Term 1, Week 10 | Friday 4 April, 2014PurPle Patches INSIGHT UPDATE EDITION

Br Michael’s Corner

Family ConflictWhen parents fight children may hide in their rooms, try to pretend they are asleep and do not hear the shouting. Others try to stay away from their troubled homes. Hearing their parents argue is the most stressful experience for young people today. It is sad but true that painful divorce is affecting many homes. Years of yelling and fighting lead up to divorce. If such conflict is not part of our life we should be very grateful. To deal with this, start by understanding the severity of the problem. No family is without tension or occasional disagreements. Where shouting, cursing, yelling and even hitting are a way of life, the problem is severe and the family needs help. If no help is sought the problems go from bad to worse. What can children do? Running away, alcohol or drug abuse will not solve anything but lead to more misery and may end with quitting school and messing up life. It is important for children to realise it is not their fault if parents do not get along. Children should not take sides with either parent. Sometimes asking for a chance to sit down and calmly talk things out helps parents to realise how much the children are affected and shocks them into getting help. Children can talk to an adult friend they trust and respect. In all this children need to respect privacy and confidentiality of parents. Grandparents or another relatives may be able to help. Children need to love their parents in spite of the problems and must try not to let troubles stop them achieving their own hopes and dreams.

Br. Michael Flaherty

CBC and Cardijn College students at the China Study Tour Retreat.

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Years 7-10 Drama Production, 2014 intake starts now!This year, the CBC Drama Club is continuing for Years 7-10 students. The exciting news is that the Club may be chosen by your son instead of a winter sport. Workshops will be held Wednesday afternoons in Terms 2 and 3 from 3:30pm until 5pm with the end result being a small production on Thursday 11 September. Family and friends will have the opportunity to see your son tread the boards after having spent some quality time refining his verbal communication skills, confidence and social skills! Drama Club was a huge success in 2013 and we can’t wait to get it under way in 2014. Permission forms can be collected from myself or please email me at senglish@cbc.sa.edu.au. I look forward to producing something inspiring with the students!

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Wednesday 23 April 8.30am - 5pmThursday 24 April 8.30am - 5pmMonday 28 April 8.30am - 5pm

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Wednesday 30 April

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Friday 11 April 2014Year 11 and 12 Formal

2014 School calendar

Week 11Mon 7 Apr Liturgy – 8:35am (JC)

P&F MeetingStudent / Parent / Teacher Interviews (SC)CBCCCC Advisory Committee – 6:15pm

Tues 8 Apr

Wed 9 Apr Community Mass (8am SC) WalshChina Tour leaves

Thurs 10 Apr Year 10,11& 12 Year Level round tables

Fri 11 Apr Term 1 ConcludesYear 11 & 12 FormalJC AssemblyR-12 House Event Colour DayEgg & Bacon BreakfastEaster Liturgy

Sun 13 Apr Palm Sunday – St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral – 11am

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of DeBating!

Last week the senior debating students and coaches were invited to an early morning Muffin and Juice get-together to prepare for the 2014 debating season. As a group we have a few mini functions throughout the year to celebrate each other’s successes, offer support, and develop camaraderie as a whole group. Debating is a great team sport with benefits to each individual by developing skills in critical thinking, effective communication, and independent research, that serve individuals well at school and in the workplace.

If your son is interested in joining the debating competition it is not too late. The students all participate in the Debating SA competition with middle school debates held at Pembroke School on a Tuesday evening and Senior School students on a Wednesday evening at Adelaide High School. The competition officially begins in Week 2 of Term 2. I can be contacted in the Senior Library for further information.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. – Desmond Tutu

Mrs Sandra MasonDebating Coordinator

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Year 7 Gold BasketballCabra Gold 40 defeated CBC 30

The boys fought hard to win the game. All round great team effort by all players on the night.

Best players include Chhany Pich and Akok Machar. Good defence by Zenith Hales, Joshua Marshall and Callum Marshall and good team work by Patrick Bitar and Connor Zada-Schwarz.

