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Ignatius Park College Newsletter 368 Ross River Road, Cranbrook Townsville Australia 4814 E: [email protected] W: www.ipc.qld.edu.au P: 07 4796 0222 F: 07 4796 0200 A Catholic Secondary College in the Edmund Rice Tradition Number 7 | 10 March 2016 The Edmund Rice Community acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which the College stands, the Bindal and Wulgurukaba People, and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future. From the Principal Dear Parents and Carers I recently read an interesting article from Fr Ron Rolheiser, OMI, called A Measure of our Intelligence. There are different ways of being intelligent, of being awake. Not everyone is bright in the same way. Some people are gifted mathematically and philosophically. That’s the intelligence of an Albert Einstein, an Alfred North Whitehead, a Bill Gates. Some others are gifted with emotional intelligence. You see this, for instance, in the great novelists, who possess an emotional grasp of things that the greatest psychologists in the world can only envy. Then there is something that might be called practical intelligence. I saw this in some of my high school friends, young men who couldn’t pass enough courses to graduate, but who are wonderfully gifted with life-skills and are the ones the rest of us lean on whenever we need to sort out our plumbing, our automobile woes, our leaking roofs, and the thousand other things that mathematics, philosophy and literature don’t equip us to handle. There is too a certain aesthetic intelligence, that unique brightness of the artist which sometimes combines with the emotional or even the mathematical (especially in the case of music) but is often an intelligence all to itself. Finally, there is still another kind of intelligence, moral intelligence. What is this? Sometimes we call it depth or wisdom or character. Whatever its name, moral intelligence is a sensitivity to the deeper contours within life. It is a certain grasp of those things which hold life together as its root and which must be respected so that life doesn’t go sour, unravel, disintegrate and turn against us. Moral intelligence intuits the imperatives innate within the DNA of life itself. It grasps the things we have to do and not just the things we like to do. It lays bare the hard-wiring inside the mystery of life and love. Where does it come from? Like other forms of intelligence, it is perhaps mainly a natural endowment, a temperament, a grace given by God as a gift to the world. But, I suspect, in most cases it is also the product of something else, namely, a certain kind of suffering and humiliation. What do I mean by that? If we look at our lives and ask ourselves: What has made us deep? What has helped us to understand the deeper things in life? If we are honest, we will have to admit that what made us deep were not our successes or achievements. These brought us glory, but not depth or character. What brought us depth and character are the very things we are often ashamed to talk about, namely, our inferiorities – getting picked last on the school team, being bullied on the playground, some physical inadequacy, our mother’s weight problem, our dad’s alcoholism, an abuse inflicted upon us that we were powerless to stop, a slow-wittedness that perpetually left us out of the inner circle, our failure to achieve what we’d like to in life, a pain about our sexual orientation, an addiction we can’t master and many, many other small and big wounds and bruises that helped shape our souls. James Hillman, our generation’s maverick intellectual, speaks eloquently on this. Depth, he suggests, never comes out of our successes, but only out of our inferiorities and failures. And this, he says, gives us character: our scars are like huge stones in a riverbed; they may do nothing but stay still and hold their ground, but the river has to take them into account and alter its flow because of them and it’s precisely this which gives a river (and a face) some character.” I would like to congratulate our Middle Leaders: Drew Boniface, Travis Busch, Nathan Clohesy, Kian Dalton, Jack Gallagher-Smith, Anthony Grech, Thomas Harte, Callum James, Bryce Kenyon, Blake McKinley, Ethan Rennie, Nathan Ryland, Patrick Shephard and Harvey Smith (pictured above) on being elected to their leadership role in 2016. Yours sincerely Michael Conn | PRINCIPAL
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Ignatius Park CollegeNewsletter

368 Ross River Road, CranbrookTownsville Australia 4814

E: [email protected]: www.ipc.qld.edu.au

P: 07 4796 0222F: 07 4796 0200

A Catholic Secondary College in the Edmund Rice Tradition

Number 7 | 10 March 2016

The Edmund Rice Community acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which the College stands, the Bindal and Wulgurukaba People, and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.

From the Principal

Dear Parents and Carers

I recently read an interesting article from Fr Ron Rolheiser, OMI, called A Measure of our Intelligence.

