Phoenix News – Issue 12

*Due to the current pandemic, please continually check the online newsletter and COMPASS for important information and sudden changes in the College’s timetable.

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2022 – Term Dates

On Tuesday 23^rd November, the Hub was alive with the sound of music! It was fantastic to see our instrumental music students and teachers with a LIVE audience once again.

Well done everyone!

Unfortunately, due to the year we have had with Covid and its restrictions, we will be unable to hold our annual ‘Art Exhibition’ this year.

The ‘Art Exhibition’ is a great time to showcase all of our budding Artists’ works for the year and for our families to celebrate the works of art with their children.

However, there will be a full photo display and a virtual tour of the art works appearing on COMPASS in the coming weeks. The students are excited about bringing their art works home during Week 10 and I am sure would love to see them displayed in your homes.

Here are a few photos of our Grade 1 ‘Under the Sea’ paintings and our Grade 2 students working on their ‘Fantasy Dragon’ paintings this week in Art!

Last week Phoenix Young Writers met up for the first time this year and will continue to do so once a week, for the remainder of term. The extension program aims to improve student’s ability to write creatively in an enjoyable environment?.

During the session, students work with other students across grades p-6, to complete short writing activities. Below is an open-ended task that required students to use quotation marks in a comic.

Well done to our amazingly dramatic Year 10 Drama class for their performance of “The Bacchae” written by Euripides.

Our Year 10 Drama students have been studying Ancient Greek Theatre and its conventions; unison in speech and movement and the use of mask. The dramatic elements that are focus in this assessment piece are conflict, mood, sound and space. They had been commissioned as a theatre company to edit a script and plan, rehearse and present including creating stagecraft (props, costume, direction as well as sound and lighting) appropriate for the performance of their choice within the Ancient Greek Playwrights.

It was so fantastic to have a live drama performance for students and staff alike to watch; what an incredible effort!

We are delighted to share with you that individuals from Phoenix P-12 Community College have been nominated for the 2021 City of Ballarat Youth Awards.

We encourage you and your community to join us in celebrating the achievements, stories of compassion and leadership demonstrated by extraordinary young people in our community.

The Virtual Event will be live-streamed tonight (Friday 26^th November), at 7pm on Ballarat Youth Services Facebook Page and YouTube Channel.

Check out the link here to see the 2021 City of Ballarat Youth Awards nominees.

Scholarships of $1,000 to $2,000 for Indigenous students studying Year 10, 11 or 12 in 2022 are available through the Department of Transport.

Download and fill out the Application Form.

If you need assistance please contact Ms Ana Todd, Ms Angela Quinn, Miss Kiya Eberle or the Sebastopol Campus General Office.

Rheannon Owen – Class of 2012

Care Worker and Business Owner

After graduating, I went to Federation University to study Health and Nutrition Science. Whilst studying, I completed some volunteer work in health promotion and in 2015 I worked as a Health Promotion Officer. My role commenced in the healthy eating and active living space before moving more into youth mental wellbeing which is where I found my passion. I spent three years coordinating a Youth Mental Wellbeing/Hospitality program before deciding I needed to work more in this field. In 2018, I took some time off work to do something different and follow another one of my passions involving animals. This led to me completing a course in Dog Grooming where I was inspired to open my own Dog Grooming Business from home (Rhe’s Dog Grooming). I completed my post-graduate certificate in Mental Health during COVID lockdown and then finished up in my Health Promotion role in 2020 to pursue further study in the space of youth work/education.

I am currently studying a Bachelor of Prep-Year 12 Education with Victoria University, working casually as a Youth Residential Care Worker, and running my Dog Grooming Business (crazy at times but I wouldn’t have it any other way!). My advice: Be brave! Pay attention to what you are naturally drawn to and have the courage to follow these paths. Don’t settle for less – sometimes it takes a lot of perseverance and hard work to get to where you want.

Don’t feel that once you study something or work somewhere it has to be the thing you do for the rest of your life. Everyone has a different journey and we are forever changing and growing – you will find your purpose and your passion eventually, it all takes time. I am certainly on the path to finding mine!

Do you know any Alumni that are kicking goals in the real world?

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