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Contents Page 1 .·\ ((·le},1.itioll

1 'age 75 1)('1).tting

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Plituipal 's Mt·M.age and AdmilliM]-ation Team I 'aire i ,

Sports Caphlin'A Report

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Ac·hool (,aptaiIA Report and >U·hoo| Councillor, 1 »· 78

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Rowing and Acrobics

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Fencing aiid Softball

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Year 7 Introduction

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Menior School Religion I :tige 11 8

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Year 12 (A·(·alive Writing

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Jtinior Di-,1111,1 (Years 7-9) 1 Page 124

Mentor Programme

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Senior Draina (12·ars 10-12) 1 Page 123

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Convent and Ancill.11·v Staff

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Ar 11001 Council Report

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Ancillary Stillf

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%('hool (.c)1111('il Report

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Mtisic· ('iptai]6 Report and >;cnior Choir

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hc·hoc,1 Council Report

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Loreto Svmplion> ()1-cliesti-,1 and Vocal

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Mothers' Association aild I,itlic'i-,< As.Nociation

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Brishwalking and Tournament of Minds

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Allig-,1/inc Committee and F.(litotial

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Performing .\1-1 s Fetival

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Welcome To Our 1995 School Magazine There is a delightful story from thi· life of St ThdrOse of Lisieux, who is known as the Little Flower, As a child

she was presented with a trav of sweet treats and asked to

make her choice. Instead of taking one, as would have been expected alid indeed polite, she exclaimed "I

choose rt//.r' It is a ston' which was 1:tter to be interpreted, not in terms of childish selfishness and greed, but in terms of St Th€·rAA great love and extt-aordinary devotion for God.

At Loreto Mandeville Hall, we too chouse all. Be it in

art, music, (11-ama, debating, sports, academic accomplishment. we c lic)(,se all as this School Magazine for 1995 Ao t.iligibly (1('111()1)strates.

Many thanks to the staffand to the striclents and their parents who jovfull)' 2111(1 gencroliNh contliblite their enerto'. ent|lusi»in and experti.xe to vach 01 thest· areas ()1 (11(1('21'<)lIt'.

rhanks most ofall to our God who blesses us iii such

trenlendous :11)1111(11111(·c. Irt lis, like Mary Ward, "ne merrY and doubt not our Ala.,te,:

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Mrs Alison Miller, Deputy Principal- Director of Pastoral Care; Mr Andrew Schmidt, School Coordinator: Mr Robert Dernelley, Deputy

Principal- Director of Studies.

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Sister Helen Maguire IBVM, Head of Junior School and Miss Patricia Moylan, Deputy Head of Junior School

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School Captain's Report As the time when I hang up the blue and gold blazer for the last time draws near, 1 reflect on the thirteen

great years 1 have spent at Mandeville, and the Ii·iends I have gained. From Prep to War 12, wi· 1,11 11,„r (1111

nwmaties, but looking back, there are a couple of common threads through all of mine - the people :11()1111(1 tile, chi<Kinates and teacheri. und the

opportunity 1 have herein given to panicipate in the w<·alth of'c·xtra-curricular activities the school offers.

It is when [)(ople and opportililities are combined, however, that xchool spirit is developed. This spirit cannot be scen or heard, 0111)' felt. as on vic h chn·s as the RA.K and the 1 lead of the Schoolgitls, wIii·n such a 1.,lit.istic feeling is created by the girls and teachers.

Iliese events will al\vays remain two of my greatest memories of Mandeville, for not onlv are thev the best

Alice Hume, School Captain and Fiona Hammond, School Vice Captain

examples of interhouse and interschool spirit and rivalry, but they aHow evcn·nne to participate, whether it 1)(· thunigh ch((ling. singing, 1(m'ing or (tancing.

This yean School Feast Day was another special occasion. Scenes ol girls from Prep to Wal· 12 bush-(limcing- in the Avm and plaving games on tile oval highlighwd the speci.11 familv at,11(,Al,lic·re we have at this school. It reminded me

of how proud 1 am of the school and of how sad I am that nn- life here i> coming to an end. I could not have asked for a mot-e complete education.

As our last clav of school approaches. it dawns on me how mam' ch.inges I have witnessed over the ve,il-s. from the multi-purpose room in the junior School to the Computer labs in the Senior Schoc)1. Ner'el-theleff, although buildings. teachers and students mar come and go. the Loreto traclition remaills strong as tile common bond that

links tis all. Another bond that zinites us is the annual school theme. This vear "Respect the Difference - Seek the (;ood" was realised not onk at the big event+. but .it the manv fund-raixers we conducted, such as selling baclges for Anmesty and the Councillors clevising a Pigtail Dav to raise moner- for the AIDS Foundation.

The fact that 'change is ineritable' cloes not make it any easier to cope with or appreciate. We realist· thal December 13 will be the last time we sing the "Holidav Hvmn" befuir wi· face whatever the ftiture holds. As we

venture out into the world, we thank all those who have made this such a happy time for us. To the teachers, thank you for the dedication, kindness and for the entertainment you have provicled fur us over the years. Special thanks to our coordinator, Mrs Smith, for working tirelessly throughout the vear to keep 11% all in line! Our thanks alsc), to Dr Hunt for her support. Finallv, worcls cannot express the gratitticle I fect to the entire class of '95 1111(1 to Sclic,(,1

Vice-Captain, Fiona Hammond. whose creative i cleas alwavs nianaged to en hance anv plans we had.

The class of '93 leave Mandevillc· with the knowleclge that we cannot repeat the years we have spent here, nor can we forget them. Thanks to the Ac-hool and the stuclents. we will not just licic· 1.(,irto Mandeville Hall with a piece of paper, but with a lifetime of nic·111(,lies ancl friendships.......

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SCHOOL COUNCILLORS 1995 Back Row:

L to R Siobhan Hammer, Edwina (Poppy) Shmith, Amy Scally, Emily Roberts, Karina Chaves, Alice Hume (School Captain),

Fiona Hammond (School Vice-Captain), Mrs Margaret Smith (Year 12 Coordinator) Front Row: Amber Horsfall, Sarah O'Byrne, Serena Simmons, Natasha Holmes, Sophie Trumble

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Vale ! Mrs Sue Saxon Sue Saxon began teaching speech and draina at Loreto Mandeville Hall iii 1976. Iii her 19 years of service she coached thousands of students for A.M.E.B. exams, directed several productions, prepared groups for drama festivals, and prepared girls for competitions such as 'The Age' Plain Speaking Awards. In all ofthese, Sue's efforts met with a great deal of success. [,ike many of us. Sue believed in the importance of being able to speak well iii all situations, thus facilitating communication-a vital part of life and

living. She had a love ofwords and language, was an avid reader, and enjoyed the challenge of testing and displaying her knowledge in the form of cryptic

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crosswords. Those of us who were members of the crossword table can bear

witness to.just how accomplished Sue was at this.

Enthusiastic is one word which comes to mind when thinking about Sue and her commitment to Lot-eto. She master-minded the Interhouse Drama

Festival competition and strongly supported the Performing Arts Festival in all its forms-and there have been several in the 19 years of her service, One

indelible ineinory I have of Sue is her addressing House Captains during the morning practice at the Concert Hall, calling them Sweetheart' when they have.just done soniething diabolical.

Mrs Sue Saxon

01-ganised would be another term I would lise in describing Sue. To organise a timetable such as hers for private stridents, and to have it done at the beginning of each semester was 110 mean feat, nor was thejob ofwriting all those reports.

Word mimber three would be Considerate. She was al,vavs concerned about the welfare and morale not only of her students, but also of the rest of us on the staff. For many years she headed the StatT Association which looked after our creature coniti,rts. Moreover, she helped us to dream as she organised our Tatts ticket every week. Sue remembered birthclays and tried to make people feel special.

Sue was 100% professional. She had acted herself, and therefore demanded of others only what she had done herself. I alwavs remember thitiking how odd it was that Sue was very nervous when speaking in front of ati audience of her peers, not playing a stage role. When 'progiess' demanded it, she went back to study to gain her teaching cleg-ree-doing it while still following a full teaching load. I was privileged to be her teaching practice supervisor, and I have nothing but praise for the way she took any advice or constructive criticism I offered. I really felt that 1 was 'preaching to the converted', but Sue made it easy, enjoyable and rewarding.

Sue Saxon was the epitome of the qualities we value in a Loreto School-Felicity, Integrity, justice and Freedom, We will miss her smiling face, we thank her for all that she did, and we pray for her and her family.

God bless you, Slic.

Mi s joan Ryan, Senior School

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Virginia Jones (Senior Chorister), Melissa Migliardi (Leader of Concert Band), Elspeth Martini (Orchestra Leader).

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i STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL Back Row, L-R: Josephine Fagan, Nerita Benetti, Katherine Castles, Sara Lynch, Michelle Reardon Centre: Chantal O'Donoghue, Tiffany Loft, Emily O'Connell, Virginia Grant, Rachel Ball, Lucy Maule, Angela Hill, Amanda Ho,

Annabel'Smith, Emily Smith Front Row: Nina Bonacci, Krista Dale, Sarah Whiting. Lalitha Selvendra, Mary Font Rachel Griffiths, Nancy Sposato, Joanne Halpin

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Religious Education On 28 Februal'y, 1995, the new "Guidelines for Religious Education of Students in the Archdiocese of Melbourne" were launched. The richness of these

documents gradually became evident as staff explored them during the year. In order that we might be better equipped to fully implement these comprehensive guidelines, staff attended several days of in-service, as well :is devoting considerable staff meeting time to examining them. The Gilidelines may be new; however, our charter remains - to lead the children to seek

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Ihe following are some of the children's thoughts atid observations, offered in response to just a few of the

many and varied activities in which they have been involved, as they have explored these questions.

Lucy MeNamara, Emily Whelan and Claire Ogilvy lead the

WHO IS GOD?

combined Year Six classes in the Stations of the Cross

When I hear the Word, God, I think of the warm sun,

love, happiness and all of- His creation.

Dominik White, Year Five

God to ine A soine special spirit that 1 call alwavs clepetid on. God always inakes me feel comfortable and warm. A prayer to me is a silent way of talking to (;od.

Katie-Rose Smith, Year Five

God inade the world and he Wants tls to look 211 ter it. (;od has chosen uM to look after His world and make sure

that everything st.ays like it' s supposed to be, Samara Madden, Year Five

When I think of God I think of someone who is a hero

to everyone because of his wonderful creations and because He is a leader to all humans.

Amv Gillon. Year Five

Mrs Sally O'Byrne and Rebecca Ireland, Prep, participate in the traditional Holy Thursday ritual of the washing of feet

When I hear the word 'Godl I think of a warm .unny dav in the middle ofWinter, because God is warmth.

.Julia Pereira-Godinho, Year Five

In Prep we have prayer and we say thank you to God for flowers and grass and all the things in Spring time.

Vittoria Cal-eri, Rebecca Ireland, Prep

At the stait of the vear we began preparing for our First Reconciliation. We began by decorating our Reconciliation book, reading stories from the Bible and. learning songs with the help of Miss Dodds. As the year moved on we became more familiar with the Sacrament

of Penance and realised how special it reallv was. Then we started making changes to tile wav we think about our lives and future. We talked about how we were going

to behave at the celebration. We also thought ofwhat we were going to say to the priest who was going to conduct our Reconciliation. Everyone felt special and felt tlier had their problems lifted off their shoulders. Our Mrs Penny Trebilcock helps Sophie Price and Rebecca Whitty Year 6, burn their Lenten promises on Shrove Tuesday

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families played a inajor part in the celebration.

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First Communion Back Row: Mrs Patricia O'Halloran, Mrs Maureen Carroll, Julia Szondy, Jessica Carter, Dominie Trescowthick, Jessica Noonan, Katia

Santilli, Gabrielle Connolly, Elizabeth Corrigan, Natalie Carew, Julia Curtain, Sr Helen Maguire IBVM. Centre Row: Kesiah Madden, Amy Hayes, Amanda Cavanough, Georgina Martin, Samantha Barrett, Lucie Chalmers, Alison Smitheram, Michelle Moussi, Emily Freezer, Madeleine Hunter, Celia Doyle, Jessica Horewood, Jessica Carelli, Natalie MeNamee.

First Row: Sara Macleod, Elsa Musolino, Anna Ralph, Laura Stewart, Father Sierakowski Father Leonard, Mardi Taylor, Caitlin D'Aprano, Rachel Carew, Carly Lagana.

First Reconciliation After all of that, I teel like a new person

Anne-Marie Edgley, Year Four

First Communion Before First Communion, the girls in Year Three went to visit different classes in the.Junior School, because they

are our school family and it is important to belong.

Emily Freezer. Year Three

My favourite part of the ceremony was when everyone lit a candle as a COmmunitv.

Before we made our First Conimunion, we walked to the

Lucv Kenny, Year Four

I liked it becatise all my sins were foi-given. So I was

pleased and now had a feeling of peace inside me.

Altar Breads Factory. Sister Pete lives there. She is an old

nun who is so nice and gentle. I think that she is a living saint because she is so nice and I think she was very generous to let us have a look at such a special place.

Nicole (,unn, Year Four

I fell happy because my sins weir forgiven and now I felt proud and ready to try hard to always be good.

Katie Nicholson, Year Four

julia Siondy, Year Three

Fit st (knnmunion was one of the inost special times in our lives becatise we received Jesus for the very first time in the Ellcharist.

Lucie Chaliners, Year Three

I was taken to sick bay with a lump on my head and a sore shoulder. After that, I cc)11(111't go to Reconciliation.

I felt ti illv special when Jesus came to me in

I was sad, but, as I was at Dad's work, 1 told God my sins

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and he forgave me.

iAmanda Cavanough, Year Thiee Alexandra Wallish, Year Four

I went and lit my candle and remembered that I lit my candle to show that jesus is a light of my life.

Bridget Scanlon, Year Four After I had told the priest all my sins, I was forgiven and I felt like a brand new person.

Monika Sogrnski, Year Four

We lit a candle to show tliat jesus is alive with us.

Georgia Fillmore, Year Four

Candie Lighting at First Reconciliation (L-R) Alexandra Sweeney, Rachelle Pitard, Michelle Thien, Carmen Woods, Sr Helen Maguire IBVM, Bridget Cash

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JUNIOR SCHOOL STAFF 3rd Row L-R Mrs Sally O'Byrne, Miss Jenny Burgess, Miss Nicole Curtain, Miss Jayne Webster, Miss Denise Reed, Mrs Maureen Carroll.

2nd Row L-R Mrs Geraldine Lucic, Mrs Dot Peters, Mrs Penny Trebilcock, Miss Deana Dodds, Mrs Alison Durham, Mrs Gaye Warren.

Front Row L-R Mrs Barbara Heyhoe, Miss Catherine Sim, Miss Vanessa Healy Miss Pat Moylan, Sr Helen Maguire IBVM, Mrs Pat O'Halloran, Mrs Kathy O'Cor'Inell, Mrs Virginia Moloney.

Absent Mrs Vera Roskin, Mrs Robyn Kay, Sr Margaret O'Sullivan IBVM, Miss Elizabeth Blackle.

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Above: Getting into the spirit of Pink Pigtail Day are Mrs Geraldine Lucic and Mrs Sally O'Byrne Right: Miss Catherine Sim and Mrs Barbara Heyhoe Below Right: Sr Helen Maguire IBVM with Yvette Haikal, Leah Lim, Katherine Stowell and

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JUNIOR SCHOOL STAFF NETBALL TEAM Back (L- R) Sr Helen Maguire IBVM, Miss Elizabeth Blackie,Mis s Deana Dodds,

Miss Vanessa Healy, Miss Denise Reed, Mrs Kathy O'Connell Front: Mrs Barbara Heyhoe, Miss Catherine Sim, Mrs Sally O'Byr ne, Miss Nicole Curtain . ,

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CAPTAINS Back Row:

Vice-Captains - Emily Whelan

(Mulhall), Zara D'Cotta (Mornane), Kate Lonergan (Barry), Lara Signorino (Ward).

Front Row: Captains - Natalie Bossong (Mulhall), Chloe Podolakin (Mornane),

Anna Mansour (Barry), Sarah Dynon (Ward).

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CREATIVE ARTS CAPTAINS Lucy MeNamara, Edwina Scanlon,

Sophie Price, Georgina Mollcy, Kate Dalheimer.

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Jennifer Palisse, Isabelle Kitchen.

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Rosannah Healy, Claire Ogilvy, Jessica Ries.

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JUNIOR SCHOOL STRING ORCHESTRA Back Row: Sophie Paillard, Jennifer Palisse,

Rosannah Healy, Georgina Molloy, Kate Tilley, Miss Jane Schleiger (Teacher).

Centre Row:

Brighid Fahy,

Renata Anderson, Felicity Stewart,

Brigitte-Jane Ryan, Megan Prescott, Louise Rocchi, Katherine Connolly,

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Front Row: Elizabeth Ames, Clare Dunin,

Tiffany Chiang, Katherine Stowell, Natalie Grant, Alexandra Wallish,

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Elizabeth Hurley, Natalie Albantow, Natalie Grant, Celeste Kininmonth,

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Front Row: Katie-Rose Smith, Leah Lim, Amanda Schembri, Alexandra Robins,

Alexandra Stafford, Brigitte-Jane Ryan, Chandini Kao, Anna Balmer, Camilla Hopkins.

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JUNIOR SCHOOL RECORDER ENSEMBLE Back Row: Zoe Leyland, Anna Balmer, Celina Vines, Natalie Grant, Natalie Bossong, Claire Ogilvy, Catherine Ryan, Miss Deana Dodds (Teacher).

Front Row: Elsa Musolino, Mardi Taylor, Philippa Johnston, Stephanie Draycott,

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Alice Trumble, Kesiah Madden, Isabelle Kitchen.

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Back Row: Andree Pianta, Claire Ogilvy, Elizabeth Hurley, Natalie Albantow, Natalie Grant, Celeste Kininmonth, Zarina Mir, Marnie Hicks, Kate Tilley.

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Chandini Kao, Anna Balmer,

Brigitte-Jane Ryan, Clare Dunin,

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Alexandra Stafford, Amanda Schembri,

Rita Samuel, Alexandra Robins, Bridget Hall, Cheryl Holt, Miss Deana Dodds (Accompanist).

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Anica Meehan, Natalie Bossong,

Kate Dalheimer, Natalie Grant, Zara D'Cotta, /.Ar

Lara Signorino, Bridget Hall.

Front Row: Jessica Ries, Samara Madden,

Anna Balmer, Lauren Mihelcic, Catherine Ryanl Marianne Pitard, Alice Trumble, Isabelle Kitchen.

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JUNIOR SCHOOL LEVEL 5 GYMNASTICS: Eliza Ralph, Nicole Dwyer, Joanna Downjng, Tessa Custance

YEAR SIX NETBALLAAND B TEAMS: Back Row:

Candice Carter, Emily Whelan,

Kate Lonergan, Edwina Scanlon, Natalie Albantow, Daniela Panto,

Kate Dalheimer, Miss Jayne Weioster (Teacher).

Front Row:

Caroline O'Connell, Jessica Ries,

Sarah Dynon, Alexandra Stafford,

Chloe Podolakin, Anna Mansour, Nicole Dwyer, Jacqueline Halpin.

Absent:

Melanie Ringersma, Celina Vines,

Victoria Chapman.

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Front Row:

Katherine Stowell, Edwina Olver,

Joanna Downing, Katie-Rose Smith, Bernadette Soszynski, Anna Balmer, Jacquelne Funder, Diana Bowman, Jacque'ine Reid.

Absent:

Lucy Ludescher.

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Alison Regan,

Celeste Kininmonth, Natalie Albantow,

Kate Lonergan, Caroline Smith, Brigitte-Jane Ryan.

Centre Row: Aimee Dale, Julia Dickson, Alexandra Stafford, Lauren Mihelcic,

Geraldine Ong, Kathryn Finemore, Leah Lim, Miss Jayne Webster (Teacher).

Front Row: Kessiah Madden,

Jacqueline Halpin, Edwina Olver, Saskia Taylor, Anna Smith, Samara Madden,

Alexandra Wallish, Lucy Kenny.

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Emily Tiernan, Gabrielle Connolly.

JUNIOR SCHOOL SWIMMING TEAM Back Row: Amandra Schembri,

Elizabeth Ames, Felicity Whelan, Zara D'Cotta, Edwina Scanlon, Clare Dunin, Alexandra Dickeson, Melanie Dalheimer,

Marianne Pitard, Miss Jayne Webster (Teacher).

Centre Row:

Cheryl Holt, Louisa Page,

Dominik White, Lauren Mihelcic,

Millicent Chalmers, Nicole Dwyer,

Sophie Groom, Leah Lim, Katherine Napier.

Front Row: Lucy Kenny, Mardi Taylor Lucy Chalmers, Joanna Downing,

Caroline O'Connell, Megan O'Connell, Jacqueline Funder, Edwina Olver, Camilla Hopkins.

Absent:

Emily Tiernan, Samantha Barrett,

Laura Hertaeg, Victoria Chapman.

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Front Row: Philippa Johnston, Alice Trumble, Dominik White, Melanie Dalheimer, Charlotte Mcfarland, Amy Gillon.

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Front Row: Sara Macleod, Carly Lagana, Leia Bonacci, Jessica Carter, Avesia Calman, Jessica Gamble, Philippa Johnston, Madeleine Hunter, Anna Marantz.

Absent: Helen Beatty, Camilla Hopkins.

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4."How High Can We Go?" Holly Roach, Rebecca Moore, Stephanie Rizzardi and Melissa Jreissati, Prep 5.Year 5 at Nat·onal School Sovereign Hill

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it is my birthday.

An interesting poem is, "Tic Toc, Tic Toc" which helps

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In Year One we go to French and sing lots of songs and plav games. We say Bonjour at the start of the lesson and we say Ali Revoir at the end. We have learnt the days of

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the week in French and we play games with the days of the week. Lundi is mv favourite French clav.

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In Year Three we have fire special colour groups -

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Rouge, Vert, Orange, Jaune and Blew. Maclame Tudor awards points for good behaviour, maliners and concentration. She awards stickers at the end of each lesson in the sanie colours aN the teams.

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Bonjour. Monsieur le Cochon talks to Mad:une Tudor about whether the children are happy or sad. Dimoitoll is green and funny with a black hat a a red poin pom .ind he talks to us in French. We sing a song abc,ut five 1'.11)bits (Cing lapins clans le Jardin) and play a game. We like French a lot because it is fun.

Madame Simona Tudor utilises a puppet to teach French to a Prep class

Jessica Lane and Amelia Wainwright-Connell, Prep

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Prep PREP 3rd Row L-R Jessica Lane, Katherine Tzelil,

Holly Roach, Simone Spendlove,

Vittoria Careri, India Prior, Briny McArthur, Stephanie Clarke.

2nd Row L-R Daniella Stutt, t-

Melissa Jreissati, Rebecca Moore,

Francesca Anderl, Amelia Wainwright-Connell, Alexandra Blackburn, Zoe Wood, Rebecca Ireland.

Front Row L-R Miriam Black,

Stephanie Rizzardi, Bianca Koffman,

Sarah Doyle, Magdalena Soszynski, Nicole Butler, Elizabeth Gannon, Diarne Petras.

TEACHER Mrs Sally O'Byrne.

AFTER CARE At After Care we cat biscuits and hau· a (11-ink. \\'c make

things like a trce with leaves on it and a pri sc)11 out of paper. We go to After Ute after scllc )01 and we reallv,

really like it. Mummy coines to pick lis up when After fi

Cal·c N finishing.

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We like doing drawings and playing games. Most of all we like· tvping our nilines and we reallv like· seeing cnit

War 6 Briddies. We like trping stories of what we do in clasx.

Stephanie Rizzardi about to launch her kite

Hollv Roach, Francesca Aticlci·1,.JINNica Latic

Bianca Koffman, Elizabeth Gannon

Magdalena Soszynski. Rebecca Moore, Alexandra Blackburn

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bags. At Librarv less«)11% we listen to Storics and we draw ancl colour in. In Book Week we dressed zip.

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MUSIC We like playing musical instruments especially tambourines. We sing choruses and we like playing the xylophones because we like learning different notes.

Daniella Stutt, Simone Spendlove, Miriam Black

Enjoying Lunch (L-R) Stephanie Rizzardi, Holly Roach, Melissa Jreissati and Magdalena Soszynsk tr

READING AND WRITING When we look at the pictures we learn to read and we like sounding out the words. We can copy sentences from the board and we can spell words bv looking at the word box.

Amelia Wainwright-Connell, Stephanie Rizzardi, Zoe Wood

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DRAMA We run around and play ganies and we also play musical chairs. We do plays about Goldilocks and tile Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs and Humpty Dumpty.

Rebecca Moore, Diarne Petras, Nicole Butler

Daniella Stutt

ART GALLERY di

At the Art Gallery we liked looking at the pictures and

knocking on Roy and Matilda's door. We liked the watei' coming down the windows and we touched the water.

In art lessons we loved painting the clay.

Magda Soszyniki, Bianca Koffinan, India Prior

Simone Spendlove

FIRE EDUCATION

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David pretended tile table was a bed. Outside we made the water spray from tile hose and when the sii·ens went on it Was ven' noisy.

Sarah Doyle, Elizabeth Gannon, Melissa Ji eissati

Book Week Dress Up Day

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Year 1 YEAR 1 3rd Row L-R Cassandra Carmody-Stephens,

Hannah Smith, Georgia Charleson, Victoria Flood, Katrina Cavanough, Stephanie Maynes, Charlotte Chalmers, Arabella Hickey, Meaghan O'Sullivan.

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Bridget Noonan, Georgette Scanlon, Danielle Leonard, Tahlia Madden,

Daniele Wilton, Charlotte Campbell, Alice Landy.

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TEACHER Miss Vanessa Healy.

We write long 'once upon a time stories' and we ako write letters to Sparkles the fairv. It is fun bccatisc· slic Itti>;\Vet·S our 1('tters.

Danielle (:arc·w ,Meaghan ()'Sullivan In Science Week we went to the Senior School Science

Room. We made cat A that moved with nicignets and a girl that danced With nmg-liets.

Georgette Scanlon, Katrina Cavanough,

Arabella Hickey

We performeet a play called "Alillions of Cats" but thet-<.' I*li9 wel'en't reall\+ a million cats, there were 20. We acted like

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catx and sang two Mongs about ]MAT' cats.

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We love French because we plin· 14'lench ganies and Aing Mongs. Our favouritc Nong is 17/ait, pt'/1/ rhal.

Vanes,a \\'ong-Tai..Iessica Mincar, Cadandra ( 41'1110(1)--Stephens

Vanessa Wong-Tai

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Lauren D'Aprano

Book Week was excellent and we dressed zip as a cat, a wicked witch and a k.trate kid. We went in a paracle iii front of the whole junior SchooL

Georgia Charleson, Elly Mantas, Daisy Maroun In the Computer Room the clisks we lise .ire Dazzie Draw, Detect-a-Pet and we write on Magic· Slate. We love

the Computer Room because we learn to tvpe Very fast.

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Everyone in Year One has a Year Four buckly. We like our Year Four buctclies and we know that thev like ils. It

is interesting working with 0,11· bucldies beciuisc· they Miss Vanessa Healy with Year 1 class

teach us things and we sing- tiwin %(,tigx.

Charlotte („titil,1,<·11, Victoria Flood We went to the Milsellm and there were activities al,out water and Australian animals. We went to the Mil,eum

bv train and it was sc) busT' that we had to stand up.

Elise Nicholson. Tahlia M.,clclen, 1).inicle Wilton

Whell we go to spolt we plav lot x ofdifferent gaines. C)lil favourite is the pirate ship game.

Hannah Smith. Sarah Diingey, Clare 14·achey r.

We go to Reading Recoverv and we get to write words on the whiteboard, read stories, writc selitences and make

words with inagnets.

Steplianie Maynes, Eleanor Dimin, Daisy Mal-oun

Sarah Dungey displays her giant toadstool

Wicked Witch! - Charlotte Campbell

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Year 2 YEAR 2 3rd Row L-R Britt Densmore,

Georgina Tiernan. Samantha Holdsworth, Shauna Kyle, Jennifer Ames, Victoria Gregory, Alexandra Cuttler, Victoria Frew, Lisa Valmorbida, Emma Ireland,

Megan O'Hehir.

