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School talkWhat has been your highlightat Claremont College this year?

Taylor Lacey: TheStop Means Goproduction was reallyinteresting.

Jodie Staveley:Taking my AdventureRecreation classsurfing was thehighlight of my year.

Ethan Ikan: Thecollege productionGrease because I gotto do what I love —perform in front of alarge audience.

Vicki Millhouse: Ithink the Long Lunchwas a great success.

Josh Mason: I likedthe Long Lunchbecause there was alarge variety of foods.

Tanika Smithurst: Ireally enjoyed theGrease production.

Students flock to guitar schoolLEADING guitarists JimKelly and Brett Garsedprovided expert tuition tostudents aged from 12 to60 at a guitar school host-ed by the music depart-ment at Claremont Col-lege recently.

The three-day guitarschool was held duringthe September holidaysand attracted interestfrom all around Tasmaniaand New South Wales.

It was the brainchild ofClaremont College tea-chers Greg Souter andAdrian Bryan.

‘‘I thought it would be awonderful opportunityfor students to learn fromthe best in the country,’’Mr Souter said.

‘‘I was over the moonwhen John Farnham’sguitar player, Brett Gar-sed, and Jim Kelly, one ofAustralia’s top jazz guitar-ists, said they would comeand teach,’’ he said.

‘‘The students wereblown away by the ex-perts, they were highlymotivated and inspired.I’m sure all will go on tobetter playing.’’

Garsed began playingguitar when he was 12years old, after hearingDeep Purple’s Speed King,and Kelly was the found-ing member of jazz fusionband, Crossfire.

Claremont College mu-sic student AndrewPhipps, 18, was one ofthose at the guitar school.

‘‘It was fantastic andvery rewarding,’’ Andrewsaid.

‘‘I have been playing theguitar since I was nineand like Brett I learntsome basic chords and

then taught myself,’’ hesaid. ‘‘My influence hasbeen George Benson, andGreg Souter has been myteacher for the last fouryears.

‘‘I just love playing infront of an audience and itwas great to go to theguitar school and learn somuch from the experts.’’

Andrew has performedon air at the 936 ABCradio station in Hobart,regularly plays up tothree gigs a week and onweekends he busks forsome extra cash.

POVERTY CHALLENGE

WEET-BIX DIET: Claremont College ‘‘Live Below the Line’’ team member Josh Golding, standing, with(clockwise from left): teacher Beck Andrews, Ashley Cleaver, Kyle Skipworth, Samantha Colombari,teacher Courtney Plapp, Zavier Smith, principal Lynne Hanlon and Aaron Maynard.

STUDENTS and staff atClaremont College gain-ed an insight into thelives of people doing ittough when they agreedto live below the povertyline for five days.

The ‘‘Live Below theLine’’ fundraiser openedtheir eyes to how diffi-cult life is on $2 a day.

Student Josh Goldingsaid it was a challenge.‘‘It wasn’t easy goingwithout my favouritefoods. I lived on Weet-Bixfor the week,’’ he said.

Thirteen students andstaff went hungry for fivedays as part of the fund-raiser for the OaktreeFoundation and the Glo-bal Poverty Project, or-ganisations that put thespotlight on eradicatingextreme poverty.

Student Zavier Smithsaid it had made him seedaily life in a new light.

‘‘It made me appreciatethe amount of food wehave on a daily basis,’’Zavier said.

‘‘I learnt a great dealfrom the experience be-cause you don’t realisehow much you take

things for granted untilyou put yourself in thiskind of situation.’’

Teacher Beck An-drews, who took part inthis year’s ‘‘Make Pov-

erty History’’ summit inCanberra, said studentsand staff had risen to thechallenge.

‘‘The aim was not onlyto raise money but to

give students and staff aninsight into how hard lifeis for people living inextreme poverty,’’ MsAndrews said.

‘‘We raised $1300 —

more than double ourtarget of $500. It will beused in Cambodia to helptrain teachers and givescholarships to chil-dren.’’

Page productiona team effortTHIS Mercury SchoolPage was produced by theEnglish Applied class atClaremont College:

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