LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 18 2022
Value of the Month - Responsibility
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it. Psalm 24:1
IMPORTANT DATES
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Friday 19 August | Primary Choir Showcase Night Show Your Colours Day |
Thursday 25 August | Father's Day Stall |
Thursday 1 September | Year 10 Coming of Age Blessing Night |
Wednesday 7 September | Beam Speaks |
Friday 16 September | Last Day Term 3 Foundation Assembly |
Tuesday 4 October | Term 4 Starts |
EARLY LEARNING CENTRE
LIVING AND NON LIVING
We have been talking about babies lately with Mrs Martil pregnant. Tiana’s mummy and Howard’s mummy are about to give birth. Children have been focusing on growth. What changes happen when we grow? What makes us grow? If something gets bigger does that mean it is alive? Children enjoyed measuring their growth, sharing ideas and predictions, focusing on the shortest to the tallest. We also looked at other things that grow, like animals and plants.
The children enjoyed planting seeds and predicting how tall their snow peas would grow, sharing their ideas in their investigations:
- we need water and food like plants too
- plants change the way they look when they grow, like us
- there are so many different plants, like people.
We deepened our understanding with a volcanic experiment, are volcanoes living things? Well done friends, some great predictions and developing your knowledge of similarities and differences between living and non-living things.
BEAM
GRANDPARENTS AND FRIENDS DAY CHAPEL
Psalm 103:17 ‘But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and his righteousness to children’s children.’
Our theme for Grandparents Day this year was sunshine and sunflowers. We blessed our Grandparents with a gold chocolate heart because they have a heart of gold and a Devonshire morning tea to take home and enjoy!
We celebrated our precious Grandparents both in Australia and far over the seas with many songs and huge smiles. Our Preps dressed up as sunflowers and sang to all our guests ‘You are my Sunshine’. Year 1 blessed us with the reminder to ‘Let Your Light Shine’. As the sun rises Year 4 greeted us with fabulous dance moves and soloist with the song ‘Good Morning’. Year 3 with sunglasses and sunflowers sang ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and Year 2 were ‘Walking on Sunshine’.
We likened the sunflower to our Grandparents who are cheery and happy and are like a ray of hope with their constant encouraging words.
Year 3’s video song said it all:
‘Thank you for your love, For your prayers,
For the things you’ve given.
How could we recount all you’ve done on this side
of heaven.
We’re grateful and we want to say:
Thank you for all the things you say and do,
Thank you for showing us a love that’s true,
Thank you,
Thank you,
For loving us.’
PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE
Time is almost gone!
All students participating the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge need to have the books they have read logged in the portal by the end of August. Parents please check your SEQTA Direct Messages for instructions and in the back of your child’s student diary for their login details. Only students who have logged the required number of books will be eligible for a certificate.
CLICK THIS LINK to log in or go to: https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home to log in.
Thank you for your participation in this great reading initiative.
Mrs Karen Lloyd
(Beam Curriculum Leader)
Please click on the photo below to register your attendance for this free event.
Continuing Enrolment Intentions for 2023:
Parents, please be informed that your child’s place remains guaranteed in 2023 unless the College is advised otherwise in writing. If your child will not be returning in 2023, please ensure to fill a withdrawal form (available at the school reception) by Friday, 16 September 2022 otherwise a Term’s fee in lieu of notice is payable.
NAVIGATE
YEAR 5 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Currently in Year 5 Personal Development students we have been discussing issues concerning advertising. By watching and discussing a series of advertisements we discovered how the messages of the advertising industry can often be misleading. The first assessment task the Year 5 completed was to write a letter to a Year 4 student to point out the ways fast food advertisers can mislead people in their advertising.
However, they have looked at some positive ways advertising can be used for public awareness. For example, they looked at the change in smoking advertising, in that they can no longer advertise it as cool, but the truth of the dangers of it to our health through the quit campaign.
Mrs Tricia Stone
Year 5 Teacher
LAUNCH
Mental wellbeing. I’m sure that we’ve all heard of this term before, and most of you know what it is. In an extremely short summary, it’s taking care of yourself mentally and emotionally. It’s easy enough, right? Well it is not always easy, and that is one of the many issues in this current world, but that is ok! There are so many organizations here to help you, to name a few, headspace, the kids helpline and R U OK?
