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PETER MOYES ANGLICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
A School of the Anglican Schools Commission
VOLUME 18 - EDITION 14
27 May 2015
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Knowledge & Insight
Equality & Compassion
Integration & Wholeness
Confidence, Competence & Responsibility
Self-worth
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
YEAR 11 AND YEAR 12 EXAMINATIONS
Year 11 and Year 12 students commenced their Semester One Examinations on
Monday with the examination period concluding on Friday 5th June. The setting,
staging, supervision and marking of examinations requires considerable effort , so I
wish to thank all staff involved in organising and overseeing this important
academic period.
YEAR FIVE CAMP
Year Five students departed today for their annual camp to New Norcia. After the recent rains the students
should enjoy a greener environment and some brisk nights alongside the unique history of the area.
My thanks to the staff and parents who will accompany the students to the Camp.
ACC CROSS-COUNTRY CARNIVAL
Tomorrow sees the School’s Cross-Country Squad compete in the annual ACC Inter-Schools Cross Country
Championships at Perry Lakes. This day is a highlight of the ACC’s annual sporting calendar. Last year the
School finished in third place overall out of over sixty schools. I wish this year’s Squad, led by the exemplary
and highly talented Savannah Steinbach and Sam Rayner, and the Squad’s coaches every success.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA DAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY
I wish School families a relaxing Western Australian Day Public Holiday this coming Monday, 1st June.
Julian Dowse
Principal
This week all Junior School students have been issued with catalogues for Scholastic Book
Club. If you wish to order please return the order form to the Junior School library by Friday
5TH June. Please ensure you order from Issue No. 4. Payment may be made using either
credit card payment direct to Scholastic, or, cheque made payable to Scholastic included
with the order form. If you are shopping for a gift for your child, please let Ms McLeod
know and she will contact you directly when the orders are returned.
Thank you
Danielle Palmer-Smith
Acting Head of Library Services
www.petermoyes.wa.edu.au
ACT JUSTLY, HONOUR GOD
Dear Friends,
Christians recently observed the Feast of the Ascension of Jesus. The following is a homily by the previous Archbishop of Canterbury,
Dr. Rowan Williams, on the significance of the Ascension of Jesus:
“Plenty of people look around and say, ‘This is a world without God’. It’s a world where, moment by moment, children are dying in poverty
of preventable diseases, where tyrants are planning to secure their power over suffering populations, where men and women are
struggling to put their lives back together in the wake of natural disaster and where people are dying in loneliness and living in anxiety all
around us. Any Christian with a shred of intelligence will surely understand why so many are driven to say, ‘Well, it feels like a world
without God’ – and perhaps in secret they agree that, for quite a lot of the time, that is indeed how it feels for them too.
On Ascension Day, the friends of Jesus face the fact that they are going to have to get used to living in a world without Jesus – or at least,
living in a world without the Jesus they have known. After those frightening and exhilarating few weeks of Easter, when – amazed and
confused – they have almost got used to the possibility of meeting Jesus in unexpected faces and places, he is now saying to them, ‘It’s
going to be different. Don’t expect to see me around in the old way.’ They must have felt deeply disoriented, even fearful.
According to St John’s gospel, he’d already said to them, ‘It’s better for you if I go away.’ What kind of sense does that make, though? In
what way can it be better for us to live in a world from which the visible signs of God’s love seem to be absent? Not only the signs of love
or joy that might persuade us to believe, but the greatest sign of all, the actual presence of Jesus, risen from the dead in his flesh and
blood? If Jesus’ friends are feeling apprehensive at the thought of his going away, we can identify with that, because we know what it’s like
to live in a world where it often looks as if God has withdrawn and left us to it.
