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Saints Alive
No 6 Term 1
6 March 2015
GROWING THROUGH GRACE; LEARNING THROUGH LOVE
From the Headmaster
Most of us will be familiar with the notion,
made famous by that quirky little volume
which still outsells just about all others,
Reader’s Digest, that ‘Laughter is the best
medicine’. It occurs to me that healthy
schools will often resound to the sounds
of helpless laughter, and one of life’s little
pleasures for me is to hear in my wanderings
around the School, the echoes of children
and adults surrendering to their need to
laugh emerging from classrooms, staff
rooms and play areas. Schools in general
are rich sources for humour. There is always
something not going exactly according to
plan – the science experiment where an
intended bang becomes a whimper or the
entire front row gets soaked; the unexpected
yet hilarious response to a question; those
many occasions when ‘the best laid plans’
go astray. As teachers, we’ve all had our
moments. I remember just two weeks into
my tenure as Head of English at Hale School
in Perth, flinging wide the classroom door
of a colleague in the English department
and, complete with silly hat and joke glasses
(which I could hardly see through), launching
into a hearty rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’.
I had, of course, got the wrong classroom,
and when a whole verse had failed to raise
even a titter from my audience, I removed my
specs to find the Deputy Headmaster and his
entire Geography class staring at me with a
mixture of bewilderment and pity.
The ability to inspire and delight in laughter
seems to come naturally to children, perhaps
because they are less encumbered and
therefore more open to the simple pleasures
that each day offers us. I have mentioned
before my concern that as education has
become more utilitarian in its compass,
a response no doubt to the increasing
competition for meaningful employment in
the post-school years, the various syllabi
through which we attempt to deliver learning
have become increasingly crowded. We
must guard against buying into the myth
that more is necessarily better, that volume
in itself can produce improved results, and
constantly remind ourselves as teachers
that learning should, above all, be fun. Fun
should not be confused with fluffiness. We
all need to be challenged. Yet there is no
place for relentlessness in education, for
the mechanical drudgery of completing
uninspiring, mindless tasks with indistinct
outcomes. The challenge for us as teachers
is to design learning-rich tasks for our
students to undertake and, when confronted
with a new mandatory syllabus, however
effective it may be, we must rise to meet
the challenge of presenting it in exciting
and original ways by calling on our reserves
of creativity and ingenuity to rise above
whatever limitations may exist.
My article this week was inspired in part
by my experiences while showing potential
parents and their children around the
School. There is always a remarkable level of
engagement from the students in the various
classes that we visit and occasionally we will
arrive in a classroom just after something
apparently hilarious has taken place. These
new families will often comment about the
evident success of what we are attempting
at All Saints and I remember one father in
particular saying to me towards the end of
the tour ‘Everyone seems to be having so
much fun!’ It was true, and it takes a special
team of teachers to invest the teaching and
learning programmes with so much energy
and enthusiasm. Academic rigour need
not be stifling; indeed it should properly be
liberating, leading young minds towards
greater understanding and insight, and
the intellectual independence that such
breakthroughs can inspire. In delivering
engaging learning opportunities to our
students, we need to aspire towards that
delicate balance of lightness and intensity.
Getting to grips with critical literacy, learning
how to read and write, grappling with some
impossibly new algebraic formula are
intense experiences. Yet when presented in
ways which lighten the intensity and allow
for moments of laughter and relief, such
learning can indeed become fun, and thus
encourage us to celebrate and rejoice in the
life we are striving to build at All Saints.
Patrick S Wallas, Headmaster
Green Week
MONDAY 9-FRIDAY 13 MARCH
Five days of non-stop activities,
exhibitions and competitions which
encourage the community to be
passionately and enthusiastically
engaged about the way in which our
natural environment is cared for; not
only now, but how it can and should
be cared for in order to sustain it for
the generations to come.
Please see a full programme outline
on Page 8
Manic Monday
Terrific Tuesday
Whoopee Wednesday
Hooray Thursday (Dress Green)
Fresh Friday (Seniors only).
All Saints SAS Committee
All Saints Anglican School
www.asas.qld.edu.au
Editor: Diane Case,
Director of Development & Admission
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week
7
MONDAY 9 MAR
Pre Prep 2016
Information Evening
Y7-9 Sport Training
Y7-9 Round Table
Conferences (continue
until 1 Apr)
Green Week (9-15
March)
TUESDAY 10
Y11 Modern History
Excursion
WEDNESDAY 11
Y7–12 Debating
Y10 – 12 Sport Training
Y10 Eucharist
Y11 SCS Excursion
JUNIOR SCHOOL DATES
Week 7 (9-15 March)
• Monday 9: Pre Prep 2016
Information Evening
Week 8 (16-20 March)
• Monday 16-Wednesday 18:
Year 5 Camp
• Tuesday 17: Pre Prep
Information Workshop
• Thursday 19: Junior APS
Winter Sport Trials
• Friday 20: Harmony Day
Celebrations
• Friday 20: Year 6 Leaders’
Excursion
Week 9 (23-27 March)
• Monday 23 Mar-Thursday 2
Apr: Junior School Parent/
Teacher Interviews
• Tuesday 24: Pre Prep
Information Workshop
• Thursday 26: Years 3-6 APS
Winter Sport Trials
• Thursday 26: Junior School
Inter-House Cross Country
• Friday 27: Year 5 Band Concert
PP-Y12: Green Free
Dress Day
FRIDAY 13
Y7–12 Sport v
Somerset
SATURDAY 14
SUNDAY 15
TERM 1 ENDS
Thursday 2 April
TERM 2 BEGINS
Tuesday 21 April
2015
Saints Alive
Week 7 (9-15 March)
• Monday 9 March: APS Winter
Sport Training (Years 7-9)
3:30-4:45pm
• Round Table Conferences
commence (9 March-1 April)
• Wednesday 11: Debating (Years
7-10)
• Friday 13 March: APS Winter
Sport Trials
Week 8
• Monday 16 March: APS Winter
Sport Training (Years 7-9) 3.304.45pm
• Tuesday 17 March: Band
Twilight Concert 6.00-9.00pm
Nairn Theatre
• Thursday 19 March: Year 9
‘Literature Lovers’ Excursion
Somerset Festival of Literature;
Strings/Choral Twilight Concert
6.00-8.00pm Nairn Theatre
• Friday 20 March: ‘Harmony Day’
Celebrations;
• Friday 20 March: APS Winter
Sport Trials
SENIOR SCHOOL DATES
Week 7 (9-15 March)
• Wednesday 11: Year 10 Family
Eucharist
• Wednesday 11: After School
Sport
• Friday 13: APS Trial v Somerset
Week 8 (16-20 March)
• Monday 16: Netball Tour
Information Evening
• Tuesday 17: Band Twilight
Evening
• Friday 20: Harmony Day
Celebrations
• Friday 20: APS Trial v King’s
Week 9 (23-27 March)
• Monday 23–Thursday 26:
Year 10 Camp
• Monday 23-Friday 27: Year
11/12 Shutdown
DEBATING
GCSS DEBATING CALENDAR
Term 1
RUNNING TRAINING
CROSS COUNTRY
THURSDAY 12
MIDDLE SCHOOL DATES
Get ready for the Carnivals!
