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.
SAIL Christmas Drive
The end of the year is almost upon us which means that SAIL will be closing up for 2008 on 20 December.  However, the celebrations aren’t over yet!  20 December is also the day when SAIL’s Christmas extravaganza takes place and where we share the holiday cheer with our friends from the Robinson campus.  As many people would be aware, this celebration culminates in a visit from a particular man in red and as such, we are seeking a little help so that we can give SAILors a very, merry Christmas.
If you are able to assist in the donation of presents or know of a person or business that can, we would love to hear from you. We are also seeking assistance in wrapping and organising presents in December.
If you feel that you’re able to help in any way, please let Liam or Jess know on Saturday or via email!
 
Garden Rules
Following a number of complaints from the Vestry and the gardeners at St. James, we must all make more of an effort to respect the garden at SAIL and make sure that no preventable damage is caused.  If you see a SAILor walking through the garden or damaging any of the plants please gently remind them of the garden rules.  If there are any problems don’t hesitate to let Liam or Jess know.

Double Xtend
Continuing the new Xtend format of running two Xtend activities concurrently, this cycle involves Soccer and SongRoom, a music-based program involving singing and drumming. Art and craft workshops are being held at Dandenong Robinson and bicycle education lessons at Dandenong Langhorne.  Our previous Xtend cycle had art and craft workshops being held at Dandenong Robinson and bicycle education lessons at Dandenong Langhorne.
The art and craft activities saw SAILors getting involved in making cranes and giraffes with origami paper and constructing reading glasses and dinosaurs out of balloons and pipe cleaners. SAILors also learnt how to create homemade play-doh in one particularly messy Xtend session.
The bicycle education lessons were run by Spokes in the Wheel at the Langhorne campus. Spokes in the Wheel taught Sudanese students about cycling, safety and bike maintenance and are set to provide each SAIL family with a bicycle to keep (shhh!). The lessons were extremely popular and SAIL and Spokes in the Wheel hope to team up again next year to repeat the success of this cycle.
Our Xtend program runs each Saturday after lunch at SAIL for approximately one hour. If you would like to get involved in the Xtend program, please ask Liam or Jess on Saturday (or via email).  Having run a range of activities this year such as painting, tennis, bicycle education, dodge ball, origami, music, athletics and drama, we are looking forward to another big year of Xtend next year.  A big thank you to everyone that has assisted with the Xtend program at SAIL but particularly to Hannah Jakubenko and Lyndal deVries who ran activities, assisted other leaders running activities and were constantly driving SAILors to and from Xtend.  We are always on the lookout for some extra helpers at Xtend so please let us know if you are interested.

Setting up and Cleaning Up
We’d like to say a big THANK YOU to everybody who assists each week in setting up and cleaning up. This is a gigantic help as it allows us to focus our attention on other matters at the beginning and end of every SAIL day.
This month’s theme
Following the success of the most recent “Melbourne Cup and Fashion” theme, it seems appropriate that our final theme for the year should be about the summer holidays.  New theme worksheets relating to the summer holidays and Christmas have been added to our SAIL worksheet folders (which can be found every week on the stage).  The SAIL themes provide a good reference point for all that is done at SAIL for that cycle.  They can assist tutors in finding an appropriate place to start with their student, they may be linked to the Xtend activity and they may inspire positive changes that can be made to SAIL each week.  If you are unsure what theme the current cycle is about, look to the left hand side of the noticeboard or ask Liam or Jess.

We are always looking for additional resources and worksheets on our themes – if you have some or are willing to make some it will always be much appreciated! 

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 and beyond,

Aidan, Hannah, Nik and Cara.