Contents...Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence....

END OF TERM Well, it wasn’t quite the end of the term we were expecting, but we all made the most of the circum-stances and did-n’t suffer any damage during the cyclone. My thanks to the

staff for their assistance and flexibility over the last few days. Our thoughts are with the communities who were impacted by Cyclone Debbie. We pray that they can get on their feet quickly and recover.

DESIDERATA At a Headmaster’s Assembly this month, Julia Keough (School Captain) and Meg Burge (School Vice-Captain) read out the following poem written by Max Ehrmann in 1927.

The bold verse is a modern interpre-tation of the original un-bolded vers-es.

Desiderata “This is what I want in my life"

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. "Stop talking to fill the silence and listen to your own inner voice." As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Everyone is walking their own path with their own struggles and could re-ally use your good thoughts."

Avoid loud and aggressive per-sons, they are vexations to the spirit. "Loud and noisy persons are almost always trying to get you to pay attention to them instead of the voice of your own heart. TV and the inter-net are full of these people, it is OK to let them go." If you compare yourself with oth-ers, you may become vain and bit-ter; for always there will be great-er and lesser persons than your-self. "You are already you and no-body is going to be any better at being you than you are. And it is OK to let other peo-ple to be who they are."

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. "Much of the fun in life is the journey, not just the destina-tion. If you don’t enjoy the journey, you are wasting most of your life."

Contents Headmaster’s Report

Academic Dean Page 3

Dean of School Page 4

Dean of Students Page 5

School Chaplain Page 5

School Prayers Page 5

Sports News Page 6

Aerospace Forum Page 7

Junior School Page 8

Values Education Page 10

Upcoming Careers

Events Page 10

Head of Boarding Page 11

Feetham Dormitory Page 11

Becket Dormitory Page 12

Chad Dormitory Page 12

Headmaster

ISSUE No 3/2017 31 MARCH 2017

Below: Julia Keough, Jacki Clayton, Danielle Milton and Wendy Fleming enjoy lunch together at the St Gabriel’s Old Girls Brisbane meeting

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real pos-session in the changing fortunes of time. "Pick something you like to do and learn more about it, and let everyone else do the same."

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trick-ery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and every-where life is full of heroism. "Individually, people are pret-ty good. Many of them think they have to act some other way at work, they don’t have to, but they think they do. In their hearts, most people are kind and good. Pay attention to that part of them."

Be yourself. "Don’t pretend to be some-body you aren’t. It doesn’t work well, never lasts, and is always a waste of time. But understand that who you are how you think is going to change over the course of your lifetime."

Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disen-chantment it is as perennial as the grass. "The greatest commandment is love. It is all that counts, and if you concentrate on lov-ing others, you will find your own life filled with love in re-turn." Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. "It is OK to grow up, your view on things changes, and it’s re-ally a lot of fun, no matter what the commercials try to tell you about wanting to stay a child."

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark im-aginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

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"Real spirituality is always about love and light. If a spir-itual practice or religion teach-es anything different than that – especially if they are teach-ing you to be afraid – that teaching is wrong, and it’s time for you to let go of your attachment to it."

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. "That inner voice that talks to you, you have control over, and when you let it say nice things to you, your life be-comes more beautiful."

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. "You are not a mistake, you are not a sinner, and every-thing you are is God. Every-thing. You are not cut off from God, he doesn’t think you are bad and every day He is send-ing you signs and symbols of how much He loves you."

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspi-rations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. "It’s OK, the part that counts most is your heart. Think good thoughts, do good things, and allow others to do the same for you. Your perception of life will change tremendously, much for the better."

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. "Let yourself be happy. Your life will be so much better when you are."

Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata" 2017 NEXT STEP SURVEY The Queensland Government is conducting its annual statewide survey of all students who com-pleted Year 12 in 2016. The Next

Step survey is a brief, confidential survey that gains a comprehensive picture of the employment, study and life choices made by Queens-land school completers in the year after they finish Year 12.

Between March and June, all our students who completed Year 12 last year can expect to receive in-structions to complete a web-based survey or a telephone call from the Queensland Government Statistician’s Office to complete the survey. Please encourage them to take part. If their contact details have changed, please assist the in-terviewer with their updated de-tails or forward the survey to their new address so they can partici-pate.

Further information on Next Step i s a v a i l a b l e o n l i n e a t www.educa t i o n . q l d . gov. au /nextstep/ or on toll free telephone 1800 068 587

STUDENTS Junior School Leadership The installation of the Junior School leaders for 2017 has now taken place and students from Year 6 will begin to plan their goals for the year. One of their first du-ties was to attend the Lady Day Mass and Dinner with the Senior

School. Whilst this was a bit daunting, the students participated fully and hopefully learnt a lot. This is one of the many opportuni-ties students will have to help their transition into Senior School.

