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LOTE
LOTE (Languages other than English) department welcomes everyone back to the 2016 academic year.
This term the students will be immersed in various ways of learning Turkish. Almost all classes started the year with revising greetings, how to introduce themselves and meeting new people. As the term progresses we will also be working on different topics ranging from colours, numbers countries and celebrations.
It is fantastic to see most of the new students with no Turkish background or previous Turkish LOTE experience and our current students off to a great start showing enthusiasm.
LOTE Students with awards
Adam and Abdisamad from Grade 3 , Sumayyah ,Ali and Danial from Grade 6 who received certificates for tops scores in Turkish Spelling and Vocabulary .
RV and Pastoral Care
What are we learning in RV class this term?
Assalamu Alaikum!
The Six Pillars of Iman (Faith) are the fundamental concepts a Muslim must know for maintaining a strong belief. What Allah has shown us, we know and believe in, and what He has hidden from us, we accept and believe in too.
These six pillars of Iman are important to all Muslims and should be held in high regard.
6 Pillars of Iman
"Whoever says Salawat on me every day one hundred times, Allah will fulfill for him one hundred needs, seventy of them in hereafter (Akhirah) and thirty of them in this life (Dunya)." Prophet Muhammad (saw).
This term we encourage our students to say as many salawats they can because we aim to remember our beloved Prophet 1 million times in our little hearts as Sirius College Keysborough Primary Students.
Salawat
Pastoral Care After School Activities offer: Values Education, Activities, Excursions
As part of SIRIUS College's extra-curricular activities, the school has organised 'Pastoral Care' programs for your child.
The Pastoral Care Department is responsible for the promotion and maintenance of the social, spiritual and emotional wellbeing of both staff and students. The department works in coordination with teachers and families. All activities are optional but highly recommended.
A Pastoral Care Teacher and a Mentor are assigned for Year 5 & 6 girls and boys. The mentor is a university student who acts as a role model and assists and supports the PCT. Throughout the year, we will be doing many activities together with the class.
These activities can range from doing creative arts, cooking, soccer matches and going to picnic, parks, go karting, cinemas and camps. We will also have study and reading sessions afterschool with the students.
Any activities that we will be organising will be notified to parents with digital letter, these letters need to be digitally signed in order for students to attend. We will have regular programs on set days which details are given in this letter but the time and day may change and students will be notified if this does occur in the future.
Reading Challenge 2016
READ! & WIN!
(Surah Al Alaq, 96:1) Good Deeds & Prizes
It is so important that we pass on our wonderful legacy of learning to our children, and one of the best ways to accomplish that is to read to them. By reading to them, we not only teach them that learning is fun, we show them by our own example.
So with the overwhelming evidence, in addition to our own religion and history to back us up, we should be motivated to encourage the next generation of scholars, scientists and doctors by heading out to our local libraries and check out a book. We are raising our future, and what we leave our children with today will be something that will benefit the generations to come.
Abu Hurayra (ra) narrated a meaningful Hadeeth in which the Messenger of Allah (swt) said: "When a man dies, all his acts come to an end but three; recurring charity, or knowledge (by which people) benefit, or a pious son, who prays for him (for the deceased)." [Muslim]
The RV and Pastoral Care Department have been offering a Reading Challenge for our Primary students. You can borrow all books from our school's library. For more details on the books and prizes please see our posters at school.
MUSIC
Music club is free for all students that like to play instruments such as guitar, piano and drums. This is not a formal music lesson, it is a time for students to share ideas and explore the instruments. I do try to help individual students as I monitor the room. It does get busy and particularly loud when we have turns playing the drums. There seems a lot of interest in the drums.
I am often asked about drums and I would suggest if you do not want to risk buying drums, a pair of sticks, (around $10 online or at instrument shops) is all you need then simply find some old buckets or disused pots and pans and your child can develop many drum skills while playing the drums along with the radio.
Choir is back in 2016
We are letting students from grade 4 to 6 to come in and see if they like singing in a choir.