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2nd Row L-R Stephanie Lukan, Michelle Smitheram, Philippa Christian,

Vanessa Groom, Madeline Tilley, Bridget Blackburn, Maggie Jones, Alexandra Podolakin, Nicole Anderson, Saah Maule.

Front Row L-R Anna Marantz

Victoria Meehan, Sarah Cleary, Ella Henschke, Leanne Thjen, Jane Eves, Joanna Ryan,

Stephanie Haikal, Samantha Jreissati.

TEACHER Mrs Geraldine Lucie

PINK PIGTAIL DAY C )ne dav we wore pigtails with pink ribbons. We had a

competition to natne Mrs L.ticic'>; bear. Rebecca in Prep woll the 11:line of the bear and Alle won the chocolate. ¥r

11mt claw' we raised inoner· for Omar. Everv class had to

raixe %36.00. Two wachers did not have their pigtails. so

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classes had to make baby pigs for their mother pig Sarah Mattie· (Yeat- 2) and Rebecca Moore (Prep)

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OUR CLASS ROUTINE

Are the initials for Future 1'1-(,1,lein Solving. 111r F.PX

gi·oup clic,(,M' a topic and we think of- problems which might hap])(·11 hner on in the topic 1111(1 the future.

We Molve the probleins bv thinking of sc,lutions and disc 11>;Aing 0111 c )pinic)17 4 together.

Put vour pilmv on Then 1 1111 tic·1 3 on vour feet

Then change your book Diai·v igned

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GRANNYS GARDEN Granm''s Gal·den is .1 computer galne that is about witch and six children who get captured. The aim of tlic game is to save the children as zoii travel through the adventure. You work in pairs to solve the problem. We elljov 0111- time on thi' compliter.

Philippa Christian. Britt Densinore, Vanessa C .1-00111 and Maggie.jones

"Beware It's Foxy Loxy and Henny Penny!" (L-R) Bridget Blackburn and Emma Ireland

P.V.A. + BORAX + DYE + STIR = SLIME In the sc·nic)1- school science 11,1,(,1 .iton' we macie %1.IMF..

We made it with PX.A. and borax. One ofthe liquids was in a sinall (ilinder and the other in a 1,11-ge container. \Vhen ,{)11 mix them both together, vou get a gooev sort of mixture - then voil Atir. rtir. Mir illitil it'>, 1'('11(1\ to take out -SI.]\11·:".1 Just Hanging Around! - Victoria Meehan

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A loving family who love each other.

Michelle Smitheram

A time when You can read sottly to yourself and there is no disturbance.

Victoria Frew

Peace is the sound of little droplets of water - splish, splash.

Alexandra Podolakin

Thinking about animals; like a lamb sleeping happily iii

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the sun with its mother.

Madeline Tilley A gentle robin singing its SOllg of peace.

Emma Ireland

A Prayer for Peace in Year Two - Mrs Geraldine Lucie helps

Peace is a red rose opening its petals.

Alexandra Podolakin and Megan O'Hehir prepare the table with Victoria Meehan

flowers, doves and a candie,

DINING AT PIPPA'S CAFE

My heart opening wide.

Lisa Valmorbida

Year Two went shopping at the market because we were

A time when people gather and remember each other

going to stay at school until 7.OOP.m. The Year One's

and a time when you feel the wind coming through ) our

.joined Lisfor games which included, "The River jordan",

window and rustling the trees outside.

"Weather Reports"and "Bob downs". After dining at the

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"Cafe" we had the lights off as we listened to spooky stories.

.jennifer Ames

The ocean crashing against the rocks and when birds whistle in the 111 0 rn ing.

Sarah Cleary

During the afternoon of our extended stav we dirled on pancakes with lemon, sugar and jam.

Alexandra Cuttler

Peace reminds me of glittering water, twinkling and moving. I think peace is a really gentle word.

Nicole Anderson

We had to buy ten dozen sausages! Then we returned from the supermarket. We prepared the food which

Peace is like fireworks without the sound, a rainbow, a

included afternoon tea and dinner.

starry sky at the beach and light blue water, flat and

Samantha Holdsworth

calm.

Megan O'Hehir

Peace is when you see your animal fliends welcoming

We decorated the art room and named our rest:,111'ant,

"Pippa's Cafe". Mrs. Lucie had some special treats fur the winners of our gaines.

you - this lights zip your face.

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A time when butterflies tly past your window and when birds sing a sweet tune.

L-R: Jane Eves, Vanessa Groom, Victoria Frew, Victoria Meehan,

Georgina Tiernan

Joanna Ryan

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Year 3 YEAR 3 3rd Row L.R Jessica Horewood, Celia Doyle, Natalie MeNamee, Elizabeth Corrigan, Alison Smitheram, Lucie Chalmers,

Amanda Cavanough, Julia Curtain, Georgina Martin, Amy Hayes.

2nd Row L- R Samantha Barrett, Mardi Taylor,

Julia Szondy, Gabrielle Connolly, Dominie Trescowthick, Jessica Noonan, Natalie Carew, Katia Santilli, Jessica Carter, Kesiah Madden, Emily Freezer.

Front Row L-R Carly Lagana, Rachel Carew, Jessica Carelli, Laura Stewart,

Caitlin D'Aprano, Madeleine Hunter, Michelle Moussi, Anna Ralph, Sara MacLeod.

TEACHER Mrs Maureen Carroll.

DICTIONARYRACE!

FOOTBALL CLINIC

Did vou know that everv Monday in Year Three we have

Our favourite day was iii May

a Dictionary Race? Mrs Catioll calls out words we know

When the Carlton footballers

like PENCIL and then we search to find it iii the

Came to play!

dictionary. We have to say the meaning of the word and

Every single girl got her say

spell it for everyone. We always find a Dictionary Queen

and even the teachers got to play!

and it is so exciting!

When we were iii our football gear Dc,ininie Trescowthick

We played as if we had no fear!

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sticli ,1% lii,ikiii<, tlie LARC;ESrl bits 01 toili p,iper aild .' h

measuring them. We even learnt about Archime(les who

Julia Szondy

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we are iii Year Three. Mrs Carroll has talight us many

things like if you make mistakes and get into trouble sometinies it is your fault and you have to learn to SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES but Nometinies their are excel)tions when girls are good and honest. The saints usuallv suffered a lot.

Samantha Barrett

SKIING Year Three Class Mass (L- R) Caitlin D'Aprano, Jessica Carelli and Anna Ralph with Father Stephen Curtin SJ

Soine girls in Year 3 - like us, went to compete at Mt.

CROSS AGE

Buller for the Victorian Inter-school Championships, Our instructor taught us lots of important things and we

This is something we do iii Loreto junior School. We

had such fun training, then racing and we got a lot of

have Year 6 Gold as partners. We do things such as

help from Miss Webster.

reading, maths, computers, craft etc. I enjoy this because

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you get to know more people!

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are doing another Strain Your Brain. We are expected to do creative things with crazy things like brushes, string, match-boxes and all of them are for building skills.

Georgina Martin

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LOST PROPERTY LOST LOST I.OST!

Jumpers, blazers and one left shoe!!

It seems as if nobody Knows what to do!! !

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That's enough for a Teacher to cio! ! !

First Communion Home Meetings - Rachel Carew with her parents Lisa and Peter.

Emily Freezer

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Year 4 Blue YEAR 4 BLUE 3rd Row L-R Carmen Woods,

Michelle Thien, Fiona Tracey, Natalie Geros,

Georgina Flood, Emily Tiernan.

2nd Row L-R Brighid Fahy, Julienne Lacava, Megan O'Connell, Megan Prescott, Sophia Groom Bridget Cash, Avesia Calman, Sarah Trenchard, Laura Hertaeg.

Front Row L.R Elsa Musolino, Aimee Dale,

Renuka Rajadurai, Eliza Ralph, Alexandra Sweeney.

Absent Miss Elizabeth Blackie,

Emily Dougherty.

TEACHER Miss Jenny Burgess.

It .ill began in Term 1 when we went to the clf)(,1- of our

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new classroom. Our u·acher was Miss Bill·gess. C )11( clay

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in Term 2 Miss 14111-goss asked us to come to thc· floor for

(1){)1. C.11111

a talk. She Ic,Icl 11% that she was going to go to teach at

1 i ickling, splashing, sparkling

Sacre Cocur. Evervone was verv sad and Alic· said Alic· was

Relaxed. hapin·, peaceful, sad

leaving.just before the end of term. In Terin 3 we got a

HtiCIUM

Georgina Flood

new teacher c.illed Miss Blackie. She's verv nice and

sve're going to have her for the rest of the year.

Brighid Fahv and Sophie Groom

Raitifc)·(·st

Peaceful relaxing

Growing. moving, living Refreshed. happv, glad, free

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14>rest

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(111(111,1,11, 1„c,lth Feeding. Ihing, eating

Cheer 111. happv. glad, grate 1 11 Bh-(1

Miss Elizabeth Blackie

Emilv Tiernan and Sarah Trenchard

In An we have 1,(·(·11 (11.m'ing pictilirs c )1 1,(·ople .111(1 Fl( nverx

painting them and putting goggle eves on ilicit- faces.

Prettv, Colourful

Then we started inaking sculptures of prople and

Growing, spic'licling, blooming

putting clothes and accessories on them. \Ve have also

1 1,1[,pv. froh. cheer'1111, proud

started drawing flowers and painting thein.

Phtijtx

Carmen Woods Natalie· Gerns aticl Aimee Dale

Pellgilin Soft, wet

Swimming. 1-litilling, diving Happy, excited. entertained, speechles, Birds

Sophie Groom

Pan

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KiHer - whales

Vicion<. swift

Leaping-, Swilmning-, Mianghteling Timid, fearful, scared, amazed

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Left Front: Avesia Calman

Maliitiialx

Right Back: Alexandra Sweeney,Centre: Michelle Thien

Eliza Ralph and Remika Rajadulai

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Front: Sarah Trenchard

e<1320 Isier

We went on a camp to Golden Valley's Ranch. On the way we stopped at a park iii Frankston. When we got to

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the campsite we had lunch and went straight to our activities. We had six activities which were The Flying Fox, The Nature Walk, The Ropes Course, The Sensory Trail, The Night Walk and our Concert. We both liked The Flying Fox because it was exciting and scary. One other activity that we liked was the Night Walk. It was fun

but a bit muddy. We had afternoon tea after one activity then we went on to our second activity. For dinner we had roast chicken which was beautiful. When we went

back to school on Friday most of our parents were there.

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Brighid Fahy and (Aeorgina Flood

CROSS AGE Year Four Blue have buddies in Year One. Mv buddy is

Cassie and Georgie's buddy is Lauren. Every second Friday we visit our buddies. We do lots of different activities such as writing short stories, teaching them how to dance, singing songs. reading books and many

other t.hings. We really enjoy Cross Age because you get to meet people from a different class.

Georgina Flood and Michelle Thien

Sophia Groom

This term we have been reading a series of books. The

writer isjudy Blitine. We thought we wotildn't like the books but it worked out that we love them. We have read

two books from the scrieN. The first one was Tales of a

Fourth Grade Nothing. The second one was,

Superfudge and the one that weir reading now is called Fudge-a-mania. As we listen to Miss Blackie react with

good expression we laugh or make disgusted faces. We still enjoy every minute of it. The other books we have also read as a class, before the.Judy Blitine series are

Franklin is Lost and The Page Master. I think children would love and en.jov them. 1 enjoyed them a lot.

Megan O'Connell

On Camp - Emily Dougherty and Sarah Trenchard

AFTER CARE

SPRING POEM

After Care is fun because there are lots of things you can

Tulips pop,

do. For example you can play gahnes in the game room,

Blossoms drop,

do homework in the homework room and draw pictures

And all the flowers bloom.

in the filst room. You can also eat and drink in the first

Grass g-rows shimmering green

room. There is a variety of drinks you can have, milo,

And all the animals are born

chocolate quick, strawberry quick, cordial, water and

The nice warm davs are made

milk. If it is a nice day we go outside and play games.

For sitting in the sun and having so much fun.

Miss Reed and Miss Curtain organise the games and

B]it be careful what you step on, for goodness sake. A

sometimes we choose the games we play.

BEE!

Michelle Thien, Aimee Dale and Elsa Musolino

Natalie Geros and Megan Prescott

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Year 4 Gold YEAR 4 GOLD 3rd Row L-R Susan Accary, Renata Anderson, Bridget Scanlon, Rachelle Pitard, Alexandra Wailish,

Madeleine Campbell.

2nd Row L-R Katie Campbell.

Monika Soszynski, Katie Nicholson,

Georgia Fillmore, Sonia Margetson, Jessica Gamble, Sophie Cuttler. Andrea Pahor.

Front Row L-R Tiffany Chiang, Nicole Gunn, Emily Crisafi, Anne-Marie Edgley, Lucy Kenny, A

Sarah Ryan, Leia Bonacci.

TEACHER Mrs Gaye Warren.

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SPACE AND THE SOLAR

Year Four Gold is fantastic.

Everv term we do interesting projects

SYSTEM

Ama/ing games are plaved at inaths time.

Realk hard maths problems make us think.

In Term Two. Four (:old weir doing research abc)itt

41):,Ce. We Went to the Planctarium and this is whitt

Fantastic spelling words are practiMed by all.

happiqi<·cl:

Our maths probleins are chall<·liging Ulli'cal xt<ilie,4 211(. written bv the gil-ls.

lil,itic·taritlin llc·te We Coine!

Reacling in our class is exciting and fun.

\\'c weri' 2111 piling into the bils one alter another. \\'11(·11 ive were all seated we startal unning along- the 1-oad.

U'hen we were there we aH i lishi·d to the bus doc,rs to

get c )lit. We weir all (,lithide ill the cool firsh air, then alter a while we went into the museum. \Ve had to wait Ic)1 ,1 while but then it wils our 1111'11 to find the

Gencial Studies is verv interesting.

Our projectx are trallv fun.

Learning- in our (121*% i>; fant,INtic.

Diel vou ever believe thal %0 mitch coulcl happen in one ( 1,1XX?

Misan Accary

17,111('taritilli. Wc walked through the diMplay of boncs and birds until we came to a sign thilt said 1'1,illetarillin!

We went i]Kide and to ()111- annucment there Was d big vellow- globe. After we found a scat a man told us to look

at the globe. %0 we did, then the lights went out and it 4

became (1.11-k! There was a movie bring shown about the Sohu' S)-stein! We watched it quietly with much intelest.

When we were back at school we started a project which was called Space and the Solar Systein: Alexandia \\ cillish

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Working on her Maths! Rachelle Pitard

HUMAN BODY

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In Term ()ne we were learning- al)out the Human Body.

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1% lic·n we studied the bones we all made skeletons and

wr displaved them on the wall iii positions of .iction and

Alt N tri·cat fun.

a girl in our Class decided on a reallv gooci heading Col

Really interesting things to do.

liu· skeletons. It said "Bones Can Move Botics Can

T,tlents givon to 11% 1,)' God we 11%(· to Create.

Groove!" We also leat iii .11)(mt important organs like tlic heart. liu· brain and the liver and we now know what

Things we're done are paintings, drawings. clav making-

nitisclcx are for. Our (1 2,>A learnt lots al)out the 1111,11,111

and lots 01 (,thers.

IN,ch·.

liffanv Chiang and Sophic Cuttlci

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Katie Nicholson

THE SURPRISE It all starteel about two weeks before Term Two ended,

We were having a surprise party for you know who.

The person who teaches its all that Maths and English We made a banner at Ilinch.

She almost caught lis!

Does she now have a hunch?

Some girls gave her presents some girls did not.

I assure you the special cakes we made were cold not hot

Mrs. Heyhoe rang up the class.

She ordered Mrs Warren to come down stairs.

In Our Hideout! Leia Bonacci and Monika Soszynski

Miss Webster came up and got its in pairs.

PREPARING FOR CAMP

We got everything ready so we did.

When Mrs Warren came she said "Golley Gosh Kids".

We had a lot to eat. It was a feast.

The Year Four's are preparing for camp. We are going to

Lucy Kenny and.Iessica Gamble

Golden Valley's Ranch on Thursday 14th September. We will be travelling for about an hour and a half and we will

stop at a park fbi approximately half an hour. The teachers who will be coming with us are Mrs Warren,

Miss Blackie, Miss Moylan and Miss Webster. We will have to sign a contract and promise to be completely cooperative. Miss Moylan is very good on the trampoline and I look forward to lier doing her stunts. Ever)'

Monday and Wednesday the two Year 4 ciasses come together for a meeting. Miss Blackie and Miss Webster

went to (:olden Valley's Ranch and told us tile activities that we will be doing. We have been learning spelling

words and story writing to clo with camp for the last two weeks. We are all looking forward to going on our trip and hope we will en jov it.

Emily Crisali, Rachelle Pitard and Andrea Pahor Aimee Mohren

OPERATION OMAR! I.oreto Mancleville Hall junior School have sponsored a boy called Omar. Omar comes from tlie Philippines.

The junior School have to raise $360.00, that means every class has to raise $36.00. In the first week Lucy, Tiffany, Sophie and I had a Guessing Competition, How Many Lollies are in the Jar? We raised $7.20. The next week, Madeleine, Katie and Leia raised %19.00 by having a raffle so in two weeks we had made $26.20. We thought that was really good ancl it was! On the third week Andrea, Rachelle, Alexandra and.Jessica ran a Goddies Stall. We would buy toffees, lolly bags, cup cakes,

popcorn and hedgehog (they were delicious). They

Do you do drama at school?

Really cool games all around Amazing plays to entertain the school Mrs Kay is our teacher Activities iii drama we like to do

Leia Bonacci and Madeleine Campbell

BEING NEW TO LORETO

raised $13.70, so in three weeks we had raised $39.90.

MANDEVILLE HALL! ! !

The next week Rachelle and Nicole had a Colouring Competition and they raised $3.50, so in the fourth

When I was new to the school I was very nervous. It all

week we had raised $43.40. We had done it!, bill we

started when my clad movedjobs and my family moved

dicin't stop! The next week Monika and Katie organised

as well. I thought I would not like this schoo] bitt now I

a Baby Photo Competition, that was great. So in the end we had raised $47.65. This was a great.job well done, I think Oniar is going to be very grateful for the money!!

figured out that it's the best school ever. The teachers

Bridget Scanlon

Monika Soszvnski

are kind and so are the students and I think it's a real

fun school and I am very lucky.

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Year 5 Blue YEAR 5 BLUE 3rd Row L-R Eliza Nisbet, Erica Margetson,

Sophie Paillard, Alison Regan, Annabel Doyle, Lauren Prescott, Jacqueline Low, 4?h

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Sally Brookes, Felicity Whelan, Felicity Stewart.

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2nd Row L-R Charlotte McFarland,

Zoe Leyland, Leah Lim, Louisa Page, Anna Hutchins, Anna Balmer, Dominik White,

Holly Dwyer, Katie-Rose Smith, Joanna Downing.

Front Row L-R Stephanie Draycott, Katherine Stowell, Yvette Haikel, Amy Gillon,

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Tessa Custance, Julia Pereira-Godinho,

Samara Madden, Rosemary Hopkins, Philippa Johnston.

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TEACHER Mrs Dot Peters.

WE PRAY FOR PEACE !

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Imagine Hiroshima on that dreadful day.

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The bornb that took prople's lives awav.

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Your home A gone, vour relatives have died. .„ It wits so sad that survivors cried and cried.

But then .lgain the war had to elid.

No they' dropped a 1)(,1111) so the world wozild mend. -- -ill...1/.7And now this vear at Loreto Mandeville I lall.

We set doves free and remembered it all.

Zoe Levland and Dominik White

Cross Age: Tessa Custance, Year 5 and Miriam Black, Prep

CROSS AGE If vou are wondering what Crc )%% Age ix, then vou air reading the vighi inag-21/ine. In the .Juniol- School we

have what i s called Cruss Age Activities, when an older

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gracie like War Five and Six tutor a vounger grade. This rear, the Five Blite girls have tutored the Prep class every second Fridar·. NO that it A e.isier. wr have paltictilat

partners each week and on special clavs like Book Character Parade, the older girls take their partners and

show ther.1 around. When I tiltor im· partner Briny, I feel as if I am cloing something for her. like teaching her.

Brim and I like to tell each other abolit our families and

what we air doing in school. 1 think Brinv and I will

WHO IS GOD?

alwavs be great hiends throughout („11- sc·hool lives as a restilt 01 C 'ic,As Age activities iii It)95.

God to lUe is a father, a mother, a sister and a brother

Eliza Nisbet

who is 21]wavs with me .111 thi'(,tigh mv life and who guides inc on the wav of life.

1.11111-en Prescott 0

Goct ix like jiminy Cricket. looking after Pilic,ic-hic). watching over every little thing he did.

Alison Regan God R sorneone who is al,van there for vou. sc,incone

who will hold vou up ifyouhr falling.

Cross Age Activities with Prep - Magda Soszynski, Rebecca Moore, Fc·licitv Stri#.11-t

38 LORETO · Mandeville Hall

Katherine Stowell and Dominik White(back view)

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FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING! The view of a pen:

Help! l'm running low on ink! The Future Problem Solving team has been using me non-stop for two whole hours! This is what happened...Five Year 5 girls walked into the room and one of theni picked me up! I

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remember that they were called Yvette Haikel, Elizabeth

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Ames, julia Dickson, Melanie Dalheimer and julia Godinho. The topic that they used me for was "Kids ancl

Violence". The Future Problem Solving team had to R\\

Playing Marbles at Sovereign Hill - Annabel Doyle, Alison Regan, Sophie Paillard and Anna Hutchins

create 2() problems, 20 solutions to the underlying problem and consider 5 criteria, such as "ls this solution safe?" to find a best solution. No wonder I'm running low on ink!

RED HILL NATIONAL

juMa (;(,clinho

SCHOOL, SOVEREIGN HILL We're here to tell you about the best part of going to Sovereign Hill camp.

We, 5 Blue, had Sir, and 3 Gold had M'am.

Sir sometimes walked around the classroom and

occasionally Sir would whack his cane on his desk, and at that we would all.jump! At. first it was really scary. It was hard not to laugh and look around at the people watching you.

We always had to have a straight back, which was really hard because there were no backs on the seats.

After we ate lunch we had free time to explore Sovereign Hill.

Tourists were everywhere snapping pictures of us and other things such as shops, horses and other people.

They even asked to have their photo taken with us! You certainly felt very famous and most special indeed.

Holly Dwyer and Rosemarv Hopkins Maths Measurement - Anna Hutchins and Lauren Prescott

COLOURFUL CHEMISTRY r

Science Week was lots of fun

The activities niade our minds run We learnt that sound was a vibration

And the science experiments were a sensatioii We mixed an indicator with a base

And the final colour was really ace!

We mixed the indicator with other liquids too

They turned pink, purple, green but not blue So in the end we knew much more than we had known before.

Ball and Cup Game at Sovereign Hill - Lauren Prescott, Eliza Nisbet and Joanna Downing

Zoe I.evland and Dominik White

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Year 5 Gold YEAR 5 GOLD 3rd Row L- R Millicent Chalmers,

Bernadetta Soszynski, Alexandra Dickeson, Kate Tilley, Lucy Virtue, Georgina Doyle, Elizabeth Ames, Melanie Dalheimer,

Catherine Sullivan, Katherine Connolly.

2nd Row L-R Katherine Napier, Laura Gallard, Diana Bowman,

Jacqueline Funder, Andrea Rockliffe, Julia Dickson, Phoebe Lipscombe, Alice Trumble, Jasmine Gillespie, Kathryn Finemore.

Front Row L-R Stephanie MeNamee, Camilla Hopkins, Tracey Pahor, Edwina Olver, Louise Rocchi, Lillian Savage,

F

Natacha Moussi, Jacqueline Reid, Anna Smith, Lucy Ludescher.

TEACHER Mrs Virginia Moloney.

50 YEARS ON...

White pigeonx filled the early niorning sky and danced and fluttered their grey and white specked wings. A young boy looked up from playing with his toy trucks in

his garden and saw the pigeons soaring in the sky. "Look Mummv, birdies! Why are they there?" "Well it's hard to explain but fifty years ago the Allied Forces dropped two

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very dangerous bombs on two japanese cities. The

Loreto girls must be celebrating the 50th Anniversary", 0

"Don't they look gread" 0

Lucv Ludescher

THE LAI? "The LAP means Learning Assessment Project. 'I'here at-e two subjects. Iii Maths there are measurement, space and number. lit English there are reading, writing and listening. We will begin iii May".

"May! That's two weeks", we exclaimed. I was so nervous, 1 thought it was going to be hard. But I was wrong, it was

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easy. Anyway 1995 was the first year of the LAP and onk Years 3 and 5 did it all around Victoria.

Katherine Napier

We were excited when the results were posted even

LIBRARY FUN

though we had a long wait. jacqueline Reid and Laura GaHard 1

Library's so different, so ullique this year. hitelligent stories we want to hear.

Bogils cakes, presents and decorations too.

Reallv Krista Bell Came to our school!

3

Annuing. Our Librat·v looks so cool!

Rushing and organizing Miss Mo)1.711's at Achool 6.00a.m. 7.00a.m. 8.00:1.m. too

Yarns told by Miss Mc„1:u, are alwars so clear!

Short lited books, reallv different thiM vear.

Fun dress-zips iii Book Weck, f'atitastic ones too.

Utiiral book, you can't sav boo.

No limits to reading, keep reading all year.

Louise Rocchi and Stephanie McNamee, Year 5 and Bridget Blackburn, Year 2

40 LORETO · Mandeville Hall

So choose a book and sit right here.

Anna Smith

FPS Without Mrs Trebilcock their would be no FPS. FPS

stands for Future Problem Solving. FPS is a group of four or five people. Their task is: To think of aboitt

fifteen problems and then choose the biggest problem.

They then have to think of fifteen solutions, choose the best solution and expand it and the booklet is complete.

While we are doing the booklet Mrs Trebilcock is keeping a watchful eve on lis. It is open to all girls from Years 2-5.

FPS is lots of fun.

Madeline Tilley, Year 2, Andrea Rockliffe and Elizabeth Ames, Year

Julia Dickson

5, Sarah Cleary, Year 2

SPORT 1,2,3,4 down. In sport at this moment Miss Webster is

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giving us a fitness test. I have not given up vet. It takes

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four of our sport lessons to be graded onjumping, push-

ups with our legs, sit-ups and a few more activities. The fitness test is a lot of work but I enjoy it.

Camilla Hopkins

There they go again down the lane to the swimming

pooL Those girls are strong. Swimming is a good sport when you are in Year Three and up, but o air aH the other sports. Sport is fun, I like Nell)all best. There are lots of sports that are fun.

The Two Lucys! - Lucy Ludescher and Lucy Virtue

.jacqueline Funder

OPERATION OMAR This year we have sponsored a child iii tile Philippines

called Omar. We send nioney to Omar and he is very grateful. To raise the money we are doing something vet-y different. Iii each gracie a group of people can have a raffle, have a cake stall or anything as long as you raise

money. I feel that Operation ()inar N a very good cause and we do have a good time raising the money.

Diana Bowinan

TOURNAMENT OF MINDS 1 fvou want to have sonic fun do Tournament of Mincls.

You have a problem to work out in a group. You have to be prepared to put your best effort in.

Alice Trumble

On the Bunks at Sovereign Hill! Top: Jacqueline Funder, Georgina Doyle, Jasmine Gillespie. Bottom: Jacqueline Reid

SCIENCE Did you know that when you add a base to an indicatorthe indicator will turn a shade of blue/green? We learnt

about this during Science Week when we went lip to a lab in the Senior School. I really enjoyed Science Week and I had a lot of fun experimenting with bases and acids.

Stephanie McNamee

Elizabeth Ames

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Year 6 Blue YEAR 6 BLUE 3rd Row L- R Rebecca Whitty, Zarina Mir,

Melanje Ringersma, Natalie Grant, Edwina Scanlon, Sophie Price, Natalie Albantow, Kate Lonergan,

a.

Emily Whelan.

2nd Row L-R Marianne Pitard,

Hayley Collard, Georgina Molloy, Anica Meehan, Natalie Bossong, Rita Samuel, Bridget Hall, Claire Ogilvy, Anna Mansour, Candice Carter, Sarah Dynon.

