Thursday 1 March 2018 Congratulations to the Years 3–6 swimming team who were the overall winners at the recent District Swimming Carnival! Dates to Remember March Careers at Chairo Mon 5 – Fri 9 Year 7 Canberra Camp Current Vacancies: Wed 7 – Fri 9 OES Unit 3 Camp Learning Support Assistant (Drouin) Year 5 Mill Valley Ranch Camp Library Assistant (Pakenham) Monday 12 Labour Day Public Holiday Kindergarten Assistant (Drouin East) Wednesday 14 First Wednesday for Preps Secondary Maths, IT, Media Teacher (Pakenham) Friday 16​ Music on the Lawn VCE English and History Teacher (Pakenham) Mon 19 – Fri 23 Open Week chairo.vic.edu.au/careers Year 8 Coolamatong Camp Saturday 24 Open Day Thursday 29 Term 1 Concludes (2.15 pm finish) April Follow Chairo on Facebook Wednesday 18 Term 2 Begins facebook.com/chairo.pakenham Not all campus events and activities are listed above. For more comprehensive information regarding upcoming dates, please refer to the Calendar on Linc. Whole School News At that meeting, it was resolved to form an Stuart Fowler: Shaping Christian Education Association and an interim committee was elected, with Together with millions of people worldwide, I was Ian Knowles as the inaugural chairman. saddened by the news last week of the passing of a Wow! What an amazing insight into the very powerful Christian leader in Billy Graham. Another less- beginnings of our school. How encouraging to see the prominent leader, who God also chose to use powerfully encouragement that our early pioneers received from to shape our world – particularly the world of Christian a godly, wise and experienced man in Stuart Fowler. education—also died last week. I look forward to sharing more of this story in our Billy Graham is rightly recognised as the one of the next newsletter. most influential Christians of the twentieth century, yet Simon Matthews, Executive Principal Rev Dr Stuart Fowler in many ways had a more direct impact on Christian education, and on the history of Term 2 Uniform Chairo Christian School. Students will commence wearing winter uniform in Dr Fowler was a teacher at one of our sister-schools, Term 2, although there will be a three-week period at Donvale Christian College, and was also pivotal in the start of term when they may wear either summer establishing what is now referred to as the National or winter uniform depending on weather conditions. Institute for Christian Education. This Institute is Note: girls in Years 7 & 8 will require Chairo button up owned by our national association (Christian Education shirts as part of their winter uniform. National) and provides post-graduate training and qualifications for teaches wanting to grow in their ability Finance News to ‘teach Christianly’. Four-Year-Old Kinder Subsidy Form (Blue Form) Yet Dr Fowler had an even more specific link with The four-year-old Kinder Subsidy is a Victorian Chairo, and here I wish to quote from our archives: Government Allowance provided to families that have a In 1978, Ian Knowles wrote to Rev Stuart Fowler, the child attending four-year-old kinder and hold an eligible Victorian CPCS (Christian Parent Controlled Schools) Victorian Government concession care (e.g. Health Care representative, asking for some advice about how to go about Card). If you think you may be eligible and have not establishing a CPCS school. Rev Fowler wrote back, saying applied, or for further information, please contact the that it would be necessary to form a local association. Finance Office. Ian began to canvas the concept by word of mouth wherever possible. At the same time, he began to seek out copies of Camps, Sports and Excursion Funds (CSEF) documents used in other Christian schools, particularly their The Victorian government funding for student camps, constitutions and educational creeds. sports and excursions is available to parents (or Marg Knowles contacted another local couple, Colin and students aged 16 or over) with an eligible Victorian Shirley Barnes. Although their eldest daughter, Ellen, was only concession card. eight months old, they immediately sensed the hand of God in Families were sent application forms in November to the proposed school. apply for 2018 funding. If you hold an eligible concession Ian organised a meeting and advertised it in New Life, the card but have not yet completed an application, please national weekly Christian newspaper. He and Marg made contact the Finance Office. several phone calls and personally invited as many people as possible. The meeting was referred to as the first Annual Finance Office Contacts General Meeting for the new association. Twelve people Phone: 5625 0117 attended the meeting, which was held in Ian and Marg’s home Email: [email protected] in Rokeby on Ian’s thirtieth birthday, 28 August 1978. Rev Fowler opened the meeting