Grace No ces
Friday, 17 October 2014
Tel. 08 9726 4200
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Coming up
Term 4
Week 1
Saturday, 18 October
BUSY BEE
Week 2
Monday, 20 October
Parent Prayer Group 9am
Constable Care Incursion
Year 1—7
Year 11 Exams commence
(20—27 October)
Tuesday, 21 October
Little Library 9am
Thursday, 23 October
Kindy Tour 9.30am
Friday, 24 October
Junior School Assembly
2.20pm
Week 3
Monday, 27 October
Parent Prayer Group 9am
Tuesday, 28 October
Little Library 9am
Thursday, 30 October
Interschool Athletics
Competition
From the Principal’s desk
Welcome
Welcome back to School and Term 4. Term 4 is consistently a very busy term, even more so than
the previous three and it becomes essen@al that secure rou@nes are maintained to assist
children in this ﬁnal term of the year.
I would par@cularly like to welcome the new families to our school; Connor Thornhill (Year 6),
Brodie Banks (Year8) and Sindiso Gumbo (Year 10). We pray you will seCle in and feel part of our
community very quickly.
Year 12 students
Yesterday we saw oﬀ our Year 12 students with an incredible assembly and Gradua@on Dinner.
The ﬁnal day for our Year 12’s is always steeped in emo@ons, a sense of ﬁnality and sadness, but
also enormous pride as we take stock and see what wonderful young men and women graduate
from our school. The Grace community becomes very evident on these days, and as staﬀ, parents
and students made men@on, it is like a family. I would like to thank our Year 12 students for the
way they conducted themselves throughout the day. You have done the school proud and made
the ﬁnal day something very special. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the parents of these young people. For some, this marks the end of a partnership with Grace Chris@an
School that has lasted for many years. Your valued support of our Chris@an school has not only
provided for your child’s growth but also for the future of Chris@an educa@on in the Bunbury
area. Thank you.
NAPLAN results
The NAPLAN results were recently released and parents should have a copy of their children’s
results. Whilst we see this standardized test as one of many tools we use for review and improvement for both the individual and the school programme, it is very pleasing to see the hard
work of the teachers in the years of the test and the prior years pay oﬀ.
Kindy Tour 9.30am
Creative Arts / Open Night
5.30pm—8.30pm
Friday, 31 October
Reformation Day
Middle School Assembly
2.20pm
Week 4
Monday, 3 November
Parent Prayer Group 9am
Tuesday, 4 November
Little Library 9am
Year 8 Immunisations
Kindergarten Parents
Dinner 6.30pm
Thursday, 6 November
School Tour 10am
PR Uniform Fittings
Friday, 7 November
Worship Service 2.20pm
PR Uniform Fittings
Term Dates
Term 4—ends Friday, 12 December
The results in all years reﬂected this eﬀort and I thank our teachers for their dedica@on and skill
in facilita@ng the results. In all areas our school results not only showed signiﬁcant growth in individual results but also signiﬁcant growth against state and na@onal results. Well done to all concerned.
25th Anniversary
Next year marks the 25th year of opera@on for our school. To celebrate this occasion a number of
signiﬁcant events will be held over the year including a Bush Dance, a May Fair, Dinners and special dedica@on services where we will acknowledge the blessings the school has received from
our Lord and Father over the past quarter of a century. Stay tuned.
Crea ve Arts / Open Night
You are warmly invited to the Crea@ve Arts Open Night on Thursday, 30th October, between
5.00pm and 7.45pm. Music, drama and dance performances, art work and much more will be
on display on the night. There will also be a school tour for any families interested in enrolling
their children into Grace Chris@an School. I encourage you to aCend and invite family and
friends as we showcase our school to the community. (See further details on page 2)
Mr Hugo de Ridder
Principal
Let us acknowledge the LJKL; let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun
rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that
water the earth. Hosea 6:3 (NIV)
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Year 5/6 Parliament House and Scitech Excursion
On 12th September, the Year 5/6 class took an excursion to Parliament House and Scitech. Our students were complimented for
their knowledge, behaviour, and neat uniforms at Parliament and they really enjoyed their tour. Scitech was also exci@ng, and
aOer some @me on the ﬂoor, our class were very successful in crea@ng Stop Mo@on Anima@ons in the CSIRO lab. I was very proud
of them! Many thanks to Mrs Hobbs, Mr Williams, Mr Carter and Mr Meyer, who were gracious helpers for a very long day.
