Early in Term 4, Stage 1 of the Middle/Senior School Resource Centre refurbishment was completed.

Stage 1 included the installation of new aluminium framed glass walls to the classrooms which served to open up the classrooms and Resource Centre to more natural light and new improved access to the central Resource Centre space via new glass sliding doors to each classroom. Two new learning spaces were also created providing options for small group learning and collaborative discussion.

Following the completion of Stage 1, work will soon commence on the Stage 2 fit-out of the Resource Centre.

Unity College acknowledges the generous support of the State Government in assisting to fund Stage 1 of the Resource Centre refurbishment.

2024 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE REMINDER

The Financial Information booklet including school fees for 2024 is now available. If you wish to apply for financial assistance in 2024, please contact the Finance Department via email to obtain the necessary forms. Applications for Financial Assistance must be returned to the College by Thursday 7 December 2023 to ensure that they are assessed in time for fee billing in January 2024. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Unity College Finance Team.

2024 FINANCIAL INFORMATION BOOKLET >>

In 2024, Unity College is lucky to join many schools in becoming part of the Kobe Japan Australia Society’s Assistant Language Teacher program.

The program pairs Australian schools with volunteer assistant language teachers from Japan.

Next year, we will be hosting Chisato Yano. As part of her volunteering Chisato is expected to participate in Homestays with Unity families.

If your student is interested in Japanese, or you think this may be a positive experience for your family. Please contact Graeme Watkins via gwatkins@unitycollege.sa.edu.au

Minimum stay arrangements are around 7-10 days to 2 months. Chisato, comes to us from Osaka where she was working as a nurse, she has a bright and bubbly personality, and speaks conversational English.

Profile – Chisato Yano

• Role at Unity: Assistant Japanese language teacher starting in 2024.
• Describe yourself in three words: cheerful, cautious, and organised.
• What do you love about working in schools? I am excited for everything! I don’t want to miss a thing!
• What are you most excited about for next year? New experiences!  Meeting  people, eating something I have never eaten, and seeing a new world!
• What motivates you? My family is my strongest motivation.
• What do you do for fun? I really enjoy shopping and traveling.
• If you could have one superpower what would it be? Teleportation, so I can travel anywhere in the world.
• Something you may not know about me is: I am really flexible. I can do the splits!

The Unity College Breakfast Club will be running again in Term 4. Please note the following changes:

• Middle/Senior School will run Monday – Friday from 8.25am providing a range of breakfast foods including cereal, toasted sandwiches and hot chocolate.
• Junior School will provide breakfast for students who have not eaten prior to arriving at school from the JS Front Office, Monday – Friday.  Food options will differ from week to week.

Thank you for supporting this initiative as we support our students.

Would you like some Point of Lay Chickens?

The Unity College Agriculture Department has 6x Point of Lay Chickens for sale, available late Term 4.

They will be ready for collection as near ‘Point of Lay’ in Week 8, Term 4 (beginning of Dec at about 15 weeks old)

Chickens will be $30 each including GST.
** Please note there has been an increase in price due to both chick and feed costs.

Please make contact with Debbie Zimmermann dzimmermann@unitycollege.sa.edu.au if you are interested.

Please see the attached information for details on Tertiary Scholarships offered to 2023 Year 12 students by local organisations.

Please contact the organisation direct with any questions.

 

2024 Soroptimist International Murray Bridge Tertiary Scholarship

Applications close Monday 4 December 2023
2024 Soroptimist Scholarship Information

 

2024 Murray Bridge Combined Masonic Lodges Scheme

Applications close Friday 20 October 2023
2024 MB Combined Masonic Lodges Scholarship Application Information

 

Become a Software Developer – WiseTech Global

A unique tech career and scholarship opportunity for your talented Year 12 students:

WiseTech Global, Australia’s top ASX50 tech company, is offering:

• Permanent, paid employment as a software developer at our head office in Sydney
• Enrolment in a UTS Bachelor of Computer Science Degree
• A total comprehensive remuneration and scholarship package valued at ~$300,000 over four-years, including salary, university course payments and share rights* (*Terms available on the WiseTech website)
• Technical education, training and mentoring by the industry’s best
• No prior programming experience necessary

Our current 2023 cohort comprises 28 student developers, and we are offering many more positions in 2024. We invite you to share this email with students.

Year 12 students can APPLY NOW directly via the WiseTech website for the January 2024 intake.

Watch a short video from our current cohort

Who is this opportunity for?