P & F AGM The Parents and Friends Associa-tion held their AGM at the start of March where office bearers for 2017 were elected.

I would like to thank the following parents for accepting Executive roles on the P & F: President Kym Whelan Secretary Annette Hall Treasurer Donna Rankine Vice President Kylee West

I would also like to thank outgoing Vice-President and Secretary, Jo-anne Shadforth for her contribu-

tion to the Association. Joanne had two roles in 2016 and we appreci-ate all she has done both on the Executive and in previous years.

I would encourage parents to come along to the meetings. If this is not possible the P&F are always looking for helpers at our House and Inter-School events.

STAFF Mr Patrick McCann has indicated that he will be finishing up at the end of the term to move back to Victoria where he has been suc-cessful in obtaining a teaching po-sition close to his family.

We thank Patrick for all he has done for the students both inside and outside the classroom, and for the support he has given to his col-leagues.

VISIT TO ALL SOULS ST GABRIELS OLD GIRLS BRISBANE On Thursday 16 March, Mrs Flem-ing (Year 10-12 Co-ordinator), Julia Keough (School Captain) and Dan-ielle Milton (Becket House Captain) travelled to Brisbane to attend the Gabes Old Girls lunch. Three times during the year, past students of Gabes get together for fellowship and to talk about old times. The ladies are very generous with their support to various projects in the school, and are a delight to chat to.

LADY DAY On Thursday 23 March, over 300 students, staff & guests attended the Feast of the Annunciation Mass and Lady Day Dinner in Halse Hall. Thank you to all those who helped run the service and who provided


catering, it was a memorable even-ing. During the service, all the girls performed “Blessed One” in refer-ence to the Virgin Mary. Thanks to all the girls, Mrs Fleming for her or-ganisation and Billie Copeland for accompanying.

SPORT Congratulations to all those stu-dents who participated in the Sen-ior Inter-House Cross-Country. This year we ran in the morning and the weather was a bit kinder to us. This is one of the school events where everyone participates for their House in preparation for the Inter-School event next term. Re-sults of the event can be found in the Sports section.

The Term 1 Inter-School sporting season has concluded with the last matches for Firsts Tennis and Cricket players being completed on Friday at the annual Pink Stumps round hosted by Columba. Thanks to all the coaches and managers who made the season possible.

EUROPE TRIP Our tour to Europe has com-menced with a visit to London be-fore heading to the WWI battle-fields in Belgium and France. The trip includes travel to Ypres, the Somme and then down to Sach-senhausen Concentration Camp. Whilst there are tourist opportuni-ties along the way, some of these site visits will be extremely emo-tional. We wish the travellers all the best.

HOLIDAYS AND EASTER I wish everyone a happy, safe and holy Easter period and holidays Darren Fleming - Headmaster

Aademic Dean

Ian Dietrich

Academic Reporting…the calm before the storm As I write this piece for our news-letter I am listening out for signs of an impending storm … but only be-ing greeted with slight gusts of wind outside. Cyclone Debbie looks to be crossing the coast to our west and its projected path, across land, is to our south. While this may not bring the welcome rain fall to our local region, other parts of the inland should receive liquid gold in the coming days and weeks. For a system that offered such potential, we haven’t seen many real benefits yet.

This may well be the case for some of our students (and families) as emails are opened including the new electronic academic progress report (Term One Report) … so much potential, with benefits still to be seen. For many other stu-dents, however, their academic progress report shows that they are devoting time and effort to their studies – and the rewards are now being received. As I checked through the sets of reports for Years 7 to 12, I was encouraged by the number of students with posi-tive academic progress indicators as well as strong and positive indi-cators for the ‘work and conduct’ criteria listed. This is a great basis for a strong set of Semester Re-ports in June.

Our new mid-semester academic report has been developed so stu-dents and families receive more in-formation on the one page and al-so in a timely manner. Teachers are now able to spend more time on finalising Term One (cross marking and moderating) as well as prepar-ing units and lessons for Term Two. Teachers will be able to share spe-cific marks and grades for Term One assessment items with parents at Parent / Teacher Interviews at the start of Term Two – whether in person or via email.

QCS Test – Community Representatives call for “expressions of interest” & Update To maintain the accountability, se-curity and proper conduct of the 2017 Queensland Core Skills (QCS) Test, the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) invites applications from communi-ty members for the position of Chief Community Representative. A test centre is a secondary school, or another place approved by the QCAA, where students sit the QCS Test. All test centres are located within Queensland and have a Chief Supervisor to administer the test. This year the test will be held on Tuesday 29 August and Wednesday 30 August.