Comments on Parliament House
When we arrived at Parliament there was an awesome view of the city and the front of the Parliament was really tall! Brody
We were 20 minutes early, so we went for a walk. When we came back we saw Mark McGowan MP (Leader of the Opposi@on) in
the middle of an interview! The parliament had lots of stairs and amazing artwork. Jessica
The most interes@ng thing was learning about a person called John Forrest. He was born near Eaton.
It was an awesome day. Marlize
The tour guide told us how John Forrest was accepted to become a Lord, but when he was on the
boat, travelling to the House of Lords in England, he died. She took us up some elegant white stairs to
the 2nd ﬂoor, where there were beau@ful chandeliers hanging from the roof, and showed us a pain@ng
of the ﬁrst men to start Parliament. I had a fantas@c @me at Parliament House and learnt lots of interes@ng things. Elavina
Our guide started to ask us some ques@ons about Parliament House. I think she thought we had not learnt a lot about it, (but we
answered them all and she was impressed!). Lochlan
Our guide was really nice and showed us some of the history of the Parliament. When we went into the Lower House we reenacted the passing of the Bill about hoons on the roads. I acted as the Member for Wagin. AOer that we went to the Upper House
and we were shown the Black Rod before we leO to have blueberry muﬃns with juice, supplied by our Member of Parliament.
Imogen
Comments on Scitech
Scitech has lots of fun, scien@ﬁc and interes@ng games for kids aged 4 -13. LiCle kids might say it’s a magical place. It has lots of
games that trick your mind and make you wonder how it did that. Jessica
I was fascinated by what I saw at Scitech. By the end of the day, I had laid on a bed of nails, had my
head almost chopped oﬀ, gone through this awesome mirror maze and made a small anima@on. I just
could not stop smiling! Shelana
Lochlan and I started our thaumatrope anima@on with Pacman chomping. Lochlan drew the pictures
while I took the photos with a special, small camera. When we were done, we made another, longer
anima@on. It was great fun. Nathan
Georgia and I created an anima@on of a strawberry growing with a caterpillar coming out and then
dissolving. Sophie
I had an absolute blast! Imogen
Mrs Maxine Jolly
Year 5/6 Teacher
Pirate Day
To celebrate all things nau@cal and, possibly, in recogni@on of today (19th September) being Interna!onal Talk Like A Pirate Day,
yesterday Mrs Bignell’s Early Childhood class held a pirate party.
The children made pirate costumes and their own pirate play ship and then, with an
appropriate level of swashbuckling and many cries of “Ahoy!” they set sail for a treasure island!
Aye, an’ what a successful adventure t’was! They found gold coins which they later
gleeful showed the landlubbers from other classes.
Mr Ross Le Cras
Community Rela ons
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Emily progressing strongly through the Premier's ANZAC tour compe
on
Next year will be a milestone in the history of Australia as the na@on remembers the
100th Anniversary of its involvement in WWI. On ANZAC Day 2015, Grace Year 10 student Emily Fernley hopes to be among those gathered of the hilltops of Gallipoli in remembrance of our brave soldiers.
From over 1,000 entries, Emily is one of 57 students shortlisted for the Premier's
ANZAC Student Tour 2015. As well as having an ac@ve interest in the study of history,
applicants were required to write a 1000 word essay on The Spirit of ANZAC. Those
selected to progress to the State Final have an interview with the selec@on panel on
Friday, 10 October 2014, aOer which the ﬁnal tour group of 32 students will be announced.
If successful, for 10 days in April 2015, Emily will visit key baCleﬁeld sites and aCend the historic ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Gallipoli as an ambassador for the school, her community, and the state of Western Australia.
Emily said she was drawn to apply because she wanted to know more about the event which became the crucible of our na@onal
iden@ty, “Australia is a small country on the global scale and yet this spirit of ANZAC has become our great thing. It’s from this @me
we have we have drawn our iden@ty, and I wanted to know more about that, and get greater insight into it.”
Head of Senior School, Mrs Diane Hackney, said she was pleased to be able to support Emily’s applica@on with a glowing reference.
“Emily has been an asset to her year group ever since joining our school. She is responsible, a mature thinker and has a strong interest in history. I believe she will be an asset to the tour party and a ﬁne representa@ve for our school.”
