Page WELCOME BACK Welcome to our new students Oscar Ryan (Year 2, Char- ters Towers), El- la Dietrich (Year 8, Charters Tow- ers) and Daphne Gallasch-Rosso- (Year 10, PNG). We hope you enjoy your time with us. Welcome back also to our existing students and families. Our enrolments have remained fairly sta- ble at 424 (Pre-prep to Year 12) with 125 students in the Junior School, 19 in Kindy and 280 in the Senior School as of August 1. I have been progressively interview- ing students for Year 7, 2019. It has been an absolute delight to chat to these future ASSG students who are both excited, and a little bit nervous, about starting High School and in many cases boarding. It is not an easy thing to leave home as an 11 or 12 year old. BIG CHANGES AHEAD If you don’t have a Year 10 student, you may not be aware that the Sen- ior Secondary Curriculum is chang- ing in Queensland. The Year 10 stu- dents will be the first to graduate with an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) in 2020 as the ATAR will replace the OP. Planning for this change at both state and school level has been un- derway for some time. Chris Ryder, the CEO of the QCAA (Queensland Curriculum and Assess- ment Authority) outlines the aims of the changes as to provide greater comparability of results between schools, reduce summative assess- ment load, make the calculation of subject results more transparent and easier to understand and to focus on twenty-first century skills. Staff have been attending profes- sional development for the last two years to prepare them for the change. Whilst no one really looks forward to change and the possi- ble unknowns, we believe that the school is well equipped to assist the students so that they may have a successful journey through their senior years. The message for Year 10 students won’t really change from any other year, try your hardest all the time and ask for help if you need it. STUDENTS Scholarships: Congratulations to Georgia East- aughffe who has been appointed as one of only 10 Indigenous Liter- acy Foundation Ambassadors for Australia. Georgia will help support the work of the Foundation in In- digenous communities by conduct- ing a Book Swap fundraiser this term. Charters Towers Show: The school had a strong represen- tation at the Show again this year. At the end of last term, students spent time at the showgrounds as- sisting the Show Society with the set- up which was certainly appre- ciated. We had our usual infor- mation tent, Junior School display (I loved the rabbits) and student entries. Cattle Club were again successful bringing home the tro- phy and the Equestrian team per- formed well. Stage Band and Choir provided musical entertainment whilst competing against the sound of the monster trucks. Con- gratulations to all the students in- volved and thank you to the staff that offered their support and as- sistance. STAFFING UPDATE Each year we host young people from overseas as a part of their GAP year, the time between finish- ing school and starting university. Traditionally they have been from Germany as they are able to assist with our German language pro- gram which runs from Pre Prep to Year 7. Contents Headmaster’s Report Page 1 Deputy Page 2 Dean of School Page 3 Dean of Students Page 3 Academic Achievement List Page 4 Headmaster’s List Page 4 Indigenous News Page 5 Senior School Book Fair Page 5 School Chaplain Page 6 School Prayers Page 6 Work Experience Page 7 The New QCE System Page 8 Duke of Edinburgh Page 9 QISSN 2018 Page 10 Confraternity Rugby League 1sts Page 12 Rugby League 2nds Page 14 Sport News Page 15 NQ All Schools Touch Page 16 Equestrian Club Page 16 Cattle Club Page 17 Junior School Page 18 Page Dormitory Page 20 Feetham Dormitory Page 20 Ramsay Dormitory Page 20 Alban Dormitory Page 21 Authors With Soul Page 21 New Zealand Ski Trip Page 21 Becket Dormitory Page 22 Chad Dormitory Page 22 Books Wanted Page 22 Inter-School Formal Photos Page 23 Headmaster ISSUE NO 8/2018 10 AUGUST 2018 Junior School Students Jack Maxwell & Lauren Atwell with the Average Shield they brought home from the Inter-School Athletics Carnival
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WELCOME BACK Welcome to our new students Oscar Ryan (Year 2, Char-ters Towers), El-la Dietrich (Year 8, Charters Tow-ers) and Daphne Gallasch-Rosso- (Year 10, PNG). We hope you enjoy your time
with us. Welcome back also to our existing students and families. Our enrolments have remained fairly sta-ble at 424 (Pre-prep to Year 12) with 125 students in the Junior School, 19 in Kindy and 280 in the Senior School as of August 1. I have been progressively interview-ing students for Year 7, 2019. It has been an absolute delight to chat to these future ASSG students who are both excited, and a little bit nervous, about starting High School and in many cases boarding. It is not an easy thing to leave home as an 11 or 12 year old. BIG CHANGES AHEAD If you don’t have a Year 10 student, you may not be aware that the Sen-ior Secondary Curriculum is chang-ing in Queensland. The Year 10 stu-dents will be the first to graduate with an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) in 2020 as the ATAR will replace the OP. Planning for this change at both state and school level has been un-derway for some time. Chris Ryder, the CEO of the QCAA (Queensland Curriculum and Assess-ment Authority) outlines the aims of the changes as to provide greater comparability of results between schools, reduce summative assess-ment load, make the calculation of subject results more transparent and easier to understand and to focus on twenty-first century skills.
Staff have been attending profes-sional development for the last two years to prepare them for the change. Whilst no one really looks forward to change and the possi-ble unknowns, we believe that the school is well equipped to assist the students so that they may have a successful journey through their senior years. The message for Year 10 students won’t really change from any other year, try your hardest all the time and ask for help if you need it. STUDENTS Scholarships: Congratulations to Georgia East-aughffe who has been appointed as one of only 10 Indigenous Liter-acy Foundation Ambassadors for Australia. Georgia will help support the work of the Foundation in In-digenous communities by conduct-ing a Book Swap fundraiser this term. Charters Towers Show: The school had a strong represen-tation at the Show again this year. At the end of last term, students spent time at the showgrounds as-sisting the Show Society with the set- up which was certainly appre-ciated. We had our usual infor-mation tent, Junior School display (I loved the rabbits) and student entries. Cattle Club were again successful bringing home the tro-phy and the Equestrian team per-formed well. Stage Band and Choir provided musical entertainment whilst competing against the sound of the monster trucks. Con-gratulations to all the students in-volved and thank you to the staff that offered their support and as-sistance. STAFFING UPDATE Each year we host young people from overseas as a part of their GAP year, the time between finish-ing school and starting university. Traditionally they have been from Germany as they are able to assist with our German language pro-gram which runs from Pre Prep to Year 7.
Contents Headmaster’s Report Page 1 Deputy Page 2 Dean of School Page 3 Dean of Students Page 3 Academic Achievement List Page 4 Headmaster’s List Page 4 Indigenous News Page 5 Senior School Book Fair Page 5 School Chaplain Page 6 School Prayers Page 6 Work Experience Page 7 The New QCE System Page 8 Duke of Edinburgh Page 9 QISSN 2018 Page 10 Confraternity Rugby League 1sts Page 12 Rugby League 2nds Page 14 Sport News Page 15 NQ All Schools Touch Page 16 Equestrian Club Page 16 Cattle Club Page 17 Junior School Page 18 Page Dormitory Page 20 Feetham Dormitory Page 20 Ramsay Dormitory Page 20 Alban Dormitory Page 21 Authors With Soul Page 21 New Zealand Ski Trip Page 21 Becket Dormitory Page 22 Chad Dormitory Page 22 Books Wanted Page 22 Inter-School Formal Photos Page 23
Headmaster
ISSUE NO 8/2018 10 AUGUST 2018
Junior School Students
Jack Maxwell & Lauren Atwell
with the Average Shield they brought
home from the Inter-School
Athletics Carnival
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We welcome Henrick Riester, Si-mon Kampert and Alexander Hue-gel to the school and wish them all the best as they commence their “Aussie Adventure”. We also welcome Mr Matthew Weston who has joined us in the Humanities Department. Mr Wes-ton assisted us in Semester One when staff were away so should be known to the students. EVENTS It has been a busy couple of weeks with the school organising the Combined Schools Formal and hosting the Charters Towers Pri-mary Schools Athletics carnival. Thanks to Tracy Maff and Melissa Browne for co-ordinating these events and thanks to the grounds staff and all those who assisted. The school appreciated the tre-mendous support of the P&F who provided drinks and catering at both events. SPORT Well done to both the Confraterni-ty Football and QISSN Netball teams who competed in Charters Towers and Townsville, they were fine ambassadors for the school and I was very proud of them. Congratulations also to Piper God-frey who attended the State Cross Country Titles and to Matthew McKellar and Gareth Mercy who attended the State 15 Rugby Un-ion Titles. There were some very tired girls, and staff, after the Charters Tow-ers Netball Tournament last week-end. Thanks to the organisers for put-ting on such a successful carnival, the girls certainly enjoyed testing out their skills against teams from out of town. After a long season, it is now time for finals. Good luck to the girls for the finals series. FAREWELL On Sunday, the congregation of St Paul’s Anglican Church, Charters Towers said farewell to the local Ministry Unit Priest, Fr Greg Wind-sor and his wife Rhonda. They have been great supporters of the school, attending school functions and assisting Br Nathan as re-quired. We wish them well as they commence their new ministry in Proserpine.