Junior School Inter-House:
Thursday 26 March
Middle/Senior School InterHouse: Monday 30 March
Monday
• Bus Turnaround 3:30pm Seniors Only with Senior APS
Cross Country Captains
Tuesday
• Bus Turnaround 7:15am - 13
Years & Over with Senior APS
Cross Country Captains
• Main Oval 7:30am - 12 Years &
Under with Mr Kingsley
Thursday
• Main Oval 7:30am - 12 Years &
Under with Mr Kingsley
• Bus Turnaround 3:35pm - 13
Years & Over with Senior APS
Cross Country Captains
Friday
• Bus Turnaround 7:15am - 13
Years & Over with Senior APS
Cross Country Captains
• Main Oval 7:30am - 12 Years &
Under with Mr Kingsley
APS Cross Country
Junior (9-12 Years)/Senior (13
Years-Open) : Tuesday 19 May
CAREERS
DATE CLAIMERS
Term 1
• w/c 9 March: Fradgley Year 12
Pathways Interviews
Term 2
• w/c 4 May: Hobart Year 12
Pathways Interviews
• w/c 11 May: McIntosh Year 12
Pathways Interviews
• Wed 13 May: GU Women in
Sport Experience Day
• w/c 18 May: Rapp Year 12
Pathways Interviews
• w/c 25 May: Reeves Year 12
Pathways Interviews
• Friday 5 June: Closing date
UMAT Test registrations
• Wednesday 29 July: UMAT Test
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•
Wednesday 11 March:
Round 1 (Years 7-10)
Wednesday 25 March:
Round 2 (Years 11-12)
Wednesday 1 April:
Round 2 (Years 7-10)
Wednesday 22 April:
Catch-up round (Years 7-10 and
Years 11-12)
Term 2
• Wednesday 29 April:
Round 3 (Years 11-12)
• Wednesday 6 May:
Round 3 (Years 7-10)
• Wednesday 13 May:
Round 4 (Years 11-12)
• Wednesday 20 May:
Round 4 (Years 7-10)
• Wednesday 27 May:
Catch-up round (Years 7-10 and
Years 11-12)
• Wednesday 10 June:
Round of top 16 teams
(Years 7-10)
Term 3
• Wednesday 22 July:
Round of 16 teams
(Years 11-12)
• Wednesday 29 July:
Quarter Finals
(Years 7-10 and Years 11-12)
• Wednesday 5 August:
Semi Finals
(Years 7-10 and Years 11-12)
• Wednesday 19 August:
Grand Final held at Bond
University (Years 7-10 and Years
11-12)
6 March 2015 Page 2
Junior School
FROM THE HEAD OF JUNIOR SCHOOL
PREP-YEAR 6 PARENT/TEACHER
INTERVIEWS
All parents from Prep to Year 6 should have
received a printed sheet from their child
today that outlines the process for the Junior
School Parent/Teacher interviews which will
run from Monday 23 March - Thursday 2
April. Pre Prep parent interviews will run in
early Term 2 and separate information will
be forwarded home concerning these closer
to the date.
The flyer contains an individual log on code
which enables parents to see and select
an interview time with their child’s Class
Teacher online. We expect that all parents
will book an interview time with the Class
Teacher for these first interviews of the
year. The interviews will cover how the
children have settled into their new year
level academically and socially following
our first eight weeks of school. If you have
any difficulty accessing the interview times,
please contact Mrs Slater in the Junior
School Office or correspond directly with the
Class Teacher to arrange a time to meet.
We request that separated parents who both
wish to have an interview attend a single
interview together which, again, should
be booked online. This may require some
communication between both parents, but
I am sure that these parents would agree
that spending 15 minutes together for the
sake of their children is little to ask. We run
our interviews in this way so that there is
no confusion or ambiguity between what is
said and passed on to each parent. In this
way, both parents get the same information
at the same time and everyone understands
the message is the same to both parties. We
also acknowledge, however, that at times a
joint interview between separated parents
may not be possible or even advisable and,
in these instances, I ask parents to contact
me so that alternative arrangements can be
made.
Saints Alive
YEAR 5 CAMP
Parents of Year 5 children should have
received information under separate cover
about their child’s camp which will run from
Monday 16 - Wednesday 18 March. The
camp will be held at Tyalgum Ridge and is
always a highlight of Year 5. The activities
are challenging and great fun, and the
food is always good. We expect all Year 5
children will participate in this camp. If you
are a Year 5 parent and have not received
any information about the camp, please
contact your child’s Class Teacher as soon
as possible.
DRESS UPS, DRESS UPS
EVERYWHERE!
Next Thursday 12 March, all children in
the School are able to wear a green shirt/
top and green accessories with their normal
sport shorts and runners. This is one activity
amongst a range of events to recognise
Green Week. Green Week highlights the
importance of living a more sustainable
style of life. On Wednesday night, families
are encouraged to turn their lights off for
an hour. At our Junior School assemblies on
Monday and Wednesday, we will be seeing
a special Junior School drama presentation
focussing on sustainability. Of course, in
the Junior School, we attempt to do our bit
everyday by asking the children to bring their
lunch in reusable containers and for the
children to take all of their left over rubbish
(minus food scraps) home with them each
day to draw attention to how much wastage
a single lunch produces. There is also a
colouring competition and other activities to
raise student awareness of the importance
of a greener planet during Green Week.
The following week, on Friday 20 March, for
the donation of a gold coin, children are able
to wear clothes that represent either their
country of birth, their family’s heritage or
favourite country. This ‘dress up’ is all part of
Harmony Day, which celebrates the cultural
mix of Australia’s population. 7.2 million
people have migrated to Australia since
1945. Australia is a country rich in cultural
diversity and we have much to thank these
‘new Australians’ for, as their contributions
have shaped modern Australia. All monies
raised will go to Giveathon, the School’s
fundraising drive to assist a wide range of
charities.
YEARS 5-6 MATHEMATICS TUTORING
A group of dedicated Year 12
mathematicians are offering free
mathematics tutoring to Years 5 and 6
students each Monday morning in the Junior
School Library from 7:45-8:15am. This is
part of the Senior School’s SOS (Saints
Outreach Service) where students offer
something back to the community. Junior
School students who attend should bring
some maths material that they would like
assistance with such as extension or class
work.
