A PERSONAL CHALLENGE At my installation I challenged stu-dents to find out what they were good at, to try different things and to get out of their comfort zone. It was very pleasing to re-

ceive notification that Lance Shephard (Year 11) had been suc-cessful in his application to join the crew of the tall ship the Young En-deavour. Lance will crew the Airlie Beach to Cairns leg which is for 10 days commencing July 12. This is a great opportunity to develop new skills, not just in sailing but in com-munication, problem solving and group dynamics. We wish Lance well and I will continue to push others to apply for programs that will provide extra challenges.

This notion of experiential learn-ing is not new. Kurt Hahn (1886-1974), a German educator writes, “ I regard as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self- denial, and above all compassion”. Kurt Hahn went on to establish Outward Bound, The Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and Gordonstoun School (UK) where 3 generations of Brit-ish Royals have been educated. We have embraced the Duke of Edinburgh Award as one of our experiential learning platforms. The philosophy is not complicat-ed; give back to others through service, be humble and challenge yourself in order to grow as a person. INTER-SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY Congratulations to all the Cross

Contents

Headmaster’s Report Page 1

Deputy Head Page 3

ASSG Assessment Policy Page 4

Dean of School Page 5

Dean of Students Page 5

Public Speaking Page 6

English Department Page 6

School Chaplain Page 7

School Prayers Page 7

Values Education Page 8

Careers 2016 Page 9

Maths Department Page 9

Rural Visits Page 10

ASSG Z-Club Page 11

Instrumental Music Page 11

Work Experience Page 11

Junior School Page 12

Horse Club Page 13

Cattle Club Page 13

Sports News Page 14

City Country Day Page 17

Whole School Breakfast

Assembly Page 18

Head of Boarding Page 19

Feetham House Page 20

Feetham House Captain Page 20

Page House Page 20

Ramsay House Page 21

Ramsay House Captain Page 21

Alban House Page 21

Alban House Captain Page 21

Becket House Page 22

Becket House Captain Page 23

Chad House Page 23

Cowboys Trip Page 23

Staff Profile Page 24

Headmaster

Issue No 7/2016 12 May 2016

11 YEARS IN A ROW ASSG Cross Country Team with their trophies

Country team members on their performances on Monday. Whilst it is individuals that do the running, it is the team focus that delivers the results. Eleven wins in a row is a remarkable achievement. The most important thing is the sense of pride in the school it develops. You witness that being passed on to the younger runners and this pride in self and school carries over into all aspects of school life. On behalf of the School, I would like to express our gratitude to Mr Fry and Mr Beacom-Halliday for their dedication and their willing-ness to give of their time to train the team. This is time away from friends and family to help develop our students and we should not take this commitment for granted. VISIT BY MR ROYALL We were pleased that Mr Royall was able to accept our invitation to return to the school in time for An-zac Day. It was probably one of the few occasions he was able to watch the entire march from a spectator point of view and look on with pride as he saw the School conduct itself in the way we have come to expect. STAFF One of the many roles our Chap-lain, Br Nathan has, is with the Australian Air Force Cadets. I am pleased to officially announce that Br Nathan has been appointed as

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Chaplain, 1 Wing Australian Air Force Cadets. 1 Wing covers NQ from Mackay to Weipa out to Mt Isa. There are 12 Squadrons in North Queensland with the Head Quarters based out of RAAF Townsville. His appointment as Chaplain to 1 Wing is new for the Wing, whilst there are Chaplains in some other Wings, there has not been one in 1 Wing previously. This is a great honour for Br Na-than. It is an acknowledgement of the passion he has for developing our youth both in the community and in his vocation as both a Brother and a Priest. Whilst the numbers in Cadets is growing there is always room for more stu-dents who wish to take up the op-portunity. The AAFC seeks to better equip young people for community life by fostering initiatives, leadership, discipline and loyalty through training programs which are also designed to stimulate an interest in the RAAF and aviation in gen-eral.

Over recent years the opportuni-ties for young people to take on leadership roles has diminished as service groups such as Cadets and Scouts struggle to find help-ers. We are appreciative that Charters Towers still has opportu-nities for students to participate in such activities. WHOLE SCHOOL BREAKFAST ASSEMBLY Thursday 19th May we will have a sleep in. Because of the long term we will give everyone a chance to have a later start. The day for all staff and students will commence at 8.15 am with breakfast for the whole school (staff, junior school, day and boarding) in Halse Hall. Junior School students from Year 1 to Year 6 can meet in the Junior School first, ready to walk up at 8.15 am. Any Junior School stu-dents arriving after 8.15 should be dropped off at Hals Hall. Prep and Pre prep will advise parents directly of their arrangements. The idea is for the whole school to get together. We will send out further communication and re-minders throughout next week.

Sam Kelly

Half way through the term! 11 weeks is a long term and we have found that some students need a break in terms of weekend leave. Most of the time we can work around leave if we have communi-cation in advance. This enables teachers to organize work or discus catch up exercises. I would say that the respectful “heads up” would be at least 48 hours if teachers have to organise work. Thank you to those parents who have communicated their inten-tions early. Students will still need to hand in assessments on time if the leave is for recreational pur-poses. Obviously, if the leave is for medical, we can always negotiate adjustments if we have warning. We have had a few absences due to illness. As usual, my “motherly” advice is for students to practice good hygiene: wash hands regular-ly, use hand sanitizer and…….do NOT share water bottles. Some students forget that it is very easy to transfer illnesses through using other water bottles. If parents could reinforce this message of on-ly using their own water bottles , this would help staff ensuring healthy students. Being the middle of the term, means that assessments will be starting (if not already) to be handed out. As a mother of two day students, I recommend the checking of student diaries to en-sure that homework is being writ-ten down. It was a lot easier in Years 7 to Year 10 Semester One when I knew that prep had to be set on certain days, but….now that my children are going to that “next phase”, this is now more difficult. It’s important for kids to be organ-ised and to understand that ALL Senior subjects require “set prep” work, assessment work (which has always been on top of set prep)

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and “self directed” prep. I am be-coming concerned that Senior stu-dents are not taking the time to work on “self directed” prep. This can include (but not restricted to):

Reading over notes

Taking “own notes” or sum-maries of class notes

Writing down specific equa-tions

MEMORIZING! Rote learning has a place. I was brought up with the mantra “smart people know, intelligent people can find out and make sense (we would call this now “google” and understand) and, well, ig-norant people just don’t make an effort”. I don’t want our students becoming ignorant people due to teenage lack of drive.

I encourage all parents to discuss this “self directed” prep with their child. I understand that students will have strengths in different ar-eas and will naturally want to just work on the things that they like, but all of the subjects being stud-ied at ASSG need attention. For those who are new to ASSG, our end of Semester One reports are based on both Term 1 and 2 results for each subject. These are very different to the term 1 re-ports as much more information has been gathered about your son or daughter. Our exam block is Monday to Thursday of Week 10 and teachers are already busy starting the report process. This process is quite involved. Reports for Senior School are sent out via post during the first week of the June/July holidays. Junior School aims to have their reports on the last day of the semester. As usual, our Parent/Teacher Interviews are on the beginning of Term 3 travel day from 2- 4 pm and bookings can be made through the office. More information about the inter-views will be conveyed closer to the end of the semester.

