Mr Damien CarltonPRINCIPAL

From the Principal

T 02 9548 4000 • www.boscocollege.nsw.edu.au • E info@sjbcengadine.catholic.edu.au

NEWSLETTER1 JUNE 2018 | VOLUME 42 NO. 16 TERM 2 - WEEK 5 - 2018

Staff Development Day: Earlier this week, staff from 12 Catholic schools joined our College for a professional

development seminar led by members of NESA (National Educational Standards Authority). The focus of the

day was to assist teachers to understand what constitutes effective, developmentally appropriate assessment

for students and how to differentiate and adjust assessment processes and tasks to meet the physical, social

and intellectual development needs of a student in their own classrooms. Teachers were given time to develop

effective assessment tasks and integrate them into well-designed teaching programs. It was very engaging and

successful, particularly with the input from other schools. I thank Mrs Rhonda Thompson (Leader of Learning and

Teaching) for the design and organisation of the day.

Semester 1 Exams: Years 9 & 10 began their exams this week. These are significant tests and it is expected that

all students study and prepare for the exams thoroughly. Exam regulations and issues concerning illness and

misadventure have been given to the students. The correct exam procedures are also outlined on page 3 of this

newsletter.

Uniform reminder: Recently, there have been a large

number of unclaimed items of the College and sports

uniform turn up to the front office. Can I remind all

students and parents about the clear expectations about

wearing the correct College attire at all times. Of note

is the College jumper. It is a secondary item to be worn

under the blazer, not instead of it. Equally, the jumper is

not part of the sports uniform. Additionally, it is highly

advisable that student names are placed on all articles

of uniform. This stops confusion of ownership claims and

allows the speedy return of misplaced items. Thank you

for your support on this matter.

Farewells: Today we farewelled Mrs Sarah Culligan (Art) and Mr John Boultwood (Maths) from Bosco.

Sarah is moving her family to Albury and taking up a position as an Art teacher at Trinity Anglican

College, Albury. John leaves us after thankfully filling in a gap in the maths department over the past

5 weeks. We wish them well in their future ventures.

The Feast of the VisitationYesterday, Thursday 31 May we celebrated the Feast of the Visitation, the day on which the Blessed Virgin Mary, having been told at the Annunciation by the angel Gabriel that she had been chosen to bear the Son of God, went to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who herself was pregnant with John the Baptist. The scene is beautiful: as Mary greets her cousin, the baby leaps in Elizabeth’s womb, and Elizabeth cries out in the words that make up the second sentence of the Hail Mary: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” Mary, overflowing with joy herself, responds with the Magnificat, a wondrous canticle (a biblical hymn) extolling the greatness of God and thanking Him for the favour He has shown her. This is a blessed moment now as it was when it occurred. It emphasises the notion of waiting ... waiting for God to bestow great love and peace upon the world. Certainly, something that our current world needs. So at this time we hope and pray for peace in our troubled world.

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CALENDAR

2018Thursday 31 May - Wednesday 6 June

Years 9 & 10 Examinations

Tuesday 12 JuneYear 8 Reflection Day

Years 10 & 11 Vaccination Program

Wednesday 13 JuneYear 9 Reflection Day

Thursday 14 JuneChisholm Day

Sunday 17 June - Tuesday 19 June

Duke of Ed

Wednesday 27 JuneYear 12 HSC Music Evening

Thursday 28 JuneCollege Athletics Carnival

Monday 2 JulyYear 10 Subject Evening

Wednesday 4 JulyTerm 2 concludes 3.05pm Dismissal

Thursday 5 JulyYears 7 - 10

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Friday 6 JulyYears 7 - 10

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Monday 23 JulyTerm 3 Students Return

WINTER UNIFORM

Monday 30 JulySSCCC Athletics Carnival

Thursday 2 AugustPerforming Arts

Evening 7pm

Monday 6 AugustYear 10 Subject Interviews

Years 10 and 11 Vaccination Program

On Tuesday 12 June all students in Years 10 and 11 will have the opportunity

to be vaccinated against Meningococcal. This day was originally scheduled to

be conducted on Monday 30 May but was moved on request from NSW Area

Health. The vaccination cards that parents have already completed are still valid

for the new date, however if you did not complete a vaccination card and would

like your son/daughter to be vaccinated, please complete a vaccination card

and return it to the College on or before 12 June.

Years 7-10 Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews

This is an early notification that the Years 7-10 Parent/Teacher/Students

Interviews will be conducted on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 July 2018. The

specific details for booking interviews will be forwarded to all families over the

coming weeks. These interviews are an important check-in point for you to

review the progress of your daughter/son throughout the first half of the year,

and to discuss avenues for their improvement moving forward. I recommend

that all families allocate some time over the course of these two days during

which interviews can take place.

Student Wellbeing Parent Evenings

St Patrick’s College Sutherland has organised two information evenings for

parents, that they have generously made available to parents of Bosco College.

The first is a presentation by Tom Reynolds

(Independent Drug Education Australia) on

‘Safe Partying’. It is being held in Rice Hall at St

Patrick’s College, Sutherland on Wednesday 20

June at 7.00 pm. If you plan to attend, please

complete the registration located here.

The second is a presentation by Brett Lee (Internet Safe Education) on enabling

your child to utilise the internet in a safe manner. It is being held in Rice Hall

at St Patrick’s College, Sutherland on Wednesday 1 August at 7.00 pm. An

information brochure, with an outline of the presentation and how to register

your attendance, is available here.

Assistant Principal | Mr Peter Halpin

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Curriculum Coordinator | Mrs Belinda Westwood

PEER TUTORING FOR YEARS 7 & 8

This program is continuing again this term. It is

held in the College Library from 3.15-4pm. Senior

students and teachers will be available to assist

with homework and assessments.

WEEK 6 Tuesday 5 June

WEEK 7 Thursday 14 June

WEEK 8 Thursday 21 June

WEEK 9 Tuesday 26 June

YEAR 12 PDHPE, SLR, Drama

YEAR 11 Modern History, Business Studies, English Studies, Catholic Studies, Construction

YEAR 10 Half Yearly Exams

YEAR 9 Half Yearly Exams

YEAR 8 PDHPE Fitness Testing, English, Italian, Maths, Science

YEAR 7 English, RE

ASSESSMENT DATES FOR TERM 2 WEEK 6 4 JUNE – 8 JUNE

The following assessments are due in the upcoming week:

Click here for a copy of the Illness/Misadventure/Representative Form

STUDY TIPS FOR EXAM REVISION

1. Make use of your learning style when you revise

2. Plan in good time • How much time do you have? • What do you need to do?

3. Look after yourself • Try to eat a healthy diet, get some exercise and

rest. Go to bed in good time and get as much sleep as you can.

YEARS 9 & 10 HALF YEARLY EXAMINATIONS MONDAY 31 MAY - WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE

EXAM PROCEDURES If students are absent / sick during the exam period it would be expected that parents contact the College by phone 9548 4000 or email to belinda.westwood@syd.catholic.edu.au

The following procedures are for absent students:

YEAR 9 YEAR 10

• Illness/Misadventure/Representative Form + Parent note explaining absence

• Illness/Misadventure/Representative Form + Doctor's Certificate explaining absence

• Complete the exam on next day at school • Complete the exam on next day at school

TIPS FOR VISUAL LEARNERS TIPS FOR AUDITORY LEARNERS

• Rewrite your notes as mind-maps

• Use colour to highlight important things

• Draw diagrams and sketches to help you remember points.

• Read your notes aloud

• Record yourself reading key points of your notes aloud, then listen to the tape afterwards

• Revise with other students if you can.

TIPS FOR LEARNERS WHO ARE READERS AND WRITERS

TIPS FOR ACTIVE LEARNERS

• Copy out your notes

• Read your notes silently

• Rewrite the key points using different words

• Write down key points from memory.

• Move around the room

• Revise while you do physical activity

• Mentally review what you’ve been revising while you’re swimming or jogging.

YEAR 10 SUBJECT SELECTION

INFORMATION EVENING

MONDAY 2 JULY 7PM

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Year 12 Geography Fieldwork in Pyrmont

The Year 12 Geographers, accompanied by Mrs Babic and Mrs Davies, undertook fieldwork in Pyrmont on Thursday 24 May. This excursion was an opportunity for Babographers (Mrs Babic’s Geography Students) to put our classroom learning into action as we learnt about the significant impact of urban decay and consequently urban renewal on the suburb 2 km West of Sydney, Pyrmont.

Thirty-two Year 12 Geography students ventured to Pyrmont by train where we gathered in front of the National Maritime Museum where we met Marina and Patricia who were to be our guides for the day. As we grouped, a quick check of SnapMaps revealed that a fellow Babographer had gotten the later train! We were given a three minute ‘morning tea’ break before being ushered out onto the streets of Pyrmont where we met our lost companion.

The next two and half, or three hours for those of us fortunate enough to be with Marina, who seemed to know anything and everything about the area were spent walking around Pyrmont observing the urban dynamics taking place. We learnt that through economic restructuring the landscape of Pyrmont has changed from its blue collar sugar refinery, tannery (leather) and wool factories to terrace houses and other adaptive reuse purposes. For example, the 1881 bank has kept its facade and through the process of adaptive reuse, has become a cosmetic surgery. Further, we were immersed into the community of Pyrmont amongst its busy, trendy streets and the spatially excluded 15 million dollar terrace apartments that overlooked the Harbour to become more aware of the urban dynamics that surround us each day.

We then were lucky enough to be able to buy some nice lunch ranging from sushi, kebabs, maccas and fresh sandwiches before it was a mad dash and hike uphill to the train station to go home. A special thank you to Mrs Babic and Mrs Davies who took time out of their busy schedules to take us on this great learning experience that we will forever remember; we really appreciate it!

If none of that made sense, in summary it was a great day and the information both groups learnt will assist in understanding how the urban dynamics of an area influence its social demographics and provide us with illustrative examples for our upcoming Trial and HSC exams.

Written by Georgia O'Neill and Estelle Friedrich, Year 12

More wonderful entries from Pawchibald Competition | Mrs Sarah Culligan & Miss Allyse Miskle

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Ebony Taylor Year 11

Kyle James Year 7

Grace Foster Year 7

Mikaela James Year 8

Hayley Jordan Year 7

Sienna Marino Year 7

Bethany Walker Year 11

Samantha Swat Year 10

Ashleigh Gough Year 7

Ashleigh Lisser Year 9

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How powerful is a book cover in attracting you to read a book?

The creative library team is encouraging students to fall in love with reading by having a blind date with a book. Novels of varying genres have been wrapped to disguise the contents in an attempt to have students look beyond their normal choice of reading. Students have been selecting their ‘date’, spent time reading their novel and writing a brief review. We are hoping that this activity will be a bit of fun for most students and, hopefully, further engender an interest in reading.

LIBRARY NEWS

The Library is playing matchmaker!

Going out on a blind date is a lot like opening up a new book –

you never know what kind of experience you’re going to have.

During the next 4 weeks, select your “date” from the display of specially wrapped books, check it out at the Circulation Desk,

take it home and then unwrap it.

Inside each book is a “rate your date” slip. Each slip you return to the Library will be entered into a raffle drawn at the end of June.

Hopefully, it’s love at first site!

Literacy and Numeracy Coordinator | Mrs Peta Batty

BETTER LANGUAGE AT BOSCO (BLAB)

To improve vocabulary at Bosco College, each KLA is promoting five focus words to be used by teachers and students over the week (Tuesday - Tuesday). Points are awarded to students when they appropriately use a word in the context of class work.

MacKillop House is leading after two weeks of competition.

The five BLAB focus words for this week are:• crucial• imperative• successful• substantial• perspective

Students in Newman classes are to choose three of the above words to add to the following words:• infer• empathy

Any students with an orange grid card that has been filled with initials by teachers at the end of the focus week will advance to a blue grid card. Congratulations to William Hoy (Savio 4) who is now on a blue card.

POMPEII STUDY TOUR

2019

FORMS DUE WEDNESDAY

27 JUNE

Pompeii Study Tour 2019 is open to students currently in Years 9, 10 and 11. If you are interested in taking part in this wonderful experience forms

with a $500 deposit is due by Wednesday 27 June and are to be returned to the front office.