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Deputy Ian Dietrich Welcome back for another jam-packed semester of learning and living at All Souls St Gabriels School. Academic Awards and Headmaster’s List Members of our Senior School community were very proud to witness the presentation of awards to students for their achievements in the classroom in Semester 1. Headmaster’s List and Academic Achievement Award recipients are listed in this edition of our news-letter. As well as congratulating our award recipients on the presentation day, I also took the opportunity to challenge the entire senior school to strive to be an award recipient for Semester 2. Being included on the Headmas-ter’s List recognises a student’s ef-fort level within the classroom. This is something that we can all strive to achieve and, in turn, reap the rewards of improved academic standards. Congratulations to all award recipi-ents! The new QCE System at ASSG I have included a separate article in this newsletter that explains the decision making process behind the implementation plan for new Queensland Certificate of Educa-tion system for senior students at ASSG. The new system begins for students graduating in 2020. If you have any particular questions regarding the implementation of the system, please send me an email and I can reply or phone you for a chat. As with any of our decisions, we have the best interest of our stu-dents and staff at the forefront of the discussions and planning. 2020 Graduates (current Year 10) Subject Selections Subject Selection forms have been received. All Year 10 students will now be individually interviewed by either Mrs Fleming or myself in the coming weeks regarding their sub-ject selections and career path-ways. Students may also be re-ferred to Mrs Salisbury for a more detailed discussion regarding their career pathway.
2019 Year 9 Subject Selections Students in Year 8 will be attend-ing information meetings this term to go through the options availa-ble for their studies in Year 9 next year. More details will be made available to students and families in the coming weeks. QCS Test Preparation Students sitting the Queensland Core Skills (QCS) Test this year are continuing with a preparation program targeting specific skills they have studied in various sub-jects in their 12-13 years of schooling. Bringing these skills explicitly to the front of their minds allows students to enter the test room with confidence. The actual test is administered in Week 7 this term and we feel our Year 12 students are well pre-pared to demonstrate their best work. Term 3 Reports Families will receive an academic progress report at the end of this term for students in Years 7 to 9 and Years 11 & 12. It will be in the same format as the Term 1 Report. This progress report con-tains valuable information and helps to keep the lines of commu-nication open between home and school. Families of students in Year 10 will receive a full academic report (currently referred to as a “Semester” report) to account for the fact they are ending their Year 10 studies and starting senior studies in Term 4. Term 3 Homework Setting Schedule With the many extra-curricular events and opportunities planned for this term, I encourage families to impress upon their children the importance of keeping up with their academic work. This includes prep (homework activities), as-sessment work (drafting) and study (additional reading and re-reading of class work). A Home-work Setting Schedule has been provided to students in Years 7 to 10 on day one of this term, both as an email and paper copy. An electronic copy will also be sent to families. This document assists with the planning for work to be completed in homework or ‘prep’ time for day and residential stu-dents.
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Term 3 Assessment Schedule Students receive both a paper and pdf copy of their year level’s Term 3 Assessment Schedule this week. Time was set aside in the ‘Dean of Students’ (DOS) lesson for Tu-tor Teachers to assist students to enter assessment dates into their diaries. This will help students prepare their assessment and study loads. Forward planning for drafting and study is the key to reducing the academic stress of end of term. An electronic copy of these documents will also be sent to families. With all of the administrative sup-port programs, structures and documents listed above, students, staff and families should be able to effectively plan for a smooth academic term. I look forward to catching up with many of our school community as we gather for events this term.
Dean of School
Karen Storey
A busy fortnight Last week we enjoyed Tuesday off on account of the Charters Towers Show holiday, however, despite both weeks one and two being short weeks we have managed to cram an awful lot of activities into the first fortnight of school. In just 10 days since the beginning of Term 3, we have managed to fit in the Combined Schools Formal, the Cattle Club and Equestrian team competing at the Charters Towers Show along with perfor-mances by some of our musicians and many other Show competition entries, the Charters Towers Net-ball Carnival, Athletics Training, the beginning of Touch Football fixtures and the final weeks of regular netball fixtures, welcoming three new GAP staff, presentation of Academic and Headmasters’ Awards and of course some teach-ing and learning. It is no wonder, when you look at the list of hap-penings above, that some of the students and staff feel like they have not had a holiday. The term looks set to continue at this pace, though we can take some comfort in knowing that students and staff will not be bored.
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Wellbeing Each of the activities mentioned, and countless more on the hori-zon, are fantastic and students are richer for the experiences; unfor-tunately, however, for some these result in individuals becoming tired, run down and susceptible to the winter illnesses that invariably visit at this time of the year. We are currently travelling quite well in terms of minimal major illness-es, however we can never afford to be complacent. To contain ill-nesses and stop the spread of germs and infections it is im-portant that we all adhere to basic hygiene practices. These include; washing hands regularly, especial-ly before meals, covering our mouths and noses when we cough or sneeze with an area other than our hands, trying not to cough, sneeze or breathe on others. Additionally, as this is the time of the year where students and staff (and parents) are run-down, tired, stressed. I would ask that, to at-tempt to combat this, that all stu-dents are aware of and accounta-ble for their own well-being. This means doing the simple things to take care of themselves like eating well, getting enough sleep and not engaging in risky behaviours which could result in illness or injury. Please support students to take care of themselves and encourage their peers to do the same thing to ensure that we all survive the term unscathed. Photo Day Number Two Due to the vast number of groups we have to photograph we split our photographic sessions over two days. The second of these scheduled days will occur this coming Monday. All students will be required to wear formal uniform on Monday 13 August. This includes blazers for Years 10-12 students and court shoes for Year 11 and 12 girls. I wish everyone well for the re-mainder of the term.
Dean of Students Richard Fogarty
Welcome back to the start of what will prove to be an extremely busy term for our students. Recently I have had conversations with a number of parents regarding our in class behaviour policy. The policy is designed to give students the opportunity to firstly acknowledge the behaviour that is causing con-cern and to then make modifica-tions to address the issue.
As a school we have recently been focusing on student attendance particularly lateness to class at the start of the day, lesson three after morning tea, and lesson six after lunch. If your child is late at the start of the day I would encourage you to contact Student Services so that our records can be altered ac-cordingly. If your child is absent from school for any reason we would ask that you please contact the school so that this can also be recorded. As a school we are legal-ly obliged to ensure we have accu-rate attendance records, your sup-port regarding this matter is great-ly appreciated.
Indigenous Education On Friday the 3rd of August a large group of Indigenous students at-tended the NAIDOC celebrations in Abergowrie. This was the first time the school has sent a group to this festival that has been running for a number of years. After an early 6:00am departure the group ar-rived in Abergowrie at 10:00am to be treated to music by Busby Marou. The day was filled with a number of cultural activities includ-ing traditional painting, weaving, hunting and sports. At the conclu-sion of the day the school groups were entertained by traditional dance groups that performed some traditional and modern cultural dances. I would like to thank Kris-ten Leo, Reg Santo and Mrs Shad-forth for the time and effort they have put into organising such an important event. I must commend all students for their exceptional behaviour and conduct during the day.
As we move further into the mid-dle weeks of the Term 1 would en-courage parents and caregivers to take stock of where their child is at and make contact with their teach-ers to assess progress that has been made thus far.
HEADMASTER’S LIST (Students on the Headmaster’s List have effort ratings of 1 or 2 in all subjects, and at least half of all these ratings must be 1).
Once a student has been on the Headmaster’s list 4 times, a badge is awarded.
