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4WEEK
OF 10
Term 2
Gilson Gazette - 17 May 2019
Rockclimbing
2019
Weekly Newsletter for Parents, Students and Friends of Gilson College
Rock climbing
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Contents
general news 4WELCOME NEW STAFF KATIE WOODWARD ...............................4COMMENDATIONS ....................................................................4GCCC ANNOUNCEMENTS ..........................................................4
PrIMarY news 5AWARDS NAMES ........................................................................5WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN .............................................5YEAR 6 PUBERTY INFORMATION NIGHT .....................................5PB4L - GOTCHA CARDS ...............................................................6WALK TO SCHOOL DAY (UPDATED) .............................................6
seCondarY news 7STORY DOGS VOLUNTEER ..........................................................7YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE 2019 ............................................8STRUCTURED WORK PLACEMENT ..............................................9YEAR 5/6 SSV COMPETITION ....................................................10YEAR 6M GROWTH MINDSET ESCAPE ROOM ..........................11
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Many of you will be familiar with those mysterious crop circles that appear in grain fields around the world. All sorts of theories have been put forward to account for their appearance including the handiwork of aliens or some type of bizarre natural event. While there is no scientific evidence to back these and hoaxers have revealed that they have been responsible for many of them, they still generate a good deal of public interest.
In the Creation journal David Catchpoole reports that back in 1995 some underwater ‘crop circles’ were found off the coast of Japan. About two metres in size the circles appear to have been carved out of the sand in a very elaborate way and yet for over a decade their origins remained a mystery.
Now we know that the small (12cm) male puffer fish spends over a week building these to attract a female and if successful the eggs are laid in the soft sand at the centre of the intricate designs.
In nature we see many complex and sophisticated designs that appear to defy the processes of random chance and natural selection suggest. For example, the human eye caused Charles Darwin to stop and wonder how something so complex could develop. In Chapter 6 of his famous book Origin of the Species, Darwin states: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.
However Darwin went on to conclude that despite the seemingly impossible he still believed that it happened. Today with the advances in technology and particularly in molecular biology the seemingly impossible is looking absolutely impossible. Consequently there is now a need to find a different explanation for the complexity of life that surrounds us. For those who research in the areas of human biology the eye is just one area where complexity in design is clearly evident.
In Psalms 139 King David wrote “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” and although these words were written thousands of years ago they are looking more and more accurate. As the science reveals the delicate, intricate and beautiful designs - whether in the body or on the ocean floor - it’s all pointing to a Designer.
It’s worth a thought.
Mark B Vodéll Principal
Editorial - Crop Circles
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general news
WELCOME NEW STAFF KATIE WOODWARD
You would have no doubt noticed or heard about our new Chaplaincy team which is making such a significant contribution to
the wellbeing of our students and their families, and our staff and their families. In the ANZAC spirit, three of our five team members were born in New Zealand, including the wonderful Katie Woodward, who was raised in the beautiful country not far from Whangarei. She attended Parua Bay PS and then on to Whangarei Girls HS graduating in 2015. One of her great passions is music and is competent playing violin, cello, piano, mandolin, ukulele and guitar. One of her great joys has been being part of a music ensemble following the philosophy of El Sistema which comes out of Venezuela and fosters the idea of social change through music.
Sunset Lake Summer Camp, Seattle, USA provided further opportunities for Katie to build her skillset working with young people as a counsellor in a rich outdoor setting.
In 2018, Katie graduated from the ARISE program which trains young people in effective ways of sharing the Gospel of Jesus. This enabled her to become a Bible worker in the city of Newcastle, NSW. Welcome to Gilson College Katie!
COMMENDATIONSAs a part of Gilson College
promoting our PB4L values, we regularly provide students with commendations and record these on SEQTA. This allows you the opportunity to celebrate their success and see how your child is demonstrating ‘respect, responsibility and resilience’. To view your child’s commendation, you can access this through SEQTA Engage by clicking on the ‘Dashboard’ tab on the left-hand side of the page. Then make sure the Pastoral care tab has been selected at the top of the page. Any commendations will appear under the pastoral care title.
GCCC ANNOUNCEMENTS• 16th May - Revelation
Today starts tonight at 7.00pm.
• 18th May - We welcome you to join us this Sabbath as our Year 5 students lead out for their GSD and Pr Paul Goltz shares the word. The worship program
Verse of the Week “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honour your father and mother’ (this is the first commandment with a promise), ‘that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
Ephesians 6:1-3
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will start at 10.00am followed by a time to relax over a hot cuppa and a snack. Toasties will be served at 9:15am.