Front Row L-R Saskia Taylor, Chandini Kao, Sarah Stewart, Stefanie Fitzgerald, Louisa Sullivan, Lucy MeNamara, Brigitte-Jane Ryan, Geraldine Ong, 1

Jacqueline Koutoumas, Caroline O'Connell.

TEACHERS Miss Catherine Sim,

Sr Helen Maguire IBVM.

...I wax the Minister for Sport in our ClaNs Parliament. 1

..I think Mr. Robert Doyle loves his job and likes talking

reallv enic,ved that role. I had to make a speech on

(fast!). In mv opinion Mr. Doyle would have been a good

sport...A Iot €)| things happened while Parliainent wai

teacher and now that he's the Member for Malvern ill

running...14·oplc were desperate to *peak Ac) they were standing up at the wrong time so the Speaker had to keep saving "ORDER!"...Evervone had a chance to speak if ther- wanted to. I thought that the open del)ates were the best becallse anyone could speak so we heard evervotics point of view...I reallv thought it was great how evervolie got a certain role. It (lictilt inatter what

voil were because everrone had an impOrtalit job.

State Palli.unent .111(1 a Backbencher of the Liberal Party

he is most happv with his job...In Parliament his intel-ests are Education of course. because of his previous job.

Heath, Law and ()1-€ler, Transport and Premiet-4 Group We asked the question wh,· he became a Member of Parliament? Because he was interested in improvingEducation.

Enlilv \\'llt·lan

Sarah Dvnon

..M'.-- 9

...On the :3th of.]tine we had 0111- Ciass Parliament...I was

the Minister for Education. I had to make a speech about the Education at this school. (I-low good it was). I also had to rebut. people also reblitted im' speech and inack· it hard. I had to call out once ancl another tillie I

put mv legs up on the table and read a book. For these crilnes I got selit out of Parliament I Intise for five militites iii the second session.

Kate 1.cmergan In Black and White! - Sarah Dynon and Natalie Albantow

...Mv role in the Ch» Parliament for Year Six was a partv

whip. The parn' whip w:,s mostly in charge of checking all the Illembers were present and to then count aH the votes on the sicle that I was appointed to Count. The thing I like al,out being a party whip is that I can get vcry fit br getting tip all the time. I was also a back bencher.

There were inanv discussions going on and evervotic

debated them quite well.

Touch Typing - Brigitte-Jane Ryan

Edwina >k·imlon

..AVe learnt that if someone is acting inappropriateh· ill

p.11-liament the Fpeaker calls for order and unless that person apologises he could be kicked out.

Rita Samuel

,..1 reallv would not put Mr. Doyle in thi Aliv grotip. He ix exti·emely interesting to listen to. lIe reall) cloes love his job. He came across to me as a very enthusiastic gelitleinall.

C laire Ogilvy

42 LORETO · Mandeville Hall

Margaret Cowan

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Morning Prayer on Year Six Camp

..."I issue you a warning Minister for Sport and Recreation". (Oopps I should not have done that).

"Minister for Sport and Recreation that is your second

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warning. I call for a Division of the House. Yes on mv right, no on my left. The yes have it. 1 ask you to leave

Parliament". I bow to the speaker and leave.

Bridget Hall Anica Meehan

...On the 21 st june Mi- Robert Dozle came into our ...He explained Parliament thoroughly even invoking a

classroom to talk to ils about his job as a Politician. I

few actions, movements and including the audience in

learnt that they have their elections every three years to

some areas. I thought his speech which went for an hour

discuss what is happening at the moment.

and a half was well worth the time and very clear.

Zarina Mir

Brigitte-Jane Ryan

..I have learnt that the Speaker is highly respected. You can't go in between the Speaker and tile person talkiiig.

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If you do, do that, the Speaker will say "ORDER", I have also learnt that if you want to say something, you have to put your lianie ()It a list.

Geraldine Ong

...This niorning Robert Doyle came into our classroom.

Because he was a teacher, before he came to be the Membei- for Malvern in State Parliament, he was a

person who used interesting words and he also was very good at acting things out. He fincls Education, Health,

Law and Order and Transport the most hiteresting topics of State Parliament and although he enjoys his work he sometimes wishes that he was teaching again.

Melanie Ringersma

...When lie was in Parliament he made a speech at 240 words per minute, the Hansard Reporter was capable of typing 250 words per minute, but she collapsed and they had to bring another Hansard reporter in.

Natalie Albantow

Lucy MeNamara

...Mr Robert Doyle is a Member of Mahern and a very nice one too. Mr Robert Doyle is a Backbencher, and he

says he's a quiet one. During Parliament one time, the Hansard reporter said tliat he spoke 240 words in two minutes which is ven fast.

Natalie Bossong

Stefanie Fitzgerald and Chandini Kao

Year Six Blue at work

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Year 6 Gold YEAR 6 GOLD

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3rd Row L-R Celeste Kininmonth, Daniela Panto, Caroline Smith, Jennifer Palisse, J..

Rosannah Healy, Jessica Cuttler, Elizabeth Hurley, Lara Signorino, Zara D'Cotta.

2nd Row L-R Alexandra Stafford, Amanda Schembri, Genevieve Meehan,

Rachel Quinert, Victoria Chapman, Kate Dalheimer, Andree Pianta, Marnie Hicks,

Lauren Mihelcic, Chloe Podolakin, Alexis Kelleher.

Front Row L-R Caroline Whelan,

Nicole Dwyer, Jessica Ries, Helen Beatty, Isabelle Kitchen, Alexandra Robins,

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Celina Vines, Catherine Ryan, Cheryl Holt, Jacqueline Halpin.

TEACHERS Sr Helen Maguire IBVM, Mrs Kathy O'Connell.

VISIT TO C.S.I.R.O.

LIFE IN YEAR. SIX \Ve like life in Yeal· Mix,

.„C )ne thing C .111-is. the voung Acirtitift said stunned

But %(1111(·times there are lots of 0-icks.

evervone "Science Starts Simple". There are just thice

Our te,1(11(» arc \It'N C)'(:Millidl alul Mish billi.

main parts to Science.

I. First voti must have a problem.

Thev ni.ike sure out' lives are never clim.

2. I hink of icle.,0 that mav solve it.

In March we left for camp in a hurn·,

3. '11-, (,lit .111 <)1- theni.

AA we were all litixting to Ker the Murray.

Alexandra Staffoicl

Oil each Wednesday iii Term Three, For sport we do swimining and shout with glce.

...Stil(lents found that: viblatiolls produce Hound: that

Life in Year Six is reallY okay,

vii) .itions are going on all the time but Konic vibration,

Beratise the cal,tains lead Huff 'n Puffevery day.

cannot be heard; that all things are either solid, liquid (,1

We have captainx for Sport, music and creative arts,

a gax and that one thing that can be all three is water - in

And they arc all Sure to play their parts.

its natiti ,11 state it is liquid; a solid as ice alid a gax when

On the MIi,icic'Ville Mirror some giils work,

it eva])(,latex .1% Stcaln ...

1)allitda I'luit{)

Their littention to (Ic·tail tlic·' do not shirk.

You xec, life in War Nix A 1-(·211]v fun.

Never ona· has it bren dtimb! \VE LOVE 1.111·: IN WAR NIXT €»Min,1 Igiic f

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VP Dav - 15th August, 1995 - Prayer of Peace A World \Vithout Peace

A world without peace in it is like· a heap of ashes itpon a desel-teel hearth with the fire cleact

the l,ilighter stilled,

and the light extinguished. hix like· a winter I.,ticiscape with tlic· Min hidden, tile flowers llc)/en,

and the wind whiN,cringMrs Kathy O'Connell and Amanda Schembri during morning prayer on camp

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through the Withered leaves.

Kate 11,lhc,iiiic,1

MANDEVILLE MIRROR Every Friday with the 'Mandeville Mirror' group, we

write our articles for the coming edition. The topics included vary from sporting activities to world h.appenings,

'Mandeville Mirror' provides a stimulus for creative

writing as well as prac tice of editing and publishing skills.

Ros.in 11.iIi Healy Jacqueline Halpin, Nicole Dwyer

CAMP ECHUCA - I made new friendships as well as making my old friendships stronger - Catherine Ryan

- The camp had a good range of social and educational

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- We all learnt to look after ourselves, like making a bed Caroline Smith, Alexandra Stafford, Kate Dalheimer

from scratch, not talking after lights out and setting and clearing tables - Victoria Chapman

DRAMA Our first project ot the vear was to create a dance piece using t.he song "All I Want To Do" by Sheryl Crow. Year 6 Gold has three clifferent datices: "Average people at the Biix Stop", "The Gang" alid "Chairish" Year 6 Blue on the other hand did a dance involving the

whole· class. We were all really pleased with our efforts and the auctience really enjoyed the performances as Well.

Now the girls are practising their new play called "Antarcticaid" which is about caring for the e l i vi r o i i i 11 e n t .

Lara Signorino

Year 6 Gold at the moment are rehearsing their plays

- I recommend The Penny Arcade and The Wax

about "Dreamtime"

Museum to anyone who visits Echuca - Zara D'Cotta Drama is a wonderful place to express yourself, Lara Signorino and Chei->01 Holt - The sounds of nature and moving water as we travelled down the Murray River on tile paddlesteamer were unforgettable - Jessica Cuttler

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Religious Education The year opened gently with a communion service for staff 1-ocussing on the United Nations Year of Tolerance. A welcome visitor was St- De irdre Rofe 1 BVM,

who spoke about the role of tolerance in both our personal and protessional lives and also reminded us of the limits of tolerance. 111 the first weeks of tile term, each R.E. class then celebrated their own communion

service using the same theme.

Drama and mime continued to be a fuature of school

liturgies this year. For our Easter liturgy Mrs Robyn Kay helped prepare a snuill group who mimed john's account of the Resurrection and Mrs Anne O'Shea

prepared the readers of a script which extended and commented on the feelings of Marv Magdalene.

For Feast Day, Amy Scally ably directed another

group of students from the Senior and junior Schools who acted out a mc,clern-day version of Luke's accolint of the healing of the ten lepers. The girls wore for the first time liturgical garments of a stunning red fabric, made up by Mrs Rose Migliardi. St- Helen Maguire

IBVM, obtained the design from Loreto. Ballarat, :ind organised their production. Our Chlistmas liturgy will feature a dramatisation 01 O. Henry's fanious storv, 'The (;ift of the Magi'.

a young Muslint woman. An entraticing storyteller, Gill Di Stefano, spent an hour with each Year 7 class as part of their unit on Sacred Stories, telling diffurent stories to each grc)lip.

The R.E. Department has worked closely with the newly formed Personal Development Committee to address important issties. We have drawn on the services of the God Squad, Pregnancy Action Centre, Dr (latherine Black, Professor Michael Carr-(,regg, tile Adolescent Health Unit of the Children's Hospital, Dr

jacqueline Smith and others.

An important initiative was the introduction of a unit

on alcohol education, taken by the Year 9 R.E. teachers, which takes the harm minimisation approach. A highlight was the Parent Information Night attended bv a large number of Year 9 parents and run bv teachers, Year 11 and Year 9 students.

Staff and students alike were invigorated by the

inspirational Sr Pat Murray, IBVM., during her week With o in Altgust.

1995 has been a positive year, with the R.E. stall contilitting to provide religioUS ecllication which N

innovative and well taught, and to offer imaginative and relevant liturgy, Ms Helen O'Keefe (R.E. Coordinator)

Musicians and singers continued to make a inagnificent contribution this year, especially at the Father/Daughter Masses and also at each of our major

liturgical events. Miss Deana Dodds, inusical director for

the junior School, has also made a very valuable contribution to Senior School liturgy this year and the

participation of students has been enhanced by regular singing practices at year level chapel assemblies taken by

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Mrs Felicity Kai-sz and Mrs Wendy Todd.

The fortnightly lunclitime communion services continued this year, each one written with great

imagination by Mrs Pat O'Halloran and prepared ancl

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presented bv sticlents. The numbers attending are

always sinall and we worild like to encourage more stridents to Viend this special tinle iii praver and 1-Cil€·Ctic)11.

Each year many speakers are invited to different R.E.

Katie Taylor and May Wang prepare for a Year 8 liturgy

clas,es, and this year we had a very interesting array, of which we can list only a few. Cartoonist Michael Lezinig

spoke to Year 12 as did Abel Guterres from the East Timor Relief Association. Year 8 listened to a

Benedictine nun and an expert on aromatherapv, both in connection with the medieval detective novel that

features a Benedictine monk, Br Cadeal. Lic) Barry, an ex-Mandeville student who has worked in Cambodia,

Sonialia:ind Rwanda, came twice to speak to War 11 and

encouraged them to support the work of her sisters, Sophie and I.ynclal, with the Karen people, a minority

group in But-ma. Money mised by Year 11 has been used to build a one-room school for the Karen. Peter Wearne

and jill Lacey liom the St Kilda Theos Youth Ounrach

spoke to Year 9 about their work with young people ill trouble. A number of speakers from (lifierent religions came to speak to Year 10, including a Buddhist nun and

Readers at the Simply Sharing Mass (L-R) Kate Ralph, Phoebe Knowles, Erin Kennedy, Kasey Warner, Emily McLeay, Hannah Whiting

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Japan Homestay Visit Ntudents learning japanese at Loirto Mandeville ] hill were given thi· opportili-litv to expel-ic·11('r.Japanese

cuhure and lifestyle when they participated iii the first Stilch' tour to japan in .%(picinber.

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experience at Ftikwoka Kaisei. c)111 MAL·1· Ac·lic)(,1, in .japan, and the linal week toilling other parts of the 0)ulltrv.

At Fukuoka Kitisci School the girls experienced a wide vatict)' 01' le»011%. all conducted ill Japanese.

The photographs illustrate just some aspects of their experiences iii japan.

Rachel de Zoete learning to play the Koto

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Danielle Bettenay helps to rake leaves as part of the daily cleaning of the school by students.

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Catherine Fernando and Emily Kishida in a Sumi-e lesson.

(From front left) Sarah Whiting, Virginia Grant, Andrea Tilley, Elizabeth McCartney and Rachel de Zoete playing Karuta with

(From front right) Brigitte Garvey, Elizabeth McCartney, Ania Gruba,

Takeshita Sense

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Mai Yoshida watches as the peace birds are released at the Junior

Ania Gruba

School by Melanie Dalheimer, Natacha Moussi, Clare Peachey and Lucy Virtue to remember the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima

Mai Yoshida: A Gentle

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day. 111.}apan, if they do have a question, they must ask it after class privately. Asking a question in class is considered annoying and disruptive for other students.

Chaos. It'+ 11.15 in our japanese class, and already

Mai has become accustomed to Australian food,

there is a state of excitement. Girls charter about recent

although she doesti't like the 'diet that lives mainly on bread'. Her trip to the U.S.A. was a problem, as the

films and television episodes and books litter the desks and floor. The door opens and Mrs Pidcock and Mai

staple food was bread and there was very little rice, In

Yoxhi€la enter.

Australia, bread and rice ale readily available.

Mai reminds me of a gentle crane. She doesn't

intrude or even seem to take up space; she just quietly observes and then helps where needed.

'Everything is cheap and delicious.' exclaims Mai,

who has developed a taste for lamb!

Mai's experience in Australia has been very

Iliree and a half months ago, twenty-one year old

rewarding vet she has never become used to the

Mai arrived from Japan where she is in the Fourth Year

spaciousness of our country as japan is so densely

at Hiroshima University. Some clay she will be an English

pop illa ted.

teacher. Swimming, playing the piano and shopping are Mai's main interests. but she is also an enthusiastic cook.

Mai's experiences with Australian schools differ from those in japan.

'I really like the Australian education system that is so close between the staff and students.' Mai noted that the

girls are active, lively and positive and are able to state their opinion.

'However, injapan. students are always quiet in class; they sit still and don't ask ainy questions,' said Mai. Copying what the teacher writes on the board and listening are the main requirements for students each

'I love Australia, except for this cold and wet, wintry weather. I wish I could stay here longer.'

Mai will return to japan soon and be reunited with her parents and younger sister.

Mandeville has been very fortunate to have someone like Mai to enrich our school programme and bridge

many cultural aspects with her gentle manner and positive approach.

Sayonara MaiWe will all miss you!

Alison Pettigrew, Year 8

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1 heard on the raclic, this morning that the Scrbs had

OUTSTRETCHED ARMS

captured Bosnian nwn who are of fighting- afre,' my

First Prize, Senior Writing Competition

mother whispers.

1 studv mr illother'% fuce and the c trases liticler eves

Slie reveals her bloody arm. poised with her hand

% 11.i],ecl l i ke a cu p , f i l i gers po i n t i ng 11 pwards as t hough i i i 2111 appeal for help. There are piciti tifioils where the bone jabs her skin, 1„111(·cl tightly .ic 1-oss her like the

cloth tops on the jam jars I liNed to buv for Mother< Day. Star,iiig. her ews are withdrawn into her head. while her cheekbones have risen fi'om her gaunt, grev fuce. >;lu· c 1.isps her facled bltic' scarf .11-(nind her neck with bonv lingers. Nbc #·alks the streets-xtrects that are grey, a. ifil pennanent All,1(low falls over them. She is a victim C )1 Will·.

'The ino,;t recent attacks iii the Bosnian/Serb wai·

ocairred in 11 town <)11#Midc Sal Iljevo. (1(I'»tating- 111,1,iy 1 listen as the newsreader intic)(hires the evening news in his polished, :irtificial voice. deliberately accentuating particular phrases. Dressed iii a grey suit and a tic with hhic· and 1,1.ick swirls. his hair carefullv Atvled. he focuses on the I citilchra. Somellow his words (10

not adequatel,- deNcribe the woman with the facled blue

would slie feel if slic· were the woman with the facled

scarf, searching for her hitsband and 16 vear old on, her head throbbing with Mic·fs, grief .111(1 hutigen while Alic c an feel bencath her fect the vibration 11'0171 the

booining gulis? M, 1 2,ther'% evo ga/c at the television and he licm'lls, shaking his head, 11(11 Wanting to believe what he has seen.

Not one news report would be complete without an hisc·lisitive camera shot of tlic temporan' 11(,Apital. ainicht grev wall,; that trcinble 21% gillix firc. There ix llc) ilic(licille, no operating- tai)le, llc) bed-onk ragged. white bandages. Docton fret and strap thc'Nt· pieces of linen to bloodv Stumps, while sonw innocent victims have collapNed to ilic· 11(,(,1, not able to hold their weight

,inv longer. Death rexicles withili this tomb 01,1 hospital, rearing its head anct ti-apping the weakest victims 21% they

1-each out their arms, their 11.111(1% shaped like a cup, fing<'1'4 poiliting upward»-it is an appeal for help to doctors who are unable to littend thein.

'1)ad. mv cough has come back. Can I have some

SCIll Il

I-hey think NATO will intervene.' I imtinble to my 'Talks were held in the White I louse today, the

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antibiotics? It really hurts. I think I'ni coming down with the 'Illl.' 1 whille » he Jurpx his ice ('1-(Illil, Alic)ltldel'M

father, as my mother clatters dishes at the Aink.

CC)i)ceriling-

and 1,£'Mide her inouth where iniddle age has Net it. How

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Bosnian/Serb war,' prattles tile newsreader.

I see Bill Clinton gathered with scvt·val other men

around a fine oak table. each fingering the important

hunched. I know I will be well within a few clin·x.

'Now onto sport and weather. Iici-6 1.In \1.1!iler...' I do tic,t hear the lic\# Nreader allrmote. 1 11,111,111% have a

tenclencv to ignore something when ther cloin want to hear 01- see it.

documents before him. Some have furrowed brows and

I reach Out my 11.111(1 and click tIle television'S black

receding, vampire hairlines, as an intic)cluction to their

switch, perturbed by the clay's footage. Perhaps Channel

litic grey hair. Each i, attired in an expensive stlit, single-

Two should have warned people about the graphic

breaxted and bunoned at the waist. 1 caimot hear their

scenes. I switch the television off-the innocent victinis

voic c·%. but I do not twed to. They are "all talk". I know

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ther are. At the end of the dav Bill can retire into

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I lill.,1-6 arms. while that woman with the facled blue

%(211'1' seal'CheN ferventk for her fainilv. scouring and 1-listling through 1-111,1,le for any liseful material.

Mum shows the 1,1-11+Nel sprollts. 1)c':111% 1111(1 potato onto our plates. 1111111()('lli'ling them to accommodate the 1.11·ge juicy strak. Steam circulates al)ove ili\ plate, its w.11 Ilith vising .111(1 floating about 111)' liur .14 1 childishly

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decide to eat the \'c'u<·tai)les first , leaving 111\ meat to eat

with im' share of the green salad. Mv Al(,inach grumbles

An iinage *lowlv forms off the water a. I sce.

and silliva. prompted bv rapicl swallowing, c)(,/i% down my throat. I .un hung'ry. The newsreader's commentarv

An image of great pii//Icment, an image thus of me.

ix jilst a.(lible :1|)(nr the clanging 01 c litlery, the

gn/(le,

inflection in his voice nmrked above tile perrwisive

Iii skimming off the water, sceps in and takes mv place.

Mv eves are dark, im· fuce N sour, onlv love reveals its

Ma'aping Of plato.

A white van (bearing the LI-lited Natic)17% s, inbol)

A snowllake slowl,· fulls into the darker work! I know.

appears on the scirell, which remincls me that

Ihe rellection of mv life as seed begins to grow.

patronifingly, sonic west(111(1% selld aid. providing it is

M,· 1,]inchicss traps mv heart, ancl I the Ic)(,1. cannot see,

tax deductible. As the van (11-ives amidst the static·

A dowl,+ frn'ming rellection ofa kind and gentler ine.

rubble. a white light aniong the %1111'(,titicling- gre)'lic'SM, living skeletons Witli c,ittxtretched arms run iii its wake,

hi all the skv. in all the land, a plizzlement ix born.

seeking water, bread-anything that will salisij' them for

C)tic· Ilmt cannot bc broken through rellections that I

a day. They aH look like the lady with the faded blue

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scarf, the gauntlic·xs masking their iclenlitv. C :aught in an

Iii time I mav le.11'n to love again and with cach step I

undemocratic political %11-liggle amidst trovernments

take,

oblivic)11% to theit- lickeds. they are not 01)|ivious to fallen

In inv new beginning, new reflectic)1™ I can inake.

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First Prize, Intermediate

often think of these past years as the "lost years". The years iii which I lost my friend.'

David smiled. Mark was absolutely right. No-one really knew Steven except Steven.

David smiled at the blonde-haired woman standing

'It's funny', David said, 'how Steven could be sitch a mystery to us, and yet we were all such good friends. I also see puzzling reflections when I think of Steven's

before him. She hadn't changed a bit, even though it

life.' He paused, then went on. 'I saw him a few years

had been six years since lie'd last seen her.

softly and stepped into the warmth of the house.

ago. He looked great-so young and carefree. Clinging to his arm was a gentle-looking, auburn haired woman.

That seriousness and harshness were no longer a part of

'You look great, Dave. l'in so glad you decided to come. Mark's been so excited to see vou.' She laughed to herself. 'He's.just like a little kid. In fact, he probably

truly in love. He didn't say a word, and yet I could tell all this. It seemed I knew him so well and yet I didn't. I

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'Hi, Cathy. It's good to see vou again.' He hugged her

11.111't grown up at all sina· high school.'

Dave latighed too. He'd considered refusing Mark's invitation but he realised, at that illoment, that true

friends never changed. It had taken Cathy's warm smile to make him realise it.

'How .11-e vou, old mate?' Mark asked,

'Who are you calling 01(12' Dave replied. They sat. down at the dinner table and reminisced about old

times. h was inevitable they Aliould talk about Steven, 'Steven wax a niystery to me,' Mark said, 'I never knew what was going on in his mind, so I never really unclerstood him, Even back in primary school he scemed so much older and wiser than all the other kids.

1 mean, he was an orphan and his life was restricted. 1 suppose he never had a chance to be a kid. I don't know, perhaps that was the reason for the harshness voit'd see in his eyes.' Mark closed his eyes, as if reliving every ill()111('llt.

'I remember the first time I saw him. We were having a class clisaission, in Grade Five, and it was my first day.

I was the richest kid there and probably the most educated. The topic was 'family;' and when it was my turn to speak I used all these big words, to flatint my intelligence. I wa< never the modest type 'All the kids in the class looked clitinbfounded. Even

him and his smile told me that he was trnly happy and

blinked my eyes and he was gone. I clon't know ifhe saw me and I suppose I never will. 1 often wonder what happened during the "lost years". Cathy, clo you know some

thing?'

Cathy walked over to the diesser and plilled out an envelope. David watched with curiosity. 'Yesterday I got

this letter, and that's why I wanted to see you, David. It concerns all of us.' She glanced at Mark and went on.

'It's from Steven. I think it may explain the "lost years .

She opened the envelope and began to react the letter al()ild.

"' Dear Fric,ncls,

There's been so much that I've wanted to tell you and vet I haven't.

At ter graduc ition I disc overecl that I 111,(l an illicle and

aunt. who were still alive. I was packed off to England to

live with them. I tried to get in Contact With all three 01 you, but you had all gone to univer.Nity sonwwhere in Emnpc.

My aunt and uncle treated me as their own chik[ and

they were the parents I never hail. They showed inc what familv love really was.

After several years of happiness, I met Mary and she showed me a different side of life. I loved her as I have

never loved anyone in all my life. Mary will remain with me forever in inv heart and souL

the teacher looked shocked to find that a ten and a half

Ui-ttortunately, Mary died during the birth of our

year old kid could tise such big words. I was a bit of a

baby boy. I don't believe I will live to see him grow into

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'When I finished speaking, I silently congratulated

a young man, because I have cancel-. That's the reason for this letter. My son is in the same orphanage that I

myself on making such a good impression on my first day. Then this gawkv but strong-looking boy stepped

grew tip in as I am zinable to look after him, but I don't want him to grow up as I did, without ever really being

onto the platform and spoke about 'families'. He was

loved. I want him to be happy and to have a family, 1

fantastic. It wasn't so much what he saii but how he said

believe that you could give him all the things that I never

it. He had this look about him which.just grabbed your attention. The other kids weir hanging off his every

will share it with my son.

word.

'I've never been a .jealous kind of person, but Steve was the first person I ever envied.

Mark looked around the room. 'Steve's life was so

had. You have so inuch love to share, so I pray that you Your friend always, Steven."'

(Cathy wiped away her tears. Mark's hand touched her face softly. They knew what they would cio.

mysterious and yet somehow I thought I knew him. I

David smiled through his tears. They finally

don't think anyone really knew him. You could only get

understood Steven. The letter had explained the 'lost

so close and then this imisible barrier would come

years', but it explained a lot more than that-it

between vou and him. In fact, when I reflect on Steve's

explained Steve.

life at school, all I see air puzzling reflections.

'During the past six years I haven't seen him once. I

They no longer saw puzzling reflections.

Kasey Warner, Year 9

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MOVING ON

First Prize, Junior Writing Competition 1 looked (mt of the window. The rain was 1.illing

Chilclhood. 1 blew the clust and gunk away fi-om [lie collection of paint tinx and found a verv old but verv significant hall tin <,1 pink paint. Returning to 111\ 1'(,c,in I picked out Iin- desk (although covered in 1).11,cls), my bookcase, and niv c hest of drawers and pailited them phik!

heaviE·. h stal)bcci the pavenient when it hit the ground

'lhere', 1 X.tid to }11\'self, 'I have Combined mv two

and the c 1,)11(11 began to nierge as one big, mean cloud.

StageS of life in the one rootiz!' But I still needed

1 guess the barbecue will be off', 1 thought to i,i)'Sclfas

something nunr... 1 know, I 've got it, I must bc the

I looked .,tound the room, waiting for iny eyes to

Cleve res t and most intellectually talented pers,in alive!' I

pounce on something creative to do. Then I saw the

sighed and unce again trudged through the mud to the

alisiver, the photo albums...this was the perfect chance

old died where I was certain to find a new part of ine.

to reinember long lost summers alld davs whell }'c)lilised

Picking up .1 111-anci new tin of blue paint I wacled

to be able to wear bathers without sucking iii vour

through the puddles back to mv room where .ill this had

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begun.

