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The 'let us know' list Ongoing offers Please read this newsletter in the following week, it gives updates on SAIL past, present and future!
SAIL Footscray finds two new homes! Early in the year we began a SAILing voyage which had
several ports of call. We visited a beach, a park and a council hall and even
made a return to May St. While we all enjoyed the change of scenery each week,
we are happy to be settling down to years of SAILing ahead in a new home… or
two! That’s twice as many homes! Depending on where family groups live, half of our SAILors
are now at the Maidstone Community Centre each week and the other half at the
St Peter's & St Andrew's Church hall. Importantly, all tutor-student
relationships remain unchanged. We will also continue to share SAIL Xtend and
tutor talks each cycle. We would like to thank everyone involved for their incredible
support and flexibility throughout the voyage! We would like to especially
thank our library and kitchen team who have ensured that, no matter where we’ve
traveled, resources and lunch have followed. The move will ultimately mean that
more students will be able to come to SAIL in the years to come. Welcome aboard Jono! We would like to introduce our new Saturday coordinator,
Jono Wood. Jono will be leading the way with Cait over at the Church hall. Jono
is one of the long-term SAILors and has joined the SAIL team as a Saturday
coordinator. Feel free to ask him anything at any time. Jono is inclined to
know almost everything so he is well placed to assist with any needs or
concerns. SAIL Xtend. As we settle into the new locations, the chance for some
exciting Extend activities will be upon us. There are already whispers of
cooking, film-making and soccer for the first cycle. We’ll let you know the
details soon, but in the meantime get your SAILor buddies excited! Week 5 Tutor Talks. As the new cycle gets under way, we are ready to unleash
the most superb line up of Tutor-Talks that SAIL and indeed the world has ever
seen! We would like to introduce our Tutor Talk Coordinator for 2006 and
long-term magnificent tutor, Paveena. Paveena has arranged a year of talks so
educative that, should a tutor attend all of them without fail, we are seeking
permission to hold a graduation ceremony and award doctorates. Tutor talks will start immediately after lunch and run for
about 45 minutes every Week 5. If you have any particular topics that you would like to
see covered, or perhaps even contacts for guest speakers, feel free to drop
Paveena a line at sailadmin@africanoz.com
. SAIL Senior City Tours. Last week several of our SAIL Seniors enjoyed a tour of
the city arranged by the Melbourne University Law Students Society. From all
reports it was a fantastic day! We would like to thank the LSS for all of their
hard work and hope to see them again later in the year for another tour. The Easter Bunny Visits SAIL While we have no confirmed
sightings, the Easter Bunny did spark a massive Easter egg hunt for SAIL over
the Easter weekend. Despite rain during lunch, few were deterred by the
prospect of wet chocolate. Next year, however, we are bringing in sniffer dogs
to police the ‘two Easter eggs only’ rule. When the occasional third egg fell
from some students’ pockets the response was always the same- “I don’t know how
that got there.” Bags of bread seeking committed bread lover for Friday
night pick up. Yes that’s right, we have some lonely bags of bread in
need of someone with a kind heart to collect them each Friday night. If anyone
lives near the Victoria Gardens shopping centre and is able to swing by Bakers
Delight on Friday nights please let us know. It would be a huge help and a
massive contribution to the work of the kitchen team. Call for SAIL Star contributions! We would like to put out a call for more contributions for
the students’ newspaper, the SAIL Star. Having their work published is a great
incentive for SAILors to create some fantastic work. There is a box in the SAIL
library that is feeling a little empty and would love to have some SAIL Star contributions from our
SAILors. Encourage your students to do some of the SAIL Star worksheets (located in the SAIL Star worksheet folder in the library), write their own
stories, or poems, or even make up their own crosswords or word puzzles to be
published! SAIL Penpals Late last year, SAIL Penpals began as a way to open up
communication of students across all three SAIL campuses. Due to popular demand, it continues this
year! If your student is not yet
involved, and you think they would enjoy it, let us know. As it has become very
popular and word has spread, there are a number of SAILors who are waiting to
find their very own penpal. Chat with
Cait or Cam about your student’s involvement. Who in the world is…Maker the Cow? We are pleased to welcome Maker (pronounced Mah-care) the
Cow to the SAIL team. He joined us early
this year, with hopes of traveling the world with SAILors! Maker has already been to London, Rome and
Vienna, and even around Melbourne. You and your students can learn all about
the places that Maker has been with the “Where in the world is Maker”
worksheets. If you have any plans for
travel, be it interstate, national or international, and you wouldn’t mind
having a little companion, let us know! Maker is super keen to have his photo
taken anywhere and everywhere and is itching to go traveling once more. Get in quick though, as he already has plans
to go to Africa, the Bahamas and Canberra!
