RevelationsThe fortnightly newsletter for Pre-K to Year 12 families of St Paul’s

Revelations - St Paul’s Fortnightly Newsletter. Issue No. 45 1

Issue No. 45 30th August 2019

From the PrincipalIt was wonderful to see so many of our sporting teams

in their grand final matches last weekend.

This is such a great achievement and the students involved

should be very proud of their efforts. Out of the six teams

playing, five were successful in winning their final match, which

is a very pleasing outcome. Sport of course, is about more than

just victory, there is so much more that flows out of the strong

sporting programme within our school community.

As I watched the games being played throughout the day it

was evident that the students involved had developed a strong

culture of support for one another– continually encouraging

each other to keep going, despite the circumstances. They

were not discouraged by a mistake or disheartened when

the opposing side scored, but rather they kept thier heads

up and gave it their best. These surely are terrific life lessons

for our young people to learn. I am continually impressed

by our students' amazing ability to rise above their current

circumstance and to play with determination, grit, integrity and

fairness.

In addition to this, I believe that our sporting programme

provides a unique opportunity for our school families to

make strong connections with each other as they gather each

weekend to support their children. Week after week, they

spend time with each other and build relationships and share

some of life’s journey together. It can at times be difficult for

parents to connect with each other and to connect into the life

of the school and sport can provide this opportunity. When

our families get involved in the school, it continues to build on

our strong sense of community.

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From the Principal Continues

My final comment in relation to sport is to thank the staff of

St Paul’s who give generously to our sporting programme.

Whether it be coaching, managing, barbecuing or just turning

up to watch, their contribution is significant and greatly

appreciated. It is pleasing to see the St Paul’s sporting

programme grow year after year, with increasing participation

from our students.

This week, in the Junior School, it was fantastic to see the participation from our students and staff in the Book Week Parade and associated activities.

It is always fascinating to see the myriad of costumes coming

into school. Again a huge thank you to the staff who made this

day possible to the delight of our students.

Ian Wake Principal

I do hope you have been able to book into the

upcoming Trivia Night.

On the night, I will be unveiling the design of the new

Innovation Learning Centre. This building will be a significant

one for our school and will incorporate new Mathematics

classrooms, STEM classrooms, lecture theatre and a new

Secondary School Library.

You can book your tickets via Trybooking. I do hope to see you

at the event.

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From the Head of Junior School

Early Stage One, Kindergarten

First Place: Nevin Munroe

Runner Up: Nathaniel Campbell

Encouragement Award: Josie Henderson

Staffing NewsMrs Heath will be returning to teaching Pre-Kindergarten as a teacher in 2020, relinquishing her role as Director of Pre-Kindergarten. I want to acknowledge the amazing work that Mrs Heath has done in the role over the last few years and I am grateful for the way she has led the Pre-Kindergarten team in this time. The Director position is currently being advertised and an appointment will be made in due course.

John Campbell Speaking Competition Congratulations to all of the Junior School students who bravely took part in the John Campbell Speaking Competition on Thursday, 15th August.

The students did an outstanding job with reciting their poems. A very special thank you to the Rev. John Campbell and Mrs Corry

for judging on the day and to Mrs Wagenfeller for all her hard work in organising and running the competition. We extend further

congratulations to the following award winners:

Stage One, Years 1 and 2

First Place: Jeffrey Tjiantoro

Runner Up: Zayn Ahmed

Encouragement Award: Eden Mansley

Stage Two, Years 3 and 4

First Place: Zac Wallace

Runner Up: Elizabeth Growcock

Encouragement Award: Sienna McHattan

Stage Three, Years 5 and 6

First Place: Famke Cullan

Runner Up: Lewis Low

Encouragement Award: Hannah Vicary

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From the Head of Junior School Coninued

Father’s Day Stall

The Father’s Day stall was held earlier this week and it was strongly supported by the students, with many gifts being sold.

Thank you to all the helpers who

organised and ran the stall, along with

the Year 6 leaders. A special thank you

to Mrs Redman, Mrs Jakobsson and Mr

Place for coordinating the event.

We appreciate the amount of effort put

into an event like this.

Year 6 Camp

Year 6 students from our school have recently undertaken an education tour of the national capital.

Students were given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational

programmes with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy. The

Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being

able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education.

Under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate programme, the Australian

Government contributes $20 to assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion.

The rebate will be paid directly to the school.

As well as visiting Parliament House, the Australian War Memorial, National Electoral

Education Centre, Questacon, the National Gallery of Australia and the Deep Space

Centre, students were provided with the opportunity to see and experience the

snow, a first for many! A highlight for all was the opportunity to spend time together

developing deeper friendships. The camp was a great success, according to the

students and accompanying teachers.