Schools are given the task to nomi-nate members of the community who would be available for each of the following sessions: 1) two weeks before test

(approx.) for receipt of securi-ty case key (approx. 30 minutes, date to be advised)

2) the week before test (approx.) for receipt of security cases (approx. 60 minutes, date to be advised)

3) Tuesday 29 August (Day 1 of the test) - starting between 8:10 am and 8:40 am - finish-ing between 2:40 pm and 3:10 pm

4) Wednesday 30 August (Day 2 of the test) - starting between 8:10 am and 8:40 am - finish-ing between 2:40 pm and 3:10 pm.

As the Chief Supervisor for our school, I will be gathering “expressions of interest” for these positions and passing them onto Mr Fleming for appointment. These are paid positions with the QCAA.

If you are interested in receiving further details, please send me an email by 9.00am Friday 21 April 2017.

This year’s Year 12 students who have currently indicated that they


will be sitting this test (via their subject selection combination) have been specifically preparing for this test since an initial workshop last year. We have continued the preparation this year with another workshop day, several individual specific QCST skill lessons during CAD (Careers & Development) and teachers in senior subjects high-lighting specific skills that will be called upon in the testing during their normal classroom activities. Preparations will continue this term in senior academic classes and CAD, a series of full Writing Task practice papers, include another full day workshop and conclude with a full two day practice of pre-vious papers (in Week 7).

Practice results will help to identify areas of concern that our prepara-tion program can target.

In future editions of the Phoenix Rising I will expand upon the eligi-bility of sitting this test. Basically, all Year 12 students can sit the test. However, not all need to sit the test – more on this later.

If you have any questions regard-ing the QCS Test, please feel free to ring the school or send me an email.

Dean of School

Karen Storey

Term 1 Reports The Term 1 reports will be emailed home by the beginning of next week. Parents who have not re-ceived them by the end of the hol-idays are asked to contact the School to seek a copy. Parent-Teacher Interview Timeslot Extended To accommodate some of the ex-tra unprecedented demand for

secondary parent-teacher inter-views we have re-scheduled the timeslot on travel day, Tuesday April 18th, to extend from 1:30 – 4:30pm in order for parents to dis-cuss the finer points of your child’s progress. While many teachers are, pleasingly, almost fully booked, should you wish to make an appointment to speak with one or all of your child’s teachers please contact Flo King on: 07 4788 2275 or [email protected]) or Jon Teichmann on: 4787 1433 or [email protected] Of course, you are more than wel-come to book an interview or con-tact your child’s teachers directly via phone or email even if they have not requested an interview appointment.

End of Term 1 Due to Cyclone Debbie’s presence, the end of Term 1, disappointingly, looked quite a lot different in reali-ty to what we had planned. Many of the exciting events in both Sen-ior and Junior School had to be postponed. Many of these have or will be rescheduled to occur in Term 2. Please continue to check Facebook and email for updated details of key events. Thank-you for your understanding and co-operation as we dealt with the im-plications of Cyclone Debbie for our school and our community. Have a Happy and Safe Holiday Wherever you are going and what-ever you are doing for your holi-days I hope you also manage some rest and precious time with loved ones. I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Easter and I look forward to seeing everyone’s smil-ing faces return at the beginning of Term 2. School resumes for students on Tuesday 18th April. The uniform, as always for the first day of the term, will be formal uni-form for all secondary students.

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Dean of Students

Shannon Lee

As the conclusion of another term approaches we have the oppor-tunity to reflect on what has been an exciting start to the year. Through the many activities, events and assessments every stu-dent in the Secondary School would have had the opportunity to excel in their area of expertise. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the students on what has been a great term. One of the highlights for me was the Water Day in the second last week. Water Day The Seniors completed their first Secondary School activity with great success on Friday 24 March. Following the completion of the Inter-House Cross-Country Carni-val in the morning, they put on a fun water activity afternoon. The event consisted of a rotation of six activities; Capture the Flag, Hun-gry Hungry Hungry Hippo, Blind Water Bomb Catch, a relaxing swim in the pool, Water Bomb Tag, Water Bucket Tunnel and a water bomb relay where the win-ning team got to throw water bombs at an unlucky teacher. The Seniors did a wonderful job of involving all the students, I think some of the activity leaders got a little taste of how difficult it can be to get a group of 40, 15 year olds to do what you want when they are pumped up with excitement (and sugar). It would be fair to say though that everyone had an excellent time. I would like to con-gratulate the Seniors and com-mend them for their efforts, I am already looking forward to seeing what they come up with for the remainder of the year. Thanks again for a great term, al-ready looking forward to seeing you in Term 2.