1 opened the first album and there I was on the title

Holding the new tin (,1 blile pailit in the palm of illy

page, red and pimph-, and swaddled in a pink bunny

hand I realised that I was entering vet another stage 01

rug. 'Three weeks old' said the inscription below it.

my life...1117 1,|lic stage. 1 tore down the hallwav to where

Opp<)Mite that there was another one 01 Inc hing in il

I found. well. it was an interesting blile vase of Mlitil' s. 1

IAnk 1,.issiiictic witli iny iiic,tkier hunbig cnci and

plon ked it on nn· pink chest oicll-:iwers and then painted

smiling. '1<mily in her new loom', it siticl. 'BORING, 1

some of mi· inost treasm·ed ornaments blite. 1 inade

s:iici to myself :is I reached for the next allittin. I Slowly

another clash into the (lanip und disguxting- 4,11-den und

opened it up and then I think I had a miki heart attack

picked a few very wet iri,cs li·oni MunG 1,1-11.cil bed.

for there I Ka.4 112-,tin, With my blonde hair in pigt,lils, my

They winked conspiratoriallv at me Ils 1 put them in the

two f t'ont teeth Inissing and mv Barbie (14)11 clutched in

vase. 'Whooo!', I Ac-traint·cl at the top of mr hings.

Inie hand! 'AlIHIC. I screamed just loud enough for my

'Fitiall,, after much Noul-Meaic·hing, I have connected

parents to licar, it could not possiblv be lue! Evervone

three parts of nn· life. I have captured the times iii my

knows me as the cooL black and groovy girl yet here I am

life when I have in fuct inc„, cl on: although I have done

in my pink room with my pink bed with iny pink friezes

it in .1 rather hizarre wav, I have succeeded.'

and niv teddies in a pink basket in the corner. 1 closed

I walked to the winclow of the living room and

the all)uin before I had time to look at the picture of me

tholight back to where this whole thing had begun. with

1-Imning naked in the garden. How can all this 'moving

the rain crashing on to the pavement like knives, but

on' take pl.ice in juit ten years? DO you sliciclenly go click

now the raill had cleared and the sun had popped it A

and paint your room black or (lors it happen over a

head out, and I thought that at anv second it was going

couple ofyears?

I ilicked back to a picture olhne iii 19' rooin when I

to say '1 lello'. So while I have been moving on the weather ha.4 too, so 1 guess everyone and everything hai

was ten. My room was still that diracled pink colour but 1 had mam' c,111,111ic·nts and groovy posters some of

Emilv Smith. War 7

which 1 still have now. But whitt I want to know ix when

and how I ever convinced kinin to let ME. paint \|\ 1'00111 141.·\(14. Little diet I know that the aliswer w.,s Xtaring me

in the face, for hing there ill the vet-)' next all)11111 Was a

picture of Mum forking hillicileds of dollars over to professional painters. The iliscription below reacl ' Having children i rally does take thirty )'ears off your life.' Then I remembered that this was the exact time

when I had swapped friendship groups. I had left my so called 'pink' friends and joined the groovy girls as they are called. So I guess this is how I moved on, it depends

on who you hang around with and what intlitences different people have on vou.

Sitclclenlv I had an idea. Could I combine mr two

phases in the one room, showing that I had never really left nn· childhood behind but am still the awesome girl that ever)1)(1(1)+ lows? I ran down to the old shed,

Splashing through the plicldles. not even caring- 1|lat In, new Nike Ait x were becoming salial cited. I imagined som(· tre!11(71(lous explorer searching for a mixxing piece ohome ni.igical stone. 1 pushed the cloor. As it creaked open it was as if I was opening up a door to mv lost

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Sr Josephine Jeffery (School Archivist)

Back, L-R: Sr Margaret O'Sullivan IBVM, Sr Mercia Robinson IBVM Sr Therese Daly IBVM, Front:

Sr Angela Serong IBVM, Sr Ruth Winship IBVM

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BUSINESS OFFICE STAFF

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Mr Peter Andriopoulos (Information Technology Technician)

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SECRETARIAL STAFF L-R: Miss Jacqueline Buttigieg (Staff Secretary), Mrs Lisa MeMaster (Receptionist), Mrs Jan Paull (Principal's Secretary), Mrs Jennifer Dickson (Music/Careers Secretary), .Mrs Robyn Stapley (Student Secretary).

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Band are famous due to their rec orclings for the school's

Mandeville nitisicians. Students have given up many

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hours of their time to dedicate theiliselves to the various

june N .ilso the period f oi- the Bonx,ndani (Camberwell) Eisteddfod. The day following the Music

ensemble rehearsals and niusical events that are spread throughout the vear.

The first major event for musicians was the

peric„-in,ince given on Open Dav in March. Having been at school for barely two inonths, the musicians entertained the visitors iii locations around the school

with a wide-ranging repertoire. April saw several bus loads of musicians travelling to Daylesford for the very

productive annual Music Camp. Much progress and ensemble skill

consolidation

resulted from

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enjoyable weekend.

Festival saw the members of the Vocal Ensemble singing in two sections at this competition. Iii the Open section, t.hev received an Honourable Mention, and were placed third in the Under 18 section against still competition.

Term 3 was also a busy time for inzisicians. The Vocal Ensemble, String Orchestra and String Quartet played iii the foyer of the Telstra building iii the city, and the Choir and Vocal Ensemble performed in the Waverley Eisteddfod. An exciting highlight for the Symphony Orchestra was the opportunity for numerous rellearsals

Term 2 is perhaps the busiest of times for our scliool

with Mi- Graham Abbott, Associate Conductor of the

nmsicians. No sooner do they finish three weeks of intense Performing Arts Festival rehearsals, than they have to practise rigorously for six weeks for the annual

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Melbourne Chorale. His extensive insights into orchestral playing and his humour were beneficial, and

Music Festival. The RA.F., one of tile nlusical and

appreciated by the members of the Orchestra. The

ch,unatic highlights of the school c alenclar, held in Term 2, was an extremely bus)' time fol musicians a.4 they

Sonata/Concertc Recital was also a significant event in

cot™cientiously practised music (for a stunning result)

entertained the audience with their lengthy, difficult

continually thrust at them by the House Music Captains.

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The annual Music Festival, held in the Robert

Term 4 saw the ti-ial for the newly proposed House

Blackwood Hall at Monash University in .julie, was a

Musical Festival, where nillsicians and llc)11-musicilins

ticmendous success. The standard of the school

can represent their House iii nitisic.

ensembles is ever-improving and this year manv compliments about our mtisicians and our Festival were

Add to this hectic schedule regular lunclitime concerts, dailv rehearsals, performances and

received from visitors unaffiliated with the school. This

preparations for school-based events snell as the Final

is a fantastic tribute to the dedicated musicians who put in so much work during the course of the yeaI At this

Assembly and several Oak Parlour recitals, and you can

time, members of the St Cecilia's Orchestra graduated

The commitment of the students is to be commended,

to the Loveto Symphony Orchestra or the Loreto Concert Band, thus increasing the number of instrumentalists in our two lal-gest ensembles. The

and thanks are due to all the music staff who help with these events, especially Mrs Wendy Todd, the Director of

Symphony Orchesti-a, String Orchestra and Concert

Natasha Holmes (Music Captain)

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SENIOR CHOIR Back row L-R Christina Broussard, Joan Allanadale, Hayley Richards, Skye Alexander-Begbie, Miriam Slattery, Lisa Crosato, Elizabeth McCartney, Tiffany Loft, Virginia Jones (Senior Chorister).

Centre row L-R Elizabeth Marks, Shona Hannaford, Lauren-Jade Ryan, Emily Gaidzkar, Emma Whiting, Roisin Gleich, Jessica Day, Annabel Smith, Veronica Shine, Amanda Hodder, Mrs Wendy Todd.

Front row L-R Charlotte Algie, Katherine McMahon, Casey Gunn, Sharna De Leo, Catherine Moran, Zoo Kitchen, Bianca Pepe, Lucy Johnson, Sarah Rowlands.

Absent Karina Chaves, Natasha Holmes (Accompanist), Christine Sammartino, Jennifer Datson, Katsy Lee, Emily McLeay, Camilla Bourke.

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LORETO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Back row L-IR Mrs Felicity Karz, Tiffany Vickers, Lizette Bell,

ORCHESTRA

Mar e-Danielle Turner, Rachel Ball, Phoebe Knowles,

I'lic' Symphon) Orchestra has had an exciting and

productive war under the direction of Mi s Felicity ]Cit g. 0111- focus for the first half of the \Tear was the

Christine Sammartino. Marion Stephenson, Melissa Tiernan, Brigid Andersen, Priscilla Ruffolo, Mr Graeme Pender.

34 row L.R Margherita Boemo, Madeleine Healy, Virginia Jones, Angela Hill, Catrina Boemo. Andrea Tilley, Natasha Holmes,

MtiNic Festival in june, in which we provided the Grand

Annabel Smith. Elspeth Martini (Leader), Rachel Mclnerney

Finale, playing 'jupiter' bv Holst. From this

2nd row L-R Ebonie Martello, Roxanna Ryan, Kathryn Friend, Emily Smith, Catherine Fernando, Anne Conroy, Katsy Lee,

performance we realised that all the hard work and preparation had been worthwhile, and we received manv coinpliments.

Skye Alexander-Begb e, Jacinta Holmes.

Front row L.R Simone Bailey, Patricia Nigro, Emma Wilson,

May Wang, Melissa Migliardi, Alexandra Angelaros, Lucy Johnson,

For the cluration of Term 3 we had the privilege of

playing 1111(ler tile direction of Mr Graham Abbott,

Nathalie Resciniti, Megan Walters.

Absent S-ep t-anie Resciniti, Sarah Martini.

a.™,ciate conductor with the Melbourne Svmplionv Orchestra. In this time we worked on the First

Moveinent of Beethoven's First Svmphonv and a inedley arralierinent of four Beatles sones. Mr Abbott's '.

expectations were high, and we lifted our performance ,iceordinglv. 1 would like to thank all the members of the

()rchest i a: vou are a great biltic 1-1 of 1 1 l usici ans and your commitment throligholit the year is much appreciated.

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El.peth Martini (I.eader)

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Lisa Crosato, Elizabeth McCartney, Virginia Jones.

Front row L-R Sharna De Leo, Tiffany Lot Natasha Holmes, Joan Allanadale, Veronica Shine.

Absent Lucy Johnson, Mrs Wendy Todd.

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Christina Brownirig, Rochelle Howie, Jennifer Hopkins. ,-

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LORETO STRING QUARTET The Loreto String Quarter has had an interesting year of events.

At the Music Festival, they had the honour of

performing the world premiere of a piece, "Semplice Elegante", written by one of our music students.

Christine Sarnmartino. It was a gi-eat success, and a tribute to the composer's hard work in creating a beautiful piece of milsic.

The Quartet also plaved at the Fathers' Association Annual Dinner, but were at odds with the weather. . 17/ =2

Despite music ilviNg evervwhere in the cold conditions 0 . itg

(with every attempt to attach music to the stands endin STRING QUARTET

disastrously as gusts of wind destroyed the fragile

equilibrium of the stands) and help from on-hand music staff' and unsuspecting fathers, the ensenible performed

L·R Elsoeth Martini, Natasha Holmes, Virginia Jones, Jacinta Holmes.

at their usual high standard.

Playing iii the Telstra building was ati exciting challenge for the Quartet. However, the same wind trick J in the foyer forced the Quartet to display their wonderful skills of musicianship and memory as fellow

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students tried to retrieve and order the haphazard music ' rF (in front of a very public audience) .

The Quarter expanded their already large repertoire this year and have enhanced their general musicianship skills in the situations they were forced to confront iii 1995.

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FLUTE ENSEMBLE Back row L-R Melissa Migliardi, Kate Dickson, Rachel Ball, Front row L-R Alexandra Ange atos, Victoria Heatley, Phoebe Knowles, Nathalie Resciniti.

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2nd row L-R Katsy Lee, Mrs Lucy Crowther, Clare Noonan.

Front row L-R Kamy Lee, Karen Lee, Rachel Hoy, Anthea Kavanagh, Roxanna Ryan, Laura Riley. '.-4

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(1.·lilonsti-lited how much we trallv have achieved.

ispeciall,· when we performed at the Gilla Conccrt.

Ewing t_'nited Fric·ticiship Centle and Mahri·ti Central

Slic )pping Centre. All performances were outstandingand congratillations go to .111 the gil-1% in the Band for

Olivia Burns, Michelle Funder, Jennifer Bishop, Kathryn Friend,

Kate Dickson, Catherine Whelan, Stephanie Doyle.

Mr Graeme Pender.

3,d row L-R Sarah Saunders, Simone Bailey, Megan Walters, Laura Riley, Rache! Hoy, Clare O'Neil, Roxanna Ryan,

Arithea Kavanagh, Phoebe Nugent, Rachel Griffiths, Simone Ball, Sunaina Miranda.

2nd row L-R Rochelle Howie, Sarah Pinto, Clare Noonan,

ilwir efforts.

Earlier in the vear we fareweHed \Ir Pender, th.inked him for .111 his h.u·d work. and wished him well .1, he

complete his Doctorate iii Music. \Ve wilcomed \11-% Meach.lin, c )111 lic·w (ic)tic(·11 Band

Conductor. who joined ils in Xecollci sc'liicster. c .:1111!liencing 11:i|lif'av through the val' Woilld not have been eax,·. 1,111 \11% Melic·ham'% experience 111(':tilt overvonc Mettled in \veil.

1 would also like to thank \Ii->; Todd and \Irs Kiti'%/ For their 21%04istalice te the C uncert Band.

Melis,a Migliardi (1.eader)

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Emjly Smith, Skye Alexander-Begbie, Kamy Lee, Rebecca Pereira Arine Conroy. Katsy Lee, Beth La Brooy.

F,ont row L-R Stephanie Resciniti, Patricia Nigro Malissa Migliardi (Leader), Priscilla Ruffolo. Melissa Tiernan, Shona Hannaford, Lucy Johnson, Nathalie Resciniti.

Absent Domenica Gullace.

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Stephanie Keenal, Jennifer Bishop, Alisha Hnatjuk, Surini Wijayasinghe, Lisa Charlton, Criseyda Robinson, Jennifer Turnbull, Christina Broussard.

Front row L-R Charlotte Algie, Gianna Sabbadini, Jane Serong, Stephanie Maule, Emily Gaidzkar, Belinda Bowman,

Georg.na Coleman, Sinaina Miranda, Rebecca Pereira, Camille Deane.

MUSIC CAMP On 31 Mai-ch three buses :11-rived at the Cleliclon

Road gates. On to them weir piled music stands,

instr·uments, higgage, sleeping bags. pillowg, a lot of rowdy girls ancl a small gang of intrepid teachers. For the next three (lavs Rutherford Park in Dazlesford Would be

the girls' home, the site of tile 1995 Loreto Mandeville

Hall Music Camp. The rect of the weekend w,)111(l ver

the girls participate in intensive rehearsals to prepare for the annual Music Festival. This weekend was

Absent Adele Brazeror.

especially helpful as it gave the ensembles a chance to practice before the rehearsals for the Performing Arts Festival began.

When not participating in reheal-sals the girls were able to study, or have free time, playing games of football, basketball and telinis. On Saturclay night a Mass was held in the band room and following this a fun

concert, in which inost people participated. with sonic fairly mixed results. The acts inchided 'The Music Dudes' and a celebrity-studded parodY of 'ER', As Sunday morning dawned a lot of bleary-eyed girls awoke to the final day of rehearsals. After these

1A GUITAR ENSEMBLE Back L-R Phoebe Nolan, Melissa Migliardi Angela MeFarland.

Front L-R Anna-Marie Black, Michelle Chan.

Absent Rebecca Coleman, Mr Matthew Fagan.

conchicled, bags were packed, rooms checked, 1>zixes re loaded, then a lot of tired girls and a few xeverely exhausted teachers headed back 10 Melbourne.

The weekend proved a fi-ttitful one :111(1 was thoroughly beneficial to the girls and ensembles. Special thanks is due to the staff at Rutherford Park for

wonderful hospitality and patience towards ils all, and thaiiks must also be given to tile teachers, especially Mrs. Todd, for organising the weeketid and for giving lip their tillie.

Tiffany Lof-t. Year 9

MANDEVILLE STRING ORCHESTRA Back row L-R Elspeth Martini (Leader), Catrina Boema, Virginia Jones, Catherine Fernando.

Front row L-R Ebonie Martello, Marie-Dan elle Turner,

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Mrs Felicity Karsz.

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TOURNAMENT OF MINDS Tournament of Mincls is a national competition which invol\'0 Sc,Veral illc),1*und \11%11-aliall Achool

children each year. This war cight te:lins, each

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participated in the Tournalnent. Each of the trams was

required to solve both a long term and Mholt 1(lili problein. The long terni problem was given six wecks in

UP A VERY STEEP HILI WE WENT! It stat-teel (,11 with a chocolate game And at Trivial lili'silit Mr ( i c·we was a bi-ain.

But Iiixwn would go,

For the next (lav brolight Know.

To bushwalk we must be INSANE!

;1(lvance and on the to il 1-1 lament (lav we were l'tqui red to (|emonstrate a 30|tition 10 the prnblem. 7'he

LIp a very steep hill we welit ,

Al)(,ilt,lileous ])1(11)lem, or short term problem, wax a

11,mging out for a heating vent

plc)%,lem given oil the day, where quick and inmginative

To warm our chilled bones

1-('spolurs had to be devised within cmh· a few minute.4.

And stop all oui- groans-

Vournament of Mincls was est.11)lished in 1986 1))· the

We £0111(1 hardlv put lip our tent!

Association for thi· Gitted and Talented, however,

contrat'v to its intine. To]V[ cloes not require solely Food was what we were after academic ability. The most impoitant skill needed to

Rice, Cup-A-Soup, gourmet pasta.

sziccessfully participate in Totirticillic·lit is the abilitv to

Marshinallows no fat-

work in teami In recognising individ 11.11 talents. we were able to incorporate niany and varied skills into the overall presentation. Group dynamics wei-e :1140 essential, and a, we becaine 1 1-iencix, te,inlwork calne

easily. Whilst working hard on our problem, we spent a considerable amount of our time eating, exchanging g-ossip ircim our respective war levels, and latighing.

Having worked with Newt'111 team members in

previous veals. we weir ahradv wcH acquailited 2111(1 the wat- screns quickly becalne part of the tram. During c )111

weekend nu·('tings we devoured several dozen Clim sim A each, party pies and packets of chips, ancl, in brtwc·en mouthfuls of food, we brailistormed. It was during one

Bet voit clidn't know thad-

And Prue's pancakes provided tile laughter.

At Feathertop the eagles had huwled, Even the slowest had come lip to standard.

Snowball, were thrown,

And the h.,1-Nh wind was blowiti

And the rat water was 2111,·thing 1)lit callclid.

Bedtinic wax three on the dot

After drinking 1,<,iled milk froni a pot. l'he spiders raided,

(,1 these infailic,lis N.itill'cim'>; thilt we devised a Sollition to

But fcar, Inic! facled

our long term problem.

For we knew we (4(111(1 cop the lot.

rhis ])1'(,1,1(·111. which wax in the arc·.1 of

Compile·cl by The litishwalkers

Language/1 .itcramre, involved writing a new ending to Norman Liticls,ty's 7'he Magic· Pitddiug. This sollition was one in which both the pudding und its owners were happy. Oul sollition invoked the original chill'11('tels,

Norman 1 .indsav, ancl Albert Einstrin. The spontancous problem invohrd providing 10 captions for a 111ysterious painting within a time limit of live mitilites.

Miss jenner'% interruption into our French class the following Monclay was an exciting surprise, as she hilk,1-med 11% that we had gained first place in our

division. Consequentlv, two weeks later we participated in the State Finals. held at Monash Universitv. AIici-

being locked iii a room for three holli's, we enle]-ged. slightly overfed and exhausted, but excited iii

anticipation of performing our problem that afternoon.

Altliough we did not win, we en joyed the experience,

1,11(1 were happv with out- solution .

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highlights of Achool life. It is a !11(1111(,1 .ible experience whic h not (,lih iN (·11 joyable, it 111>u) ( (litips its partic ipants with vital skills such 21% group work. organisation and

creativitv. The skills we learnt in participating in

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Aticc'c·As in life. As Leonardo cia Vinci said: "I .c,11'iling- is

the onlv thing the minds never exhan,Sts, never fcal's. and never regrets.'

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2."Big Sister- Little Sister": Ainslee and Alana Spadaro, Anna Flynn and Marian Bard

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4.Year 7 Camp: Anna Bryant, Honor Murdoch, Belinda Bowrian 5.Year 9 in disguise!: Cate Chamberlain, Regina Ka uzny, Stephanie Keenan 6.Year 8 Medieval Day: "Sister" Pat Parkinson with 'Sister" ELen Fox and Fiona Hegarty

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The competition fur the House Choir Shield and the Performing Arts Festival Cup was once again extremely tight. Barry enchanted the audience with their Magic Garden; Mornane thrilled us as we journeyed with Stella

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in her Quest for Space; Mulliall showed the conflict of a creative artist within society; atid Ward, who dedicated their performance to the late Mi·s Sue Saxon, reminded the audience of the importance of having a Dream Escape.

The evening was vet again a success, with Mulhall,

captained by josephine Fagan and Nina Bollacci, winning the Performing Arts Festival Cup, and Mornane, captained by Karina Chaves and Nathalie Resciniti, winning the House Choir Shield with a rousing rendition of 'The Age of Aquarius'. Every Senior student is to be congratulated on her dedication

and effort during the rehearsals and the performance, which made the Performing Arts Festival for 1995 such a success.

Fiona Hanimond (School K ice-Captain) Performing Arts Festival

Clockwise from top right: 1. Mulhall cast members 2. Masked members of Ward 3. Catherine Fernando and Catrina

Boemo - Barry 4. Prudence Foley - Mornane 5. Harpist - Christine Sammartino

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Debating The It.)1).3 Debating sc·lisc )11 xaw a record number of

The intrihouse season provided amusing and

girls competing ill both ilit<<1-%(11001 :111(1 interhouw

informative debates in the Senior %< hool. Under the

clivisic,lis..111 clt'l,:ltes were' ch.,1.lcte,-i,;cd I) good pill,lic

leadership of Nicola McAlpine and Alice 1 hune, Ward

Vwaking and souncl rebuttal. The perfonnances by

swept the finals, victotions in Years 12,11,9, and 8, while·

Years Eight and Nine were esl)eciallv plc·asing as thev

Mulli.ill :voii Year H) and Barrv, 12·111' 7.

Debating promotes clean logical thinking, public

both 111(,ved up a grade.

Tlie inter•;chool coinpetition was held throughout

speaking and confidence. \Fith Loreto debaters xtrong

the vear at \lelbourne I ligh School, with admirable

in all areas, we will be entering a record number of

results for [..M.H. War Fight, in their first season,

students next year in the Debating Association of

quickli· settled in and debated well, often against 01(ler

Victoria season and should build on this year's good

opposition. Yeal Nine and Ten combined and excelled

results.

in 'advised topics', while Year Eleven participated in

Thank you to all staff and students who helped

solne tough del)ates, often resulting in clo,r decisionA.

throughout the season, expeciall, Miss Hale, Head of

Year Twehr showed their expertise in handling

Debating. GOOD I.UCK FC)R NEXT WAR.

imprompm topics, and .11,0 aided younger vear levels in

Kathryn Hannon (Debating Captain)

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Front row L-R Nathalie Resciniti, Emily Roberts, Nina Bonacci, Susannah Lennon, Kathryn Bannon, Letitia Gamble, Virginia Jones, Michelle Reardon.

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B GRADE DEBATING Back row L.R Sarah Gurry, Nerita Benetti Julia Gurry, Melissa Migliardi.

Front row L-R Sarah Whiting, Christine Sammartino, Mr Malcolm Farnsworth, Jane Castles, Gemma Deane.

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Vivienne Ringersma, Clare O'Neil, Catherine Whelan.

Front row L-R Priscilla Ruffolo

Phoebe Knowles, Georgiana Quinn, Jacinta Holmes, Charlotte Mulder,

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Antonia Olthof, Kristen Doyle, Emma Poynton, Claire Baxter, Rebeka Jageurs, Sarah Cichy.

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immense diversity and success of sport at Loreto Mandeville Hall. Sixteen sports are offered at the school and al] students have ali opportunity to participate, regardless of their standard. We have had mixed success

in different areas, yet sport at L.M.H. is improving overaH, due to cledication and hard work, Numerous

additions and changes have been made.

Some highlights of intel:school sport have been winning the S.C.S.A. athletic·x and swimming competitions and the rowing. Our success could not have been achieved without the expert coaching

employed for such sports as swimming, athletics, water polo and rowing. The inclusion of swimming, rowing,

and athletics camps also proved to be beneficial. We were inspired at the swimming by the Australian champion, Daniel Kowalski, and at the athletics by Lee Naylor, both of whom came to speak at the camps.

This year saw the re-introduction of volleyball and

Aerobics was also a prominent feature of the week.

Special thanks must be extended to all the sports

captains of both the in terilouse and interschool sporting teams. Your dedication and enthusiasm throtighout the

year have proved invaluable. Thanks must :11,40 be extended to the RE. stati, Miss Fox, Ms Osborne-Smith,

Mrs Fet-elinands, Ms Millard and Mi x Anclet'%011, and all

the teachers who have been involved with sport. Yout

expert coaching and organisation has not gone unnoticed and the students are very grateful for all voill work.

I am sure tliat sport will continize to be fostered at L.M.H. in the future. To be involved iii sport at the school means that the benefits of physical fitness, team participation, discipline, and most importantly, enjoyment, can be gained.

I wish L.M.H. the best of luck in all sports in the future, and trust that it will continue to progress from

strength to strength and be a leader in sport.

Marian Bard (School Sports Captain)

equitation (Equestrian Club) as interschool comp-

elitions. Also, at the end of last year we had he introduction of a completely new sport at L.M.H. cricket.

There were manv new events in which the school

participated, including the (:.P.S.V.S.A. cross country

competition, various aerobics competitions, the Victorian Schoolgirls' netball competition, the iC.S.A. netball round robin and the Interschool Relay

Championships. L.M.H. is now a member of the G.P.S.V.S.A. which means that we compete against St (:athel-ilie 's, Tititern,

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Grammar School and C.L.C. in tennis, swimming, cross country and athletics.

The L.M.H. Netball Club is now up and running at Caullield on Saturday mornings. This initiative should be credited to Mrs Gillespie.

Everyone should beal- in mind that they are welcome to attend the interschool training sessions. Obviously,

constraints are enforced as to the number of girls to be placed in the competing teams, but if enough enthusiasm is exhibited more teams mav be formed to 41%

accommodate extra athletes. Extra-curricular coaching is available for any student throughout the year in fencing, tennis, gymnastics, and the Xavier-Loreto Swimming and Diving Club.

During liinchtime there is always something going on with regard to sport. Every Tuesday and Thursday aerobics is offered in the gyin. Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday students have the opportunity of going on a

block run. Also, the weight training room is open to girls (Years 9 to 12) every day. There are lots ofopportunities for gil-ls to become involved in the sporting life of the school!

Last October, P.E. week for all students was introduced. This will become an annual event and includes manv activities. The cricket was taken bv a

member of the Australian team, Stephanie Theodore, and basketball by Allison Cook, a nieinber of the Opals.

Alice Hume and Marian Bard (Ward Captains) holding the Interhouse Athletics Cup

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ATHLETICS Fhe 1995 Athleties season was une of great success

with ineinorable 1)('1{(31'inanceS at 1)0111 iliterliouse und interxchool levek

1 he Inteilic,tixe Athletics C,11-nival was held on 1 (ith

\1111-ch at Oh-mpic Park. Ward was the slic cesst 111 l lc,tisc. claiming the 11(,ther lic,villcial Cup. Alc,inane wax im'.11(led the flouse Spirit Cup for their entlillsiasm and cheerille. Year I ,crel Champions for outstanding

performances were Adelaide Hamilton-(:reen (32:11. 7).

C laire Baxter (Yeai X), Rachel I 10,+ C \bar 9),1,211 1<ennv (32·ar 10)..julia ancl Sarah (illin (Yeal- 11). and C citiiilla Bourke (Year 12).