Rod Case, Head of Junior School
Birthday
Books
Grateful thanks this week go to Elena
McEwen 4T and Jessica Pauli 4F for
your lovely birthday book donations.
Thank you girls, and happy birthday!
Amanda Worlley and Pam Reardon,
Junior School Librarians
Running
Training
JUNIOR CROSS COUNTRY
Cross Country training for students aged
12 years and under is on every Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday morning at 7:30am
on the main oval. All children who
made the APS team last year, plus those
intending on making the team, should
be at training now.
Ross Kingsley, Coach
6 March 2015 Page 3
Middle School
FROM THE HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL
THE HONEYMOON IS OVER …
Students in all three year levels will now
be in the throes of their first round of
summative assessment tasks and we are
particularly mindful of those new students
across the Middle School who may be
anxious about these brand new ways of
working. It is worth Year 7 parents noting
that our teaching staff deliberately ‘drip
feed’ their students information in the lead
up to such tasks, rather than inundate
them with comprehensive term overviews
and assessment schedules right from the
get-go. The Middle School has a deliberate,
age appropriate scope and sequence for
introducing the processes of due dates,
drafting, revising and the like – conscious
of the need to steadily build each student’s
organisational skill set and resilience … as
opposed to chucking them in the deep end.
Please don’t hesitate to discuss our specific
year level approaches in this regard during
your upcoming Round Table Conference
(please see below).
TEACHER-STUDENT-PARENT
CONFERENCES: NEW NAME
All our Core Teachers are gearing up for
the first round of Teacher-Student-Parent
Interviews for the year. These interviews,
previously called ‘Three Way Conferences’,
have recently been renamed ‘Round Table
Conferences’. They will still involve all three
stakeholders – the student, the parent
and the Core Teacher – and usually last
around 15-20 minutes. The conferences will
take place during Weeks 7-10 of this term
(Monday 9 March-Wednesday 1 April) and
parents are strongly encouraged to book
their session via the instructions sent home
in a Student Diary insert last week. These
conversations are an essential starting point
for the year’s learning journey and we thank
you, in advance, for becoming involved.
Saints Alive
MATHS HELP
Does your child need a bit of help with
their Mathematics? Core Teachers in each
year level run before School and lunch
time sessions that can be accessed by any
student and these sessions are advertised
via the School’s Daily Notices.
In addition, a keen band of our top Senior
School students freely give their time and
expertise as follows: Year 7, Thursday
mornings in Mrs Jess Kindt’s room (G2R07); Year 8, Wednesday mornings in Mrs
Kathleen Stephenson’s room (F1-R02);
and Year 9, Tuesday mornings in Mr Oded
Rouche’s room (O1-R01). All ‘Maths Help’
sessions run from 7:45-8:15am.
LOST SCHOOL BAGS
Has your child ever trudged in the door of
an evening, opened up their school bag …
only to discover, to their horror, that they’ve
accidentally grabbed someone else’s bag?
Given that we have over 1800 students in
our School – all in possession of identical
backpacks or sports bags, it is quite a
common occurrence, especially after Friday
afternoon sport. Can we please suggest a
couple of things:
• Ensure all School bags are clearly named.
The School’s Uniform (FOAS) Shop is
investigating the process/costing of
embroidering names on bags but, in
the meantime, distinctive tags etc will
minimise the chances of your child’s bag
being picked up by mistake.
• If your child does bring a bag home in
error, please take the time to phone
the family concerned to alleviate their
concerns. You will be able to access most
All Saints’ child’s family details via the
Parent Directory, and your courtesy call
will no doubt allow that family to breathe
a huge sigh of relief!
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
A reminder that if there are any notable
extra-curricular achievements you’d like
acknowledged, please phone/email the
Middle School Office and pass on details:
5587 0357; [email protected].
Please note: the achievements of Middle
School students in the areas of ‘Sport’ and
the ‘Performing Arts’ are acknowledged in
these respective sections of this publication
each week.
Todd Harm, Head of Middle School
MR BOSWELL’S BRAIN BUSTER
Accurate solutions to Mr White’s puzzling
situation were received from Nathalie Brown,
Katrina Ng, Cate Cameron and Andrew Zhou,
and I congratulate them on their attention to
detail with justification of answers.
• Last Week’s Solution: The word, product,
was the key to unlocking this problem
as the most appropriate strategy was
to use a prime factor tree to explore
possible asnwers. 173 922 became
2 x 3 x 7 x 41 x 101 as a product of its
primes. From here, we determine the
eldest son’s age as 2 x 7 = 14 as he is
a Middle School student, which leaves
Mr White 41 years old, with 3 children (as
the term eldest was used) and a fence
101 metres long.
• This Week’s Problem: A train travelling at
60 km/h takes 6 seconds to pass a man,
born in July MCMLXXIX, standing on the
station. How long is the train and how
old is the man?
Andrew Bowell, Director of
Learning Enhancement
6 March 2015 Page 4
FROM THE LIBRARY
This term the students in Years 9 and 11
have been introduced to the referencing
programme, CiteMaker, to which All Saints
has subscribed. We feel that this is a
preferable option to using the referencing
tab in Microsoft Word as Citemaker is
web-based, allowing all students to access
or input references and in-text citations
anywhere, anytime on any device. This
programme also provides referencing
templates for all of the possible options that
students will use to acquire information (eg
images, PDF files, maps, graphs, statistics).
Students are encouraged to seek further
assistance from the Library Staff if they have
any questions.
Middle/ Senior Library Staff
French Club
Monday
Monday lunchtimes in OR04 ...
appropriate for Years 8 and 9 initially.
Bring your French book, lunch, any
homework queries and your inner
French being! Extension/extra help
and fun French activities.
Inter-School
Debating
Round 1 will be held next Wednesday 11
March at 6:00pm. All students should
arrive by 5:45pm and be in formal uniform
(ties for boys) with prepared and blank
palm cards, pens and water bottle.
Affirmative teams need to provide a
Chairperson (the Chairperson’s Speech
will be provided on the night) and Negative
teams will need to provide a Timekeeper
(a bell and stopwatch will be provided
by All Saints). Any students who have a
Bye this round are highly recommended
to attend another debate. Please find all
of the specific details below (the teams
stated first are Affirmative):
Intermediate A - Years 9/ 10
Venue: Somerset College
ASAS 4 v ABPC 3
ASAS 5 v Somerset 3
Junior A - Year 8
Venue: Palm Beach Currumbin SHS
ASAS 1 v Somerset 3
ASAS 2- BYE
ASAS 3 v PBCSHS 1
PBCSHS 3 v ASAS 4
ASAS 5 v Somerset 2
Junior B - Year 7
Venue: All Saints Year 8 Classrooms
ASAS 1- BYE
Marymount 1 v ASAS 2
ASAS 3 v St Andrews 2
ASAS 4 v PBCSHS 2
Hillcrest 1 v ASAS 5
ASAS 6 v Marymount 1
We look forward to your support on this, our
first round of the season. Debates should
conclude between 6:45-7:30pm after
adjudications have been given.