Look out for the “Where in the world is Maker” worksheets and upcoming
display. Excursion rules We just
wanted to remind SAIL tutors of the rules regarding taking SAILors on
excursions outside SAIL time. No activity is to happen without the consent of
both the SAILor’s parents AND the SAIL co-ordinators. In addition, a request
form must be completed before the excursion takes place. This mandates that
SAIL excursions must be attended by at least two volunteers at any one time.
This form, in English and Arabic, is available from the website here! If you have
any queries about this, please let us know. Truck
Required to SAIL away Library With three new campuses springing up, we need a
little help moving library books to them.
If you or someone you know you would be willing to donate a truck to
move SAIL bits and bobs, please let us know by emailing sail@africanoz.com . WholeSail News SAILAbout to the
Footy – Collingwood v the Bulldogs Friday 26 May | Melbourne Cricket Grounds The footy season is well and truly back, and for
the first time this year we have tickets available for any SAILors to attend
free of charge. As a special event, attendees will meet the presidents of both
clubs, David Smorgan and Eddie McGuire and will be given show bags. Please
email Matthew at sail@africanoz.com to reserve your tickets. The only catch is
that tutor SAILors will be asked to organise transport for the Sudanese SAILors
they propose to bring. SAILAbout
to the Como Historic House & Garden Corner Willams Road and Lechlade Ave, South
Yarra VIC 3141 For those who would prefer to go somewhere a little
more quiet than the footy, free passes are available for a visit to the Como
House, a little piece of history right in the heart of Melbourne. A walk
through the house and gardens reveals what life was like for the colonial
residents of the home in the late 19th and early 20th
century. And if history gets too much for you, the manicured gardens are also
the perfect spot for a picnic! Again, email Matthew to get your hands on a
couple of passes. Sudan fundraiser photo exhibition Fed Square is about to play host to a fundraiser for Sudan.
From 30 May to 9 June 2006, the Atrium will house a series of images by
Australian photographers including Ken Duncan, Andrew Chapman, and David
Simmonds. Ten images taken by Matthew - of Sudan and the Kakuma refugee camp in
Kenya - will also be on display. The exhibition’s main objective is raising
funds for and general awareness of the current and continuing humanitarian
crisis in Sudan. All profits will go to World Vision’s Sudan Crisis Appeal but
entry is free. SAIL in context:
Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Lecture on the conflict in
Sudan. Wednesday 17 May | 6:00-7:30pm | Percy Baxter Theatre
(D2.193) Deakin University Waterfront Campus, Geelong | MEL 577 For those SAILors interested in the back-story of their
students, an event coming up may be the perfect opportunity to get it. This is
the second in a series of four lectures on the history, politics and the
victims of war in Sudan. The lecture will be presented by Professor David
Dorward, the director of the African Research Institute at Latrobe University
and Nicole Batch, who spent 9 months as a Tracing caseworker for the International Committee of the Red Cross in
Sudan. Entry will be by gold coin donation and all proceeds will go to International Committee of the Red Cross and
Crescent Sudan Appeal. New Tutor Resource: Harmony and Understanding
Friendly Families - My Extended Family: the Sudanese way of life Blake Education has come up with a handy teaching tool,
for all you SAILors wanting a little more inspiration. Written by Gary and
Shelley Underwood, this children’s book tells the story of a little Sudanese
girl starting a new life in a new country, having left war-torn Sudan. SAIL
students are likely to identify with little Agueer, who learns quickly to fit
into a new community. Totally Trivia If you thought SAIL
was free of paperwork and bureaucracy, we are very glad. Truth be told, behind
the smooth SAILing of a Saturday are no less than 1700 documents. Each of these
form the administrative backbone that the co-ordinators negotiate to ensure
that the good ship SAIL continues on its merry course. In addition, the SAIL
Pulse system, on which SAIL now operates, exists because of about 10,000 pages
of computer code. Copies of the code are available on request. Thank you for your time
and energy donation each week. We look forward to seeing the benefits of it as
the year continues! Matthew, Cait and Cam |
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