“There are different ways of being intelligent, of being awake. Not everyone is bright in the same way. Some people are gifted mathematically and philosophically. That’s the intelligence of an Albert Einstein, an Alfred North Whitehead, a Bill Gates. Some others are gifted with emotional intelligence. You see this, for instance, in the great novelists, who possess an emotional grasp of things that the greatest psychologists in the world can only envy.

Then there is something that might be called practical intelligence. I saw this in some of my high school friends, young men who couldn’t pass enough courses to graduate, but who are wonderfully gifted with life-skills and are the ones the rest of us lean on whenever we need to sort out our plumbing, our automobile woes, our leaking roofs, and the thousand other things that mathematics, philosophy and literature don’t equip us to handle. There is too a certain aesthetic intelligence, that unique brightness of the artist which sometimes combines with the emotional or even the mathematical (especially in the case of music) but is often an intelligence all to itself.

Finally, there is still another kind of intelligence, moral intelligence. What is this? Sometimes we call it depth or wisdom or character. Whatever its name, moral intelligence is a sensitivity to the deeper contours within life. It is a certain grasp of those things which hold life together as its root and which must be respected so that life doesn’t go sour, unravel, disintegrate and turn against us. Moral intelligence intuits the imperatives innate within the DNA of life itself. It grasps the things we have to do and not just the things we like to do. It lays bare the hard-wiring inside the mystery of life and love.

Where does it come from? Like other forms of intelligence, it is perhaps mainly a natural endowment, a temperament, a grace given by God as a gift to the world. But, I suspect, in most cases it is also the product of something else, namely, a certain kind of suffering and humiliation. What do I mean by that?

If we look at our lives and ask ourselves: What has made us deep? What has helped us to understand the deeper things in life? If we are honest, we will have to admit that what made us deep were not our successes or achievements. These brought us glory, but not depth or character. What brought us depth and character are the very things we are often ashamed to talk about, namely, our inferiorities – getting picked last on the school team, being bullied on the playground, some physical inadequacy, our mother’s weight problem, our dad’s alcoholism, an abuse inflicted upon us that we were powerless to stop, a slow-wittedness that perpetually left us out of the inner circle, our failure to achieve what we’d like to in life, a pain about our sexual orientation, an addiction we can’t master and many, many other small and big wounds and bruises that helped shape our souls.

James Hillman, our generation’s maverick intellectual, speaks eloquently on this. Depth, he suggests, never comes out of our successes, but only out of our inferiorities and failures. And this, he says, gives us character: our scars are like huge stones in a riverbed; they may do nothing but stay still and hold their ground, but the river has to take them into account and alter its flow because of them and it’s precisely this which gives a river (and a face) some character.”

I would like to congratulate our Middle Leaders: Drew Boniface, Travis Busch, Nathan Clohesy, Kian Dalton, Jack Gallagher-Smith, Anthony Grech, Thomas Harte, Callum James, Bryce Kenyon, Blake McKinley, Ethan Rennie, Nathan Ryland, Patrick Shephard and Harvey Smith (pictured above) on being elected to their leadership role in 2016.

Yours sincerely

Michael Conn | PRINCIPAL

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Identity & Mission

Easter Liturgy – Stations of the CrossAs we reach the high point of our Church year at Easter, we are emphasising our prayerful preparations as a College community by having a whole school Easter Liturgy. This will occur on Wednesday 23 March at 11am in the Edmund Rice Hall. All College community members are most welcome. Our Easter Liturgy will be followed by a day celebrating the legacy of Edmund Rice. Our Liturgy will focus upon the Stations of the Cross this year. Our Year 10 Drama classes will be helping us with our staging the Stations of the Cross as a shadow box. The commentary or prayers shall be read by senior students as part of our prayerful devotion. Our musicians and choir will be supporting us with a Taize chant that will feature significantly during the Stations of the Cross (See LINK). “Jesus, remember me, when you come into your Kingdom” are the translated words attributed to one of the criminals crucified beside Jesus. How are we beside Jesus at this stage of Lent in our prayers? For those who would like to know more about the truly wonderful ecumenical Taize community in France, I include their website here for your consideration. (See LINK)

Tuesday Morning Mass – A Lenten DevotionThis week’s number is 10…. 10 souls were able to gather for Mass on Tuesday morning at 8am. How many will there be next week? Weekday Mass will usually take 15 minutes. All students, staff, parents and Old Boys are welcome…. and there will still be time to call into the Toast Room!

