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Volume 20 - 17 July, 2012 Dear Parents and Students Welcome back to Term Three. We especially welcome new and returning members of staff: Ms Cohen, Ms Grills, Mrs Thomas and Mrs Li le. We also extend a warm return to our staff and student travellers from both the Japan trip and the inaugural Northern Territory Trekking Challenge. We look forward to further news of both trips at upcoming assemblies. Due to unexpected circumstance, Mrs Kerensa O’Neill will conclude her me at Loreto this Friday. We thank her sincerely for her generous me, commitment and enthusiasm these past six months and wish her well for the future. We offer special prayers of healing for her mother in the months ahead. May her recovery be strong and full. We thus extend a welcome return to Mrs Anne Heathcote who will once again join the English and History facul es from next week. TREKKING FOR CHANGE – seekers of truth, doers of jus ce During the first week of the holidays it was my absolute pleasure and privilege to accompany Mrs Diane Hanson, Head of Geography and Economics, and ten deligh ul students on the inaugural Northern Territory “Real Life Challenge”. Over four days we trekked 44kms of the amazing Larapinta Trail (near Alice Springs). The landscape, the stars, the space, the air, the vastness, the majesty, the contrast and the colours le us awe struck and inspired. We also visited the Santa Teresa Community and an Indigenous Women’s Health Clinic in Alice Springs. As part of this challenge the students aim to raise $10,000 (a target they have already nearly reached) towards “closing the gap” for indigenous women with the assistance of the ACCF (Australian Cervical Cancer Founda on). We thank both World Expedi ons (especially Anne, Shelly and Joel) and the ACCF (especially Ms Julie Weston) for making this trip possible and for suppor ng us in our aspira ons to make a difference for good.
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