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Christian Brothers College Newsletter

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Term 1, Week 7

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Friday 14 March, 2014

CBC wins the Red Cross SA Schools Challenge for the seventh consecutive time.

Mr Noel Mifsud with Red Cross representatives Ms Pamela Cornes and Ms Jane Every and Walsh House captain Brian Wilson and School Captain Adam De Pierro.

need for change in our lives. I never cease to be amazed by the wisdom of our students and this year’s student leaders have on many occasions moved me by the depth of their convictions and powerful oratory skills.

From The Principal Dear Parents, Friends and Caregivers,

Ash Wednesday Last week the College commemorated the beginning of Lent with a number of Ash Wednesday liturgies and masses.

Our 8am weekly Wednesday community mass was celebrated by Monsignor Aitken. He spoke beautifully about what it means to turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel. In turning away from sin we turn towards those most in need -- the lonely, the poor and the unloved.

The theme of turning towards others with love during Lent and beyond also featured strongly in the Junior Campus liturgy. College Captain Adam De Pierro and Michael Petrilli also eloquently used the example of contemporary movies like Toy Story as a parable for the

In the Senior Campus, Ashes were distributed in each House which is a powerful reminder of the need for community. We cannot walk the journey of faith alone.

Going to mass on a Sunday, praying as a family at home, being part of the CBC catholic community are all ways we can nourish each other and grow in our spirituality.

Staff News Congratulations to Mr Colin Curnow who will receive a Duke of Edinburgh Service Plaque from the Governor General as part of the Gold Award Ceremony, on 16 May. Mr Curnow has been the driving force behind the success of the CBC Duke’s program which has seen our College enjoy one of the highest participation and completion rates of any SA school.

Mr Shaun Clarke continues to represent the Oceania Province at the Christian Brothers Chapter in Nairobi, Africa. Shaun made a presentation on his work as part of the South Australian Associates which are a group of men and women dedicated to prayer and action using the example of Blessed Edmund who in turn modelled his life on that of Jesus. The College is immensely proud of Shaun’s participation in the Chapter as one of only 8 lay people worldwide to be chosen for this opportunity.

Justice and Solidarity

We are committed to justice and peace for all, grounded in a spirituality of action and reflection that calls us to stand in solidarity with those who are marginalised and the Earth itself.

Faith Excellence Community Compassion

Six staff members will leave for China during the Term 1 break on a variety of projects under the auspices of the Federal Government Asian Literacy initiative.

• Ms Toni Riccio and Mr Shaun Clarke are visiting China with our students as part of our languages immersion program. They will also visit our sister schools as part of their visit.

• Mr Emmanuel Gaitaneris, Mr Lee Del Col and Ms Scarlett Lucero will visit China as part of a teacher immersion program known as Build the Bridge.

• Mrs Lucyna Zwolski and I are part of an educational leaders delegation for the Catholic Education Office and will attend a number of education forums and school visits.

Student News Our students in Years 8 and 9 are currently being immunised against Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis and Human Papillomavirus. I wish to acknowledge the work of Mr Peter Donnelly who organises this event each year.

Our rowers competing in the 2014 Head of the River Regatta on Saturday were presented at an assembly on Tuesday. I wish all competitors the very best of luck and encourage as many students (in summer uniform and blazer) to attend as spectators at West Lakes. I thank Mr Schar and Mr Gora and also the Water Sports Auxiliary led by Mr Justin Wickens for their tireless preparation of our athletes and support of the 2013/14 rowing and kayaking season.

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Our students attending the language studies cultural tour to China in a few weeks were also presented at the assembly. This year’s tour will again be led by Curriculum Coordinator of Languages Ms Toni Riccio and Deputy Mr Shaun Clarke.

International Women’s Day 2014

Br Michael’s Corner Family Life Today.

The concept and reality of family life have changed drastically in recent years and many families struggle with the new situation. We know families are different but we are not sure of the consequences of changes.

An increasing number of children are from so called ‘broken’ homes. Children of one family are joined with another family. We read or hear about children running away, getting into drugs and sex, wilfully damaging property, or being uncontrollable. We have lost sight of the family as nurturing, guiding, caring, loving, supporting and educating. Instead we focus on the family as abusive, controlling, hurtful or violent. If something goes wrong with a child we assume the parents are at fault instead of seeing that families are struggling with social changes. We fail to see that challenges to our values and our lifestyles also affect the way we bring up our children.

We continue to believe if parents could perfect their techniques they would bring up wonderful children.

The basis to family life, as always, is love. We need to support parents rather than criticize them and realise that the problem is often not parents themselves but the new challenges facing them. Parents need the support of other parents in the difficult but wonderful task of bringing up children in our rapidly changing world.

Br Michael Flaherty

Staff and students celebrated International Women’s Day last week with a number of initiatives to raise awareness of the need to continue to act and pray for women’s equality.

At CBC gender equality is an important aspect of living the Gospel values. The College actively seeks to enjoy a gender balance in staff and leadership.

The first International Women’s Day was held in 1911.

Thousands of events occur to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women. International Women’s Day celebrates the social, political and economic achievements of women while focusing world attention on areas requiring further action. Inspiring Change is the 2014 theme. It calls for challenging the status quo for women’s equality and vigilance inspiring positive change. http://www.internationalwomensday.com/theme.asp#.

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Clipsal 500 On Sunday Mr Frank Scali, Graham Brink and I hosted a thank you lunch for our 2014 Clipsal volunteers.

Clipsal 500 is our major College fundraiser and I cannot compliment or thank highly enough our dedicated team of College volunteers who work with our professional partners Aussie Ripper Roast and to make this event such as success. Our volunteers comprise members from our College Board, Parents Associations, Old Collegians, current and past parents, and members of staff. In particular I wish to highlight the dedication and professionalism of event organisers Mr Frank Scali and Mr Graham Brink. The success of ‘Clipsal Week’ is due in large part to their experience, professionalism and sheer hard work.

NAPLAN Last week an article in the Advertiser provided a comparative analysis of CBC’s and other schools’ NAPLAN report. To provide a comparison between schools’ NAPLAN scores is misleading and highlights the media’s very limited understanding of the test.

School ethos or culture has a significant impact on student achievement. This is not something that can be assessed by a visit to the MySchool website (or by viewing results in the advertiser!). Our advice to parents considering where to educate their children is to look beyond the numbers on the My School site. It is important to get a good fit between the child and the school and a simple number will not give parents that information. Visiting the school, talking with the principal and teachers and talking with current students are all useful ways to gain an insight into whether a school is the best choice to meet the unique needs and interests of their child.

Prayer for International Women’s Day: By Education for Justice Women are a reflection of the glory of God. Today we honour the women of all times and all places: Women of courage.

Women of hope.

Women suffering Women mourning.

Women living fully.

Women experiencing joy.

Women delighting in life.

Women knowing the interconnectedness of the human family.

Women honouring the sacredness of the relational, the affective.

Women quietly tending the garden of human flourishing.

Women boldly leading the transformation of unjust global structures.

Women seeking Wisdom.

Women sharing Wisdom.

Women receiving Love.

Women giving Love.

Women: life-giving.

Women: the image of God.

Loving God, we celebrate your faithfulness and love.

On this day we commit ourselves to the promotion of the full humanity of all women everywhere. We know that whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is not of God. Help us to be faithful to your call to love.

Amen.

The Association of Heads of Independent Schools provides further insight into the test when they say:

Below: Walsh House Red Cross fundraiser BBQ.

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NAPLAN tests are only a very small part of what schools do. At the very least, parents should follow the links from the MySchool site to individual school sites to start to get a feel for the full program that a school is offering its students.

Mr Noel Mifsud Principal

amount of time they spend processing individual words.

Students show significantly longer gaze durations to low- rather than high-frequency words, demonstrating that linguistic characteristics of text drive students’ eye movements as they read. They found the Year 5 students had more difficulty processing adversative conjunctions (but, although) than causal conjunctions (because, since).

From The Deputy Principal Understanding How We Read Last year when I visited a number of schools in China, in between lessons they played music throughout the school and time was designated for students to do eye exercises. The purposes of the exercises were to build the strength of the eyes and to provide a break between lessons. It is interesting that now there has been a number of studies done on eye-tracking which has brought new insights into reading processes. As readers, we imagine that our eyes scan smoothly across the rows of words on the page. In fact, eye-tracking research tells us that our eyes make jerky movements as we read, fixating on a few characters for a few milliseconds before jumping to the next area of fixation, a movement known as a saccade.

A great deal of research has been done with eyetracking with students with dyslexia, which found that students with learning problems have abnormal patterns of eye movement. This research with studying dyslexic students has also provided a better understanding of the process of reading development for all students. Recent improvements in eye-tracking technology have now made it possible to measure eye movements in young readers and people who wear glasses, groups that were once not suitable for eye-tracking research. With earlier technology, subjects had to keep a stable head position because any movement at all was interpreted as an eye movement. This resulted in most tracking research being conducted with adults and university students.

Now the use of video technology makes it possible to track eye movements in young subjects who have trouble remaining still.

Using this technology they found that Year 2 students continued to focus on word-level reading rather than passage-level reading during repeated reading.

Repeated reading still helps improve fluency for beginning readers, but it does so by decreasing the

The focus in eye-tracking research is on the duration and locations of eye fixations. Readers acquire information about the text only during fixations and they are limited in how much information they can process during a fixation. In English, skilled adult readers can only process information 14-15 characters to the right of fixation and 3-4 characters to the left. The perceptual span is smaller for challenging text. It is also smaller for children -- about 11 characters to the right of fixation.

Young readers make many short saccades, sometimes only a few characters away. Eye movement studies not only provide information about which words a reader fixates, but allow us to consider what cognitive processing occurs during fixations. The researchers found that “Children tend to fixate for longer durations, skip fewer words, complete shorter saccades, and make more frequent regressive eye movement.”

Eye movement can be improved by strengthening the core muscles which help a student in their balance and to coordinate themselves properly. It is also important to get their eyes and brain working together. When they are reading they can cover all but the first word of the line they’re on with a ruler or piece of paper and move it along the line as they read each word. This will focus their brain on reading one word at a time. When they get to a difficult word they can cover it with the paper and read it one syllable at a time. This will help their eyes and brain to work together when decoding unfamiliar words. The final thing students can do to improve their tracking is to practise reading aloud. Students don’t need to cover the text when doing this. Hearing their own voice in real time will force their eyes and brain to work together.

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Week 8 Mon 17 Mar

Liturgy – 8:35am (JC) St Patrick’s Day Board Meeting Year 12 Outdoor Ed - Kayaking Catholic Schools Swimming - Primary

Tues 18 Mar Year 10 Retreat (House Based) Wed 19 Mar

Community Mass (8am SC) Marks Year 10 DOE (Group 2) Year 10 CSL (Group 2) Year 9 Retreat (House Based)

Thurs 20 Mar Year 10 DOE (Group 2) Year 10 CSL (Group 2) Fri 21 Mar

Year 10 DOE (Group 2) Year 10 CSL (Group 2) Harmony Day

Week 9 Mon 24 Mar

Liturgy – 8:35am (JC) Year 12 Outdoor Ed - Kayaking

Tues 25 Mar Year 5 Camp - Aldinga Wed 26 Mar

Community Mass (8am SC) O’Brien Year 5 Camp – Aldinga

Thurs 27 Mar Year 11 Outdoor Ed - Kayaking Year 10-12 RAA Streetsmart Fri 28 Mar

JC Assembly Lunch with the Old Collegian Priests/Brothers

Mon 31 Mar

Liturgy – 8:35am (JC)

Tues 1 Apr

Year 11 Alert not Alarmed

Wed 2 Apr

Community Mass (8am SC) Smith WSA Meeting at 6.30pm

Thurs 3 Apr

Junior Campus Student/Parent/Teacher Interviews Commencing at 2:30pm

Fri 4 Apr

House Cross Country (Year 7 – 12)

Week 10

Week 11 Mon 7 Apr

Mr Shaun Clarke Deputy Principal

Head of the

7.30-12pm Saturday 15 March

2014 School calendar

Tues 8 Apr Wed 9 Apr

Community Mass (8am SC) Walsh China Tour leaves

Thurs 10 Apr Year 10,11& 12 Year Level round tables Fri 11 Apr

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Wear your blazers and support CBC at the 2014 Head of the River!

Liturgy – 8:35am (JC) P&F Meeting Student / Parent / Teacher Interviews (SC) CBCCCC Advisory Committee – 6:15pm

Term One Concludes Year 11 & 12 Formal JC Assembly R-12 House Event Colour Day Egg & Bacon Breakfast Easter Liturgy

Friday 11 April 2014 Year 11 and 12 Formal Sun 13 Apr

Palm Sunday – St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral – 11am

Full Term Planner is available at www.cbc.sa.edu.au

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Music Department News Reading Music In the West, reading musical notation is probably the most common method of learning and performing music. Nevertheless some musicians are more adept at playing without musical notation than with it, and many successful musicians from the worlds of jazz, pop, and folk cannot read music. What incentive is there for students to spend the time and effort required in order to become literate with music notation?

Formal musical knowledge may not be an essential part of musicianship, but it certainly enriches it. Consider the following.

1. Most ensembles and choirs require communication with other musicians through notation. Even jazz ensembles, and particularly big bands, rely heavily on written notation.

2. Notation is the basis of music theory, which provides a pathway to a depth of musical understanding not possible without it. Theory helps us to understand the conceptual and to talk declaratively about music. It can open up a new world of musical understanding and illuminate the ‘why’ as well as the ‘what’ and the ‘how’.

3. The ability to read music enables exploration of libraries full of new music otherwise not available to us.

4. Much music, particularly Western art music, is too difficult to learn by ear.

If we want to play the extraordinary but complex repertoires of the great composers, reading is the only means.

5. Learning from notation demands a precision and a series of checkpoints that will improve aspects of musicianship.

Beware of the attitude that spurns reading music. Not being able to read music can stifle musical development. I have yet to meet a non-reader who does not regret his or her decision not to invest the time required to learn to read music.

Mr Michael Griffin Head of Music

not to practise the reading of old clefs; otherwise many treasures of past times “ Fail will remain a closed fountain to you.” –­Robert Schumann Instrumental Tutor Profile

John Callisto - Double Bass John started playing bass at the age of 18 and slowly gained a good rapport with many musicians around Australia. Performing 5 nights a week in a house bands, John accompanied many local and international acts singers, cabaret entertainers, comedians, variety acts and other pop artists.

In 1987 John graduated with degrees in performance on Electric Bass, jazz and classical Double Bass, as well as a teaching degree. John started working as a full time professional performer in Adelaide and Melbourne whilst teaching music and instrumental bass at many public and private schools in Adelaide.

John continues to perform regularly at many corporate functions and in many bands, and is regularly selected to accompany many interstate and overseas artists.

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The Red Cross present the SA Schools Challenge trophy at the Tuesday Assembly.

Assistant Principal Wellbeing Restorative Practice This year Christian Brothers College as part of its commitment to developing positive learning environments and reflected in our 2013 – 2015 strategic plan has begun the exploration of Restorative Practice and what this might mean for our College. We are being supported in our journey by Bill Hansberry and to date the following has occurred: • A full Professional Development Day for Middle Leaders.

• A staff meeting facilitated by Bill Hansberry outlining the challenges and the positives of Restorative Practice and the overwhelming data that supports RP as a way of developing a healthy school culture based upon mutual respect and understanding and manifesting in increased collegiality and community building.

• Many staff have elected to become involved in an Implementation Group where they learn strategies and new skills that they can apply to their classroom and share with colleagues in an open and transparent way.

• The RP exploration is being led by a RP Strategic group with the role to collect data, complete research and provide vision and direction for the forthcoming years as we journey together.

The group is facilitated by Bill Hansberry and AP Wellbeing: Ian Hamilton and comprises of the College Counsellors: Fiona Dunstan, Jane Gaynor Liz Tidemann, Director Action and Research: Richard McLoughlin, Principal’s Exec Assistant and Registrar: Jenny Dunncliff, Junior Campus Coordinator: Nicola Brennan and Heads of House: Jenny Palmer and Gary Jalleh.

At the most recent RP Strategic group meeting one of our discussion was around how share our learning with the whole community and reassure everyone that this is a long journey that will require open and consultative

discussion with all of our community partners, students, parents and caregivers, staff and the wider CBC networks. So firstly we wish to share why we are investigating RP.

So Why Restorative Practice (RP)?

Aim: • The whole school community committed to the pursuit of best practice in T & L • To eliminate blame and see problems as our problems • Seeing RP as the way we do things here • Use of affective statements e.g. “I” e.g. I’m feeling (state the feeling) because (name the behaviour/s) and what I’d like to see happen is (state the action) • Teachers and Student Leaders will be role models and model how to deal with conflict and disruption in a relational way • A shift in the hearts and minds of the school community that is relational and respectful of self and others.

Clearly these aims require an investment of time and attitude and require the development of a shared language, understanding and expectations. To assist our community to begin to understand what RP is about we recommend visiting the following websites. If you conduct a search on Restorative Practice in Schools

SAPOL Sergeant David Kyriacou highlighting the dangers of sexting to Year 9s.

you will be astounded about the weight of research and information on this topic. http://www.rpforschools.net/rp-on-youtube.html (The clips from Mary MacKillop College are particularly powerful and informative.) http://www.hansberryec.com.au (This site provides a wealth of information in support of RP.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLuVeHlrSs (Katy Hutchinson has a moving and honest explanation of the value of RP in our schools and community.)

For teachers and parents Bill has developed the attached card that provides questions that you should ask to begin restorative practice discussions. The RP Strategic group welcome inquiries about RP at CBC and can be contact by email ihamilton@cbc.sa.edu.au .

Mr Ian Hamilton Assistant Principal - Wellbeing

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R – 12 Counsellor 10 Toxic Habits of Unhealthy People Unhealthy people have toxic habits that keep them unhealthy. Avoid these 10 toxic habits to ensure that you are living life to your full potential.

1. Always Assume the Worst Unhealthy people always assume that the worst. They assume no one will like them, that they’ll always mess up, and that they’ll never be successful in their efforts.

They predict others have evil intentions and they always predict the worst possible scenarios will come true.

2. Possess an External Locus of Control People with an external locus of control think that everything that happens to them is fate. They believe they just have bad luck and that they have no control over what happens to them in life. As a result, they take little responsibility for what happens in their lives and blame everyone else for their misfortune.

3. Believe in the Latest Health Fads

8. Don’t Listen to Knowledgeable Experts

Toxic people tend to jump on board with the latest health fads without conducting any research on their own. If someone makes a claim that a new product can offer miraculous results, they’ll buy it. They aren’t able to critically analyse whether or not a product is likely to produce the results that are claimed.

Toxic people tend to dismiss the advice they receive from knowledgeable experts. They don’t listen to doctors, dentists, therapists, or financial counselors.

They write these people off as “stupid” and tend to want to dispute any advice that encourages them to take responsibility for their own behavior.

4. Look for the Easy Way Out

9. Avoid Creative Problem-Solving

They want quick and fast solutions. They expect immediate results and don’t believe that hard work will get them to where they want to be. Instead, they expect that if something is going to change, it should happen now.

Unhealthy people tend to think there is just one way to solve a problem. If that solution doesn’t work, they don’t try to resolve the problem in another way. As a result, they often remain stuck because they can’t get around a problem by using creativity. Almost any problem has multiple solutions and a little creativity can go a long way to finding solutions but toxic people prefer to avoid attempting to resolve them.

5. Don’t Set Goals for Themselves Toxic people don’t create goals for themselves. They don’t work toward reaching anything in life. Often, they can say that they want things to be better but they don’t try to establish strategies to help improve their situation.

6. Feel Jealous of Others Success They tend to feel jealous when other people are successful. They often feel angered by people who are more attractive, earn more money, or have a better life.

They don’t stop to look at the hard work a person has put in to gain that success, but instead believe that it isn’t fair that the same success hasn’t come their way.

7. Blame Their Health on Genetics They don’t tend to take responsibility for their health.

Instead, they blame their weight or illness on genetics.

They think that if they had a mother with diabetes, they’re doomed to have it to. Instead of recognizing their genes may help them identify risk factors, they just presume that their genes make their health problems inevitable and they make no attempts to remedy the situation.

Below: Junior School Prayer Leaders are inducted at the Ash Wednesday assembly.

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10. Gossip about Everyone and Everything Instead of focusing on how to improve their lives, they focus on judging everyone else. They revel in other people’s problems and mistakes and announce their business to the world. They spread rumors and take great joy in gossiping about others. Instead of trying to improve their own lives, they spend their time talking about what others should be doing differently.

Reprinted with permission: www.generationnext.com.au Ms Jane Gaynor School Counsellor on behalf of Wellbeing Team

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Director Junior Campus, Vision and Innovation Dear Parents and Caregivers, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for Catholics. On Wednesday 5 March, the Junior Campus gathered at the Senior Campus for our Ash Wednesday liturgy.

The spiritual formation of our community is central to education at Christian Brothers College and foundational to this formation is the coming together as a community in prayer and sharing in the ritual of mass or liturgy.

As part of the liturgy, we acknowledged and inducted our Junior Campus Prayer Leaders for Semester 1, 2014. Such positions of leadership are an honour within the college as Christian Brothers College is committed to developing young men of Faith, Excellence, Community and Compassion -- ethical and moral young men who, through their Catholic education, develop leadership that results in a love and nurturing of our earth, its people and all creation.

Inducted as our Prayer Leaders for Semester 1 2014 were: R Purple Lewis Tyack, Maxim Junke R White

William Fee, Oliver Wilmott

1 Purple Maximilian Willmore, Marios Tsarnas 1 White

Ryan Paul, Oscar Tabotta

2 Purple Eric Duong, Kale Vause 2 White

Nicholas Capetanakis, Lucas Haines

3 Purple Jonathon D’Arrigo, Dylan Charles

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Anthony Vlassopoulos, Oscar Gehan

5 Purple Hunter Dwyer 5 White

Sebastian Alfred, Darcy Nieckarz

5/6 Gold Thomas Brooks 6 Purple Matthew Thomas 6 White

Stephen Vlassopoulos, Gianluca Marin

The role of the Junior Campus Prayer Leader is to encourage and support the formation of a strong spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ, centred in God’s love, within our community. It is the role of these young leaders, with the support of staff and the broader community, to build within our college a culture of reflection, prayer and action; through a love of humanity and courage to challenge injustice and stand for those whose voices have been silenced and whose power has been diminished. They are our leaders of tomorrow and the stewards of our world and creation. Through their faith and a liberating education may their youth and energy build upon the work of this generation to bring to the world justice and peace for all.

In this time of Lent, our Holy Father Francis shares these insights inspired by the words of Saint Paul, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” (2 Corinthians 8:9) He challenges our humanity suggesting, “God’s wealth passes not through our wealth, but invariably and exclusively through our personal and communal poverty, enlivened by the Spirit of Christ. As Christians we are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.” (Pope Francis, 2013) As individuals and as members of the CBC community, during this time of Lent let us support these young leaders and one another in our faith. Let us look beyond ourselves to others, especially those who society marginalises. Let us not be consumed by material objects believing that material wealth is power; rather, let us challenge ourselves and each other to what it

really means to have a sense of peace and wealth within our world today.

Finally, let us reflect daily upon the power that exists within each and every one of us to make a positive difference in the world and to advocate for justice and peace for all.

As a community Christian Brothers College is such a special and supportive place in which to grow and learn.

Historically it is a college with a long-standing tradition of outreach into the local and global community. This Friday we will once again engage in this sense of outreach ensuring the power we have supports and makes a difference for those in need, raising funds for a cause close to our hearts at the Junior Campus, that being the Diabetic Foundation. Our year 5/6 students in Walsh house will also lend their energy this Friday to collecting for Red Cross in the Hutt St precinct.

In closing I would like to formally acknowledge and thank Mrs Mary-Anne Yeo, who joined the Junior Campus staff in a temporary capacity in 2013.

Mary-Anne’s presence and professionalism added greatly to the positive energy and sense of welcome that is afforded to all who walk through the doors of the Junior Campus. Her support and quiet affirming nature for staff, students and their families was greatly appreciated. There is a sense of sadness as she departs and we wish her well as she continues her life journey and adventures. I am sure she will not be a stranger to the Junior Campus community and as such we look forward to her visits. With Mary-Anne’s departure we warmly welcome Mary White to this role within the Junior Campus and look forward to building a strong and positive working relationship with Mary. Mary equally brings her gifts, talents and positive energy to this position and we look forward to our work together.

Mrs Caroline Clarke Director Junior Campus, Vision and Innovation

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Year 10 PLP/Career Sessions

Careers Coordinator / Counsellor UMAT This is a reminder to any Year 12 students wishing to apply for Medicine or Dentistry at Adelaide University or Clinical Sciences/Medicine or Vision Science at Flinders University, that they must sit the UMAT.

Year 10 students have begun their PLP with an online career/personality test, which provides a range of options for possible career paths which suit their personality, interests and abilities. The few students who have not yet completed this test will receive a reminder this week, as will their parents.

The students have received their Work Experience forms which will need to be organised ASAP to ensure that the best placement is accessed. Students have been urged to aim for an area which interests them (not the local Video store!) and to use their family, friends and other contacts for suggestions in the first instance.

They are urged to begin planning this now as places fill up very quickly. Please do not hesitate to contact me on 8400 4258 or by email ltidemann@cbc. sa.edu.au if you have any queries about this.

Closing date for applications is 6 June.

Year 10 Elevate Education Sessions

UMAT test date: Wednesday 30 July

This Thursday the Year 10 students will undertake a preliminary session with Elevate Education. This session will introduce them to some of the concepts within the PLP and provide some useful strategies to support them.

Ensure that well before the test date you have organised the required ID; do not leave this until the last minute as the school may not have time to verify documentation.

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Work Experience occurs in Term 3, Week 3, beginning Monday 4 August.

Registration is now open and will cost $240. Go to www.umat.acer.edu.au to register and to access the UMAT booklet.

ACER is the only provider of official UMAT preparation material, which can be accessed from their website.

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CBCOCRC is up and about and training twice a week on the Torrens River (6pm Wednesday night and 8:30am Sunday mornings) from the sheds on War Memorial Drive. Get in touch with your old rowing mates and get involved, contact James Corbett (040 331 0503) with any questions and like us on Facebook.

Ms Liz Tidemann College Counsellor 10-12/Careers

Canteen Volunteers Needed! For further information, please contact Penny on 8400 4240 or Lisa on 8400 4222, ext. 118.

Watersports 5 April 2014 Presentation Night The CBC Water Sports Auxiliary warmly invite you to celebrate the achievements of the CBC Rowers at the 2014 Watersports Presentation Night.

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