Affirmative teams are to provide a
Chairperson (a Chairperson’s ‘speech’ will
be provided at the venue) and Negative
teams are to provide a Timekeeper.
All students should have the contact
details of their team members and should
not hesitate to contact them as soon as
possible should there be any problems on
Debating days.
I should also be contacted if changes affect
Intermediate or Junior A teams.
Mrs Julie Deane is to be contacted for all
enquiries concerning Junior B teams.
Jan Curran, Debating Co-ordinator
Ski Trip July
The Middle School Ski Trip is open to students
of Years 8 and 9. It departs Friday 3 July and
returns Thursday 9 July, the final week of the
June/July holidays.
The venue is Mount Hotham. The approximate
cost is $1850 and includes six nights of
accommodation right on the snow, airfares,
insurance, bus transfers from Melbourne, ski
or snowboard hire, lessons, lift passes, all
breakfasts, evening meals and a whole lot of
fun.
Saints Alive
Skiiers/boarders of all abilities are
invited to attend.
As there are limited places, the first 32
students to pay their deposit of $500
and return the permission form will
secure a spot. An information letter/
permission form is available from the
Mrs Stephenson.
If you require more information, please
email [email protected].
Kathleen Stephenson, Year 8 Teacher
(Curriculum Co-ordinators
Maths & Science)
6 March 2015 Page 5
Senior School
FROM THE HEAD OF SENIOR SCHOOL
NEXT STEP SURVEY
The Queensland Government is conducting
its annual state-wide survey of all students
who completed Year 12 in 2014. The Next
Step survey is a brief, confidential survey
that gains a comprehensive picture of the
employment, study and life choices made by
Queensland 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 instructions to complete a webbased survey or a telephone call from the
Queensland Government Statistician’s Office
to complete the survey. If you are a parent
from the Class of 2014, please encourage
your son and daughter to take part. If their
contact details have changed, please assist
the interviewer with their updated details
or forward the survey to their new address
so they can participate. Thank you for your
support of the Next Step survey in 2015.
For more information visit
www.education.qld.gov.au/nextstep/
or telephone toll free on 1800 068 587.
THE JOHN FRANKLIN MEMORIAL
FELLOWSHIP
The John Franklin Fellowship was established
in memory of Councillor John Franklin who
died tragically in 1993. The object of the
trust is to commemorate John Franklin’s love
of life and his untiring involvement in local
community, and to enable a young person
(under 21) to undertake study and research;
obtain relevant experience; or publish,
pursue or implement a work or project in
a field of academic, cultural, vocational or
sporting endeavours. Candidates must
reside or attend a school within Mudgeeraba
and environs.
The successful candidate in 2015 will
receive an award of at least $1000 for
the nominated purpose and a Fellowship
Medal. Applications are available from
Mr Evans at School or the Gold Coast
City Council website (Grants & Funding)
www.tinyurl.com/ASAS-FRANKLIN and the
closing date is Friday 27 March 2015. For
further information, please contact the Gold
Coast City Council on 5581 6691.
Saints Alive
YEAR 10 EUCHARIST REMINDER
Parents are invited to join their son or
daughter for the annual Year 10 Family
Eucharist which will take place on
Wednesday 11 March at 7:00pm in the
School Chapel. This service is the first formal
occasion for Year 10 students in Senior
School and, to mark its importance, the
Headmaster Mr Patrick Wallas presents a
gift from the School to every student. For
that reason, it is important that, should your
child be unable to attend, you advise his/
her Tutor in advance. Dress is formal School
uniform (ties, blue stockings and blazers)
and we extend an invitation to you all to join
us for light refreshments afterwards. We
look forward to your participation, fellowship
and support on this important occasion and
would ask you to be seated by 6:50pm.
YEAR 11 AND 12 ASSESSMENT AND
SHUTDOWN
A copy of the assessment block timetable
(shutdown) and assignment planner can be
found on the Parents’ Portal. Year 11 and
12 shutdown is from Monday 23 March to
Friday 27 March inclusive.
During the assessment block, Year 11
and 12 students will be expected to sit
for formal assessment here at School,
and maintain their study programme,
working on assignments either at home or
at School. The School Library will remain
open during this week and there will be a
number of Senior School staff available for
assistance. Please note that some staff will
be unavailable as they are attending the
Year 10 Camp.
Some subjects, by their nature, have more
tests than others. Those subjects with
fewer tests generally have a greater number
of assignments. Please be aware that
assignment deadlines continue on through
the assessment block. This means that
students with fewer tests, and consequently
fewer in-school commitments during
shutdown, will have the opportunity to use
this time to work on their assignments.
Students on School-based traineeships or
apprenticeships should take this opportunity
to attend their workplace or complete off
site training. Times for oral presentations
have been individually scheduled between
students and their teachers.
It is important that All Saints students
uphold the QCAA standards of behaviour
for formal examinations throughout the
assessment block. Students must:
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be well-rested
arrive promptly for tests
bring all requisite materials
be silent upon entry to the
examination venue
• not communicate with other students
in any way within the examination
venue
• be appropriately dressed
• leave their mobile phone in their
locker.
Furthermore, students who are on
campus for assessments should be
conscientious and show consideration
for assessment that is underway and
classes that may be in session.
When students come to School for study,
assignment work or assessment they
are expected to be correctly dressed in
normal day uniform whilst on campus
and are requested to change into neat,
casual clothes, on leaving, if they do not
intend to go directly home from School.
It is not appropriate for students to wear
School uniform in public places during
School hours. On Friday 27 March,
all students are required to attend
School for sport; students who have
examinations on that day may wear
sport uniform to School.
It is important that students use
this week effectively. For Year 11
students, this will be their first taste
of unsupervised study time and the
responsibility of self-directed study.
Careful planning and organisation at
this time will allow them to demonstrate
their academic potential during
this assessment period. I hope that
parents will assist them to manage
their time effectively at home. For
your information, please note that bus
timetables can be found on the internet
www.transinfo.qld.gov.au
6 March 2015 Page 6
STUDY METHODS AND TAKING TESTS
With examinations approaching, it is worth
considering the following suggestions:
Firstly, if your want to maximise exam
performance, your in class effort must be
sincere. You should always endeavour to:
• Listen carefully and take thorough and
accurate notes
• Keep your subject notes separate and
organised in sequence
• Do not sit with people who distract you,
even if they are your friends!
• Ask questions when you do not
understand.
