SHALOM NEWS MANY CULTURES ONE FAITH

SEPTEMBER 2015 TERM 3

Shalom Students and Family celebrate

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Greetings

Health and Well-Being

Community Visits

What’s Happening

Sports Academy

NAIDOC

Shalom Sports

IMPORTANT DATES-2015 Boarding students start to travel back home on the following days;

Year 12 Boarders Travel Day—20th November 2015

Year 7-11 Boarders Travel Day—3rd December 2015

School Closes for all Primary and Secondary on Thursday 3rd December 2015

SEPTEMBER 2015

Shalom Christian College 190 Hervey Range Rd, Condon, Qld 4815

PO Box 366, Thuringowa Central, Qld 4817 Tel: (07) 4750 3400 Fax: (07) 4750 3429

www.shalomcollege.qld.edu.au

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Greetings

Dear Parents and Caregivers, It has been a very good term here at Shalom. Three weeks into the term the school roll was 304 and this has steadily climbed to 320 as of the end of term. The term saw a continuants of the many positive opportunities that Shalom offers to students. Sports: The “North Queensland Cowboys” Try-Time continued to operate where members of the NQ Cowboys NRL team came to Shalom and participated in sporting and classroom activities with students. The students performed very well at the Interschool Athletics. Particular mention goes to students Tegan Doomadgee, Arthur Delta and Lance Hudson. The young men's program continues as it give confidence and respect to our young men. We conducted our year 12 educational assessments. Members of the schools chooky dancers group paid their annual visit to Palm Island where they shared their culture through dance at the Spring Festival Palm Island. Congratulations to a past student Deanne Sibley who has been selected to attend the women's light weight under 20 boxing title competition. Two members of the school board and I paid a visit (after being invited) to communities in the Central Desert. This was a very good trip and further enhanced the relationship between the school and these communities. The term concluded with the schools celebration of NAIDOC. We were blessed with an abundance of joy on this day. Students showed all their culture in the form of dance and music. It was great to see such talent, your children are indeed gifted. We had performances from a number of groups in the school, Wulguru and Cranbrook Schools and the Salt Water Band from Elcho Island. We were very grateful to these young men and to all our visitors and parents who shared the date and the Kup Murri lunch. May God continue to bless you and your children. Regards, Chris England Principal

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Health and Wellbeing

Rheumatic

Heart

Party

Townsville

Hospital

A sthma Day

This term Shalom Christian College were pleased to have a

quest speaker from The Asthma Foundation Queensland.

Students from years 4 to 12 attended a short education session

about Asthma and how friends of students with asthma can help

in certain situations.

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Community Visits

Woorabinda Visit Report by Jodi McLean

Wednesday 19th August 2015

Attended: Jodi McLean (Registrar) and Katrina Booth (Teachers Assistant)

The Department of Human Services hosted the second “Get Started for

High School Information Session” for 2015. Being held at the

Woorabinda State School we had the year 6 students attend along with

some parents and families.

The Smith Family who we already have 3 of their children attending will

have their 4th child, Ethan come to Shalom in 2016. Ethan is very keen

and excited to be coming to Shalom. It is great to have all of the Smith

children attend and complete their education with us at Shalom.

Anita Daisy the mother of the Smith students came to see us again as she

does each time we are in the community. Anita’s daughter Lydia will be

graduating year 12 this year which is a great achievement.

We met with Charlene Mann from the Darumbal Community Youth

Services based in Rockhampton. Charlene said that they would like to start

working with and supporting Shalom to assist with enrolling students and

getting students on travel rom the CQ region.

BULLA COMMUNITY VISIT

We chartered a plane from Katherine out to the Bulla Community

to spend the day. This is the 1st visit Shalom has had to the Bulla

Community and School. Bulla Community is 170km from

Kununurra, 340km from Katherine and 60km from Timber Creek

just off the Victoria Highway. Bulla Community was once a part

of the Auvergne Station.

Jess Robinson is the Teaching Principal at the School and is very

supportive of the families and Shalom.

