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52JUNE2004

One of the major goals many ofus have for All Saints' College isfor students to be adventurousin the activities they select.

In years gone by, variouscourses and activities wereconsidered more suitable forone gender than for the other.There is frequently no logic tothis situation: a particular courseis traditionally taken more byboys or more by girls, althoughone struggles to understandwhy that should be so.

Having been a coeducationalschool throughout our history ­and in this we differ from nearlyall the major non-governmentcoeducational schools aroundAustralia - we have always hada programme which includesdiverse activities.

As a result, we have anadvantage over many of thesingle-gender schools in thatfacilities for all courses arealready provided here and wehave a long tradition of nurturingstudents' learning in them.This is a part of our academiclandscape. We do not need tointroduce such courses from aprevious null presence.

It is, however, not always thecase that all students takeadvantage of the range ofactivities available to them. Andit is not always the case thatoutsiders see a coeducationalcampus as the obvious place forstudents to engage in studies ata high level in curriculum areaswhich are more conventionallyviewed as the province of theother gender.

I believe that, at present, we arein a sound position from the pointof view of students' selectionof courses being based uponability and need rather thanupon stereotypes. But I hopethis will improve further.

An example of where we arewell placed is in Science, wheremany able students, both maleand female, are enrolled in allof our physical and biologicalscience courses. Furthermore,many of our former studentshave undertaken tertiarystudies and moved into theprofessions in the sciences in acorresponding manner.

The article on Page 6 is anindication that the physicalsciences can hold the interest of

any student, maleorfemale whois prepared to commit to t em.Furthermore, any such st dentcan do well in them withi ourcoeducational context, and canfind fulfilling professional fu ureson that pathway.

All Saints' College willreaching its potentialcoeducational institutionas well as providing asocial environmentreflects that of the outsideit also has students cho singcourses and activities on thebasis of interest, challenge andpotential for the future. e atthe College believe ferv ntlyin the need for all studen s tohave that open approac . 0

their course selection. henstudents do choose their qo rseon that basis, we certainly avethe facilities, the quali ofteaching and the study-su portstructures toenable themto achieve atan outstandinglevel.

Or GA ShawPrincipal

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Cleaning up the Creek...Spraying Manager, Bill Ridley,and Jackie Stansfield, Melville'sEnvironmental Officer to meet thestudents.

The Year 8 students who arecurrently participating in theprogramme have been busygerminating their first batch ofseeds in the new shade house.Soon the seedlings will be planteddown at the Creek.

As well as growing plants, thestudents are focussing on weedcontrol. There is an abundanceof blackberries in the Creekarea which, with the appropriateequipment, safeguarding andtraining, the students will spray.

Another guest speaker, GeorgiaDavies, will help the students learnabout pest plant species.

We thank Bunnings Pty Ltd'sO'Connor store for their willingnessto assist with this project byfunding our initial equipment listof gloves, gardening implements,spray packs and other items thatwill be a big help to us in achievingour long term goals.

In the not too distant future wewill be calling on the Collegecommunity as a whole to supportour students in the rehabilitationof Bull Creek. For furtherinformation about the project goto www.allsaints.wa.edu.au/senior/bullcreek/opening page.htm.

Mr Kent WilliamsHead of Science

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Each Friday fortnight, Mrs Jilt Angel, Headof service, and a group of dedicated andenthusiastic Years 11-13 students andtonner students lead Youth Group. Thesporting, musical and creative activities

lve students from Years 7 - 10 anotheropportunity to Interact In a fun, supportiveand casual environment.

I have enjoyed youth group this tenn forseveral reasons. It's a place for my friendsto meet, and a way to meet new people.I also like the games and sports we play,like badminton, dodge and basketball.

I liked our outing that we had this term,when we went to Tropical Twist. It wasgreat having the place all to ourselves.

listening to others' opinionsand being more patient witheach other. Each activity linkedreally well with the Executive'sposition and ambitions for 2004and it was good to see how wehandled each situation togetheras a team. Our confidence grew,tolerance of others improved andwe were able to make reliabledecisions between us. Thecamp was a good experiencefor us to improve the qualitieswe already possess and wetherefore became more positivewith the different scenarios wehad to face. If you have theopportunity to be part of thestudent executive don't hesitatebecause you are rewarded inmany ways and this camp is justone of them.