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT LIST Students in Years 7—10 who receive an Academic Achievement Certificate have received an A in the majority of their academic
core subjects (only A's & B's allowed), and no achievement level of less than a C in non core subjects (only once C allowed). Students in Years 11 & 12 who receive an Academic Achievement Certificate have received an achievement of either an A or B
in all of their academic subjects, and no achievement level of less than a B. Students are initially awarded a badge, and a sticker the first time they are on the list.
They are then awarded a sticker each subsequent time they make the list.
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Indigenous News Richard Fogarty
Student Profiles
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Senior School Book Fair
Ian Dietrich - Academic Dean
The beginning of Term 3 saw the continuation of our mid-year Senior School Book Fair. This was another success-ful event with sales reaching $777. Congratulations to Mack Jackson, Matanie Pompey, Chloe Wolfenden, Vasenai Dabea and Harry Kempster who were our competition prize winners who each chose a title from the display. Thank you to everyone who supported our Book Fair, commission from the sales meant we were able to select 14 new and exciting titles which have been donated to the school Library. Keep an eye out for these new books on the shelves soon.
The success of our Senior School Book Fairs this year also means our final Book Fair (early in Term 4) will be a “2 for 1” event! More details to come.
Big thanks to Miss Jess Walker for all of her efforts in this area of our literacy program.
Savanna Beale Year: 10 Tribal Name: Gudjala Where do you come from: Charters Towers Totem: Emu Ambitions: To become a Doctor after school an and try my hardest during School. Elder I look up to: My Grandmother, Eva Kennedy Likes: Fishing and Kids Dislike: I don’t like negative energy
Nikkaya Cameron Year: 10 Tribal Name: Wakaya/Wooramungoo/Kalkadoon Where do you come from: Tennant Creek/Mt Isa/Barley Tablelands Totem: Gecko Ambitions: I want to become a lawyer/ CI Investigator after studying at University Elder I look up to: Doris Rankine (Big Mama) - Great Grandma, Lance Spain - Pop/ Grandfather Likes: I love singing, its my passion and I’m good at it Dislike: I don’t like asking teachers for help, I want to be independent
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School Chaplain Bro Nathan-James Confirmation A reminder to parents, students, teachers and members of the ASSG community, Bishop Bill be conducting a Confirmation service on Friday 7 September. This will be Bishop Bill and Dr Ray’s last of-ficial visit to ASSG. If you are in-terested in being Confirmed please contact me as soon as possible as we will be commencing prepara-tion classes shortly. If you have previously been Baptised I strong-ly encourage you to proceed with Confirmation. If you have not been Baptised and wish to be Con-firmed please been in contact soon to discuss the way forward for this. I especially encourage stu-dents in Year 11 seeking leader-ship positions in 2019 to consider being Confirmed as part of your pledge is to make your Commun-ion regularly. Given the active role of the Chapel Prefect in our week-ly Chapel I highly recommend any-one seeking to take on this role make their Confirmation.
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Semester 2 Servers Recently, House Captains sought nominations from Year 10 students wishing to be House Chapel Serv-ers. I was pleased to see the large amount of interest from students putting themselves forward for this important role. It shows that stu-dents do value the role they play in Chapel. Unfortunately, there are a limited number of places and we cannot take every person who nominated. I am certainly grateful for everyone’s nomination and thankful to the House Captains who had to, in some cases, make some tough calls. The Chapel serv-ers for Semester 2, 2018 are listed below.
A special thanks to the outgoing Year 11 servers who have shown themselves to be valuable mem-bers of their serving teams. I am also grateful for their assistance in the selecting and training of the next group of servers.
In our thoughts & prayers; We continue to pray for
those recovering from ill-health; Kaci, Stephen and
Brad. May God’s healing
presence be upon them. We pray those students who
are discerning their partici-
pation in this year’s Confir-mation service. May their
hearts and minds be open to
God’s Holy Spirit working in their lives.
We pray for families who
continue to battle difficult situations as a result of the
drought. We especially re-
member those facing uncer-tain futures due to the eco-
nomic impact of drought.
School Prayers
Connor Rose Chapel Prefect
Tom Marshall Master Thurifer
Ethan Cowan Apprentice Thurifer
Fred Flute Master Boat Boy
Bryce Cowan Apprentice Boat Boy
Ben Zabel Master Bell Ringer
Patrick Washington Apprentice Bell Ringer
Gareth Mercy Crucifer - Feetham
Sebastian Boardman Acolyte – Feetham
Jarrod Clark Acolyte – Feetham
Harry Titley Banner – Feetham
Olivia Wilkinson Server – Becket
Luka Hall Server – Becket
Kevin Rae Crucifer - Page
Clinton Bridges Acolyte – Page
Michael Meteyard Acolyte – Page
Douglas Keough Banner – Page
Sophie Keough Server – Chad
Indy Schaefer Server – Chad
Kurtis West Crucifer – Ramsay
Brandon Finger Acolyte – Ramsay
Will Sibson Acolyte – Ramsay
Brandon Downes Banner – Ramsay
Camryn Guldbransen Server – Alban
Kuage Koglkia Server – Alban
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Work Experience
Glenda Lyon Work Experience Co-ordinator
It is great to see so many students coming and talking to me about Work Experi-ence. This initial conversation is important as it builds confidence when talking to adults and assists students’ personal development.
Many parents assist their child to gain Work Experience, as they have a network of contacts who want to help them out. While this is encouraged, we do want students to take a role in this process. By contacting future and prospective employers them-selves, they show their level of commitment to the placement.
We like to encourage each student to participate in Work Experience from Year 9 to Year 12. The amount of Work Experience a student can attend is 30 days per year. ASSG have helped many students over the years to gain their experiences in their home town and surrounding areas, during the school holiday breaks. This assists parents, as they are able to have their child home with them during this period. We understand that some families may have restricted opportunities available close to home. If this is the case, please contact us so we can look at alternate arrange-ments. Again, I would encourage students to meet with me personally to discuss the options.
Two terms have passed quickly and we would like to thank the following Work Expe-rience Providers for their support to our school and students; New England Vet. Armidale Grey Street Veterinary Clinic Emerald Mackay Piping Paget How Bizarre Hair Charters Towers SBR Electrical Charters Towers Eveready Group Companies Mackay Titley’s Footwear Charters Towers Aussie OutBack Tours Longreach Helloworld Travel Toowoomba Wulguru Steel Wulguru Titley’s Department Store Charters Towers Force Equipment Mackay Townsville Bulletin Charters Towers Towers Power Equipment Charters Towers Kelni Pty Ltd Tennant Creek Hastings Deering Mackay Penske Power Equipment Mackay Minjar Gold Charters Towers GNR Diesel Darwin Top X Rural Agencies Longreach Hi Tech Solutions Charters Towers All Tig Welding Charters Towers Fernwood Gym Darwin
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The new QCE System at All Souls St Gabriels School Ian Dietrich Deputy/Academic Dean Any change is always met with some periods of uncertainty. I appreciate that there are some families concerned for students and staff regarding the transition to the new Queensland Certificate of Education system at All Souls St Gabriels School. My intention with this article is to provide background information that may help to alleviate these concerns and possibly raise further points for discussion as we all move into a new senior education system. As mentioned in previous editions of our newsletter and in separate communications, particularly to parents of current Year 10 students, the Queensland Government commissioned a review into the senior system of studies – curriculum and processes. The basic outcomes included: a reassessment of subject offerings to reflect modern curriculum and future employment skill requirements, the consistent use of a set of ‘common verbs’ in all syllabus documents, an audit of subject content to produce a world-class set of syllabus documents broken into 4 distinct units of
work, an overall reduction of assessment pieces required in senior courses, the inclusion of the best of the current senior system – three pieces of school-based moderated assessment, pre-use endorsement of the three school-based moderated assessment items, a return, for the Queensland Education system, to some form of common state-wide external assessment for
each individual senior academic subject, cancellation of the Queensland Core Skills Test (QCST), and a movement to the use of the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). The result is not a new OP system or new ATAR system, but a new Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) System administered by the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). Some students will achieve an ATAR; however, the entire system has been reviewed, updated and modified for all Queensland stu-dents. The introduction of new syllabus documents, new school-based processes and external assessment compliance re-quirements, has meant that each school has had to re-evaluate their procedures. This has required a ‘backward mapping’ of the requirements and processes from the end point for the first cohort studying senior in the new sys-tem. This cohort will graduate in November 2020, after sitting their external exams in the final term of their study. The introduction of a new system, while still complying with a current system, has required a transition plan to be formulated – a transition plan that best suits the needs of our students and staff. Members of our school's Senior Leadership Team have been investigating and discussing this transition plan for All Souls St Gabriels School for a number of years now. We had to make the final decision regarding the start of Unit 1 studies by the end of last year so teaching staff were aware of the implications for their Year 10 curriculum planning for this year. The plan was presented to our Board and to our Year 10 Parents at the information session this year. How did we come to the decision? My involvement in the QCAA Learning Area Reference Group (LARG) for Economics & Business and particularly the QCAA Flexible Curriculum Working Party (FCWP), allowed us at ASSG to gather first-hand experience and data from schools in Victoria, NSW and the ACT. Mr Fleming and I also gathered information from contacts in schools throughout Queensland. Mr Fleming also called upon his knowledge and experience of the South Australian and Victorian education systems. All of the schools I visited as part of the FCWP project start their final sets of units in Term 4 of the second last year of schooling. This allows exam preparation time in the final term of the last year. The reason for the start of our first units in Term 4 Year 10 is due to the large number of composite or combined classes who will be following official 'Alternative Sequences' that have been developed by the QCAA to be used alongside the developed syllabus documents. These are being officially released early this term. Each of our teaching staff with senior composite or combined classes have attended QCAA webinars regarding this option for curriculum delivery and have made a decision for their subject at ASSG. Some subjects will follow the available ‘alternative sequence’ while others have decided to follow the syllabus as written and conduct combined or con-current classes. Composite, combined and concurrent classes are not new to All Souls St Gabriels School students. We have been able to keep large curriculum offerings in Years 9 & 10 and throughout Years 11 & 12 because teaching staff are willing to have students of two year levels in the room at the same time. This has meant that composite classes cover the same content/topics, but the different year levels are assessed to different standards. Combined or con-current classes have the different year levels covering different content / topics with either different or similar as-sessment techniques requiring a student response.