School Chaplain

Br Nathan-James SSF

Junior School Chapel Prefect Congratulations to Walter Shad-forth, Slogan Downs, Charters Towers, who has been appointed as the 2017 Junior School Chapel Prefect. In his role as Chapel Pre-fect, Walter will be responsible for leading the Junior School weekly Chapel services. He will also repre-sent the Junior School on other oc-casions such as ANZAC Day, All Souls Day etc. Feast of the Annunciation It was great to once again wel-come Bishop and Dr Ray to the School to join with us in the cele-bration of the Feast of the Annun-ciation and Lady Day dinner. I would have to say that this year’s Patronal Feast of St Gabriels was up there with one of the best ser-vices that have taken place in our chapel. The standard of serving by the girls, and leadership by Julia Keough, School Captain, was ex-ceptional. Despite a few last mi-nute changes of personnel the team came together and showed the Gabe’s spirit is alive and well. The most significant moment of the service, however, had to be the performance of Aaron Thompson’s Blessed One by the girls and ladies. For a few months, during secret women’s business, the female stu-dents had been learning this beau-tiful and powerful song dedicated to the strength, courage and wit-ness of Mary, mother of God. The girls learned how this song spoke not only of the faith and determi-nation of Mary but of all women whose daily battle constraints put on them in cultures dominated by patriarchal rule and influence. To

me, the moment was best captured when I looked up and saw the way in which many of our boys were fo-cused on the girls singing. Some were like Meerkats straightening up and turning to see where the music was coming from. I even noticed the thurifers and boat boys come in from preparing their incense to listen to what was going on. My sincere thanks to all the girls and female staff members who pre-pared for and delivered this great song. In particular I want to give profound thanks to Wendy Fleming who took an idea and made it hap-pen. Her music leadership in chap-el has been most welcome. While no details are being shared, all I can say is that the boys have ac-cepted the challenge and are busily preparing for their contribution ear-ly in Term 2.

In our thoughts and prayers; We pray for the communi-

ties of North Queensland

during the extreme weath-

er situation. We especially

pray for coastal communi-

ties as they bear the main

force of cyclone Debbie.

We pray for staff, students

and families on the Europe-

an Tour; that they may con-

nect with stories they hear

and the places they visit

and the sacrifice given by

others for freedom.

We pray for our newly ap-

pointed leaders of the Jun-

ior School; may they dis-

charge their duties with

compassion and integrity.

ISSUE NO 3/2017 31 MARCH 2017

Sport News Sport News Natasha Johnson - Secondary Sports Co-ordinator

Inter-School Swimming The Boys Cricket and Girls Tennis seasons concluded last week. Below is a summary of each team’s results and premiership placing for the season. It was a very successful season as you can see with All Souls St Gabriels School walking away with both the Girls Tennis and Boys Cricket School Championships. I would like to say a huge thank you to all of the coaches who gave up their time to coach teams this season, without you Inter-School sport and these successes would not be possible. 2017 School Championship: ASSG 2017 School Championship: ASSG 1st Tennis - Premiership Placing: 3rd 1st Cricket - Premiership Placing: TBC 2nd Tennis - Premiership Placing: 3rd 2nd Cricket - Premiership Placing: 1st 15Yrs Tennis - Premiership Placing: 1st 15Yrs Cricket - Premier Placing: Joint 1st 14Yrs Tennis - Premiership Placing: 1st (on count back) 14Yrs Cricket-PremiershipPlacing:1st(on count back)

13Yrs Tennis - Premiership Placing: 1st 12/13Yrs Cricket - Premiership Placing TBC 12 Yrs Tennis Premiership Placing: 1st

Round Opponent Result

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Inter-House Cross-Country Friday 24th March saw the annual Inter-House Cross-Country held at All Souls St Gabriels School. A massive thank you to Mr Halliday and other staff who have been up early, three mornings a week preparing our students for the big race. In warmer than expected conditions students, gave their all for their houses and achieved some excel-lent results. The Age Champions, Runners-Up and the Champion Houses along with their respective points are summarised below: Champion Boys and Girls Houses Overall Championship Monday 8th May will see the team travel to the Charters Towers Airport Reserve in a quest to defend the Inter-School Girls, Boys and Overall Cross-Country Championship. Many of us were very nervous about what the out-come will be (especially Mr Halliday)! NQ Trials Caleb Knuth and Sam Coffison were recently selected in the North Queensland Open Boys Rugby Union team to compete at the State Championships in Brisbane in May. Ky Banset was also named as a Shadow player for the team. This is a great achievement for these boys and we wish them well also. Casey Flanagan was selected in the 15 years North Queensland AFL team to compete at the State Championships on the Sunshine Coast in May. Kane Whiting was also selected as a Shadow player for this team. We are very proud of these boys selections and wish them the very best. Inter-House Athletics The Inter-House Athletics Carnival will be held in the last week of Term 2 (Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th June) here at All Souls St Gabriels School. A summary of the program for Secondary students will appear in a later addi-tion of the Phoenix. I look forward to seeing many parents and spectators turn out to support our students.