Kirsty Norquay & Amanda WillisDurack House & FunctionsCaptains

We learned from the campabout understanding theimportance of communication,

After the completion of ourstrenuous hike Father Terry,who brought along his cookingexpertise, greeted us. Beforewe left for the camp we weretold it was the five kilogramweight gaining camp, and welater found out this was true withdelicious meals about seventimes a day!

weaknesses within ourselves.The first activity we had tocomplete by working togetherfor the first time as a team wasfinding and navigating our wayto the campsite. More tasksincluded the Mouse Trap wherewe learned that it was aboutcompleting not competing, theSpider's Web enhanced ourtrust in each another, and inBlindfolded Knots we learnedto be more understanding andpatient with each other.

• to develop a sense of unityand camaraderie;

• to consider each student'sportfolio;

• to develop the ability towork as a team;

• to develop trust andleadership skills; and

• to find hidden friendships,strengths andweaknesses.

Throughout the camp we refinedour skills by completing variousactivities to find strengths and

The Student Executive camphad many aims and objectives,including:

The 2004 Student Executive'sschool year all started to cometogether early on a Thursdaymorning. Mr Dundas, MrsCameron and Mr Brown greetedus to embark on a camp thatwe will never forget. We were allexcited and ready to work as ateam of leaders.

VenThe camps were conducted slightlydifferently this year. The Years 5,6 and7 students went away in the weeks priorto Camp Week, and the Years 8 - 13students went away at the traditionaltime - the last week of Term 1.

Wendy Marshal! (1 987, Arthur)

"I loved All Saints' when I was here and haddecided, before I met Warren, or had children,that All Saints' was where I wanted my childrento go to school.

On my first day we had assembly for the wholeschool (Years 8 - 10) in the Senior SchoolAmphitheatre. There wasn't a PA Centre, orF Block and the bush court was there, butthere were no paths through the middle."

Fraser is in Kindergarten. He loves the sandpit and Japanese, which Wendy didn't getto study in Year 8 because they did extraEnglish grammar classes instead, and in Term1 he really loved learning about dinosaurs,particularly the tyrannosaurus rex. He hopesthey will learn more about dinosaurs this term,but we think he'll enjoy learning no matter whatsubject Mrs Mano has chosen.

"My parents were very proud to send meto All Saints'. They believed the care andattention and education I received would bean advantage for all of my life. I wanted tobe able to give the same gift to my children",Wendy said.

Wendy and Warren's daughter, Elisabeth, wasbaptized at the College by Father Terry and isenrolled to commence at the College in 2008.

Simon Stone (1985)

Simon and Jenny Stone had always plannedon sending their children to All Saints', buttheir original plan was to do it when Jazmineand Mitchell reached Senior School. In 2002that plan changed whenthey attended the inauguralLiterature Festival andsaw how the Collegehad developed and wereencouraged by the evidentcommunity spirit of theCollege.

Simon had been researchingchildren's developmentand had discovered thata warm environmentand support positivelyinfluenced their self-

Coeducation, coupled with the care andsupport she knew Daniel would get at theCollege, was enough to help Chrissy Gambledecide on All Saints' .

ChrissyGamble(1990, Laycock) k

"There isn't another coed school that matchesAll Saints'," Chrissy said. "There are manygood schools in the area but none equal AllSaints' in the pastoralcare sphere, while alsomeeting that all importantlife skill of communicatingwith and relating to theopposite sex.

"After all, lifeis coed".

The coeducational environment was perhapseven more important to Chrissy and herhusband, Ross, as Daniel is their only child.They wanted Daniel to have friendships,irrespective of gender and felt that this aimwas achieved in a coed school and, havingchosen coeducation, they set about findingthe best coed school possible.

learning environments, and that the students'individuality is respected. They also greatlyvalue the Transition Programme, which makesmoving from the Junior School to the SeniorSchool much less stressful as the studentsare already accustomed to moving betweenclassrooms.

"The family tradition of attending All Saints' issomething I can't explain, but it's somethingthat I hope will continue", Michelle said. WithTheodore enrolled and Jizelle and Lyndon likelyto follow suit, the College is a place wherewe're sure all the family will feel at home.

Michelle and her son Dane (Year 8) representthe beginnings of All Saints' first dynasty; therehave been only two years of the College'sexistence in which one of the clan, be it Michelleand her siblings or Dane and his cousins, hasnot been a student at the College.