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Duke of Edinburgh Denis Riddle Award Leader Bronzies blitz their camp At the end of the first week of term, 27 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh candidates headed off to Tully for the adven-turous journey expedition component of their Award. The Year 9 candidates completed four days of hiking and team building activities. These challenges instilled a new found appreciation of the beauty of the rainforest and how to work co-operatively in teams. Each candidate now needs to complete a detailed report on their activities. Many students are now close to com-pleting all their Bronze requirements over a minimum six months. We look forward to seeing who will be the first in Year 9 to achieve their Bronze Award. Our thanks go to staff helpers Matthew Cuckson and Iso-bel Martin who shared the adventure’s leeches and muddy challenges. Congratulations Congratulations to Brooke Tindall of Year 10 who recently completed her Bronze. She showed great persistence in completing all the requirements and has now signed up for the next level, Silver.
With so many of our subjects needing to have two year levels in the room at the same time to make the subject viable, we need to start Unit 1 of the senior courses in Term 4 of the Year 10 year to allow for the movement to Unit 3 in Term 4 of the Year 11 year. We are not the only independent school to start in Term 4 this year. In fact, other Anglican Schools, for example, Whitsunday Anglican School in Mackay are also starting in Term 4 this year. State Schools are not able to official-ly start the new senior curriculum until next year; however, there are examples of State Schools beginning to cov-er senior curriculum in a Year 10 timetable from the start of this semester. State schools will, in fact, need to com-press the official study of Units 1&2 into the first three terms of Year 11 - complete Unit 3 in Term 4 Year 11 & Term 1 Year 12 - complete Unit 4 in Terms 2&3 of Year 12 – to be able to leave Term 4 Year 12 (only 3.5 weeks of teaching) for exam preparation. This plan would not work for schools such as ours with a large number of subjects needing to be timetabled as a combined, composite or concurrent format for the subject to be viable. So, following this planning through, in Term 4 2019, when our Unit 3 studies start, the new students in the senior grades (next year's Year 10 students) need to start studying that unit at the same time. So each year we will be starting our Year 10s on the senior cur-riculum in their Term 4 so they are in the classes as the unit begins. This will also mean that we have the time in the Term 4 in the final year of study for examination preparation and revision prior to the external exams. For students not studying academic subjects requiring an external exam, this will mean that staff and students have the final term of the final year to complete any missed work from the preceding terms, complete meaningful practical work and consolidate the learning in their subject area. As I wrote in the beginning of this article, change is always met with periods of uncertainty. However, please feel reassured that the staff of ASSG have not made decisions lightly nor quickly regarding the transition to a new sen-ior system. We will always make these sorts of decisions in the best interest of our students and staff. We are al-so committed to monitoring and reviewing processes as we always do with processes, procedures and policies at school. If you have any particular questions regarding the implementation of the new QCE System at our school, please send me an email and I can reply or phone you for a chat.
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QISSN 2018 Breanne Peace & Faith Whelan 1st Netball Captains 2018 On Friday 29th June the First Netball team began their QISSN journey, starting off with a goal setting and meal planning session where we worked on both team and individual goals that we would set out to achieve for the week, along with deciding what we would be cooking and eating for the week. This was followed by a training session which would be our last before going away the following day to begin our week at QISSN in Townsville. Friday night was spent in Chad dorm with a barbeque and a movie night. Saturday began with bacon and eggs for breakfast and some pump up music from Dianne. Before long we were on the bus and on our way to Townsville. Upon arriving at our accommodation on the Strand we settled into our rooms and had some lunch followed by some down time before an exercise session on the strand. This session consisted of an A-Z photo challenge where, in teams, we had to collect a number of photographs with things be-ginning with each letter of the alphabet. It was great fun trying to catch other teams breaking the rules as well as striving to take the most creative photos in the shortest amount of time. Saturday nights cooks were Faith and Camryn and they cooked teriyaki beef stir fry which made for a great way to end our first night as a team for QISSN 2018. Sunday saw us have a reasonably early rise ready for a run on the Strand. This was a great way to start the morning. Once again we had some more down time until it was time to get ready for the opening ceremony which was being held at Ryan Catholic College. The opening ceremony was followed by dinner, cooked by Chan-telle and Gemma, one last team talk, an emotional heart to heart by coach Kaz and everyone's favourite part, the confro merchandise distribution. Monday saw the start of an intense week of netball. To start the carnival, our first game was at 12:30 pm on Monday against St Joseph’s School, Stanthorpe. We came out strongly and were up by 7 goals by half time, which lead onto us extending our lead by 14 goals by the end of the game giving us a score of 24-10 and a great start to QISSN 2018. Our second game of the day was at 2pm, and we went into it knowing we had some idea of what we were up against as we were playing St Andrews Lutheran College, who the ASSG teams have played against many times before at QISSN. We were lucky to come out on top once again with a 17-8 final score. Our final game for the day was at 3:30pm against Xavier Catholic College. We knew that these girls were one of the toughest teams in our division but we didn’t let that get to us. We fought hard and by half time we were down narrowly, 3-7. To the credit of all team members we weren’t disheartened by the scoreline and man-aged to keep the score to 8-14 in favour of Xavier. It was a tough game but our girls should be proud of how we kept our heads up and finished the game strongly. To conclude day one, we all piled back into the minivan and headed back to our units, where we then had to walk to the rock pool and were forced to get in the freezing cold water for 3 sets of 5 minutes in the water. To make the time go faster we decided to try and play Wiz Bang Woo in the water, and we can now say we were the loudest people on the Strand. We also can’t forget our first hand encounter with Dianne, the real life mer-maid; turns out she’s not only a whiz on the netball court but also mythical sea creature, she sure had everyone fooled she was the real deal. Our chefs jumping into the ring for dinner were Holly and Dianne, who made spa-ghetti bolognaise, and despite Holly’s disappointment of not being able to make her own sauce from scratch, the girls still did an amazing job, a solid 10 out of 10. After dinner it was lights out for some much needed sleep and a chance to re-energise for tomorrow’s games. On Tuesday, we were lucky enough to have a late start to our games. Despite this, we still had an early wake up and a morning jog on the Strand. Our first game was at 12:30pm against St Anthony’s College, where we came out on top with a convincing win of 17-5. Our second and final game for day two was against Our Lady of the Southern Cross College, where we were strong through the whole game to secure a win of 18-15. Leaving the stadium more than happy with our two wins from two games, we headed back to the rock pool for another cool down swim, before going back to our units to have tacos made by Breanne and Chekoda for dinner, they were definitely a 10/10. After dinner we were lucky enough to be given movie tickets to Jurassic World by the Defence Force. We were one of the first teams to arrive and lucky we were because within minutes the room was packed with over 200 girls all wanting the best seat in the theatre. When everyone was seated inside we got inspiring talks from two incredible ladies that work in the Defence Force and once they had concluded, the movie started. For all of you who haven’t seen the new Jurassic World, don’t worry we won’t spoil it for you but there are a few sad mo-ments, so imagine our faces when right in a sad moment and everyone's quiet, Dianne starts laughing, really, re-ally loudly. That’s basically what it was like the whole movie. After the movie we jumped into the minivan and headed back to our accommodation for bed.
