Dec2011_SAMFORD VALLEY STEINER SCHOOL
Music, pollution and peace – busy times at Samford Valley Steiner School
Molly Davies, a Samford Valley Steiner School Class 8 student, was recently a winner in the Australian Children’s Music Foundation’s 2011 Songwriting Competition.
Molly Davies, a Samford Valley Steiner School Class 8 student, was recently a winner in the Australian Children’s Music Foundation’s 2011 Songwriting Competition.
PHOTO: Molly Davies, Year 8 student, wins songwriting competition Click to view: <a href="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y295/dayborograpevine/2011%20EDITIONS%20PHOTOS/DECEMBER%202011%20EDITION/p44_SteiverMollyDavies90x67_200dpi_clr.jpg"
The competition, in its ninth year, is a free annual competition open to all primary and secondary schools in Australia – reaching more than 11,000 schools. The thousands of entries were judged by a diverse panel of industry professionals, including Channel V presenter Jane Gazzo. The ACMF awarded Molly a Highly Commended for her original composition titled Peek Hour in Japan, in the Best Instrument, Contemporary 7-12 category. Congratulations Molly!
Female students from Classes 7 and 8, and some of their mums, recently attended the 10,000 Teens Queensland launch at Stuartholme College. Ten thousand teens is part of the 1 Million Women initiative, a campaign of daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers. Their aim is to inspire women and teens to get involved in protecting our climate, communities and future. The students listened to 1 Million Women ambassadors, teens and women, who were passionate about the impact of climate change. They explained that a single person’s actions can make a difference. The practical challenge set before the audience, and those who sign up to 10,000 Teens and 1 Million Women, is to each cut one tonne of CO2 from their daily life in a single year. Further information is available from www.1millionwomen.com.au.
In September, students from Class 2 joined up with their ‘class buddies’ from Class 8 and participated in the Origami Peace Doves Project. The project, organised by the International Day of Peace Alliance Inc, involves Queensland students making origami cranes and doves which are sent to children in zones of conflict, violence or trauma around the world. The purpose of the project is simple – a tiny symbolic gesture of peace and goodwill from children in ‘safe’ communities to those whose lives are not so safe and secure. The students recently received a letter of thanks and photos from an orphanage in Bali, where the doves were sent.
“I think it’s so important to plant seeds for positive change and global awareness at a young age, so that empathy becomes a natural part of life,” says Class 2 teacher Jill Casavecchia. “This project represents a tiny, age-appropriate, glimpse into the existence of global conflict and seeing photos of their doves in the hands of faraway children made the experience that much more real.”
Samford Valley Steiner School is in Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, 5 minutes drive from Samford Village. For further information visit www.samfordsteiner.qld.edu.au
Female students from Classes 7 and 8, and some of their mums, recently attended the 10,000 Teens Queensland launch at Stuartholme College. Ten thousand teens is part of the 1 Million Women initiative, a campaign of daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers. Their aim is to inspire women and teens to get involved in protecting our climate, communities and future. The students listened to 1 Million Women ambassadors, teens and women, who were passionate about the impact of climate change. They explained that a single person’s actions can make a difference. The practical challenge set before the audience, and those who sign up to 10,000 Teens and 1 Million Women, is to each cut one tonne of CO2 from their daily life in a single year. Further information is available from www.1millionwomen.com.au.
In September, students from Class 2 joined up with their ‘class buddies’ from Class 8 and participated in the Origami Peace Doves Project. The project, organised by the International Day of Peace Alliance Inc, involves Queensland students making origami cranes and doves which are sent to children in zones of conflict, violence or trauma around the world. The purpose of the project is simple – a tiny symbolic gesture of peace and goodwill from children in ‘safe’ communities to those whose lives are not so safe and secure. The students recently received a letter of thanks and photos from an orphanage in Bali, where the doves were sent.
“I think it’s so important to plant seeds for positive change and global awareness at a young age, so that empathy becomes a natural part of life,” says Class 2 teacher Jill Casavecchia. “This project represents a tiny, age-appropriate, glimpse into the existence of global conflict and seeing photos of their doves in the hands of faraway children made the experience that much more real.”
Samford Valley Steiner School is in Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, 5 minutes drive from Samford Village. For further information visit www.samfordsteiner.qld.edu.au
