| NEWSLETTER: Footscray campus (December 2005) | ||
NEWSLETTER: Footscray campus (December 2005)The 'let us know' list Ongoing offers Docking for summer For your diaries, SAIL 05 will end on 17 December. This will lead us into the only SAIL break for the year before we jump back on board for SAIL 06 on 18 February 2006. We sincerely hope you have a good reinvigorating break in preparation for 2006. If you are going to be away for the first sessions of 2006, please let us know via the online can’t come form. SAIL Santa There is rumor that SAIL’s-special-strictly-secular Santa may be making an appearance for the final SAIL of the year. Cam and Cait are currently in negotiations with his head elf and provisions are being made for the arrivals of the reindeer. Tutors need not bring presents for their students as Santa has taken care of everything. If, however, tutors decide to bring presents anyway please do so quietly and away from the other students. The festivities will begin at about 11:30am and SAIL should be awash with all the discarded wrapping paper by 1pm. Year end celebrations Saturday 10 December will also see an end of SAIL celebration including presentations of bursaries and certificates for Year 6, 10 and 11 students, and plenty of musical entertainment. We are thrilled to be welcoming the SAIL Altona campus for this week also. Please be prepared to stay back at SAIL a little later than usual on that Saturday. Mobile phone use at SAIL While it is great to know that SAILors are social butterflies, we would appreciate it if all mobile phones could either be switched off or ignored during tutoring time. There have been a number of lengthy calls taken recently leaving the Sudanese SAILors to twiddle their thumbs. Please switch off your mobile phones from the start of SAIL until lunch time. Anonymous text messages The other curious mobile development has been the rise in the number of anonymous text messages. While we all like to entertain the idea of countless secret admirers, we would appreciate it if all SAILors could please put their name at the end of any text to us. Funding for passionate SAILors Through a generous donation from a former SAILor, we are thrilled to put out the call to SAILors one and all that we have limited funds available to support Sudanese SAILors in extra-curricula pursuits about which they are both passionate and involved. If your Sudanese SAILor buddy has shown an interest in an activity for which there is a small amount of money required (ie shoes for sport, metcards to get to a drama program), please let any of us know by email. This is an ongoing offer, so please keep it in mind. Christmas Carols – SAIL About excursion Ever wanted to see Ray Martin in the flesh? Well, it goes to show you are human. We all do, only some of us are coy to admit it. And here’s your opportunity! The RVIB Carols by Candlelight happen every year at the Myer Music Bowl. While many SAILors attend with their Sudanese SAILors in tow each year any way, we are making an effort to co-ordinate the trip this year for the rehearsal night. The rehearsal night will be held from 4pm on Friday 23 December 2005. SAIL will gladly pay for an unreserved seating place for the rehearsal night for any SAILor and their Sudanese SAILor buddies. If you are interested, please email Matthew at sail@africanoz.com. Real-life Police Academy As if we have not often enough opportunities to fulfill life-long dreams (did we mention Ray Martin in the flesh yet?), try this for size: SAIL has been offered an exclusive tour of the Victoria Police Academy. The tour will take place on Tuesday 24 January 2006 from 10:30am including access to the mock siege set, the cars and the training facilities. There are a number of older SAILors who will be invited to join the tour as a career-guidance exercise, but there are some places still available for the date. If you and some SAILors you know would like to join this exclusive tour, please email Matthew at sail@africanoz.com. Thank you to cleaning machines The clean-up roster has started and is going tremendously well. The church is very pleased that a more thorough job is being done. We are also keeping times of the fastest clean-teams in line with 2006 Commonwealth Games. 23:42 is the current record but we are confident, with training and determination, that we can break the 20 minute mark before the end of the year- “If you can dream it you can do it!” A big THANK YOU to those who have been rostered on so far. Change At The Helm The change-over between Will and Cam is officially in place. We would like to once again thank Will for his tireless work over the last twenty months. We (excluding Cam who chooses not to make himself welcome) would also like to welcome Cam into the role of Campus Coordinator and Will into the role of Saturday Coordinator. If you haven’t already met Cam, please introduce yourself. He does, in fact, bite. But it is usually very gentle. Everybody needs good neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyboooooooooooooooooooours! One really must feel sorry for those who bought a house around May Street; school kiddies runny around from Monday to Friday, us on Saturday mornings and church on Sundays! Accordingly we need tutors’ help us in making sure that the students are always as respectful as possible. Special attention is needed near the flats out in the lunch area (no swinging on the cloths lines) and around the houses and cars on May Street. If there are any volunteers who are willing and able to help with supervision at lunchtime, please email Cait and Cam. If we can do all this that will be when “good neighbours become good friends”. What's up in the Library... You might not notice the changes that occur each week in the library as we constantly try to improve the resources for SAILors and keep the heart of SAIL vibrant, fun and easy to use, so we thought we'd give you an update.... - Recently we have given the 'community information' section a bit of a clean out. This section contains a host of information about community services as well as health and legal issues. Some of this information can be taken away and the rest can be accessed on a Saturday at SAIL. - We continue to feature various parts of our collection so keep an eye out for new books on display and signs pointing you to exciting new finds. - Our highly popular games are always increasing in number. To maintain this excellent collection please be sure to always sign the games in and out, return them neatly, and inform us if there are pieces missing from the games so that we can replace them. - The small borrowing section of the library is being well used. We have 100 catalogued junior fiction novels which can be borrowed for 2 weeks at a time and we encourage students to take advantage of this - The worksheet folders are constantly growing. We now have many different categories of worksheets from colouring sheets to advanced grammar and lesson tips for tutors. - The manila folder system is working really well. If your student is not keeping their work in a folder we encourage you to create a folder for them and ask us about the system if you are unsure. - Finally, it is with huge thanks that we farewell Mirka, a SAIL librarian for 2 years. If you have any questions about how the collection works, the stickers system, where to find a particular picture book, Dinka dictionary, stationery for your pen pal letters, atlas etc....please ask us in the library! Totally Trivia The average age of Australia’s Sudanese community is 30.8 years compared with 46.0 for all overseas-born Australians and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. Thank you for being a part of the magnificent success of SAIL 05. We look forward very much to seeing you back for more at SAIL 06! Matthew, Cait and Cam |
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