Issue 4 Term III 2010

NEWSLETTER Daffodil School Captains andBall Vice Captains Carna Feldtmann, Laura Sunderland, Xavier Hollis and Patrick Costabile Sarah Moir - Alumni 1999

Headmaster’s Message Leadership Head of Senior School Head of Junior School Issue 4 Term III, 2010

Academic • Christian • Caring

Chaplain

Leadership To say there was great excitement in the Senior School on Thursday of last week would be an understatement. Broad smiles, tears of joy and spontaneous applause were the order of the day. It was lovely to see such genuine happiness and support amongst the students as the announcement of the student leaders for 2011 was made.

Congratulations to the following leaders: School Captains: Xavier Hollis and Laura Sunderland School Vice Captains: Patrick Costabile and Carna Feldtmann Aranda House: Blaise Gassin (c) and Erin O’Kane (c), Brandon Saveski (vc) and Emily Debrot (vc) Coligan: Jason Bujaroski (c) and Olivia Wallace (c), Ben Toussis (vc) and Cassandra Bujaroska (vc) Kogara: Mark Mura (c) and Renate Kunz (c), Stephen Buxton (vc) and Georgia Matts (vc) Wolgal: Kyle Grubnic (c) and Hannah Goodhew (c), Nathan Belsito (vc) and Sophie Bennett (vc) In total, 77 students from Year 11 have been appointed to leadership positions at various levels. The full list can be seen by clicking here.

Our policy at TIGS is that every student has the potential to be a leader which is consistent with our commitment to ‘servant leadership’ recorded in our Statement of Mission and Values: “By modelling servant leadership, promoting service and embedding the concept of stewardship in the School’s programs, students receive guidance and practical experience in living a life that is faithful to the teachings of Christ.” (2.5)

Stephen Kinsella Headmaster

The appointment of students to leadership positions is not based on popularity. While the student body is given the opportunity to express their opinion, an appointment as a student leader is far more than just being popular with peers.

The qualities considered in the appointment process are: •

Commitment to the School and its Mission and Values

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Evidence of service to others

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Demonstrated leadership qualities

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Level of respect and support from other students and staff

The process of leadership training starts in the Junior School where students are given opportunities to learn and demonstrate leadership at an early age. Student centred learning and the problem solving challenges provided through the PYP give students many opportunities to show social and moral leadership. Current activities in the Junior School led by students demonstrating leadership qualities include composting, recycling and a number of projects designed to support people in need.

Leadership opportunities continue in the Senior School within Year groups under the leadership of Deans and Mentors.

Many students use the Student Representative Council (SRC) as a means of acquiring skills and experiences in leadership.

There are many informal opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate their leadership skills in Sport, Performing Arts and in Co-curricular and Extra-curricular activities. Formal training in leadership occurs at the Year 9 Leadership Camp. In Year 10, students have the chance to demonstrate their leadership qualities and commitment to the School by serving as: •

Peer Readers (with students in the Junior School)

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Peer Support (with students in Year 7)

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Student Hosts (at many School functions)

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Camp Leaders (with students in Years 7 & 8)

So by the end of Year 11, students have had ample opportunity to acquire knowledge about leadership and to demonstrate their ability to serve and lead others. The challenge for staff is to match each student willing to take on the responsibility of leadership with a leadership role that matches their leadership ability, training and interest.

It is pleasing to note that several students new to our school in 2010 have also been appointed to leadership positions, demonstrating how strong the culture of leadership is in the School and how quickly they have embraced the TIGS concept of leadership.

We congratulate all our new student leaders and wish them well in their new role. The Senior School Leadership Induction Service will be held on Friday 15 October 2010.

Stephen Kinsella Headmaster

Chaplain’s Connection They say that the popular image of Australians as easy-going, fun-loving, relaxed lifestyle people is just that – only an image. The reality is that we are just as busy and hardworking as anyone. Indeed (with some notable exceptions) it seems that ‘workaholism’ is as much a problem in our society as anywhere.

The word ‘workaholic’ was coined by Wayne Oates, an American psychologist and religious educator. He began using the word some time in the late 1960s, and introduced it to the world in his 1971 book Confessions of a Workaholic. It didn’t take long before it was so widely used that it found its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. Soon everybody was talking about whether or not they were workaholics, how much they overworked, and so on.

It seems we have ambivalent feelings about workaholism. Sometimes workaholics are held up as role models of commitment and success; while at other times and in other ways we worry about the implications of overwork for health and family.