Study
• Study in a room where you feel relaxed,
where lighting is adequate and where you
can sit comfortably
• Make your study periods active – work
with a pen in your hand, jotting down key
points
• Study your most difficult subjects first
• Keep a balance between subjects
• Take a five minute break every 30-45
minutes
• Reward yourself for successful homework
and study
• Exercise keeps your mind fit as well as
your body. A brisk walk or a run can be a
way of enjoying a break from your study.
Exams
• Success requires that you have a sound
knowledge of your subject matter
• Before the day of the exam, ask the
teacher for the format of the exam
and the value of the exam towards the
semester’s marks
• Don’t panic – make full use of the
perusal time, even if it is to relax enough
to remember what you have learnt
• Jot down facts you cannot remember for
long
• Do questions which you feel most
confident about first
• Plan you time so that you attempt to
answer all questions.
Saints Alive
LITTLE LESSONS ON LEARNING
There are no easy methods of learning
difficult things; the method is to close your
door: give out that you are not at home, and
work. Joseph de Maistre
Steve Wright, Head of Senior School
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF
CAREERS & VET
SOUTH EAST MOTOV8 AUTO
INSPIRATIONS PROGRAMME
There are many career opportunities within
the automotive industry including stock
control, sales/assessing, parts interpreter,
automotive technician, service advisor/
manager, administration – reception,
warranty clerk, finance/insurance,
marketing, leasing, communications and
aftermarket consultant.
The South East MotoV8 Auto Inspirations
programme will run in conjunction with Von
Bibra Motors and is designed for students
interested in working in any of these areas.
During Year 10, students participate in
work experience programmes in their area
of interest. Students who successfully
complete this programme can then
apply for School-based traineeship and
apprenticeship positions in one of these
areas at Von Bibra during Years 11 and 12.
An information night will be held later this
term for parents and students.
Interested students should complete an
expression of interest form and return it to
the Careers Centre no later than Tuesday
10 March. The expression of interest form
has been emailed to all students or a hard
copy is available at the Careers Centre. This
is a wonderful opportunity to investigate
automotive careers and potentially begin a
career path while at school.
French Club
SENIOR SCHOOL
French Club for the Senior
School is held each Thursday at lunch
time from 1:00-2:00pm. Don’t miss
the opportunity to do a little bit extra,
remember every effort counts and it
makes all the difference in the end.
YEAR 10 FUTURES
During Futures this term, students have
completed an online Career Profiling Tool,
Career Voyage. Career Voyage provides
students with an Interest Profile which
provides some basic insights regarding the
student’s preferences in interest areas such
as science and technology, biological and
medical sciences, business, art/design,
social services and language and literature.
Students then reflect on the factors of the
kind of job they would like to do, eg working
inside or outside, with others or individually
etc and then, based on the interest profile
and job factors, the programme suggests 40
occupations the student may be interested
in considering.
This programme is designed to be
a conversation and thought starter
for students to begin thinking about
occupations they may be suited to and to
learn about occupations of which they may
previously have been unaware. It is also a
good opportunity for students to consider
careers more broadly than the limited
number we hear about most often.
The students can log into their profile from
any computer. Please encourage your son
or daughter to show you their results. It is
often a great way to talk about interests and
occupations.
Alison Weeks, Director of Careers & VET
6 March 2015 Page 7
Green Week
All Saints SAS Committee
Green Week’s key aim is to encourage our community to be passionately and
enthusiastically engaged about the way in which our natural environment is cared for; not
only now, but how it can and should be cared for in order to sustain it for generations to
come. Some highlights of the week’s activities include:
MANIC MONDAY: 9 MARCH
WHOOPEE WEDNESDAY: 11 MARCH
• Senior School Assembly presentation and
‘Green Week’ promotion.
• Battery Bust Challenge for Senior School
Houses starts.
• Community Gardening afternoon at the
School garden. Senior and Middle students
invited to the creek at the HPE car park. 1
hour community service.
• Middle School Movie Walle in F1R04 at
lunchtime with green popcorn.
• Infinity Drama Programme, Junior School Play
- 2:00pm in the Nairn Theatre
• Pre-Prep Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary animal
display at 11:00am.
• Infinity Drama Programme, Junior School Play 2:00pm in the Nairn Theatre
• Lights out for the Environment Night (whole
School – 1 hour community service to complete
another earthhour this time for your All Saints
community)
TERRIFIC TUESDAY: 10 MARCH
• ‘Creek Clean’ afternoon from 3:30-4:30pm
at the School garden: Senior and Middle
students invited. Gloves will be provided to
students and the small creek area behind the
HPE car park will be the focus of the event.
Please meet outside the HPE Centre in the
Senior School at 3:30pm. 1 hour community
service.
• Middle School Cake Stall at morning tea and
Walle continues in F1R04 at lunchtime green popcorn $1.
Saints Alive
HOORAY THURSDAY: 12 MARCH
• Green Free Dress Day (whole School): must
include School Sport shorts and runners with a
green t-shirt and accessories (ribbons etc).
• Senior School Cake Stall in the Math Courtyard
from 1:00pm
SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY
FRESH FRIDAY: 13 MARCH
• The ‘Green Marketta’ Festival held in the Senior
School with a selection of food vans including,
dip’n’dots, Chubby’s Diner (gourmet slider
burgers), Kahuna Coffee, milkshakes and some
rocking entertainment.
6 March 2015 Page 8
Performing Arts
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PERFORMING ARTS
TWILIGHT CONCERTS
All parents should have received a letter
outlining the details for the Twilight Concerts.
A change this year (to previous years) is that
the Choral component of the Strings/Choral
Concert will be held in the Chapel. The
Chapel has glorious acoustics and choral
groups sound divine in this building.
The Friends of Music will open the Goodwill
Café at 5:30pm on both evenings, and
between the String Orchestras and the
Choirs on the Thursday evening.
STAFF CONCERT
It was lovely to see so many at the
Performing Arts Staff Concert last Friday
evening. As I said on the evening, we are
very fortunate to have staff at All Saints who
are not only wonderful teachers, but can
also play/sing extremely well.
PERFORMING ARTS TOUR
performing arts
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Week 8 (16-20 March)
• Tuesday 17 March 6.00pm: Band
Twilight Concert
Nairn Theatre)
• Thursday 19 March 6:00pm: Strings/
Choral Twilight Concert
Nairn Theatre/Chapel
Week 9 (23-27 March)
• Friday 27 March 2.00pm: Year 5
Band Programme Concert
Nairn Theatre
The Addams Family - our hunt continues:
TERM 1 DATE CLAIMERS
DESPERATELY SEEKING
• Timber shutters/louvers
• Motor for a revolve stage
(Merry go Round)
•Taxidermy
• Persian style Rugs/ Tapestry
• Motorcycle helmet hire
• Velvet curtains
• Timber curtain rods
• Halloween decorations
• Solid square timber chair
• Artificial vine/greenery/plants
• Rubber bats/spiders/rats/mice
Chantelle Flint, Head of Drama
We are excited to announce a proposed
Performing Arts tour to England and Italy in
the June/July holiday break in 2016.