Asking Our Community to PrayAs of next week, we shall include a section in our Newsletter for our prayer intentions. All College community members are welcome to request prayers for anyone. Prayer can be requested for those in need and those unwell as well as those celebrating life events (weddings, children etc). If you wish, we can include first name only or both names with a simple reason. Please contact me at the College, or my colleague [email protected]

Coloured Clothes Day – Friday 11 MarchAll boys are welcome to participate in a Coloured Clothes Day and are asked to provide a gold coin which will be presented to Caritas Australia for their Project Compassion appeal. Some wonderful projects are supported by Caritas, our Catholic Developmental Non-government agency. Follow this LINK to Caritas Australia which provides information regarding the various projects that they are currently undertaking.

Live Jesus in Our Hearts, Forever

Frank Clarke | Deputy Principal – Identity & Mission

Tomorrow is Coloured Clothes Day! Gold coin donations are going to Caritas.

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College Staff

Dallas BrownTeacher/Teacher Aide

Carmel CannonTeacher

Nadine BurnettLearning Support Teacher

Paul BruceTeacher

Sally ConnTeacher

Jerome CollierTeacher

Steve ColmanOutdoor Education

Greg ChristTeacher

David ElliotTeacher

Brett DeneenTeacher

Debra CrespanLearning Support Aide

Geoff BrownProperty Manager

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CurriculumVocational Education & TrainingLast week I had the pleasure of supervising Jacob Pegoraro for work placement. He assisted myself and the Kitchen Assistants in food preparation and cleaning, but the thing that made Jacob really shine as an example of ‘practice, patience and effort’ paying off, was his mastery of the coffee machine. ‘Pego’s Coffee Shop’ was born! Staff were invited to sample coffee made by Jacob, throughout the week. After a hesitant start, Jacob soon got into a steady rhythm churning out coffees and hot chocolates. Along the way, Jacob’s confidence in his ability increased and he began to exchange banter with his customers. I would like to thank all the staff who supported Jacob’s learning, it created a “real world” experience in a familiar environment. Jacob thoroughly enjoyed his week.

Jude Squire| Teacher in Charge of Hospitality

Get them interested in new things. Many new words that students probably don’t know are related to specific fields or topics, so please encourage your son to explore different areas that they don’t know anything about. They will learn lots of new words and, even better, they’ll gain knowledge on a topic previously unknown to them. Challenge him to find out five new facts about something that both of you know little about. Then, he can explain this new knowledge over the dinner table.

When we are put into a position where we have to explain something or communicate ideas, we’re forced to use new words in order to be clear and help other people understand. This is an invaluable skill. Also, ask your son to start writing about something that they are passionate about and try to use new words in context. This might be something their coach has said or music teacher described. They hear new words every day but rarely actually use the words again. This strategy will broaden their vocabulary.

Nadine Burnett | Learning Support Teacher

Literacy Corner

Synth City Performance

Music students had the opportunity to learn about the keyboard/piano and its evolution while watching the performance of ‘Synth City’ on Tuesday. Performer, Lionel Robinson, took students on a journey through the ages as he explained with great humour and insight how this instrument came to be the way it is today. The more modern version of a keyboard instrument, the synthesizer, is an instrument that most musicians will come across in their musical journey. Therefore, to know how it came about from the more limiting forms of the keyboard, was an intriguing and informative story. Interested students from all year levels had a great afternoon of education and entertainment!

Claire Dickson | Teacher

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PastoralMiddle School Leaders 2016

It is with great pleasure that we announce the Middle School Leaders for 2016. It is a very exciting time ahead for these young men as they define these relatively new roles. The successful candidates participated in a thorough process where they completed a written application, presented a speech to their peers and completed a formal interview. All applicants acquitted themselves well and made the final decision a very difficult one.

Middle School Leaders 2016 Drew Boniface Callum James Travis Busch Bryce Kenyon Nathan Clohesy Blake McKinley Kian Dalton Ethan Rennie Jack Gallagher-Smith Nathan Ryland Anthony Grech Patrick Shephard Thomas Harte Harvey Smith Craig Brown | Dean of Middle School

A person who has good mental health has good emotional and social wellbeing and the capacity to cope with change and challenges.Feeling down, tense, angry or anxious are all normal emotions, but when these feelings persist for long periods of time they may be part of a mental health problem. Mental health problems can influence how your son thinks and his ability to function in his everyday activities, whether at school, at work or in relationships.

It can be helpful to talk to someone about what’s going on in his life if he have noticed a change in how he is feeling and thinking. Some of these might include:

• Feelingthingshavechangedoraren’tquiteright• Changesinthewaythathecarriesouthisday-to-daylife• Notenjoying,ornotwantingtobeinvolvedinthingsthathewouldnormallyenjoy• Changesinappetiteorsleepingpatterns• Beingeasilyirritatedorhavingproblemswithfriendsandfamilyfornoreason• Findinghisperformanceatschoolorworkisnotasgoodasitusedtobe• Beinginvolvedinriskybehaviourthathewouldusuallyavoid,liketakingdrugsordrinkingtoomuchalcohol,or depending on these substances to feel “normal” • Feelingsador‘down’orcryingfornoapparentreason• Havingtroubleconcentratingorrememberingthings• Feelingunusuallystressedorworried.

If you are worried about your son, yourself or someone around you, there is help available. The counsellors at Ignatius Park College are happy to talk with you and help find the most appropriate service or you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, Kids Help Line (5 – 25 years) on 1800 551 800 or Headspace (12 – 25 years) on 47 991 799. All these services now also offer support online!

Marilyn Parsons | Student CounsellorDannielle Charge | Careers and Student Counsellor

Counselling News

The Ignatius Park College Cross Country will be held on Monday 21 March. School will start as normal with roll call and administration. Homeroom teachers will then walk students down to Cranbrook Park. The boys must hydrate before the event. The Cross Country is a College event and any students who are absent will require a Medical Certificate. Points for participation will accrue to the House competition. Supervised study is available for those with medical concerns who have a note from their parent/carer. Those boys are asked to communicate with their Pastoral Leaders.

Depending upon their age, the boys will either run a 2km, 3km or 5km course. There will be two water stops on the course as well as water before and after the event. Staff will supervise the course. After the Cross Country, student will return to the College where the pool will be available for a refreshing swim and the ovals will also be supervised. Students are welcome to bring alternate appropriate clothes to run in, but must have suitable footwear for running. They will require their sports uniform for the remainder of the school day.

Students selected in the school team will compete at the Townsville Secondary Schools trials which will be held on Tuesday 17 May 3.30pm – 5.00pm. The school coaches are hoping to select a strong squad.

Cross Country

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Administration

 

Ignatius Park College         Calendar Dates 2016                        Term 1 WEEK 7  MARCH  7  TSSSA Sports Cluster 3     End Assignments   8  Year 7 Vaccinations     Synth City Music Performance   9‐11  Year 7 Camp 3   9  Year 8 Vaccinations     TSSSA Swimming Carnival     First XIII vs  TCC Rockhampton   10  First XIII vs St Pats, Mackay   11  Coloured Clothes Day     Year 11 Pastoral Evening WEEK 8  14‐18  Year 7‐12 Exams   17  St Patrick’s Day     Year 7 Sports Day   19  Disco   20  Palm Sunday WEEK 9  21  Harmony Day       IPC Cross‐Country Carnival   22  Naplan Practice   23  Easter Liturgy. 11.00 am     Edmund Rice Day Celebration     CLASSES FINISH 3PM   24  Holy Thursday     Student Free Day   25  Good Friday   27  Easter Sunday      28   Easter Monday   29‐31  U15 & Open Football Development Tour   APRIL                    7‐8  Diocesan Gathering “Year of Mercy”   11  Student Free Day WEEK 1  12  TERM 2 COMMENCES 