But there are two all-important things that completely change our perspective on this. The first is a theme that St John’s gospel in
particular is keen to underline. We are always liable to hang on to what we can see and understand so as to make ourselves feel safe;
when Jesus is simply ‘there’ like the other things we find in the world, part of the furniture, there’s a big risk that we can make him too
familiar. We domesticate him and we lose the possibility of being shocked and surprised by him. We don’t grasp the fact that he isn’t just
one thing among others, one person among others. We miss out on the great truth that he is within and beyond all things, mysteriously
holding everything together.
So if the world often feels like a world without God, is that a sort of caution to us? Be careful not to think that God is there to fill the gaps,
to solve the problems, to fit in in our terms. God isn’t a thing among other things. God is the depth of energy out of which every single
thing comes. If we can’t instantly ‘see’ God in the world, perhaps it’s because he is like the air we breathe, so all-pervasive that we can
never pin down its presence as if it were an object..
Jesus hasn’t just gone away. He has gone deeper into the heart of reality – our reality and God’s. He has become far more than a visible
friend and companion; he has shown himself to be the very centre of our life, the source of our loving energy in the world and the source
of our prayerful, trustful waiting on God. He has made us able to be a new kind of human being, silently and patiently trusting God as a
loving parent, actively and hopefully at work to make a difference in the world, to make the kind of difference love makes.
The friends of Jesus are called, in other words, to offer themselves as signs of God in the world – to live in such a way that the underlying all
-pervading energy of God begins to come through them and make a difference. If we are challenged as to where God is in the world, our
answer must be to ask ourselves how we can live, pray and act so as to bring to light the energy at the heart of all things – to bring the face
of Jesus to life in our faces, and to do this by turning again and again to the deep well of trust and prayer that the Spirit opens for us. As
St. Teresa said; We are Jesus hands now to reach out with his love now; we are his feet with which to go about doing good.”
Best wishes,
Father Chris Beal
School Chaplin
www.petermoyes.wa.edu.au
ACT JUSTLY, HONOUR GOD
Indonesian University Experience 2016
Where else could you visit the centuries-old palace and see the inner workings of the Sultanate? Where else could you visit a 9th
Century UNESCO World Heritage Site and see centuries-old stone carvings? Where else could you ride on bicycles with friends
through villages, speaking in a foreign language to local families? Where else could you shop in a traditional market for ingredients before learning from locals how to cook a traditional meal?
On the Indonesian University Experience is where you can do all of these things.
From the 15th to the 22nd April 2016 it is planned that students who are in Year 10, 11 and 12 (in the 2016 school year) will be
able to participate in a 7 day tour to Java. The tour is to Yogyakarta (Central Java) for a 5 day University placement with ACICIS
along with two days stop-over in Jakarta. Students will attend language classes each week-day and travel on field trips in the
afternoons. This is a great opportunity to see another culture and university life first hand!
If you are interested in receiving information about the tour, please contact Pak Linden Davis via email at
[email protected]. Registrations for the Study Tour will open before the end of Term 2.
Borobudur temple,
Central Java)
Last week students in Primary, Middle and Senior School were fortunate to have a visiting teacher
from Bali, Indonesia. Ibu Widya is a teacher in the Indonesia Australia Language Foundation and
holds formal teaching qualifications from Australia. She worked with our Year 6-8 and Senior
School Languages classes to share her story and bring some authentic Indonesian flavour to
Indonesian lessons.
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Year 6 students impressed Ibu Widya with their ability to interview her using the Indonesian
language. Year 7 students were active in learning some traditional Indonesian dance moves with
the poco-poco dance. In year 8, students took part in a ‘masterclass’, learning how to make dadar gulung (crepes coloured with
pandan and filled with coconut and palm sugar). In Senior School students were able to converse in preparation for upcoming
examinations and learn some traditional handicrafts.
Ibu Widya made special mention of how skilled many of the Languages students were and was impressed with students’ language
proficiency from Year 6 through to Year 12. Thank you to the Indonesian teachers and the students who contributed to make
Ibu Widya’s visit a meaningful and memorable one.