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From the Head of Junior School Continued

Book Week ParadeIt was an exciting morning in Junior School this week as our students and staff dressed up and attended our annual Book Week Parade. We even had some special visitors from France attend! There were so many clever and colourful costumes with lots of smiling faces. Thank you to parents, staff and students for making it such a special day and for all your hard work. A big thank you to Mrs McCaffery and Mrs Bonazza for organising the event.

Ian BrookerHead of Junior School

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Tim HarrisVisiting Author

We were privileged to have author and former St Paul’s teacher, Tim Harris, visit us on our Book Parade Day.

Not unlike Mr Bambuckle, who features in his popular series,

‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’, Tim inspired and delighted

our students and teachers with his whimsical creativity and

storytelling.

He described how he writes his stories - not just the process,

but where he sources his ideas - which has definitely

enthused some of our own budding writers! Two copies of

‘Toffle Towers’ have been purchased for the library, but the

feeling is it will be difficult to keep them on the shelves!

Kerry McCafferyTeacher Librarian

From the Inquiry Centre

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From the Director of Learning Services

Elective Subject Choices for 2020

Year 10 students were advised this week of their course

and subject choices for Year 11, 2020.

As in previous years, a full range of subjects is available to

students in both the HSC and the IB Diploma courses. Subjects

and line combinations are available on my.stpauls for students

and families to check. Virtually all students received their full

list of subject preferences, with the few who did not, receiving

their first or second reserve choices.

St Paul’s offers a much larger range of subjects than

most schools and uses timetabling software and years

of experience to develop the timetable around student

individual preferences. Each year our timetable is different

to the previous year in contrast to many other schools which

have pre-set subjects and lines that students must follow,

making timetabling easier for the school but forcing students

into pre-assigned subject combinations. Senior classes are

sometimes quite small to meet student choices to ensure

that a full subject range is available. In the HSC, Vocational

Education and Training (VET) classes are available at St Paul’s in

Hospitality and at partner schools in other VET courses, further

enhancing the range of subjects on offer to our students.

In some cases, if student choice cannot be met within the

timetable we meet with students and families to explore other

options, such as online delivery of courses (we currently have a

small number of students studying a courses online) or external

providers.

NESA Year 8/MYP Year 3 students also received confirmation

this week of their two elective choices for NESA Year 9/

MYP Year 9 2020. Just as with senior lines, their subject

combinations have been determined to best meet student

elective requests. All students received their first preference

and 89% of students received their first preference for their

second elective choice, with the remaining 11% of students

missing their second choice but being awarded their third

choice. No students required use of the fourth and final

preference.

Year 12 Holiday Study Camps

Each year various organisations run study camps to support Year 12 students as they prepare for their final examinations.

CRU study Camps are offering holiday revision camps

specifically for HSC and IB Diploma students in Year 12. The

school cannot endorse these courses, but students may be

keen to attend.

Brochures for these camps are available from the Student

Office. In previous years, St Paul’s students have found these

helpful, however they sell out quickly.

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From the Director of Learning Services Continued

School Recommendation Scheme for Year 12 Students The School Recommendation Scheme (SRS) is available to all Year 12 students and allows students considering some (but not all) universities to be considered by more than their ATAR.

These universities take into consideration if the student has been a consistent worker at school, but may not have received marks that indicate their application or ability. Some offers are conditional. Some are unconditional. We recommend that all students looking at university study apply using the SRS. Any

student can apply for the SRS.

SRS applications are completed online here.

IB Community Blog Profiles ArabellaThe International Baccalaureate website, ibo.org, recently featured St Paul's Primary Years Programme (PYP) graduate and Middle Years Programme (MYP) student, Arabella.

The Q&A investiagtes how she incorporates her love of music into her life and balances it with her education and sporting committments.

Read the full piece here.

Mr Antony MayrhoferDirector of Learning ServicesE: antony.mayrhofer@stpauls.nsw.edu.auP: +61 2 4776 4705

Secondary School PDHPE TeacherTemporary Contract Commencing Term 4, 2019.

Pre-Kindergarten Coordinator Full-time or Part-timeExciting leadership opportunity.

Junior School Teachers Full-timeAn opportunity to work in a IB World school with a focus on inquiry based learning.

Secondary School TAS Teacher Full-timeThe ability to teach Design and Technology, Digital Technology and Timber Technology.

Secondary School French Teacher Part-timeThe ability to teach an additional language at a beginner level would be an advantage.

