ST. JOSEPH’S REGIONAL COLLEGE 30th November 2012 What’s on Week 9 Term 4 2012
“The Truth will set you free”
P.O. Box 231 College Drive PORT MACQUARIE 2444 Ph: 02 5525 4100 Fax: 02 5525 4199 www.sapss.nsw.edu.au
SUNDAY 1st Sunday of Advent Mass Times: St. Agnes’ Port Macquarie Our Lady of Lourdes Wauchope Saturday Vigil – 6.00pm Saturday Vigil – 6.00pm Sunday – 7.30am, 9.00am & 6.00pm Sunday 7.30am Telegraph Point – Thursday Night 6.00pm Beechwood – 9.00am 1st & 3rd Laurieton – Saturday Vigil 5.30pm, Sunday – 7.30am Kendall – 9.00am Mass (1st Saturday month 10.00am Mass Comboyne) Long Flat – 9.00am 2nd & 4th Sunday MONDAY, 3rd December (Day 1)
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Staff Briefing 8.30am Flinders House Meeting in PC SAPSS Jazz band in Performing Arts Centre from 4.00pm – 6.00pm
TUESDAY, 4th December (Day 2)
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Sport day for Year 7-10 Innes House Meeting in PC SAPSS Leadership Team Meeting 2.30pm Homework Hub for Seniors till 5.00pm
WEDNESDAY, 5th December (Day 3)
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Year 7-10 Examinations HSC Assessments Admin Team Meeting period 6 Dramarama in PAC 3.30pm
THURSDAY, 6th December (Day 4)
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Year 7-10 Examinations HSC Assessments Macquarie House Meeting in morning PC Homework Hub for Seniors till 5.00pm
FRIDAY, 7th December (Day 5)
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Year 7-10 Examinations HSC Assessments Concert Band in PAC 7.45am – 8.45am Oxley House Meeting in morning PC Pastoral Team Meeting period 4
DATES TO REMEMBER: Tuesday 11th December Wednesday 5th December – Friday 14th December Wednesday 12th December – Friday 14th December Monday 17th December Monday 17th December Thursday 20th December Thursday 31st January 2013 Friday 1st February 2013
Year 7-9 Exams & Year 10 PC Day HSC Assessment Tasks Non-class days – supervision available Year 10 Award Presentations Christmas Mass and Exam Feedback Lessons Year 7-9 Awards – Last day for students First day for students in Years 7 and 11 Frist day for students in Years 8-10 and 12
COORDINATING PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE GRACE TO YOU From Pentecost 2012 to Pentecost 2013, the Bishops of Australia have invited us to join them in a ‘Year of Grace’. During this year we are challenged to “start afresh with Christ”.
St Paul started every single one of his letters with the greeting “Grace to you….” These were his words of greeting and farewell. Whenever Paul wrote about grace he used an ancient Greek word ‘Charis’ which is roughly translated as ‘joy’.
There is a wonderful gathering of other words around the word ‘grace’. It is also associated with favour, gift, blessing, thanksgiving and gratitude.
Bishop Peter Comensoli, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney, suggests a simple definition of grace as “a real gift (from God) that is a blessing, freely given as a benefit and received as a joy, prompting gratitude and thanksgiving”.
Bishop Comensoli goes on to explain that grace is the call and response – the invitation and the acceptance – of love. Love needs a giver, a receiver and the gift itself. The more we love, the more we grow in grace. In this ‘Year of Grace’ we are called to pray more often and to have an open heart to God’s grace which has the power to transform us, our families and the world in which we live.
