8 MARCH 2017 | ISSUE 4 Dear Parents and Friends Contents Welcome to Week 7. How quickly the term is vanishing! Chaplaincy Chat 3 College Counsellor 3 Primary School Development Update Library News 3 Marketing and The much anticipated commencement of the Stage 1 building program in the Primary School begins today Communications 3 (Wednesday, 8 March). This involves some changes to vehicular and pedestrian traffic at the Rim Road entrance. Primary School 4 The path adjacent to the Prep building will be closed with pedestrian traffic directed behind the Prep building and along the newly constructed path to the Primary School. College Calendar 5 The current pick-up and drop-off zone will continue to work as normal. Later in the year the building program Karneval 6 will necessitate a change to these arrangements. We will provide advance notice at that time. Given much of the Secondary School 8 building work will be centred in this area of the College, I would ask parents and students to take extra care when Eco Club 9 transitioning through the area. World’s Greatest Shave 9 We are very excited about the construction program and below are some images of the new building. Instrumental Music 10 Thank you in advance for your patience during the construction period. Secondary School Sport 12 P&F 13 Commercial Operations 14 Tuckshop Roster 15 Business Students' Soiree 16 Contact us Immanuel Lutheran College 126-142 Wises Road Buderim Q 4556 PO Box 5025 Maroochydore BC Q 4558 T. 07 5477 3444 F. 07 5477 3477 E. [email protected] www.immanuel.qld.edu.au /ImmanuelLutheranCollege CRICOS Provider #01457C Child Protection P&F Meeting At their recent meeting, College Council ratified the 2017 Child The P&F meet again this evening (Wednesday, 8 March) in the Protection Policy in relation to child protection and welfare. These Professional Learning Centre (D4), from 7.00pm. Involvement in the procedures promote the safety of all children. Establishing and P&F is such a simple means by which you can support the College in maintaining a child safe environment is the main consideration in providing a wonderful learning environment for your children. All are all our activities and management practices. All of our teachers are welcome. registered with the Queensland College of Teachers and staff across all other areas of the College hold current blue cards. Everyone participates in annual mandatory training. Children must be able to Uniform Transition grow, learn and play in a safe and supportive environment where the relationships with their peers and the adults entrusted with their care Following feedback from parents, we have established a two week are appropriate and positive. Our approach is that child protection transition window for students to change from summer to winter is everyone’s business, and we will continue to provide support and uniform. Accordingly, and dependent on the weather, students can development for all staff at Immanuel in this important area. A copy of wear either summer or winter uniform for two weeks either side of the policy is available on the College website. the Term 1 and Term 3 holidays. This accounts for the vagaries of the weather from season to season. 2018 Term Dates TravelSmart – Ride2School Day Some of our families will already be planning holidays for 2018, so it may be useful for you to have the term dates which have been TravelSmart, in conjunction with the Sunshine Coast Council, is confirmed, as follows: coordinating National Ride2School Day on Friday, 17 March 2017. This initiative is about celebrating active travel within the school day Term 1 Commences – Monday, 22 January and encouraging those who haven’t started to ‘give it a go’. TravelSmart Finishes – Thursday, 29 March Sunshine Coast is encouraging all students within the region to ride a Term 2 Commences – Monday, 16 April bike to school on this day. If the normal mode of transport is the family car due to distance, you can still be TravelSmart by parking the car a Finishes – Thursday, 22 June short distance away from the College and then riding from there. Term 3 Commences – Monday, 16 July There are many reasons to ride to school (every day, not just on the th Finishes – Friday, 21 September 17 ) including: Term 4 Commences – Monday, 8 October • Students feel fresh and alert at the beginning of a school day. Finishes – Friday, 16 November (Year 12) • There are fewer cars around the school which eases drop-off congestion and makes if safer for those who choose to ride their Friday, 30 November (Years 10 and 11) bike. Wednesday, 5 December (Prep to Year 9) • Students are more likely to reach the recommended 60 minutes