Psalm 127 was written centuries before Confessions of a Workaholic, but it does provide some helpful balance in our understanding of work: Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labour in vain.

Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat - for he grants sleep to those he loves...

All of our efforts to produce, and to guard what we have produced, will come to nothing without God’s help. Long hours filled with anxiety might get the job done, but they will not produce a life of value and significance. Yes, God intends for us to work for a living; but he also wants us to sleep and to rest and (as the next few verses go on to mention) to have and to value our families.

John Reed Chaplain

Psalm 127 doesn’t suggest that it’s wrong to build a house or guard a city or toil for food.

What it does say is that it is futile to try to do it on our own strength, trusting in our efforts, without trusting in God and learning to seek his help. Indeed, I think it even goes so far as to suggest that we need not only to seek God’s help in what we are doing, but before we even start to seek his guidance about what we should be doing.

Work in itself is not futile, or ‘in vain’. What is futile is to work without God’s help towards a goal that God does not desire.

Thus, the real question we should ask ourselves is not so much ‘How hard am I working?’, or ‘Do I have the proper work/life balance?’ but rather: ‘What is God doing? What would he have me working on? How can I cooperate with God’s plans and purposes in my life?’

Leadership and Community Service

Senior School

Year 12 are in the middle of their Trial HSC being conducted in Rees Hall and Year 10 are on their Snow Camp at Kosciuszko National Park. So you would have imagined that it would be quiet around school. Not so!

Year 11 have already started to ‘act up’ in their leadership roles. I think the first on board were the Sports Prefects who were, the day after being announced as Prefects, immediately helping meet and greet guests attending the NASSA Sports Meeting conducted at our School. The Captains and Chapel Prefects were also taking the reins at Assembly, Chapel and SRC this week.

Year 8 held a Soup Day for their charity ‘Canteen’, while Year 7 Aranda Mentor Groups are conducting a Winter Clothing Drive. Not to be outdone in the Community Service department, a Year 10 student who couldn’t attend the Snow Camp because of an injury, Lauren Nealy, made a great presentation on Assembly about the 40 Hour Famine which Year 10 are organising this year.

All in all for a quiet week, lots of great work is being done.

Monica Watt

Deputy Headmaster

Junior School This week in the Junior School we have really become aware of the culminating aspects of education in Australia. Our Senior Students have been sitting their Trial HSC examinations in Rees Hall. We have watched the tallest learners at our School walk down the hill to demonstrate their learning in 3 hour exam time slots. The younger children in the Junior School have been interested in this event and have a sense of something important happening for their older peers. It has been a real time of consolidating our Prep – Year 12 focus here at TIGS. It cannot be denied of course that the HSC trials and later in the year the HSC examinations in Rees Hall will impact on the Junior School timetable. They will not however impact on the Junior School learning and in fact enrich this aspect of TIGS, as from our youngest learners right up to those about to leave us, we now have this shared responsibility for this important event. With our extensive campus and facilities we are able to room and hold all regular lessons so that learning and skill building will continue as normal.

I would propose that it is only at HSC time where parents in the Junior School and parents in the Senior School have similar stress levels about their children’s education.

Perhaps I should offer a morning coffee for both sets of parents so they can swap stories! There is a great synergy in Year 1 and Year 2 going about developing their basic literacy skills upstairs and in Year 12 using these skills to demonstrate the learning they have accumulated over their entire time at TIGS. We are very thankful for a building so well designed that both can occur in such close proximity.

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With only one week left before the opening night, Friday 27 August at 6.30pm, excitement has been building for the much anticipated exhibition, The Works. Featured this year will be some beautiful artworks which have been a collaborative effort by students in the Junior School. The exhibition promises to be a fantastic celebration of creativity by our students, teachers, parents and friends and will include some 50 artist’s works that will be available for purchase on the night and the following day. On Saturday 28 August, a range of fascinating talks will be given by past students who are currently working in the arts field. ‘The Works Cafe’ will be open for visitors to enjoy on Saturday from 11.00am until 2.00pm. Some of our exhibiting artist’s works are shown here. Enquiries about the exhibition should be forwarded to Sandra Esposito sesposito@tigs.nsw.edu.au or Wendi Leigh wleigh@tigs.nsw.edu.au Wendy O’Malley Bather Local Artist

James Yeremeyev HSC 2010

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The children of the Piper Centre have been inquiring into movement, sound, light and colour, through the course of the year. Our lines of inquiry have then led us to expand this investigation into unique and child centred explorations.

