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A Birth-12 Catholic College for boys in the Edmund Rice Tradition
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Term 1, Week 11
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Thursday April 12, 2013
2013 Head of the River
I thank all parents who attended a meeting on Wednesday with Senior Campus Tutor Group teachers. For parents of students in Years 7-12 please organise a catch-up meeting if you have not had a chance to collect reports or speak with your son’s Tutor Group teacher.
From The Principal Dear Parents, Friends and Caregivers, Boys are as unique as snowflakes and melt just as easily. This week Deputy Principal Shaun Clarke and I attended a gathering of schools including CBC who are members of the international Coalition of Boys Schools. Dr Michael Kimmel a New York researcher, writer and sociologist on boys and masculinity said: Boys are as unique as snowflakes and melt just as easily. The Senior Campus end of term reports being sent home this week celebrates the diversity of talent with which our boys gift us. Please affirm their strengths and when challenging their areas of growth do so with directness and honesty but also with sensitivity and gentleness, for our boys do melt and they need our love, affirmation and direction.
Celebrating the achievements of Term 1 As Term 1 draws to a close I wish to thank the entire College community for the many blessings and following achievements of Term 1.
• CBC Inaugural ‘Rock School Champions’ in a multischools competition. • CBC Choir performs at the Governor Hindmarsh to a packed audience. • Dux assembly. • Parent Information Evening. • Easter liturgies and celebrations. • National Apology breakfast. • Student Leaders Retreat with Br Damien Price. • Principal’s tours. • Clipsal Week:
Whole school and Senior Campus
CBC Clipsal Fundraiser
• The implementation of the House system and its vertical aligning, building House identity and relationships within House and Tutor Groups.
Duke of Edinburgh camps Athletics trials
• Employment of new key roles within the College:
Christian Service Learning
Human Resource Management; and Assistant Principal Vision and Innovation. • Near completion of the CBC Adelaide City Electro Technology Trade Training Centre.
Retreats
Year 12 Study seminars.
• Staff EREA Spiritual Formation - Galilee and Mt Sinai Programs. • World’s Greatest Shave.
• Leadership Team Retreat at Glenelg.
• Harmony day.
• College Board Mass and Dinner where we welcomed new Board members Ms Marisa Riccio and Mr John Godwin.
• Stage 2 Business and Enterprise guest speakers.
Inclusive Community
Our community is accepting and welcoming, fostering right relationships and committed to the common good.
Faith Excellence Community Compassion
• Music under the Stars parent evening. • Head of the River Regatta.