Age Group Age Champion Runner-Up

Open Boys Joe Bode Caleb Knuth

Open Girls Natalie Teece Zoe Godfrey

16yrs Boys Darby Godfrey Tim Ievers

16yrs Girls Angela Jones Chantelle Reynolds

15yrs Boys Todd Thorn Patrick Washington

15yrs Girls Luka Hall Amber Aspinall

14yrs Boys Tom Gordon Brandon Finger

14yrs Girls Grace Newnham Olivia Wilkinson

13yrs Boys Fred Flute Corey Guldbransen

13yrs Girls Piper Godfrey Annika Peace

12yrs Boys Zai Hopkins Zachary Vass

12yrs Girls Sally Frohloff Holly Johnson

Place Girls House Points Boys House Points

1st Chad 150 Page 164

2nd Becket 133 Feetham 133

3rd Alban 100 Ramsay 98

Place Houses Points

1st Chad & Page 314

2nd Becket & Feetham 266

3rd Alban & Ramsay 198

The Australian Youth Aerospace Forum is being held in Brisbane this year from the 3rd of July to the 7th of July. This 5 day residential camp aims to provide Year 11 -12 students with an interest in aerospace with an insight into the ca-reer and training options available after high school. This year’s forum will include opportunities in Aerospace Engi-neering, Aerospace trades and traineeships, and, Pilot and Military Aerospace entry options. Students will experience professional aerospace first hand through exclusive industry site visits and discussions with key industry and academ-ic leaders. Applications have opened and will close on the 31st May. The forum is designed to showcase the various university and industry opportunities available to students upon completion of secondary school. Get in quick to save $50 on the biggest and best AYAF ever! This year AYAF is running from the 3rd July to 7th July 2017. Head to www.ayaa.com.au/AYAF-Bris/ to find out more!

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Junior School

Tina Akers Head of Junior School

Junior School Leaders Congratulations to the Junior School students who have been charged with the responsibility of representing their peers, their House and their School. With their many gifts and talents, I know each of them will be good leaders and ambassadors for our School. Captains: Jed Marshall and Meg Brassington Vice-Captains: James Mann and Lucie Taylor Chapel Prefect: Walter Shadforth Service Prefects: Hannah-Grace Smoothy and Reagan Butler Environmental Prefects: Leeah Campbell and Milli Davey The Arts Prefects: Alexandra Holt and Emilee Stevenson Year 6 Prefects: Tristan Maff and James Sharp-Callaghan Alban House Captain: Zali Downes Ramsay House Captain: Seth Guldbransen Becket House Captain: Milli Davey Feetham House Captain: James Mann Chad House Captain: Alexandra Holt


which the JS staff work to ensure they are used to enrich their teaching and learning programs.

Book Fair “Bookaneer” Book Fair has been a huge success. Thank you to the parents who volunteered their time to sell the books before and after school. The commission we will receive from the book sales will afford us some new reading resources for our students to use and enjoy.

Rescheduling of JS Events due to TC Debbie Due to the uncertainty of the weather conditions the following events have been rescheduled:

Inter-House Cross-Country The Junior School Inter-House Cross-Country will take place on Thursday 20 April. We hope to see many parents, family and friends supporting the children on this day.

JSSG Big Breakfast, Grand-parents’ & Family Open Day The JS staff and students are looking forward to welcoming grandparents, family and friends into their classrooms on Friday 21 April.

The day will start with the tradi-tional ‘Big Breakfast” (hosted by the JSSG), and performances from the JS choirs. During the morning, family and friends are invited into the classrooms. We hope that you will enjoy the op-portunity to go back into the classroom and join in the learning activities the students have planned for you. These might be a numeracy or literacy game the children use to reinforce their learning, a technology challenge, or maybe you will be asked to be part of a Science experiment or take a History Quiz!

The students will enjoy sharing their learning and celebrating their achievements with the sig-nificant people in their lives.

At this stage of the year, we do not have a Year 6 Page boy to fill the House Captain position.