Ms Kay OliphantCoach

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CBC Year 8/9 CricketMarryatville High 6/46 defeated CBC 43 Marryatville won by 4 wickets

“He bowls at 132.47 kph!”

“At least 140, I would say!”

“Much faster, my dear chap – you can’t even see the ball!”

Such were the chilling rumours that permeated the corridors of CBC concerning Marryatville’s demon fast bowler, Cameron Fatchen (SA U15 & U17, and Kensington C grade) in the days prior to the match. Would we witness a gladiatorial massacre, comparable to the Emperor Augustus’s dedication of the Temple of Mars Ultor in the Circus Flaminius at Rome in 2 BC, at which thirty-six crocodiles met their death and two hundred and sixty lions were slaughtered? Would blood flow on the pitch, sufficient to propitiate the gods? Fortunately, not.

As the scores suggest, the day belonged to the bowlers, despite a perfect Marryatville wicket that offered good carry, and should have favoured batsmen as well as bowlers. Winning the toss, CBC’s combined Year 8/9 team batted first. With 40 overs to play, patience was the key.

Fatchen was indeed fast, but more importantly he was good, swinging the ball viciously away from our right-handed batsmen. He took 2 for 2 from 4 overs. His colleagues were less terrifying, merely competent. To combat fast swing bowling, batsmen must dance like Fred Astaire and judge precisely which balls to leave. Ours were somewhat leaden-footed and imprecise of judgment.

Jack Bastian was the first to go, completely immobilized by Fatchen, after defending a few balls capably. Harrison Webb, lively as ever between the wickets, followed in the 5th over, when he was just good enough to nibble the best ball of the day. Will Strange (6) and Siddarth Rajagopal (9) contributed the most fruitful partnership of the innings – 10 runs! They saw off the openers, but then Strange strangely scooped an innocuous delivery to mid-on. Zane Caldwell was bowled between bat and pad. Dylan Barker played sensibly for a while, then shed an off bail, playing back when he probably should have lunged forward. Half the side was vapourised within the first hour of play. Rajagopal lasted longest but, just before drinks, he offered catching practice to slip.

We drank after 20 overs, with the score an unhealthy 6/38. Afterwards, Lachlan Matthias was caught behind, Shan Jayawardhana was trapped in front, Thomas Altomare went fishing and Austen Lovell was quickly bowled, leaving Will Mariuz, batting at No. 9, marooned on 3, during which he played the best shot of the innings… and also the worst!

Six batsmen were dismissed for 1 run each, and a seventh was less successful. Since we pride ourselves on batting down to No. 11, I thought that we should have fared better; a few players made a start, but none consolidated. 43 was all we could muster and we survived just 25.3 of our allotted 40 overs. To succeed, one must occupy the crease.

At the interval, the players were reminded that many a side had succumbed for less than 43 and, as the players

took the field, it was obvious that CBC was not going to capitulate. Strange began with a searching maiden. He and Barker were magnificent in their first spell of 4 overs each; they scarcely bowled an unchallenging ball and each captured a wicket, one thanks to a sharp catch at point by Lovell. They restricted Marryatville to 8 runs off those 8 tense overs.

Three overs later the score was 5 for 13 and Marryatville was on a precipice. Jayawardhana (4-1-5-3) and Zac Robey (4-2-3-0) replaced the openers and maintained the pressure. Jayawardhana took a wicket in his 1st over and 2 more in his 3rd, one due to a still sharper catch by Lovell, this time at cover. Robey was the most miserly of all, conceding just 3 runs from his 4 overs.

Captain Sid (2-1-12-0) provided the only spin of the match; his initial over was a maiden; however, a batsman went after him in his second, smiting the only 4 and 6 of the day. Spin bowling is always a gamble when runs are scarce, but a gamble that often yields a dividend. Lovell (2-1-3-1) bowled a couple of tidy overs that included a leg-side catch by wicket-keeper Matthias.

