Celebrating Children’s Book Week

On Friday, August 16, the Children’s Book Week winners will be announced. Some of the shortlisted books have been on display for a few weeks.

During Children’s Book Week August 19 – 23, the library is continuing its tradition of Guest Readers reading/performing for students and staff. The line up this year is again great. Presenting will begin at 1pm.

Monday 19th: Principal, Mr Paul Dawson leads the week.

Tuesday 20th: Peter Marin.

Wednesday 21st: Pupil Free Day.

Thursday 22nd: Ms Maddie Hayes.

Friday 23rd: We finish with the inimitable Mr Parker.

Every student who attends the book readings will go into the draw for a daily door prize.

Come in and listen, be entertained and you never know, you may win a prize!

The SRC will also be conducting some activities during the week. Make sure you read their section.

 - Library Staff

Children's Book Week

International Student Short Study Tours

Group #1

An amazing experience for our International Student Short Study Tour (Group # 1), from Dongyang Middle School in China who visited our College for one week from 21st to 27th July 2024. Their experience was quite memorable as not only did they enjoy our curriculum and the excursion showing the magnificent sites around the regional area but made wonderful friendships with our students at the College. The students really enjoyed the subjects of English, Maths and Humanities and all of the teachers were so interactive with the students, that made it even more special to all of the International Students and their teachers.

Group #2

Another amazing experience for our International Student Short Study Tour (Group # 2), from Hangzhou Middle School in China who visited our College for one week from 29th July to 3rd August 2024. From trying to teach the Cockatoo “hello” in Chinese at mini golf to feeling the sand between their toes and seeing blue sky was a highlight on the planned excursion. Both the students and teachers of the Study Tour expressed their deepest gratitude to the staff and College students as they made our visitors feel so welcomed and special when joining their classes. The experience was not only memorable but their next visit was promised to be longer.

International Students Group #1

International Students Group #2

Multicultural Committee News

As Term Three moves forward, we approach our final Multicultural Community Meeting for the term, set for Monday, 26th August. This is a prime chance to partake in lively discussions and contribute to the much-anticipated NGSC Multicultural Festival.

Mark Your Calendars: The Grand Festival is set for Friday, 25th October, promising a celebration rich in cultural diversity, enticing cuisine, and unforgettable moments. Don't miss out on this event!

Your support is vital to elevate this event to new heights! The Multicultural Committee is excited to host its beloved traditional homemade cake stall. Whether baking is your forte or you're eager to lend a hand, your participation is key. Stay tuned for more details in upcoming updates and the festival poster.

Join Us: We value your creativity and enthusiasm! Come to our meeting on Monday 26th August, from 12:45 pm to 1:30 pm to share your ideas and get involved. Together, we can make this festival the best one yet!

Wear it Purple Day

On August 28, Student Wellbeing and the Student Representative Council are working together to host activities promoting a supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environment for rainbow young people. The event was created to help support LGBTQIA+ youth with a day of celebration, activities, and wearing purple to raise funds for the Wear It Purple charity.

This year we will be giving out fruit, cupcakes and rainbow bread. There will also be activities around art from colouring, bracelet making, purple nail polish, face make up (rainbow), and purple and/or rainbow pony beads that be designed on shoes. We are also encouraging students to wear purple items such as scarves, headbands, ribbons, socks and bracelets.

Please join us in the piazza next to the canteen and help celebrate inclusion.

Wear it Purple Day

Rap/Dance/Singing Competition

Friday 9 August, the Arts SRC hosted a rap/dance and singing competition for great prizes in front of the student cohort. It was great to see so many students attend to watch and a big congratulations to all the competitors for giving it a shot and providing a great contest.

The competition was adjudicated by NGSC Alumni Fiston Baraka aka Baraka the Kid and Lionel Baker. Overall, it was Patrick Ivey performing Jailbreak who took out first prize, with Benny Baraka and her dance taking second place, with Wyatt Keith and his rap taking out third place. A huge thanks to Arts Captain Aiden Veale for organising the event and to Julie Elkin, Alumni Coordinator, for her support.

Rap Battle

Book Week

Book Week for 2024 is fast approaching! The theme this year is “Reading is Magic”. From Monday 19th August and until Friday 23rd August, the SRC and the library are hosting various activities at every lunchtime culminating in a Character Dress Up Day on Friday 23rd August.

Activities each day include teacher book readings, bookmark creations, blackout poetry and a short story competition. Please check compass for which days these activities will take part in.

Remember to wear your costumes on Friday 23rd August, it will be great to see everyone dressed up as their favourite characters with a gold coin donation going to The Smith Family.

Book Week

NGSC Connects with Hama Elementary School

On June 24, NGSC’s Year 7D students connected via Zoom, with Hama Elementary School in Izumiotsu, Osaka. Hama Elementary School has a vibrant English language program and passionate students. Hama Elementary School graduates often attend NGSC’s Sister Schools in Izumiotsu; Toyo Junior High School, Ozu Junior High School, and Seifu Junior High School, and later Izumiotsu High School.

This a was a fantastic experience for everyone involved. For our Year 7 students, who had started learning Japanese at the beginning of Semester 2, only a week before, it was a chance to connect the language they are learning this semester to communicating with other students close to their ages.

The Hama Elementary School students put a lot of work into preparing some questions for our students in English, and our students tried their very best to ask the Hama Elementary students questions using scaffolded sentence builder sheets. It was great to see everyone so happy when students on both sides realized that they liked similar things like soccer, anime, and eating.

Our students reflected on the experience at the end of the session, and I would like to include some quotes:

• “It was fun and funny.”
• “I liked how they all spoke to us.”
• “It was very interesting.”
• “It was very interesting and cool.”
• “It was fun to talk to other students from another language.”
• “I think Monday was good and amazing.”

We look forward to building stronger connections with students in Izumiotsu City.

NGSC Connects with Hama Elementary School

Japanese Club

Japanese Club has had a great start to Term 3. So far, we have had students come and try Japanese calligraphy, called Shoudo, chopstick racing, and manga illustration.

It is great to see our students connecting with Japanese culture outside of the ‘classroom’.

We will be conducting a variety of activities over the rest of the term, so come over and have a go.

Japanese Club

“JFF+” rebrands to “JFF Theater”.

After nearly four years, “JFF+” will be relaunched as “JFF Theater” on August 1, 2024!　Free membership registration will allow you to view Japanese films and videos with multilingual subtitles from around the world. The membership registration starts today. Please register now to prepare for the streaming! The streaming films/videos will be updated periodically. We hope you will enjoy all the titles. To start watching from August 1, simply register as a free member on the “JFF Theater” website. With subtitles available in up to 19 languages, you can watch in your preferred subtitles depending on your country. *Availability of streaming countries/regions and subtitle languages may vary depending on the title."

“JFF Theater” official website https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/ 

JFF Theater

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