The Inteischool Athletics team participated in three carni\'alA. The (:PSVSA and GSSA Carnivals were both

verv tough coinpetitions and the Lorcto Mandeville H.111 team did not gain a placing at either of these ineets. The SCSA Division 2 Athletics Carnival followed shortlv after

and was the highlight of the vear. Loreto gained first place in the Junior and Senior sections, and second place iii the Intermediate section. These outstanding restilts saw an overall Loreto victory in Division 2. In 1 99(3, we Tvill compete in Division L

The Athletic s Camp, held at Duncan Mckinnon Rexerve, \1111-1-titiil)ectia, in the Easter holiclavs was verv

Nuccessful ancl we look forward to seeing this 11.,clition continue next vear.

'1'he Athletics vear concluded in 1995 with some

ciallent te.1111 perfortil.11100 in the \'ict(,rian Schools

Monday evening·% for the It)9.5-96 xeason. A.junior (Years 7 ancl 8) and a Senior te:un (Years 9 and 1()) are

currentk participating in these inects at 01>'inpic Park,

and air aiming for the Premiership position. after finishing third and fifth respectivelv in thi· It)t).1-95 season. Congratillations to the Year 74% 1 ()0 Rehn team of Megati Downing, Lowise King. Aclelaide 1 1.11],ilton-

(;teell .ilici >.11.1 P.1(illi 101' 21(hil'Ving .1 11()11/C 11)('(111l ill the State linal at the Victorian Relay (71.11]ipionships.

The Year 10.1 learn of jane Kenny, Madeline lioy, Challoue \Ill](ler and Alt·lissa Coi-belt made the linal in both the 4 x 10()111 and 4 x 200111 event of the Under 17

age group. Thev gained sixth place in both events.

Three other teams were .ilso enwred, and performed commendablv in their heats.

Special thanks to the Co-ordinator of Athletics, Miss Carolrn Fox. and the Plirsical Education Department for assistance at the Athletics Camp, carnivals and training Xessions. Thanks al,0 to \11· Brian Elle tt and Mr Guv Anderson. All these staff deserve thanks fur their

time and continual support during tile seaS<)11.

We would like to pass 011 our special thanks to (nir specialht coaches Mr Manfred 1.ewardow,ki, Mr Rod de Highclen. and Miss Denise Passilic,re for their efforts

and time A])ent coaching out- learns this war.

We wish the Loreto Mandeville Hall Athletic A Team

success in It )96 and hope thal the pc)tential evident 1,111(,lig-st the squad can be |'111-ther developed.

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Julia Gurry, Alice Hume, Anika Walker.

Centre row L-R Miss Carolyn Fox, Genevieve Barton, Catherine Longano, Madeline Hoy, Caroline Barlow, Fiona Nazzari, Michaela Bingham, Katherine Baggoley, Lisa Meehan, Melissa Tribe, Anita McCarthy, Catherine Fernando, Tamsin Santos, Victoria Spillane.

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Ruth Tinetti, Air'slee Spadaro, Olivia Elsley, Lesley Horder.

Absent Melissa Corbett, Elspeth Martini.

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3rd row L-R Louisa Bostock, Kamy Lee, Sara Pacini, JacqU Vidal, Angela O'Connell, Louisa King, Samantha Dermatis, Tina Vanspall, Natalie Fleggi Adelaide Hamilton-Green, Chelsea Rowlings, Jessica Moretti. Miss Carolyn Fox. 2nd row L-R Susannah Bailey, Alana Spadaro, Laura Riley, Roisin Gleich Rachel Hoy, Olivia Sweeney, Eloise Porter, Natalie Carter, Michelle Chan, Megan Downing.

Front row L-R Anna Bryant, Beata Lukasiak, Joanne Halpin, Rachel Griffith, Criseyda Robinson, Kate Mcfarland, Jessica Fetterplace, Krista Dale, Dianna Best, Miranda Hindle.

Absent Sally Finemore, Bridget Hill, Jessica Curley, Adele Brazenor, Melissa Tiernan.

L-R: Criseyda Robinson, Jessica Fetterplace, Chelsea Rowlings, Anna Bryant, Zoe Kitchen, Year 8

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SWIMMING The swimming season started early this year with a

five dav camp at the Stephenson Centre, Xavier College, The enthusiasm was maintained when our intensive

training began on the very first morning of schooL The

swimming train cotilinized t.0 train throughout first tel In, three mornings a week at Prahran pool and twice a week at the Stephenson (]enur.

Our first Carnival Wils the De Im Salle IllvitatioIlal

we did not perform as well as we would have liked, and linfortunately our enthusiasm was waning. However,

with lots of entlitisiasm from our coach Cathy Roberts and Ms Osborne-Smith, our confidence was boosted fur

our final carnival. The night was a memorable one and personal bests were al,zindant. With a decisive win it was

a brilliant and rewarding end to the season and ensures that next year we move lip to the fil'Mt (livision of the SCSA competition.

We wish the Whole team the best of luck for the

Meet at the State· Swim Centre. Although this was only a

time trial meet it was a good opportunity to improve our

coming years and trust that swimming and diving will

competitive technique.

become even bigger and more successful at Loreto

The next three· competitions were the GSSA, the Getia/zano Centenary Meet anct the GPS. Although

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Marian Bard (Captain) and Kate Papaluca

thele were some excellent individual results, as a team

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SWIMMING/DIVING TEAM Back row L-R Ms Michelle Osborne-Smith, Daniela Norman, Sara Lynch, Jane Castles, Alice Hume, Julia Gurry, Brigid King, Brigid Fitzgerald, Caroline Barlow, Jo-Maree Delac, Ruth Tinetti, Charlotte Mulder, Michelle Funder.

3rd row L-R Marta Soszynski, Prudence Foley, Camilla Bourke, Louise Blight, Penelope O'Loughlin, Jane Kenny, Louise Lonergan, Arley Grey, Jennifer Bishop, Madeline Hoy, Johanna Audley, Kate McFarland.

2nd row L.R Katherine McMahon, Angela O'Connell, Olivia Burns, Rachel Ball, Marian Bare (Captain), Kate Papaluca (Vice-Captain),

Olivia Sweeney, Anna Gallard, Stephanie Maule, Honor Murdoch.

Front row L-R Beata Lukasiak, Rachel Griffiths, Krista Dale, Simone Ball, Sara Pacini, Megan Downing, Jessica Fetterplace, Joanne Halpin, Eliza Suffren.

Absent Colleen Bloom, Bridget Hopkins.

THE X-L SWIM CLUB The X-L Swim Club has now been in successful

operation for over a year. It was established in 1994 when the swiinming- and sports departments from Xaxier and Loreto Mandeville Hall realised they had

common goals: to raise the profile of swimming and diving, increase competitiveness with year-round

training, have fun, and hopefully hire new students to the sport. It was envisaged that training in the superb conditions of the Stephenson Centre, in a social environment with high calibre coaches, Could achieve these aims.

The advantage of being a member of the X-I. Swim

Club ix that the members have regitlat- training sessions

with expert coaching. Our professional coaches, John Olsen, Kathy Roberts and Steve Treadwell take· sessions at the centre two mornings each week.

A five clay training camp wax held during the last

The weekly training in stroke techniques, starts and finishes and endurance is reflected iii tile greater depth of talent and improved results in water polo and competition swimming during the year Although a 6.30am start does seem difficult at first (especially when snuggled warm under your doona on a

winter morning) it beconies easy when a routine is established. Many parents share driving to the centre and often stay for a swim themselves or a workout in the gym. After each session, the Loreto bus takes Swinlrliers from Xavier to school where girls prepare breakfusts, usitally firsh fruit or yoghurt (alid something 11·oin the vending nuchine at the Centre)

Swimming is a great activity whether the aim ix for competition or recreation or general fitness, It is a stre,Ns-

free pastime which provicles great health benefits and the training gives swimmers confidence to participate in events slich .1,4 the Pc)1·tse.1 Swim ('lassic or Lorne Pier To

week of the Mummer holidays which gave zis a great start

Pub. The X-1. Club provides members with the best

to the war. At canip we weir inspired by Olympic

possible opportunity to become tlie best swimmer that

Med,illist Daniel Kowalski, who talked to US giving us helpful hints and motivation.

tlley can be.

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Netball Competition fur the first time. It was held at Royal Park, against. schools from across the state. After

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The. junior teains played a reinarkable season with the As finishing first and the B, C and Ds all finishing Their

second.

success is attributed to the

encouragement of their coaches, Mrs Tinney and Mrs Wheatiand. Commendations to Annabel Smith, Mary

Gallivan and Madeleine Scanlon who played a great Seas€)11.

Girls at a junior level are also playing Saturday

netball for I.oreto, which will help strengthen netball in

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The Intermediate teams also played a commendable season, coming across tough competition. The A team finished sixth, B teani finished fourth, C team finished

second and D team finished first. Special thanks to Mrs Gillespie and Ms Cowan for their support and fantastic coaching. Also, thank you to Kate Papallica for her dedicated commitment to umpiring. Most improved players were Jenny Donald, Prue Hartley and joanne

SENIOR A NETBALL Back row L-R Lisa Meehan, Jane Richardson, Michaela Bingham, Jacqueline Carroll, Miss Carolyn Fox. Front row L- R Julia Gurry, Virginia Hartley (Captain), Sarah

Gurry, Elizabeth Glynn (Vice-Captain), Prudence Foley.

Halpiii.

The Senior season is just beginning at the time of writing this report. In their first match against Mentone, all trains won. We are hopeful that the season will continue to be victorious. Miss Fox and Miss.jane must also be thanked for their coaching efforts.

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Back row L. R Mr Guy Anderson (Coach), Lucy Maule,

Emily O'Connell Jennifer Zahara, Vivienne Ringersma,

Nerita Benetti, Jacqueline Carroll, Margherita Boemo, Daniela Norman, Mrs Lynne Beck (Coach).

Front ,ow L-R Eliza Suffren, Adelaide Hamilton-Green, Jessica Moretti, Chelsea Rowlings, Virginia Grant (Captain), Lesley Horder (Vice-Captain), Nancy Sposato, Anna Flynn, Relaxing by the Yarra after a cross-country run!

Jessica Fetterplace.

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TENNIS This year we had team selections .incl training before

the school year began, as the coinpetition at interschool level began iii week two of Term 1.

The Senior teitin finished a arditable second in their

intel-school divixion, expeliencing oillv one 1(» to Firhank. Both the· Ilitermecliate and junior trains showed dedication and enthusiasin.

The interschool competition over. the Senior train went on to the Atititt,il Schoolgirls' 1'()111-11:irrient held at the National Trimis Cenu-e on Fridav 31 March.

The team consisted of julia Gurry, Sarah (;urrv.

()livia Elsley,.jacqueline Calic)11, (litistina Browning,

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C :atrina Boemo, Virginia Grant, Sara 1 1,11'ris and Camilla Bourke. The Loreto team were victors on the day, being

1111(1,12 cited. This Score line gave 11% a place iii the final :igitinst Toorak (:ollege. However, tht· finals competition proved tough linct we were defeated. albeit bv a verv small niartrin. Thix vear a new tournament wax held at

Knoyong for regional schools. Sal:111 and julia (;urry won the Sc·nioi· 11(,tal)|c '17(,1,11>' und in the.junior

Division, do iiI )les cltic).]c )anne 1 1.1]pin and Laura lin c·gac 2,1 %( ) won.

>;everal Sellior plavers tried out for the G.P.S. tram at 1'1'c·Abvterian Laclics' CoHege in April. Sarah Gurry

SENIOR TENNIS TEAM Back row L-R Catrina Boemo, Olivia Elsley, Julia Gurry, Sarah Gurry, Virginia Grant.

Front row L-R Christina Browning, Camilla Bourke

and Camilla 14(nirke were successful in being selected,

(Vice-Captain), Mrs Joan Ryan, Sara Harris (Captair).

u'ith jillia Gurry .14 1111 i'lilergencv.

Absent Melanie Sargeant, Emily Harris, Genevieve Barton,

Special thanks go to Mrs Rvan, Mr Crewe, Mi-% Penrtt, Mi·s Parkinson and other members of the P.E.

Jacqueline Dowling, Michelle Levy, Stephanie Johnston, Melissa Corbett.

stiff who did fantastic jobs as le:lin managers, and

provided COillilitiOUX stipport and aNSiNtance throughout tht· >,c·'13<)11.

Congratillations to .111 tennis ])121)'c:ts involved in

representing the scbool this year. We wish the learn ol 1996 the 1)(.41 ofs'ic'('·s,4.

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Samantha Stewart-Steele, Adele Brazenor, Mr Mark Bahr Front Row:

Elspeth Martini, Virginia Hartley, Katherine Adam

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Tennis Twins!

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SKIING

respectively. There were 121 competitors in their race.

The Year 4 and Under girls improved their results

The 1995 ski season has been fantastic! There have been incredible snow falls AND the Loreto Mandeville

Hall Ski Team has trained and competed hard, producing some excellent results.

Dry land training began in Term 2, with sessions to increase Iill aspects of fitness in preparation foi- the onsnow work. These sessions even included in-line skating

on our top courts. (Our skaters finished in second place at the Interschools In-line Skate Championships.) Once

the snow had fallen in late®lv, we took to the hills at Mt Buller and had a day of training before the trials which established our position within the teams. The weather was terrible, but at least the snow was falling!

The team had a second weekend of training at Mt

Buller incorporating race lessons. We learned gate and

starting techniques as well as how to improve our overall skiing. At night the entire team and parents had a get together at The Chalet, making use of their pool and spa

from last year. They qualified for the Australian

Interschools Championships by skiing into 4th place.

The team was Rachelle Pitard, Avesia Calinan, Leia Bonacci and Anna Marantz. Rachelle and Avesia

finished iii 7th and 11 th place out of 78 skiers.

The Year 7/8 teams finished in admirable 13th, 27th

and 38th places out of 52 teams. The course was

relatively slow and difficult in tile sunny conditions.

Anneliese Gannon finished very strongly in 16th place

behind many racers who have had overseas experience.

There were 180 girls in the race!

The Year 11/12 team finished in 32nd place in a field of 50. The skiers in this race are nearly all seasoned

competitors with manv hours of race experience. There were 185 competitors and 27 gates to be negotiated on

the long and slick Little Buller Spur course. Nina Bonacci was the fastest Loreto Mandeville Hall Skier,

finishing in 78th place.

facilities before heading off to church at 6.30pm. We

The season has been a huge success for our team. It

were now ready to race at the Top of the Alps

was all brought together at the Opening Ceremony held

hiterschools Championships.

at night, where we all marched, sporting our new L.M.H. skinies and headbands. Next year we hope to compete

The junior School girls raced on the second day of the competition. They all showed they hael learned so

in the cross country, snowboard and moguls' events.

much and really improved their technique from last year. The grins on their faces proved they enjoyed being

Osborne-Smith for all their hard work. Thank you al.o

there as well. The Year 5/6 teams finished in 8th all cl

to all of the 35 competitors who raced so well and the

24th places out of 35 teams. Tessa Custance was the

parents who helped make it all possible.

A special thank you goes to Miss Webster and Miss

fastest iii 1 4th place, with Marianne Pitard and Melanie

Letitia (:amble (Captain) and Nina Bonacci

Dilheimer close behind in 19th and 22nd place

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Front row L-R Beata Lukasiak, Jessica Fetterplace, Anneliese Gannon, Nina Bonacci

(Vice-Captain), Letitia Gamble (Captain), Natalie Carter, Annie Merrylees, Natalie Hunter.

At the Interschool Ski Championships: Katherine Adam with Ms Michelle Osborne-Smith

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The following weekencl, the Rowing Club was agaill

ROWING The rowing season got off to a great start with our first rowing camp awav. at Anglesea, for Menior crews.

divided between the Yarra and, this tinic, (kil-rum. The

1 Irtilev, .·ltisti-,iliabs premier regatta, gave the Open

opportunity to display their fitness in the torm of el-go>;,

Quad anotlier opportililitv to \vin their clivifion .111(1 gave the Firsts ancl Seconds a Chance to close the gap on Geelong College and Rin·ton respective'l). At Carrum,

rowing and running iii order to be selected. However, it

Loreto again proved doininant on the water.

did not end there! A rowing camp was held iii

The final week of racing before the I lead of the Schoolgirls was held on the Barwon River. Thi. enabled

The four days provided the 20 roweis with an

Melbourne for the Seniors. Year 10 and Year 9, where

training and selection continized and oil Wictilesdav 1 St Februarv we had 0111- annual rowing camp clitmer at Sofia's

all crews to familiarise then™elves with the coili se and

agaill %(·c how their rowing compared with the c)]) pc,sition.

We had a GREAT weekend at the Head of tile

These camps were verv successful and prepared all

Schoolgirls Regatta, winning five cups. thire at War 9,

crews. expeciallv the Fit-st Eight. for their lit-Nt regatta,

one at Year 1(). and the Senior Quad Scull Division L As

Head of the hri-:i. an 8.6kni race from the citv to

well, 0111- Senior First Four made its wav to the Final-the

Hawthorn Rowing Club. Thev rowed extremelv well,

first time we have ever macie it. Of our 17 crews, eight made it to the Finals.

and came third iii the Schoolgirls' Division.

The Victorian Universities Regatta on Saturdkn· 18111 Febillarv provided 1.01-eto with their first wins of the season. These victories came with the Senior Quad, 32·ai

Thanks to the stzidents and staffwho came down and

supported ils. The cheer squad was superb. Verv special thanks and congrattilations to our Director of Rowing,

Miss.josie Millard. Well done to evervolle iii the Cllib-

10 First and Year 9 First crews. The next week of racing

Ntilcil<lits. stall, c-c).iches and parents. and a sl,ecial thank

provided a scorcher. not onh· ill tile temperature blit

vou to Rob Zahara.

also in out- dominance of both the Yal 1-21 and Barwon

Belinda (:il,son (Captain of Boats) and Alice liNnie (\'ice-(:aptain of Boats)

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CREW L-R: Bow: Aisling O'Donnell, 2nd: Emily Tribe, 3rd: Victoria Ellis, Stroke: Jennifer Zahara, Cox: Edwina Holbeach, Coach: Julian Vince

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Emily Tribe, Nerita Benetti, Loretta Bourke, Andrea Tilley, Katherine Woodruff.

Centre row L-R Aisling O'Donnell,

Susannah Portelli, Ainslee Spadaro, Sophie Gannon, Jane Castles, Victoria Ellis, Ms Josje Millard.

Front row L-R Caroline Petricola, Susannah Lennon, Letitia Gamble, Belinda Gibson (Captain), Alice Hume (Vice-Captain), Suzanne Castles,

Lesley Horder, Penelope O'Loughlin.

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agi JUNIOR ROWING Back row L.R Pia Sabbadini, Clare O'Neil,

Lucinda Gannon, Anne Conroy, Vivienne

Ringersma, Stephanie Keenan, Miriam Slattery,

' Catherine Stribley, Sarah Gandolfo, Sara Little, Aimee Lipscombe, Georgina Ryan, Katsy Lee, Vanessa Seconnino.

3rd row L.R Philippa Zahara, Rachel Ball,

Louisa Coleman, Alice Dwyer, Meg Ockleshaw, Caroline O'Brien, Fiona Bremner, Anika Walker,

Aimee O'Sullivan-Hunter, Roxanna Ryan, L

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Lucy Maule, Catherine Meehan, Georgiana Quinn, Claire Papaluca, Ms Josie Millard.

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2nd row L-R Catherine Chamberlain, Louisa

Bostock, Kate Ralph, Anna-Marie Black,

Jane Foley, Jodie Fry, Angela MeFarland, Rachel Mclnerney, Emjly Petricola, Rachel Hoy, Phoebe Knowles, Anna Clarke.

Front row L-R Lalitha Selvendra, C:

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Meaghan O'Loughlin, Olivia Sweeney, Colette Herman, Marielle Sullivan,

Nancy Sposato, Lucie Douez, Jessica Moretti,

Jane Serong Georgina Coleman.

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I.oreto Mandeville Hall has alwavs been one of the

k·ading schools in competitive aerobics since the sport started at the school. Aerobics has become extremely popular with more Air·ls participating in both conipetitive aerobics and in the classes that are held on Tzies(lay and Thursday l,itic htimes.

The aerobics squad have committed themselves to carly morning, afternoon and weekend training sessions thi oughout the year, and have upheld Loreto Mandeville Hall's well-deserved reptitation.

At the first competition for the vear our teams displayed a high level of skill with thejunior and Senior teams coming 13th out ofal,out 40 teams. The advanced team came 11 th out of 25 te.lins with julia Rachelle achieving fifth place in the individual event

Iii .june, the Heart Beat Acrobics Competition was held with all teams performing at a high standard. Our junior team came fifth in the State.

We would especially like to thank Mrs Ros Anderson 11 ':11 1 1

for her dedication, enthusiasm and titeless support over the years and we hope that .terobics will continue to be successful in the coming years.

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SENIORAAEROBICS Back row L-

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Sara Harris.(Vice Captain).

Centre Penelope O'Loughlin, Sophie Gannon.

Front Fiona LivE Absent Ellen Woodruff.

JUNIOR A AEROBICS TEAM Back row L-R Mrs Roslyn Anderson (Coach), Julia Rachelle (Captain), Meaghan O'Loughlin (top), Sara Woodruff, Sara Harris (Vice-Captain).

Centre Jessica Fetterplace.

Front Phoebe Knowles.

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HOCKEY In 1995. the Senior Hockev team had moderate All('('t·St With two Winx, tho (11-aWS and three 10»cs. Our

1,1-(paration was extrcinely 1110}ied due to tile Performing- Arts Feitival, and the lack of match practia' showed up in our cal h matches.

Towards the end of the sea%011 0111' resul™ improved dramatically and we had Noine 1)111-ticul,111)' good matches. The best team performances were seen in very unigh clicounters w'ith strong- sicles froin St Catherine's Illid Lauriston. The Senior team was hicky enough to

play one match on the Hawthorn s; lithetic tul-1.

I lopefully in the future more niatches can be played on se'lithetic surface·s which will undoubte<11\ iinprove the Mt,11(lat-d of hocke>' at Loreto.

Consistent performances were given throughout the

season by Rachel cle Zoete (who also was our major goal

SENIOR HOCKEY (ATEAM)

scorer), Madeline Hoy,.Jacqueline Cal-roil and Virginia

Back row L.R Mrs Felicity Ferdinands, Claire Papaluca,

Grant. Congratillations to all team members oil their commitment and entlitisiasin throtighout the season.

Both the junior and Intermediate teams had extremely sliccessful canipaigns. The .]unior train was

Emily O'Connell, Lisa Meehan, Christina Browning, Jacqueline Carroll, Rachel Hoy, Virginia Grant, Mr Roger Gill.

Front row L-R Marlo Urquhart, Rachel de Zoete, Katherine Adam

(Vice Captain). Sarah O'Byrne (Captain), Alexandra Bostock, Anna Chamberlain.

undefeated and won the Zone Premiership .is well as the Round Robin hoxted by Firbank. Conirratulations to all

tram mellibers, c,ccially Kye Williams, Miranda I lindle, and Sara Pacini, who scored 26 goals for the scason. The hitermediate team won all but one of their

nunches which cost tlwin the Preiniership. \\'ell done to all competitors <)11 a Milicessful se:14(m, es])ecially Adele Briuenor. Rachel I loy and Dianna liest. Special congratillationx imist go to Adele 111 ki/(·nor, who was Ack·(ted iii the thider 14 State team to tc)ill' iii

September. Thix was a fantastic effort and we wish Adele the best of luck iii her promising career.

Special thanks nitim go to 0111 c c),Ic'|c·•; 1111(1 ilini,il ('4 who also contributed 10 2111 extrettlelv sitic·essful season:

Mr Gill, Mrs Ferdinandi Mrs Barnett, Kati-ina Martin

2,11(1 Nicolette de Zoete. To even'one who supported

1.oreto hockev, out- siticere thanks and good hick to all

Sarah O'Byrne and Katherine Adam

plaveis ill the future.

Sarah Olkrne (Captain) and Katherine Adani (Vice-Captain)

BASKETBALL Although a relatively new sport at Loreto. basketball in 1995 has proved to be inost success! 111. This success

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can be attributed to the commitment ancl expertise of coaches. Mr Mark Latigan, Miss Anna \Valson and Mrs Ros Anderson. and to the 117.irvellous enthusiasm of the

girls from Years 710 12, who untiringly gave up three or 1-our mornings per week to ti-aining and game plan.

1-he talent of the Mandeville t(1.11 n was most opel:h displaved at All,en Pin-k when Lotric, hosted and participated in the %(.%.\ for the first thne. The n-aining

critaink' paid off, with the junic,1- and Ilitclmediate teams reaching the clit.11·ter filials and the Senior train 1

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gatne agailist 1.litiliston Was just .1, tlittinphant, With

Back row L.R Mr Mark Langan (Coach), Julia Gurry, Kylie Podolakin, Loretta Bourke, Sarah Gurry, Johanna Audley.

Loreto winning bv a littic!>lide.

Front row L-R Camilla Bourke, Jacqueline Carroll, Emily Roberts (Captain), Elizabeth Glynn (Vice Captain), Michelle Reardon, Virginia Hartley.

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\Fishing voil much luck in the filtilir,

Emilv Roberts (Captain) and Eli/al)eth Glvnn (Vice (:aptain)

GYMNASTICS 1995 has been an eventful year for the Loreto

Mandeville Hall Gym Club. Approximately 100 girls

have participated in classes during the week, coached by

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Mis Ros Anderson, Claire Nelson, justina Carter, lo

Laurence and julie Bonollo. Several notable events during tile year included the Tennis and Social Night

h(·Id at the Frank Seclginan Tennis Centre, tile annual Fun Night, and many competitions proving memorable for both parents and gills.

This year most of thejunior classes have passed their

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The Independent Girls' Schools Gymnastics Competition iii September Was again a Sticcessful event with

several

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GYM CLUB GYMNASTICS SQUAD A Back row L-R Anna Francis, Louisa Bostock,

Congratulations to.julia Penna who was placed second

Mrs Roslyn Anderson (Coach), Louisa King , Jessica Moretti.

iii the I.evel 5 compulsory section and to the junior and

Centre row L.R Jacqueline Bennie (Captain), Beata Lukasjak, Sara Woodruff, Julia Penna (Vice-Captain).

Intermediate teams who were placed second and third

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in the Level 5 optional section.

The Gym Club had great results at the A.P.S.

Gymnastics Competition with the junior team second

R Kelly Peterson, Jessica Fetterplace, Anna Bryant, Megan Downing.

Absent Jane Kenny, Naomi Grant.

and the Senior team third. Congratulations to Anna Francis, third overall, and Kelly Peterson, Beata

Lukasiak and Anna Bryant receiving places on different appannus.

This year, L.M.H. became involved in the Gymstar

(jompetition which focused mainly on recreational gymnastics, giving girls in the recreational classes the opportunity to create their own optional routines. Girls

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enjoyed competing in this relaxed environment of the Gyinstar Competition and will compete again in future.

The girls in the Gun Club appreciate the time and effort given by Mrs Ros Anderson and the other coaches which allow girls of various abilities to compete and

Jessica Moretti

acquire new skills. Without their assistance and encouragement, the outstanding results this year would not have been possible.

WATER POLO This year the Water Polo Club had its most successful

Jacqueline Rennie (Captain) andjulia Penna

year in terms of commitinent and performance. We had

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two teams, the Senior, Division A, and junior team, Division B. Both teams trained together every Monday morning at the State Swim Centre with our new coach, Ms I.auren Mc=Ijaverty.

The A team played extremely well against the

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acliieve inany wins, it was a very conipetitive side ancl played with enthusiasm and enjoyment.

The B team, who had never played before, won their first ganie and continued to play extremely well despite their lack of experience.

We have great hopes for them as fliture Water Polo WATER POLO SQUAD

players.

Back row L·RSara Lynch, Alice Hume, Marian Bare, Jacqueline Carroll, Caroline Barlow, Lisa Meehan, Ruth Tinetti,

Miss Rome, our committed team supervisors, for all

Both teams would like to thank Mi + MeGrath and

Ms Natalie Magrath.

their help and support during our season, which should

Front row L-R Anthea Kavanagh, Rachel Ball,

prove to be a huge stepping stone in the future of

Monique O'Donoghue, Kylie Podolakin (Captain),

Loreto Water Polo.

Chantal O'Donoghue (Vice-Captain), Kate Mcfarland, Arley Grey, Anna Clarke.

Absent Miss Allison Rome.