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PrIMarY news
AWARDS NAMESOn Monday morning
one student from each class was acknowledged for demonstrating the value of ‘independence’.
FH – Michael MarinaccioFM – Charlotte SciclunaFR – NA1H – June Tuaau1L – Ethan D’Costa1W – NA2C – Rushuo Lin2J – Arshi Sparsh2Z – Adam Jacobs3H – Cristiano On3R – Kanushka Jain3T – Amelia Siljanovska4B – Gracie Barbara
4S – Sarah Kovoor4W – NA5A – Amrita Sandhu5H – Mason Phillips5S – Arleiyah Khammy-Phan 6G – Ari Thomas6H – Ramakjot Sandu6M – Jessie-Maria PoasaFrench – Ethan Blancato
WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN
We have two collection boxes for the Woolworths Earn and Learn vouchers. If your child brings vouchers to school they can put them in one of the collection boxes which are located in the main office. The stickers will be available from participarting Woolworth stores from Wednesday 1st May. Sticker sheets will be made available through each class teacher.
YEAR 6 PUBERTY INFORMATION NIGHT
On Tuesday 21st May we will be having a Year Six Puberty information night. This will commence at 6:30pm in the Year
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3/4 building. On this night we will cover topics such as physical and emotional changes, hygiene and how to support your child as they go through these changes. It is a requirement that all Year Six students and parents attend. We will be giving out 1 PEP hour on the night.
PB4L - GOTCHA CARDSAs we continue to focus on
our 3Rs – Respect, Responsibility and Resilience, we are excited to announce that this term we have launched the ‘GOTCHA Cards’ initiative. When students are playing at recess and lunchtime, the yard duty teachers are looking for students who are demonstrating our values. These students will be given a ‘GOTCHA card’ which will then be placed into our lucky dip box. Each Monday morning, two cards will then be
The VALUE for Week 5 of Term 2 will be:
Obedience is the act of following instructions and showing respect.Obedience to God’s commands is the true sign of your love for God, and the only way you
can know if you are obeying God is by knowing his Word. His Word tells us to obey and respect our parents and others in authority.
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honour your father and mother’ (this is the first commandment with a promise), ‘that it may go well with you and that you
may enjoy long life on the earth.” Ephesians 6:1-3“Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who
must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.” Hebrews 13:17
randomly drawn and the lucky two students will get to choose from a box of special prizes. This is another initiative that we are doing at Gilson College to promote a respectful and harmonious environment.
WALK TO SCHOOL DAY (UPDATED)
Walk Safely to School Day (WSTSD) is an annual, national event when all primary school children are encouraged to walk and commute safely to school. It is a community event seeking to promote road safety, health, public transport and the environment.
WSTSD promotes the important message that active kids are healthy kids. The event encourages parents, carers and their children to build regular walking to and from school into their daily routine. Children
OBEDIENCE
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need a minimum of 60 minutes exercise per day. Encouraging less driving and more walking aims to decrease dangerous vehicle congestion around schools and reduce carbon emissions from idling cars. Lastly, it is just a nice way to be part of your community.
On Friday 17th May, we had our walk to school day leaving from Watervale Shopping Centre. We were so impressed by the number of students that joined us. As the year continues, we encourage all families to regularly walk to school to help ensure our students are receiving their minimum of 60 minutes of exercise needed per day.
secondarY news
STORY DOGS VOLUNTEERStory Dogs is a literacy
program that helps children across Australia learn to read. It is run by volunteers who come into schools with dogs and listen to children read. Its mission is to make reading fun for children, so they become confident lifelong readers. Currently Story Dogs has no volunteers in our area, and we would love to begin Story Dogs at Gilson College. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer (it would count toward PEP hours), please visit their website https://www.storydogs.org.au/how-to-volunteer. If you have any questions you can email [email protected] to assist you in being qualified as a Story Dogs volunteer.
Week 4 Primary awards photo
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YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE 2019
As a part of the Year 10 Career Development program at Gilson College, students are required to undertake a week-long Work Experience placement at an organisation of their choosing. This opportunity will provide students with valuable insights into the industry and workplace in which they wish to pursue in the future.
In 2019, Work Experience placements will take place between: Monday 24 - Friday 28 June (last week of Term 2).