• Smart, curious and motivated Year 12 students who want to pursue a career that will continually challenge them
• Students who want a career that is highly regarded, in demand and financially rewarding
• Gifted students who may not be fully engaged in traditional school learning
• Students with or without prior programming experience are catered for through our differentiated training program

To find out more you can access our Student Guide and Teacher and Parent Guide or our Earn and Learn webpage.

If you have any questions please email –  studentengagement@wisetechglobal.com

Emotional Literacy

Working on our emotional literacy gives us opportunities to develop our ability to understand and express different emotions. When we improve our emotional literacy, we can work towards recognising our own feelings and our ability to manage them. This allows us to cope with different life situations, such as managing conflict, making friends, coping in difficult situations and being resilient when dealing with change.

Whole Family Activity

Feelings Charades

• Gather together as a family, this might be around the dinner table, lounge room, around the fire outside.
• Take turns to act out a feeling or emotion. Use your face and body language to act this out, For example: Make an angry face and stamp your feet or
• Other family members need to guess the feeling/emotion.
• After someone has guessed the feeling/emotion, have family members discuss a time they have felt this way before and why. If it was a negative emotion, how did they overcome it?

Family Habit Builder

Around the dinner table, ask everyone to share a feeling they felt during that day. Discuss how they dealt with that feeling and then discuss and share strategies you could use when faced with particular feelings.

Mindfulness

Working on mindfulness gives us opportunities to develop our ability to pay attention to the present moment and our thoughts. Practising mindfulness daily can help us stay focused on set tasks and reduce stress and anxiety.

Whole Family Activity

Mindful Walk

• As a family, go on a walk outside in nature. This might be around your local walking track, at your local park or just around your streets.
• While walking, tune into your senses and observe what you can see, hear and feel. Or you might choose to focus on one of the senses. Eg: Hear: what are all the noises you can hear on your walk?
• On your way home or when you return home, share what each person saw, heard or felt.

Family Habit Builder

Each night at dinner, ask everyone to take one mouthful of food more mindfully than the rest and think about the flavours they can taste and how it makes them feel. (They can also thank the chef!).

Empathy

Working on empathy helps us to identify, understand and feel what another person is feeling. When we show empathy or we do something kind for someone else our brain releases oxytocin. This leads to increasing our self-esteem/confidence, energy levels, positivity and overall happiness.

Whole Family Activity

Neighbourhood Kindness Challenge

As a family, choose an act of kindness from the list below that you would like to do for a neighbour or family friend. Each family member can select one to commit to, or you can choose to do one together.

• Cook them something delicious like a cake, hotbread, or cookies.
• Write a note to put in their letter box thanking them for being a great neighbour or friend.
• Design them a Thank You card.
• Pick or buy some flowers to deliver to them.
• Choose a little plant from your garden to give them.
• Make them a gift from things around your house.
• Offer to do a job for them, like wash their car or water their garden.
• Offer to take their pets for a walk.
• Invite them over for afternoon tea.
• Invite them on a walk.
• Recommend one of your favourite books to borrow and read.
• Ask them if they need anything from the shops next time you buy groceries.
• Say hello next time you see them, and ask them how their day is going.
• Feel free to do more than one and spread the kindness even further!
• Report back to each other in one week and share how your acts of kindness were received, and how doing them made you feel.

Family Habit Builder

Every night at dinner, have each person thank another family member for something

they’ve done or said today, or give another family member a compliment.

Have you heard about SAASTA and the specialist academy opportunities they provide for Aboriginal learners in Years 10, 11 and 12. Read on for more information or speak to Carlee Stewart or Sharon Gierus for more information.

Closing date for applications for the 2024 Academy is 8^th September 2023.

SAASTA Information

The South Australian Aboriginal Secondary Training Academy (SAASTA) works with schools to provide a unique educational program to support secondary Aboriginal learners.

SAASTA school-based and specialist academies are available to students in years 10, 11 and 12 who are studying the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE).

Find out more here >> 

Specialist Academies

SAASTA specialist academies are delivered 1 day per week during the school term by SAASTA staff in partnership with industry professionals.

There are 4 SAASTA specialist academies for students with a keen interest in pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) or playing sports at the highest level they can.

The 4 specialist academies are:

• SAASTA Aboriginal Basketball Academy
• SAASTA Aboriginal Football Academy (soccer)
• SAASTA Aboriginal Netball Academy
• SAASTA Aboriginal STEM Academy

Find out more here >>