Michelle Kenworthy-Groen(1985, Kenworthy)

esteem and helped them develop the attitudethat 'learning is actually fun'. He felt that thelearning environment at All Saints' supportedand reflected these discoveries.

Michelle said, "My father was Vice Patron ofthe College at its inception and was passionateabout it. I was given a choice of which schoolattended and, because I was quite sporty, Ichose All Saints'. The environment suited me.I liked the fact that it was small enough to belike an extension of your family; everyone kneweveryone."

Dane and Michelle agreed on a number ofvital elements of All Saints'. It is important tothem that the pastoral care system exists andensures that students are comfortable in their

What has impressed Simon the most aboutAll Saints' is the sense of family; he says thepastoral care that is afforded to each and everystudent and their family is something special.In fact he thinks it's "second to none".

Five Year 10 studentswent question for questionin the semi-finals of It'sAcademic, a televisiongeneral knowledge quiz forsecondary school students.

Ms Bozich's Year 12Outdoor Educationclass was hanging outin the amphitheatre,practising their abseilingfor the excursion inwhich they taught theirparents to abseil.

The Year 3 and 4 students havebeen doing some work with theirdads at the weekly ElectronicsClub. Each father and son team(occasionally mums replace busydads) is making a remote controlled'Super Hornet' car.

At what will be the first of several EarlyChildhood Chapel Services for theyear, Father Terry read the studentsa story that talked about acceptance,loving each other and forgiveness; MrGumpy's Outing.

We congratulate ChristopherHarrison (College Captain 2003),who was one of six 2003 Caltex/The Australian Best All Rounders.To achieve this recognition,Christopher wrote an essay toanswer the topic of 'Free Speech:A Right and a Responsibility'.

"I disapprove of what you say, butI will defend to the death your rightto say it." Voltaire

These famous words havelong been the defence againstdetractors of free speech, but thereality is that some Australians mayquestion the worth of protecting theright to say the wrong or unpopularthing especially if it goes againstcurrent accepted opinion. Whilefree speech may be regarded asa universal right, it is only effectiveif used responsibly.

or is ultimately wrong. One of thefirst steps of a totalitarian regimeis to remove the right to have anopposing point of view. Thereis a need to protect the rightthat all individuals can be heardregardless of their viewpoint.Democracy depends upon this.

In the past century, the words ofMartin Luther King Jr. provided aninspiring example of the use offree speech. It was the right to saywhat was unpopular in mainstreamAmerica, which helped King defeatracial segregation and ignite thecivil rights movement. At the sametime freedom of speech allowedthe segregationists the right todefend what many might say isan indefensible viewpoint of whitesupremacy.lnAustralia, freedom ofspeech gave the environmentaliststhe power to inform the public,who then influenced the FederalGovernment to save the Franklin

of free speech to push theirown agenda based on irrationalor unreasonable prejudices.Individuals must use free speechresponsibly. Regulated freespeech is responsible free speech,with the key being that regulationprotects innocent citizens fromharm that would be caused byuntrue or malicious statements.

If society regulates free speech,then society must also monitor thefine line between what is deemedas an acceptable or offensiveuse of free speech. Here lies thedilemma. A balance must be foundwhere the right of free speech isunable to be violated whilst at thesame time providing the meansto protect the individual. The useof free speech, which implies theright to say what may be wrongor against popular opinion,is a paramount principle indemocracy. The words of Voltaire

I have just finished an Electronic andCommunications Engineering andComputer Science double degree fromCurt\n Un\\1ers\ty. At the beg\nn\ng ot 2003,I was given the opportunity to be part ofrUNSWift, the University of New SouthWales RoboCup team which competesin a soccer competition called the SonyFour-Legged League of the InternationalRoboCup Competition. The competitorsin the League are teams of four Sony Aiborobots which play against each other.

Over several months, the team developedand refined the systems on the robot, at onepoint putting in 15 hour days for two monthssolid ... it's true what they say about geeksand sleep! The competition has strict rules;the robots' hardware cannot be modified,so success relies on the teams' abilitiesto put together the best combination ofalgorithms, strategies, movements andbehaviours in the software to run the robot.Once we put the robots on the field andstart them, they're on their own and mustlook, think and act all by themselves. Myresearch contribution involved part of thevision subsystem that allows the robot to'see' lines and patterns, such as the lineson the field, and make useful decisionsbased on them.