Students are encouraged to contact potential employers early, to avoid missing out on securing a placement in their preferred industries.
When approaching potential employers, students should call, email or speak to family contacts to assess if there are vacancies or whether organisations can accept a student for work experience. The submission deadline for Work Experience Arrangement Forms is FRIDAY 31 May.
Thank you to those students who have secured a work placement already.
If you have any questions, please contact our Year 10 Career Development Teachers;
Mr. Cassar: 10RC & 10BL ([email protected]) or Ms. Hanley: 10DA & 10TL ([email protected])
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STRUCTURED WORK PLACEMENTKhristelle at her structured work placement with Laverton Community Integrated Services
Inc. Khristelle and her team of artists discussing character designing.
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YEAR 5/6 SSV COMPETITIONOver the past two Fridays, three year 5/6 netball team students played in an SSV competition. Congratulations to all students on showing the 3Rs- respect, responsibility and resilience as they played throughout the matches. Two of the teams won their pools and have now made it through to the next level to be played in Week 10 of Term 2. We wish them all the best as they continue to train until then and for the next matches that they play.
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YEAR 6M GROWTH MINDSET ESCAPE ROOMYear 6M had a visit from Mrs Mackay and Mrs Farquharson who ran a Growth Mindset
Escape Room where the students worked in groups to complete challenges. Well done on Hanna, Melissa and Mikayla for finishing in first place.
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CategoriesThere are three categories – primary, secondary or special school and prizes for each category.
Prizes The winning posters will be displayed in schools across the state. Each winning student entry will receive a $200 voucher for JB Hi-Fi, Rebel Sport or Eckersley’s Art and Craft.
Plus your school will win a $2,500 voucher for Eckersley’s Art & Craft.
Criteria
You must be enrolled in a Victorian school – government, independent or Catholic.
Do you want to help other students to be upstanders? Enter the Bully Stoppers poster competition!
Be an Upstander - #ihaveyourback studentposter competition
COMPETITION RUNS FROM 15 MARCH - 26 MAY 2019
For more information and poster requirements: www.education.vic.gov.au/bullystoppers
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Parents and Friends Committee
email: [email protected]
REMINDER:
Pizza orders must be returned by Monday 20th May in the classroom.
NO ORDERS TAKEN AFTER THIS DATE
PIZZA DAY MONDAY 3RD JUNE (WEEK 7)
1 GIANT SLICE OF PIZZA ( MARGARITA OR VEGETARIAN )
1 PACKET CHIPS
1 JUICE BOX
COST: $5.00
PLEASE WRITE ORDER ON BROWN PAPER BAG AND PLACE MONEY INSIDE.
ORDERS MUST BE IN BY 9.00AM MONDAY 20TH MAY IN THE CLASSROOM. NO ORDERS AFTER 9.00AM ON THIS DATE WILL BE FILLED.
• PLEASE DO NOT HAND ORDERS INTO OFFICE.
PIZZA DAY ORDER
SNOW WHITE YR 6T
1 X MARG OR VEG
$5 enclosed
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How Parents can Support their VCE Student
Are the stresses of a VCE year mounting? Here’s some great advice and useful tips for parents on supporting their student, in a repost of this popular article from Andrew Fuller. ByAndrewFuller When you have a teenager
completing the senior years of school, everyone in the family is doing Year 11 or Year 12. Here are a few ideas for coming through these years flourishing, and having everyone’s dignity intact.
DevelopaSystem
Parents have a vital role in helping students:
§ manage time
§ manage energy
§ manage stress
§ manage to get everything in at the right time and in the right place.
In addition to this you have to manage yourself.
Developing the System Regular planned times for study throughout the year creates better results. Short regular sprints of learning are more effective than long study marathons. To create this, you need to work out a system.
Sit down with your teenager and map out an ideal week, including:
§ timesforsleeping(atleasteighthoursanight)
§ timesforunwindingandrelaxing
§ bestbreakfastfoods
§ thebesttimesforstudy
§ thebesttimeoftheweekforconsolidatingnotesandextendingmemory
§ timetocatchupwithfriends
§ requiredschoolhours
§ timeforpart-timework(lessthan10hoursaweek)
§ howtohandleinvitationsaroundexamtimes.
Without a plan, you are simply left with doing what you like when you feel like it, and often, feeling like studying is not probably the most likely emotion in teenagers’ lives.