2020 PositionsDue to ongoing enrolment growth of the school, St Paul’s is seeking passionate, experienced and suitably qualifi ed teachers for the following permanent positions.

All applications close 2pm, Friday 6th September 2019 For an employment prospectus visit: www.stpauls.nsw.edu.au/employment

St Paul’s is an Independent Christian Grammar school teaching the International Baccalaureate (PYP, MYP & Diploma) and NESA programs from Pre K to Year 12.

St Paul’s Grammar School is committed to employing Christian staff who are innovative and engaging educators.

Employment screening is mandatory in accordance with legislative requirements

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From the Director of Students and Family Services

ISA Winter Sport Grand Finals

What an amazing weekend of sport it was for St Paul’s at last weekend’s grand finals. You may recall in my article in the last edition of Revelations that seven of our teams had qualified for the ISA winter sports competition semi-finals. I am pleased to report that six of those teams, four football teams and two netball teams (many of whom were underdogs), progressed through to the grand finals.

With the netball grand finals being held at Genea Netball Centre in Homebush and the football grand finals taking place at Blacktown, Mr Wake racked up plenty of kilometres as he traversed up and down the M4 motorway multiple times in an effort to cram in as much sports action as he possibly could. This was a challenge given the fact that the timing of many of our grand finals clashed with one another. Given this, Mr Wake did an amazing job and there were many text messages exchanged with score updates throughout the day.

I was fortunate enough to see just over three soccer grand finals. These commenced with our Junior Girls team taking on Blue Mountains Grammar. After scraping into the semi-finals our girls started the game as outsiders, despite upsetting the minor premiers the week before, having been soundly beaten by Blue Mountains previously. Our girls commenced very strongly and dominated the early stages of the game before scoring at around the seven-minute mark. From there, the match was a real arm wrestle in the mid-field with neither team having many clear scoring opportunities. Our girls hung on determinedly to score an upset 1-0 victory. A great achievement given it was the first time St Paul’s had ever fielded a Junior Girls Football team!

Almost simultaneously, our Open Girls Netball team took on Barker for the title at Homebush. After leading by a mere two points at half-time, our girls were seriously challenged in the second half in a very tight match that ebbed and flowed. With three minutes to go, it looked as though our girls might have to settle for runners-up as they trailed Barker by two goals. However, St Paul’s rallied late, taking some key intercepts and then converting them into points on the scoreboard. St Paul’s only put the match beyond doubt with a final goal with less than 30 seconds on the clock ultimately recording a courageous 43-41 win.

The next grand final was the Boys 15’s football team. This was quite literally a David and Goliath battle with our team being significantly outsized by their Redfield opponents. Our team was extremely courageous and managed to match Redfield in a scoreless first half. Unfortunately, early in the second half, Redfield scored and then added another a few minutes later to run out 2-0 victors. Despite the loss our boys did an amazing job to make the Grand Final from fourth position, especially given their team had several members who were playing up a year or two in age.

The fourth grand final of the day saw our Junior Netballers up against St Andrew’s College. This was always going to be a challenge given that St Andrew’s had dropped down from a higher division due to a mid-season regrading. The writing appeared to be on the wall in the early stages of the match with our girls trailing at quarter time before narrowing the gap slightly in the

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From the Director of Students and Family Services

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second quarter. The longer the game went the better St Paul’s got and, in what turned out to be absolute nail biter, scores were locked at 22-all at fulltime sending the match into extra time. It was here that our girls excelled, eventually running out 28-24 winners.

Our final two grand finals took place almost concurrently with the Boys Seconds and the Girls Firsts footballers starting a mere 20 minutes apart. The Boys Seconds played Central Coast Grammar. After a goal-less first half, St Paul’s were the first to strike in the second half only to see Central Coast equalise soon after. Locked at one-all, late in the second half, the match looked destined to be heading for extra time, but Keunwoo Song had other ideas scoring what turned out to be the winning goal with two minutes to go.

The Girls Firsts started as favourites in their match having gone through their season undefeated. They faced a talented and much improved Oxley College side who had only gone down to St Paul’s 1-0 at their previous encounter just prior to finals. It is fair to say that our girls definitely peaked on the grand final day. The anticipated tight struggle failed to eventuate thanks to a totally dominant performance from St Paul’s. After leading 3-0 at half time, our girls snuffed out any chance of a comeback by scoring early in the second half and eventually ran out impressive 5-0 winners over a very courageous Oxley College who, to their great credit, fought valiantly until the end.