Next semester there will be a new timetable due to a few changes: Year 10’s will start their Senior transition subjects. My thanks to parents for ensuring the initial subject choice sheet was in on time. My next stage is to organise the “lines” and return to the Year 10’s for their final choices. I antic-ipate having these lines to the Year 10’s during week 6. Once subjects have been finalized, par-ents receive letters (with the lines) with the student choices. Changes to subjects can be com-pleted via e-mail or phone as late as 12pm travel day term 3. Year 7 & 8 Mathematics and Eng-lish classes will be ability grouped to more efficiently help those stu-dents who are experiencing diffi-culty. This means that we can al-locate our support staff more effi-ciently. Obviously, this means more time for support to those who need it most. Parents of Year 7 or 8 students will receive more information about classes with the end of semester report. We have many Quality Assurance policies and processes at ASSG that are reviewed regularly. One such policy that has been re-viewed is the ASSG Assessment policy. Over the page, I have in-cluded a copy of the newly re-viewed Assessment Policy for the Senior School. This reviewed poli-cy comes into effect from Monday 5th May. Whilst this has been through Heads of Departments and Senior Management meetings I would appreciate any feedback to: skelly@allsouls.qld.edu.au For those who have not heard, the 2017 Gallipoli Tour has been changed to the 2017 Europe Trip. Due to international considera-tions, ASSG has decided not to travel to Turkey from Paris next year, but to continue to Germany. The new itinerary has been at-

Deputy Head

tached for Year 10 and Year 11 students for 2017. Should the in-ternational security level in Turkey return to 2015 levels, we will en-deavour to return once again to Turkey in 2019. For those who had placed a deposit for the 2017 Gal-lipoli Tour, please ensure that you indicate your decision for 2017 via return of the sent letter. Should any places become available, we will start to inform parents of avail-ability by the end of May. I can an-nounce that the “Aunty” for the trip will be Mrs Karen Story and the “Uncle” will be Mr Brenden Travers. Mrs Kim Chapman, who was “Aunty” in 2015, will also be ac-companying the trip. Our first meeting for the 2017 Europe Trip will be on the end of Term 2 Travel Day at 12.00 pm. A lot happening – and I only have responsibility for a fraction of the activity on campus! Thank you for your continued support. In the next Phoenix rising, I will discuss Preliminary Prize giving.

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ASSG ASSESSMENT POLICY Rationale

Assessment is a part of the information gathering process to determine where students are in the continuum of their learn-ing. Assessment is varied and different not only in its nature due to individual learning styles but also according to individu-al subjects. However assessments can have common guidelines with regards to their application. This assessment policy out-lines the common application guidelines of assessment and the procedures to ensure that both QCAA policies

(https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/snr_qa_mod_a-z.pdf), and the School Behaviour Management Policy are fol-lowed.

Scope

This policy is to be used for all secondary school assessments at ASSG.

Policy

For all assessments:

1. Assessment conditions must be adhered to and will be pro-vided on the task sheet of the assessment. Conditions will have the “Draft” or “Progress Check” dates and the Due Date. The time for all assessments to be handed in will be no later than 4pm on the due date.

2. All assessment should be the student’s own work and must adhere to the ASSG academic honesty guidelines (based on the QCAA guidelines).

3. The ASSG referencing guidelines should be followed.

4. Extensions for Senior students (Year 11 & 12) may be ap-proved by the DP only. Application for extensions must be re-ceived at least 2 days before the due date. Heads of Depart-ments must be notified of any extensions in their subject areas.

5. Non Submission of assessment by the due date (or away for extended time without a medical certificate for QCAA subjects) or draft failure to submit will result in:

Deputy Head of School being notified,

Parent/Guardians notified (documentation sent/copy kept for non-submission), and

Time organised for students to complete task under super-vised conditions.

QCAA policy on assessment for Authority and Authority-Registered subject will be followed at ASSG. This can be viewed at www.qcaa.qld.edu.au

6. The school publishes assessment dates in advance. Leave should not clash with assessment requirements. Should an as-sessment date be required to change this will be communicated to students via ensuring the new date is written in their dia-ries, and communicated to parents/dormitory staff via e-mail.

We value the draft process and appreciate that students need time to reflect on feedback from staff. In that light, staff aim to give 7 clear days between draft feedback and the due date with no less than 5 days between draft feedback and the due date. Should there be less than 5 days, the HOD may give a discre-tionary extension to the due date and give the Deputy notice of such.

Related policies:

Code of Conduct, Behaviour Management Policy

Dean of School

Karen Storey Formal Friday’s are no longer Recently we have made some changes to uniform requirements for Fridays in term 2 and 3. Tradi-tionally many students have been required to wear formal uniforms on Fridays, however, with the in-creasing amounts of students in-volved in practical classes and Dal-rymple Trade Training Centre courses on a Friday this number has reduced greatly to the point where we have had a myriad of uniforms worn by secondary stu-dents. Further complicating this is the unavoidable scheduling of House athletics trials during the Dean of School lessons for many Fridays in Term 2 which require students to be in their PE uniforms. For these reasons we have decided to do away with ‘Formal Friday’s’ and have students wear their regu-lar required uniform each Friday during Terms 2 and 3 as they do in first and fourth terms. The trade off for this is that most excursions which leave the campus will be re-quired to wear formal uniforms. Any parents requiring clarification on these changes are asked to contact the School. Meeting Academic and Prep Commitments Over the past 2-3 weeks I have noticed a distinct increase in emails which centre around one topic; sport and the completion of prep. These have ranged from being stu-dents in my own classes offering the ‘I couldn’t do my prep because I had sport’ to teachers asking for support in following up on students who have been unable to complete prep due to sporting commitments and finally, to parents who are ex-plaining student’s difficulty in com-pleting prep due to sporting in-volvements. To each of these I of-fer the same advice:

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1. Students need to communicate directly and early with their class teachers if they are expe-riencing difficulty in completing prep tasks or require additional catch up time or tutoring.

2. Students in Years 7-9 receive prep for only 2 subjects per evening in addition to assign-ment work and study. This should make it easier to priori-tise.

3. Inter-School sport and the ma-jority of training sessions are completed well before dinner and evening prep sessions begin. Sport should not be an excuse for non-completion of prep and assessments.

4. Not all prep needs to be com-pleted during formal prep time (6:30 –8:00pm). There are many support services on offer to students after school (eg RINGERS club and many staff who offer regular tutoring ses-sions) to assist students in achieving their best academic outcomes.

5. Communication is the key. Stu-dents, parents, senior residents and teachers need to keep each other informed. We can only support students and each other if we are aware that there is an issue.

School Photographs I realise many parents are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the school photographs that we had taken some time ago. I can assure you that they are on their way. Due to a stringent proof and checking process our photographs may take a little longer to arrive than par-ents are used to, however, I can assure you they are in production. I thank parents for your patience.

Dean of Students Shannon Lee

Throughout the first few weeks of this term the students behaved excellently, there has been a lot to be involved in and they have ap-proached everything with enthusi-asm. As we approach the middle part of the term it is not uncom-mon for a few behavioural issues to arise.

I am disappointed to be writing about these issues however, in this case I feel it is important that par-ents are kept up to speed with the same messages the students are hearing at school. In the Second-ary School I have been discussing the following; getting along, dis-ruption of others learning and chewing gum. It would be possible to couple each of these issues un-der the one banner, respect.

