Po Box 27

Clifton 4361

Ph: (07) 46973366

Fax: (07) 46973067

Email: clifton@twb.catholic.edu.au

Web: www.clifton.catholic.edu.au

22 June , 2011

Alfred Nobel’s First Death

About a hundred years ago, a man looked at the morning newspaper and to his

surprise and horror, read his name in the obituary column. The newspapers had

reported the death of the wrong person by mistake. His first response was shock.

Am I here or there?

When he regained his composure, his second thought was to find out what people

had said about him. The obituary read, “Dynamite King Dies.” And also, “He was

the merchant of death.” This man was the inventor of dynamite and when he read

the words “merchant of death,” he asked himself a question, “Is this how I am go-

ing to be remembered?” He got in touch with his feelings and decided that this

was not the way he wanted to be remembered. From that day on, he started

working toward peace.

His name was Alfred Nobel and he is remembered today by the great Nobel Prize.

Just as Alfred Nobel got in touch with his feelings and redefined his values, we

should step back and do the same.

Dear Parents,

The Naidoc celebrations held at the school last Friday were excellent. We hosted near-

ly 400 students from our Clifton cluster. Mrs Suzanne Cavanagh our Senior Education

Officer officially opened the festivities for the Director and Mr Phillip Dreise of the

CEO made acknowledgement to country.

The behaviour of all students celebrating the day was exemplary and the Aboriginal

Dancers and interest tables were a great way to celebrate the Aboriginal Culture.

A beautiful Boomerang Trophy was unveiled as the floating trophy for various activi-

ties at all future Naidoc Celebrations. This year the schools designed a new Australian

flag. The quality of entries was excellent and the judges gave first place to St Francis

de Sales. Thank you to all the children who helped in the design and a special thanks

to Mrs Harris who put all the ideas together. Congratulations and thank you to Mrs

Tickner for her wonderful organisation of the day.

BUSH DANCE DATE CLAIMER

On Saturday night September 3, the school will be

holding a Bush Dance. This will be our celebration

for Father’s Day this year. The students will be

taught various dances during term 3 and will be per-

forming some items as well as teaching parents some

toe tapping numbers.

There will be a camp oven meal provided at a mini-

mal cost. BYO will apply. The evening will com-

mence at 6pm approx.

Prior to the start of the evening, the children’s class-

rooms will be open to showcase some of the activities

that they have undertaken during the year to date. The

classrooms will be open from 5.30pm.

Please keep this date free in your diary as we are an-

ticipating a lovely social evening together for the

whole school community. More details will follow

early in Term 3.

Jacqui Drysdale

Congratulations to all those who competed in the

Darling Downs Athletic Carnival on Tuesday 21st

June.—Ashley Joppich, Ben Gibson, Alyssa Free,

Brianna Meacle, Tyler Gillam, Tara Wilkinson,

Bridie Joppich, Aaron Stace, Darby Peardon,. All

performed well against representatives from

schools across the Downs.

Special

congratulations

to Ben Gibson on

winning two Gold

Medals ( for 200m and

800m) at the Darling

Downs Athletics

Carnival on Tuesday.

He is now off to the

State Championships.

Well done Ben!

SCHOOL FEES School Fees are now overdue. Please endeav-

our to pay outstanding amounts as soon as pos-

sible.

Please remember that these fees help with the

smooth running of the school and are vital to

pay for most of our everyday expenses.

It would be appreciated if any families having

difficulty meeting this commitment could con-

tact me as soon as possible.

2012 Enrolments

As we are fielding enquiries for enrolments for

2012, we need to know what spaces we have

available. To help in this regard, it is important

that current school families who will have a

child entering Prep in 2012 complete an enrol-

ment form as soon as possible. (We already

have a healthy enrolment for the Prep class

next year and we will only have limited plac-

es.)

Interviews will be held from the 25th to the

28th July.

It is also important that families who will be

leaving the school at the end of 2011 let us

know as soon as a decision has been finalized.

NAIDOC DAY THANK YOU

A very special thank you to Caroline Stace

and all the parents who helped her to cater

for lunches last Friday. Everyone had their

meal on time, thanks to your great effort.

Thank You from Year 6/7

We would like to thank Janet and Don

Wilkinson for their recent donation of a bale

of hay which will be used as mulch for our

garden. We would also like to thank Chris

and Phillip Moar of Pilton (who were

approached by Brad Giggins) for their kind

donation of a bag of fertiliser. These

resources will help in the preparation of our

gardens for next season's crop.

Year 6/7 Green Thumbs.

This Week’s Liturgy Roster

18/06/11

Welcoming: E Lyons

Liturgy Co-ordinator: K Cranitch

POF/OHP: M Wiedman

Altar: Readers: K & M Cranitch

Offertory: K & M Cranitch

Eucharistic Ministers: H Gillam

& P Tickner

Counters: R & L Murphy

Cleaning: M Byrne, J Keleher,

J Meara & C Horton

Club Hotel Raffle Roster

17th June: K Flynn & C Rickert

24th June:

M Fallbrown & D Richardson

Dates To Remember

JUNE 2011

22nd - Semester 1 Reports sent home.

23rd - End of Term (Thursday)

24th- Pupil Free Day - ACARA In-Service

26th - Sunday Mass 5pm

JULY 2011

3rd Sunday Mass 5.00pm

11th - Pupil Free. Staff Curriculum In-service

12th -School Opens for Term 3 . ( Staff Cur-

riculum In-service - 4 Relief Teachers )

15th - Gala Winter Sports - Allora

25th - 28th - Prep Interviews

25th - 29th Catholic Education Week

29th - Bishop’s Inservice Day ( School

Closed)

AUGUST 2011

2nd - P& F Meeting

5th - Census Day

8th - School Liturgy - Mary McKillop Cele-

bration

8th - Parish Council Meeting

12th - Mrs Skillington’s Last Day for 2011

18th - Ski Trip Departs at 4.30 p.m.

24th - Ski Trip Returns at 7.30 a.m.

SEPTEMBER 2011

1st - S.D. Girls Cricket

3rd - Father’s Day Bush Dance

(DATE CLAIM!!)

4th Father’s Day Mass, 5:00pm 5th - Parish Council Meeting

6th - P& F Meeting

9th - (Friday) ACARA - Scope & Sequence

Planning Day - School Closed

16th - Term 3 Last Day

Quote of the Week

God Bless,

Brett Pollard

Principal

P & F PIE DRIVE

The P&F will be holding a Pie Drive early next

term. The Pie Order Forms will be sent home this

week and should be returned to school with the

money early next term. Please support the P & F

in this fundraiser.

Positive anything is better than

negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard