VOLUME XXVIII No 15 21st October, 2011
FROM THE COLLEGE
DATES TO REMEMBER OCTOBER 26
OHI Day
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OHI DAY CELEBRATIONS CHURCH Years 7 – 9 P & F Spring Fair at JS
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Parent Forum Year 12, 2012 Exam Week JS
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NOVEMBER Year 9 Final Exams begin
1st
Years 7 – 8 Final Exams begin
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Gala Dinner
5th
Greek Welfare Centre Walkathon
6th
School Certificate Work Placement for Hospitality and ITVET Parent Forum and Welcome BBQ Year 7, 2012 K2012 Orientation Years 4-6 Camp Depart
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Preparing for the Preliminaries Course begins Year 3 Camp Depart
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HSC ends Years 3-6 Camp return
11
K2012 Orientation
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Young Leaders Day SS
18th
Year 4 visit to SS
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Year 5 visit to SS
22
Orientation Day Year 7, 2012
25th
P & T Interviews K-4 & 5
28th
Musical Showcase Dress Rehearsal JS
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P & T Interviews K – 4 & 6
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APPRECIATING CULTURE LECTURE 2011
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Choir to see Mary Poppins JS
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The aim of the Appreciating Culture Lectures is to establish St Spyridon College as a centre of excellence-lifelong learning and intellectual endeavour, not only for its teachers and students but for the community at large. The first was held in 2003, to celebrate the school’s 21st birthday. The first speaker, was the late Gavin Brown, then the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Sydney University. He proposed that Universities should be places of Light, Liberty and Learning rather than places for buying credentials for coursework completed. We too, at St Spyridon, have the ambition to go beyond the transactional view of education, and to develop the whole person, mind body and soul. In 2008, the then Attorney General NSW, John Hatzistergos spoke to us about the importance of the Eureka Stockade, as a force of impetus for the development of the Australian Constitution. In 2005, His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos of Australia defined for us, what were the “Priorities in True Culture”. He said that true culture is predicated upon freedom, health, property, education and interpersonal relations-the most important of these being freedom. If freedom and social justice are fundamental to the development of true culture, I can think of no one better to edify us in “appreciating culture” than tonight’s Speaker, the Honourable Peter Garrett, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood & Youth. Peter was born in Waroonga, NSW and attended Barker College. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from ANU and a degree in Laws from the University of New South Wales. Peter was elected to the House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith in 2004 and 2007. Prior to this he held Ministerial appointments as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and Minister for the Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts.
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