The Week Ahead - Term 1, Week 2
Monday 3 February to Friday 8 February 2020
From the Head of College
Summer is really with us when the temperatures are high and the Australian Open tennis finals are looming. It is also a time to remember some of the safety fundamentals that include the wearing of a hat and sunscreen, drinking water and covering up where practical. I have been reflecting about our founding students who began their schooling at this time of the year some 74 years ago. We have celebrated the opening of the 2020 school year, and on 12 February we will recognise Founders' Day at Stephen Street Campus. Why am I mentioning this? Next year will be our 75th Anniversary and it is our intention to invite all past students, parents and staff to celebrate this important event with us. You will receive information in the coming months, and I would ask that you put the second week of February 2021 into your diary as a date claimer.
From the College Pastor
Community News
Inter-House Swimming Carnival
Bus Routes
In 2020, we are operating a daily bus service to and from Highfields area, and to and from Hodgson Vale, Mt Rascal and Preston area.
These routes change annually to accommodate the needs of the students registered, so should you wish to avail yourself to this transport and reside in the general area that is currently serviced, please contact the Business Office to discuss requirements that could suit your family.
If you are currently living in an area that is not serviced by College buses, and would like to place an expression of interest to establish a new bus route, please contact us as well.
Mrs Marg Medill
Assistant Business Manager
Getting the most out of Parent Lounge
We are continuing to investigate ways to utilise Parent Lounge for effective communication between parents and the College. We have uploaded some short tutorial videos that have been created by TASS (Parent Lounge developer) to assist parents with becoming familiar with Parent Lounge. These videos can be found under School Links > Tutorial Videos – Parents.
We will continue to add new videos as they become available. The following tutorial videos are currently available:
- Booking Parent Teacher Interviews
- Parent Directory
- Paying for Tours and Excursions
- Updating Address Information
- Updating Student Medical Details
Media Consent, Intercampus Travel & ICT Policy
It is important that the College maintains accurate records of parents’ consent regarding media, intercampus travel and ICT (information communication technology). Existing families are reminded that consent from previous years carries over each year until graduation. If you would like to update your records, please complete the updated form.
Parents of new students who have not completed the consent form are asked to do by Friday 7 February.
Mrs Bianca Coleborn
Director of Marketing & Enrolments
Project Based Learning at Concordia
Junior College
A Note from the Junior College Library Assistant
Welcome to all our new families and welcome back to our continuing families. The first issue of Book Club is coming home over the next few days. The Junior College campuses will be continuing with LOOP (Linked Ordering and Online Payment). To order, here’s what you need to know:
LOOP enables parents to order and pay for their child’s book club order online.
LOOP does NOT apply to those parents wishing to pay for their order with cash or cheque – those orders will continue as before with the form being submitted to either Mrs Lynch or Mrs Paynter.
Outside School Hours Care
Stephen Street Campus
From the Director of Campus
On Stephen Street Campus, we started our term with our Senior Tie Presentation and Leadership Service. It is appropriate that at the start of the year we recognise and honour our senior students and student leaders.
As we launched the year, I drew our students' attention to some of the amazing examples of human endeavour that we have witnessed over the Christmas break. Countless fire and emergency service personnel, countless volunteers and neighbours helping neighbours; our most recent Australian of the Year, Dr James Meuke; Young Australian of the Year, Ash Barty and our scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute who have made a world-leading breakthrough in the global efforts to find a vaccine for Coronavirus.
In all these examples we find extraordinarily normal people doing extraordinary things for others while seldom seeking the attention they rightly deserve. So with these thoughts in mind, we push off into the year of learning and endeavour with the hope that we to may collectively achieve extraordinary things as a community.
Parent Information Session
Peer Support Program
Over the next semester students will be involved in the Peer Support Program. We have chosen the unit ‘Behaving with Integrity’ to focus on. Each week groups of 10 students will meet with two Peer Leaders and work through a range of activities that focus on values. It is hoped that through these sessions, each student will clarify their personal values, respect themselves and others, recognise the importance of integrity and discuss ways of serving their school community.
Representative Sport 2020 Dates
Throughout the year, Toowoomba Secondary School Sport and Darling Downs School Sport run trials in a variety of sports to choose representative teams. In some cases, students are required to participate in a Toowoomba Trial to be eligible for a Darling Downs Trial. These teams will then travel away to Regional and State Championships.
For a student to be eligible for nomination he/she must meet the following criteria:
- Have had a reasonable amount of experience in his/her chosen sport.
- Have a high level of skill in their chosen sport.
Peak 2 Park
The Peak2Park is great community event which encourages all to be active within our community. Two courses are available - 4km or 10km and are open to walkers, recreational runners and serious athletes. For more information, click here.
If you are interested in participating, click here for the entry form. Don't forget to include Concordia Lutheran College as your school group.
Boarding
Weekly Update
Hello and welcome to our first Boarding segment in The Week Ahead for 2020. We hope that the adults, as well as the students, enjoyed a great holiday! We are happy to say that the boarding staff enjoyed the break – and of course we feel refreshed to be our best in 2020.
Believe it or not, most of the Boarding staff were waiting with bubbling excitement to see the boarders return to Concordia this week. This included our wonderful new addition to the Boarding team, our new Girls Houseparent, Ms Tosca Grainger-Dee.
