members and College staff happily came to the party appropriately dressed in their Mad Hatter’s Hats.

Mrs Maria Pascalis P&F Secretary

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Learning to Be Global Connections 40 Hour Famine Appeal

Lions Club International Our Junior School will be featured in an international video produced by Lions Club International. The video will demonstrate the value of the Lions Quest Skills for Growing Program.

At St. Spyridon College this is introduced into our PDHPE Program in Kindergarten through Q-Bear and followed right through to Year Six. The program has been used successfully at our school as it creates a classroom environment that is essential for academic success and social and emotional wellbeing.

The topics covered include Building a School Community, Growing as a Group, Making Positive Decisions, Growing Up Healthy and Celebrating You and Me. Year 4T will actually take part in a demonstration lesson and the rest of the school population will be filmed whilst playing at lunch time.

A big CONGRATULATIONS needs to be given to the entire school for their combined efforts in the 40 Hour Famine Appeal. A TOTAL $5,422.35 was raised to help needy children in underdeveloped countries.

Year Year Year Year Year

7 – total 8 – total 9 – total 10 – total 11 – total

raised raised raised raised raised

$ 1,564.45 $ 1,661.35 $ 393.00 $ 795.85 $ 1,013.50

Special mention to the following students who raised the most in their year group.

Year 7 Matthew Chiam , Christos Raptis, Peter Contominas.

Year 8 Sophia Georgas, Pamela Prineas, Yianna Carpis, Chloe Kourtesis.

Year 9 Elena Ganis, Constance Synesios, Dean Michos, Alexandros Moraitis.

Year 10 Phusit Vongchaiyasit, Kosta Baratsas, Ben Sealy, Mariam Spilioti, Brannon Bergmann.

Year 11 Ashli Bergmann, Nicole Kalofonos, Ilijana Radan, Leah Balayannis.

Ms G. Kokinelis Dean, Middle School STYLUS Page 6

The Triple Zero Awareness Working Group is a national body that represents all Police, Fire and Ambulance emergency calltaking agencies throughout Australia. They have launched an online game to teach children about the appropriate uses of 000 and to prepare them to react positively in their own emergency situation and potentially save lives.

There have been numerous instances where calm and composed action by young children in emergency situations has saved lives. We encourage all parents to work through this program with their own child. www.triplezero.gov.au Mrs A. Synesios Acting Principal Junior School

World Vision – Young Leaders Convention Anastasia Kerameas, Alex Georgiou, Marielle Pizanis and Georgio Lambos attended a Young Leader’s Convention held

by World Vision for young leaders who want to change the world. It was an inspiring day, where we learned about global issues relating to world hunger and global trading.

Firstly we participated in an activity, where the students were divided into groups and placed into individual countries. We were placed in the country, India, which is a relatively poor country. We had to trade using food, fuel and televisions with other countries. The main aim of this activity was to see how global trade works and why we live in a world of inequality.

For example, the countries with a lot of money and resources such as the UK and US were greedy and refused to trade with other countries, who are living in poverty. This, therefore, explained why we live in, and will continue to live in this unbalanced world today.

Many students strongly and passionately stated their opinions and raised very valid opinions, while representing various groups and organizations.

Further more it was a very productive and informative day where we learnt about global issues in great depth than what we previously knew and can now put these words into action and make a change as young leaders.

Anastasia Kerameas and Alex Georgiou Year 11 Marielle Pizanis and Georgio Lambos Year 10

Young Womens’ Leadership – Nsw Parliament House We visited NSW Parliament House to participate in a forum regarding the various political and social issues facing women today. The first part of the day involved a talk by Mahboba Rawi, founder of “Mahboba’s Promise”, a non-for-profit organization that helps women and orphaned children in Afghanistan. Mahboba showed us a segment that was played on TV about the work she does in Afghanistan.

continued to witness as the Taliban has tried to gain control of the country, is what led her to establish the organization.