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Teacher Melanie Richards with her artists

Elanora have been investigating the city and structures. We also wanted to incorporate the sea in the work; as such we decided to use the excursion to Sydney as inspiration for the painting. Cooinda are our youngest artists in the centre. We have been inquiring into the manmade and natural environment.

The children of Cooinda have created several large sculptures, which reflect our investigations. The sculptures are made from recycled materials, wire and clay. They will be positioned around the painting on plinths inviting the viewer to walk through our city.

Student Art Competitions

Samantha Elliot, Year 12 Visual Arts student, has been selected for an important exhibition and an invitation to all our students and their families has been made by the organisers of the exhibition, who look forward to welcoming us to the Headspace 10 exhibition launch at the National Portrait Gallery.

There are so many wonderful art/photographic competitions that students can be a part of at the moment. Please click here for the Term III Timetable.

TIGS P & F TIGS P & F September Dinner & Auction 3 September Wollongong.

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Come along and join the fun with a great dinner, drinks and a DJ to entertain you, all for $80 per person. To continue in the proud TIGS tradition, we are helping to fund the installation of shelters for the bus and car lines and for the road between the Junior and Senior Schools.

Payment can be made by cash, cheque or direct deposit to the TIGS P & F account. Click here for the Auction booking form. Please fill in and return the booking form to School with payment or payment details if using direct deposit facility.

For more information please call Sheridon Tregonning 0409822273 or Sheldri Hamilton Smith - 0417301108.

This is our only all School social function for the year.

BOOK I N G S C LOSI NG NOW!

TIGS Tee Off Charity Golf Day

Sunday 22 August 2010 from 8.45am All welcome – Teachers, Students, Family and Friends Wollongong Golf Club, 4BBB Medley Stableford Cost including lunch $50pp - General $25pp - Wollongong Golf Club members $20pp - Children/6-9 hole fun competition for non-golfers Social handicaps available

Prizes, raffles, mulligans and much more All proceeds to support Triple Care Farm

Enquiries/Booking - Email Leisl at leisl@eplaza.com.au or call 0414 258563

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Our School has now introduced a great new online ordering system for the canteen called FlexiSchools. This system allows parents or students to place orders from home, work or school at any time up until 9.00am in the morning.

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The payment is also done online, so you no longer need to send cash or write up a paper order.

As well as being convenient for parents, the online orders are much faster and easier for the canteen to process - so it makes everyone’s life a little easier. FlexiSchools is well established and tested, operating in hundreds of schools across Australia.

Getting online is easy and only takes a second to register. Simply go to www.flexischools.com.au and click “Register Now”. You will be sent an email with further instructions on how to complete the registration. Once registered, you can start placing orders immediately. If you have any questions, FlexiSchools provide a great help desk on 1300 361 769, or you can contact them via their website.

There are a variety of payment options supported, including Visa, Mastercard (credit and debit), Bank Transfer and Payclick.

The system operates via a pre-paid account, so you don’t need to scrounge for coins in the morning and can easily budget for your canteen spending throughout the Term.

The system is now available, so we look forward to seeing your next order online!

Senior School Sports

NSW State Futsal Championships U/14 Girls On Wednesday 11 August TIGS took two teams to the NSW State Futsal Championships being held at Penrith Basketball Stadium. The 14 Girls found themselves in a pool featuring many strong teams, including Illawarra Sports High School, who they would meet in the first round. TIGS got off to a great start, leading the game 2-0 at half time.

This lead was short lived, however, with Illawarra Sports coming back to win the game 4-2. In the next game against Queenwood, TIGS once again went up 2-0 by half time. After a much tighter tussle, the game ended in a 2-2 draw. The last two games in the pool were against two very strong sides, Cheltenham Girls High School and Marist Sisters. TIGS were competitive against both teams, but not quite strong enough to overcome them.

TIGS finished the day placing fourth in the pool and did not qualify for the finals. All of the girls had a thoroughly enjoyable day, however, and represented the School with great sportsmanship. The team was: Emeline Cacciaguidi-Fahy Maria Kyriakoudes Kristen Chadrawy Bridget Mullany Elizabeth Dominis Lucy Donovan Hannah Kim Maddeline Laing Coach: Mr Deck

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the canteen on 4220 0241 for more information.