Kylie Podolakin (Captain) and Chantal O'Donoghtie (Vice-Captain)

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VOLLEYBALL The season started offworse than expected. With our

new and enthusiastic team of 12, we were all pumped lip to win our first game for the season. Unfortunately,

neither luck nor skill happened to be with us that day, and we lost to a strong St Catherine's team. However, we

increase its skills and in the meantime we had a great time. We developed new skills and built steady relationships with girls from other vear levels and with

our coach. As the season continued, although we didn't sticceed in winning every match, we succeeded in building respect and friendship.

did inanage to come a well-earned third in another

As the season came to an end we had all nuinaged to

tournament playing against various schools. This

reach our personal goals. A few more fun matches with

boosted our morale and we were set for a big vollevball

the teachers helped the leain greatly. Volleyball is a sport

season.

But volle>/ball isn't just winning and losing. With

that can be great fun whether you take it seriously or 110 L

tr.1117111% twice a week at 7.45am, the tearn numaged to

Maignerite Osborne (Te.un Member)

VOLLEYBALL A/B TEAMS Back row L.R Jane Castles, Julia Gurry, Fiona Nazzari, Sarah Gurry, Daniela Norman, Jodie Fry, Mr Alon Kaiser.

Front row L.R Edwina Holbeach, Astrid Saldukas,

Aushra Saldukas, Katsy Lee, Kamy Lee. Absent Larissa Hickey, Karen Lee, Marguerite Osborne.

EQUESTRIAN CLUB

Many exciting events are planned for the remainder of the year, including an interschool competition clay at

1995 has %(·en gic,It activity and many opportunities

the Victorian Equestrian Centre, Beaconsfield, a Teams

For the Loreto Equestrian Chil). Our riders have

Competition with the Riding toi' the Disabled

participated in a gymkhana at Hamilton, a (laines

Association, an invitation One-Day-Event (comprising

Competition, a Showjumping Competition, and

dressage, showlitinping and cross-country) at Tooraclin,

numerous 11'aining rallies Since the conunencement 01

and a two-(lay camp fur Club members to be held iii

the year.

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The Club an™ists of several i i (lers, eight 01 whom are

We are fortzinate to have access to the grounds,

regulars. These girls, and indeed their lamiliex, are to be

junipS, gallies equiptilent, Cic)9-colilitry course and

commended on their commitment. and dedication to

ai·ena facilities of the Tooradin Ponv Chib, which have

the Club. Unfortunately, but unavoidably, the Club

enabled us to enjoy a variety of activities on both

demands the tiansportation of a horse to and from the

training and competition days. Ms Sally Francis, our

Chil)'s li-aining grounds at Tooraclin. This is somewhat

Coach, has trilly been inspirational and colitinlies to

inconvenient for some families resicling at Hamilton,

provide B with top quality insti-lict.ion. Mr Dernelley has

Mansfield, Flinders, and Red Hill, but is an clement of

been an earnest supporter and works enthusiastically on

the sport of horte-11(ling, pal'ticularly at the competitive

all the administrative aspects of our Club.

level.

Herinione Knowles (Captain)

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EQUESTRIAN CLUB Back row L-R Claire Southall, Cecilia Myers, Georgiana Quinn, Charlotte Mulder, Hermione Knowles.

Front row L- R Charlotte Algie, Dianna Best,

Mr Rob Dernelley, Anneliese Gannon, Phoebe Knowles.

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FENCING

team for the National Championships which Loreto has won three times iii the past four years .

Interest in Fencing was keen in 1995, as was shown bv

the large number of new members from the junior School who were introduced to the sport. Iii the first weeks of first term there was mitch interest in learning to hold the foil correctly and keeping eyes on opponents, lit the regular practice sessions on Tuesdays with our coach Maitre .John Fethers. Most of tile beginners had niastered the basic strokes by the end of the terin, The Senior tencers, being more proficient., kept Maitre Fethers on hi t.oes and learnt the finer skills of the art, especially in trying to anticipate the opponent's inc>ves.

The annual Jack Schaefer Fencing Tournament was

held on the 4th june, ariel it was encouraging to see so

On 22nd April, exhibition bouts were held at school, and the spectators were impressed by the skills acquired by all our fencers, especially our novices, in such a short time-brisk attacks, sharp deflections, feints and deceptions.

Stephanie Resciniti deserves special anninendation for her enthusiasm, dependabilit.y and tenacity in contests. Clare Noonan also is developing a strong style which promises great things in tc,111-11.unents iii the coming years.

The O'Connor Cup, hosted by Mandeville Hall, is an event where our tencers always put up a good show.

We are deeply indebted to Maitre john Fethers, our coach, and Ms Osborne-Smith, our spot'ts coordinator

niany contestants f'rom outside the school. The junior

As Captain, I would like to say one last word to the

matches were keenly contested, and in the Seniors the

fencing members leaving the school or those who may

Captain of Fencing had no difficulty reaching the finals

have to slispend their involvement-keep on fencing,

and going on to take the trophy.

wherever you are, and whenever you can!

Unfortunately, this year we were unable to field a

Virginia.jones (Captain)

FENCING L-R Maitre John Fethers, Melanie Johnston, Clare Noonan, Aisling Fay, Stephanie Resciniti, Virginia Jones (Captain).

SOFTBALL

SENIOR SOFTBALL TEAM Back row L-R Michaela Bingham, Elizabeth Glynn, Jane Richardson, Lisa Meehan.

Front row L-R Mrs Felicity Ferdinands, Kathryn Bannon (Captain), Virginia Grant, larn,Illin'. ParrAII

Absent Sarah O'Byrne (Vice-Captain)

Prudence Tehan and Phoebe Nugent

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Back Row (L-R) Catrina Boerno, Michaela Bingham, Sophie Trumble, Penelope O'Loughlin, Emily O'Connell Front Row: Letitia Gamble, Victoria Ellis, Claire McKeown,

Susannah Lennon, Agnieszka Solon, Victoria Toovey Absent: Virginia Jones

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MORNANE HOUSE CAPTAINS Back Row (L- R) karina Chaves, Fiona Hammond, Melissa Migliardi,

Front Row: Katie Taylor, Nathalie Resciniti, Kate Kuring, Daltine Ng

Absent: Camilla Bourke, Kylie Podolakin, Susannah Portelli, Stephanie Resciniti

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WARD HOUSE CAPTAINS Back Row {L-R) Alice Hurne, Serena Simmons, Marian Bard, Nicola McAlpine

Front Row Christine Sammartino, Lisa Arthur, Jane Castles,

Natasha Holmes, Suzanne Castles, Sarah Cichy, Elspeth Martini

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YEAR 7 BLUE 3rd Row L-R Annabel Smith, Sara Pacini,

Erin Griffin, Michelle Funder, Alice Papaluca, Lauren-Jane Ryan, Bonnie Connellan, Natalie Carter.

2nd Row L- R Simone Ball, Alana Spadaro,

Beth Jones, Emily Gaidzkar, Anna Flynn, Catherine Moran, Criseyda Robinson, Anna Fox.

Front Row L-R Ella Rosvoll, Sarah Dyson, Annie Merrylees, Cassandra Fry, Kye Williams, Emily McLeay, Katherine McMahon, Kelly Lennon. Elizabeth O'Day. TEACHERS Mrs Sarah Perrett, Mrs Ruth Taft.

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Philippa DeMarco, Clare Noonan, Samantha Dermatis, Anne-Maree O'Brien,

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Claire Southall, Laura Riley.

2nd Row L-R Amy Killen, Nicola Roberts, Leah Betts, Stephanie Foley, Sarah Ho, Anneliese Gannon, Annabelle Fielding, Emily Smith.

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TEACHERS Mrs Kaye Young, Mrs Pat Parkinson.

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YEAR 7 GREEN 3rd Row L-R Stephanie Maule, Sarah Portelli, Phoebe Nolan,

Madeleine Scanlon, Mary Gallivan, Marisa Hadfield, Bonnie Savage.

2nd Row L-R Rebecca Pereira, Natalie-Jane Edwards, Honor Murdoch,

Greta Lacava, Louisa King, Erica Freschi, Beth La Brooy, Megan Downing.

Front Row L- R Miranda Hindle,

Daniella Zampierollo, Caroline Chen, Esther Rowe, Rachel Griffiths,

Veronica Callaghan, Kate Edmonds, Elise McLagan.

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TEACHERS Miss Leonie Fisher, Mrs Felicity Ferdinands.

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YEAR 7 RED 3rd Row L·R Rebecca Nolan, Jane Stewart,

Rebecca Prescott, Tina Vanspall, Kristie-Lee Rennex, Adelaide Hamilton-Green,

Marta Allery, Vanessa Condello.

2nd Row L-R Fiona Dohrmann,

Sally Finemore, Julia Kortt, Casey Gunn, Tessa Spring, Erika Lana Eliza Suffren, Jessica O'Keeffe.

Front Row L·R Andrea Vaz, Natalie Hunter,

Charlotte Algie, Jane Serong, Alisha Hnatjuk, Belinda Bowman, Lucy David, Anna Bryant, Christina Collard.

TEACHERS Miss Carmel Laffan, Miss Daryl Jenner

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THE jOURNEYTO THE POTTER'S WORKSHOP Iss)' slowlv gazed down at the limp, green, tasteless

had to be c areful. Cautiolish' they made their war to the hallway. Even·thing seemed huge, like a blown-tip world.

Tables were cliffs, chairs were mountains and the white

carpet was like running through a thick jungle.

beans lYing almost deadlike on her plate. As she stabbed

just as the two were croMsing the long hallway which

one with her fork and slowlv raised it to her mouth, she

seemed like it would never end, the Potter emerged

wondered where the person who first introduced beanx

from nowhere and started sweeping the floor. The two

to hilinall+ is to(lav.

mice, as quick as the flash of a camera. ran and hid

It was a warm spring morning in the Whisker'.4 home.

under a small chair sitting in the hallwav. They· watched

This home. which the Whisker family loved and would

the Potter clusting and listened to him talking to himself.

never leave, can not be found on a letter, for k has no

'As soon ,is I finish disting here and under that chair

addi-ess. A human could never find it. even if he looked.

over their I ll go back to bed. 1 have such a headache

For this small. cosv house is situated in the floor boal-(is

after last night's strange happellings.' the Potter

of Potter's workshop.

mumbled to himself.

This fine xpring morning Issv, the oldest child of

'Hurrv, we have to get out of here. Let'+ make a clash

three, was sitting at the kitchen table, which was made

for it,' (lilly suggested. So the two mice. 011 the count of

out of a shining sardine tin, where she was being policed

three, dashed out froin under the chair towards the

br her niother. Issv so much wanted to join her friend

workshop door. 1.uckily the Potter did not sec· them.

Gillv outside in the Spring sun. 1 lowever, she knew she

The two mice walked right into the workshop where

horrible beans had

they foliticl even·thing quiet and dark. 'ls anyone iii

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clisappeared. 'Come on Issv. darling, hurn· up and finixh w.mi beans.

here? Issy asked into the cl:11-kness.

'If you ale, please come out. We know you're in there

'But Muln,' Issv pleaded. 'Gilly told me if you eat too

all alone and we want to lieet you. My friend .111(1 1 are

manv bean>; vour tail will turn green, then Start to 171()1111,

little mice No don't be scared one little bit. PIc.,sc· come

then fall off.'

outh Gillv pleaded.

'Yes. that does sound like soniething Gilly would sav.

Issv and Gilk listened into the darkness .mci from tile

She does not have to eat her beans if her mum lels her

left side of the workshop a tilly voice said, 771 come out

get away with it. However vou air Issv and I'lu vour

if youhr onlv mice. but if vou are king I in not vour

mother, and I'm terribly sorry but I say you have to e.it

friend any more. Issv and Gillv laughed becatisc1 the

vour beans with a tail or without a tail,' Mrs Whisken

creature sounded so funny, saving that lie was hiends

said, ineaning every word of it. Issy slowly ate her beans.

with them even though he had not vet met them. A small

Finalh Isiv was allowed to venture outside. As +11(·

figure walked out to them from the darkness and stood

slowk scuttled through the mouse underground tlinnels she thought of the glorious Spring waiting for her. As Isiv stepped outside, a warm, relaxing breeze swept over her like a blanket of bliss. Iss,· stood there smelling the Spring-time scents. Birds nvittered on the blossom tic·t·'.s branches. warning the mice of any approaching human or animal. singing their beautiful songs which enchanted anvone in earshot. Colc„it-ful. sweet-smelling flowers shone like .jewels in a sword. Evervthing about

in the shadows.

'Well, come out so we can get out of here,' (lill said to tile creature.

1 can't. You'll laugh at me and call inc strangelooking,' the creature quietly sighed.

'We both promise not to laugh or say anything mean,' Iss, promised.

'Well. I guess 1 have to. so here I conie,' the mouse whispered.

the garden was magic to Iss). To her it was like a magical

Out it'oin the shadows stipped a sniall blue mouse.

land in a storv book. Iss)· Stood as still as a statue, never

Even though it was a little fat with point,· cal-, and paws

wanting this feeling to end.

like a monkey it clid seem like a mouse. As it sliviv stood

'Issy, isn't it .just wonderful Spring is finally here,' Gillv announced as she found My standing like a ghost,

there Issv noticed it did not have a tail either. What a

strallge mouse!

*taring at the garden. Issv agreei and the m'o voung

Issv and (:illv did get a bit of a shock from the

mice sat clown in the shade of a tree. They talked for a

creatures appearance. In the garden at night the wise

while. then went and plaved with the ladv bugs.

After the game. Reger started telling the two inice about a strange creature she had sc·en in the Potter's

workshop. 'It was all different colours and it was .11)()lit vour size,' Reger told Iss) and Gill)+. 'It was crying and

owl told the animals about strange creatizies it had seen

while flying over the countryside. but the t,Vo mice had never been told about anvthing like this.

'Well, 1.6 get home now, even' one will want to meet the new inember of the familv,' Issv said.

looking verv distressed,' continued Reger after a silence.

'Yes. dinner will be waiting for 11%.' Gillv pointed out.

'The poor little thing. We calit let it star' 10*t iii that

The mouse looked relieved. 'Now that yoil ilielition

workshop: Iqsv cried.

Yes, let'% go to the workshop and find it,' Gillv

it. I am stai-ring. Im so hungrv I could eat... I could eat beans.

agreed. So the t\vo mice. without telling their p.11-cuts,

Iss¥ looked at their new-found friend and smiled.

agleed to go to the Potter's workshop. The unly

Now she knew that they had found a verT' Al,ecial inouse.

problem was that the mice had not built an

With tliat tlic three mice headed back home. Today was

underground tunnel to the workshop. They had one to

just the start to a great friendship. The thire mice are

the back Kai-den, front garden and one to the kitchen

now living a happy life full of fun and excitement. They

1,iii ther never required one to the workshop. This fact

have a lot of adventures, but llc)ne as unexpected .ls the

would make the expedition even more dangerous.

adventure to the Potter' s wm-kxlip.

Even though the kitchen looked deserted the mice

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SallY Finemore, Year 7

GEORGE

MANXMOUSE

There once was a

After a prolonged day at the Police Station, Inspector Grey Mouse scurried home to his hole in Mrs Banbury's pantry. He put down his briefrase and settled down into his armchair ready to watch the 6.30pm mouse news

boy nained George Who refused to do

any of his chores

bulletin. He poured himself a glass of whiskery and

The only thing lie woilld

closed his eyes.

do all the time

'Bring, bring. Bring, bring', the phone was ringing and the Inspector woke with a start. Exasperated that he had been disturbed, he answered the telephone and

was watch T.V. with

a glass of lime.

He never listened to

his legs wooden George tried, but

grunted, 'Inspector Grey Mouse.'

'Oh Inspector, it's Pinknose Harriet here and you have to help us!' squealed a small voice down the phone.

'Marna left nearly three and a half hours ago for the milk and she hasti't been home since. Papa's not home yet and we can't contact him on his mobile mouse-aphone. We are ever so desperate as what to do!' All thoughts of being disrupted promptly flew out of the Inspector's head.

'Calm down, child, and start from the beginning.'

'Well, Marna said she was.just scuttling out to get the milk. That was at about 2.00pm. And she hasn't been

stop thix he couldul

home since! We children are too afraid to go olit

any warning that soon he would have

his parents mourning One clay he sat in bowers and sox

He suddenly started to look like the box

His head became square

hunting for her, in case the big ginger cat from Mrs Gradually George

Lovett's is on the prowl.'

'I'm on my way', was the Inspector's reply.

It was when the Inspector was walking from the train

becaine a TAI and was watched all the time

by his sister Lee

station to their hole that he discovered the body. There

in the latieway was what looked like the body of Mis

So clon't watch

Harriet, snapped between the clasps of a Inouse trap.

too mitch telly Or you'll wind zip like George

Her head was snapped back and her tiny claws were

With a screen for a belly!

clutching her side in pain. Onlookers began to gather as the Inspector called for assistance, and pushing their

Vanessa Condello, Year 7

way to the front were the seven little Harriet children.

From the look on their diminutive faces, one could feel

THE WITCHING HOUR

their anguish ancl despair. Several of the younger children began to weep for they had just begun to realise that their mother was no more.

The air is still,

The night is dark,

'It's,..it's our nium,' was all Pinknose could utten

The clock chinies twelve on the tower,

'N...n...no. It can't be,' wailed another.

'I'm afraid it is,' was the Inspector's doleful response

All creatures are sleeping,

Each one in deep sleep,

as he placed a supportive paw on the sniall mouse's

For this is the witching hour.

Great beasts are lili-king,

h .igile sh(,illciei.

'But now we must find out who has done it!'

With moliths wide open, And great rows of sharp teeth showing.

Lassandra Fry, Year 7

So beware, beware,

A SPRING MORNING

Take care, take care.

Don't ever leave the window open.

The colt struggled to his feet,

EVER!

Patricia Nigro, Year 7

ON THE LAWN

His birth had claimed his mother's life.

Sweet spring air, Early morning dew Could not the mare's life renew.

We fult like shouting for.jov 111 the stillness of the 11ight

A flood of tears, not joy unbounding

Butt that was before my evil fright.

A brand new life seemed forgotten.

Was the colt's welcome sounding.

A cloud covered the moon

The girl's best friend lay still.

And the world grew darker still The clarkness left me with an awful chill.

As we were running across the lawn

Was the little foal to blame?

Oh, no, she cried, I farewelled her soul,

I looked around .ind she was gone.

I could not turn from her little foal.

I se.11(lied for her evervwhere-

Every inch 014 ground-

She has given me her son

And my heart still skips a brat

To love instead.

When I remember what I found,

She smiled and softlv stroked his head.

Tessa Spring, Year 7

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430 FLYING HIGH! We all have hopes and dreams, but how many of us

can really achieve our fantasies? Forjessica Fetterplace, her dreams are fast becoming a reality.

jessica Fetterplace is one of those girls we love to hate. She swam 31 seconds for fifty metres of freestyle in April; will be going for her level eight in gymnastics at the end of the year; is one of the most prized athletes in the school Athletics Team; is a valuable member of the

ski team, and has earned a place on the Junior A Aerobics Team.

Where did this all start? Is .Jessica a natural athlete

because of the hours that she dedicates to her sport,

though some people might be inclined to disagree with her.Jessica says that if she wants to go to a party, she'll go

and make up the tirairling session another time. But she really enjoys her sport, so sometimes her attitude is jlist, 'There'll be other parties!'

Jessica's hopes will become a reality soon, and though many of us will never have the satisfaction of walking away with a medal at the Nationals for either swimming or gynmastics, we can all be inspired by Jessica's determination and strength to not only achieve, but to achieve the best she can in all areas possible.

Katie Taylor, Year 8

who popped out of the woodwork a couple of years ago,

or has she been training for years? jessica has always been an active girl, according to

her mother. It was this that first inspired Mrs Fetterplace

THE TWINS FROM HONG KONG

to enrol her three year old daughter in a baby gyin class,

How often do you wonder about what it is like to do

where the bottled zip energy insidelessica was allowed to

certain things or be a certain type of person? About what

el-opt. Little did the Fetterplace familv know that this class full of other little todd lers would be a starting point

it is like to niove to a foreign country, where your

forlessica in the sport of gymnastics.

twin? Two people who have experienced both of these

Jessica has now been doing gymnastics for about eleven years. Finding it thrilling yet challenging, she has

things are Karen and Kai-[iv Lee.

language is not spoken, or about what it is like to be a

Karen and Kaniv moved to Australia at different

made it up to level seven and is now determined to

times. Karen came near the end of 1992 and Kamy came

compete in the Nationals next year.

at the beginning of 1994. Neither of them spoke much

The older.jessica gets, the harder she must work. The

English when they came, but our language was not the

gymnasts she conipetes against are getting younger, and

only thing they had to learn. In Year Six, just after K.urn

while fourteen is a long way from over the hill, the

came to Australia, she had special classes a few times a

coinpetition is fierce.

week. People who were iii her cla remember how she

Though jessica spends approximately eleven and 21 half horirs a week training in the gym, her great love is

would leave halikay through sport with a sti.inge·

swimming. With an older brother who swam, a father

purely language classes, but not so! Karen say, that

who surfed and a mother who believed it to be verv

although a lot of time was devoted to language, a fair

important to know how to swim as 'it may save your life

amollilt of the time was spent on leal-ning our custoins.

one day', .jessica was enrolled in swimming lessons at Patil Sadler at the inere age of four, Being a water baby

I clon't mean customs Allch as going to tile football on

Itt heart, she soon showed great streligth in the water

colititry is different from Hong Kong.

teacher. A lot of people presumed that these classes were

the weekend, but more learning the ways that our

and now trains fuur times a week for an hour and a half

Karen says that Australia is very different from her

each session. This shoukl prove very tiring for her, as the

own countiv and that the biggest difference is the

swililining ti-,lilling i .0 (011>tailt exeici<e. Sptiliting lip

people, both children and adults. In class, children in

and down the pool, stopping for marbe ten seconds

Hong Kong are much more polite (not that I 21111 +11)'ing

between sets, the energy level will drop (11-ainatically -

we are rude). They bow to others and never talk iii

for most ofus anyway. But Jessica has been swimming for

class-something you could definitely not say about

so long and has so much stletigth f roin her gunnastics,

Australians! Adults are also different and the main

she feels she could even keep on going after her training

difference is their working hours. They sta]-1 work at

session if necessary.

jessica feels that the swimming is more of i challenge

about seven in the morning and don't finish until late.

The shops are also open all weekend.

than the g>,mnastics, as more people are im olved iii

Most people are curious about how having a twin

swimming and knocking a few seconds off a time is more

would feel. Karen says tliat, like anything else, it has its

diffictilt than it sounds!

advantages and disadvantages. A twin is solneone you

In between this rigid training schedule,Jessica must

can be very close to. You can talk to each other and you

find time to complete her school work and to socialise

understand each other because you are very similai.

with her friends. Completing the homework is quite easy

This is the way Karen sees the good side of the

at the moment as the daily homework load is not very

relationship of twins. There are also the bad things:

heavy, so she finishes it during the tillie before and after

twins tend to compete and fight a lot. There is also a

her various training sessions. Though some teachers feel

purely mercenary side to having a twin, and that is

thatjessica spends too much time playing sport and not

getting only one present between you on vour birthday!

enough time concentrating on her schoolwork, jessica

Despite this, twins have a very special bond. When

just shrugs this off. 'Some teachers don't understand the

Karen came to Australia she spent a year without Kamy

importance of physical activity, they don't understand

and she says it felt as though there was something

the importance of it in my life.'

inissill

Jessica feels that her social life does not suffer

g all the tillie.

Megan Walters, Year 8

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YEAR 8 BLUE 3rd Row L-R Angela O'Connell, Philippa Zahara, Olivia Burns, Lisa Charlton, Genevieve Audley, Arley Grey,

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Stephanie Doyle, Katie Taylor, Jessica Day. 2nd Row L-R Sarah Perillo, Camille Deane,

Melissa Tiernan, Victoria Toove, Katherine Gardiner, Suzanne Castles,

Joan Allanadale, Simone Bailey, Bridget Hopkins.

Front Row L-R Katharine Marks, Lauren Demetriou, Krista Dale,

Jessica Fetterplace, Zoe Kitchen, Jenni Bolton, Olivia Curtain, Antonia Olthof, Li Na Liu. M:

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2nd Row L-R Jennifer Turnbull,

Emily Sheahan, May Wang, Emily Stowell, Louisa Bostock, Prue Hartley, Christina Broussard, Amber Madden, Prudence Tehan, Tiffany Vickers, Laura Zmegac.

Front Row L-R Lauren Trumble,

t Sarah Rowlands, Claire McKeown,

Olivia Garvey, Geraldine Nankervis,

I: Susannah Bailey, Sineaid Hammer,

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, Joanne Halpin, Fiona Hegarty, Ellen Fox. TEACHERS Mr Mark Langan, Mrs Jill Wheatland.

YEAR 8 GREEN 3rd Row L-R Sarah Price, Sarah Cichy, Claire Baxter, Sarah White, Bridget Hill Kiara Chiodi, Alison Pettigrew, Katrina Connellan, Alice Dwyer.

2nd Row L-R Eloise Porter, Eliza Curtain,

Ellen Jamieson-Dowd, Kamy Lee, Emma Poynton, Kristen Doyle, Catherine Yokouchi, Amanda Hodder,

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Front Row L-R Charlotte Hickey, Anshu Koli, Jane Balmer, Julie Arthurson, Hannah Whiting, Bridget Cleary, Meg Wielgosz, Sara Woodruff, Lauren Buckely, Meaghan McLagan, Jasmine Ong. TEACHERS Miss Carolyn Fox, Miss Leesa Hale.

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2nd Row L-R Stephanie Ng, Jessica Curley Ellie MeMahon, Phoebe Nugent, Kirsty McLaughlin, Anna Gallard, Julia Macdonald, Amy Tinetti.

Front Row L-R Beata Lukasiak, Mary Font Amy Hauserman, Dianna Best,

Melanie Johnston, Katherine Corrigan,

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Absent Rebeka Jageurs TEACHERS Ms J Barnett, Mrs Lynne Beck

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EQUALITY I gazed at mv 1 2 year old brother. slightlv ainused. 1 k· was about to tn' 10 1,titter (,tir inc,ther lip, alicl I knew whv. A few of his friends had invited him on his first

excul-sioll to the cit)'-alone. 1 was interoted in how lic

would react when niv paren™ opposed the noticm. 1 ktic·w that this wottld be the c .,sc· 1)(·(·ause 1 liiw'si·If had

aticilipted to gain perini,xion for exactiv the satile thinga vear ago. when I was his age. After two clavsol-cc,tistant

have soine pocket money at the end of the summer as a result of mv work. I continued helping in the kitchen loi the rest of the summer and working hard to comp le te all the tasks that mv uncle bestowed upon me.

I'lit-(·c· months after the lic,liclavs had ended and we were bac k at lic)!lic, we received a letter. Mv brother and

I excitedly opened it. knowing that it was pavment fic)111 our Uncle 1101). Inxicle there wax a letter addressed to my brother und a littv doll,Ii' bill. Bob had +ent liftv (1<)11.11S

argiling, pleading- and n'ying every (,thet- 11121!liptilation

ft)1 111) brother alid nothing for me. 1 1%'21% Uttelly

in all effort to pt'l'All,icle inV patc lit 4, 1 fill .illi· accepted

confused. 1(·ars began to W(·11 14, ill my eveN. but I

defeat and gave 11])

stopped them before they began. Bob had paid my

I anticipated that lie would Enclure the %,line procedure and I knew that it would all be part of growing up and learning, He would have to accept my

brother lor his work, but not me.

I checked the emelope again, in cast· 1 had been mistake·n. It was empty!

parents' clecision in the belief thal they have his best

Krista 1),ile, War 8

intel-ests at heart 1 felt some satiNfaction in knowing 1 A'.1. about to watch him go through this process.