The International RoboCup Competitionwas held Padova, west of Venice, Italy,over a week at the beginning of July. In ourleague, we met 23 teams from around theworld, including the University of Texas atAustin, Carnegie-Mellon University and theHumboldt University of Berlin. We workedour way up the ladder and came up againstthe Upennalizers from the University ofPennsylvania in the finals. In a very excitinggame, we came out overall winners with afinal score of 4 - 3! All that hard work finallypaid offwhen, as the current rUNSWift team,we regained our world title after CMPackbeat us in 2002 in a penalty shootout.

After the competition, we went on a well­deserved holiday around Europe (althoughwe weren't allowed to take the robotssightseeing with us!) before returning toSydney. I'm currently in Perth, working asa part-time researcher at Curtin Universitywhilst taking a break from full-time study. Ihope to start a PhD in Robotics and ArtificialIntelligence either at UNSW or at one ofthe universities in the United States in thesecond half of this year. Who knows, maybethat intelligent housecleaning robot mightbe closer to reality than you expect!

Raymond Sheh (1 998)

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From lan Andrews (1999) Since April 2002 I have beenemployed by the Australian Protective Service and lastyear I spent four months in the Solomon Islands as amember of the regional assistance mission, HelpemFren. To say it was an interesting time would be anunderstatement. It was at times hard work in toughconditions, but ultimately it was very rewarding. Thetasks I performed while over there varied from staticguarding duties of the Prime Minister's residenceand offices, to vehicle patrols of Honiara, providingan armed presence at the local prison and guardingremanded prisoners such as warlord Harold Keke.One of the mission's main goals was to train localsin proper community policing, security and guardingtechniques for official establishments and buildings sothat in years to come locals can assume the roles weperformed and keep the country on a steady courseonce all the warlords, corrupt police and politicians andillegal firearms had been dealt with. For a third worldcountry you've got to hand it to them they have theirown brewery and make a nice drop called Solbrew, itis possible to get good food at some of the restaurantsin town, just don't drink the complimentary water!They also have a night life as long as you don't mindkaraoke and you can handle the local music scene. Ifyou should find yourself travelling through this part ofthe world I highly recommend packing a good pair ofhiking boots as there are someexcellent inland tracks to themost extraordinary waterfalls,and it is a must that you getyour scuba ticket because thebest wreck dives in the worldcan be found here due to thebattle for Guadalcanal in WorldWar 2.

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After leaving All Saints', A • - (1993)stud re Idential drafting at Leedervllle TAFE andcomm nced work with the J-Corp group In 1998. In2001 S ev n spen six months working In Steamboat,Colorado, before retumlng to work with ImpressionsHomes (a dMslon of J-Corp) In 2002. Since then, hehas bought a house with now fiancee, Usa. They planto marry In 2004.

After playing aro nd with a number of differentcarea ran ng from the m IItary to drug and alcoholcou 11 n, 0 project manager at Edlth CowanUnlve ty, (Loneragan, 1988) Isrelaxing doing a couple of casual jobs In Mandurahwhere hand h r husband Mark (Senior SurveyorAn logold Australia) built their family home. In their

p re tlm yare ettlng up a business consultancy,named Inn yst Con ultancy, which Is slowly getting offth round with a w clients already on their books.Dlsappo n ed she couldn't make her 15 Year Reuniondue 0 wedding preparation commitments, MargueriteIs happy 0 have any 1987/88 leavers contac her via

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Always afraid of not being busy, • - A. - (1999)has been a ending the University of WA, studying aBachelor of Arts In I allan and French, helping out onthe All alnts' Years 8 and camps, lecturing at TAFEand representing the State In rugby union. Recently,Klmberly was honoured as the first female recipientof UW/J{s Full Blue Award for rugby. The Award Is thehighest sporting recognition award at the Universityand Is recognized by Oxford, among other Englishuniversities. Upon the completion of her degree thissemes er she hopes to take a six month break fromlecturing to travel, before commencing post graduatestudies in Law in 2005.

§ii1ESmiiil: ••• - (1995) had a busy 2003. He spent theyear as a member of the All Saints' Physical EducationDepartment staff, and he and partner Josle welcomedtheir dau h r Mla. hawn and Josie were married on17 January, at Redgate Beach, Margaret River, andhave moved to Camavon, where Shawn Is the Head ofPhysical duca on..... e only PE teacherl