SELC 25th Anniversary Events

This year, as many of you will already know, SELC is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. We are organising a number of events and activities to mark this exciting landmark in our school’s history. After all, it has been 25 years of professionalism, high standards in teaching and student services – the SELC recipe for success – and the celebrations have already begun!

1. 25th Anniversary Celebration Program of Events

On the 15th January, we held our 25th Anniversary Party. Almost 350 people, including students and staff, attended the party, which was held at The Eastern Hotel, in Bondi Junction.  One of our teachers, Shaun, DJ’ed all night. The party highlights were the dazzling performances of CAPOEIRA and HIP HOP dancing, which produced lively and noisy participation from the audience.

A feature of our celebrations will be a special monthly activity for our students at SELC.  In January, we held an Australiana Quiz Competition.

We wanted to know how well our students know Oz!  Questions in the quiz included geography, politics, the arts, nature and current affairs. The winning pair was rewarded with an i-Pod + i-Tunes card.

In February we will be running SELC’s Got Talent, a competition for dancing, singing, acrobatics, magic, juggling, or any form of entertainment. Students will perform in weeks 3 and 4 of the February term and there are great prizes for the best performances.

2. SELC’s 25 MUST-DO Activities

SELC’s social activities program is definitely another  highlight in our Silver Jubilee year, either with our Kookaburra club or with Social Activities Coordinator Bert’s extra activities. It was natural, then, for us to compile these activities in a guide book for the students, with rewards once they have done those activities.

The book offers 50 suggestions for activities, each of them worth a certain number of points. Students need 15 points to start earning prizes and once they have completed activities worth 25 points, they are competing for three big prizes every month.

3. Monthly Photo Competition

Every month SELC will be running a photo competition with the activities suggested in the SELC 25 MUST-DO ACTIVITIES BOOK. Our Business English Communication class, however, went one step further and not only took some pictures on their excursion but also wrote Haikus (traditional Japanese poems)  to celebrate SELC’s 25 anniversary. Have a look below. Your challenge is to find the “25” in each picture!