Eventualy we will close the doors to new students and form a choir from a committed group of boys or girls from grades 4 to 6 but for the moment it is free for students to see if they would like to sing in a choir. The choir is open the 2nd half of lunch on Tuesdays.
Meet Sirius College's New Teachers
Amelia Bastian
Name - Amelia Bastian
Job Status - Grade 1 teacher
Likes - Music, food and movies
Dislikes - Spiders and the dark
Dream Job - Teach overseas
Favourite Colour - Blue
Favourite Animal - Elephant
Hobbies - Sudoku, Zumba
Hero - My mum
Josh Clark
Name: Mr Josh Clark
Job Status: Teacher - Grade 5 and 6A Maths
Likes: Steak, watching a funny/suspenseful movie, listening to alternative, Britpop, electronic and classic Australian rock music and travel
Dislikes: Driving, cats, bees and wasps
Dream Job: Play cricket for Australia or footy for Carlton Football Club
Favourite Colour: Navy Blue
Favourite Animal: Dog - Labrador
Hobbies:
Hero: Sir Donald Bradman
School Banking
Get involved in the School Banking program
Sirius College Keysborough is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students.
The School Banking program provides children with an opportunity to deposit money into their Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account at school each week. The program is about how often your child makes deposits, not how much they deposit.
To encourage regular savings behaviour the program offers an exciting Rewards Program. Every deposit earns your child a silver Dollarmites token, and once they've collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for a reward.
The rewards available during 2016 are:
School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives $5 when a student makes their first ever School Banking deposit and 5% on every deposit made through the school (to a maximum of $10 per individual deposit).
Getting involved in School Banking is easy!
You can get involved in the School Banking program by opening a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account at your local branch. All you need to bring is your current identification as well as your child's birth certificate. If you are an existing Commonwealth Bank customer and have NetBank, you can open an account online.
If your child has an existing Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account they can start banking straight away. They just need to bring their deposit in every week on School Banking day using their Dollarmites deposit wallet.
School Banking day is Tuesday.
If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2016 School Banking program information pack from the school office.
Good Friday Appeal
Dear Parents/Guardians,
We are very excited to announce that this year we will once again be taking part in the Good Friday Appeal Fundraising.
At Sirius, this will be our fifth year in which we have taken part in contributing to the great cause and below you will find a list of weekly fundraising activities that the students can be part of.
| Week | Event | When |
| 6 | Harmony Day | Students wear an orange t-shirt or accessories |
| 7 | Movie at Lunch | Movie Session TBC |
Our school leaders will take part in presenting our donations live on Channel 7 at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Friday the 25th of March.
Good Friday Appeal Cake Stall
C u p c a k e  S t a l l
Thank you to all families who contributed to the Cupcake stall on Tuesday the 23rd of February.
The Year 6 students worked very hard to sell each and every cupcake using their great marketing techniques and skills.
We raised a total of $442 which we were very happy with and all for a great cause.
Thank you to everyone who assisted with the sales.
Terra Australis Oi Oi Oi Drama
The Year 5 students had a visit from took Terra Australis Oi OI Oi Drama Toolbox group. The incursion was a fantastic learning opportunity for students listening and speaking skills.
The Colonial Show
The Year 5 and 6 students were fortunate enough to take part in a Colonial Times experience through an interactive show.
The show taught students all about life in the 1800's, focusing on the Gold Rush era. Students learnt how to construct a tent and look for gold using different tools and techniques.
Students learnt about the European and Chinese miners during the 1800's and the differences between their lifestyles. How it was out on the goldfields for men and women and the rules and laws that miners had to abide by.
The students had a wonderful time, where some even had lead roles in the event. A great experience for all!
GRIP Leadership Conference -Primary
The Year 6 leaders went to the Melbourne Convention Centre with Ms Selvi and took part in the Leadership Conference which taught students how to improve their leadership skills so that they can be more organised, confident, be able to work in teams in a positive manner, recognise and put a stop to bullying and many other skills that all great leaders would need. The leaders found the conference to be of great value and very beneficial.