Study sprints should be ideally 20 minutes long and never longer than 50 minutes, with a 10 minute break between study sessions.
Usually on the weekend, have some time set aside for organising information and testing memory of new information.
Patiently, talk through the system until you all feel that you have the best plan. Ask them how often you should remind them of the system when they don’t seem to be following it.
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You may also need to discuss minimising distractions – excessive social media use, listening to music while studying, multi-tasking or chatting with friends online is not compatible with studying. Multi-tasking is just splitting your attention and means you’ll need to study four times longer than you need to.
As a parent of a VCE student, keep yourself informed. Come to information sessions and parent-teacher meetings yourself. Stressed students don’t always store detailed information well, so take notes of key dates and requirements.
Steering Students Back to the System
It is hard to get through Year 11 or Year 12 without some meltdowns. When a meltdown occurs, rather than starting a long conversation about it or providing a motivational pep talk, think about what your student needs. Food? Rest? Exercise? Some social time? Try to quietly arrange for this to occur.
How to Deal with the Catastrophic Thinking
Pacifying or reassuring the unsettled VCE student is a fine art. Acknowledge to yourself in advance that anything you are likely to say is probably going to be heard as the ‘wrong thing’.
Generally, what you do is more important than what you say. Providing meals, comfort and for some, reassuring hugs is often more powerful than words.
Some teens ‘freeze up with fear’ and want to avoid schoolwork completely. Try to avoid getting into lengthy debates about the merits of the current educational system or their own intellectual ability. Instead, go back to basics. Feed them. Hydrate them. Rest them. Then gently bring them back to the topic.
Ask them to tell you what they do understand about an issue. They will initially begin with, ‘I know nothing’. Say to them, ‘Well, tell me what you think you know.’ Slowly rebuild confidence.
What to do when the System Breaks Down
When you are planning the system, develop a rule of ‘never miss twice’. We know there are days when even the most well thought through system falls into tatters. Accept this but also plan never to miss twice. For example, I can take a complete break from my study routine for one day but not for two days in a row.
Around August is the most common time for students to become disheartened and lose motivation. However, the work done in August and September probably adds more to the final results that any other stage of the year. The reason is that by this time most of the basics have been covered and we are now able to add the higher order thinking and deepen understanding.
If taking on new information seems too much at this time, go through the process with them of organising information, drawing up flow charts, making memory aides and consolidating notes.
What if my Teenager won’t Listen to me?
Have a confidential chat with one of their key teachers so that they can have a conversation with your teenager directly about their progress and study strategies.
How to Deal with the Build up to Exams
Here is the time to trust the system. Keep things as calm and consistent as you possibly can. Ensure that your teenager has enough sleep, good food, exercise and social time.
Consider ceasing part-time work in the lead up to exams. Also discuss not using or at least lessening the use of social media sites.
If your family has major birthdays during this period it may be worth delaying celebrations until after the exam period.
It is not the end of the world.
Your teenager’s Year 12 result is not their future. There are many other more important determinants of success and happiness in life.
Many people who did not get the Year 12 results that they wanted find careers where they thrive.
Above all, remain calm and believe in your teenager. Adding an anxious parent to a panicking teenager is always a recipe for disaster.
AndrewFullerisaclinicalpsychologistspecialisinginwellbeingofyoungpeopleandtheirfamilies.CopyrightAndrewFuller
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SECONDARY CALENDARTERM 2 2019
Week 5
m 22nd MayYear 9-12 BadmintonYear 9-12 Netball
m 23rd MayYear 9 Urban Day 2
Week 6
m 26th MayWorking Bee
m 28th MayYear7/8 BadmintonYear 7/8 Netball
m 30th MayYear 7 Zoo Excursion
m 31st MayKeilor Division Cross Country
Week 7
m 3rd june - 7th june Secondary Exam Week
m 3rd juneYear 8 Boys Soccer
m 6th juneYear 9 Urban Day
CALENDAR 2019
Rock climbing
PRIMARY CALENDARTERM 2 2019
Week 4
m 18tH MayYear 5 GSD
Week 5
m 21st MayYear 6 Puberty Information Night
Week 6
m 29tH MayYear 4-6 Athletics day
Week 8
m 11tH JunePUPIL FREE Day - Report Writing
m 13tH JuneSchool Photo Day
m 14tH JuneMulticultural Parade
Week 10
m 25tH & 26tH JuneParent Teacher Interviews
m 28tH JuneLast day of Term 2