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At the heart of the Fleurieu

11th September 202011th September 2020 Week 8 Issue 7Week 8 Issue 7

From the Principal

DIARY DATES

Breakfast Club Monday - Friday 8:30-8:45 am

Reading Army Monday - Friday 8:30-8:50 am

Principal Kevin Mooney

Deputy Principal Andrew Cousins

Learning & Teaching Coordinator Bre Bradley

Student Wellbeing Leader Helen Fonfé

Aboriginal Community Education Officer Kellie Blucher

Junior School Coordinator Hayley Clarke

Middle School Coordinator Vince Nizzola

Senior School Coordinator Sam Blake

Pastoral Care Worker Chrisna Van Zyl

Governing Council Chair Andrew Down

Parents & Friends President Janelle Paech

2021 PLANNING Our curriculum planning and timetable organisation for 2021 is now well underway. At this time, our class structures remains incomplete as we wait on final student numbers. Should you have a specific request regarding the placement of children in classes for 2021 you way request this in writing and addressed to me by the end of week 1 in Term 4. Although we cannot categorically state that your request will be met we will endeavour to create the opportunities that best fit the learning for all children. The rebuilding of the school will seriously affect any significant increase in student numbers for 2021. I strongly urge anyone considering the opportunity for new enrolments at the school for 2021 to ensure this is achieved by the end 2020. The new build is planned to be completed by September 2021 with increased learning spaces to cater for the transition of Year 7 students into high school. OPEN DAY The Mount Compass Area School Open Day advertised for 18th September has been cancelled due to the COVID19 restrictions. However, from 1:30pm on the school oval we will have a heifer handling display and other associated activities relating to our Agriculture and Farm programs. Community members are welcome to join us on the school oval for this display however, we remind you of the current expectations around social distancing. TRAFFIC LIGHTS A reminder to parents and students that we update our traffic lights approximately every three weeks. It is an important connection we have with you to ensure you remain aware of the progress of each and every student in our school. Should you have any concerns about the progress of your child’s learning please contact the subject teacher and/or the sub school coordinator. FRONT-OF-SCHOOL PARKING The parking at the front of the school has recently undergone some modifications to acquire more parking spaces. Please become familiar with the changes to ensure we keep everyone safe, especially adhering to the yellow marked spaces where no parking is to occur.

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Year 3/4 teacher Yvette Foster recently received her Degree of ‘Master of Education (Gifted Education)’. Being certified at this level is an incredible accomplishment and her advanced teaching skills show Yvette is an exemplary teacher and leads gifted education and learning at our site. Yvette heads our English and HASS faculties for Junior School and she has been instrumental in setting up and teaching Multiple Intelligence Groups. As a Junior School teacher at Mount Compass Yvette continuously seeks feedback from her students to reflect on her teaching. She endeavours to make lessons engaging, thought provoking, and looks for new ways to cater for a variety of gifted learners. Congratulations Yvette on your accomplishments and thank you for all the work you put into making our school a great place to work and learn.

JUNIOR SCHOOL - SCHOOL VALUES AWARD FOR WEEK 6 School Values : Integrity, Respect, Kindness Award winners are now being presented with a School Values Badge made by Helen Fonfe and designed by a Year 7 student Amber Kim. Congratulations to all these students.

TERM 3 R-6 INTERVIEWS Term 1 Parent/Teacher Interviews were cancelled due to COVID restrictions. Optional interviews are being offered by teachers. If you would like to have a Parent/Teacher Interview please make a time with your child/ren’s teacher/s. Teachers may also request an interview to share your child/ren’s progress.

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R Jess Davis Ollie Leach, Nelly Perry

R Ashleigh Martin Abby Cunningham, Jayden Ogden

1/2 Abbie Staples Starla Rigg, Joey Baker

1/2 Jacqui Becker Hudson Tamarapa, Jade Townley

2/3 Mary Gillett Melissa Faure, Evelyn Hansen

3/4 Haylee Tisher Dorian Stockdale, Blake Tapley

3/4 Yvette Foster Shay-Lee Storie, Maddison Edwards

4/5 Michael Hansen Ashlee Davies-Dimond, Henry McHugh

5/6 Alex Rix Rion Moore, Bridey McGregor

6 Caitlin Potter Becca Bruce, Dean Wooding

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TRAFFIC LIGHTS FOR YEAR 5/6 STUDENTS This term we are trialling the use of Traffic Lights for the Year 5/6 students only. Your child’s teacher’s will be completing a Traffic Light on Daymap which will show how they are progressing within each subject. Your child will receive either a green light (passing), an orange light (at risk) or red light (failing). The Traffic Light will further open dialogue between parents and their children, as well as teachers. This information will be available at the end of Week 9. R-6 DISCO Tonight is Disco Night for the Junior School students. Please note due to COVID restrictions – this is a drop off only

event. Students will be supervised by Junior School staff for the entire event.