Secondary News
Music
This is a chance for your child to sing infront of a huge audence. This is not an Xfactor type of performance. If your child is curious, please ask him or her to chat with me. Thankyou, Mr Webb.
Looking for talent
Food Technology
Fruity Tutti
Our warm summer start to the year was the perfect opportunity for year 7 and 8 students to make fruit kebabs and platters. While preparing these goodies, the students learned not only the different ways to slice, dice, chop, van Dyke and sculpt fruit, they also found out the good health reasons for including fruit in their diet.
The highlight of this food tech session was the sharing and judging of the kebabs and platters by the Mrs Eker's primary class under the shade covered play area. On the warm summer morning, the primary and secondary students alike enjoyed the fruits of the Food Tech students' labour.
Girls' Science Challenge
Harnessing solar power!
The girls' Science Challenge classes at the Keysborough campus are finding out not only just how much energy we can get from the sun but also that you don't need a match to light a fire!
The girls started their investigation by burning a range of materials using only a magnifying glass. The girls created a regular bushfire in one evaporating dish! The next challenge the girls faced was to complete a set of tasks using the Hodson's light boxes. They were enthralled with these devices, creating coloured shadows, a light ray path of refracted and reflected light and splitting white light into the colours of the rainbow – a ground breaking discovery made by Sir Isaac Newton way back in 1666. The students' major challenge for the term was to construct a solar cooker or food dehydrator using the principles of light they had learned. As you can see from the images, the girls exhibited excellent design skills!
Maths Challenge
Year 9/10 Maths Challenge:
In maths challenge this term we are focusing on problem solving in teams and maths in real life. The year 9/10's had a series of scenarios that they had to solve by working together and nutting out the solution. They are also learning how to holiday on a budget through their major assignment this term called 'Getaway'. The best holidays will be posted in the next newsletter!
Eda O, Talia, Huma, Esra, Amna and Husnia problem solving by thinking on their feet!
Year 7/8 Maths Challenge:
Year 7/8 maths challenge class are also looking at how maths relates to everyday life through cooking and engineering. They were given a recipe where the amounts of each ingredient had to be solved through a mathematical equation and then use their knowledge of fractions and estimating to make the best cookies. Their major assignment this term is to design and construct a 1m tower that can support the weight of a tennis ball out of Popsicle sticks! Check out their towers in the next newsletter!
Dania, Darshanaa, Sarah and Aleyna showing off their 'cooking with maths' cookies.
Science Lab
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Chemistry Unit 3&4 Excursion
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Chemistry Unit 3&4 Excursion
Unit 3 Psychology Excursion
On the 19th of February students completing Unit 3 psychology had the opportunity to attend an education session at the Epworth Sleep Centre. This excursion was organised to deepen their understanding of the content related to 'Sleep' in the Unit 3 course.
Students firstly attended a lecture, delivered by a sleep scientist at Epworth. She covered the different stage of sleeps and characteristics of each stage. Characteristics that were discussed included brain waves patterns, changes in eye and muscle movement. The sleep scientist was very impressed by the contributions made by our students
Following this lecture, students were taken to the sleep lab where patients would visit and spend a night sleeping whilst being studied by a sleep scientist. Imran kindly volunteered to be the patient for the day! He was wired up with electrodes on his skull, muscles surrounding his eyes and his jaw. Imran was then left alone and was required to try and sleep!
Whilst this was occurring, the remaining students spent time with the sleep scientist in her lab where she could observe Imran (he was on camera!) and analyse the electrical activity of the different devices placed on Imran. This was extremely beneficial to the students to consolidate their understanding of these concepts. Imran was measured for about half an hour and in that time he managed to have what we call, 'microsleeps'. His electrical activity demonstrated that he was in a very relaxed state.
To finish off the session the sleep scientist gave a short lecture on some common sleep problems that are reported by patients at the sleep centre. All in all it was a great day and we will be visiting again with future Psychology students.
Mrs Jade Corrales