Dear Tour Students,

Just a few reminders:

1. We have a lunchtime Sausage Sizzle fundraiser at the St. Stephen’s School Duncraig Primary on Wednesday, 25th of October. Tour Student help is needed to help run this fundraiser, so I will set up a ‘sign-up’ sheet outside my office if you would like to volunteer some time between 11:00am and 2pm on the day. We only need about 10 helpers, so it will be first-in-best-dressed in terms of signing up. Those who volunteer… please keep in mind that it is YOUR responsibility to notify your teachers a couple days in advance that you will be involved in Service Learning on this day. Don’t wait until the day to notify them.
2. We will have our fortnightly lunchtime meeting next TUESDAY, the 24th of October (due to the Primary Sausage Sizzle fundraiser on the Wednesday). Please set yourself a reminder, as attendance is compulsory.
3. After next week’s fundraiser, I will update the fundraising thermometer in the column to the right to reflect both the Drum-For-A-Cause and Primary Sausage Sizzle . –>
4. Keep up your fundraising efforts! There are lots of opportunities…you just have to look for them.

-Mr. C. Osborne

Well done to everyone for being proactive and helping out at the Drumming night tonight. You really came together as a team tonight. Your initiative and willingness to get involved was amazing. Thank you!

Thank you to all the parents and everyone who purchased tickets. Your contributions will go toward our service initiates and greatly benefit children in South Africa.

Well done again on a fantastic effort!

-Mr. C. Osborne

Tour Students,

Thank you to those students who have already handed me the money you fundraised via your Drum-for-a-cause ticket sales! Please remember to drop your ticket money off to me before the end of term if possible, so I can pay the Akwaaba drummers and organise the sausages/rolls, sauces, etc. before next term starts.

Remember that you can earn $10 from every ticket sold and count it towards your personal fundraising totals. If you are having difficulty selling to family and at your organisations, you can try selling to neighbours, members of your church or friends at school. For those of you who would like more tickets to sell, please eMail Miss Erasmus (Gillian.Erasmus@ststephens.wa.edu.au).

Just for advanced notice, on the night of the drumming event (12th October), we ask that each tour student bring a salad (and possibly salad tongs) to share on the evening. We will talk more about that at our next lunchtime meeting (Wednesday, 20th September).

-Mr. C. Osborne

Tour Students and Parents,

Some of you have asked for sponsorship letters to assist you with a sausage sizzle. There are 3 downloadable letters below that might help you with this. There is a letter to request a sausage sizzle day/time and 2 letters requesting support in the form of sausages and rolls for your sausage sizzle. They are in Word format, so you can edit them if you wish.

Sausage Sizzle Request

Sausage Support Letter

Sausage Roll Support Letter

If you need any additional letters of support, please let the tour staff know. Good luck!

-Mr. C. Osborne

Parents and Students,

Just a reminder of the Parent/Student meeting next Tuesday, the 29th of August at 6:45pm. We will meet in the Glenda Parkin Learning Centre (the Year 7 Building). Students and parents are required to attend.

I would suggest bringing a pen/paper to write down any thoughts, questions, or notes you might like to take. Questions are encouraged, and we will always do the best we can to answer them.

Agenda items include:

1. Update on Tour itinerary
2. Birth Certificate and Passport requirements
3. Travel Insurance
4. Vaccinations
5. Update on Service Initiatives
6. Donations
7. Fundraising
   • Drumming-For-a-Cause Fundraiser (12th October)
   • Primary Sausage Sizzle (25th October)
   • Personal Fundraising

See you Tuesday!

-Mr. C. Osborne

Tour Students and Parents,

This is a reminder that this Thursday (17th August) is the student introductory meeting/dinner and 1st cultural immersion activity at Panarottis Restaurant in Currumbine. All details are on the blog post from the 30th of July.

Nicole Meagher (Lachlan’s Mother) has suggested that if any other parents are available and would like to join her for dinner at Spur (downstairs from Panarottis) while the students and staff meet upstairs to please contact her via eMail at nicolem@c3hh.com.au for booking purposes.

See you there!

-Mr. C. Osborne

Goeienaand! (Good evening!)

There will be a South Africa Tour meeting on Tuesday, the 29th of August, at 6:45pm. We will meet in the Glenda Parkin Learning Centre (the Year 7 Building). Students and parents should attend. See you there!

Agenda items include:

1. Update on Tour itinerary
2. Birth Certificate and Passport requirements
3. Vaccinations
4. Fundraising
5. Donations
6. Drumming Event
7. Update on Service Initiatives

-Mr. C. Osborne

Howzit South African Service Learning Team!

Our first team meeting is just around the corner. We are excited to kick off our tour by meeting together for dinner and some other activities. Attendance is mandatory and you should come ready to get to know the other tour group members a bit better and learn a bit about South Africa’s amazing culture.

Here are the details:

ACTIVITY:   Dinner and Linquistic Training for Tour Students

LOCATION: Panarottis Currambine (Opposite the Currambine Grand Cinemas)

ADDRESS:   Currambine Central, 1244 Marmion Avenue, Currambine

DATE:         17th August

TIME:          6:30 to 8:00pm. Please arrive on time or a few minutes early.

MENU:         Download the Panarotti’s Menu

PAYMENT:   The venue does split-billing so you can pay for your meal separately with cash or card.

DETAILS FOR STUDENTS: Tour students, join us for dinner and engage in some Afrikaans linguistics training. In order to be prepared for this, we ask that you look up some of the Afrikaans greetings and responses from the website below. You do not have to know them all, but you are expected to learn a few basic greetings and responses for this tour. There is also a second link below that allows you to hear how the phrases are pronounced. Explore!

Afrikaans Greetings and Responses

Pronunciation of Afrikaans Greetings and Responses

DETAILS FOR PARENTS: Parents, could you please drop off and pick up your child as close to the allocated time as possible, as we will not be able to transport students afterward. If someone other than yourselves are picking up your child, please let us know in advance.

Upon arrival, one of the Tour Staff will be waiting to meet your child at the bottom of the steps leading into the restaurant.

Until then, “Totsiens! Lekker dag!”

-Miss G. Erasmus

Tour Students,

Now that we are at the start of a new term, it’s time to get things rolling! Our first Cultural Immersion Activity for tour students will be on the evening of Thursday, the 17th of August. More details about where, what time, and what this activity involves will be posted on the blog in the next few days by Miss Erasmus or myself. For now, save this date because your attendance is mandatory. 🙂

-Mr. Osborne