A reminder that if students are experiencing difficulty understanding class work or homework, there are many opportunities for them to obtain assistance. They are always able to speak with their teacher, but other opportunities are available including:

Program Day Location Teacher Notes

Homework Program Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday

Library Various Starts Week 2 . Roster available on College Website

English Touring Mondays Room 104 Ms Tarttelin Starts Week 2. All welcome

Pre-Voc & Maths A Mondays Room 103 Mr Lazzaroni Starts Week 2. All welcome

Junior Subjects (Baillie Students)

Mondays Room 103 Mr Lazzaroni Starts Week 2. Baillie Students welcome

ITAS Tutoring Mondays & Tuesdays C1 Computer Room Ms Timbs / Mr Brown / Mr Ahearne

Start Week 2. Indigenous Students Year 7 - 12 welcome

Tutoring

Term 1 ReportingTerm 1 Report Cards will be emailed and Parent Teacher Bookings open on Friday 15 April. Please log on to Parent Lounge to ensure your email details are correct. If you have not yet accessed Parent Lounge, please do so now to ensure the receipt of information is seamless. If you experience any problems, please contact the College.

Parent/Teacher Evening will be held in the College Hall, Wednesday 27 April, 1.30pm – 9pm. Information on how to make these bookings will be emailed prior to Report Cards being issued.

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Co-curricularMusic Notes

STATE HONOURS ENSEMBLE PROGRAM NQ

Last Friday, four boys travelled to Cairns to take part in a weekend of intense workshops with the best high school musicians from all over North Queensland. Samuel Audas-Ryan (11G), Benjamin Judge (10S), Jack Letters (9S) and Mitchell Parker (8W) all worked hard to reach their full potential in workshops led by staff from Griffith University. Ten or more hours of rehearsing took place between 4pm Friday and 1pm Sunday. At the concert on Sunday afternoon, the students blew the audience away with their professionalism and amazing sound. To achieve so much in one weekend is a testament to the hard work and dedication these boys are willing to put into their music. Well done to these young men on a fruitful weekend of music making.

Claire Dickson | Instrumental Music Program Leader

Close the Gap

Bunnings Fundraiser

On Saturday, March 5 a number of IPC staff and students were involved in a fundraiser at Bunning Domain. Despite the wet start to the day, the event proved to be very successful. All funds raised will go towards the College’s 2016 Close the Gap campaign which involves a visit to the St Michael’s Catholic school on Palm Island. This will take place in Term 2.

Andrew Kirkpatrick|Indigenous and Multicultral Support

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Co-curricularCelebrating International Women’s Day

On Tuesday, our Ignatius Park College community was invited by the ZONTA Club of Townsville to come along to an International Women’s Breakfast at The Ville Resort Casino where four senior students had the privilege of listening to Keynote speaker, Nathan Crane (Principal Crown Prosecutor). Mr Crane spoke to the audience on the theme of “Eliminating Violence against Women”, and provided some very heart-felt reflections of his time working in PNG. A very big thanks also to the Soroptimist International Townsville group for providing the opportunity to our Year 12 students.Pudy Timbs | Pastoral Leader - Baillie

Combined Colleges’ Production

A touring group from Mt Saint Bernard’s College in Herberton recently performed with their roadshow ‘The Didge Kids’. The group were on the last leg of a 12 day tour up the Queensland Coast and have performed at a number of schools in that time. The performance was very entertaining and appreciated by our students. The performance was aimed at using music to break down cultural barriers and strong positive messages were engrained in the songs performed.

Didge Kids

Rehearsals for the St Margaret Mary’s College, St Patrick’s College and Ignatius Park College Production of ‘What’s New Pussycat” are now well underway. Congratulations to the following students who have gained roles in this Production:

Year 12Connor Boon, Patrick De Waele, Kyle Everett, Alex Kachel, John McKenzie, Matt Macor, Matthew Marshall-McGrath, Corey Millan, Sam Morris and Dimitri Polikarpowski.

Year 11Sam Audas-Ryan, Joseph Bourne, Riley Campbell, Nick Cassidy, Josh Grant, Jack Hall, Ramal Jayawardhana, Brodie McDonald, Casey McDonald, Lane Moloney, Matthew Volmer and Dale Whalley

Year 10Jack Byrne, Ashley Gonzales, Zac Judge and Mason Penny.

