1. If any of your contact details have changed, please let us know.
2. If you are planning to have contact with your student outside of SAIL hours you must let us know first and complete the contact request form.
3. If you intend to bring a friend to SAIL please direct them to the website first and direct them to apply online or just let us know beforehand.
4. Let us know if you are going to miss a Saturday via the online "Can't Come Sheet".
5. Please check and read your emails each week - if possible, Friday is best!
6. Please let us know before you speak publicly or publish an article about SAIL.
SAILing into Christmas
There are only 4 SAIL sessions left this year. SAIL tutoring sessions will run as per usual up to (and including) 13 December 2008. Our final SAILing session for the year is Saturday, 20 December. On this day, SAIL will start at the usual time of 10:30am. The morning will include a Christmas concert, presentations and a visit from a certain red-suited friend! This will be followed by lunch at the usual time of 12:00pm. Please let Gemma, Sam or Ash know if you have any queries, quibbles, questions or concerns. SAIL will resume again on 14 February 2009.

CALLING ALL SAIL PERFORMERS!
We are looking for Braybrook performers for the final SAIL concert so if your students would like to read a story they have written, sing, dance or show off any particular talent, please let Ash, Gemma or Sam know.

COMMUNITY TALKS
Early in November, secondary students were visited by Yanping from Consumer Affairs Victoria. Yanping gave a very informative talk on door-to-door salespersons, the significance of signing contracts and the availability of community and legal services to assist with bill paying and other consumer issues.

Game, Set and Match for SAIL Xtend
Throughout November, almost 40 students from Maidstone and Braybrook were involved in our biggest and best Xtend session yet. Comprising tennis coaching and mini-matches run by Tennis Australia at the local courts, our Xtend sessions this month involved energetic hours on court and we’ve discovered many aspiring Federers and Sharapovas amongst our Braybrook SAILors!

SAILors more artistically inclined took part in creating masterpieces at genius workshops run by Sunshine Gallery Everywhere. Their 4 weeks of hard work will culminate in an exhibition of works at The Granary Café, 2 Devonshire Road, Sunshine on Saturday, 6 December from 1:30-3:30pm. All tutors are very welcome to attend.

PUNCTUALITY AT SAIL
You may have noticed that SAIL starting time at Braybrook seems to be dragging out to 11am as opposed to 10:30am. In order to maximise tutoring time, please do everything you can to arrive at SAIL by 10:20am to start tutoring at 10:30am.

If you are having difficulties with getting yourself and the SAILors you pick up there on time, please come and speak with us. If you’ve noticed that your student is often late, feel free to bring that up with us also.

LIBRARY NEWS

New to the Library is the ‘SAIL Wish List’, which is located next to the whiteboard each week. If you notice that we are missing or do not have a particular resource, please make a note on the wish list and we will do our best to accommodate.

In recent weeks, SAILors and tutors have been encouraged to wear name badges during tutoring time. This is to encourage greater interaction between SAILors and volunteers. If you need a badge, please see a coordinator or Betsy. We ask that the badges are returned at the end of tutoring time. 

If you ever feel like you are running low on ideas or activities, please let a librarian or coordinator know, and we can point you in the direction of our huge collection of ideas and resources. Further, there is a CD jam-packed with SAIL worksheets and ideas, available for loan to tutors. If you are interested, please see a coordinator.

WholeSAIL News

Rendition Monologues: True stories of torture and abuse in the name of the war on terror
10 December 2008| 8pm | fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane,
Melbourne | Tickets $20

Actors for Human Rights, the outreach network of London-based iceandfire theatre company, is giving a voice to people who have suffered torture and abuse under the CIA’s counter-terror method known as ‘extraordinary rendition’. On December 10, the 60th anniversary of the Universal declaration of Human Rights, Rendition Monologues will bring harrowing first-hand testimonies of victims of this practice to Australian audiences.

To book: www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/whatson.php or call 03 9662 9966.

SAIL Total Trivia
The population of Sudan (2007 est.) is 39.4 million with approximately 30%-33% of this population residing in urban areas.

Thank you for SAILing through 2008

Gemma, Sam, Ash, Nik and Cara