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On Wednesday we played two games. The first game was at 9:00am against Fraser Coast Anglican College, were we finished with a score of 19-10 in our favour. The second game of the day was against St Mary Catholic College, Cairns. This was the most challenging game yet due to the fact that they were at the top of our pool. We kept the score all tied up at halftime but unfortunately we were beaten by the better team on the day with the final score being 22-12 to St Marys. We were not disheartened by this loss as we knew we had done our best. We soon headed off to the shops for an afternoon of retail therapy, of course finishing up at Kmart. After winning 5 out of 7 games in the first 3 days, we were moved up into the division above us. Today was the day we needed to give 100% during the whole game for both our games as these were the qualifying finals and the semi finals. We played St John Fisher College at 10:30am and after a tight game we managed to come out on top to win our qualifying final with a score of 15-13. In our semi final game we were again to face St Mary Catholic College, Cairns, who we had unfortunately played and lost to on Wednesday. We again went into the game determined to play strong and played our best, but the girls from St Mary’s were clean and freakishly good, so when we left a few more of their goals through we dropped our heads. The conclusion of the game saw St Mary’s on top again in a score of 8-23. Friday was Grand final day. Our last game and our most important game of the carnival was against Good Shep-herd Catholic College, Mt Isa at 8:00am. We won’t lie and say no tears were shed before the game by the four seniors in the team, because there definitely was as we approached our last QISSN game in our black and white dresses. Once we got our heads in the game we had an amazing first half leading 11-6. In the second half the girls from Good Shepherd came fighting back hard and unfortunately in the last 30 seconds of our grand final game they managed to score two more goals to make the overall score of 12-14 to Good Shepherd. We would be lying if we said we weren’t a little disappointed but we didn’t let that get us down on what had been an amazing week of netball. Coming out with six wins from 10 games. On our final evening as a QISSN team we had our team dinner where we celebrated our success throughout the week and where Coach Kaz and Mrs Johnson handed out some unique awards to recoginse some of the high-lights and more humorous moments of the week, along with the necklace for the most valuable player from the whole week, that is donated to the school every year by the Campbell family. A huge congratulations to Dianne who received the necklace as most valuable player. This wasn’t a surprise as Dianne killed it in every game, it was well deserved. Lastly, we would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Storey and Mrs Johnson, who have given up a lot of their time to help us train and prepare over the first semester. We are very proud of the way that we performed and improved over the confro week and we wouldn’t have achieved as much as we did without you, we are forever grateful. Thank you.
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Confraternity Rugby League Report - 1st Team
Tim Ievers Captain
Friday saw the first day of our Confro journey where we headed to Townsville for the day. First up we went to the Brothers League club for a training session. As we arrived we were lucky enough to see a couple of the Cowboys players leaving their session. The fields were wet but were good to train on. After a two hour training session we got changed to go down the beach for a swim. The water was freezing but it was just what Gully wanted for us for our recovery. After this we had lunch and headed down to get ice cream and play some backyard cricket. That afternoon we got back on the bus and headed back to the Towers. Saturday and Sunday were laid back days with a training session Saturday night. Also, a few of the boys had the responsibility of showing the teams around that were staying on our campus. Sunday night was the Opening Ceremony where all the boys headed over to Colum-ba. This was a long ceremony yet had a good finish with some fireworks.
Day one approached us with all the boys keen to play. Our first game was against a St Marys and St Patricks joint team at 11:30am. We had a good warm up session and went into the game well prepared. The first half went well with our forwards making good meters and allowing the backs to use the ball. We lead at half time and kept up the intensity in the second half taking the win 22 points nil. The Man of the Match award went to Jayme Oakley. Following this we enjoyed a rest and a long break before playing our next game which was under lights at Colum-ba against Marist College, Emerald. This was a big game for us in a very slippery conditions. Unfortunately, this meant some poor ball control on our part and we were beaten in a tight finish 12 points to ten. The man of the match for this game went to Tim Ievers.
Day two hit us with a very early wake up time of 6am and we had to quickly get up to breakfast with our first game being scheduled for 8:30am. We had a long warm up to make sure we were all ready to play. We kicked off against St Joseph’s Assumption and, with good tackles from Darcy Meehan and Sesoni Koroi, we got field posses-sion early in the game and were able to put some points on the board. Due to a few too many mistakes late in the first half and a couple in the second half St Joseph’s Assumption won the game 16 points to eight. The man of the match was Tom Durkin. Next up, the First team played local boys, Columba, in the qualifying final for a spot in the Bowl Semi Final in the afternoon. After a good start and good metres from the forwards and good movement from the backs we scored two tries but the Columba team was just too good for us in the end with them going away with the win 22-12. The man of the match was Darby Godfrey. Tuesday night we enjoyed a BBQ at the dorms with both First and Second teams and some of our supporters. This was an evening which everyone en-joyed, and the food was fantastic. A big thank-you to our chefs for the evening.
Day three, our rest day had finally arrived! The team enjoyed a much anticipated sleep in and after a good break-fast we got on the bus and headed to Indoor Cricket for a few hours. This was good fun specially the pool games in the man cave. We then headed up town to get some lunch and go to the movies for the afternoon. After the movie we went back to the dorms ready for dinner and an early nights’ sleep.
By day four we were all fresh and ready to go. Our game kicked off at 12pm against St Joseph’s College, Too-woomba. The game was played at a fast pace with good runs and good ball control. The score went into half time being nil all. During half time Gully gave us a fire up talk and a quick reminder of our jobs. Due to a few too many penalties we let the opposition in to score. This meant we had a job to do. With just ten minutes to go and down 6 points to nil. We got down the field and managed to get a four pointer. Unfortunately, the conversion was un-successful. The game ended with the score was six to four in favour of St Joseph’s. Due to a close encounter with the hard head of Kent Tanks, our fellow back rower Jake McCosker had to leave the game in the second half due to a facial injury. Sadly this was the last game Jake got to play for the week and a special mention goes to him for all effort and commitment to the team over the week. The Man of the Match award for this game went to Darcy Meehan. After that, everyone went back to the dorms to have a shower and get ready for dinner out at the Golf Club. This was a good night with everyone’s parents attending and an on the spot speech by Jake Diery which in-spired us all.
Day five, finals day, was the hardest day of the week with everyone being so tired from a big week of tough Rug-by League. We had breakfast and headed over to Columba to watch the Second team play. During the seconds Game Gully started strapping so everyone was ready to warm up after the game. We again had a long warm up and were ready to hit the paddock for our 10:30am game against Holy Spirit Mackay. This was a hard game with some big opposition but we didn’t let that intimidate us. After a hard game and everyone leaving the game with nothing left in the tank we went down 28 points to 8. The man of the match was again Darcy Meehan. After the match the team headed back to the dorms and got changed and ready to go back over to the final and to the closing ceremony. Congratulations to Kent Tanks who got our spirit award and Darcy Meehan who got Best and Fairest award for our team. After the closing ceremony all of the boys got together and presented Jackie Koglkia senior with the number five jersey and thanked him for allowing us to have him with us for the Confro week.
A special thanks goes to Adrian Guldbransen and Jake Diery for all their time and effort through the week getting us organised and ready to play each day. Also thankyou to Corey Guldbransen who was our tee runner and our amazing photographer Tracey Maff for all the photos. We would also like to thank all of the Souls supporters who joined us throughout the week. We appreciated your cheers and encouragement. We wish the First 13 the best of luck for their trip to Bundaberg in 2019.