We met with the family of 2 students who are keen to come to

Shalom. It was good to meet with staff at the school and some of

the families in Bulla.

Royal Darwin Show, Peppimenarti, Katherine, Binjari, Numbulwar and Bulla Community Trip Report

by Jodi McLean

Wednesday 22nd – Friday 31st July 2015

DARWIN SHOW

Shalom Christian College again held a stand at the Royal Darwin Show which

was a great success. Our stand displayed a large number of photos of our past

and present students succeeding in sport, education and graduation.

It was great to have some of our current students come and see us along with a

number of ex-students.

We received a positive number of enquiries about the College, year levels,

subjects offered, boarding eligibility, student discipline, activities and sports

offered and opportunities.

PEPPIMENARTI COMMUNITY VISIT

On Monday 27th July we spent the day at the

Peppimenarti School hosted by the Principal Sue

Paul and speaking with students, parents and

families.

Paula Parry assisted with collecting parents and

students to come and meet with us which was

great help and much appreciated.

BINJARI COMMUNITY VISIT

From Peppimenarti we drove to Katherine and out to Binjari Community. We visited Rita Brumby the grandmother/guardian

for a number of our students from this community. Shalom has a good friendship with Rita and enjoy visiting her each year.

Rita gave Jodi a gift that was a lovely gesture. While in the community we met with 3 students and their families to complete

enrolment applications that are keen to commence with us in the near future.

NUMBULWAR COMMUNITY VISIT

We chartered a plane from Katherine to Numbulwar for the day. We have a very strong bond with Numbulwar, it’s students,

families and community services departments. We were based at the Shire Services Office which

is central to the shop, school, clinic and banking office making us more accessible to the families

and community people. The families really enjoy and appreciate our visit each year which is

evident in the number of applications we receive each time we visit Numbulwar.

As our current students were still in community due to sorry business most of them came to see us

and invited us to watch them play basketball after school. This was a great opportunity for us to be

out socialising with the student and families in their community and we really enjoyed this.

We spoke with the Shire Services Manager Roger about the Government project of sealing the

road from the airstrip to the community which is long overdue. During the wet season it can at times be impossible to get

from the community to the airstrip due to flooding and the condition of the dirt road. The Government has approved the

$1.3 million project that has now commenced and is due to be completed by late October 2015. Part of the conditions of the

contract is that a number of the local indigenous people had to be employed on the product. Roger was very pleased that the

company employed 8 of the local people to work alongside 10 people flown in from Darwin. A great win for the Numbulwar

Community.

It is always a pleasure to visit the Numbulwar Community with excellent results achieved.

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What’s Happening

O n Thursday 10th September, Bruce and Denise Morecombe came to school to teach the whole school about

ways to keep safe. Shalom Christian College was the first school in Australia to see their new Indigenous

specific resources on keeping safe, which tied in with the National Child Protection Week.

All staff and students dressed in RED and donated money to the foundation.

We raised $180.55 for the Daniel Morecombe foundation.

For more information please see link for more information. http://www.danielmorcombe.com.au/

Thank you for your donations.

J CU Oral Health Visits Dentistry students from James Cook University visited a

number of classes to speak about the importance of

dental care and good oral hygiene. The Year 7’s enjoyed

this visit and the ‘hands on’ activities delivered.

Tirzah Lewis at the Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Service.

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I nterschool Athletics

41 students who had shown potential at the Inter-clan

Carnival were selected to represent Shalom at the

Townsville Secondary School Athletics Carnival held at

the sports Reserve (Red Track) over two days in week 5.

Students displayed excellent effort and positive attitudes to

have a go against much bigger schools with more

experienced athletes. In particular Renee Hudson,

Slade Peter, Nellia Dau, Gise Dau, Tegan Doomadgee,

Nazareth Williams and Mary Crocombe delivered

outstanding performances.

Congratulations to all involved.

Sports Academy

I nterclan Athletics

On Friday the 7th of August all secondary students competed in the annual Shalom Athletics Carnival.