Mrs Hayley Clarke SAPSASA HOCKEY Congratulations to both Liam Grundy and Kye Mells for being selected in the Southern Fleurieu SAPSASA Hockey team to compete at West Beach in the School Sport SA State Carnival from 24th August until 26th August. Well done to Emma Lee Ferguson for being asked to referee by the Team Manager. SAPSASA FOOTBALL Congratulations to Austin Tolosa for competing in the SAPSASA Football carnival at West Beach this week. PAPER PLANE THROWING COMPETITION Mr Gramola set the challenge to our students to create some soaring paper planes. There were dozens of entrants and the winner would be the plane that flew the longest distance. With a $5 canteen voucher up for grabs, students were asked to fold a paper plane using an A4 piece of paper which would be launched in the gym. Paper Plane Challenge 1 - Furthest Flight Distance - Winners Junior School - Noah Robinson, 10.4m Senior School - Oscar Sator, 14.7m Paper Plane Challenge 2 - Longest flight time - Winners Junior School - Hayden Czesny, 4.04sec Middle School - Austin Tolosa, 2.67sec EDEN SCHOOL PRIZE The Eden School Prize is an essay competition open to year 10 students in South Australian government schools. It’s funded by the 1956 John Joseph Eden bequest and embraces the notion of making the world a better and happier

place. The 2020 topic is: "How can technology make the world a better and happier place to live?"

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Congratulations to Caleb Van Zyl, Jacinta Bennetts and Lilly Seydler for being selected as MCAS's entrants and representing our school. Essay Written by Caleb Van Zyl (Year 10)

“The application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life… to change and manipulate the human environment (2020)”

This is the definition of technology as given by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Let that sink in. If we truly ask ourselves, “what will make the world a better and happier place”, the answer will not be flying cars or artificial intelligence. When we empower and uplift the poor through technology, we ensure a better and happier world for us all. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MG Foundation) and The Clinton Foundation are two charitable foundations that focus on technology to achieve these aims. The B&MG Foundation believe that all lives have an equal value (2020). This is a simple, yet fundamental statement. Technology has the power to eradicate barriers and connect the world as a global civilization, but without technology some will get left behind. We, who are privileged, will be the ones who have let them down and left them behind. However, with the proper guidance, we can lift them up, open the door and invite them in, into a better-connected society. Growing up, I never understood the reason why people did missionary work in faraway places such as India or Africa when I had problems right here in my own life. In those days, all I worried about was what happened right then and there. As I get older, I realise more and more the impact of remarkable organisations such as the Gates Foundation on speeding up development in underdeveloped countries. As James Whitmore’s Character in Shawshank Redemption suggested, “The world has gone and gotten itself in a big damn hurry”. At the rate we are going; the gap between us and developing countries will grow ever wider, leaving many behind. To reduce this gap, improvements in technology and its application are needed. Many developing countries struggle to access affordable resources to get themselves out of the poverty loop. Organisations such as the B&MG Foundation and The Clinton Foundation can lessen the divide created by the money hungry Western society through improving the quality and affordability of current technologies in developing countries. They can bridge the gap. This includes research into the availability of vaccines, improvements in monitoring of these communities and the spreading of awareness of the technology. A great example of this is the B&MG Foundation’s focus on malaria research. If technology can spur development of vaccines and treatments for infectious diseases that affect poorer communities, we can lower their economic burden and make a step in the right direction. Although it has been eradicated in Western countries, malaria is still prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This disease is preventable. The problem is that the methods of reliably diagnosing and treating malaria are not widely available. For this reason, the B&MG Foundation are funding research for finding more efficient methods to both produce and apply medical technologies especially in

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developing countries. Furthermore, the B&MG Foundation intend to eradicate this treatable disease with the least lives lost. To achieve this, they are improving the existing methods of delivering interventions, improving their data systems to optimise their usage of interventions, and working to support the leadership of countries affected by malaria (The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, 2020). The Clinton Foundation’s aims are similar to the B&MG Foundation’s – to improve lives worldwide (2020). One of their focuses is improving economic growth in Africa. By using technology to empower farmers and helping them secure their own food, they can help the farmers support themselves and their families and eventually the local economy. The change comes from within. To do this they teach the farmers, applying scientific knowledge of soil fertility, mulching, and spacing of crops to better the human environment (The Clinton Foundation, 2020). This usage of technology as a learning tool is one of the most efficient methods of enhancing the success and happiness of others. As they say, “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. Whose needs are more important? The one who has all they want, or the one who has nothing? How we use or misuse the power of technology will define our generation. We could be the ignorant generation who focused on their own problems or we could be the generation seen as the ones who laid the foundations of equality. The aim of technology is to make life better and happier; how can we act like technology is changing the world when it is only changing our world? As Simon Sinek wrote, “Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return (Sinek, 2015)”. We need generosity of time and resources as shown by the B&MG Foundation and the Clinton Foundations to make the world better and happier for all. Essay Written by Jacinta Bennetts (Year 12)