After lunch we had the opportunity to meet three female Members of Parliament and ask them questions. The members discussed many issues that they face as female politicians, varying from the level of scrutiny they face in regards to their appearance in public, to the issues facing women which they would like to see improved upon such as equal wages.

We really enjoyed the day and are grateful for the opportunity to listen to a very inspiring woman who has dedicated her life to helping her community. Not only this, but we were given the chance to assess our strengths and weaknesses in order to understand how we can become better leaders of our community. We are inspired to become better leaders ourselves after having listened to present female leaders of our community.

Ashli Bergmann and Elleni Mavrolefterou Year 11

Farewell to our Super Heroes For Muck-Up Day the Year 12 Students invaded the oval wearing their Super Hero Outfits much to the amusement of younger students and Teachers.

We wish them well as they take on the world, which we hope they will make better by their presence.

We thank their Year Adviser Mr. P. Mavrommatis for his professionalism and commitment to their care and welfare.

She has various establishments in Afghanistan dedicated to looking after women and children, including schools, healthcare facilities and shelters. After the segment she told us about her life and what led her to establish the organization. She described how, as a child, she lived a happy life in Afghanistan until, when she was 14, Russia entered and began a war to take over the country. At this young age, Mahboba protested against Russia being in Afghanistan. She was forced to hide in the basement of her house for 20 days to keep from being captured. Eventually she escaped Afghanistan and was granted permission to enter Australia where she continues to live today. The death she witnessed as a young child, and has STYLUS Page 7

Celebrating

Ten years of

Performing Arts

2001 “Dramatic Snap Shots” Mr S Travers, Ms C Savva

2001 “Did We Leave Anybody Out?” Mrs M Faletas 2002 “Dramatic Snap Shots 2” Ms K Lucas, Ms C Savva

2002 “Iphigenia at Aulis” Mrs M Faletas STYLUS Page 8

2003 “The Crucible” Ms K Lucas

2003 “Greece, a Land of Light and Sea” Mrs M Faletas 2004 “Dramatic Snapshots 3” – co directed Ms K Lucas, Ms C Savva, Ms D Heretakis, Mrs M Faletas

2004 “The Olympic Games then and now” Mrs M Faletas 2005 “The Shepherdess’ Lover” Mrs M Faletas

2005 “Musical Snapshots” Mc C Savva 2005 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Ms K Lucas 2006 “Musical Snapshots” Ms C Savva

2005 “An Idiot & a Half” Mrs M Faletas

2006 “Romeo & Juliet” 2006 “Spare the rod, spoil the

Ms K Lucas

child” Mrs M Faletas STYLUS Page 9

stylus 2007 “Musical Snapshots” Ms C Savva

2007 “Macbeth” Ms K Lucas

2007 “Small Pharisees” Mrs M Faletas

2008 “In this Strange Land Refuge and Exile” Mrs M Faletas

2009 “Musical Snapshots” Ms C Savva STYLUS Page 10

Performing Arts over the past 10 years

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MUSICAL SNAPSHOTS 2010 NIDA Parade Playhouse theatre Congratulations to Ms Christina Savva for an outstanding “Musical Snapshots – 2010” at the NIDA Parade Playhouse Theatre.

The audience was treated to a program that showcased a wide variety of musical talent, from Chopin to Chiotis – from classical piano to electric guitar and of course the beloved bouzouki.

HSC Year 12 music performances were followed by the budding talent of Middle School students. The Year 10 and Year 11 students are already there in terms of passion and commitment to musical excellence.

Thank you to Adam Neou and Monica Kilias, past students who performed on the night and inspiring younger students to stay with music for the long haul.

The Musical Snapshots crew is warmly thanked as are Mr L. Sobolevski, Ms M. Kalithrakas and Ms J. Cheung. Their skills and hard work are greatly appreciated.

We look forward to hosting the “Musical Snapshots – 2011” in our new Performing Arts Centre in 2011.

We thank all parents for their critical support for this new facility, through the prompt payment of their Building Fund Contributions.