For the past 5 years Green clan has dominated, but pushed hard throughout the day it was Blue clan that

took out the 2015 title. Students displayed excellent participation and great spirit making it a memorable day.

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NAIDOC

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NAIDOC

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Lets Have Fun

Lets Colour

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Lets Have Fun

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Cowboys deliver positive message

The North Queensland Toyota Cowboys Try Time! program, sponsored by community partner South32 Cannington mine, was given a boost recently when Cowboys legends Brent Tate and Aaron Payne pitched in to help deliver Try Time! workshops to year 9 students at Shalom Christian College.

Joining Cowboys fullback Hezron Murgha, NYC players Gideon Mosby and Nathan Traill and the team from Youth With A Mission (YWAM), Payne and Tate spoke with students about setting goals and the importance of personal values.

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Cowboys deliver positive message

The fast-paced, interactive workshops and the Try Time messages about the importance of school are also hitting the mark with students.

When asked, “What things do you think would help young people stay away from drugs”, responses from those attending the Substance Abuse workshop were:

60% Staying in school, making a life for themselves, 13% Being open and getting support from family and friends when you need it, 14% Being active, staying healthy and having good friends,

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SHALOM SPORTS

AFL Gala Day

AFL Townsville ran a Secondary Schools Youth Girls

(13-18) AFL Gala Day on Tuesday 11 August at the

Murray Sporting Complex. Shalom took 51 girls to

compete in the U15 and Open divisions. The format

of the day was to be 12 a-side, however due to

Shalom’s great turnout and sportsmanship our girls

volunteered to assist the other schools and increase

numbers to 18 v 18. This was great to see and lots of

laughter was heard throughout the day. The opens side

remained unbeaten throughout the day to retain their title and the 15’s just missed out on the honours, due in

part to our girls kicking goals for the other schools.

I nterschool Touch

Shalom entered an open boys and an open girls team into two Touch gala Days this term.

This was an opportunity to develop and test new skills against other schools at Queens Park. They boys

demonstrated tremendous potential with speed, agility and creativity throughout their matches, winning 1,

tying 1, losing 1 and having a forfeit win. For many of the girls this was their first taste of Touch and they

performed admirably and were competitive in all matches.

Weekend AFL v Bombers

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SHALOM SPORTS

B rendan Wanambi played Uni Hawks reserve grade throughout 2015, playing great football up for-ward for the Hawks. He was an important part of the team which made it to the Preliminary Final.

L ance Hudson played Uni Hawks senior grade in Term 3, playing several very impressive games. He managed 7 goals (nearly half the Hawks score for the game) and was a real x-factor in a game vs

Curra Swans. Lance is also invited to attend the 2015-16 Gold Coast Suns Academy Testing. GOOD LUCK.

L eon Gurruwiwi flew to Brisbane in September with the NQ Central U14 Team to compete in

the State Academy Trials on the Sunshine Coast. GOOD LUCK LEON

C ongratulations to Saravina

Lalara and Tegan Doomadgee

who have both been selected in the

QLD Indigenous u/17 youth girls

team.

Both Saravina and Tegan will be

attending the Under 18 Kickstart

Carnival in Darwin during the first

week of the School holidays. This

is a particularly great occasion for

Saravina whom has been attending

Shalom for her whole high

schooling career and has worked really hard to be positive and make this side.

Well done girls and also Thanks to Tom and Melissa for their roles in helping organize and

prepare the girls.

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“The Back Page”

Shalom Christian College Confraternity Team 2015

Shalom had a positive Confraternity Carnival. SCC joined with St Teresa’s College, Noosaville, and ended up winning 3 and losing 3. In very positive news, Shalom improved on their overall placings from 2013 and 2014 this year. Congratulations to the whole playing group from both Shalom and St Teresa’s, as well as staff Melissa Sotheren, Alex Munro, Tom Hughes, Katrina Booth, Mark Burgess, George Makaua and James Matthew.

Shalom Christian College Confraternity 2015