At drinks, Marryatville were 6/31 (Cf. CBC 6/38) and the game was on a knife-edge. Afterwards we invoked the afflatus of our opening bowlers once more, in a bid to wrest those elusive four wickets. The captain set attacking fields: wickets alone could salvage this game. Strange (6-2-8-1) continued to bowl tightly, although Barker (6-2-12-1) rather lost his radar. Sadly, we reaped no further success.

Apart from excellent bowling, our ground fielding was generally secure. Caldwell stopped a couple of stonking drives. However, two awkward catches bit the dust and we conceded two overthrows, due to inadequate backing-up - critical details in a tight game.

CBC’s out-cricket was sufficiently strong to have won this match: its batting was not, for which Fatchen and his colleagues deserve credit. This first loss for the boys in the 2013/14 season will surely spur them to greater days of glory in Term 4.

Mr Lingard GouldingCoach

Year 8B CricketPembroke 4/127 defeated CBC 9/125

Enthusiasm was high for our last match for the season at the neutral Leroy Oval in North Adelaide. With several injuries throughout the side we called in Austin Lovell and Fred Oliver from the A team to make up the numbers and also set a good example for the team to aspire to. Surprisingly, some regular members made miraculous recoveries and we had 14 players turn up for the match – all of whom got a bowl and a bat.

Pembroke won the toss and elected to bat on the bouncy hard wicket. Our bowlers got a little too excited to see the ball bouncing up around chest height that they began pitching the ball short of a length, similar to visiting teams playing at the WACA. Pembroke’s batsmen were able to rock back and pull and cut the ball with ease. Once we readjusted our length the runs began to dry up and we created chances to take wickets. Tim Beck took two wickets with Micheal Kittel-Neill and Austin Lovell taking one a

piece. Wides were an issue once again with 25 runs coming from our inability to bowl a consistent line. Our fielding continues to improve.

After a slow start to our run chase, James Cerone came in at number 3 and smacked eight boundaries in the blink of an eye before retiring on 32 to be our top scorer. Austin Lovell hit five boundaries before being bowled for 20. Other contributors with the bat were Fred Oliver, John Kleeman and Jonathon Chakranarayan. A nail-biting conclusion was looming and, as we are developing as a team, rather than bringing back on two of our retired batsmen the decision was made to stick with the planned batting order with all batsmen getting around five overs at the crease in order to improve their skills and develop as cricketers.

We made considerable progress both individually and as a team this term. Many players had never played organised cricket, even fewer had used a leather ball or played on turf pitches. With some time spent bowling in the practise nets honing our line and length over winter we can be a dominant force when cricket resumes in Term 4.

Mr Thomas McLeanCoach

WaTer polo

Senior Water Polo28 March 2014

Blackfriars Priory 12 defeated CBC 3

Goal Scorers: Tyson Sarunic, Lachlan Starr, Taylor Sarunic

This was a very physical match and our boys were constantly frustrated by the tactics used by PAC of ducking under the water to milk free passes. The Blackfriars’ boys were a well drilled positional team and we struggled to cover their players when they moved forward. To our boys’ credit they fought on and played hard throughout the match. It was great to see the way the boys fought out the game til the bitter end. Congratulations on your most successful term of water polo boys. Our win-loss ratio was 2-3.

Mr Rick MackerethCoach

Middle Water Polo28 March 2014

Blackfriars Priory 18 defeated CBC 1

Goal Scorers: Cooper Lienert

This was a hard way to end our most successful term of water polo. The Blacks boys outplayed us in every facet of the game. It was a credit to our guys that they kept trying but we could not match the positional play of our opponents. This term we have won 3 matches and only lost 1. A great team effort boys.

Mr Ian HamiltonCoach

Year 8 Cricket. (Photo: Mr T McLean)

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The course is run by the Northern Parent Resource Program

What we cover:  

• Understanding adolescence: A time of reconstructions, redeveloping social landscapes, brain snaps and body make‐overs 

• Understand your job as a parent of a teenager – observer, advisor, negotiator, director 

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• How to hold the difficult conversations more successfully 

 

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National Parents/Carers Fact Sheet Version No. 2 as at 27 February 2014

Information for Parents/Carers

Schools across Australia are taking part in a new national data collection on school students with disability. The data collection is being introduced in stages over three years, and started in 2013. From 2015, this information will be collected in every school across Australia, every year.