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Confraternity Report - AA (2nds) Team
Matthew Muston - Team Captain
Our Confraternity week began on Friday as we went down to Townsville with the First Rugby League team to have some fun down before the hectic week began. We trained and had a chilly dip in the rock pool and had lunch. Gully kept us in line all day with the threat of a walkup castle hill, which, thankfully, never happened. The weekend was relatively relaxed and low key with our last training session on Saturday and the opening ceremony on Sunday. We were set and ready for what was coming on Monday.
The first day saw us playing at 9:00am against St John’s Catholic School from Roma. We were the first livestreamed game of Confro which had us pumped up and ready. We went out on the field not quite sure what we were in for. “Those guys don’t look that big” Sebastian said hopefully, as we sighted our opponents. We kicked off to St John’s and it was on. Our forwards took a lot of big hits and made good metres with Michael Meteyard, Zak Smale and Ca-sey Flanagan controlling the ball. The first try of confro was made by Patrick. The second half saw many good plays and good metres made by our outside backs, but unfortunately St John’s managed to score one against us. The game ended with a score of 4-4 thanks to Zak’s try saving tackle on the line. Casey was awarded Man of the Match. Game two was against Good Shepard Catholic College, Mt Isa. They had a good forward pack, so we had to spread the ball around them. We had good intensity, but they matched us every time. Doug got pulled from the centres and moved to the middle for defense where he earned his name ‘The Machete’, because he would cut the legs off of anyone whether they were 7-foot-tall or 4 foot wide. Robert took a hit-up off the kick then he was hit by the fella we called Maui. Casey got one try with it ending at 32-6 with Casey again earning his Man of the Match award.
Day two started with our first game against Emmeaus College from Jimboomba on Bill Lewis Oval. The first half saw good metres made by our forwards, then the backs executing plays resulting with Robert going over the line giving Cameron the chance to slot the conversion. The second half saw good defense from everyone and a break made by Casey off his own kick. Casey got our second try with the game ending at 30-6 and Michael bringing Ca-sey’s reign to a halt by being awarded a well-deserved Man of the Match. After some ice baths we got ready for our 4th game against St Anthony’s from Townsville. We kicked off and hit them hard again and again. Casey and Pat-rick went over the line with Michael getting both conversions. We were showing those Townsville boys how to play country football. The second half had a try made by Casey that was called a knockback much to the disappointment of Mr Dietrich in the crowd. Their hooker and 5/8 worked together to get through us to get the final score of 44-12. Man of the match went to Casey, again. Tuesday night we had a BBQ out the back of Page Dormitory with both teams and parents who were in town sharing a meal and some fun times together.
Day 3 was our rest day which started with a well earned sleep in. After breakfast we went to the Indoor Cricket Centre with the 1sts team where the ‘prairie dogs’ showed them how to play cricket and we had some fun in the pool room. After the cricket it was up town to where some of us went for lunch and the rest went to the movies to watch Jurassic world and Tag. That night was quiet and ended with a good sleep.
Thursday was a good day for us. A good night’s rest and the boys were ready to go again against Mt Maria College Mitchelton. The first half had some good hit ups from the forwards and the plays were executed perfectly putting Casey over. There was good defense and attack getting set up by Zak, keeping our opponents off their line for 3 sets in a row. The second half saw great attack from everyone executing and working as a team. The ‘tug play’ had Alby Luke millimetres from the line every time; I don’t know how he didn’t go over. With our halfback down Casey, made a 40m break to get us off our line and hit them. Harry had a lot to let out after sitting on the sideline for 3 games and he didn’t hold anything back and ended up making the most tackles for the game. There were also some good, hard runs off the scrum from Patrick. Good eyes from Casey set up Jack Storey for the game winning try in the corner to make the final score 14-10 in our favour. Man of the match went to Casey yet again for his con-sistent effort and great performance. We ended Thursday with a dinner at the Charters Towers Golf Club. It was a great night full of good yarns, delicious food and a couple of speeches. We can’t forget Jack getting the footy out of the claw machine on his first go. After dinner it was back to the dorms and into bed ready for our last day of com-petition. Day five was our final game against St Mary’s Catholic College, Woree. After a good warm up we were set to give them everything that we had. We kicked off and started to show them our intensity in defense. There were some strong runs up the middle by our centres and wingers, and Michael and Casey worked together to put Connor through some holes to make good metres. Our forwards were running hard up the middle and making ground with their ‘B-tips’ play. We held them on their line forcing mistakes for a long time, but eventually succumbed to the pressure letting a try through. The score was 6-0 at half time in favour of St Mary’s. The second half saw good me-tres made in the middle by Matthew and Kini and down the sides by Doug and Harry. Patrick made some hard runs and showed his “foot work” as he ran up off the kick and he went over the line twice to bring the score to 12 all af-ter another St Mary’s try early in the second half. With 15 minutes to go their hooker scored a runaway try and their forward got one as well to finish the game with a score of 20-12. The man of the match was Connor.
I just want to say how proud I am of all the effort and commitment that was put in all week and it was a pleasure to play footy with you all. I would also like to express my sincere thanks, on behalf of the All Souls St Gabriels School AA (Second) Rugby League team to everyone who made the week happen. Especially Alistair and Davin for coaching and managing us and assisting us to play some great Rugby League. Also, we had many, many Souls sup-porters watch us and cheer us on; your support was greatly appreciated. We would also like to thank the School for giving us the chance to experience Confro 2018 in our home town. It is something that we will remember for ever.
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Sport News Pia Taylor Acting Secondary Sports Co-ordinator Charters Towers Netball Carnival This past weekend This past weekend saw the Charters Towers Netball Carnival and although the weather had warmed up there was some great displays of netball out on court. Well done to all the girls that competed over the two days and a big thank you to their coaches for giving up their time so the girls could have the valuable experience leading into club netball finals. Congratulations to Annika Peace who was awarded Most Valuable Player in the 14 Years division. Please find below the overall results from the carnival.
Upcoming Sports
Gabes Inferno Placed 6th
in Inter A
Gabes Fire Placed 7th
in Inter A
Gabes Ignite Placed 8th
in Inter C
Gabes Scorchers Placed 5th
in 14 Years
Gabes Blaze Placed 8th
in 13 Years
Gabes Flames Placed 5th
in Junior A
Gabes Embers Placed 5th
in Junior B
Inter-School Athletics Thursday 16th
and Friday 17th
August
Charters Towers Netball Grand Finals Sunday 19th August
Round 1 Inter-School Tennis and Softball Wednesday 29th
August
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NQ All School Touch Competition Melissa Peace Team Manager While the rest of the school were still enjoying the holi-days, 12 students made their way to Townsville on Satur-day 21 July to compete in the All School Touch Carnival as part of the 1st Mixed Touch team. Due to the timing of the carnival, this team had never played together, and due to ill-health, coach Brad Adams was unable to attend the carnival. The team was very fortunate to have Kay Lenitschek volunteer her time to coach them for the carnival. In the first game the team all showed great character, playing extremely well against William Ross State School, going down 3-1. The next two games had great out-comes, with ASSG winning against Malanda State High, and Gordonvale State High by one try each. Our last game for the day saw us up against St Anthony’s Catholic College, who were too strong for us, beating us 5-3. The carnival was a great learning curve for our young team. They all learnt so much playing at the next level, which they are not exposed to very often.
Equestrian Club Charlee Keleher Year 11 Last weekend the Equestrian Team competed at the local Charters Towers Show. Angela, Sarah and Carley did exceptionally well thanks to all their hard work and dedication beforehand. Angela Jones placed 1st in four Hack-ing Classes and also placed, 2nd in three jumping events and the novice hack, jumping a total of 1m! Angela also achieved well in dressage and equitation, placing 3rd for her preliminary dressage test and the bareback equita-tion. Also, Angela received 1st in the Novice and Girl Rider Hack and was then awarded Reserve Champion for the Junior Girl Rider class. Year 10 student, Sarah Suhr, also did exceptionally well throughout the Charters Towers Show. Sarah received 1st place in the Stockman’s Dressage, both the Intermediate and Novice Galloway Hacks, Child’s Hack and 1st in the pair of hacks with Angela. Sarah placed 2nd in the Preliminary and Novice Dressage Tests, as well as the Girl Rider, Led Class and Open Galloway Hack. Sarah also placed 3rd in three more Hacking Classes and the Registered Stock Horse Mare Led class. Due to her great riding skills Sarah was also awarded Re-serve Champion in the Hunter Galloway Hack. Our youngest student, Carley Shephard and her horse, worked ex-tremely well together. They placed 1st in the Pony Club Pair of Hacks with Karlee Seale. Overall, the girls had a blast and look forward to competing again next year.