The tour will be open to all Years 10, 11
and 12 Drama and Music students (in
2016) and is designed to give students an
understanding of the heritage of Theatre
and Music in London and Europe - the
cultural epicentre of the World.
The two week tour will include seeing
Opera in Verona/Milan, Musical Theatre
in London’s West End and Drama in
Shakespeare’s birth place, Stratford-onAvon. There will be further information in
next week’s Saints Alive with a details of an
information evening.
Scott Mason, Director of Performing Arts
Saints Alive
6 March 2015 Page 9
Sports & Activities
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SPORTS & ACTIVITIES
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORT
Congratulations to the following students on
their achievements in sport:
• Teagan Nagy-Cox (Year 12) finished 2nd
in her age group for the 400 hurdles
at the Queensland Junior Athletics
Championships last weekend. She also
finished 7th in the 400m. Teagan will now
compete for Queensland at the National
Junior Championships next week. Good
luck, Teagan!
• Nic White and Ben Grant (Year 12) have
both been selected in the South Coast
Region Under 19 Rugby Union Team.
Chevy Palmer, Sam Wood and Riley
McIntyre (all Year 12) have been selected
as shadow players. Congratulations, boys!
• Grace Wall (Year 12), Sophie Snijders
(Year 11), Bianca Heaton (Year 12) and
Zoe Putland (Year 12) have been selected
in the Under 19 District Netball team.
Great work, girls!
• Dylan Nichloson (Year 10), Elijah Semaan
(Year 9), Luke Papas (Year 9), Oskar
Holmes (Year 9), Zach Palmer (Year 10)
and Reece Pickering (Year 10) have been
selected in the Under 15 District AFL
team. Congratulations!
• Isabelle Laird (Year 11) has been
selected as a shadow player in the Under
19 South Coast Region volleyball team.
Well done!
GOLD COAST TENNIS – INTER-SCHOOL
CHALLENGE
Congratulations to our students who
participated in last weekend’s tennis
tournament at Southport.
Tyler Gilbert and Benjamin Lim (Year 8)
were runners-up in the Middle School age
division.
RUNNING CLUB
The All Saints Running Club has started.
There are four sessions each week for
our students above 13 Years who are
encouraged to attend as often as they can.
The sessions are:
• Monday after School 3:35pm (Senior
students only)
• Tuesday mornings 7:15am
• Thursday after School 3:35pm
• Friday mornings 7:15am
ALL SAINTS RUGBY
Our Rugby teams have already been busy
this year, with our touring team playing
Sunnybank last Friday evening, finishing with
a hard fought win.
Last Monday, we hosted St Laurence’s and
played their 1st XV and Year 9 teams. The
1st XV match saw an All Saints victory, while
the Year 9 game finished with a win for the
visitors.
APS WINTER SPORT
Our teams to represent the School in
the APS Winter Sport competition will be
finalised this week. The students selected
in these teams will continue to train every
Monday or Wednesday and will play against
the other APS schools on Friday afternoons.
Details of our upcoming fixtures and results
once we begin playing can be found on the
Sport Info web page
intranet.asas.qld.edu.au/academic/General/GoogleSites/Sportinfo.htm
Students who have not been selected in
these teams have been offered a range
of alternative sports and activities that
they can participate in each week. These
students are also expected to train once
each week and play on Friday afternoons.
Students are encouraged to choose ‘Tier 2’
sports, (a second level competition) and play
against the other schools in the APS. This
gives our students an opportunity to play
competitive sport and develop their skills
alongside teammates each week. However,
there are some other, non-competitive sports
and activities to choose from. The Tier 2
sports are Football (boys and girls), Volleyball
(boys and girls) and Netball (girls only). The
other activities will depend on the number of
students who wish to participate in them but
may include Fitness, Developmental Tennis,
Table Tennis and Sustainability/Gardening.
FRIDAY 13 MARCH
Next Friday, we play Somerset College in the
first of our three trial rounds. Exact details of
each teams venue and playing times will be
posted on the web page as soon as they are
finalised. Parents are warmly welcomed to
attend to cheer on our teams.
Fergus Leslie, Director of Sports & Activities
Saints Alive
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►All food and drink
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What to Bring
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0413 618 662
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0407 555 564
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Whole School
CHAPLAINCY MATTERS
We welcome Dr Debra Tedman from the Diocesan Chaplaincy Scholarship Programme during
which time she will undergo some of her training at All Saints. Debra is a well-known science
teacher and we wish her well as she answers the call to ordained ministry.
DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SKILLS OF
HIGHER ORDER THINKING LINKED TO
THEIR CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
If you were asked what is the greatest
problem of our time, then what would
you say? This question was posed by Dr
Edward de Bono and his answer was ‘poor
thinking’, which is perhaps, at first, a little
surprising, but poor thinking is probably at
the foundation of all of the global problems.
Edward de Bono, an internationally
recognised leader in creative and conceptual
thinking, has worked with multinational
corporations and other organisations to help
them develop thinking pathways that foster
creative and innovative thinking. Juries have
even been trained to use de Bono’s thinking
in making decisions on value-based issues.
How does a school inculcate higher order
thinking such as critical analysis and deep
thinking? We include teaching of the
skills of thinking in our curriculum to meet
students’ needs. These needs include:
• Developing a positive self-concept and
sense of identity
• Examining personal and social values
• Building the ability to respond
constructively to the world around us.
The approaches involved in developing
students’ higher order thinking need to
be richly grounded in the students’ social
context and involve ‘big questions’ or ‘big
ideas’. In a Christian environment like All
Saints, there is a valuable opportunity
to link the development of the Biblical
worldview of students with the teaching
of thinking throughout the learning years.
Faith development is enhanced when the
articles of faith are fully understood and
our various beliefs can be related to one
another without inconsistency. In can be
argued that the apostle Paul showed his
belief that faith contained an element of
Saints Alive
understanding when he wrote “you shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your mind and with all
your strength” (Mark 12:30). Dicker (1996)
suggested that since ‘with all your mind’ is
an addition to the previous commandment
in Deuteronomy 6:5, it might have been
made by Jesus himself.
In our Christ-centred learning community
we are able to empower our students as
Christian leaders who will serve to make a
difference in society. This sort of effective
citizenship requires well-developed skills
of critical thinking. As de Bono argued “you
can analyse the past, but you must design
the future. That is the difference between
suffering the future and enjoying it”. At
Christian schools that promote deep thinking
in students, developing students’ skills of
higher order thinking enables us to fulfill the
mission of making a difference in the lives
of our students, preparing them to serve
in order to make a significant contribution
to and connection with the wider society.