Respect has been one of the key messages from Mr Fleming since his arrival and is usually one of our strengths. I would like to think we are able to get back on track quickly as we have many weeks to go in this term. I should also add, the behaviour of most, as always has been excellent, it is the poor behaviour of a few who detract from the good work of others.

Getting along A cornerstone for success, though as we all know easier said than done. This is a skill students must develop as its application will be valuable in every aspect of their life. I encourage all students to work hard to show respect, toler-ance and patience to others, while also looking to resolve any conflict with discussion.

Disruption of others learning This is one thing I have a very low tolerance for. Every student has the right to access their learning free from the disruption of others and I have reiterated this expecta-tion with all staff and students. Our behaviour support policies and processes are in place to en-

sure teachers are able to achieve this within their classroom. They will continue to use the referral process when required.

Chewing Gum This has been an issue in the past, usually the students respond well when they have been reminded, under no circumstance is chewing gum to be brought on campus. In the last fortnight I have given many reminders to the students however it feels this message is falling on deaf ears. Apart from the respect issue associated with this one, stu-dents leaving chewing gum around the grounds creates a lot of mess which needs to be cleaned. Stu-dents who continue to bring chew-ing gum to school will find them-selves completing community ser-vice around the grounds.

As I said above, the bulk of stu-dents do the right thing most the time, it is the poor behaviour of a few who need to improve. I look forward to a more positive update next Phoenix Rising.

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Public Speaking Dylan McKenna Year 12 Debating The first round of debating was against BTC. The junior team, which consisted of Jordan Bide-well, Rachel Hall and Connor Rose debated hard, and rebutted harder, but sadly came away with the loss. However, the senior team, consist-ing of Julia Keough, Lance Shephard and Dylan McKenna had a hard fought debate, snatching the victory. In round two against CCC had some new, rookie debat-ers Ben Zabel for the juniors and Ellie Rohan for the seniors. The junior team had some very good points, but sadly they weren’t able to achieve a victory. The senior team had some well thought out rebuttal, strong points and even stronger speeches. The senior team was able to achieve another victory, claiming their 2 win streak. Rostrum 3 of All Souls St Gabriels great public speakers were given the task to compete in the Rostrum Youth of The Year competition. Ra-chel Hall represented ASSG in the Junior section of the competition and Ellie Rohan and Dylan McKen-na represented ASSG in the Senior

section. Rachel had a very engag-ing speech based on the topic, “Moving the goal posts.” Ellie Ro-han wrote a moving speech on, “The big picture.” Dylan McKenna had an inspiring speech about “A catalyst for change” After hearing the prepared speeches from all of the other competitors, we were moved into another room to pre-pare for the impromptu section of the event. All of the ASSG repre-sentatives had speeches that were humorous, truthful and well spo-ken. Once the events were over, the presentations began. Dylan re-ceived a first place for his im-promptu speech. Ellie received an overall second place in the senior section. All competitors spoke very well and are commended on their efforts.

English Department Denis Riddle Head of English

On Sunday 24 April, four of our Year 8 students performed at the Red Rooster Gold City Poetry Com-petition under 16 section at the Charters Towers Showgrounds. They did remarkably well and scooped the pool for the second year in a row.

Tom Marshall came first in compo-sition and performance; Kurtis West came second in performance, third in composition; Kuage Koglkia came second in composition; and Cody Bucklar came third in perfor-mance. Well done to these fine performers who recited ballads of their own composition in front of an appreciative audience.

Thanks to the Year 8 English teachers Om Beacom-Halliday and Kylie Kempster who helped the students craft their masterpieces.

Tom Marhsall, Cody Bucklar, Kurtis West and Kuage Kogklia

Above: Kurtis West with Jean Lindley from Gold City Bush Poets

In our thoughts

and prayers;

We pray for families and

friends experiencing ill-

ness and difficult times.

Help us to support one

another in time of need.

We give thanks for the

success of various sport-

ing and cultural activities

that have taken place

over the last few weeks.

We pray for the leaders

in our school who provide

support and guidance to

students.

We also remember

boarding and support

staff who work alongside

out students and provide

them with a listening ear.

School PrayersSchool Prayers

Dean of School

School Chaplain

Br Nathan-James SSF

Sound of Music It has been an absolute delight in having Mrs Fleming take on leader-ship of the music during Junior School Chapel. The Junior School have always been very enthusiastic in Chapel and actively participate in the singing. Recently, Mrs Fleming has been introducing the students to some new songs. The songs are easy to learn, often have some as-sociated movements, and have some good messages for the chil-dren. I really enjoy listening to the Junior School sing and watch their eager involvement. Thanks Mrs Fleming keep up the great work.

Mrs Fleming introduces another new song to the Junior School Repertoire

Chapel Sacristans Keeping it Clean A group of students have taken on the role of Chapel Sacristans. Each Monday afternoon they meet for an hour to organise and look after the Chapel. Depending on what jobs need doing they may clean the brass and silverware, dust and vac-cum, organise cupboards and draws etc. However, it is not all about work. While the students do work hard it is also an opportunity to talk, ask questions, have some afternoon tea. We have some great discussions around all kinds of top-ics. Some are even budding Servers and use the time after jobs are done to have a go at learning the art of Serving. A surprise bonus to them last week was learning that their time can be counted toward the Duke of Edinburgh Internation-al Award.

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John and Toby keeping the kneelers Organised

Tom and Harrison giving the

Lady Chapel a makeover

A Time and Season for Everything Year 8 students have been learning about some of the mysteries of the Chapel. Recently, they have been learning about the various times and seasons of the Church Year. Many were surprised to learn that the Church Year actually begins in November each year with the Sea-son of Adcent. Students also learned that the Seasons are marked by different colours. As vol-unteers doned different coloured vestments the class learned about the various occasions when each colour was worn. They also learned about how the Seasons and Times of the year are linked to both the life, death, resurrection and ascen-sion of Jesus and major people and events in the life of the Church.

Year 8 students learn the meaning behind the different colours used in the Church

Values Education Barbara Salisbury Head of Values Education Careers Careers Careers Time and time again we witness student’s higher commitment to their studies when they are aware of the requirements for future train-ing or employment. It is through our career aspirations program that student’s learn enough to make an informed choice about their future and are inspired to set goals. The Gatsby Report recommends eight benchmarks for providing good ca-reer guidance at school. Our careers program/experiences and team of key staff aim to meet these bench-marks: 1. A stable career program 2. Learning from career and labour

market information 3. Addressing needs of each pupil 4. Linking curriculum to careers 5. Encounters with employers 6. Workplace experience 7. Encounter with further and higher

education 8. Personal guidance CQU Visit Central Queensland University spoke to Year 12 students about their Start Uni Now Program as well as the diverse range of courses availa-ble at their campuses: www.cqu.edu.au

Isis Symes and Georgina

Nielsen from CQU

After the talk students had time to ask their own specific questions of the presenters. I heard a lot of pos-itive feedback and they will be re-turning to speak with Year 10 and Year 11 students in Term 3.