U/14 Boys On Monday 9 August, TIGS was one of 24 teams from around the state who qualified for, and contested the Under 14’s NSW Futsal Competition. The competition was comprised of 6 groups of 4 teams. The winner of each group plus the two best runners up went through to the quarter finals.

Coerver Skills Training Sessions To further develop football in the Senior School at TIGS we are providing specialist Coerver coaching at the School.

TIGS results in the group stage were as follows: TIGS 5 - 2 Kei ra High School TIGS 6 - 5 John Edmonson High School TIGS 4 - 3 Cecil Hills High School

This program is available to all Senior School students. Students are encouraged to come along, advance their skills and have some fun. Registration forms are available from student reception. For more details see Mrs. Sharpe at school.

Our quarter final was a hard fought game which was played on a difficult surface.

After conceding two goals in the first two minutes, TIGS managed to get back to 2-2 by half time. However, we struggled to find the net in the second half against a strong opposition. Final score: TIGS 2-4 Bossley Park HS Thanks to the following players: Zac McLaren Thomas Goodhew Lachlan Scott Joel Moore Kyle Del Samuel Isabella Michael Ledwidge Robert Gyngell Coach: Mr Wall

When: Tuesday afternoons 3.30-4.30pm Where: Senior School Oval Coach: Matt Borg Cost: Free

Library News Don’t forget to follow our Library Facebook page for all the latest news about our library. If you are on Facebook you can find and ‘Like’ us by searching for ‘TIGS Library’. You’ll see what we are up to, be informed of interesting web links and great books, and learn about upcoming library events. You can even see some of the beautiful work that our Junior School students have been creating as we celebrate the CBCA Children’s Book Awards.

Last week Students in Prep through grade 4 enjoyed the Tony Bones ‘Schumann the Shoeman’ stage production. Some of the students were lucky enough to participate in the show. See images.

Book Week

We are excited about our book week festivities next week.

Next Tuesday 24 August from 9.00am - 11.00am Karobran is hosting a Literary Morning Tea and Book Sale in the library featuring local author Mo Johnson, who will talk about her latest book Noah’s Garden, and our new Library Director, Leanne Windsor, who will speak about the importance of reading with and to your children. She’ll have lots of great tips about choosing and sharing books! All parents are welcome and will have the opportunity to select and purchase books, with their children at our Book Sale following the morning tea. Please see the Book Sale flyer and the Karobran advertisement for further details and RSVP information.

The Book Sale features Mo Johnson’s books, oodles of beautiful books to share with your children as well as some great titles especially for parents. Mo Johnson will be available to sign her books.

On Monday 23 August staff and students in Prep and Junior School are dressing up to celebrate reading. We are planning the day for the children to have fun celebrating and sharing stories, books and characters. Teachers and library staff are talking with students about how they might dress up.

If you have any questions about Book Week please contact Leanne on 4220 0226.

Raising Boys with Steve Biddulph Child psychologist & international best-selling author Steve is an experienced child psychologist and international best selling author, and Playgroup NSW is pleased to be hosting his popular talk, Raising Boys in Wollongong on 20 September 2010.

Parents with children throughout the School may be interested in attending Steve’s talk.

Book online at www.playgroupnsw.com.au To view the flyer please click here.

Another reminder that the Premier’s Reading Challenge is fast coming to a close for 2010. All Junior School students must have their entries completed online before Friday 27 August to allow time for TIGS library staff to validate entries before the Challenge closing date of 31 August 2010.

Students can enter their books at the official website https://products. schools.nsw.edu.au/prc/logon.html by logging in with their username and password. These were issued by the Library staff at the beginning of the challenge with an instruction note. If your children are having any difficulties please contact the Library staff for assistance via phone on 4220 0275 or email at librarystaff@tigs.nsw.edu.au.

TIGS Class of 1990

Positions Vacant!

Please visit the TIGS website for more information on current staff vacancies.

TIGS Class of 2000

High School Reunion 20 years

High School Reunion 10 years

If you attended TIGS during your primary years from 1978 - 1984 or in Year 7 1985 to Year 12 1990 you and your partner are invited to attend the 20 year School reunion

If you attended TIGS during your primary years from 1988 - 1994 or in Year 7 1995 to Year 12 2000 you are invited to attend the 10 year School reunion

Click here to view full invitation

Click here to view full invitation

To keep up-to-date with the latest news and events that are happening in and around our School, we encourage you to subscribe to the email Newsletter.

Simply visit our website: www.tigs.nsw.edu.au and sign up on the home page.

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