How does technology make the world a better and happier place? As every day goes by the advancement of technology is expeditiously developing and whether it’s making society a better and happier place is a relevant concern. Writer, Joseph Krutch once said “Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable”; however, technology is also the answer to fix world problems. People wonder about how society has been the main cause to world problems. Which technically yes, it’s true but problems like climate change must be fixed by more technologies with less usage of fossil fuels and more electric vehicles. Large factories, vehicles, even cows are major factors towards rising obstacles society has to face to help reduce pollution. There are plenty of technologies needed to be put in place to slow down climate change, but several salient ones are electric/flying cars, solar technology, and lab grown meats. These are technologies that developed nations need to embrace to save the suffering that developing nations are going through because of climate change. Many children have been affected by this problem and had protests to get the Governments attention on this issue. Greta Thunberg a 16-year-old, climate activist once said “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing”.

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There are developing countries and ecosystems that are being damaged due to injustice actions that the Government has towards this issue. Developing places as such are Lagos, Haiti, Yemen, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, and Kiribati. This shows how climate change has affected the world and with the development of lab-grown meats coming soon, solar technology, and hopefully flying electric cars in the near future we can help save this planet before it’s too late. Electric cars are a developed technology open to the public, but what if there were electric flying car? Electric cars like Tesla have good impacts towards the environment regarding the damages of pollution to the atmosphere. Non-electric cars either run on diesel or petrol which is made from fossil fuels that are the primary contributors to climate change (Vaughan, 2020). All vehicles produce life cycle emissions, but electric cars produce less than others. Publicly available data from companies show flying electric cars would have 35% lower greenhouse gases than traditional cars. Another benefit of flying cars are fewer roads and new infrastructure would be needed for the future development of the population (Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, n.d.). However, electric cars only reduce emissions if the source of electricity used to charge them is sustainable. For that solar technology can be used to power everyday things like electric cars and household utilities. The benefits solar energy has is it can reduce the emissions of CO2 by decreasing the demand for fossil fuels. Which will initially minimise greenhouse gases and cut our carbon footprint (Australian Government- Australian Renewable Energy Agency , 2020). Solar technology would be used most efficiently on cars as they’re one of the main problems to air pollution. If solar powered electric cars were made for the public, it can reduce emissions society is releasing to improve our planet. Every single time cars are driven we’re contributing to the harmful gases that cause climate change and global warming. If society can’t reduce this problem, there won’t be much of a future for anyone (Matasci, 2019). However, ultimately, it’s not just CO2 emissions that are contributing to climate change: methane is also a major concern. Cultured meat is another way to reduce the amount of methane being produced by livestock. Like both of the technologies stated above research shows laboratory grown meats are more eco-friendly than regular meat as it reduces the energy use by 45%, the use of land by 99% and produce up to 96% fewer greenhouse gases (Newburger, 2019). As it’s not real meat no animals will be treated unethically or harmed, and significantly decreases the amount of water usage. Half a kilo of regular meat uses 9000 L of water, whereas cultured meat only uses 94 L. Livestock that’s raised for meat consumption produce approximately 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Cassiday, 2018). Fundamentally, all of these technologies need to be put into action if society wants to become a better and happier place. The unfairness towards developing countries and ecosystems is outstanding. That comes from Governments priority being focused on developed countries instead of helping developing countries. Society made the problem, so it’s on everyone to fix the problem. Fixing those problems start with Electric Cars, Solar Technology, and Cultured Meat. They reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon footprint and fossil fuels which are used to benefit climate change and global warming from increasing. These technologies share benefits, to make the world a better, happier, and healthier place for society’s future.

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RELIEF CLEANER NEEDED Please send email to Jenny Verbena if you are interested in providing relief cleaning for Menzies. Email your details and resume to : jennyverbena@menziesgroup.com.au PARENTS & FRIENDS - BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE Parents and Friends will be holding a sausage sizzle at Bunnings, Victor Harbor on Saturday 19 September 2020 If you can help us by volunteering for a shift on the day please sign up at the link below https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805044FAEAF22A2FF2-bunnings1

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