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NEWSLETTER: Altona campus (August 2006)The 'let us know' list Ongoing offers
The next week five talks will take place on the 5th of August. For the tutors, we have Anna Grace Hopkins, someone who knows SAIL very well (she started it!) and is an experienced teacher. Anna
Grace will be coming along to talk to tutors about teaching resources
and to give us all some tips and ideas for working with students. For
the Community, we have the third module from the Springvale Monash
Legal team. Tutors, if you work with older secondary students or with
senior students, please inform your students of this talk. We hope that
you will be willing to sit in on this talk so that it can operate as a
discussion point for future sessions. Community Talks commence at
approximately 12.10pm. Submissions to the SAIL Star The
pages of our very own newspaper - the SAIL Star - are looking very bare
so please encourage your students to submit their work, whatever it may
be! In addition to SAIL Star specific worksheets that can be found in
the folders in the library, general short stories, movie reviews, CD
reviews, biographies, interviews and opinion pieces are always welcome.
Submissions can be handed in to the SAIL Star box in the library, or to
Wayn or Catherine. Arriving on Time With
the cold winter weather setting in, the degree of difficulty in getting
out of bed on a Saturday morning can be likened to that of executing an
aerial-skiing quadruple back flip. However, we encourage all tutors to
set a hideously loud alarm so that we can all kick off at 11:00am
sharp. We only have a short hour and a half each week, and students are
keen to maximise their SAIL time. Thus, it would be much appreciated if
everyone could make a big effort to arrive before 11:00am so that the
students are ready to go on the hour. It’s nearly that time of year again… SAIL’s 5th birthday is rapidly approaching. A day of fun, excitement and lots of cake will take place on Saturday the 26th of August. All of us at Altona will make a special trip over to help celebrate with everyone at SAIL Footscray. Please put this date in your diary to ensure you can attend the big day. We will meet at Altona and all drive over to Footscray together. With
the amount of celebrating and driving, we expect SAIL to go a little
bit longer than usual on this day, so if you can, please work out your
work rosters and social calendars accordingly! WholeSAIL News House Wanted – Cleaning Services Available Sudanese
woman in Dandenong looking for house-cleaning jobs. Has completed some
cleaning units of a TAFE hospitality course and has some private
cleaning experience. Drives a car. Please contact Rebecca:
0403-662-476 or Judy 9531-1619.ABC Radio – A broadcast on the refugee experience About
seventy per cent of the last year's humanitarian intake into Australia
came from Africa - most of it from Sudan and other countries in the
Horn of Africa. For African refugees like Sarah Malual, the journey to
Australia starts in massive refugee camps in Kenya or Tanzania. The ABC
broadcast discusses the Australian refugee policy, attitudes and the
experiences of refugees on their way towards settling in Australia. Download the whole radio program at: Driving Mentors Wanted: “L” Platers need Practice! at
the Metropolitan Traffic Education Centre, some have had additional
private driving lessons, but very few have access to cars and/or fully
licensed drivers to enable them to achieve the recommended 120 hours of
practice before going for their probationary licenses. If you can
help, please contact Maureen at roomoo2@ozemail.com.au" Forced Migration Online: A Comprehensive Online Research Guide on Refugees FMO
provides a wealth of information on people affected by “forced
migration” – from general information on refugees to promote awareness
to academic dissertations on the subject. Peter Verney’s guide
specifically deals with Sudan, its history and its peoples displaced by
internal strife. Access the guide at:
Total trivia According to the 1996 Australian Bureau of Statistics report on the Sudanese
community in Australia, 1.7% of Sudanese people in Australia spoke
Greek at home. To show that we are not making this up, see the official
report on the website of the Department of Immigration which is
available at: After
some careful arithmetic we have deduced that 1.7% of the Sudanese
population who responded to the census had absolutely no idea what they
were filling in. Thank you for your contribution to the SAIL Program and to Australia’s fastest growing (and most oddly lingual) community! |
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