JS Student Council The Captains and Prefects will play a significant role on the JS Student Council. Additionally we congratu-late the following Year 4 and Year 5 students who have been selected to join the JS Student Council:

Year 4 Student Representatives: Georgia Mann and Nate Taylor Year 5 Student Representatives:

Charlotte Jesberg and Keegan Henley

The Year 6s and the Student Rep-resentatives already have some ex-citing ideas and initiatives they would like to discuss during 2017. Congratulations to all the Junior School Leaders. I know they un-derstand being a member of the Junior School leadership team car-ries with it the responsibility to serve our School and the wider School community. We look for-ward to working with them throughout the year.

It was lovely to have family and friends join us to celebrate this im-portant day in the Junior School calendar.

Busy, busy, busy end to Term 1 During the last few weeks, the JS staff and students have been very busy preparing for the wider School community to share four significant events in the JS calen-dar. What makes these events even more special is the way in

Term 1 Reports The Australian Curriculum specifies the knowledge, understanding and skills to be taught and learned within a given subject area. Each content area is accompanied by an Achievement Standard. Achieve-ment Standards refer to the quality of learning (the depth of under-standing, extent of knowledge and sophistication of skill) demonstrat-ed by students within a given sub-ject.

At the end of this term, parents will receive a report which will indi-cate your child’s academic progress and to what extent your child is meeting the required curriculum standards in each subject area. Ad-ditionally the report will provide you with an indication of your child’s application to their learning, behaviour and conduct at school.

The Term 1 Report will indicate that a Parent Teacher Interview has been requested, if you haven’t met with your child’s teacher re-cently to discuss your child’s aca-demic progress. Appointments can be scheduled on Tuesday 18 April (Travel Day, Term 2).

These meetings are important to keep parents informed about their child’s progress and provide the opportunity to discuss how you can support their learning at home.

JS Green Disco On behalf of all the students who had a wonderful time at the recent JS Green Disco, I would like to thank:


3. Kirkwood Family 4. Paula Casey 5. Hooper Urquhart 6. Sophia Boyle

As we are at the end of a busy and productive term, I have looked back over the School’s Fa-cebook posts and I am reminded of all the wonderful things our students, staff and community have achieved. We have many tal-ented people in our School. It is a pleasure to work in such a fantas-tic environment, made all the greater by the passionate contri-bution and strong partnership be-tween students, staff and the community. We look forward to your continued support next term.

On behalf of all the Junior School Staff, I would like to wish all our ASSG families a very Happy East-er and a safe and relaxing break. We look forward to seeing every-one on Wednesday 19 April.

The parents and guardians for taking the time to dress, colour and decorate their children. They looked amazing.

The students for getting into the groove and participating enthusi-astically throughout the evening.

The parents, guardians, friends and family members who sup-ported the evening, we hope you enjoyed your evening too.

The JS Staff for their tremendous support with supervision and dancing during the evening.

Mrs Heuir, Miss Taylor and Miss Browne – thank you for taking the role as awesome DJs – alt-hough we had some technical is-sues with the sound systems, the students enjoyed the selec-tion of music and dance.

Sarlina Teti for cooking and pre-paring the delicious noodles.

The parents who helped sell the noodles and monitor the con-sumption of ‘green cordial’.

The Year 6 Students for selling the ice-blocks.

Grounds staff for putting up the fencing.

Kitchen staff for organising the ‘refreshing icy green cordial’.

Everyone who helped clean up and reorganise the furniture in the covered area.

Easter Raffle On behalf of the JS community I would like to thank Desiree Beatty for organising the six Easter prizes. Congratulations to the following winners: 1. Lacey Barnicoat 2. Brassington Family

Values Education Barbara Salisbury Head of Values Education Success is doing your best Life Skills classes began the term reflecting on ‘what is success?’. Being successful is about doing your best, not being the best. Stu-dents were encouraged to stay motivated and continue to give their all in everything they do. Some students get discouraged at school because it seems that, even when they have done their personal best, other stu-dents have received better marks and sometimes other people (parents, teachers) act as though they should have done better. As teachers and parents we need to encourage students to do their personal best, but balance this with an understanding of what each student is capable of. Keep this in mind as you look over your child’s report. Goals and persistence Another focus this term has been getting organised and setting real-istic goals. For students to strive to do their best they need to be pushing themselves to achieve a goal. Just like an athlete that trains hard will improve, so does a student who studies hard. Lifting the academic achievement of your child will require them to set real-istic goals and then persisting with the hard work needed to achieve them. Game On Cybersafety was a focus for Year 8, with them using the Game On resource to explore being a re-sponsible cybercitizen. #GameOn is a cybersafety video that follows the online experiences of a group of lower secondary students who find themselves in situations that catch them off-guard and teach them the consequences of making poor decisions online. Topics in-cluded cyberbullying, excessive