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Megan Rigato and Chelsea Hislop

learning more

Isis, Chelsea Hislop, Jacklenn Dart, Logan Guldbransen, Will Healing

and Georgina

Important - Last Week of Term By the next Phoenix the last week of term plan should be fully out-lined. Below is what has been con-firmed so far, with information about Year 7 to 9 program to fol-low (Year 10s will be doing the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award camp). ProjectABLE Course With an estimated 70,000 new workers needed by 2019 because of the NDIS, now is the time to learn more about the diverse roles in the disability and community care sector. Dianne Rogers spoke to Year 11 and 12 students at the start of the term about the FREE ProjectABLE half day course being run on Wednesday 22nd June. A dozen students have taken up the opportunity. To learn more about care careers go to http://projectable.com.au/ Mock Job Interviews Year 11s spend Term 2 preparing for their Mock Job Interview in Week 11. Being confident and pre-pared for a job interview will serve them well in the current competi-tive job market. Each student re-searches jobs of interest, prepares

an application letter and resume, plus practices answering interview questions. On the day, students must wear appropriate clothes for an interview. We have a team of business people who then conduct the interviews and provide feed-back to students. In 2015, all Year 11s appreciated this opportunity to practice some very important skills for their future. QCS Test Practice Year 12 OP eligible students will be doing a complete practice run of the QCS Test. It is critical that all students attend this. Students are given last years papers and then these are marked. Ian Die-trich will provide individual guid-ance to students on how they can improve for the real thing in Term 3. QTAC Application Process Applying to University is part of most students’ career plan, whether it be the first option or the backup plan. The Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) is the central body who manages all the applications in QLD and it is important that students under-stand the process. Applications are due in Term 3 which is a very busy term, so the end of Term 2 is the best time for us to explain this so students have time to think over their options while at home on holidays. Yr 11 and 12 Camp at JCU Year 11 and Year 12 parents will be emailed shortly with detailed information about the JCU Uni Ex-perience being held July 14th to 16th. This is a fantastic opportuni-ty for students to learn details about courses that interest them and really helps in decisions about future study. We have many at-tend that are in two minds about going to University. Most return feeling more confident about what they plan to do and have a sense of relief as they narrow down what they are interested in.

Maths Department

Jess Marley Head of Mathematics and IT jmarley@allsouls.qld.edu.au

It has been a busy start to Term 2 and it doesn’t look like it is going to slow down any time soon! In the Mathematics & IT departments most classes are currently working hard to complete assignments. These range from writing data re-ports, researching loans, designing sheds, looking at how coffee cools and programming circuits to work with sensors.

We have much to look forward to in the coming months with some new technologies being introduced in lessons and many activities and competitions.

Mathematics B External Assessment Trial The School was lucky enough to be selected as a trial school for the Ex-ternal Assessment trial in Mathe-matics B. This requires our current year 11 class to sit an external ex-am for the first time. The exam will be written by a panel of Mathemat-ics B experts and then sent away to be marked.

This is a real opportunity for us as a Department and as a School to get a look at the new processes that will eventually come into place in Year

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11 in 2018. It will also mean that we can start to prepare our young-er students appropriately for what they can expect when they reach the Senior phase of learning. Information has been sent to all parents of 11 Mathematics B stu-dents regarding the exam on Wednesday 1st June. I would also like to remind those parents and students that revision classes will be taking place 7:00pm-8:00pm every Monday night in room 10 up until the exam.

If anyone requires any information on this, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Maths, Maths and More Maths On 14th March we had a great time celebrating International Pi Day. There were pies for lunch, Pi cup-cakes and even a giant Pi sign. Nu-merous students were involved and a big thank you has to go to the self-proclaimed geek squad;

Dylan McKenna, Charly Burge and Ngarita Chappell

In Term 3 there are a number of other events taking place. This starts with Maths Camp on Mag-netic Island for a group of our Year 10 Advanced Maths students. This is followed by the Australian Math-ematics Competition and ICAS Maths Competition. Students have been selected by their Maths teacher in Years 3-12 for the AMC and students will be asked to nom-inate themselves for the ICAS Maths. Students should look out for updates in the Daily Bulletin.

Year 10 Semester 2 Choices Students in Year 10 are currently choosing their options for Semes-ter 2. In Mathematics, this requires them to pick one of Maths A, Maths B or Maths B/C. If you or your child are unsure which would be the best option, please get in touch with either myself or their current Maths teacher, currently, these members of staff are myself, Leanne Colthup and Shannon Lee. We can then advise them based on both their pathway and their abil-ity.

For those students looking to take an IT based subject in Years 11 and 12, such as ICT or IPT, the Year 10 Semester 2 ICT course is tailored to suit the needs of both courses.

If you have any questions or con-cerns about any of the above, or any aspect of the Math-ematics and IT curricu-lum, please do not hesi-tate to con-tact me.

Date Excursion/

Presentation Description Year Level

17 May

Futures Dinner Business people from our region join our Year 12s for dinner. Year 12s swap tables each course so that they talk to a variety of people about their life experiences.

Year 12s

20-21 June

Year 11 Job Interviews Students put in a full application and attend a ‘mock’ job interview with a local business person. Held at ASSG.

All Year 11s as part of CAD assessment

22 June

Application Essentials Workshops on how to apply to university through QTAC. Year 12

11-14 July

JCU Residential Expe-rience 3 day camp – approx. cost $160 tbc

Students stay in JCU accommodation and spend three days exploring different courses . The best way for stu-dents to make an informed choice about what they would like to study at uni OR if they want to go at all.

Any interested Year 11 and 12 students

27 July Dalrymple Trade Train-ing Centre Careers Expo

This replaces our need to travel to SF4NQ Careers Expo in Townsville and makes it possible for more year groups to attend. It is predominantly trades focus, but JCU and CQU are also there.

Year 7 to 10 students, 1 hour visit each

8 Aug Townsville Careers Expo

A good way to talk to people from Universities across Queensland.

All Year 11, limited places for Year 12

21 Aug JCU Open Day JCU opens its doors and puts on lots of displays. A great time to go as a family to look at accommodation availa-ble, courses, and to ask about scholarships/finances etc.

School takes one bus load of any interested Year 10 to 12 students

Other Tertiary OPEN Days

Google or go to this link to find out when other institutions are having their Open Days http://www.openday.com.au

Make a special trip, or maybe you’ll be in the area. Most are happy to take families on a tour, all you need to do is make an appointment.

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ASSG Z-Club Tayla Dillon Z-Club Vice President Z-Club is a school based club that works alongside the Charters Tow-ers Zonta Club. Zonta is all about empowering women through ser-vice and advocacy: www.zonta.org.au/. Within Z-Club we carry out various projects that benefit women all around the world. The ASSG Z-club has 24 keen members from Year 7 to 12. The group aims to meet every week on Monday at lunchtime.

Kayla Frost, Zoee Rose and

Savanah Arnold

Two Z-Club Senior members go as representatives to the Charters Towers Zonta meeting and dinner which are held once a month. The senior girls that attend the meet-ings are alternated around to give all an insight into what a formal meeting is like.

Meg Burge, Tayla Dillon and Zonta President Corallie Clarke

Term 1 was spent getting to know each other, learning about Zonta and what Z-club aims to do and planning activities and ways in which we are going to fundraise and contribute this year.

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Lacey Marshall (Z-Club President) gathering ideas from the girls

The $500 raised at the end of last term will help us get some of our projects off the ground. These in-clude Pamper Packs for Women, Trauma Teddies, Days for Girls Packs for girls in Cambodia and perhaps providing loans to women through organisations such as Kiva just to name a few. We have com-pleted our first project which in-volved members bringing in toilet-ries and other new items that could be compiled in a handbag to give to the local Women’s Shed to support their initiative related to Domestic Violence.

Instrumental Music Leslie Croker Instrumental Music Co-ordinator Anzac Day Congratulations to the Concert Band for your effort on Anzac Day, and in the preparation leading up to the parade. You sounded great on the March, and should be proud of yourselves! Thanks must also go to Stuart Bucklar for stepping in to play the bass drum at the last minute – we appreciate your help. What’s on next The next event on our calendar is the Town and Country Ladies Day, being held on Tuesday 24th May. A number of our students will be providing background music for the event. Students performing should make sure they are practising at home to allow them to be fully pre-pared.

Eisteddfod The Charters Towers Eisteddfod is held from 22nd – 31st August. Some students have already start-ed preparing for the Eisteddfod, and others will start preparations in the next week or two. We en-courage students to have a go at doing a solo, duet, or small group item, as it’s a great opportunity to not only perform and receive feed-back from the adjudicator on their performance, but also to hear what other students their age are doing, and to meet Instrumental Music students from other schools. Practice Please encourage students to practise between their lessons. Whether playing an instrument or singing, they are learning a set of skills and using muscles complete-ly different to those we use in general day to day activities. These skills and muscles can only be developed with regular use. Even if students can only manage 20 minute practice sessions every second day, they will soon see the positive effect it has on their musi-cal ability! (N.B. Students doing higher grade AMEB exams should be practising for at least half an hour at a time, and at least 4 days per week – not counting lessons or band rehearsals).

Work Experience

Junior School

Tina Akers Head of Junior School ASSG - A Community of Celebration Our School is dynamic, exciting and full of opportunities for chil-dren to succeed. It is a place where we, as professionals, strive to obtain the best from every stu-dent in our care. To realise each student’s true potential, we offer many different experiences and present them in many varied ways to make learning inspiring and mo-tivating for all our students. We have had a lot to celebrate at All Souls St Gabriels this term. Well done to all students on their posi-tive attitude to learning during the last 5 weeks. Student Awards It is always an exciting time at the JS Assembly on Wednesdays, to not only hear the names of the students that have been awarded certificates, but more importantly to learn the reason why they have achieved them. It is wonderful that so many children have a deep passion to do their very best when they are at school. The mastery of handwriting, the completion of set work promptly, the challenge of achieving personal targets and the compassion of students to one an-other is always a pleasure to see. Congratulations to all our students who have received awards for their outstanding achievements this term.

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A project like this does not hap-pen without a vision and the sup-port of students, staff, parents and the wider School community. Thank you Mrs Marshall and Mrs Polsen for all the extra time you both put into planning, co-ordinating and organising the staff and students to make sure all our props were ready for the float. Thank you Weston’s Carry-ing Service for providing the use of the truck and low-loader and thanks to Jim Polsen for driving the truck so smoothly. Thank you to the Kirkwood family for provid-ing the hay bales, the Brazier family for the Goldfield Ashes shirts and Eventide for letting us

Inter-School Cross Country Congratulations to all the students who represented our School at the Inter-School Cross Country Carnival held at Richmond Hill SS. This year ASSG Junior School came 3rd Overall (Aggregate Shield) and once again brought home the Average Shield. Congratulations to Annika Peace (12 Years Age Champion) and Char-lotte Jesberg (10 Years Age Cham-pion). Joining Annika and Charlotte as members of the Charters Towers Cross Country Team at the NQ Tri-als in Townsville later this month are: Hayden Babao, Seth Guldbran-sen, Lauren Atwell and Reagan But-ler. Our students showed true team spirit with everyone doing their per-sonal best. The competitors, en-couraged by the strong and sup-portive cheers from their ASSG team-mates, parents and the ASSG School Captains did us all proud. Congratulations to all our competi-tors and thank you to Miss Taylor, Mr Roughley, and our Gap Staff Christina and Annika who helped make this another day of celebra-tion for ASSG.

Country Music Float Parade The theme for the floats this year was ‘Back to Your Roots’. All Souls St Gabriels float certainly took us on a historic journey and show-cased the events that define Char-ters Towers. The students looked incredible and the float was amaz-ing.

use the two wheelchairs. At the end of a long and successful day, the help of the staff and volun-teers who dismantled the truck was greatly appreciated. All Souls St Gabriels was judged the BEST DRESSED FLOAT in this year’s Country Music Street Float Parade. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who was involved. NAPLAN Congratulations to all our students who have completed the NAPLAN testing this week. You’ve shown great commitment and persever-ance to get through the testing sessions. NAPLAN results will be released later in the year. Each student will receive an individual report and the School will be able to access some very useful infor-mation for future planning.

Mother’s Day Stall I trust all our mums and grand-mothers were treated to a very special day last Sunday. Thank you to all families for the donations of gifts and the volunteers who gave their time, to help make the Moth-er's Day Stall a success for the children. Congratulations to Hayley Risdale, who won the Mother's Day Raffle.

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Cattle Club Report

Mickala Gough Year 11 Down at the yards, we have been progressing well in prepa-ration for Malanda and Winton Show. Our students have come a long way in judging, some have spent hours reading booklets about the composition of cattle thoughtful-ly made by Celeena. With the amazing commitment our club has made over the past few weeks we are sure to hold our place at Malanda. On the 5th of May we had the Queensland Schools Animal Eth-ics Committee (QSAEC) come down and inspect our yards, Mr Jamie Cupples said he was very impressed with the cattle yards, the general layout of the cattle and horse club grounds, our white board lessons featuring our OH&S. Board and that our inspection passed with flying col-ours. We as a club would like to thank Mr Cupples for taking the time to review our yards and safety practices. On Thursday Mr Fleming also took the time to come and see our members practice their judg-ing and handling skills down at the yards, he was very im-pressed to see our students now comfortably talking aloud to a crowd and he looks forward to seeing us competing at Malanda and Winton. As Malanda ap-proaches promptly, I look for-ward to keeping you up to date with all the Cattle Club happen-ings.

Under 8’s Day Under 8s Day is a time to celebrate having fun and being a child. The theme this year is: Early Learning, Everyone Benefits; Queensland Cel-ebrating 60 years of Under 8’s! The JS Student Leaders are planning some very exciting activities and are looking forward to celebrating Under 8s Day with children from the wider Charters Towers commu-nity, on Wednesday 18 May. The Junior School embraces a strong sense of community and staff are committed to collabora-tively developing whole School cul-ture for positive learning engage-ment in an environment where our students are: Always learning, Serving others, Staying safe and Going forward.

Horse Club Report Gayleen Lawrence Year 11

Now that Term 2 is on a roll, horse club has started to get really busy. We have been working on lunging with side reins and controlling the transitions whilst riding our horses. This week we welcomed a new member to horse club, Tahl Hopkins and his horse Jet. Tahl is in year 7 and lives in Mount Surprise. We hope he enjoys his time with horse club and settles in well. Congratulations to Natalie Teece and her horse Dixie who competed in the Inter-Shool dressage in Townsville over the weekend. They both competed very well and picked up some firsts and a third overall. The girls have started the term ex-tremely well and continue to work hard while we continue to work on and improve our skills whilst riding and working with our horses from the ground.