Have you thought about taking some language classes on your next holiday to Bali? There are some organisations that offer short
and longer term language study options (usually 5 days minimum):
Cinta Bahasa: http://cintabahasa.com/
IALF: http://www.ialf.edu/learningindonesianinbali.html
On the 4th of June a team of ten Year 5 students will participate in the Academic All Stars contest at St Mark’s ACS. On the day the
students will compete in a number of activities, such as Mathematics Masters, English Einsteins, Drama and the Brain Strain Quiz.
An integral part of the contest is for each team to organise fundraising for Compassion Australia’s Child Survival Programme, which
helps to prevent child mortality in many countries around the world.
Over the last six weeks our team have organised a wide range of different fundraising events to help raise funds for this worthy cause.
Firstly, over the Easter School holidays they volunteered their time at home to do chores they didn’t normally do, such as washing the
car, or weeding. They each raised the target they had set as a group of at least $15.
Some of our enterprising team members also baked delicious treats at home and sold them to students and staff, who snapped up
the caramel popcorn, cookies and rice bubble treats at recess.
Some other students took the initiative to make pretty bracelets and headbands and felt iPhone and iPad covers and sold those to
students and staff. They were joined in these efforts by students who are not in the team, which is an impressive reflection on the
generosity of our school community.
On Friday 22nd May the students organised a fun free dress day for all of the Year 5 students when they dressed up in the colours of
the rainbow for a gold coin donation. Money is still coming in from some of the other activities, but the ten students involved have so
far raised over $300.
Thanks to the students and families who have supported the team’s fundraising efforts.
Team members: Whitlam Hendricks, Joshua Cronin, Leia Keegan Rogers, Jenna Bronnum-Lee, Anya Coetzee, Bobby Yang,
Caitlyn Thomson, Amy Farrier, Imogen Sarolea, Hazel Gathani.
Chrissie Payne
Primary Academic Extension Teacher
Connect Learn Engage Parent Seminar
On Thursday 14th May, 2015 the second ‘Connect Learn Engage’ Parent Seminar of 2015 was held in the Allan Shaw Centre
Auditorium. The topic for the evening’s discussion was ‘Living with Teenagers’ presented by Graham Hyman.
Graham has been a regular presenter at our School for many years and his parent seminar followed talks to both Year 10 and Year 9
students earlier in the day. Many parents came along after discussing Graham’s talk with their child when they went home from
School! Graham offered a humorous and insightful look into the minds and habits of teenagers, encouraging parents to ‘pick their
battles’ and ‘let them fail’ whilst reassuring parents that they can get through the teenage years relatively unscathed!
The ‘Connect, Learn, Engage’ programme includes a wide range of resources for parents, including DVDs, books and leaflets and it
was good to see all Graham’s resources borrowed on the evening. Please contact Claire Long in the P&F office if you wish to borrow
any resources.
Nicole Brown, Alison Grey & Natalie Shaw
Deputy Associate Principals
Hi All,
The Year 6's students are currently making LARGE works of art and require
equally large quantities of newspaper to
construct them.
If you have any newspapers that you are
not using, please can you deliver them
to the primary art class.
Any school deliveries will be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you
Patricia De
Lange
Teacher Assistant
P & F NEWS
You can earn any of your 12
P & F Levy hours in any term.
Walk Safely to School Day (WSTSD) is an
annual, national event when all Primary School
children are encouraged to walk and commute
safely to and from school. It is a Community
Event seeking to promote Road Safety, Health,
Public Transport and the Environment.
Volunteer opportunities
Event
Date
Contact
Indonesian
Garden –
help to plan and
design an
Indonesian
Anytime
Guinnevere Bell
Home
Economics
(Food Room)
Anytime
Other families made their own plans and helped us to celebrate this
wonderful initiative.