with a reading from Extra Outlook 2017 Magazines Psalm 100 and spoke about the faithfulness of God. He also Any families that would like one additional copy read from 2 Corinthians, encouraging those present to take of Outlook 2017 are welcome to ask for a copy pride in their weaknesses and difficulties because out of them (while extra stocks last) at Reception or to email would come greatness and strength. It seems he must have [email protected]. known the kind of battles this fledgling committee would have to face. A time of open prayer followed, thus establishing, from the very beginning, an unshakeable commitment to the Word of God and to prayer. Extra 2018 Calendar Magnets Campus News We have a large quantity of spare Chairo 2018 calendar School Banking magnets. Any families that would like one or more Chairo is excited to be offering the Commonwealth Bank additional magnets are welcome to ask at Reception or to school banking program to all students. This is a fun, email [email protected]. interactive and engaging way for young Australians to learn about money and develop good savings habits. From the Senior Chaplain Students who deposit money into their Youthsaver Next week, students will begin a four-week series on account through school banking earn Dollarmites tokens, humility in their homeroom devotions. This series will which they can save up and redeem for exciting rewards. lead us into Easter, and the cross of Jesus, whose life and The rewards available during 2018 are: death is the greatest example of humility in the history • Twister Power Handball of the universe: and being found in appearance as a man, he • Secret Scratch Pad humbled himself, and became obedient to death—even death on • Sparkle Glitter Pens a cross! (Philippians 2:8) • Glow Light Humility is hardest (and most important!) when • Mighty Boom Handball others are annoying or hurting us. But, while we were still • Heat Reactor Pencils sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus was no less humble just • Slushie Maker Cup because others were hurting Him. • Zoom Flying Disc Of course, humility is not just something we want School banking is also a great fundraiser for our campus. our students to grow in. I need to become more humble We receive a regular savers contribution of $5.00 for myself! In fact, the greatest and most effective way to every ten deposits that are processed per student, as foster humility and other features of Christian character well as an annual contribution based on the number of in our students, is for parents and staff members to not students who made at least one school banking deposit just teach about those traits, but to model them. during the year. So, how can we, as the grown-ups in our community, All you need in order to get involved in the school grow in humility? banking program is a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver For pages of helpful, godly, wise, practical advice, account. You can open an account for your child in one of I strongly recommend the wonderful little book by two ways: CJ Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness. It’s available as a printed, audio or e-book, it’s short and easy to read… and 1. Online it’s thoroughly faithful to the Bible and what the Bible Visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the teaches about humility. It’s even worth mentioning to link to open a Youthsaver account. your Bible Study group when the inevitable ‘what should we study next?’ questions arise! 2. In branch Augustine famously stated that humility is ‘the Visit a Commonwealth Bank branch with identification first, second and third’ precept of the Christian religion. for yourself and your child, like a driver’s licence and There’s nothing more attractive than humility, and there’s birth certificate. nothing more damaging than its opposite: pride. May God give us the grace to be a community of truly humble If your child has an existing Commonwealth Bank students, parents and staff members. Youthsaver account, they can start banking straight away. Medon Loupis, Senior Chaplain They just need to bring their deposit in every week on school banking day using their Dollarmites deposit Open Days wallet. It will be Open Day at our Traralgon Campus on Each Friday, students just need to hand their bank Saturday 17 March and Open Week at our Drouin, books to their teacher so they can be given to our school Drouin East and Pakenham campuses from Monday 19 banking coordinators, Dianne or Andrew, for processing. to Saturday 24 March. Bank books will then be returned to class. Chairo families are encouraged to mention these If you would like to know more about opportunities to any friends or neighbours who may be school banking, please ask for a school banking interested in finding out more about Chairo.