gaming, sharing passwords, free downloads and online friends. h ttps ://www.esa fe ty.gov.au/education-resources/classroom-resources/gameon Brain Drivers Ed In Year 9 Life Skills, Tania van Wijk has been challenging 9B students thinking with the Brain Drivers Ed-ucation Program. http://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/assets/pdfs/school-psych/Brain-Drivers-Education-Operators-Guide.pdf It will be 9As turn in Term 2. Learning to Argue The other Year 9 class has been doing a Critical Thinking Unit with Br Nathan. Each week students were presented with a new contro-versial topic and it was interesting to hear student’s points of view and fantastic to see the students develop the skills to argue their points of view respectfully. For ex-ample, should a person be put in jail or rehabilitation if they have committed crimes while taking drugs?

Careers Calendar It was disappointing that Cyclone Debbie interrupted our plans for the last week of Term 1. Thank you to Glenda Lyon for organising the alternative courses and Jordan Bensemann for coordinating the Science and Engineering Challenge at JCU. Hopefully all will be possi-ble in Term 2. Please see the cal-endar for careers events planned for Term 2. Long Service Leave I will be on long service leave in Term 2 and most of Term 3. My husband and I will be traveling overseas for a major portion of this time which we are very excit-ed about! Wendy Fleming will be taking on much of the career as-pects of my job, with the support of Darren Fleming. Both have a lot of experience in this area and the students will benefit from their guidance, as well as the support of Ian Dietrich and Shannon Lee.

Term 2 Event Year level

Wed 26 April CQU presentation to Year 12 in Drama Room Year 12 CAD

Fri 5 May 10.30 & 11.30

JCU talk @ ASSG – Things to consider when applying to Uni

Year 12 10.30 Year 10 11.30

Tue 9 May (6.30 to 9.00pm)

Futures Dinner

All Year 12

Mon 22 May (7.30am to 4pm)

JCU Get Into Uni visit at Townsville Campus

All of Yr 9 & 10

Mon 22 May (12-12.40pm)

Talk by CTRC (Glenn Petersen & Lynne O’Donnell) - on applying for jobs and interview skills

Year 11

Fri 26 May (full day)

Matthew Rigby QCS Test Practice workshops Year 12 students

Thu 15 & Fri 16 June Practice QCS Test Days Year 12 students

Fri 16 June (8 - 3pm)

Year 11 Mock Job Interviews

Year 11

Fri 16 June Or Mon 19 June

Club RHINO presentation on careers in Health Year 7-12 TBC

Mon 19 June (5.30-6.30 pm)

Year 10 Parent & Student Info Night for sub-ject selection for Year 11, 2018

Year 10 students and parents

Wed 21 June Year 12 QTAC Application Process presenta-tion

All Year 12

Wed 21 or Thu 22 Jun Short Course Days – only if enough interest Year 11 & 12

Mon 10 –Thurs 13 Jul

University Experience at JCU, including stay-ing in residential college

Need 5-10 Yr 11-12 students

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Head of Boarding

Darren Guldbransen

What a way to finish the term. We were heading toward a fairly steady and casual end to the term, having completed our exam block in week 8, but then cyclone Deb-bie turned up and threw a spanner in the works. Thankfully our Eu-rope travellers got away before she arrived and I am sure they are having a great time.

Thank you to all the parents, fami-ly members and friends for their support and help; thanks to their efforts we were able to get most of our boarders home over the weekend. It was very short notice but we felt it was definitely better to err on the side of caution and have them home early rather than wait and see how the cyclone de-veloped and then possibly have them stranded. Some students will have some assessment to com-plete when they return next term but as I write this report the wind is picking up so I feel we have made the correct decision.

Reporting This year we will be using a new style of reporting for our boarders. We have gone away from our nor-mal written report to one that has a variety of categories so we are able to give parents a good all round picture of how your child has gone this term. We will be able to highlight the areas where they are excelling as well as those where they might be struggling a little. This new style will cover many more areas than we could with a written report and it will help us track their progress from term to term as well as from year to year. My hope is this new report will also be a document for our older boarders to use as part of their resumes. We have designed it so when perspective employers read through it they will be able to get a good idea of the type of per-son they are from the categories outlined.

I hope everyone has a great break and come back ready for another very busy term.

That’s it for now.