Year 9Stuart Smith

Year 8 Harry Griffin and Ben Toohey

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Co-curricular

TSSSA Swimming Carnival

Yesterday saw the Ignatius Park College Swimming Team journey to the Long Tan Swimming Pool for the 2016 TSSSA Swimming Carnival. The boys knew there was a huge task ahead, but in true Iggy Spirit, they took charge and swam like they had never swum before. From the start, they maintained a positive point generation placing high in all races, and the lead was never given away. As each boy finished the race, there were cheers from their mates congratulating them on their performance.

When the final event, Race 138, rolled around, the fastest boy in each age group swam in this All Age Relay. Mr John Alloway knew that there was enough distance between ourselves and second, so he instructed the boys to swim a conservative race ensuring that there was no break starts. It was the race for the ages and we placed first and securing the win for the Carnival. It was a great race of grit and determination. We have uploaded it to our Facebook Page - check it out HERE.

The boys should be congratulated on their behaviour and overall performance on the day.

Chris Rigano | Pastoral Leader - ReidIPC SWIM TEAM 2016

OpensNick Cussen, Kurt Cummins, Jason Alsemgeest, Jack Humphrey and Charlie Bennett.

16 yearsLincoln Hardy, Reegan Koelman, Henry Lyons, Matthew Beauchamp and Nic Nugent.

15 yearsThomas Lyons, de Wet Potgieter, Riley Faust, Liam Duffy, Louka Demopoulos and Thomas Bennett.

14 yearsBayden Hardy, Harvey Smith, Kian Dalton, Anthony Grech, Kieran Truett and John Nawara.

13 yearsKyle Robinson, Thomas Duffy, William Bennett, Brandon Pearce, Lachlan Roberts and Lucas Dummett.

12 yearsCodi Arena, Darcy Cussens, Lachlan Lerch, Jakson Hughes, Aiden Hawkins and Luke Maugeri.

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CommunityCareers Corner

FEAST registrations now open - FEAST is a five-day residential program held at the UQ Gatton Campus for students in Years 10 – 12 who are interested in agriculture, animals, vet science, food and/or the environment. It will be held from 26 June – 30 June 2016 (during the school holidays). This is a popular program, so register early at http://www.science.uq.edu.au/feast.

Career Checker – a quiz for career explorersCareer Checker is a five-minute quiz to find out how well you are doing in the three career planning areas of ‘knowing yourself’, ‘getting career ideas’, and ‘deciding and adapting’. You can find this quiz at http://www.careers.govt.nz/tools/career-checker/.

High School Volunteer ProjectsProjects Abroad have recently announced their High School Projects for Summer 2016/17. These projects are designed for Year 10 and 11 students and consist of two-week group trips to locations such as Cambodia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Philippines. They mix volunteer work with cultural activities. Visit http://www.projects-abroad.com.au/projects/high-school-projects/ to find out more.

Dannielle Charge | Careers and Student Counsellor

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Community

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Community

Dear Parents and Guardians The School Dental Service is now offering a general course of dental care every 12 months to Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 Secondary School Students. All routine dental treatment provided is free from “out of pocket expenses”. To make an appointment students and parents may phone (during working hours) the Wulguru Clinic on 47782360, Central Clinic on 47723504 (Monday & Friday) or Townsville Dental Clinic on 44339900 to arrange an appointment. Currently we are able to offer no wait times for appointments at our Wulguru Clinic. Requirements for treatment include:

The student is currently enrolled in years 7-10. Students should be accompanied by a Parent/Guardian to the initial

appointment so that consent medical history can be completed. Parents are to notify their child’s school of all dental appointments during

school hours. It is the parent’s responsibility to ensure their child’s attendance at all dental

appointments. If your child is unable to attend their dental appointment, please phone the

clinic prior this appointment and we will reschedule for you. CDBS will be collected from eligible patients. You must bring your Medicare card to your appointment.

Please contact us if you have enquiries or concerns regarding appointments. With regards Oral Health Services Townsville Hospital & Health Services

 


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