We would like to say a big thank you to Sally and Lionel for their work in the lead up and during the Charters Towers Show; without them we would not have enjoyed such success.
Carley Shephard & Karlee Searle Carley Shephard, Sarah Suhr & Angela Jones
Ben Wilkinson with Coach Kay Lenitschek. Front: Tim Ievers, Darby Godfrey, Toby Rankine,
Kacey Musk & Grace Newnham.
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Cattle Club Tearna Wilson Year 12 After a long couple of terms training cattle and practising our judging, the Charters Towers Show quickly ap-proached. The set up for the show started taking place last term with a lot to do to make sure everything ran smoothly on the day. With all our previous preparation we met together at the yard on Sunday to wash and pre-pare the cattle for their long journey all the way to the local showgrounds. After settling the cattle into the shed and feeding and watering them, we locked up and headed off for an early night as the next day would consist of a long day of parading and judging. Tom, Harrison and Brandon took one for the team, getting there bright and early Monday morning to get the cat-tle fed and watered. This meant that the rest of Cattle Club were able to have a tiny sleep. Upon arrival, the re-maining club members got straight into preparing the cattle for the day; this included washing them and fitting their leather halters for a 9am start. After we finished getting the cattle ready we then headed for the show ring. We started off with the lead steer, commercial heifers, cow and calf and stud heifer categories with our cattle tak-ing out these titles and Sally, one of the stud heifers taking out the Supreme Grand Champion overall. Immediately after these competitions we went into our Young Parader’s competitions which were judged by age groups. In these age groups Charlette took out 3rd in the 12 Years and under, Luke took out 3rd in 13-15 Years and in the 15-17 Years Tearna took out 2nd, Brandon took out 3rd and Dakota got 4th. Finally, in the 17-21 Years category Harrison got 1st and Tom 2nd. After this we had a short break before competing strongly in the Young Judges competitions. We were only given a short 5 minutes to complete our opinions on the cattle which had a few us worried and even more nervous that we wouldn’t have enough time to finish. We then individually got called up to present our decisions with the older ones starting first. Due to the strength of our presentation we were also awarded the following placings in this competition: 17-21 Years - Harrison 1st and Tom getting 2nd; in the 15-17 Years Tearna achieved 1st, Dakota 2nd, and Robert took out 4th place. Finally, in the 13-15 Years com-petition April placed 4th. Tearna also took out the Overall Young Judge Award with a whopping 95/100 points. We had great success at the Charters Towers show coming out with many placings. All of this wouldn’t have been possible without the constant help and support we have from Lionel and Glenysis. We would also like to thank everyone that came down to help during the lead up to the show including Dolly who was a huge help to us when we were training our cattle. We would also like to thank the school for allowing us to attend and compete.
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Junior School
Tina Akers Head of Junior School
Welcome to our new GAP Staff This semester we welcome Henrik, Simon and Alex to the School. These young men will be support-ing the teaching and learning in the Junior School classes, assisting Mrs Dunn with German lessons, helping out on the sports field and joining in many extra-curricular ac-tivities. We are looking forward to helping make their stay in Charters Towers an enjoyable and memora-ble one.
Simon, Alex & Henrik
Charters Towers Show Congratulations to the Junior School students whose creative and written work was showcased at the Charters Towers Show. Our display looked awesome!
Thanks Mrs Polsen, Mr Roughley, Henrik, Simon and Alex for putting together a fantastic exhibition demonstrating the great learning that occurs at All Souls. Thanks al-so to Casten for taking the time from his grounds and maintenance work to transport all the students’ exhibits to the showgrounds. We have received lots of positive feed-back congratulating us on an amazing display.
Our congratulations are extended to all students who had their work on display and competed in the many events. Well done to the fol-lowing students:
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Charters Towers Primary Inter -School Athletics Carnival Last Friday, Junior School students competed at the Primary Inter-School Athletics Carnival. Once again the team brought home the Average Shield and finished sec-ond overall. Congratulations to our Age Champions and Runners-Up: 9 Years Boys Age Champion Henry Jesberg 10 Years Girl Runner-up Della Walsh 11 Years Girl Runner-up Charlotte Jesberg We are also very proud of Jett Moore, Henry Jesberg, Annie-May Johnson, Sophie Gordon, Yasmin Musk, Anna Milton and Mac Sharp-Callaghan who were selected to represent Charters Towers at the North Queensland Athletic trials later this term. We will need to wait until the completion of the Secondary Inter-School Carnival to see if any of the 12 year old stu-dents in the Junior School were successful in making the team. The success of any carnival is a combination of factors – weather, people, students, attitude, organi-sation and a touch of good luck. The support and encouragement of everyone who contributed to making this event a great success is greatly appreciated. Thank you to: Miss Browne and Mrs West from
Blackheath and Thornburgh Col-lege, for the planning and prep-aration that went into organising a successful carnival.
The staff from all the Charters Towers Primary Schools for their energy, enthusiasm and assis-tance throughout the day.
BTC and ASSG Senior Students for their assistance at the vari-ous field events.
Handwriting Competition Year 2 Rebecca Galvin 2nd Place
Matilda Twine 1st Place Show Champi-on
Year 3 Taj Koch 2nd Place
Archer Reardon 1st Place
Year 4 Keziah Koglkia 2nd Place
Joshua Philip 1st Place
Year 5 Lucy North 2nd Place
Shelden West 1st Place
Year 6 Tammazin Chong 2nd Place
Anna Milton 1st
Poster Competition Year 3 Clayne Musk 1st Place
Emmerson Heuir 2nd Place
Grace Turner 2nd Place
Year 4 Clancy Twine 1st Place Show Champion
Annie-May Johnson 2nd Place
Year 5 Jennifer Lavery 1st Place
Rory Clark 2nd Place
Year 6 Lauren Atwell 1st Place
Xander Nunns 2nd Place
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The P & F and everyone who volunteered their time to run the food van.
Everyone who donated the deli-cious baked goods for sale at the canteen.
The Grounds and Maintenance staff for their efforts in preparing the ovals for the track and field events.
The parents and friends who came along to the carnival to cheer and celebrate the success and personal achievements of our students.
All competitors were a credit to our School and their families. I was delighted to see how well all our students conducted them-selves throughout the day and congratulated all competitors on their efforts and great sportsman-ship. It was wonderful to see their commitment to doing their person-al best. We are very proud they wear the ASSG uniform. Preparing for the Charters Towers Eisteddfod Our students and staff are working extremely hard to ensure everyone is well prepared for this year’s Charters Towers Eisteddfod. The experience of performing in front of an audience at the World Thea-tre is a great opportunity. I would like to applaud the students for the extra practice and preparation they are doing after school and at lunch times. In addition to individual students performing set pieces and musical theatre, our three JS Choirs and the Year 1/2 and Year 3/4 Verse Speaking choirs will perform at the World Theatre. I am sure with the energy and endeavour that is go-ing into preparing for this year’s Eisteddfod, our students will do very well. Year 6 Canberra Trip Our Year 6 students are on the countdown to their trip to Canber-ra. This trip is linked to the Aus-tralian Curriculum and is an amaz-ing opportunity for the students. It will provide them with a stimulat-ing, real-life experience that will reinforce the content that is taught in the Year 6 Civics and Citizen-ship, History, Science and the Arts curriculum. This educational excur-sion has been planned to also in-corporate many cultural and fun activities in the national capital.
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The Australian Government recog-nises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion, the Australi-an Government will contribute funding of $120 per student under the Parliament and Civics Educa-tion Rebate program towards those costs. We are grateful for the government contribution which helps reduce the overall cost per students. Positive Energy Our School forms a vibrant and in-tegral part of the wider Charters Towers community. This term we have already celebrated success at the Charters Towers Show, the In-ter-School Athletics Carnival and are looking forward to showcasing our talents at the Charters Towers Eisteddfod. The mix of students, schedules, assessments, curriculum standards and extra-curricular events means we all have to put in our very best. At times, I am sure both staff and students feel like we are running a marathon. At All Souls St Gabriels School, we are encouraged by the positive en-ergy generated by the support and collaboration we receive from our students, our colleagues and the wider School community.