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Year 10 Commerce visits the Downing Centre Courts | Mrs Joanne Cutcliffe

On a recent excursion to the city, Year 10 Commerce visited the Downing Centre Courts and the Justice and Police Museum. The students have been studying ‘Law and Society’ and ‘Law in Action’.

In the Downing Centre, the students were able to move freely between courtrooms and view District and Local Court matters at various stages of proceedings including drug and assault cases, closing statements and sentencing hearings.

After a lunch at Circular Quay, students were guided through the historic Justice and Police Museum. They saw exhibits of Sydney’s criminal history and put their forensic skills to the test solving the 1934 Australian ‘Pyjama Girl Mystery’. Students also participated in a mock ‘drink driving’ trial taking roles of prosecutor, defence lawyer, accused and court officer, giving them a sense of the formality and operation of trials.

It was a great day and the class were a credit to the College with their interest, maturity and behaviour.

The College would like to congratulate Ireland Keep of Year 11, who has just returned from Melbourne competing in her first Australian Gymnastics Championships. Ireland did very well representing NSW Senior Level 10 Women's Artistic Gymnastics. During a very tough day 1 she qualified to the finals day 2. Out of the 18 level 10 gymnasts NSW sent down, only 10 qualified for day 2, so this is an amazing achievement for Ireland. She ended up being ranked within the top 30 in Australia in her level. The College would like to acknowledge Ireland's ability to commit to an extensive training schedule whilst balancing her Year 11 school work. We are very proud of you and continue to wish you every success in the future!

Sports News

SPORTING EVENT DATE WHERE

Netball SSCCC All Ages Monday 25 June Woodward Park Netball Courts,

Liverpool

AFL Swans Cup 15’s Boys Tuesday 3 July Pioneer Park, Malabar

All School Touch Years 7 & 8 Tuesday 31 July Gwawley Oval, Taren Point

UPCOMING GALA DAYS FOR BOSCO COLLEGE STUDENTS

Uniform Shop Canteen Roster

Monday 4 June Help needed please

Tuesday 5 June Lisa Walsh

Wednesday 6 June Help needed please

Thursday 7 June Vicki Abela

Friday 8 June Marion Flanagan

Monday 11 June (Public Holiday)

Tuesday 12 June Danielle Laing

Wednesday 13 June Leonie Stone

Thursday 14 June Renee Wilson

Friday 15 June Sharni Lackey

The second-hand Uniform Shop will be open

Wednesday afternoon of Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9

3.00 - 3.45pm &

Friday morning of Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10

8.30 - 9.30am

THE NEXT OPEN DATES FOR TERM 2 2018 ARE:

FRIDAY 8 JUNE 8.30am - 9.30amWEDNESDAY 13 JUNE, 3.00pm - 3.45pm

(please note cash only for Blazer purchases)

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www.boscocollege.nsw.edu.au

Help needed in the canteen

We are URGENTLY seeking assistance in the College Canteen and your time

would be greatly appreciated.

Please contact the office

on 9548 4000

if you are able to help out.

Thank you

The young are the delight of both our families, and our

communities, and have a very important place in our parish. We celebrate their faith through their sacramental journey;

they are the life and focus of our parish schools; their energies and initiatives play a vital role in many of our parish

activities and ministries.

Sadly however, we know that the innocence of the young has not always been treasured and protected in our communities.

The Royal Commission has taught us many lessons, the most fundamental being that we must ensure that this never happens

again and we need to do all we can to find ways to prevent it.

WHAT CAN YOU DO? Become familiar with our Parish Safeguarding VISION

...to ensure that the young and the vulnerable are welcomed, cherished and protected

To worship and grow in Christ.

Complete a 10 x minute ONLINE TRAINING ACTIVITY by 30 June 2018 www.bosco.org.au/safeguarding. For information collect a flier from the foyer of the Church

For those whose parish ministry is directly involved with working with children attend a TRAINING WORKSHOP. For details and to register boscosafeguarding@gmail.com

Please feel welcome to be in touch with one of the team if you have questions or concerns by emailing boscosafeguarding@gmail.com God’s blessings Fr Michael Court SDB, Parish Priest