Mr Ross Le Cras
Community Rela ons Oﬃcer
Raising conﬁdent and resilient children
With resiliency being a focus of our school’s Pastoral Care Team, I would like to advise all parents of some free seminars available
through the local community.
The Bunbury Community Health Services is running “Triple P – Seminar Series” during November in Dalyellup. The three week
program provides seminars for parents, and covers key concepts of:
Seminar 1 – Posi ve paren ng
Seminar 2 – Raising conﬁdent, competent children
Seminar 3 – Raising resilient children
Parents can aCend one, two or all three seminars.
Venue: Tuart Forest Primary School, Crystal Bend, Dalyellup
Dates: November 11th, 18th and 25th
Time: Tuesdays 10am-11:30am
Bookings are essen@al for these sessions. Free crèche available. Please call Bunbury Community Health Services on 9795 2888.
Mrs Akita Olsen
Chaplain
Busy Bee
Our next Busy Bee has been scheduled for tomorrow SATURDAY,18th OCTOBER between 8.30am and 12.30pm. Please join us for
a produc@ve morning of working around the school and school grounds and enjoying a cuppa together at morning tea.
Families who aCend will receive a $75 credit on their tui@on account. Please bring a plate to share for morning tea.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Exam Invigila on
We are looking for parent help/volunteers to assist staﬀ with exam invigila@on during the Semester 2 exams for students in Year 810. Exams are during Week 7 of this term, Monday, 24 November to Thursday, 27 November, and are between 8.35pm and
12.15pm. If you are able to assist, please contact Mrs Diane Hackney via the school oﬃce on 08 9726 4200.
Thank you.
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Remembrance Day
This year marks the 96th anniversary of Armis@ce Day, which will be celebrated on Remembrance Day, Tuesday, 11th November.
During World War One, on many of the devastated baCleﬁelds in France and Belgium, where ﬁgh@ng had
occurred, red poppies began to grow and ﬂower. People saw the ﬂowers as symbols of remembrance for
those who had died. Today, we wear poppies on Remembrance Day to honour all those who gave their lives
in war.
A collec@on @n from the RSL Sub-Branch Bunbury and poppies will be available from Student Services from
Wednesday, 5th November.
There will also be a service at the War Memorial, Bunbury on Thursday, 11th November at 11am.
Grace Chris an School app – SKOOLBAG
Our Skoolbag app can be downloaded from the App store for smart phones and smart devices such as iPads
and Android tablets.
On this App you will ﬁnd relevant up to date informa@on about school events, newsleCers, etc. It is also a
great communica@on tool for you to send informa@on to the school, eg. Absentees.
Simply search for Grace Chris@an School in the Google Play Store on your phone, PC or Mac and install. AOer the app is installed
click on “more” then “Setup” and select which categories you would like to receive push no@ﬁca@ons for. To ﬁnd out more go to
www.skoolbag.com.au
This is an eﬀec@ve communica@on tool for our school, and we encourage you to download this free app.
Private Music Tui on
Are you interested in learning a musical instrument: drums, guitar, piano or taking vocal lessons? We are incredibly blessed to have
highly experienced and qualiﬁed tutors teaching at Grace Chris@an School.
Piano—Mrs Jill Faed
Drums—Miss Jasmine Greminger
Guitar—Miss Stasia Worthington
Vocals—Mrs Sue le Clair
Lessons are conducted once per week during school hours and cost $28 for half hour sessions. For an applica@on form or if you
wish to ﬁnd out more informa@on, please contact Mrs Sandra Dinkelman in the administra@on oﬃce on 9726 4200.
Musical Instruments
Our Music Department is keen to hear from you if you have any musical instruments you are not using and would like to donate to
the school. If you have any quality keyboards, guitars, etc. collec@ng dust at home, and you would like to donate, please drop them
oﬀ at the school oﬃce. Thank you.
We are most grateful to all donors of instruments this year, which included an accordion, trumpet, clarinet, guitaris and keyboards.
School Fees
A reminder that school fees are due on Friday, 24th October. If you have any ques@ons regarding your family’s tui@on account,
please contact the Bursar, Mrs Fiona de Ridder on 9726 4200.
Romans 10 : 9—13 (NLT)
If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by
believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. As the Scriptures tell us, Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced. Jew and Gen@le are the same in this respect. They have the same
Lord, who gives generously to all who call on Him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.