There are also so many people who you can always talk to, such as your parents, close friends, teachers and above ALL, God! Part of my homeroom’s (9A) project for this term is donating canned goods to the Mental Health Foundation Australia, to help support them and in turn help them to keep supporting our community. By showing Jesus Christ’s love to those around us, we are preaching the gospel. One of my favorite quotes ties in with this perfectly, "Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary." So, I want to give you a challenge, try and compliment at least 1 person every day.
Isaiah 41:10 "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
Nathan De Mel
SRC Representative
NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK - 13 - 21 AUGUST
National Science Week is an annual festival taking place in August. Science Week aims to heighten public understanding and appreciation of STEM and their role in maintaining our world. National Science Week has been celebrated for decades and every year, a new school theme is celebrated. This year, the theme is Glass: More Than Meets The Eye. Over the course of the week, our Science classes will be involved in a variety of activities based on this year's theme.
Glass: More Than Meets The Eye:
When we think of glass, we think of the fragile material used for windows and drinking glasses, made by heating and mixing quartz sand with limestone. When water is frozen, it turns into ice, and all the water molecules are arranged in a neat pattern. However, glass isn’t like that.
Glass is an ‘amorphous solid’, which means its particles are jumbled, making glass brittle, smooth and hard. Making glass requires that you prevent crystals forming. Heating glass above normal temperature and it flows slowly. Continue to heat it and it flows faster. In other words, its consistency changes with temperature. People have made glass for thousands of years and it still being used for several purposes.
By Ashleen Kaur
Year 7B
ICAS Science Competition 2022
Students in Years 5-10 are invited to participate in the ICAS Science Competition 2022. Payment is due Thursday 18th August. Students will compete in the competition on Wednesday 24th August. Please see the SEQTA message from Mrs Tegan Tinsley for more details.
ZENITH
HOMEROOM 11B
To start our unit on Responsibility, the Year 11B homeroom was posed with the following question, what does responsibility mean?
Kyra: Responsibility means not letting temptations lead you away from your goals and purpose. An example of this is being responsible for doing your homework.
Eric: Responsibility is taking accountability or being responsible for something. An example of responsibility would be taking accountability for something that you knew you did.
Ivy: responsibility means taking the initiative for your actions and committing to it. An example is doing my homework because it’s my responsibility to do what the teacher wants me to do.
Grace: Responsibility is being self-accountable and making decisions according to your morals. For example, it is my responsibility to pay attention in class.
Brooklyn: The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something. E.g., taking accountability for something you did wrong.
Michelle: Responsibility is being accountable for your actions and your moral duty.
Bryan: The state of having a duty to deal with something. “a true leader takes responsibility for their team and helps them achieve goals "the state of being accountable or to blame for something.”
Tanvi: Responsibility accommodates to each person differently; separate priorities and commitments shape us. Honouring them makes responsibility embody unity.
Chaboi and Matthew: For something you did wrong. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Carleta: Responsibility is being honest and mature and doing the right thing. Also admitting when you are wrong
Jude: Responsibility is caring for the people around you and doing the right thing when no one is watching.
Oshien: Responsibility is having duty and being accountable for your actions and priorities.
Aarujan: Responsibility is when you accept the risks and safety of an object, person or thing that entitles you to show a sense of protection for it. The price of greatness is responsibility.
Andy: Assuming responsibility for your activities, being proactive.
The common theme that can be seen in all students' answers, is the idea of accepting ownership for their own actions. The Bible has a lot to say about taking responsibility. For example, we are to be responsible for the way we act toward others (Luke 10:30-37). We are responsible for the way we treat our families (1 Timothy 5:8). We are responsible to study God's Word (2 Timothy 2:15). Moreover, It is our responsibility as Christians to be the hands and feet of Jesus.
- What does it mean to be the hands and feet of Jesus?
- What has God placed on your heart in which you are responsible for?
- What is an example of the responsibility of a Christian?
Matthew Hames
Homeroom Teacher
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