In this way, our students will be informed
and active citizens who will work towards
sustainable futures.
As a school associated with the Anglican
Church, the learning experiences of our
students are founded upon the development
of students’ faith and spirituality in Christian
Living classes, chapels and their general
school experience. In Christian Living
lessons, students develop higher order
thinking skills through discussing issues
related to ethical and moral decision making
within their personal and school context,
and that of the wider community. This
provides the necessary links for them to
integrate and then extend and refine their
understanding and worldview. For example,
Year 8 students have been exploring group
work and relationships by doing games and
activities according to rules, so that they
understand the place of rules in their lives.
In designing activities to build up their class
mates, students in some Year 8 Christian
Living classes have considered the following
quotations from the Bible:
A celebration of
SPORT
boots•hoops•bats•caps
A huge grateful shout out to all who
participated in this very different
service.
Cheerleading, worship, and fun-filled
blessings were in abundance.
See you next year!
Galatians 5:25-26: If we live by the Spirit,
let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let
us not become conceited, provoking one
another, envying one another.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 … you must
encourage each other and build each other
up, just as you are already doing
Matthew 7:12: So whatever you wish that
others would do to you, do also to them.
It was encouraging to attend the ‘State of
the Heart’ meeting at St Francis Theological
College with Mother Ann and Mrs Catherine
Carpenter and to participate in workshops
on how to better engage Middle School
students. It was clear that other schools
are also doing motivational activities with
students to build a sense of community,
develop relationships and provide students
with keys to success in order to prepare
them well for a life based upon a foundation
of Christian values. What we are doing at All
Saints is in accordance with best practice in
other Anglican schools to develop students’
skills of higher order thinking linked to their
Christian worldview.
Dr Debra Tedman
Dicker, G.S. (1996) Faith with Understanding, The Joint
Board of Christian Education, Melbourne
6 March 2015 Page 12
Parents & Friends
YEAR 7 FAMILIES
PREP SOCIAL EVENTS
We also have a facebook page. If you would like to join our facebook
page, please send me your facebook email and I will invite you to
join. It is a private site and only members who are invited can join.
Once you join, you may invite any Year 7 mum that is not a member.
We use it for reminders and questions it is very useful!
P&F GET TOGETHERS
• Friday 6 March: Doodlebugs Play Centre - 6/54 Paradise Ave,
Miami from 3:00pm onwards. $9.50 per child. Come and give the
kids a play while parents can have a coffee and catch up! RSVP
Tuesday 3 March, Elena Vorkas 0419 140 220. Hope to see you
there!
• Friday 22 May: Mum’s Night Out! More details to follow
• Sunday 16 August: Family Picnic - Lunch in the park. More details
to follow.
• Friday 6 November: Parents’ Night Out! More details to follow.
Please save these dates - we look forward to catching up! Your Class
Co-ordinators - Danielle Steensma-Collins, Karyn Windle, Sandy
Webber, Elena Vorkas, Kym Cole and Monique Powers.
YEAR 1
• Mum’s Night Out - Saturday 21 March: Royal Pines Hydrate Bar.
Trybooking details have been sent home in the diary.
• Class 1W Get together - Saturday 7 March: Burleigh Point Park,
Goodwin Terrace, 2:00-4:30pm
For updates join our All Saints Class of 2026 Facebook Page or to
receive email updates join our google discussion group by texting
Amanda (0421 822 442) your email address and she will add you.
YEAR 2 FAMILIES
Welcome to all the new families to Year 7. If you would like to be
informed about upcoming social events, please email us and we will
add you to our Year 7 list [email protected]
• Family Picnic - Sunday 8 March 11:00am: Southport Broadwater
at the swimming enclosure and pontoon for a fun family picnic,
bring bathers, scooters and bikes etc. Love to see old and new
families! Any queries please call Carol 0438 766 865 or email us.
YEAR 8
• Coffee at Two Little Bakers in Mudgeeraba on Friday 6 March
and again on Wednesday 25 March straight after drop-off.
• Please come along and bring any new parents. Quick chat and
coffee and catch up with what we don’t hear from the kids!
Margo 0408 754 788 Jenny 0428 631 518 Lyn 0407 752 242
Don’t forget to join our Facebook page ‘ASAS Class of 2019 Parents’.
YEAR 9 PARENTS
• Friday 20 March (not Friday 13 March as previously advertised)
6:30-8:30pm, drinks at Bine Bar and Dining at 1/28 Chairlift
Avenue, Mermaid Beach. Please RSVP to Catherine Moore 0404
068 109 for numbers.
YEAR 10 KIDS AND PARENTS
• Parents’ Night Out: Saturday 14 March 6:30pm at Room 81
Broadbeach. $25pp (includes food). Drinks can be purchased at
the bar. A great night out to catch up and meet new families.
RSVP Sara 0433 584 700 by 8 March. Please place money in
envelope attention Sara Madrers in your child’s diary.
• Easter Picnic at Cascade Gardens on Sunday 29 March from
11:00am-2:00pm. Please bring a plate of food to share, a
selection of Easter Eggs to contribute to the Easter Hunt for all to
share and BYO drinks. RSVP to Emily Mullineux 0405 449 935
[email protected]
• Sunday 8 March 4:00pm at the Air Factory, Sunlight Drive,
Burleigh – kids trampoline while we chat in the café. You’ll need
to book online. The more the merrier! Any questions – Margo
Jones 0408 754 788
Year 5, if you would like to be kept up to date on all events, please
join our email list. Email me at [email protected] and I
will add your name to our list. If you would like to join our facebook
page, I will email you an invite. It’s a great page for reminders!
YEAR 12 FORMAL/PARENT FUNCTION
YEAR 5 PARENTS
YEAR 12 PARENT TERM 1 EVENING FUNCTION
• Friday 13 March at 6:00pm. AVVIA, Corner Gold Coast Highway
and 23rd Avenue, Palm Beach Phone. Come for an hour or two!
Perhaps straight after work. AVVIA serves tapas from 6:00pm.
Great way to catch up with all our busy parents! Please RSVP
via email, Facebook or text as the restaurant does require
approximate numbers. Look forward to seeing you there.
•
Saints Alive
Saturday 14 November
Time tba (after arrival of all students at the Formal)
Cost tba (tickets will prepaid via TryBooking site)
The Lake has been booked for parents to get together while
all our gorgeous children have a wonderful night. We will be
speaking to the chef and will put together a menu for cocktail
style food. This event will be pre-paid and we will organise a
Trybooking page in the coming weeks. So for now, just mark the
date on your calendars and watch this space.