All Australian governments have agreed to this.

WHAT IS THE BENEFIT FOR MY CHILD?

All Australian governments agree that every child in an Australian school should have a high quality education. It shouldn’t matter what the individual child’s circumstances are – every child should have the same opportunity to succeed at school.

The aim of this new data collection is to have better information about school students with disability in Australia.

Better information about school students with disability will help teachers, principals and education authorities to support students with disability to take part in school on the same basis as students without disability.

WHY IS THIS DATA BEING COLLECTED?

There is nothing new about schools collecting information about students with disability – in fact, schools have had to do this by law for some time. But the type of information currently collected varies between each state and territory.

With the new data collection, every school in Australia will use the same method to collect this information – that is, a government school in suburban Sydney will collect and report data in the same way as a Catholic school in country Victoria and an independent school in the Northern Territory.

The information provided through this new national data collection will enable all Australian governments to better target support and resources to benefit students with disability. It will help to put the right supports in place for

students with disability so that they have the same opportunities for a high quality education as students without a disability.

WHAT ARE SCHOOLS REQUIRED TO DO?

Every school in Australia is likely to have a student with disability at some point. Schools need to be able to support students with disability by removing any obstacles for them to participate in their education.

By law, schools are required to make reasonable adjustments where needed to assist students with disability. These responsibilities are outlined in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005. This means that schools need to talk to the student and/or their parent/carer about reasonable adjustments. These are things the schools do now and this won’t change.

The new data collection will record students who have been identified by a school team as meeting the definition of disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and provided with an adjustment.

WHAT IS AN ADJUSTMENT? An adjustment is a measure or action taken to help a student with disability participate in education on the same basis as other students. Adjustments can be made across the whole school setting (like ramps into classrooms), in the classroom and at an individual student level (like extra tuition for a student with a learning difficulty).

National Parents/Carers Fact Sheet Version No. 2 as at 27 February 2014

WHAT INFORMATION WILL BE COLLECTED?

Your child’s school will collect and report information every year about:

the level of adjustment provided the number of students who receive each level of

adjustment where known, the student’s broad type of disability.

Some students who are not provided with an adjustment at the time of the collection will meet the definition of disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and will be eligible to be included in the data collection.

WHO WILL COLLECT MY CHILD’S INFORMATION?

Teachers and other school staff from your child’s school will collect the above information based on:

consultation with parents/carers the school team’s observations and professional

judgements any medical diagnosis other relevant information.

School principals are responsible for making sure that the information collected about each student is accurate.

HOW WILL MY CHILD’S PRIVACY BE PROTECTED? Protecting the privacy and confidentiality of all children and their families is very important. With the new data collection, this will be done in the following ways:

Personal or confidential information will not be given to anyone not authorised to see it.

When the information is sent by your child’s school to the local or federal education authority for combination with information from other schools, it will be by school only – student names will not be recorded as part of the data collection.

When the information is reported from 2016 onwards, it will be by school only – student names will not be recorded as part of the data collection.

WHEN AND WHERE WILL THE DATA BE AVAILABLE?

When all Australian schools are taking part in the new data collection, the information will be reported on the My School website from 2016 onwards. It will be by school only – no student names are recorded as part of the data collection.

CAN I DECIDE WHETHER MY CHILD’S INFORMATION IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION?

It’s your decision about whether you want your child’s information to be included in the national reporting or not.

Including every school child who is being provided with an adjustment because of disability in this new national data collection each year will help schools, education authorities and governments to better meet students’ needs.

Your school will tell you what you need to do if you don’t want to have your child’s information included in the national data collection.

Even if your child’s information is not included in the national data collection, your school is still required to provide support to your child with disability and any adjustments that may be needed to help him/her participate at school.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Contact your child’s school if you have further questions about the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability and how it may affect your child.

You can also visit www.education.gov.au/nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability

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