Congratulations To All Staff And Students Involved Photography: Mike Flokis

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stylus Miss 39 years old Congratulations to Mrs Mary Faletas her cast and crew, and to everyone who helped on the night to make it a memorable one. We thank Bishop Seraphim for attending this night with us. Hon. Consul General of Greece Mr Tolios is also warmly thanked for his presence.

IPSHA Performing Arts Festival On Tuesday 24th August, the St. Spyridon College choir sang at the IPSHA Performing Arts Festival which was held at Angel Place Recital Hall.

They received warm applause from the audition with their rendition of “You Can’t Stop the Beat”. The students were then joined on stage by students from Pittwater House, Ravenswood School for Girls, Knox Grammar, Mt. Sinai College and Shoalhaven Anglican School for three combined choir pieces.

We congratulate all students on their performance and thank Mrs Coyne who has worked with them over the last two terms to achieve such a high performance standard.

Members of the Choir included: Electra Athanasatos, AnnaMaria Borean, Jacqueline Burleigh, Nicola Cafcaros, Catherine Dokos, Carissa Frazis, Bianca Frazis, Erin Giaras, Felicity Ginis, Christina Hatgis, Vivienne Hatzigiakoumis, Mersina Hristeff, Christiana Kilias, Nicholas Kollias, Constantinos Kollias, Stella Ktenas, Caitlin Liganaris, Chrissy Liganaris, Sarantos Makris, George Makris, Stavroulla Mavrolefterou, Jessica Mazis, Johnny Mouratidis, Maree Nikitopoulos, Merissa Papadakis, Sonya Paradisis, Eleni Preketes, George Raptis, Markella Roditis, Joanna Skouteris, Jordan Stojkovic, Kerryanne Syros, Tiffany Tsoukalas, Deyarna Xenos, Mariah Zouroudis.

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Focus on our Educators Profile of Mrs. Helen Dalakiaris Teacher of Mathematics 7 – 12 Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science Diploma of Education Graduate Diploma in Financial Management Diploma in Business Programming

University of New South Wales University of New South Wales UNE (University of New England) Spherion - Elective programming language: Java

Mrs Helen Dalakiaris began her teaching career in 1992.

Her teaching area is Mathematics which she has taught from Year 6 to the highest HSC level (Extension 2) in private and public schools.

Immediately before coming to St Spyridon College, Mrs Dalakiaris was at Moriah College. She joined our dynamic and demanding Mathematics Team in 2009.

Mrs Dalakiaris also gives girls boxercise and fitness training classes as part of the co-curricular program.

Mrs Dalakiaris is the mother of John and Phoebe who are students at St Spyridon College Junior School.

She says “I believe in providing students with an environment where they feel safe, secure and respected, and that students should be rewarded when they have achieved a level of improvement. This promotes self esteem and enhances their learning and overall performance.”

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Past Students and Present Role Models Where are they now?

One of the most satisfying aspects of teaching is to watch a student grow and develop, both in skills and ability, over a six year period.

Yioryios Papayioriou HSC Class 2010, spent much of 2009-2010 refining his craft and developing as a painter. His Body of Work for Visual Arts was three diptychs based on his response and reaction to the bushfires that swept through Victoria. Black Saturday is an abstract series that captures the dancing flames, scorched earth and brilliant sunsets that resulted in Victoria. These works are fairly large and highlight a variety of textures in red and black. Yioryios also completed a series of smaller works and studies that he did not submit to the Board of Studies.

What Yioryios realised was that he wanted to go to art school with the view to becoming a practicing artist. Like

many of our students, he has been interviewed at various universities to secure a place for 2011. His interview at Australian National University School of Art and Design was very positive, with Yioryios being shortlisted for a scholarship.

Yioryios also entered art prizes and exhibitions throughout the year. He won the Kirribilli Art Prize and was shortlisted and hung at the North Sydney Art Show. From the Kirribilli Prize Yioryios sold some of his paintings. He has already received four commissions a major one from an architectural firm.