Feetham

Dormitory

Jake Diery Senior Resident

It has been a very hectic end to Term one. With Cross-Country, Pink Stumps, Europe trip, Bulls, Miners and then Cyclone Debbie, all happing in a space of 5 days. It was a busy time in the dorms with boys finding out they are leaving in 15 mins, so there was some very quick packing happen-ing. I would like to thank all the parents and friends of the school who have helped get kids home over the last three days. At this stage we have only 3 boys left who have been helping me run around and clean a few things up and get ready for Debbie to hit. We had our cross country on Fri-day last week and it was great to see the effort that the students put in for their houses. Guys like Casey Rankine, Ben Wilkinson and Jimmy McDowall all putting the hard yards in. I would also like to point out the effort of Casey Flana-gan, who has hurt his back and is not allowed to do any sport, but still went out and walked it.

Kayden Fogarty went down to Bris-bane to compete in the State Swimming Carnival, where he has walked away with a medal hanging around his neck. Kayden got 3rd and will go away in April to swim in the Australian titles. Good luck mate and hopefully you get anoth-er medal to pin up.

We also had our Europe trip peo-ple leave on Saturday, have a safe trip guys and can’t wait to hear the stories about how good it was when you all get back.

Head of Boarding Darren Guldbransen Head of Boarding Mobile: 0415 903 479 Email: [email protected]

Boys’ Boarding Feetham House Jake Diery Senior Resident Mobile: 0419 471 433 Email: [email protected] Page House Davin Marshall Senior Resident Mobile: 0409 071 433 Email: [email protected] Ramsay House Brendan Travers Senior Resident Mobile: 0400 751 433 Email: [email protected]

Girls’ Boarding Alban House Teneil Smale Senior Resident Mobile: 0419 771 433 Email: [email protected] Becket House Jenny Cantle Senior Resident Mobile: 0407 142 493 Email: [email protected] Chad House Yvonne Schaefer Senior Resident Mobile: 0439 764 638 Email: [email protected]

Pink Stumps was a great night with all the boys going over to support our team. Souls went down but put in a big effort. Great work guys and maybe next year. We have also had heaps of footy on, with our firsts going down to Townsville on Wednesdays and playing. I don’t think they have had a loss yet which is pretty im-pressive. And also Bulls and Miners are in full swing. I have heard a lot about 80m try’s being scored and tackles that would put an elephant in hospital.

So by the time the boys are back in the dorms it is all about rest and study. Over the last 2 weeks some of the boys are taking a fair bit to get out of bed, nothing some cold water won’t fix. Finally guys next term could you please remind the boys to bring back only what they need, as this term we had a lot of boys with gear that they will never use here at the school. Also, could we ease up on the soft drinks, as some of the boys have enough to stock the IGA in town. I hope you all have a safe and happy Easter and can’t wait to hear about how good the holidays were on travel day.

Becket

Dormitory

Jenny Cantle Senior Resident

As I sit here in my empty dorm waiting for Cyclone Debbie to come, I realise that as it was my rostered weekend off, that a lot of my girls have gone home for the holidays. I didn’t get the chance to say goodbye and for them to have a safe and happy holiday. It all happened so fast.

The term disappeared in the last three weeks with Cross-Country and a lot of the girls up training, some mornings it was the entire dorm up and running


Exam block was a bit tense, but we all made it through. We say goodbye to one of our girls, with Claudette Wilson deciding to leave us. We will miss Claudette in the dorm, and wish her the best.

This term saw the door between Becket and Alban closed. So we are Becket and Alban in our own right. This was met with a little sadness, but it had to be done, with both dorms full. With this there have been some new re-sponsibilities with the Senior girls running the morning meetings, and getting all the girls to strip their beds on Monday morning to get sheets to the laundry. This proves to be a challenge, so I hope it all goes to plan.

We are looking for some decorat-ing ideas for the dorm to make it feel more homely. So if there are any ideas, just let the girls or I know.

I hope you all have a happy and safe break, and look forward to the next term.

Chad

Dormitory Pauline Muston Dormitory Supervisor

Pauline here, filling in for Yvonne as she, along with Julia Keough, Rachel Hall and Breanna Kent are in Europe! We wish them a safe arrival and return.

We have had a whirlwind of a term and we will finish with a cyclone. So much has happened so fast in the lead up to the end of term. So far this year our seniors have real-ly stepped up to the challenge of being our school leaders. We would like to thank our house cap-tain Martha Zaro. Martha has been instrumental in leading Chad House to two victories this term for Tennis and Cross-Country. We are very proud!

As a family here in Chad we en-courage all to be happy and healthy in mind, body and spirit.

Other highlights this term have in-cluded swimming carnivals, net-ball, touch, Chad House bonding day with Pia Taylor, Senior meet-ings with Yvonne, Towers hill walks, Weir Victory Breakfast BBQ and pancake Sundays. Yvonne and I are anticipating another great term after easter and will be look-ing forward to the girls returning. Happy and safe holidays to all.

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