Renee Nelson 0417 307 901, Sally Nind 0402 403 924,
Jacqui Armes 0417 751 203.
6 March 2015 Page 13
Gold Coast
Oral Health
Sick Bay
Insurance Policy
Gold Coast Oral Health Services are now offering free dental
check-ups and treatment to students enrolled in Year 10.
Built into our School fees is an insurance policy for students with
AON Insurance.
To arrange an appointment for your child, please telephone:
This covers your child if they are injured:
The Oral Health Client Service Centre
• At School
• On any excursion or camp
• At any School-based activity (eg Duke of Edinburgh’s Award,
sporting event) should it be conducted on a weekend or out of
School hours.
• Participating in sport or cultural events held off School
grounds but representing All Saints.
1300 300 850
Monday – Friday 8:00am – 4:30pm
Excluding Public Holidays
Gold Coast Oral Health Service provides a free dental
programme for all Queensland resident children aged four
years or older who have not completed Year 10 of secondary
school. A qualified team of dentists, oral health therapists,
dental therapists, and dental assistants will work together to
meet your child's specific dental health care needs.
Dental health care is provided at dental clinics located across
the Gold Coast or at mobile dental clinics located onsite at your
child’s school. Parents/Guardians may be required to transport
children to and from dental appointments.
Parents are encouraged not to wait to treat a problem; instead
they are invited to arrange a check-up for their child/children at
least once a year.
Bottom line, if your child is doing, playing or participating in
something School-based or organised by All Saints, they are
covered.
The forms required to make a claim can be picked up from the
Sick Bay or you can download them yourself. There should be five
pages in total to complete and I have included the links below.
The first form is completed by the parent. On the third page there
is a small area for the School to validate your claim. Please bring
this to the Sick Bay and I’ll organise for this to be done.
You can not make a claim without the School validating that the
injury actually occurred at School.
www.aon.com.au/australia/attachments/claim-forms/student-accident-claim-form.pdf
The next two pages are to be completed by the treating Doctor or
Specialist.
Tuckshop
Helpers
www.aon.com.au/australia/attachments/claim-forms/medical-practitioners-statement.pdf
Once these two forms are completed, it is the parent’s
responsibility to lodge the claim with AON along with the copy of
any receipts you have.
Come along and be one of the happy helpers in the Tuckshop.
Please feel free to contact Natalie to discuss the benefits of
being a Tuckshop helper.
[email protected]
I have included the contact details for AON should you have any
questions about how to lodge your claim.
Order Form
Phone: 02 9253 7000 Fax 02 9253 7001
www.flexischools.com.au/FM/FM_Auth.aspx?p=Service
www.aon.com.au/australia/about-aon/contact-us.jsp
Level 33, 201 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000
I hope this information helps should you ever need to make a
claim.
Kind regards, Lyn Hammett RN
[email protected]
0434 071 158
Craft
Workshop
The workshops are back this year, in
preparation of our 2016 School Fair! Yes,
it is a long way away but we need to eat
that big monster bit by bit at our own
pace. No more working in urgency. No
obligation, no pressure. If you can’t come
that’s ok.
Please don’t think your help is too little.
Every extra pair of hand is gratefully
appreciated.
Saints Alive
WHEN ARE THE WORKSHOPS ON?
The first Friday of each month (during School
term). Occasionally a workshop will be
organised during the holidays if any one is
interested. Please diarise: your time, skills,
hands and smiles are desperately needed!
WHAT TIME?
From 2:00pm until 6:00pm, 7:00pm,
8:00pm or even 10:30pm like last month!
Pick a time that is convenient for you.
WHERE?
The Senior Textile room in the Senior School
area (same place as last year). Sometimes
we are in the Middle School sewing room
(two classrooms to the left).
If you have a project in mind and would like
to see it through in our next Craft Fair Stall,
please bring it on. We are open to all ideas.
Together, we are stronger and will offer
a more diverse range of items. You know
what they say: ‘the more the merrier’
Last month we worked on crowns. We
will finish them next week and start new
projects as inspiration comes!
See you next Friday. Have a great week.
Kindest regards, Amélie
6 March 2015 Page 14
CONTENTS
ALL SAINTS RUGBY
10
APS WINTER SPORT
10
CAREERS2
CHAPLAINCY MATTERS
12
CROSS COUNTRY
2
DATE CLAIMERS
2
DEBATING DATES
2
DESPERATELY SEEKING
9
DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SKILLS OF HIGHER ORDER THINKING
LINKED TO THEIR CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
12
DRESS UPS, DRESS UPS EVERYWHERE!
3
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CAREERS & VET
7
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PERFORMING ARTS
9
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SPORTS & ACTIVITIES
10
FROM THE HEAD OF JUNIOR SCHOOL
3
FROM THE HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL
4
FROM THE HEAD OF SENIOR SCHOOL
6
FROM THE LIBRARY
5
GCSS DEBATING CALENDAR
2
GOLD COAST TENNIS – INTER-SCHOOL CHALLENGE
10
INSURANCE POLICY
14
JUNIOR CROSS COUNTRY
3
JUNIOR SCHOOL DATES
2
LITTLE LESSONS ON LEARNING
7
LOST SCHOOL BAGS
4
MATHS HELP
4
MIDDLE SCHOOL DATES
2
MR BOSWELL’S BRAIN BUSTER
4
NEXT STEP SURVEY
6
ORAL HEALTH
14
PERFORMING ARTS TOUR
9
P&F GET TOGETHERS
13
PREP SOCIAL EVENTS
13
PREP-YEAR 6 PARENT/TEACHER INTERVIEWS
3
RUNNING CLUB
10
RUNNING TRAINING
2
SENIOR SCHOOL
7
SENIOR SCHOOL DATES
2
SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY
8
SICK BAY 14
SOUTH EAST MOTOV8 AUTO INSPIRATIONS PROGRAMME 7
STAFF CONCERT
9
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
4
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORT
10
STUDY METHODS AND TAKING TESTS
7
Saints Alive
TEACHER-STUDENT-PARENT CONFERENCES: NEW NAME
TERM 1 DATE CLAIMERS
TERM 1 ENDS
TERM 2 BEGINS
THE HONEYMOON IS OVER …
THE JOHN FRANKLIN MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP
TWILIGHT CONCERTS
YEAR 1 YEAR 2 FAMILIES
YEAR 5 CAMP
YEAR 5 PARENTS
YEAR 8 YEAR 9 PARENTS
YEAR 10 EUCHARIST REMINDER
YEAR 10 FUTURES
YEAR 10 KIDS AND PARENTS
YEAR 11 AND 12 ASSESSMENT AND SHUTDOWN
YEAR 12 FORMAL/PARENT FUNCTION
YEARS 5-6 MATHEMATICS TUTORING
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