While he is still busy painting, Yioryios is preparing for news of university acceptances. I am sure that this will not be the last we hear of him and wish Yioryios well in his future.

Mariclaire Pringle Visual Arts Teacher

P & F Trivia Night 2010 “It wush really good!”

A night of success thanks to our infamous hostess Effie Stefanides who captivated us all with her quick wit and charm and kept us crying with laughter throughout the evening. People were overwhelmed by her well sustained youthful image, her unique class and sophistication with the true woggy style and Graussie spirit that we love in her. Even though she “roasted” us and entertained us at our expense, she was proud and sincere in her support for our school fundraiser. She praised the school community for its values, achievements and its aims to provide for our younger Greek generation. She gave herself wholeheartedly nonstop all night to fulfil all our guests’ requests, from signing DVDs to posing for photos, to successfully drawing guests’ attention to all fundraiser activities, to roasting all donors for their generous prize offers. Effervescent Effie truly lifted the standard to another level which would make it very hard for any other compere to outdo her in the future.

One of the many highlights for the night, was Effie dancing and singing to her favourite 80s song Stimulation. In true Effie style, she was besotted by young Stavro (alias Stavros Magoulias) the shpunk who quickly became part of her comedy act.

The Trivia questions were challenging with the music segment

running as most popular for the night. The competition was fierce right from the start as all table teams brainstormed a catchy name to outdo each other with some very interesting and inventive names.

We would like to thank George Tsoukalas who engaged the talent of Effie and she thanked him sincerely by praising his Delvene Delaney role. We thank our funky DJ, Jimmy V, who entertained us through the Trivia competition as well as keeping the kefi going with dancing and singing that followed til late. A further thanks is expressed to Elia Economou, who is always a backbone for any event, who juggled many different roles from paparazzi to auctioneer to music engineer. Thank you to the executives of our Parish and College and the staff who enthusiastically supported Trivia. A very sincere thank you to our generous donors who will be thanked officially with a letter and Certificate of Appreciation. A special thank you is expressed to our Trivia guests who supported us so well in many ways on the night. The success of such a fundraiser is not just the hard and fast profit that results in the end but the huge team spirit and generosity that it brings out in those who attend and unite to have some serious fun.

Mrs M Pascalis P&F Assistant Secretary STYLUS Page 15

Stepping Up!!!

Peer Support Leaders

stylus Year 5 & 6 Visits To The Senior School This week students from Years 5 & 6 visited the Senior School as part of the transition program. Judging from the excited faces and the positive evaluations given at the end of each groups visit, a great time was experienced by all. On these days students are given a sense of what Senior School is like, by having “Taster” lessons in Science, Mathematics, History, Food Technology, and Physical Education to name just a few subject areas. Students are introduced to some of our routines, specialist learning areas, and have the opportunity to meet Senior School staff and older students who act as their peer support leaders during the visits.

Year 4 Visit To Senior School There was much excitement and fun as we welcomed Year 4 to the Senior School to experience the first of a series of activities which form part of the transition program. Between Year 4 and 6, Junior School students will visit us a number of times, taking part in “taster lessons” in which they learn about the routines, subjects, staff and available facilities at the Senior School. Well done to the following Year 7 Student Council Representatives: Maria Bletsas, Christos Raptis, Aphroditi Zafiropoulos, who assisted with this visit, and also Stephen Ioannides, Anastasia Maloukis and Juliet Manolias.

Ms G. Kokinelis Dean, Middle School

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The Beautiful Things in Life...

Year 10 Special Occasions Year 10 Food Technology have been focusing on the topic area ‘Special Occasions’. The assessment task for this topic was to decorate a cake as professionally as possible. All the steps were to be documented in a portfolio. The students had no prior skill or knowledge in this practical area, therefore a professional cake decorator was invited to the school to provide a 3hr training session for the students.