Primary School
Art Room
Anytime
Why wait for Walk Safely to School Day? Why not start a healthy habit
with your children by choosing one of these options one or more times a
week? Leave the car at home and walk your child to or from school walk
to and from public transport or, if you must drive, park the car a good
distance away from the school gates and walk the rest of the way.
Science
Laboratory
Anytime
It was held throughout Australia on Friday 22nd May 2015.
Over forty PMACS parents and students walked from Quinns Village
Shopping Centre to school, using the School Crossing. Some of these
parents enjoyed taking advantage of a discount kindly offered to them by
Hardware Café, Quinns Rocks to reward themselves for their efforts!
Another intrepid group of parents met at Portofinos Café car park on the
afternoon of 22nd May 2015. They walked up Quinns Road to collect their
children from School and then walked back down the hill together. More
hot drinks were consumed in celebration!
We can all benefit from taking part by
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reducing traffic congestion around our school
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[email protected]
Rita Wilson
[email protected]
Chloe Kyriakacis
[email protected]
Vicky Carter
[email protected]
Laboratory
experience and
qualifications
reducing air pollution created by motor vehicles
reducing car dependency habits
promoting the health benefits of walking
reinforcing all-important road-crossing skills.
More information can be found at http://www.walk.com.au
Entertainment™ Membership Fundraiser
The P & F are again selling the ever-popular
Perth Entertainment™ Books and
Memberships.
Entertainment Books are valid until 31st May
2016 and are now in stock. They can be
ordered online, purchased at Main
Administration or from the P & F Office.
Digital Memberships are downloaded to your
device when the online payment is
processed.
Claire Long
P & F Office
[email protected]
P & F Meeting Dates
2015 P & F Events
Meetings begin at 7.00pm and are held in the T & E Rooms
entered via the Waves Café.
Entertainment Book Fundraise
May – August 2015
Bunnings BBQ Fundraise
Saturday 20th June 2015
Father’s Day Stall
Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Tuesday 23rd June 2015 – General Meeting
Tuesday 15th September 2015 – AGM
Tuesday 27th October 2015 – Funding
Round
Tuesday 17th November 2015 – General
Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser Saturday 3rd October 2015
Family Photographs Saturday 31st October 2015
LAST FEW DAYS TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP WITH THE
SECOND-HAND SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL SHOP.
OFFER ENDS SUNDAY 31ST MAY 2015
We are delighted to inform you that the school’s new initiative to provide parents with the ability to trade second-hand
uniform items via the Sustainable School Shop. www.sustainableschoolshop.com.au is proving a great success.
The opening offer of complimentary annual subscriptions (lasts 365 days) ends on Sunday 31st May 2015. We would
encourage parents to take full advantage of this opportunity.
For the best results:
Register on the Sustainable School Shop website prior by Sunday 31st May
List your secondhand uniform items for sale
List wanted ads for those items you are looking to buy
The school’s uniform lists are loaded into the system to make listing ads easy
The system matches the ads of buyers with sellers and notifies the buyer via email
Buyers contact sellers and arrange where and when to trade.
The school is not involved in the transaction
Parents are well supported via Sustainable School Shop’s telephone (1300 683 337) and email help lines
The system is simple and easy to use - If you don’t have a computer, internet access or an email address,
please call the Sustainable School Shop for assistance
All enquiries should be directed to the Sustainable School Shop on: 1300 683 337 or help is also available through
‘Contact Us’ on their website at www.sustainableschoolshop.com.au
If you currently have any second-hand items in the Uniform Shop that have not sold, they will be returned to you via your
student by the end of this term along with a letter detailing any outstanding monies owed. Any outstanding amounts will
be credited to your school account during Term 3.
Information leaflets about this new service will be available from the Uniform Shop, however if you have any questions,
please feel free to email me on [email protected] or phone 9304 5544 during normal opening hours, Tuesday & Thursday 8am – 12pm.
Kind regards
Sara Smith
Uniform Shop Manager
www.petermoyes.wa.edu.au
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