Sport News Sport News

Karen Storey Secondary Sports Co-ordinator

NQ Reps return Three of our students have just returned from the State Open Rugby Union Championships in Brisbane. Max Alling-ham and Dylan Knuth were selected in the team in late Term One, and Caleb Knuth was a last minute call up to re-place a player who was unavailable. All 3 boys enjoyed being part of a very successful North Queensland team which finished fourth overall in the Championships. Special congratulations to Dylan Knuth who was selected in the Chairman’s Team and now has the opportunity to compete at the State trials late in June. Well done boys! Inter-School Netball and Rugby League Last week saw the first ‘real’ round of Inter-School Sport played against CTSHS. In week 3 we played trial Rugby League games against BTC and some age groups have played similar trial games against CCC, but these were merely for pride and not for points. In the 12yrs age group none of the schools in town have enough students to field a full team so we have been combining each week to play a modified game to ensure that our students are able to build their skills while still getting some game play. I need to thank Mr Jake Diery who has been doing a lot of preparation to make this work for our students.

Results of fixtures against CTSHS appear below

Sunday 22nd May will see us take on BTC in the first of our weekend fixtures at BTC. We will host the return fixture on Sunday 5th June. These have proven to be enjoyable occasions in the past and I am sure this year will be no ex-ception. This week, however, we take on CCC. Good luck to all teams. Cross Country Friday April 29th saw the annual Inter-House Cross Country held at All Souls St Gabriels School. In warmer than ex-pected conditions students gave their all for their houses and achieved some excellent results.

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Team Win/loss Score

1st Rugby League Won 28-6

1st Netball Won 52-2

2nds Rugby League CTSHS no team

2nds Netball CTSHS no team

15’s Rugby League Won 36-12

15’s Netball Won on forfeit

14’s Rugby League CTSHS no team

14’s Netball CTSHS no team

13’s Rugby League Won 54-0

13’s Netball Won 22-8

12’s Netball Lost 34-1

Inter-House Cross Country Age Champions: Jayden Brazier, Darby Godfrey, Todd Thorn, Joe Bode, Tom Gordon, Dylan Knuth, Mr Howard Lowe (Cross Country Patron), Luka Hall, Georgie Clark,

Breanne Peace, Sarah Milton, Piper Godfrey and Angela Jones

Inter-House Cross Country Age Champions

Champion Boys and Girls Houses Overall Champion Inter-School Cross Country Monday 9th May saw the top 6 runners in each age group on their way to the Charters Towers Airport Reserve in a quest to defend their boys and combined aggregate titles for the 10th year running and attempt to regain the girl’s championship. Many of us were very nervous about what the outcome would be and we certainly had our hearts in our mouths as the presentation ceremony began. As usual, I don’t know why we doubted the outcome. Not only did we manage to defend the Boys and Combined Overall Championship, but we also won back the girls Championship in a comprehensive clean sweep of the trophies. The results of the Inter-School Cross Country appear below:

Age Champions Champion Boys and Girls School Overall Championship

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Age Group Age Champion Runner-Up

Open Boys Dylan Knuth Clancy Schaefer

Open Girls Georgie Clark Katie Jones

16yrs Boys Joe Bode Eric LeFeuvre

16yrs Girls Breanne Peace Sarah Santo

15yrs Boys Darby Godfrey Tim Ievers

15yrs Girls Angela Jones Chantelle Reynolds

14yrs Boys Todd Thorn Douglas Keough

14yrs Girls Luka Hall Amber Aspinall

13yrs Boys Tom Gordon Joshua Fraser

13yrs Girls Sarah Milton Grace Newnham

12yrs Boys Jayden Brazier Blaine Woodard

12yrs Girls Piper Godfrey Danielle Curley

Place Girls House Points Boys House Points

1st Becket 140 Page 174

2nd Chad 122 Feetham 125

3rd Alban 114 Ramsay 106

Place Houses Points

1st Chad and Page 296

2nd Becket and Feetham 265

3rd Alban and Ramsay 220

Place School Points

1st ASSG 1228

2nd CCC 1013

3rd BTC 879

4th CTSHS 377

Age Group Age Champion Runner-Up

Open Boys BTC Clancy Schaefer

Open Girls BTC Katie Jones

16yrs Boys Joe Bode Caleb Knuth

16yrs Girls Breanne Peace BTC

15yrs Boys BTC Darby Godfrey

15yrs Girls Angela Jones BTC

14yrs Boys CCC Todd Thorn

14yrs Girls Luka Hall BTC

13yrs Boys Tom Gordon Brandon Finger

13yrs Girls CCC CTSHS

12yrs Boys CCC BTC

12yrs Girls Piper Godfrey CCC

Place Girls Points Boys Points

1st ASSG 593 ASSG 635

2nd CCC 514 CCC 499

3rd BTC 443 BTC 436

4th CTSHS 217 CTSHS 160

The following students were selected in the Charters Towers team to participate in the North Queensland Cross Country trials in Townsville on Tuesday 24th May: 12 Years Piper Godfrey, Danielle Curley, Blaine Woodard 13 Years Grace Newnham, Tom Gordon, Brandon Finger, Joshua Fraser 14 Years Luka Hall, Todd Thorn 15 Years Angela Jones, Darby Godfrey 16 Years Breanne Peace, Sarah Santo, Joe Bode, Caleb Knuth, Lance Shephard Opens Katie Jones, Georgie Clark, Clancy Schaefer, Liam Durrington and Max Allingham

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Inter-School Age Champions & Runner-Ups with Coaches: Back: Mr Om Beacom-Halliday

(Coach), Darby Godfrey, Joe Bode, Clancy Schaefer,

Caleb Knuth, Brandon Finger Middle: Angela Jones, Luka

Hall, Breanne Peace, Todd Thorn Front: Piper Godfrey,

Tom Gordon, Katie Jones and

Mr Darryl Fry (Coach)

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Head of Boarding Darren Guldbransen Head of Boarding Mobile: 0415 903 479 Email: dguldbransen@allsouls.qld.edu.au

Boys’ Boarding Feetham House Jake Diery Senior Resident Mobile: 0419 471 433 Email: jdiery@allsouls.qld.edu.au Page House Davin Marshall Senior Resident Mobile: 0409 071 433 Email: dmarshall@allsouls.qld.edu.au Ramsay House Brendan Travers Senior Resident Mobile: 0400 751 433 Email: btravers@allsouls.qld.edu.au

Girls’ Boarding Alban House Narelle Kelly Senior Resident Mobile: 0419 771 433 Email: nkelly@allsouls.qld.edu.au Becket House Teneil Smale Senior Resident Mobile: 0407 142 493 Email: tsmale@allsouls.qld.edu.au Chad House Yvonne Schaefer Senior Resident Mobile: 0439 764 638 Email: yschaefer@allsouls.qld.edu.au

Dormitory News Dormitory News Head of Boarding Darren Guldbransen Senior Resident

I hope all our Mothers got lots of chocolates, presents and breakfast in bed for Mother’s Day last Sunday, and that all of our boarders remem-bered to phone home and wish their mum the best.

Cross Country Congratulations to Mr Fry and Mr Halliday and our entire Inter-School Cross Country team on another out-standing performance this year. They have extended our winning streak to eleven with a very con-vincing victory. Keeping the Cross Country title and maintaining that dominance is something our team takes an enormous amount of pride in and works very hard each year to maintain. I have no doubt Mr Fry and Mr Halliday are both very proud and relieved men now that it is over for another year, and now they can enjoy a sleep in for a few weeks.