I watched mv· brother careftilh' test the water. First he

A CATWALK UNIFORM

slid just a single toe in. 'MunE She looked up warily. He

The thin model strutted clown the catwalk modelling

continued, and asked her if he could spend sonic time

Pei-1-i Cuttenbi inost recent creation. The clever design

with his friends on the weekend. She looked up and

displaved months of hard work and it was rea·iving well

absent-inindedlv agiced, with a few obligatorv niles

deserved praise. Perri Cutten was also watching her

related as a matter ofcourse. He then took a chance and

latest design heing displayed, for the first time, to the

plunged in. 'Mum, can we go to the city?' I waited for

public.

the 'Yolt're not old enollg-11' lecture to pour out

Perri Cutten is all excellent role model for manv

immediately, as it had in response to mv request the wai.

voung femalt·A. She ha, achieved 111,111)' things that

before. My mother pansed for a moment and then

othel x Inin· not collsider littempting and is now

reM])(mded, 'Well, it it 's all right With you tather, and if

recognised worldwide for her remarkable connibutions

vouhr Car(11.111...OK.'

to the fashion itich is try. Ms (]litt c n has worked exti-e iii c ly

Al\· evex widi·ned as I looked at mv 111(,ther. Shc

hard all her life and began to walise her goal when she

continlied to prel the potators. The hairs oil the back of

established her fashion houxi·: Perri Cutten. NIA Cutten

mv neck pric kk·d. 1 lib' M h oulders st 1-21 ighte lied and I st (ic)(1

11 21% also in.111.,ged to have a family while 1-milling a

still. 1 (c,tilcilit believe it. It was zitterlv unfair. Dicllit Mlie

Challellging busille.vi.

t]11%1 Ine? I W.13 the diligent student, the 'rexponsible

In the clesitrn and 1.ishion ilicilistry, Perri Cutten is

ime'. I was the elclest. It was toialh illogical to let my

one of thi· most admired anct re,qwcted figuirs. Mhe has

brother, thi· boy whose nickname was 'Reckless Kclly',

been working in the design and fushion industr>· for 20

roatn the cit)' 1111%111)(,1-:'i>,ed. FIn- a few' 111(,111 ent.% I coukl

ve ars. Ms (:utten 's inailic) 1)jective is to 'create a i ange of

do nothing but continue to stare lit inv·11-lotheir.

good qualitv. well macle garments for women who work

W-ter a while it clinvned on me. l'he realitv had been

staring me in the face for mr whole life. The reason that

inY brother was permitted to cio what 1 was not was because he was a 1,ov. This realisation only infuriated me further. This was the reason th,11 un* brother was allowed

to do what I was not. Did my nic,ther believe that as a bov he was more able to protect hillisc lf f 1-om things than I \VIt>,r

1 stole an enviouh glance at un* brother. A xmall, skitinv little bov with freckles :ind braces. How could he

possiblv defend himsell? I was xt 1-onger. h was unfair. Itt it 1 realised this was not about being Mensible or logical, it was about the win, that the human mind worked

Nubconscic)11>dv. It was at that moment that I truly

realised whal I would be facing for tile rext of iny life...incqualit\.

I renwmbered back to when I was nine years old. ily brother and I wele y)Cliding the unniner vacation with my uncle at his hotel. At the wrv beginning 01 the

holiclav im· brother requested that he work for iny uncle to earn some money. My uncle ag'reed. On the MENt day at the hotel 1.like went out on the beer cleliveries with

my uncle. Refure thev left my uncle instructed me to go into the kitchen and help the cook serve out the mcals.

I agreed. feeling glad that I was bring helpful and would

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and need c lassic office wear on a consistent basis.'

How do vou become a leading fashion de«-11(19 For Perri it was because her father worked from home as a

graphic artist specialising in fashion drawings. 'From a young age 1 was exposed to :111 sorts of design: lashion

seemed a natural progression.' Pei ri Cutten also enjoys the constant change of fashion. 'I enjoy the fact that each season is a new beginning und I also love the \itality of an iii(litsti )* with constant challenges.'

Perri Cutten is going to applv the skills for which she lias become world fainous to Loreto Mandeville Hall's

%(110011111ilc)1'11].Ms Cutten admits, tholigh, thal it will be a challentre. 'Mv brief for the ledesigning of the Mandeville uniform iN Verv light'. She is 1 (stricted bv the trpes of fabric and the 1.11'ge range of age and xi/.e that Mlle imist cater for. 11% Cutten is .11>40 Vel'w .113',11'C that she

has to ti-v to please everyone, the parenti and the StliclentH ilizolved, WhichiS an exile'inch' diffic'11|t job.

Peni Cuncll N recogilised. not onlv ill the dexign and fashion ilicilixtry, but a|No bv the bro,1(1(·1 ])ill)|ic as a verv slic c ('ssfill .11 id .1,4 tute woman. >ille Ims follc i,ved her

troal 1-iulit through and ix (loing what she alwavs wanted to Ac).

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YEAR 9 BLUE 3rd Row L-R Monica Nisbet,

Marta Kiernikowski, Catherine Killen,

Kelly Gallivan, Clare O'Neil, Lana Mai, Lucinda Gannon, Sara Little, Kate Turnbull. f 1.

2nd Row L- R Gemma Fleurisson,

Catherine Meehan, Caroline O'Brien, Jennifer Bishop, Emily Tribe, Sharon Spinelly,

Samantha Basford, Tiffany Loft, Jodie Fry. Front Row L-R Sarah Martini, Josephine Oldham, Anna-Marie Black,

Emmaline Jones, Lauren Reed, Emily Petricola, Rachel Mclnerney, Georgina Carroll, Sarah Balmer, Jessica Shirley.

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YEAR 9 GOLD 3rd Row L-R Rachel Ball, Clea Walsh, Rachel Couttie, Aimee Curtain,

Marney McMillan, Marie-Danielle Turner, Natasha Dougherty, Jane Rogan.

2nd Row L-R Anna Clarke, Olivia Sweeney, Chelsea Rowlings, Natalie Caboche, Stephanie Keenan. Erin Kennedy, Rochelle Howie, Phoebe Knowles, Kelly Peterson. f

Front Row L-R Lizette Bell, Carlene Ngoma, Nicole Gialeli, Michelle Chan,

Catherine Chamberlain, Tania Caldow, Rebecca Coleman, Renee Reardon,

Daniela Calabro, Megan Haratsis.

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TEACHERS Mr Peter Crewe, Mrs Pamela Davies.

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YEAR 9 GREEN 3rd Row L.R Kate Ralph, Louise Vautin, Kirsten White, Daniela Norman, Thea Geddes, Rachel Collard, Roxanna Ryan, Therese Hanrahan, Anna Francis.

2nd Row L-R Sarah D'Silva, Julie Grouzis,

Jennifer Donald, Jane Foley, Katherine Duggan, Anne Conroy, Anthea Kavanagh, Adele Brazenor,

Rachel Hoy, Virginia Ball. th

Front Row L-R Meagan Williams,

Eloise Armstrong, Regina Kaluzny, Fiona Tetley, Tamara Goncharow, Brooke Pearson,

Amanda Cosgriff, Nancy Sposato, Victoria Heatley, Kasey Warner.

Absent Georgina Ryan

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YEAR 9 RED 3rd Row L- R Samantha Stewart-Steele,

Jennifer O'Connell, Katsy Lee, Sarah Gandolfo, Alice Penna, Margherita Boemo, Aimee Lipscombe, Lucy Maule,

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2nd Row L- R Katherine MeMahon,

Nicole Corcoran, Alice Smith, Marisa Vaughan, Meg Ockleshaw, Vivienne Ringersma,

Catherine Wilkinson, Georgina Labb, Georgina Frew, Ebonie Martello, Marie Dermatis.

Front Row L·R Stella Spitaliorakis,

Meaghan O'Loughlin, Jessica Moretti, Kate Jackson, Louise Blight, Erin Reade, Sunaina Miranda, Surini Wijayasinghe.

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TEACHERS Mr Guy Anderson, Miss Josie Millard.

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THE LIBRARY ILLITERATE I love everything about books with one exception: their dwelling place, their home...the library. It is the home of books I've loved for as long as I can remember and it frightens me like nothing else on this earth.

Today I am facing Up to this fear, building up my courage on this tram, preparing for battle with my

zincontrollable phobia of hbrariex. Panic crawlx over iny body, transforming me into a st.ate of parah·sis, ancl throws me out the sliding doors before you can say librarian!

The librarian is where .ill my fears began. As he casts his eyes over his halt-glasses, watching mr every move, a

FIRST DAY AT FALLS CREEK The sensation of travelling up the chairlift was overwhelming...

I was wondering ifperhaps I had died and entered a heavenly worId, because the horizon between the snow

ancl ice could not be seen. My praceful thoughts

shattered when the Instructor yelled, 'Get off the chair!'

1 Slid along the ice in a hurry; the iden of the chair knocking me over was not appealing. I looked around

helplessly, challenged to a game of 'spot the friend' because everyone looked similar in their endless

amount of clothes. Lined up in groups of twelve, we were given our ski instructor for the following two days.

The two hour lesson ended quickly and I was properly

shiver crawls up iny spine and clutches me around the

nourished by a good 01' BBQ! After a toilet detour we

neck. He always knows my name, my book record, the

were back on the slopes in groups of tell with a teacher

time I had an overdue book for three Years, when lie

accompaming us. The afternoon was filled with skiing

caught me turning over the corner of a page to keep my

(or should I say, falling) down new slopes while for those

place and ruling under words to remember specific

less adventurous there was the warmth of the cafeteria. I

informatio11, oh yes, he knows it all! When the

glanced at my watch and realised I had two minutes and

computers give zip trying to find the book l'in after,

thirt)'-one seconds to be on the bus ready for the trip

beeping at every biitton I press, he is there, intimidating

home. Exhausted, I claimed two seats to ni>/self and

ine. I ask him for help and a second later feel like a

sprawled mr wearv body over them as I reminisced

simpleton. His sweet, warm face matching the colour of his vest turns into a greasy stare, He is the one I live to please (anci avoid) on his territory.

about the da€s events:

The sensation of travelling up the chairlift was overwhelinin*.

The combined thoughts of Rachel Ball,

Iii the deathly silence my ears ring. my stomach rumbles and all ofa sudden I become a clumsv diinwit

Natalie Caboche, Megan Haratsis, Rochelle Howic, Phoebe Knowles and Olivia Sweeney, Year 9

who has lost aH sense of direction in life. The librarv

scent of books and catalogues aclds to this confusion. I become delitious and ti-v to run outside, but the search

AND THEN I FELL!

beeper goes off because I'm holding an unborrowed

I must have looked pretty brave for someone who was

booL 1 feel the eyes of every university student upon my

about to kill herself. But I dicilit feel it. The wind was

criminal face. Iii this commotion my natural reaction is

blowing into my nose and niouth, drying my lips as it

to run back through to fix the clainage, but alas! The

paxxed. I glanced ahead and u ied to find words to placate the tears which had begun to swell in my mind

beeper it Ket ott again.

Here's the librarv. l'in going to jump off this tram, locused on the task at hand, look for a needed book and

accomplish tile unthinkable, find it! Ihn walking closer, here I am...oh that's right, libraries don't open on

Sundays do they? I sit down on the steps outside, not for too long (I're got a reputation to keep) and think...I am and always will be, a library illiterate.

Lucy Maule, Year 9

and stomach.

'It's not really that high,' I told myself, 'just a bui-tip, a blemish on the cheek of tile world.' But as I stood

there, wheezing at the tholight of my .journey down, I found this very difficult to believe.

I felt a sharp shove from behind, and as 1 turned to face my attack« my skis began to move from under me.

Now, it is a rule well-known to all skiers, be they

amateur, intermediate or professional: When in doubt, fall. But in the mind of a novice skiing backwards down

a mountain, the first thought is 'Hang on!' And I was no exception.

Trees spun dizzily past, blurring with my increasing speed, and bright parkas dived out of my way. Parents grabbed their children and snowboarders were forced to stop and admire as I flew crazily down the slope. And with every jump, skid and stumble came appropriate 5

'O0ohs' and 'Aaahs' from the crowd who had now

st<)pped to stare at the flitorescent creatinr terroliting

the slope.

And then I fell. No extravagant fall, 110 1411 to remember. No broken nose or twisted leg or shattered arm to be proud of. No snow in niouth, in eyes, in ears,

Year 9 Ski Camp.

iii hair. No skis flew off or up or down or out. .just plop and it was over.

L-R: Marje Dermatis, Kate Ralph, Emily Tribe, Nancy Sposato, Therese Hanrahan

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Thea Geddes, Year 9

ON TOP OF THE WORLD !

'You will ski dowii this slope, yes?' Alfred, my ski instructor, inquired.

'Well, no', I replied. 'I really wasn't planning on it.

You see, yesterday was my first time skiing and I jt1St noted that this is an intermediate run and it's not really appealing to me at this point iii time...'

I realised that, in the vulnerable state I was in, my socalled 'caring' ski instructor had gently prised my stocks out of my clenched fists and had nudged me over to the very brink of the slope. Looking down, all the terror I

had ever experienced came back to me, I felt as if I was looking down the stairway to hell, instead of the Falls

Creek Panorama ski slope. In one swift move (that I'm sure every instructor learns at ski school) he pushed me off down the slope, without my stocks, and then calmly called after rue, 'Georgie, watch out for the other skiers.'

As I sped down the slope 'watching out for the other skiers' was the last thing on my mind. Whoosh! Alfred

just sped past me, holding four stocks. 'Come on, Georgie. You're doing it.'

That's when it hit me. I was actually doing it. I was about ten metres from the bottom and I had not hit

anyone. At that moment I felt on top of the world...

Crack! I shook my head as I slowly sat up. 'Georgie?'

Alfred said as he removed my ski from underneath his

Art by Aimee Lipscombe, Year 9

leg. 'Why weren't you paying attention? Why didn't you Stop?'

Georgina Ryan, Year 9

SNOW Snow:

The things we do to get to it, Endless travel, endless searching, Hours upon hours on the road.

Only to find what?

Powder as cold as death,

An endlessly dripping nose,

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Numbed senses, Chilblains and sore throats.

Why did we do it?

To feel the thrilling sensation

Art by Rachel Ball, Year 9

Of racing down a mountain Recklessly

Without any control, Falling over and having

A gorgeous guy help you tip.

To feel the exhilaration of soaring up with ajolt On the ski lifts

Singing and waving to other passengers,

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Falling off a Poma and Scrambling to get away from

The fast approaching metal discs, Tramping back through Virgin powder, Each step sinking two feet into tile ground.

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Sunaina Miranda, Year 9

Art by Renee Reardon, Year 9

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GISELLE'S BALL She stands in front of tile mirror and stares

transfixed at her reflection. Her dress is exquisite. The cream chiffon flows like a running stream off her body.

Its bodice has strands of gold peeking through the cream, like sunlight through trees in a forest. Around her neck hangs a simple strand of pearls. Her hair is pulled back tightly into a demi-pony tail and the remaining golden locks stream down her back. In her

hair a single cream rose is pinned. The simplicity of it adds to her innocent beauty. Suddenly an authoritative voice calls to her to 1-Iin-ry along'.

As she puts on her shoes, the girl remembers every rehearsal she hail unclergone to make sure that her first

roar of clapping hands and vells of 'Encore' are deafening. The ballerina curtsies and thinks back to all

the weeks spent with her teachers as they guided her along, showing her the steps and the hard work she has put iii. She smiles at her reward. *:****

People fumble out of the dark theatre and the dc)(11-s open as a mass of overdreAsed people spill onto the street. Programmes are dropped and soon the theatre is empty. The foreign cleaners shuffle in and the hum of vactium cleaners can be heard. Foreign curses are

uttered as a cleaner trips on the same misplaced chair. A small child creeps on stage and Curtsies to the applause of' a vaclium.

Ania Gruba, Year 10

dance would run smc>(,thly. She had practised with partner after partner and had made all her movements look as graceful as a swan. As she walks over to her mother her shoes pinch slightly, but she ignores the small discomfort and takes her mother's outstretched hancl.

EARLY MORNING IMAGES The mist hovers in the air, concealing most of the

dreary platform. Trains pull in and out of the static)11 as robotic figures scatter in all directions. (Liti·elessly dispersing children with their heavy briefraxes, stony-

They enter the majestic hall that is fit for a queen and bow low to all the other guests. The room is furnished in rich golds and reds. Vek'et curtains are draped fi-om gilt 1 1-aines. Crystal chancleliers hang from embossed ceilings. Long tables aie laden with a bountiful array of foods and champagne glasses; poinpous waiters stand to attention like a regiment of soldiers. The girl releases her mother's arm and walks gracefully over to another guest to gossip about all the liandsome voting men

grubby fingers, he sits in a dimly lit corner. A hean

present. The two girls become a trio, then a foursome,

cloud of smoke tloats above him as he moves the

and then a large gossiping group. It separates when the first dance is announced and all the girls must find their mothers so that any linsilitable proposals for a dance can

cigarette to his lips, sucking back on it and filling his lungs and the surrounding air with the choking fumes.

His eyes, transfixed on the dust> ground before him, tell

be discreetly refused with the help of their mothers.

The violin plays a short solo while the men begin

asking girls to dance. She waits impatiently, watching as each man approaches to ask her to dance then, seeing her mother's disapproving frown, moves on to find a more accommodating mother. What is wrong with the girl? Is she ugly? No, she is by far the prettiest at the ball, bill all the men are too afraid to ask her to dance

because of her overbearing mother. The waltz

commences and the girl's mother is off dancing with her husband. The girl is left alone.

Tears well tip but do not flow. The girl refuses to

allow any of the gossips the privilege of seeing her cry.

Inside she feels alone and a .jumble of other emotions

that cannot be explained; the shame of not being asked to dance; all the time spent practising, wasted.

The time may not have been wasted because the girl leaves her chair and walks to the edge of the dance floor.

Forgetting all the people in the room she starts to dance

by herself. The girl walt/es, runs and leaps across the room. Her arms move in perfect synchronisation with

her body. Every move clescribes her emotions; her anger at her mother for her disapproval of every man at the ball; sorrow at being 1-ejected and joy at defying the social convention by dancing alone.

Couples stop waltzing and the older women state

with disapproving, formidable frowns. The young girls look on with disgust and resentful admiration and the young men f*el ashamed of their cowardice in not asking such a pretty girl to dance instead of the spiteful

faced businessmen push through the crowds. The spotlight i s on a group of schoolgirls laughing

uncontrollably like hyenas, at the expense of a rather large boy who reveals his pink and put ple spotted underwear through a sizeable tear in his slacks.

As the fog begins to lift, an old man is revealed, With

a cigarette placed strategically between two thick,

a thousand stories; his tanned, wrinkled f·ace indicates a

lifetime spent Linder the blazing sun. The man enjoys the last of his tobacco, then ieleases the butt from

belyeen his fingers, hitting the platform it erupts into a spectacular fireworks display. A heavy bc)(, t comes down upon the burning ash, smothering the last trace of life out of it.

As if by some automatic reaction, his gnarled hand

moves towards his top pocket, and he removes a pack of Marlborn and a worn and filthy lighter. Another cigarette is .jammed between his lips and, tlicking the wheel of the lighter, lie holds the flame to the end of his

cigarette and it is lit. He turns, asking a young woman for the time and, without shifting her gaze, Alle pc)ints a long, bony finger towards a clock on a nearby wall.

Momentarily he staies at her, aniused bv her .tristocratic

presence; the woman stands, grunts and Ati-lits away,

glaring down her nose at everyone in her path. A+ if to bring her down from her high horse, the City Loop train breezily enters the station, forcing her flimsy skirt to Ilv up and causing 22 group of teenage bors to snigger and cheer. Embarrassed, the woman hurries into tile

carriage, finding it difficult to regain her composure.

Ille sun filters through the clouds and the station is cleared, as everyone on it rtishes 01-110 the train The

automatic doors beep, then slam, and the train /0(,ins out of sight. A small piece of paper is blown Up into the air and floats gently to the ground, settling just twar the

old man's cigarette butt. Oil it are the words,

one they are partnering.

DONATIONS TO THE ANTI-CANCER COUNCIL ARE

The music stops and so does the girl, finishing in a graceful pose en pointe. The audience applauds and the

GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Sarah Saunders, Year 10

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YEAR 10 BLUE 3rd Row L-R Vanessa Seconnino, Aushra Saldukas, Fiona Nazzari, Larissa Natividad, Catherine Whelan, Astrid Saldukas, Pia Sabbadini,

Marta Soszynski Charlotte Carter.

2nd Row L-R Claire Papaluca,

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Gendry Gordon, Tegan Baker, Gabrielle Harkins, Emma Stutt, Ellen Granger, Sarah Joubert, Fiona Bremner, Amanda Ho, Shelley Ormsby, Georgiana Quinn.

Front Row L -R Victoria Spillane,

Naomi Grant, Emma Whiting, Amy Hede, Nicole Saint-Ange, Marguerite Osborne, Julianne O'Doherty, Michelle Raveche, Lucie Douez.

TEACHERS Mrs Simona Tudor,

Miss Allison Rome, Mrs Amanda Apthorpe.

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YEAR 10 GOLD 3rd Row L-R Katherine Castles,

Marika Psomotragos, Ruth Tinetti,

Kathleen McCloskey, Catherine Stribley, Y

Michelle Beatty, Bridgette Holland,

Cecilia Myers, Monique O'Donoghue.

2nd Row L- R Sian Prosser, Jane Kenny,

Carolyn Agardy, Priscilla Brown,

Miriam Slattery, Jolie Cross, Charlotte Mulder, Madeleine Healy, Cherie Lagana.

Front Row L-R Kim Lien

Alexandra Angelatos, Edwina Galbally, Claire Scally, Carolyn Carlyle, Katherine Sherry,

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Marielle Sullivan, Edwina Hurley, Ashanthi Theivendran.

Absent Samantha Hilbert, Frances Max. TEACHERS Mrs Marie-Louise Khamara, Mr Eddie Kane.

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1 1 3.1 Row L.R Abby Leaver, Carla Passaro, Domenica Gullace, Melissa Corbett,

Emily Harris, Ellen Woodruff, Madeleine Keogh.

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2nd Row L- R Sarah Saunders,

1 i t IiI 11 Catherine Longano, Sara Lynch,

.' l; 'i 'Itll Sally Carrodus, Jennifer Datson,

-lit 'i Ull Agnieszka Wrzesinski, Ania Gruba,

A *--/ I'll I I fli Il Kathryn Arbon, Anita McCarthy.

Front Row L-R Kristina Papamarkou

Gabrielle Hurst, Jacinta Holmes, Elizabeth Marks, Alison McBeth,

Edwina Holbeach, Shona Hannaford, Aislinn Hammer, Lalitha Selvendra.

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2nd Row L·R Jane Merrylees,

Louisa Coleman, Fiona Livi, Monique Moussi, Angela Hill, Aimee O'Sullivan-Hunter, Sasha Milinkovic, Edwina Wilson,

Anneke Barlow, Melanie Sargeant, Elissa Nolan, Anne Egan.

Front Row L-R Lucy Johnson, Priscilla Ruffolo, Michaela Slocum,

Camille Diafas, Emily Ball, Georgina Chapman,

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Brigid Anderson, Colette Herman, Claire Jenkins, Caroline Perrett.

TEACHERS Mr Malcom Farnsworth, Miss Andrea Inglis.

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A GREY WONDERLAND l'h(· Ninell of hot. Mtickv surat waft>; through the air

and the sound of hean- breathing c.ills(·s inc to question whether tlic hike· up Mt Feathertop is worthwhile. The bitti t- coldness ( 1(,Mes iii on Els: hown·er. we 111'C leverishlv

hot 11(11(·ath the lavers ofexposed skin. In front. the reel pack ix grudgingh' cai·ried up, oc·(·i,Kic,imlly being

hoisled back up :11)ove the 1)1 tliscd hip hones, and behind comes the Holind of 111()11(,ton<)11% trudging and

%(llic·|('Ling through the Sloh 01 trainpled %13()\1' ancl 1/'11\'('%.

1 hc morbid track is bordered bv the intense pilliti of

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itinouched Anow. This is broken oillv bv the green tllinble of tall gra,;MeN which cast (lt'licate xhadow, on the

tl'acksitit pants ascending past them. Overpoweling the Anic.11 c )1 sweat is the smell of wit citcalvpt iric·lting clown

from the spaise canopv above us. The snow continues to full and dance down to Our facer. caressing theln.

Quickly, it ti-ansforms to water drops which crawl slowly down our forcheads, off the side of our noses and onto

our Ilushed cheeks. The pattering of snow onto tile

In the wonderland of snow!

ground. the occasional stick cracking underfoot and the

Al,(>i·aclic· word are the only sounds to break the th,-thillic ti ticlge of fect cuid the crunching of the leader'% feet .is

thev hunber over the fresh cover 01 snow on the path.

MiNt cut'ls through the comb oftrees, hiding thrin in 11 grev wondel·land of ellchanting- 111,10,. The rotting

sc , inbre Ihce of an old Atilinp beside the track stares up

lit 11% with its (1.linpness covered in the delicate hair of

sun is welcome. swet·ping ovel- our faces and warming ils from the iii side out. But linallv it loses its battle and is

wrenched back behind the clouds. And with the taxle 01

melting Mlow ill un' 111(,lith. scooped up 110' a blitch. waterproof hand and (i'lished Clullisih- 1,('turen in z avid lips, I decide it N worthwhile after all.

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moss. Through the few gaps between Ilic· trees. glimpses an be ciltight of the diStant 111(,Unt,linx 01' while

nmrshmallow, the trees lc,(,king like green-black ants

THE SWIMMER

Awarming up the slopes but not quite able to reach the plistilic· white Mummits.

The opaque glaMs Ali,itters the pink flesh

For illst all in>;tant the sti liggling- %1111 is 221)le to

inrc, a inUMon I,iccc*.

penetrate tlic· clotids and seep through tlic· mist like

The mirror-like water opens for tile

Vic'toric)11% fingers reaching out to capture their reward.

incoming bodv.

I'lic· trudgers Xtop and

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overwhehninglv loud as the snow illitininates. causing

The phinge Kends ripples through the water

i·ve. to blink quickh'. adjusting to the brightness. The

distiti-bing the cahn, like a broken silence.

Circular .11-in inoveinents propel the body forward round and round like a windinill.

The end of the pool nears and the body cut-1% up -then extend.%.

like a clenching list.

A head surfuces and gulpx for airiii illl€1 ()llt, like a newborn 1,1,1,.

The swimmer cinerip 11-om the water and the light Allitniners off the drops on his skin.

Ille opaque glasx shatters the pink flesh into a million pieces.

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3rd Row L·R Danielle Bettenay, Catrina Boemo, Jo-Maree Delac, Georgia Dyer, Jacqueline Carroll, Kathleen Fagan, Nerita Benetti, Terese Antonious, Andrea Ball.

2nd Row L-R Johanna Audley, Jane Castles, Jacqueline Dowling, Claudia Buttazzoni, Kate Dickson, lovanah Fielding, Jessica Cichy, Olivia Elsiey, Angela Dwyer.

Front Row L-R Genevieve Barton, Gemma Deane, Anna Chamberlain,

Marika Fengler, Lisa Arthur, Alexandra Bostock, Rachel de Zoete,

Catherine Fernando, Rachel Doyle.

TEACHERS Mrs Nola Farrington, Mr Michael Mulcahy, Ms Jane Cowan. '· 4

YEAR 11 GOLD 3rd Row LR Michelle Levy, Brigid Fitzgerald,

Debbie Kononada, Sarah Gurry, Brigid King, Julia Gurry, Sophie Gannon, Claire Gittings, F

Jacqueline Labb.

2nd Row L- R Brigitte Garvey,

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Alexandra Kastaniotis, Gabrielle Hall,

Emily Ludescher, Katarina Filipi, Jane Howard, %

Kate Johnson, Kate Kuring, Prudence Foley.

Front Row L-R Catherine Fonti,

Larissa Hickey, Virginia Grant, Stephanie Johnston, Renee Loricchiella,

Anita Goh, Lesley Horder, Georgina Francome, Emily Kishida.

Absent Sarita Flanagan TEACHERS Mrs Linda Tinney, Ms Helen O'Keefe.

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YEAR 11 GREEN 3rd Row L·R Caroline Petricola,

Lisa Meehan, Laura Mulcahy,

Andrea Marostica, Aisling O'Donnell, Emily O'Connell, Carla Pascoe.

2nd Row L.R Anna Messina,

Sarah McKeown, Elizabeth McCartney, Lauren Mai, Sarah Pinto, Felicity McGrath, Elspeth Martini.

Front Row L-R Pauline Ng, Charmian Ong, Lisa O'Callaghan, Emma Ogilvy,

Mary Moreno-Lagar, Melissa Migliardi, Penelope O'Loughlin, Bianca Pepe.

