Green Gang is a SAPG that is focused on bringing life to the community through gardening and community engagement. Their current project is “The Outdoor Learning Centre” - made possible by the funding from The Sustainable Schools' Grant -  which features self-watering plant beds, sandstone seats and a centrepiece feature in the middle of the communal area.

The sandstone seats were chipped and designed by the green gang students - and Sam the lovely advisor. Sam uses his charismatic charm and mathematical skills to create organized and beautiful projects to better CHC and the surrounding community. Additionally to renovating areas of CHC, Green Gang is organising to help a community garden, taking out the weeds and replanting beautiful flowers and native flora.

Other plans for the school include planting a tree on the grassy mound, possibly an Evergreen Frangipani. Although this tree is beautiful, there are height and size requirements to meet, so the decision may change in the future. If you have a native tree that might work well, feel free to pass your suggestions on to Sam.

This area will be officially unveiled once it is complete. To CHC students and teachers, I highly recommend checking out the new herbs and flowers growing, and admiring the hard work of our dedicated students.

Report by Luisa (Green Gang)

This week’s focus is Art Talks!

Art Talks is a visual art wellbeing group run in the loft by Margot. Students are encouraged to pursue many different mediums of visual art, to express themselves as much as possible, while also listening to music as a group, and socialising with other artistic peers. 

I was a part of the Art Talks group last year, and while I was there we ran a music game called Connections, we had a group playlist and we would play a song, and then the next person had to queue a song that was in some way related to the last song, the connection can be as simple or complicated as you would like, and the goal for the next person is to figure out the connection before making one of their own. 

“In Art Talks we focus on using art to communicate. We create journal entries in different mediums each week to help improve our artistic practice and encourage us to step outside our comfort zones” - Esmargot Knowles, #4.

If you’re into any and all mediums of visual art and want to be in a small community of artistically minded people, this is the club for you.

Words by Marley

• TAFE Start Your Future courses for Term 2 - deadline is this Thursday. Register your interest with Andy ASAP. 

• Do you identify as female and want to learn about Carpentry/Construction? Sign up for the Tradie Ladies Construction Trade Taster program - Week 11 (Mon-Weds)

• The Housing Industry Association (HIA) currently have 2 positions for candidates to undertake the Certificate III in Business as part of a 12-month traineeship. More information on the LTI canvas page.

Check out the LTI Canvas page for the latest LTI & Outlearning opportunities, or speak to Andy for more information.

Survey Links

Willem Bonger, a criminologist from the late 1800s, subscribed to the ideals of equality preached by Marx. He was a staunch critic of the study of phrenology, a pseudoscience that attempted to link personality with skull shape, which was further used to propose that certain races were scientifically more likely to commit crimes. Phrenology was used to attempt to explain the high rates of crime committed by immigrants. Willem Bonger despised this hypothesis, feeling strongly instead that the higher crime rates amongst immigrants and minorities were due to them being from lower socioeconomic areas, which seems obvious now, but wasn’t as strongly considered at this time. Willem Bonger also proposed that homosexuality should be decriminalised internationally, which was an extremely bold statement in the 1800s. 

With the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s, Willem Bonger was highly opposed to their ideology, expressing extreme disgust for their goals. In 1939, when the Nazis invaded Amsterdam, Willem Bonger, too proud to flee, but too old to join the Dutch resistance, took his life in protest against the Nazis. 

Fun fact about Willem Bonger: his sister, Johanna Van-Gogh Bonger, was the wife of Theo Van Gogh, making her the sister-in-law of Vincent Van Gogh. When Vincent Van Gogh died, Johanna was the person who spread his work afterwards, resulting in his posthumous fame.

Words by Harvey

knave  (nayv)

Knave is quite an archaic word: its roots come from Old English and Old German, where it simply meant boy or servant; but, over time, it came to mean a dishonest, sly and shameless scoundrel, someone who uses dishonourable and contemptible tactics to achieve their goals, whether they be criminal or otherwise.

Knave fell out of common use a long time ago, but is still used in some circles, specifically in card games, where the jack is sometimes called the knave.

neposlucha (Czech)  (nepo-sloo-ha)

Neposlucha is a disobedient or naughty child; it comes from neposlušnost (nepo-sloosh-nost) meaning disobedience.  When I did my LTI at a primary school I had to deal with more neposlucha than I expected, and I expected a lot of them. 

I’d expect the advisors here at CHC to think of all of us as neposlucha from time to time.

Words (and words) by Marley