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Volume 30 - 9 October, 2012 Dear Parents and Students Welcome back to this final term for 2012. We especially welcome back to the College, Ms Helen Carty from her term of leave. The term ahead is a very full one, especially for our Senior Years’ students: with the Year 12’s preparing for final exams and assessments and their celebra ons and farewell; with the Year 11’s commencing their leadership prepara ons and elec ons and eventually taking over their new roles; and the Year 10’s embarking on the challenge of their eagerly awaited outdoor adventure camp. I commend to you the reless work commitment of the respec ve Year Coordinators and their pastoral care teaching teams for all of the efforts that these important events require and involve. For the Middle Years students, the focus this term is squarely upon them producing a solid finish to their academic learning, with par cular emphasis upon the consolida on of the many essen al skills they have acquired throughout the year. It gives us such a pleasure, as their teachers, to see how much these girls have grown in confidence in such a short period of me. May the term ahead for them con nue to provide opportuni es that challenge, reassure and nurture. Celebra ng the first UN Interna onal Day of the Girl! In recogni on of the par cular challenges and power of girls, the United Na ons has declared 11 October “Interna onal Day of the Girl Child”. The United Na ons General Assembly has nominated 11 October as the day to recognize girls’ rights and their unique challenges. This global ac on follows a mul ‐year campaign by ac vists in Canada and the United States. In reserving a day for advocacy and ac on by and for girls, the UN has signalled its commitment to end gender stereotypes, discrimina on, violence, and the economic dispari es that dispropor onately affect girls. h p://www.loreto.org.au/Home/News‐Media/News/Celebrate‐the‐first‐UN‐Interna onal‐Day‐of‐the‐Gi.aspx h p://dayo hegirlsummit.com/learn‐more‐about‐day‐of‐the‐girl/ An extract from this site: Why Educa ng Girls is the Key to Saving the World! Here are just a few reasons... A girl with an elementary school educa on will earn twice as much as an adult without any schooling. A girl with basic educa on can help adults who cannot read, understand how to prevent malaria and other diseases or do the maths to figure out the cost of buying fer lizer to make more food. Educa on dras cally reduces child marriage. A girl with 7 years of educa on will marry 4 years later and have 2.2 fewer children. Knowledge and skills learned at school will be passed onto her parents and the community. Children of educated mothers are more likely to be healthy and go to school. Educa on means be er jobs. Knowing maths can help start a business. Ge ng through high school and university means more teachers, engineers, doctors, etc.
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