Whilst it is obviously great to achieve sporting success and see five of our six teams successful in grand finals, what is even more pleasing is to see the way in which our sports teams conduct themselves both on and off the sporting arena. All the grand finals were played in an extremely good spirit by our teams independent of the result. All teams played as hard as they could but fairly and all were humble and gracious in victory or defeat. Added to this is the wonderful camaraderie that is shown amongst teammates, many of whom come from a variety of year groups, yet all get along so well when playing in the same team.

It would be remiss of me not to give a massive congratulations to Mrs Tantalos who is doing such a wonderful job in her first year as our Co-ordinator of the Sports Academy. Congratulations also to all the individual coaches, our MIC’s of football and netball, Mr Crimmins and Miss Paragalli, and of course, to all the students who played winter sport this season for their wonderful efforts.

Philip Heath Director of Students and Familiy Services

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From the Friends of St Paul's (FoSP)

Father’s Day Stall

Thank you to our volunteers for organising another successful Father’s Day Stall on Tuesday of last week.

The stall is a great opportunity for our younger students to independently choose a gift for dad, grandpa or that significant

person in their lives and practise their numeracy and interaction skills, as they manage their money and calculate costs. We thank

the community for gift donations and the commitment of our volunteers to organise and run the stall.

We hope all the Dads in our school community have a terrific day this Sunday.

Trivia Night

Our Trivia night is shaping up to be a fantastic event. Although there is only one more week to go, it’s still not

too late to book your table! Single tickets are also still available.

We have been very busy gathering prizes, live and silent auction items. You won’t want to miss out on this fantastic event!

Come along and have a great night and be the first to see the plans for Stage One of the new Innovation Learning Centre. All

proceeds from the night go towards this exciting development for our school.

Book your tickets now at: www.trybooking.com/bduxh

Colour Fun Run

We can’t wait to cover you all in COLOUR!

October is right around the corner and that means our

Colour Fun Run is less then two months away!

Follow these 3 easy steps to be ready for Colour Fun Run Day…

Step 1 – Purchase your tickets at trybooking.com

Step 2 – Use your ‘Colour Explosion’ Sponsorship forms and start gathering sponsors.

Step 3 – Warm up and get coloured on Saturday, 19th October!

Remember prizes are awarded to ALL students who raise $10 or more… though the more sponsorship you gather, the bigger the

prizes!

All money raised goes toward building Stage One of the New Innovation Learning Centre.

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope

As part of the Syndey Fringe Festival, a number of St Paul’s students will be performing in a new, fully scripted and interactive children’s show – Kaleidoscope.The show features a live band, dancers, circus performers and singers and tells the story of all the little colours and shapes that live inside the kaleidoscope.

The show is suitable for younger audiences and has a message about kindness, building relationships and anti-bullying.

The St Paul’s students involved are:

Dates:21st September

10.00am - Hurstville Entertainment Centre

4.30pm - Forum Theatre, Leichthardt

22nd September

11.30am - Forum Theatre, Leichthardt

Tickets are available through sydneyfringe.

Some of the Kaleidoscope cast.

Noah McMillan, Year 7Playing the part of Grey

Saisha Nariani, Year 7Featured vocalist and ensemble

Krista Janevsk, Year 11Playing the part of Princess Colorina

Sarah Bonnici, Year 11Playing the part of the narrator and kaleidoscope master

Michaela Hoffman, Year 11Playing the part of Black

Kaleidoscope is also proud to support the charity Fly High Billie in their work to teach children through unique positive interactive workbooks.

Fly High Billie spreads kindness, empathy and compassion, ultimately reducing mental health issues, bullying and suicide in school age children.

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Kaleidoscope

KALEIDOSCOPE21 - 22 September

G O L D P R O M O T I O N S P R E S E N T S

A SPECTACULAR SHOW FOR CHILDREN

21 September 10am - Hurstville Entertainment Centre 4.30pm - Forum Theatre, Leichhardt

22nd September11.30am - Forum Theatre, Leichhardt

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Church School News

EMU PLAINSSTUDYLOUNGE

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Church School News

Colin Buchanan is coming to Glenmore Park Anglican Church Saturday 7th September @ 11am Cost $13.50 This will be huge!!! Invite all your friends to come! Book in ASAP at https://www.koorong.com/tickets/colin-buchanan-tour.html

Velocity ‘We talk about Jesus ‘n Stuff’ For Years 6-12 Friday Nights from 7pm till 9pm Entry is $3

Mulgoa Anglican and GPAC Office: Tue-Fri 9am-230pm Ph 4733 1635

www.gpa.church Glenmore Park Anglican Church