Mr Jim O’Brien Coordinating Principal
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE SPORTS AWARD ASSEMBLY Congratulations to our Sport Coordinator, Mr Michael Cannon and our Sport Trainee, Mr Nathan Lyon who planned a great assembly for our talented sportsmen and women. Our champions were acknowledged and we congratulate all students who received awards and all those who made the effort to represent our College. Sincere thanks to all our coaches who have given up their time over the year to work with our students. We are very fortunate to have so many people who so generously make themselves available as coaches:
Adrian Ryan Ashleigh Sands Cath Eichmann Damien Kelly Dave Lewis Eloise Bentley Janine Handley Jo Hall Julie Hickling Leanne Tinsey Matt Cato Nathan Gargulio Richard Battiston Ty Cooper
Alan McCartney Bruce Smith Chris Delaney Daniel Blackman Diana Walsh Frank Johnston Jason Berry John Hassett Kellie Croft Lisa Freeman Michael Morson Nathan Lyon Sam Tinsey
Ann-Marie Healy Carla Gibson Claire Goldie Darren Smith Donna Hamlin Gordon West Jeremy Buckley John Rossington Laura Harris Mark Harvey Mike Cannon Paul Plunkett Sean Jennings
SCHOOL FEE REMINDER I appreciate the wonderful support we receive from parents and a considerable number of grandparents who make the payment of school fees a high priority. I also appreciate the commitment many have made by so readily embracing the preferred ‘direct debit’ method of paying fees. This method gives us a cash flow throughout the year and enables us to meet our own financial commitments on an on-going basis. If you have outstanding fees I would urge you to finalise the account as soon as possible. This will assist us greatly to meet our own commitments and provide the resources required to maintain a high standard of teaching and learning. Anyone experiencing financial difficulties and who may be unable to meet the standard fee, should not hesitate to contact our school Fees Manager, Brian Kirkman (6588 7444), so that alternative arrangements can be made. SUBJECT FEES I would also appreciate parents paying all students’ subject and excursion fees. All these fees are paid directly to the venues or cover transport cost incurred to run these extra activities. If you are in need of assistance please call me as soon as possible.
“May the spirit of the Lord be with you” Mrs Anne O’Brien Principal
FROM THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COORDINATOR
1913 -2013 Celebrating 100 years of Catholic education in St Agnes’ Parish Save the Date: Saturday 15 June 2013
EXAM RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR STUDENTS •
Between recess and lunch each day will be SILENT STUDY periods – BRING STUDY NOTES
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There will be no study prior to an exam’s scheduled start time in the morning or afternoon sessions.
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All students are to take a novel into the exams to read once the scheduled exam time is complete.
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ATTENDANCE AT ALL EXAMS IS COMPULSORY. A STUDENT SHOULD ONLY BE ABSENT FROM EXAMS FOR SERIOUS ILLNESS OR EXTENUATING FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES.
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ABSENCE from an exam requires a phone call to the front office by 8.45am on the morning of the exam and students must see Mr Lutton at the Studies Coordinators office prior to PC on the day of their return to organise catch up exams. Catch ups will take place on the day of return in addition to Tuesday- Friday of Week 10, including student free days. Failure to follow these procedures may result in loss of marks.
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Students must line up alphabetically outside their exam room 5 minutes prior to the commencement of the exam and need to have all equipment for exams as you will not be able to borrow calculators or any other equipment for exams.
ITALY STUDY TOUR 2013 Our next and final meeting is on the 3rd December at MacKillop at 7.30pm. Academy Travel will be distributing our tickets and other documents, but it is urgent that all those travelling have submitted a copy of their passports and travel insurance (if not using the one provided by Academy Travel) well before this date. Also we hope to give out the group scarf (this includes students and relatives) so if you have not already paid please give $22 to Mr Warneken ASAP. You should also receive from Academy Travel and invoice for flights between Sydney and Port Macquarie and vice versa shortly if you indicated you wanted extra flights. Thank You Mr Warneken
CANTEEN ROSTER Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Anne Stephens Help Please! Kim Galloway Julie Davis-Chaplin (Ellie) Stephanie Pepper
COMMUNITY NOTICES MID NORTH COAST AXEMEN – RUGBY UNION To aspiring and potential Mid North Coast Rugby Union players, parents, and friends, the “Axemen” are looking for Rugby Union players to trial for representative teams to play the NSW Country Junior Rugby Union Championships in late April and early May 2013 (just 5 months away). Teams from Under 12’s to Under 18’s are looking for players now! The various age group coaches and managers are setting “trials dates” already, so if you’re interested, you need to make contact ASAP. To express your interest, please email your name, you age/DOB, the school you’re from, AND a contact phone number (preferably a mobile number to allow for SMS) to; Richard.Jagger@essentialenergy.com.au who will forward your details to the coach of your age group. Late Press - The Under 16’s are holding 2 trial days. The first will be held at St Joseph’s Regional College at Port Macquarie on Sunday 2nd December from 2pm. The second is likely to be in Crescent Head on the Saturday 9th February combined with an ARU event, details TBC.
