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FROM THE PRINCIPAL
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Dear SCBC Community, I want to commence this email with heartfelt prayer for our east coast Australian families who have been affected by floods. Similarly, we pray for family members in Ukraine that they will be able to endure and triumph over their life-threatening circumstances. We pray for God’s peace and presence for all involved. Given this current season …
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COVID UPDATES
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Please visit our website for the latest COVID updates for our College Community. COVID Updates We also encourage our parents and guardians to please email studentservices@scbc.wa.edu.au for any COVID related enquiries. We’ve been advised the WA Government now require schools to request COVID-related information from affected families. It’s a School Regulation compliance task, supporting the Department of Health. This forms …
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PARKING PLANNING
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Dear SCBC Community, We wanted to take this opportunity to share with you our plans around parking solutions for the College. We are very appreciative of the support from our community and the continued willingness to try and make things work. As you are no doubt aware the College has grown considerably, with our biggest year being 2021. This has …
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YEAR 12 PRIVILEGES
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Welcome to Year 12 and a personal welcome from me, Mikael Leo. It’s fantastic to see our Year 12 students with for their final year in 2022. It seems like just yesterday we saw many of these students join us in Year 7, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and now they are young adults ready to make their own way in the …
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YEAR 11 START OF YOUNG ADULTHOOD
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Hi Everyone, my name is Alistair Cochrane, the Head of Year 11. I could not be prouder of the way in which our Year 11s have started 2022. In so many ways, the transition into Year 11 is a significant step towards young adulthood, as I am sure your child has noticed. It probably seems like, almost overnight, they are …
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YEAR 10 IS UNIQUE
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“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 NKJV Year 10 is a unique and pivotal year for our students as they start to work towards what path to take heading into senior school and explore potential career opportunities. As such, we are intentional about developing social and emotional intelligence, positive behaviours, and resilience to help navigate …
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YEAR 9'S TREMENDOUS START
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Our Year 9 cohort have made a tremendous start to 2022, settling in well to their brand-new Houses and Form classes. Go Kwilana! The Year 9 Forms all meet in J Block classrooms, so this has become the new hub of activity for the cohort. J Block is also a place in the College for the Year 9s to take …
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YEAR 8'S TRANSITION WELL
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Hello and welcome to Year 8. My name is Oliver Oeij and I am the Head of Year for Year 8 students. Our aim in Year 8 is to solidify our students’ transition into the life of the Secondary School; academically, socially, and spiritually to build upon their foundation from Year 7. We want to ensure that our Year 8s …
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YEAR 7'S AMAZING START
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What an amazing start our Year 7s have made to their first year of High School. As we have watched them, helped them, and mingled with them; I have seen this Bible verse in action: ‘I have chosen to be faithful; I have determined to live by your regulations.’ (Psalm 119:30 NLT, Biblegateway.com) The goal for our Year 7s is …
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YEAR 12 INTEGRATED SCIENCE
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On Thursday, 17th of February, our Year 12 Integrated Science students undertook a field trip to specific locations in Rockingham to complete abiotic testing of water environments. The places visited are the local ecosystems including Lake Richmond, Rockingham Environmental Centre, and Palm Beach Rotary Reserve. Dr Karareba and Mrs Barnabas ensured supervised students during the excursion and ensured learning takes …
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YEAR 7 SETTLES IN
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“Hi Everyone, it’s Grace; Student Council for Year 7 here (go Turtles!). Year 7 has been amazing, but it can be overwhelming. It took me 4 whole weeks to get used to everything. I’m glad that our Teachers have been very understanding and very helpful in getting us to our classes and telling us what to do. Sadly, camp has …
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CELEBRATING OUT OF SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT
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One of our Year 11 students, Luke Newman, has recently won the Shire of Jarahdale's Youth Citizen Award for all his work he is doing as a volunteer firefighter and SES member. He started at the fire brigade as a cadet in February 2021 and continued with them until September 2021. When he turned 16 he became an operational firefighter. …
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YEAR 9 OUTDOOR ED CAMP
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Early in Term 4, 2021, our Year 9 ODE students participated in their final ODE camp for the year. They spent 2 days and 2 nights in Dwellingup exploring nature through canoeing, mountain biking and learning about the local aboriginal culture. Students also refined their leadership skills, camp cooking skills and interpersonal skills. Although it was cold and wet most …
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PRIMARY HOUSE SWIMMING CARNIVAL
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Please find our upcoming Primary House Swimming Carnival information on our website: Primary House Swimming Carnival Program 2022Primary Year 4 to 6 House Swimming Carnival Records We look forward to an exciting day. Wonder which House will take the shield home this year?
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COMMUNITY FOOTBALL
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The Community Football Program (CFP) has returned with a bang in 2022 and is more popular than ever with nearly 100 young enthusiastic footballers taking part in engaging fun football activities each week. Participants in the Year 2 to 6 program get the opportunity to showcase their playing talents in fun and challenging games for individuals, groups, and teams, exploring …
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CHILDREN'S CROSSING UNIT
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Good morning, Happy New Year too all. It is hard to believe that 2022 is upon us already and I’m sure you are aware we are about to face yet another challenging year in many aspects. One huge issue is going to be a lack of Traffic Wardens to operate our crossings, due to many retiring at the end of …
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CHILDCARE PIKANINI 2
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In the Pikanini 2 room Miss Joy, our room leader, has created an inviting and welcoming environment for the children to learn and interact with their peers and educators. We have welcomed new families and the transitions have all gone very well. Children are settled into their new environment and enjoying everyday activities. We have a great team of educators …
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CHILDCARE PIKANNI 1
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We have been making our own playdough. We gather all the ingredients together, put them in a big mixing bowl and give them all a big stir! The children have been a great help at mixing all the ingredients together. Every time we make playdough, we give children a choice to which colour they would like. The children’s fine motor …
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CHILDCARE MINASAN
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Our Vacation Care program was an enriching and exciting experience for both the students and educators. Before the Christmas break, the children got to experience the joy of decorating the classroom, baking amazing Christmas treats and making presents for their loved ones. Going into the New Year, we enjoyed a mix of stimulating physical activities and excursions such as our …
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CHILDCARE KOORLONGKA
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This term we have been focused on getting to know our beautiful new children. We are finding out what they are interested in, the toys and activities they like playing with, who their friends are and where they are at on their learning journey. We have talked about our houses and what is important to us inside them. We have …
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CHILDCARE KODOMO
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Every morning we have our daily forum and Bible devotion time with the children. We have been listening to the story of Daniel and the Lion’s den. How Daniel listened to God and did everything right so that those who tried to catch him doing wrong had nothing to hold against him, and also learning that he prayed three times …
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CHILDCARE BABIES
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Our Bambini room is filled with little babies that brings us so much joy! This year has been super busy for us already. After transitioning a large amount of the children to Pikanini 1, we started doing settling visits with new families. The children and their families are settling in so well despite the challenges we all have been faced …
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CHILDCARE - ATELIER STUDIO
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We started our year working outside in the old chicken coop, which has been converted to an outdoor studio space. Here the kids can make all kinds of colourful mess with a little more abandon than they could indoors. We do a lot of mixing, painting and water play. We painted and washed a car and made some large scale …
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WELCOME FROM SCBC CHILDCARE CENTRE
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Welcome to Early Learning- Childcare Our College theme 2022 is ‘Caring Clarity’ and it could not have come in a timelier manner, where major disruptions are continually occurring throughout our community due to COVID-19. Children are curious, capable, resourceful, and resilient and they have demonstrated this to us throughout the change of our practices with handover at the front door …
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