On the day of assessment the students had to complete a cake within 2 hrs, and the outcome was outstanding. Some of the cakes included representation of birthday parties, Valentine’s day, weddings etc. The students embraced the task with amazing professionalism, planning and collaborating with each other to achieve a goal and find solutions if hindered in the process. The quality of work and detail was of an exceptional standard – you would never think such cakes were made by young students. The students felt very rewarded on completion of the task as they discovered that they had another talent to add to their already extensive list of talents.

Well done!

Mrs V. Grillakis Food Technology Teacher

Channel 9 Pyramid Games Show Congratulations to our students who performed on the Channel 9 Pyramid Game Show.

Stephanie Hatzis & Kaliope Kefalas, Stephen Loannides and Peter Contominas, Dion Alexander and Nicky Georgou, Anastasia Maloukis and Suzanna Gavrilova, Aphroditi Zafiropoulos and Arina Sheptitskaya, Matthew Chiam and Panayioti Kapodistrias, Rena Lambos and Lena Sialepis, Natalie Michos and Chloe Kourtesis, Martha Spilioti and Christina Andrew, Dylan Kontos and Anthony Vasilli, Nikolas Baratsas and Luka Kasalovic, Pamela Prineas and Nicolette Gregory.

Our students were able to watch the behind the scenes activities that are involved in television, and experience being audience members. They also had the opportunity to show their word skills and win some great prizes. A fun time was had by all!!

Ms G. Kokinelis Dean, Middle School

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St Spyridon Sports Stars Congratulations ... NSW Futsal Reps Martha Spilioti Congratulations once again to Martha Spilioti who has continued to impress and represent St Spyridon with pride. Martha has returned from the recent National School Sport Australia Championships which were held in Brisbane, Queensland from 5th to the 11th of June. Martha represented NSW ALL SCHOOLS and her results were outstanding!!

– 13-14 years 400m IM 2nd – 13-14 years 200m Fly 2nd Martha has competed at the highest level possible within school swimming and achieved such incredible results.

Well done!

Ms K O’Shea Girls Sport

A group of our Junior School girls were delighted to take part in a training session with the Matildas, the Australian Women’s National Football (soccer) team. This was at a launch of the 2010 – 2011 season held at the University of NSW. Our girls, STYLUS Page 18

We congratulate Petros Stefadouros, Christopher Kolistasis and Leonidas Andrew, Nicholas Fotopoulos Year 9, for being selected as a NSW Secondary Futsal Representative to tour New Zealand in December. This is an outstanding achievement and we wish the boys every success.

NSW High Schools Champions The 14’s Basketball Team (Luca Kasalovic, Nikolas Baratsas, George Karapanayiotidis, Aiden Xydis, Panayioti Kapodistrias, Sotiri Kastanas and Alexander Coplin and Coach Mr Lambos) went undefeated. This is the first time that a boys basketball team has gone to the NSW High School Championships and won all their games and became champions.

Congratulations to the boys and a warm thank you to Mr Lambos who coached them all day and took a day off work.

Mr A. Condous Boys Sport

St Spyridon Girls Waltz with the Matildas

many of whom play for the Olympic Eagles were inspired and encouraged to continue playing by meeting these ladies who are not only talented players, but successful in their chosen careers as well….. one is even a commercial pilot.

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Congratulations ...

Panos Armenakas Congratulations to Panos Armenakas for his selection as Captain of the CIS Boys’ Primary Football Team that played at the NSW PSSA Championships. This is the first time the captain of the team has come from St Spyridon College. Losing only one match in their pool games, CIS was placed in their pool and took on Sydney East in the semi-final defeating them 2-1. In the final CIS faced Mackillop whom they had beaten in the pool rounds but unfortunately were unable to repeat their performance.

Congratulations to all the players but in particular to Panos Armenakas who was named in the State Team that competed at the SSA Championships.

Mr J Volas Sports Coordinator Junior School

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Life at St. Spyridon is full of Drama

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