| NEWSLETTER: Altona campus (May 2007) | ||
NEWSLETTER: Altona campus (May 2007)The 'let us know' list Ongoing offers Tutor Talks We already had our first two tutor talks of the year – on “tutoring techniques” and “learning ideas”- and tutors were able to access a wealth of knowledge from past tutors and other experts, and to ask all those questions they never had time to address during SAIL time. If you were not able to make the first Tutor Talks of the year and you are interested in having a copy of some of the handouts, please let us know. The next SAIL tutor training session will be held at Holy Trinity Church Hall on 16 May commencing at 6pm and concluding at 8pm. The topic is “Bullying” and we are fortunate to have Lucy and Rosie Thomas, former SAILors who now run PROJECT ROCKIT. They will talk about how to recognize and deal with bullying. Holy Trinity is situated on the corner of Hotham and Clarendon St, East Melbourne and is very easy to access. If coming by public transport, take the tram from Flinders St Station along Wellington Parade and get off at the Hilton Hotel. Holy Trinity is a 2-minute walk up Clarendon St. If coming by car, there is ample free parking space in both Clarendon and Hotham Streets at that time of day. As you are probably already aware, we have arranged these training sessions on a monthly basis throughout the year. They are designed to help you in the work that you do at SAIL. The dates and topics for the remainder of the year are: 20 June World Refugee Day 25 July Refugee Support Services 5 September Ideas, Activities and Computers 3 October Networks and Referrals 7 November Topic to be advised We welcome any suggestions you may have for future topics or issues you believe would be helpful in the work you do at SAIL. Please send them to lterrill@ozemail.com.au Welcome to the new SAILors at Altona! After the two recent tours of SAIL Altona this year, we now have a number of new SAIL volunteers who have jumped on board with great enthusiasm. We also have had a couple of new families start SAILing at Altona this year. So if you see a new face or three, introduce yourself! SAIL Lunch Invitation! We would just like to remind you that a delicious and healthy lunch is served in the courtyard at 12.30pm after the day’s tutoring has finished and we would love you to join us. However, we would ask that if you are able to join us that you help us by keeping an eye on the students and encouraging them to stay them in the courtyard while eating. If you see any students discarding bits of their food, could you please encourage them to use the bins, otherwise we will find that we’re sharing the courtyard with a whole lot more little ants. We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank all the kitchen helpers who do such a great job of preparing the lunch each week, and to Sarah for picking the food up. SAIL Altona Emergency Folder We are looking to create a SAIL Emergency Folder in our library with people who have first aid qualifications. If you would be willing to be listed as someone who could be called on in case of an emergency at SAIL (please note that we have never had any such situations at SAIL!), let us know. Simply send the details of your first aid qualifications and expiry dates and we will pop you onto the list in the folder, which we will keep in the library. News from the SAIL Library! It is with great excitement that we would like to announce that we now have a volunteer librarian, Laura, who will be working in the library two Saturdays a month. This is fantastic news as the library has been in rather desperate need of some tender loving care for sometime. If you see Laura hard at work in the library, please introduce yourself. SAILAway at Somers The weekend 20 – 22 April saw 50 SAILors from all Melbourne campuses participate in a crazy and ultra-high-energy weekend of fun and games at Lord Somers camp on the Mornington Peninsula. The weekend had a soccer theme that went down well with SAILors and volunteers alike, and was generally a great success. Big thanks to Nik, Jerome and the other organizers, all 100 of them! If your student attended the camp and would like to write about their camp experience, please encourage them to write a story that can be published in the SAIL Star Newspaper. No, we’re not trying to get you to sign up to a subscription – we already have one! You may have noticed a plethora of newspapers floating around in the last two weeks. We now receive 20 copies donated from The Age each Saturday for Sudanese SAILors to take home, and for tutors and students to use together during tutoring time. We will be handing them out to Senior and Secondary SAILors, but if your student would like one they should feel welcome to take it. Calling for SAIL Star submissions again! The SAIL Star continues to shine this year at SAIL, and once again we are on the lookout for submissions! Please encourage your student to write a story or poem, draw a picture, or fill in one of the SAIL Star worksheets (which can be found in the folder on the Resource Table). We have had some fantastic contributions so far, but of course we would like many more! Simply pop the work into the SAIL Star box next to the blue book cupboard and it will be published in the next edition of SAIL Star! SAIL Pen Pals begins! SAIL Pen Pals is starting up again for 2007. It is a cross-campus activity that involves SAILors being matched up with a pen pal with whom they exchange letters regularly. This is a great opportunity for SAILors from one campus to get to know SAILors at the other SAIL Campuses, as well as to practice writing letters in English. We have had a number of long-term pen pals since this first started a year ago, with a couple of Pen Pals meeting each other at the end of last year! For those of you who were around when this program first began, it’s time to get out the pens and paper and encourage your students to write letters once more! If your student hasn’t got a pen pal, we will be handing around Pen Pal Forms to be filled out so we can find them one. WholeSAIL News AMES Volunteer Tutor Enhancement Program - Workshop Day in Footscray Saturday, 12 May 2007 | 9am-3pm | AMES Education, 289 Barkly Street, Footscray AMES Education Footscray is holding a day of workshops for volunteer English tutors interested in further developing their tutoring skills. Workshops topics include “English for Driving in Australia” – which is very useful for tutors with students who already hold a driver’s license or students who are preparing for their Learner’s. Please let Matt know ASAP if you are interested in attending this Workshop Day as the date for formal RSVP has passed. Please note also that AMES is approximately 10 minutes walk from Footscray Station and 5 minutes walk from Middle Footscray Station. The nearest all-day free parking is along the Geelong Road service lane. Launching Melbourne’s Human Rights Art and Film Festival (HRAFF) HRAFF is a newly founded not-for-profit organization that recognizes the need for widespread awareness of human rights. Making use of film and the arts in order to capture the attention of the public as has been done so successfully in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, New York and London, HRAFF will be launching the first Australian human rights festival right here in the heart of Melbourne. Currently, entries are being sought from human rights filmmakers, and the best films will be screened at RMIT Capitol Theatre in November alongside internationally renown features. Art exhibitions are also presently being put together – so to keep yourself in the loop, hop onto www.hraff.org.au and watch that space! Films: RMIT Capitol Theatre, 133 Swanston St Melbourne Arts: Forty Five Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne Darfur Australia Network Trivia Night May 17 | 7-10pm | INU Bar, Union House at The University of Melbourne Come put on your thinking caps and join in the fun at INU Bar to raise funds for the Darfur Australia Network (DAN)! This non-profit organization is run by the Darfur community in Australia and its main aim is to raise public awareness of the plight of the Sudanese in their home country. For bookings, please email a.chung2@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au or ring 0421 006 949 for tickets, which can be picked up on the night. Any queries can be directed to Laura, on 0413 325 323. Dinka Dictionary – Online Now! Dinka is one of the most widely spoken languages by our Sudanese SAILors. Download this fantastic little 195-page Sudanese-English dictionary and get yakking! http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger_blench/Language%20data/Comparative%20Dinka%20lexicon%20converted.pdf] Total trivia Well its not that trivial really, but guess who is part of a national organisation now? You!!! Yep, on 5 May the first SAIL gathering was held in the Seven Hills Community Centre in Sydney! The campus will get underway in earnest on 12 May. Eventually, campus by campus, the plan is for SAIL to take over the entire world. We hope you will stay on board when this happens. With many thanks for keeping SAIL and a SAILor on an even keel Smooth SAILing Ronnie and Matthew |
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