Getting over the hump We are just crossing over the mid-dle part of a very long term and are coming up to what I would call the hump in the term which will be weeks 6, 7 and 8. While the last three weeks of this term will also be busy and stressful because it will be exam block. I find our boarders cope pretty well with it because there is an end in sight. The next couple though can be a tough peri-

od for some of our boarders, mainly those who have a heavy academic load and are doing a lot of sport, or if they are doing a lot on weekends. This is the time I find tempers can get short and kids get frustrated and little things that would not normally be a prob-lem suddenly become a big deal. While we will still have plenty of football and netball over the next few weeks I have asked all our boarding staff to do a few little things to help manage this period and help get our kids over the hump in the term. Now that the Cross Country has been run we won’t have any morning running for a couple of weeks, and will be collecting the phones and laptops of all our Years 7,8 and 9 boarders on weekends, as well as during the week, just so they are not tempted to stay up late playing games or talking. I have also spo-ken to all our boarders about the need for them to look after them-selves and make sure they have a bit of down time, eat well, and get plenty of sleep, so they give themselves a chance to recharge, especially those students who have been heavily involved in the Cross Country.

While this does not guarantee we won’t have any issues I am hope-ful it will get all our boarders to the end of term in the best possi-ble shape.

That’s it for now.

Feetham House

Jake Diery Senior Resident This term is flying by very quickly and we are already into the 5th week. Anzac day was great and the school really stood out. The boys all marched and represented them-selves in a manner that they all should be proud of. Great work guys. Jack Winsper, Toby Rankine, Clancy Schaefer and Ben Wilkinson impressed me by coming back from leave to go to the schools war dead chapel services. That to me showed a lot of respect to those that fought for our freedom.

The boys have been flat out with their sports and school work and it is starting to get to the busy part of the term, so all the boys are en-couraged to rest as much as possi-ble. Earlier bed times on the week-ends are a must at this stage. We also had to shut the kitchen down in the dorm for a week. The boys were leaving full bottles of milk ly-ing around the dorm. No one was washing up after themselves. So I shut down the kitchen for the week. It has seemed to work so far. Hopefully the boys keep it clean and don’t waste the food that has been provided for them. The rugby league has started up and all the boys are enjoying it. Up at Feetham we do a players player every week from the boys who played out of Feetham dorm. This person is chosen by the guys in the dorm that they think has played the best. For the first 2 games we had Casey Rankine and Will Heal-ing taking out the 1st. Clancy Schaefer and Marcelo W-H for the 2nds, Tim Ievers and Darcy Meehan for the under 15s, Patrick

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Page House

Davin Marshall Senior Resident

We have reached the halfway point in this long term and the boys are quite tired already. Cross Country is finished now so the early morn-ing running will ease off and they will only have footy training in the afternoons. Hopefully they will start to catch up a bit from now on.

The Inter-House Cross Country was a great day for Page House. All the running training and effort the boys put in paid off with a clear win. The participation of our runners of all ability levels speaks volumes of the culture we have in this dormitory. Page House ended up with all the age champions ex-cept for under 12’s. From Page Dormitory we had Dylan Knuth in the Opens, Joe Bode in the 16’s and Darby Godfrey in the 15’s and many other boys who placed high-ly. Well done on a great effort boys!

Interesting things in the Dormitory

Noel Bridges is running the Footy tipping competition in the Dormitory this year.

Michael Meteyard loves to talk about the NRL and can quote all sorts of facts about the Cowboys and Jonathon Thurston.

Darby Godfrey and Clem Suhr have the tidiest double bay in the Dormitory.

Zane Zabel lifts his homemade weights every day (and they are heavy).

The boys got to watch Kade’s Blackhawks Grand Final on live stream in the common room and they loved it. Thanks Ky and Mr Sox.

As a new boarder Griff Gordon is going great guns and is polite and respectful.

Dan Rabuka is a common sight over here in Page Dormitory.

Brenden Dawson has spoken re-ally well a couple of times at our

Washington for 14’s, Kayden Fogarty and Gareth Mercy in the 13’s aAs and Dwight Croft-Ellis and Max Washington for the 13B’s. Good work guys. We have also just had the Inter-House Cross Country last week. Feetham came in 2nd with the old-er guys really leading the way, with 5 of the top 6 being Feetham. It was also great to see new comer Jimmy McDowall put in a big effort and come 4th. Well done.

The look on their faces shows 110% Effort: Clancy Schaefer and

Ethan Cowan

Lastly, if you have any concerns or need to get in touch with me, please feel free to call or email.

Charly Burge Feetham House Captain

Term 2 is now underway and every-

one is back into the swing of things. Last week we had our Inter-House cross country with Feetham house managing to come in 2nd. Unfortu-nately there were no age champions from Feetham this year. But we had a few runner up’s.

Everyone in the dorm has been get-ting involved with Inter-School Rug-by League this term and we have all been busy with training and games most afternoons. One of our Feeth-am house seniors Max Allingham was lucky enough to go away to rep-resent North Queensland for the un-der 18’s Rugby Union the weekend just past, the team had a few good wins.

Monday Night meetings.

Brodie Campbell and Hayden Lang have taken to wearing Man Buns in their hair in the Dorm.

Overall the boys are conducting themselves very well and they are showing a real sense of pride in the culture they have created with-in the Dormitory. It is a pleasant place to spend time and they are a great bunch of kids.

As always please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any con-cerns regarding your son here in Boarding.

Ramsay House Brenden Travers Senior Resident Why not make it 11? Eleven in a row. Wow. As I write this the school is basking in the glory of having won its eleventh straight Cross Country event. As a staff member now, it is strange that the first of these eleven victo-ries came in my final year of school here. Personally, I offered little more than moral support in that year’s campaign but am now blown away by the effort put in by the students and staff alike to accom-plish such a feat. After the Inter-House Cross Coun-try is run, morning training be-comes compulsory but beforehand it is optional for anyone. It is at these times that you realise how driven we have become to contin-ue to achieve success. A stagger-ing number of students haul them-selves out of bed and laboriously go about the business of readying themselves for two races. They do so without complaint. It is this cul-ture that impresses the most. From Ramsay Dorm; Aaron Core, Robert Lawrence, Lachlan Lathwell, Pita Rabuka, Zac Stevenson and Casey Hopf all put their hands up to train

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Alban House

Narelle Kelly Senior Resident

Welcome Welcome to the beginning of week 5. The girls have had their hands full, training for the Cross Country. The Inter-House Cross Country ended up being heaps of fun for the girls, especially the Year 7’s pictured over. Jasmine and April made it into the Inter-School team, so well done girls.

hard and contribute to another Soul’s victory. Congratulations to them and to all the Soul’s kids who have continued the streak! Congratulations Massive congratulations need to go to Zac Stevenson, who in the last week was selected in the Townsville U13 Stingers side. Zac has been training with this squad for some time and was rewarded last week when he gained selection. Well done Zac. That’s all from Ramsay Dorm for now, as always if there are any par-ents who wish to get in contact with me in regards to your sons, please feel free to do so via email or phone anytime.

Kiara Henry-Nash Alban House Captain

Lately in Alban dorm we've had our Cross-Country girls waking up 3 times a week preparing themselves for our annual Inter-School Cross Country event.

Last week we had the Inter-House event and with the train-ing some girls put in great effort and with that comes reward, we did a pretty solid effort of coming 3rd. I would like to congratulate the boarding students in Alban: Jasmine Elliott, April Dixon, Chel-sea Mosch, Chloe Frohloff, Amber Aspinall, Isabel Blennerhasset, Tayla Davidson, Myself and all other Alban girls for making the 2016 Cross Country team. I know cross country isn't everyone’s sport, or the easiest but everyone got into the spirit and gave it a go.