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Page Dormitory Davin Marshall Senior Resident We are already into week three of third term and it feels as though we didn’t even have a holiday. We’ve had the Formal and the Charters Towers Show in rapid succession as well as the usual club sport on the weekends. The Formal was a great occasion for our boys to dress up and show their style. From the stories I have heard they all managed to have a good time. The show was a lot of fun with several people making themselves sick on rides and being conned by the side-show alley guys. They did win lots of stuffed toys and re-turned to dorms with lots of fairy floss and other sugary treats. We had the day off on Tuesday and had a big cooked breakfast and generally lazed around. In the af-ternoon we took a couple of bus loads down to the river for a few hours to get out of the dorms. Luke Stevens spent three days over at the show with the Cattle Club and helped to showcase the skills they have learned during the year. Dolly Grant also helped out with the cattle the week before, and during the show. Thank you Dolly. We recently farewelled Cam Bar-nicoat from boarding. We were very sad to see him leave our dor-mitory and his presence will be missed, especially by his little mate Jack. They have boarded together both here and at Townsville Gram-mar since Year 8. Cam has secured an apprenticeship and we all wish him every success as he starts his working life. We have the Inter-School Athletics coming up in a couple of weeks and by then we will be half way through the term and into the Club sport finals. As always please contact me with any concerns you have regarding your son in boarding.
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Feetham Dormitory
Jake Diery Senior Resident
I hope everyone had a great holi-day and enjoyed having your son’s home for a well deserved break. Over the holidays we had our Con-fraternity teams stay here in Char-ters Towers and play in the carni-val. It is always a very enjoyable week and all our Souls boys where very well behaved. It was good to see blokes like Casey Flanagan, Patrick Washington and Sebastian Boardman really stand up and work hard for their team mates. Seeing they are still only young, they will get to go back next year and have another shot at it and I have no doubt the experience they picked up this year will serve them well. Our Year 12 boys definitely led the way and I can’t give them a big enough wrap for their effort. As well as our teams, there were quite a few other teams staying here as well so our boys got to make a few new mates during the week. I would like to thank the cleaning, kitchen and grounds staff as well as the laundry ladies for all the work they did for all the teams, it helped make it a great week.
This term has started with a bang with the Inter-School Formal and Charters Towers Show having al-ready come and gone. All the boys and girls who went to the Formal looked outstanding and I hear a great night was had by all. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to put the event on.
The Show was in town last week. Our Feetham boys went to spend their money and have fun in side show alley. I was extremely happy that none of the boys brought back ‘bird callers’ whistles this year, thank god, and there were no horror stories about the rides getting the better of their stom-achs. In past years when the show comes through town it usually means flu season comes with it so all the boys have been told to wash their hands really well and if they start to feel unwell to see my-self, Sr Kate or Sr Terri at the clin-ic.
Finally, I will be away for the next two weeks, for those of you who didn’t know the Diery gang is about to welcome another little rat bag into it.
While I’m away if your son wishes to go on leave or you have any queries about boarding please email [email protected] and it will be directed to the right person.
Ramsay Dormitory
Rhett Butler Senior Resident
It’s great to have all the boys back and so enthusiastic to get back in-to it after a very long and tumultu-ous second term. They have all settled in well to their regular rou-tine and we are eager to see what this term holds for us.
I have made a slight change in the Senior Wing this term, splitting my Year 10 boys up into their own bay and area. I am hoping this will im-prove the boy’s concentration dur-ing prep times by eliminating dis-tractions from their peers.
The boys have hit the road run-ning with an already busy sched-ule. The Bulls Rugby Union sides are training and playing games al-ready with nearly all the Ramsay Year 8, 9 and 10 students in-volved. A special mention has to go out to Rolland Geesu for mak-ing the Queensland Country side in the U16’s, well done mate. We al-so have had a slight setback for Camden Finger who broke his leg in last weekend’s game against Western Suburbs.
We have two boys Rily Goodwin and Lachy Lathwell participating in the D of E Awards scheme. They have just returned from their Bronze Expedition camp which was held at Echo creek near Tully.
We had seven of our indigenous boarders travel to Abergowrie Col-lege last Friday to participate a NAIDOC celebration and all re-turned saying it was a terrific day.
The Ramsay boys are also in train-ing for the Inter-School Athletics which is just around the corner.
As always we are in for a very busy term but if any parents have any concerns feel free to contact me at any time. See you in a couple of weeks.
Alban Yr 12 Profile Vanessa Herring Senior Resident Alban Year 12 Profile Name: Sarah Jane Frohloff
How long have you been at ASSG? Since grade 7 in 2013… so 6 years.
What schools did you attend before ASSG? Charters Towers Distance Ed.
Where are you from? Starbright Station on the Her-vey’s Range Highway.
Something people may not know about you? I hate feathers!
What has been one of your fa-vourite All Souls moments? When I won discus this year in the Inter-House Athletics! #nailedit.
What is your favourite sub-ject? Agriculture. Name the title of a movie, or song that best describes you? Mamma Mia!!
Who has been the greatest in-fluence on your life? Mum and Dad, they always push me to do my best in every-thing I do.
Who inspires the ‘grown-up’ version of you? Diane (Fulford)… cos she’s the most awesome!
What would you never do, no matter what the price? Touch a chook!
If you had a motto, what would it be? Live freely and never give up! If you were stranded on an is-land, what is the one thing you would need? Diane (Fulford)…nah, I’d prob-ably strangle her in the first 5 minutes! Probably… Bear Grylls – cos he’s the survival dude and we wouldn’t be on the island for long!!! If you could choose, what would you have for your last meal? T-bone and Chips!
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Dianne Fulford and Sarah Frohloff Sarah with sisters Chloe and Sally
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Becket Dormitory Jenny Cantle Senior Resident The holidays are now a distant memory but the dorm was a hive of activity even while our girls were away, we had visits from two separate school groups who made use of our dorm in the girls’ absence. The term is now back in full swing and as usual the first two weeks have been busy. Week one was all about the school formal which seemed to take up a lot of the girl’s time with fittings, hair, make-up and tanning appointments, but it was all worth it because everyone looked beautiful on the night. Second week was the Char-ters Towers Show. It is certainly one of the highlights of the year for all our kids and they all love the thrill sideshow al-ley brings, even if it does make them sick in the process. It is also a very exciting time for our Cattle and Horse Club students and staff who participated in the ring event. This weekend saw many of our girls competing in the McDonalds Charters Towers Junior Netball Carnival. All the girls said that it was a great weekend even if they are all a little sore, as most teams had three or four games each day. Club netball is ending with the semi-finals starting this week and the finals on 19th August.
As usual, just as one sport ends another starts which was the case last week when mixed touch kicked off on the Thursday night. That’s all for now, as always if any parents have queries in regards to their daughters, please feel free to contact me via phone or email.
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Chad Dormitory
Yvonne Schaefer Senior Resident Welcome back! As always seems to be the case, we have had a busy start to the term. The Year 11 and 12 girls have attended their Inter-School Formal.
Here are some photos of some of our beautiful Chad girls.
Rachel Hall with some of her Year 8 girls
Georgia Eastaughffe, Zoe Godfrey and Alanah Wenn at the Formal
No sooner had the formal finished and we were off to the show. The girls had a great night riding on Show rides, eating Fairy Floss and winning prizes. Everyone seemed to have lots of fun. Congratula-tions to Zoe Donaldson who took out lots of prizes in the cooking and sewing sections.
Savannah Arnold and Lucy Le Feuvre
at the Show
The girls have also had a big weekend at the Charters Towers Netball Carnival. Whilst none of our teams won, they played with determination and did themselves proud. There was a number of Chad girls involved. Dianne Fulford played for the 1sts, Sophie Keough and Amy Ah Sam played for Gabes Ignite, Briarley Fitchett, Caitlyn El-liott, and Bella Keough were in Gabes Scorchers, and Charlie Pem-ble, Baia Gaidan and Holly Johnson played in Gabes Blaze. As a dorm this term, we have spo-ken about the need to be aware that our seniors are very busy this term with their final assessments, and the need to be respectful. We have also reminded them that it is important to take laundry down each day, making it easier to keep their bays tidy. Lastly, we will en-deavour to ‘be kind to each other’ and show our appreciation for each other by doing the little things. As always, please contact Pauline, Dawn or myself if needed. We will do our best to help.
Caitlyn Elliott, concentrating
on her next move (photo courtesy of Jane McKellar)
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