SCHOOL STUDENT TRANSPORT The school is in receipt of NSW School Pupil Identification Cards which are issued to students who have reached 16 years of age and over, attending CERTIFIED day school. These cards permit students to travel at the discounted rate of fare on all CityRail trains, State Transit buses and government ferries for journeys to and from sport, evening, weekend and vacation travel. Concession cards will also be available for country and interstate rail journeys on Countrylink services. These cards are available from the school office.
ABSENCE NOTES Below you will find a proforma for a student Absence Note. This is the preferred method for parents to notify the College of their child’s absences. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PARENTS / GUARDIANS EXPLANATION FOR PUPIL’S ABSENCE PUPIL’S NAME _______________________________________Year__________ PC ________ DATE(S) OF ABSENCE _________________________________________________________ REASON FOR ABSENCE ________________________________________________________ PARENT / GUARDIAN SIGNATURE ________________________________ DATE _________ *Failure to have an absence explained within 7 days of returning to school MUST, BY LAW, be recorded and reported as UNEXPLAINED ABSENCE.
FROM THE MATHS’ VAULT TYRING If a tyre rotates at 400 revolutions per minute when the car is traveling 72km/h, what is the circumference of the tire? ANSWER FOR LAST WEEK The letters on the three dice are: CNPR AGDS
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LIBRARY NEWS BOOK RETURN As the academic year draws to a close, it is timely to remind all students and parents that book return is an essential part of every College student’s obligations, and that losses must be paid for. Important dates for this aspect of College life are as follows: Monday 26 November – last day for student borrowing Years 7-9 Friday 7 December – all Year 10 textbooks and Library books to be returned by this day Tuesday 11 December – all Years 7-9 textbooks and Library books to be returned by this day Students will be emailed copies of their loans list each week between now and the end of the year and are urged to attend to the responsible return of all items in good time. Reports will be withheld from those who fail to return all items, or who fail to pay the replacement costs of lost items.
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CAREERS ALERT All Year 11 and 12 parents are encouraged to ensure that they have subscribed to their free service as all careers information is distributed this way. Follow the link below and follow the prompts to sign up. www.pmreglism.catholic.edu.au/careers/careers-email-alert MOODLE – CAREERS Always updated with important documents for work experience and university information. Parents can access this information via your child’s login. YEAR 8, 9 and 10 – TAX FILE NUMBERS Tax file number forms are processed by Mrs Tinsey every Friday. New forms are now available from the office. UPCOMING EVENTS 19th December BOS results for HSC candidates – Breakfast at College 20th December
ATAR results for HSC candidates – tea/coffee and advice in College Library from 11.00am (parents and students welcome)
UNI CONNECT A forum to connect regional secondary students with university students across Australia. How to find us: Search Facebook Pages for Uni Connect and ‘like’ the page to start asking questions. How to use the page: • If you have a broad question write it directly onto the wall and someone will get back to you •
If you have a specific question about a university or degree go to the not titled “Meet the Uni Connect Team’ which is pinned to the top of the wall and search for someone currently studying at the university or doing the degree you are interested in, then write the question on the wall starting off with the name of the Uni Connect Team Member you are addressing the question to.
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Keep an eye on the notes section for university tips, interview tips, application tips, FAQ and more.
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SPORT
TO KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST SPORT INFORMATION FROM THE REGIONAL VISIT http://www.pmreglism.catholic.edu.au/sport/sport
ST JOSEPH’S REGIONAL COLLEGE SPORTS WRAP
Special Guest Ryley Batt
Surfer of the Year Taylee Eames
Intermediate Sportperson of the Year Laura Cook
Junior Sportperson of the Year Courtney Newell
SPORT
TO KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST SPORT INFORMATION FROM THE REGIONAL VISIT http://www.pmreglism.catholic.edu.au/sport/sport
ST JOSEPH’S REGIONAL COLLEGE SPORTS WRAP
Excellence in Sport Recipients
Outstanding Involvement in Sport Recipients
Note: The “Excellence in Sport” and “Outstanding Sporting” trophies have a typo on the engraving. Anyone who would like their trophy re-engraved please take it to Mr Jim Cain, Port Macquarie Trophies, Bellbowrie Park, Port Macquarie.