Along with Cross Country we have girls training for the netball season as well, with most girls spending most afternoon being busy bees either at home work club or at sport training, it's great to see the girls getting out and enjoying some time out of the dorm whilst doing study for all their assessments coming up this week.

Ramsay House Captain

Logan Guldbransen

The Ramsay boys got another

chance to wear the green and

red with the Inter-House

Cross Country just gone. De-

spite not coming out with the

result we hoped for, it was

great to see all the boys out

on the track giving their all. It

made myself and the other

seniors proud as the boys ran

across the finish line. A spe-

cial mention must go to Jay-

den Brazier for being the only

Ramsay boy to take out age

champion. Congratulations to

everyone who made the Inter-

School team for continuing

the streak for another year.

All of the Seniors were very

proud of this achievement

and good luck to the Year

11s, we hope you can contin-

ue it for another year in 2017.

Thank you Kiara for your report, without forgetting, I would like to mention how very proud I am of Kiara for being named the Girls Cross Country Captain for 2016. She has been a great role model in Alban for all sporting and even boarding expectations. Her con-sistency has really paid off. So con-gratulations, Kiara.

Alban Year 7’s first Cross Country - April Dixon, Abbey Haines,

Jasmine Elliott and Kayla Frost. Looking good girls.

”Sleeping Beauty” This is Tara, she has peaceful sleeps. Hope that you return back to school soon. Every-one is missing you.

Tara Yung

April/May Birthday’s Jasmine Elliott turned 12 last month. Amber Aspinall escaped the dorm for the weekend, so we did-n’t get to sing her Happy Birthday. But Happy Birthday for Saturday Amber. I hope that you had a nice time away with Mum and Dad.

Jasmine Elliott

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Becket House

Teneil Smale Senior Resident

Becket Year 12 Profile

Katie Jones with her Mother Julie

Name: Katie Jones How long have you been at ASSG? This is my 2nd year. Where are you from? Kaarima outside of Clermont. Something people may not know about you? At the end of Year Ten, I travelled and worked in Fiji with Teen Mission. We were away for a couple of months over Christmas. We demolished an old burnt out toilet block and built new facilities for the local chil-dren. What is your favourite aspect of school? Boarding life, the friends I’ve made and playing sport. What is your least favourite? The early morning wake ups. What is your favourite sub-ject? They are all even except business, it’s my worst. Who has been the greatest influence on your life? My Dad, he can do anything. I would never want to disappoint him. What would you never do, no matter the price? Go on a reali-ty show, especially if there were snakes. If you had a motto what would it be? You get out of life, what you put in. If you could choose, what would you have for your last meal? Mum’s steak and chips. She double cooks thick chips, they are so crispy and the steak is cooked perfectly with the yum-miest Dianne sauce.

Nina’s afternoon of fun Thank you to Nina for throwing an afternoon tea come fun afternoon for the girls. They had heaps of fun and the star attraction was the two babies that came along. As you can see by the few photos, the girls bought out their motherly duties of caring for their babies. Nina had them all running pushing prams to see who was the fastest in dressing their babies. Luckily for the babies, that they didn’t have to go out in public after being raced to be dressed. Some had legs in arm holes and nappies on back to front. But hey it’s all practice and the ba-bies didn’t complain. It was a lovely afternoon with all the girls and Nina always comes up with ideas on how to keep them entertained.

Where is Sister? This all happened on a Wednesday night. We nearly ran out of slings. Luckily I had Sue-Ann on duty as well. Two netball and one other in-jury. But they must not have been in too much pain, look at their smiley faces.

Annabel Hatch, Jasmine Elliott and Megan Rigato

Megan Rigato

Becket House Captain

To start I would like to congratu-

late all the girls who participated

in the Inter-House Cross Country,

without them it would not have

been possible to gain another vic-

tory. The girls are buzzing with

excitement from the win, but I

think they are more excited for

the victory celebration. Everyone

has worked hard by going to eve-

ry running training coming up to

the event and putting all there ef-

fort into the race. The next Inter-

House event is Inter-House Ten-

nis which will be towards the end

of the term. May the best house

win……..

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prep. Hughina has been a won-derful support for Lorna Kepper and Piper Godfrey and Hollie Grant share a special bond. All of our Seniors have been very sup-portive towards our younger girls, making themselves available as a kind but firm leadership group.

Hughina Tindall and Lorna Kepper

As always, Pauline and I are al-ways available if there is an issue regarding your girls that needs discussing.

Kim Andison, Emma Andison and Hughina Tindall

Chad House

Yvonne Schaefer Senior Resident

Gutsy Runs Attending the Cross Country this year was a feeling of expectation coupled with trepidation that our reign may come to an end. As we all know now, the expectations were exceeded by our wonderful Cross Country runners. Piper Godfrey ran her little heart out to win her 12 Years age group. Bri-arley Fitchett also did our dormitory proud by coming in 8th. Lorna Kep-per put in a gutsy run against some talented runners to come in 10th. Casey Campbell and Vivienne Elliott came in in the top 11 making the 14’s girls a dominant age group. La-rissa Mafrici worked hard to do a great job for the 15’s age group. The 16’s and Opens were totally domi-nant and we are so pleased that Julia Keough, Zoe Godfrey, Georgie Clark and Hollie Grant were an inte-gral part of this team.

Buddies Buddies were put in place for the Year 7’s at the beginning of the year to help them find their feet and to have someone to go to who wasn’t a ‘staff member’. To say it has been a success for the girls is an under-statement. Savannah asked Georgie to go to classroom prep last night, so, off Georgie heads to classroom

Amber Aspinall, Sarah Milton, Casey Campbell, Piper Godfrey, Vivienne Elliott and Briarley Fitchett at the Inter-School Cross Country

COWBOYS TRIP

Mac Horne Trip Coordinator About two dozen staff and stu-dents enjoyed the Cowboys—Eels first clash at 1300 Smiles Stadi-um on 23rd April. Most were happy about the Cow-boys win. My thanks to Pia Taylor and Brenden Travers for their support during the trip, the School kitch-en for supplying food, and Flo King for dealing with all of the payments and permission forms.

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Staff Profile

Staff Name: Deborah Kelly

Duties at ASSG: Catering Manager

How long you have been at ASSG? 18 Years

Where you are from? Mareeba, North Queensland

Something people may not know about you: I lived in New Zealand as an exchange student as

a teenager

What encouraged you to do this job? I had a very good teacher in John Gardner, knowing

that there was more to this job then washing

dishes and mopping floors

What work did you do before coming to ASSG? Assistant Manager of a pub in Karumba, Barmaid,

Cook on a boat in the Gulf

What is your favourite aspect of your job? Interaction with the students and knowing that

they are happy

And your least favourite? Dealing with complaints, as it shows I’m not doing

my job properly

What was your favourite subject at school? Maths

What was the most important part of your education? Getting my qualifications later in life

Which person (or thinker) has had the greatest influence on your life? My Dad, who still to this

day is my hero

What would you never do, no matter the price? Touch a green frog or snake………… and never

support NSW

If you had a motto, what would it be? It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want

to be

If you could choose, what would you have for your last meal? Creamy Garlic Prawns and rice,

followed by a massive cheese platter