Public Holidays and Observances in 2018 per day of physical activity. Australia Day Friday, 26 January TravelSmart is anticipating that over 250,000 school students across Australia will participate in Ride2SchoolDay on Friday. I encourage you Good Friday Friday, 30 March to consider participation for your child/ren. They do not have to ride Easter Monday Monday, 2 April alone. Parents are most welcome to ride with children to ensure they arrive safely and on time. It may even become a regular occurrence! ANZAC Day Wednesday, 25 April Labour Day Monday, 7 May Every blessing for the week. May God keep your feet walking faithfully in prayer along the Lenten Journey. Sunshine Coast Show Day (TBC) Queen’s Birthday Monday, 1 October Colin Minke Christmas Day Tuesday, 25 December Principal Boxing Day Wednesday, 26 December Student Free Day 2018 Verification Day Monday, 22 October www.immanuel.qld.edu.au Page 2 we keep it to ourselves. On yet other occasions it will mean that we Chaplaincy Chat press the pause button until we are more certain of what to say and how to say it. Always, it will mean ensuring that the information we choose to share is truly in the best interests of the little person who will receive Virtuous it. Why was Adele’s behaviour at the Grammys so widely publicised? What was it about her ‘non-acceptance speech’ and her ‘Tribute to Tarnya Mitchell – College Counsellor T: 5477 3430 George Michael re-start’ that touched so many people? E: [email protected] Last week, my Year 9 Rite Journey group answered these questions saying it was because of the humility, kindness and truthfulness she demonstrated, which led to a lively discussion about the virtues we see as important. We drew from a list of 52 you can view at: https://www. Library News virtuesproject.com/virtueslist.html. Eight brand new cookery books have been dropped in the KTC Book However, there is a more succinct list found in Galatians 5:22-23, Return chute. We are happy to add them to the library collection, but where St Paul writes: as they are brand new, we’d like to make sure they have actually been donated and not dropped in by accident. The Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self-control. There is no law against such Please contact me at the Library if these items belong to you. things as these. Graeme Smith – Head of Library Services Which of these virtues, or fruits of the Spirit, is particularly important to you at the moment? Is there one in particular you’d like others to see in you? If so, may the Holy Spirit’s presence in your life bring it to the fore in full measure and may you be known as virtuous! Marketing and With love, Communications Gayla Mathews – Chaplain Download the Immanuel App today! The Immanuel App is a great College Counsellor way to stay connected with what’s happening day-to-day I hear these words a lot – “I am always honest with my child/ren”, “I at the College. With access to don’t hide things from him/her/them”, “I think children should learn the website, College calendar, early on that life can be hard”. Yes. I agree. Sort of. Facebook page, SEQTA I think honesty is important and I think that openness can build Learn and Engage, the App resiliency. I agree that quite often life throws things at us that just is also used to communicate have to be dealt with. But children are not mini adults. Their emotional important information to and cognitive capacities are less developed than ours and an external parents and others in our filter is needed to ensure that they avoid overload. Children do not community. have the ability to process information or emotions with the same skill The Immanuel App is available that adults might. Children are not able to understand context, or to now for iPhone, iPad and Android. talk themselves down from high emotion readily. They don’t always know what will help them feel better and they don’t yet have enough UMAT Bursary experience to know that ‘this too shall pass’. Applications are now invited for the 2017 Dr Matthew Jones As parents, part of the job description is to shield children from some UMAT Bursary. The Bursary was established by Old Scholar Dr of life’s nasty bits, and to provide a filter which is developmentally Matthew Jones to assist a Year 12 Immanuel student gain entry to appropriate. It helps to be aware that children’s cognitive and emotional undergraduate medicine and health science degree programs at age do not always match. Just because a child is intellectually capable universities which are part of the UMAT consortium. does not mean that he/she is able to process emotion in an adult Applications close on Friday, 17 March.