Absent Sarah McFarland

TEACHER Mr Mark Bahr, Mrs Cate Slattery.

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2nd Row L-R Andrea Vidal, Hayley Richards, Sharon Robb, Jane Richardson, Tahnee Walker, Christine Sammartino.

Front Row L- R Maria Spitaliorakis,

Marlo Urquhart, Veronica Shine, t

Jane Signorino, Rachel Price, Marion Stephenson, Agnieszka Solon, Sarah Whiting.

Absent Mr Roger Gill, Silvana Raydan, Laurie Tomkins, Rachel White.

TEACHERS Miss Sandra Jane,

Ms Angela Mancini.

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Veronica Angelatos

Marian Bare

Caroline Barlow

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Nina Bonacci

Christina Browning

Yasmin Copley

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Kathryn Friend

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Jolene Geh

Belinda Gibson

Elizabeth Glynn

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Sara Harris

Virginia Hartley

Natasha Holmes

Amber Horsfall

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Virginia Jones

Susannah Lennon

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Jane Lanigan

Sophie McGowan

Elisa Milano

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Kylie Podolakin

Susannah Portelli

Julia Rachelle

Michelle Reardon

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Camille Reidy

Jacqueline Bennie

Nathalie Resciniti

Rebecca Ringersma

Emily Roberts

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Natalie Sabbadini

Tamsin Santos

Amy Scally

Fionna Scott

Sarah Sherrv

Edwina Shmith

Serena Simmons

Zoe Smyth

Clare Soppitt

Ainslee Spadaro

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Melissa Tilley

Natalie Vucic

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'MEN AT SOME TIME ARE MASTERS OF THEIR FATES' Cassius in William Shakespeare's Jittius (Inescir, Act 1, Scene 2

The frost Keeined to have been sprinkled over the grass and glazed it like the icin€r on one of those 2(1 brins they macle in town. Thinking about food made him h ungry and his stomach rumbled as if it were agreeing.

It was a four mile walk into town or so it seenied.jim had walked the road a thousand times and had almost worn

his own path in it. He knew each step of the way: every hoinic: every paddock and almost every tire. The winter had grasped everything in sight; icicles were clinging to the neatly thatched roof of each house, but since 111(,t'ning they had ,410Wly begun melt.ing. Trees were covered in light dew and the road wax icy like a skating

t-ink. They had said in town that this was tile coldest winter in Ireland in a dec:ide. Cold chills ran up and

he saw it, he couldn't get used to the concept. The mule was definitely getting old, its backbones protruded and

its head was lowered. The smell of it reminded jim of home and he hated that smelL Jim walked straight into the milk factory and almost slipped on the inilk curd on the ground. Immediately he noticed his father with his

same old cap-he used to joke that it was stuck to his head. Working away, he was pouting the milk into the churner. He looked up at jim and smiled faintly, acknowledging his presence. He poured tile last of the milk into the churner and then carried the keg to the cart tliat the old mule was pulling. .jimmy had to take the cart back hoine and then start on the fields while his father started work for the

council. His job didn't pay much, but it was enough to

buy equipment to keep the farm running, He jumped tip into tile cart and watched his father walk away across town. He wished he could walk like his father, as if ready

to take on the world, measuring each step as llc flaunted

clown his spine.

his big barrel chest. He fed the donkey a handful of oats

.jim never cared what he looked like, he clicln't even worry what others said about what he wore. He felt comfortable so he was happy. The clothes he wore were his father's. They were a few sizes too big for him, but he liked it that way, in fact he wouldn't have it any other way. The big working boots he was wearing made him trip every now and then but he had nothing else to wear

and then started out toi- the ride back home.

to protect his feet. His Dad's long trench coat dragged

along the ground as he walked. The bottom of the coat was damp, and covered with dirt and nettles from working down the field, ploughing and planting all day.

The shirt he wore was brown and shabby, torn halfway up the left arm. They had received it from a cousin who lived iii America. Every year she would send over manv

Nothing seemed to be achieved from his daily runs; where was he going? What was he doing? He wanted to

travel to England, find a job and live a rich happy life.

He remembered a friend, Paddy (:aivey, coming back

from England in a big white Bentley, wearing a hundred pozind suit. He was the talk of Clareniorris for weeks.

That's what Jimmy wanted to be like; it was his vision. He needed to prove to his Dad that he could fulfil his dreams; to succeed and to become what his father

wasn't. The mule plodded back along the side of tile road,jim gave it a few kicks and realised lie was kidding himself. He would never leave Claremorris, he didn't

have the: strength to do it. He was the son of a poor

kinds of outfits but most of them were years out of fashion or not something a farmer's son would wear. But

There was a moment where he thought it could happen,

Mammy felt obliged to take them.

but as usual he didn't have the fortitude that all the

He came from a poor farming family of strong Catholics, struggling at times but lisually quite mirthful.

He was the youngest of four children. They did the best

others had. For just a passing moment, there was a glint

that they could with the money they had. The house was perfectly clean-Mammy made sure of that. If the house was at all a mess someone would get a beating, so it

farmer and that's what he would be, he was born into it.

in his eye-major prospects ahead of him-but it was

washed away quickly. This is where he was born and this is where he would eventually die. ff only he had followed his reverie and believed in himself he may have found sc>inc happiness.

st.ayed neat, to save sore bottoms. They didn't have much to be proud of and usually felt embarrassed when

Katherine Fahy, Year 12

solneone came to visit.

As .lim took each stricle down the road he felt stronger, he had his thoughts stretched way beyond the hill ahead. He had dreains, ambitions, goals .uid he didnh want to be stuck in a small town like Churmorris.

HIDE, COME SEEK On a small hill, beyond the neglected beach-front havens, stood the Taylor's new holiclay house. The twostorey wooden house basked in the warm stimliier's sun.

He focused back on the road and noticed he was twarly

Inside, two young boys, Rory and Andy, weir hampering

in town. The slight bend to the right ahead of him was a

their mother'S efforts to sort and collate the various

symbol; he always felt good when he saw it, knowing lie

objects that lay scan.ered around the lounge room,

11:1(111't much farther to go. He turned the corner as the

Mrs Taylor, frustrated by the rigours of moving into a

town came into view, a very small town that was slowly

new home, hael little tolerance for the antics of her two

expanding. lie went sti-aight on past Pat Henley's store and took the next right to the creamery. Tile town had

sons. 'Boys, go outside and play before I love my

a smell of its own. It was a prominent place for stock trade so the smell of manure and cow feed was always present in the air. It clidn't take long to get used to and seemed almost pleasant after years of smelling it.

Outside the creamery stood the family's old mule. It always looked futile standing there, rather than being in the shed behind the house. No matter how many times

patience,' she pleacled wearily with them, Reluctantly, the two boys nioved through the house to the back door.

The doon in need of oil, squeaked loudly as Rory flung it open.

After a brief conversation the. boys decided to engage

themselves in a game of 'hide and seek'. Rory, being the elder of the two boys, aged nine, took it upon himself to

be the seeker. 'Okay, I'll give yoll up to two hundred to

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hide and then l'in coming after you. Now go!' stated

At first glance there seemed to be little room inside the

Rory authoritatively as he concealed his eyes with his

fridge but as Andy clambered inside he found he was

fi Ii, ers.

not too cramped. As the door swling closed it made a

Andy scampered as fast as he could around the

slight hiss. Andy held the door ajar for a moment, until

corner to the side of the house. Hurriedly he reached

he could hear Rory opening the garage door, then let it

up and opened the latch on the wooden gate. The gate

click shut, scaling himself in the air-tight compartnle.lit.

did more than divide the front of the house from the

Rory flicked on the garage light and began searching

backvard; it bisected it into two different worlds. The

for Andy. Methodically he made his way through the

front of the house was immaculately manicured with a

garage but found no trace of Andy's whereabouts.

clean white gravel driveway and beautiful garden devoid

Finally he was satisfied that Andy was not in the garage.

of weeds. B>' contrast the backyard, with its unmown

As Rory left he flicked off the light and closed the door.

lawn, caked mud and pile of rusty automotive

The interior of the garage was thrown into complete

machilien; was the epitome of ngliness.

darkness.

After closing the gate behind him, Andy paused for a

Outside, Rory paused for a moment and thought

moment to survey the likely hiding places. Immediately

aloud to himself, 'Well he's not iii the garage, that's for

he spied the garage. Of course! It was the perfect spot,

sure. Unless of course he was in t,hat old 1-.' A fly

All of the heavier items, which yet had to be allocated a

buzzing around his face niomentarily caught his

position inside the house, were being stored there.

attention and his thought was lost fr,rever. I le swimg- at

Carefully he picked his way across to the door atthe side

the fly, but missed and it moved on, linharmed. Rory

of the tin garage. Slowly and delicately Andy rotated the

decided to search the backyard and nioved off from the

handle of the cloor, iii older to make no noise. As the

garage.

door opened sillishine streamed into the dark, (lamp

Inside the fridge Andy remained still until he was

garage, then the light dulled 21% a lone cloud obscured

sure that Rory had gone. Then he tried the door on the

the sun. Quickly he moved inside and closed the door

fridge. It wc)111(117't move. But it must! He tried the door

quietly behind him.

once 111(nr, using all the strength of his stubby five year

Standing perfectly still Andy allowed his eyes to adapt

old hands. It remained unmoved. Andy began to panic.

fi-om the bright light outside to the darkness inside the

He beat upon the door with his small fists and yelled in

garage. At first he could see nothing but, after a brief

vain for help. But already the air was beginning 10 feel

time, he began to make out the outline of some objects.

thin. Mizilled noises issued from the friclge and quictly

Soon he could see quite well and the objects became

echoed around the empty garage. Then graclually the

more clearly visible, the light being provided by a small

sounds from the fridge began to subsi(le.

window on the oppositte side of the garage. Ancly then began trying to choose exactly where he should hide.

Rory stood, peering through the gap,; between his

Latex, the voice of Rory resonated through the motionless air, 1 said you can come out now! You've Won!'

lingers at Andy disappearing around the corner of the

Stisannah Lennon, Year 12

house. 1 le began counting up to two hundred: oile, two,

three, four...one hundred and forty-seven, one himdred and forty-eight, one hunch·ed and Ic )1·tv-nine, one

RELINQUISH

hundred and tifty! 'Ali, xmff counting up to two hundred', Rory thought to himself, 'one hundred and

Colours will fade and light go clark,

fifty will do!' He rose and crept stealthily along the

Love will be forgourn and hatred stai't.

outsicle of the house, hoping not to herald his approach

Earth will not move and lars will not shine,

to the concealed Andy. After surveving thoroughly the

Hearts will clespair and souls will pine.

side of the house, he conchided that Ancly imist have been .irc)iii](-1 the 1 1(,tit of the house somewhere. He

Beauty won't exist and the living will (lie,

passed through the same gate as Andy had done

Blood will shed and eyes will cry,

previously and into the front yard.

joy will cease and pain will thrive,

As Rory shut the gate after hini a fly began buzzing

Bliss will end and anger will arrive.

cheekily about his face. With a quick, agile swipe of his hand Rory crushed the fly and it fell to the ground.

Sun will go down, moon won't come out,

There it lay on its back, its legs squirming, broken, on

Dogs will howl and people will shout

top of its toiso. Briefly it continued fighting for its life

Time will halt and calenders will burn,

before succumbing to death. After searching through

Old will die and children won't learn.

tree-tops and bushes, Rory made gingerly for the garage, gleaming silver in the sunlight.

Inside Andy was still searching for an appropriate

Paintings will fall and photos diminish, Nightmares start and dreams will finish.

hiding place amongst the collage of objects that

Hope will end and fury embark,

ornamented the clark interioi of the garage. Upon

Faith will terminate and security depart.

hearing the sound of approaching footsteps Andy was thrown into a state of confusion. Ullere could he hide?

Belief will surrender and disbelief reign,

Under the car? Or behind the workbench perhaps?

Arms will grow cold until love starts again.

Then he spied it. An old fridge sitting in the corner. Its

Life won't {low and eyes won't shine,

rusty white door stood ajar. Andy moved closer, quickly

This will all happen if you stop being mine.

appraising the merits of the fridge. It would have to do.

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Loretta Bourke, Year 12

P.4

FASHION-FARCICAL OR FABULOUS? I adore clothing. Besides paper-thin slices of sinoked salmon, it's my one and only indulgence and, admittedly, I buy impulsively and often. But I have a tiny

gripe with the notion of fashion'-what on earth is it?

The top dogs of the industry overseas may dictate what

they feel should be worn bv one and all the world over, but I'll have none of that, thank vou verv much. I'd

prefer to follow iny own i ules-wear what vou like, what suits you, and simply enjoy creatively projecting your unique self.

So there will be no talk of what is the 'new thing' here, no discussion of the 're-emergence' of- red lipstick, or the 'return of glamour'. Aren't all of these things alicady around for 11% clothes-cram indivicluals to play with to our heart's content? Be open minded-be creative! The fashion in the niagazines is lucky if its suits a mere ten percent of tls (those with a real woman's bock), co 1-emeniber that there G a world of clothing

beyond that size 8 ideal, just waiting to be discovered by your hot little hands.

What I think I love most about clothing is the way that it can completely change the way that people perceive you. Yoin image can change draniaticallv with a

hairstple (or lack of one), a pair of shoes, or (heaven

heard a vicious rumour that they are hired only if they exude an arrogant confidence that will (they think), pi-oject the label as strong and sexy. Their rudeness and narcissism (I ollie wanted to try something on, blit I cotildn't get the shop assistant's attention, she was too busy applying niascara) simply compels me to leave their shop and never come back. It'+ a pity, because their clothes are brilliant.

Something else that strikes me as being very peculiar is that comment of Coco Chanel's, about always taking one thing off before leaving to go (mt. Apparently people swear by it, but what on earth is it they remove without ruining their outfit, or risking being hall Iiaked or cold? An tarring? Stockings? One shoe? I tried it once, and spent so much time deliberating over which ring to remove that I decided I would make lip my own motto-to acid oil one thing before leaving the llc,use.

Makes far more sense to tile!

h is really 1111111>' that absolittelv an\'thing im,iginable

could be pronounced fashionable and 'must have' bv the powerful fashion heads in Europe. 1 reincinber last Year when those beige massage sandal ati-ocities were

being worn on catwalks in Europe, then they crept into prestigious clothing stores in Melbourne at an astronomical price. Whv? I sometimes wonder whether

forbid) a push-up bra. I remember doing work

the fashion greats sit around together, drunkenly

experience at Georges where I was dressed in the customary black and white with mr hair slicked back, in

wondering what is the most offenshe article of clothing

a desperate attempt to pass invsel f off as a 'real'

businesswoman at the mere age of fifteen. I walked past the Athencieum Theatre, where people were lined up on the ground like huge exhausted caterpillars in sleeping bags, camping out to buy tickets for the forthcoming U2 concert. Many of them sneered and spoke loudly about

' [expletive deleted] yuppies' as I skulked past, desperately trving to stop that horribly busied and pretentious sound of clicking heels. The shame! Yet a month later, on the night of the concerts, I blended in nicely (and comfortably), dressed in mv old flannel shirt and.jeans, unbrushed hair in a ponytail.

Yes, clothing is ftm, frivolous and fabulous. But I have to draw the line at the competitive edge people adopt

with it, it's so catty and pathetic. Chapel Street is a brilliant example of the average shopping strip which becomes a catwalk of pouting, made lip women and men who exude a mul-ti-tude of att-i-tude, proudly

bearing their expensive clothing like annour. Oh, it makes me xhudder. These dedicated slaves to the

fashion industry stare sulkily over shop counters, wearing the 'right thing' as their status svinbol. There is

one problem with this picture. They all look the same, In Janwary they wore oriental and terry towelling, and by July it was pale pastels and logo t-shirts. What is it with those logo t-shirts? Why on earth someone would want to profess their sexuality with words emblazoned across their chest, I clon't know. And please, let me in on the secret, which females have the courage to wear 'Tiny'?

1 would like to pack up all of these slightly disillusioned people and send tlieni of'Tto a nudist cal-tip for a week or two. Campers agree that nudity is the greatest social leveller between people; no pretence or protection behind tile armour, because we are all the

in existence for them to market world-wide. OIl, the

pure fun that could be had with that power! If I were

Anna Sui for a day, I would declare that oratige and brown tent-like knee length Pucci print dirsses were all the go; the indispensable item in vour wardrobe, Then I

would sit back and have a chuckle to myself as people tripped over one another, scrambling to be the first to wear it, show it, own it. The whole idea of fashion is

hilarious, really. People need something liew· to market to buyers-the more different, innovative and 'creative' (sometimes I wonder), the better. It just gets more and

more ludicrous Mid you ever see tile Vivienne

Westwood fur bra top with matching crotch piece? Not the most practical attire).

The oriental look was terribly vogue at one stage, much to the dismav of a close friend of mine who 11.1% a

very beautiful authentic Chinese silk dress which she says she call't wear an> more, without risking looking like a desperate fashion victim. I actuallv bolight an oriental top at a costly price. It was oile of those 'Ihavet<,haveitIhavetohareit' things. It was a Milly thing to buy, because it is macie out of a pantyhose type niaterial which the shop assistant assured me would not run.

Sure. The one 1 tried on in the dressing room abolished

that notion completely, but I pul-chased it notic·theless, because I love the intricately drawn red dragon printed on its front.

Many people loathe shopping, aticl I can understand

why-there is so much that goes with ximply protecting

Maine underneath.

one's body from the elements. But inc? I have always loved clothing and re-inventing invself'with it, regarclless of the ridiculousness of the fashion industry.

Somewhere inside, I feel I will always be that little girl

The shop assistants in one ultra-trendy, ultraexpensive boutique are renowned for their bitchiness

clomping around in her high-heeled shoes.

and severe attitude problems, and it is no wonder, I

trying on her nnunmy s grown-up earrings and Edwina (Poppy) Shinith, Year 12

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DINOSAUR BONES AND KANGAROO TEETH "A science is like a tire. h is forever growing and

week I really learnt a lot and was able to apply some of iny new knowledge and actually experience the work and life of a Vertel)rate Palaeontologist. One day we

went clown into the cove and Attempted to find some

reaching out in all clirectioni" In our high school

fossils which may have been left from past ventilles. And

education we (mly ever brush agaitixt oine of the

yes, we clid find some bones; in actual fact, two. At

branches and barely get to experience soinc of the

another site in Portland, I icceeded in finding a bone.

wonders. 1 was extremely lucky to be able to reach

The bones there were not as old and were not those 01

higher into the tree and experience and learn more

dinosaurs, however, an interesting discovery was that of

about one of the branches.

an ancient kangaroo tooth which was a left bottom

For five years now, the Museum has offered the

molar. Other than spending all day chiselling away in

opportunity for a limited number of year 10 students

pieces of rock, we also had discussion sessions, field trips

around Victoria to participate in an invalizable learning

and sight-seeing. A helpful session was when we learnt

experience: to study natural science in depth; work with

how to read scientific papers; a daunting task because we

scientists, real specimens and collections. It is a program

were then tested on our application of knowledge.

which ultimately enabled me to experience at first hand

The Mentor Program has been an experience that I

the work of the (2111 .itor ofVertebrate Palaeontoloipt Dr

will cherish for a long time. Even though I inay not

Tom Rich.

become a Vertebrate Palaeontologist, it has given me

1 was initially informed about the program by Ms

experience ancl knowledge which I probably wotild

.lenner who has already established a Mentor Program

never have had. It has also brought me into c <)11 tact with

here at Loreto Mandevilic Hall. C)n application, I was

a lot of people with whom I will keep in contact in the

required t.0 submit a one page statement on my aptitude

years to come. I ti'zily recommend thix program to aily

Illicl ilit(*1('St in the prograni and I wax .11,0 requhrd to

other student with an interest iii science, or to someone

specify which area of the natural sciences I would like to

who would simply like to learn more. You really do have

study. There were a range of arras offered, which

to seize the opportunities that come to yon. otherwise

inc luded: Vertebrate Palacontology, Iclithyology,

you are just left wondering.

Ornithology, Elitomology, Crustacea, Invertebrate

1.ariss,1 Natividad, Year 10

Survey, Botany, Preparatory and Planetarium. 1 had actually submitted my application late and so 1 was pleasantly surprised when I was chosen to participate; I had been lucky enough to one be of the 28 students who

were chosen from a short list of approximately 70

f **

t

around Victoria.

The first part of the program began in Term Two and involved all the selected students. Every Wednesday a tet noon, from 2.00 to 4.00 PM, we would nieet and be informed bv the 111113(·11111 curators about each of their

4,critic airas in the nuiseitin. During these sessions the tudents wotild be involved in hancls-on experiences with objects stich .14 human xkeletons or a $45 000 gold nugget Called the 'Blilirip'. During the sea,nd part of the program we were placed iii our individual areas of Atticly. The Vertebrate Palaeontology group consisted of'

Larissa Natividad hard at work as an "apprentice palaeontologist" at Dinosaur Cove

13 students who were split up into a morning and ati afternoon session. I was placed in the afternoon session where we would work closely with Dr. Tom Rich. During our sessions we discussed bones and dinosaurs, amongst other interesting things. At one stage we were each given actual skeletons which we were to examine and return

the next session, capable of naming any bone 011 sight.

During another session the artist Peter Trusler disclissed scientific illustrating. He is an artist who works closely with lam and has recently released the "Dinosaurs of Australia" stamp collection in association with Australia Post.

Probably the most memorable part of tlic· program was the one week camp at Dinc)+Aur Cove. This required all (lic· Vertebrate PIllacentology students to take a week off school, between October 15 - 20, and join Tom, Peggy and Scott on the trip of a life-time. During that

124 LORETO · Mandeville Hall

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Junior School Report \Vith Open licarts an (10 pen Miticls' wax the tlicine which iliMpired 0111 jililior School for lt)93, the International 32·:,1- c,1-rIP,lerance. \\'hat has this meant for us? Our own Loirto Mission St.11(·inent .11™wers this

quotion verv wcH - 'if we are able to develop the

4 1 1,11 ities of m ilt z 1,1 1 re spect, tolet-,1 1 1 c c· 01 c lifferences, ;mci lili 1111(lerstaliclilig of 1111111.,11 ,#eakitess, th(·11 01,1

communitY will prove to be compassionate, accepting anct forgiving'. 1 1(,1,(·Illl)' this ix the challenge We, the Ataff and Atildents of the.Junior %(11001, have Attived to put ilito practical expri»ion thix u·al. I beheve that w·c tleect tc) go l,t·)'c)11(1 1|1(' wot-(1 '12 )](i .11]ce, 1() love the truth

0

in charity and with courage.

1995 has been a rich ancl productive vear for the

Junior School, partint|,11-lv in the area of (:111-liculum

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Development. The intic)(itiction alid implementation of the Victorian Curriculum Standards Framework, the

new Religious Education Guideline; and the Learning Assessinent Project for Years 3 and 5, have inade hean' demands on all staff. Theit pic,lissionalism, dedication and Conunitment haw been outstanding and are greath

appreciated. C h 11 l'icul t im i n novat i on wi l l be further enhanced and consolidated in It)f )(i.

The visit 01 Sr Pat Murray, HWM. from Ireland, was a highlight of the veal. We were fortunate to have been challenged bv the c·(111(·ational insights of this inspiring woman. One thought expecialk' that has .stau·cl With inc is tliat wi· Imist '1(,ster not only the wHiting of the brain

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Sr Helen Maguire IBVM, Head of Junior School

given opportunities to develop her partiailan gilts in the areas of Sport, Music, Drama, Art and Information Technology. I.unchtime concerts have been inc,st successful, and 0111- fortllightly Cros.s Age programine has been a great success. School Camps are a highlight of the yean Extension programmes iii Maths and Language, and participation in the Tournament of Minds and Future Problem Solving air challenging

but .ilso the heart of e.tch %111(lent, so iliat Alic will have

experiences.

the Coul-age Withili to ('11(ic).ic the path liMit 1(·,2(1>; to life.'

1993 has been a war ofchange, I thank tlic· st,111 that change has taken place so successfullv 1)((·allic (,1 the

The spiritualitv of the school A the (·ss(·na· 11'om which even'thing r]Xe flows. It gives lilicining, clithusiasm.

passion and depth to the whole xchoo| envitc,linient. ()lit Sacramemal Progamme,4, liturgies, weekly ax<clublics and pravers have been higl poilit«[liting the u·,11. Through tlic·%(· We hau' ('11(1(,1,<)tired to develop and strellgtlien the fait|1-life ofoill· school cominunitv.

The junior Xchool N verv misiion con scic )11,4, with

eniphasis on helping und caring jor others - 'to give without expecting i eward'. We have reached out far and wide duling tile year. St- Margaret Burchell IBITAL in

expertise and pei·sonal gifts thev bring to our sc hooL We are privileged .11,40 that parent involvement is strong. I thank you for vour contitilled slipport. interest and involvement.

'May the Lord bless VOU ill vour gifts and vour heat·ts for others.

These are God's providence to the world to enrich it. to enable it

to bring it to love.'

Sr Helen Maguire I BVM. (Heacl <,1 thejunic,1- School)

Rwanda, Sr Trish Franklin IBVM. in Vietnam, Sr Helen

Parer IBVM. iii Alice Springs, and a Loreto School in Kenva, ate membrns of our I,oreto Familv that we have

helped financially. We have sponsored a 12 year old boy, Omar Bedran, who lives on the island of Cebu, and this

has fostri·ed a senst· 01(,71 1-ixtian discipleship in the girls.

0111:11' has bccolne a rel'y illipc),talit ineinber of our

.

school and comnanication froin hhu R cagerk awaited.

Through Project Compassion, Family Week, Simply Sharing Week. and our support of the Sacted Heart Mix,ion, wr have macie further (flbrt< to be 44» ot hope icn c/how

Crlebration is a key feature of the junior School!

Each week ottlie sclic,<)1 wat- seems to licive a cclil„-ation

theme. During 1995 we have en joved Book Week, Familv Week, Science Week, Mission Week Peace Week,

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141)'sical Ecitication Week ()ne Wk )1·Icl Week, Maths

Week, to name I,itt a lew. These Imve provided excellent means to integrate tlic·cm-licillum ilito our total school life in exciting 811(lilitic),-ative wavs.

Our girls arc lortinate to have an extellsive und

C o m p t e h e n x i v e p r o g 1 ,11 m i l c o f fe r e d t o t h e m . E a c h g i r l i s

Sr Helen Maguire IBVM and Jessica Gamble, Year 4 at Mt Buller

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1995 Annual Report.

Loreto Mandeville Hall School Council I have pleasure ill presenting the fourth Annual Report for the Loreto Mandeville Hall School Council.

The I.oreto Toorak Association was incorporated with effect from 1 February, 1995. Incorporation formalised the Institute's plan to transfer the nuumgenient of I.oreto Mandeville Hall to the School Council and we are honoured to be the first Loreto school iii Australia to achieve this status.

The other major achievement during 1995 has been the progre:Asive adoption of the Strategic Plan. Council

is responsible to the Institute for the School. Together with the Principal, Council is responsible for ensuring the Religious and Educational philosophy of the IBVM is maintained .ind promoted in the school.

The Sti·.itegic Plan has set out to establish the vision for Loreto Mandeville Hall. This vision has been

Mr John Arthur, Chairman, Loreto Mandeville Hall School Council

developed in the context of the purpose and meaning of education, 'to help young people to make a meaningful lite for self bv en'ing others." As Sr. Pat Murray IBVM Maid iii her recent address to tile Council, the school'%

11]timate purpose is to help students " to make a life, not just to make a living.

In developing this purpose, the Strategic Plan needs to recognise the Loreto ethos of education, particularly

as it relates to Loreto Mandeville Hall. This encompasses the values of the school, its history, and its way of life.

The core values of Loreto - freedom, justice, sincerity,

truth, veritv and joy, and a coinii,itment to the role and responsibility of women are vital clements within this vision for our school.

A Munmuu-v of the plan is being prepal-ed and should be available for distribution to the wider School

(ic,ililnunity earlv in 191)6. Our plan is to continue as a

Prep - 12 school for girls with a continued commitment to a Ktrong Catholic ethos and to education iii social

ilistice. The contilizied commitment to the professional development of staff is seen as critical to maintaining the excellent standards of education currently being achieved.

Review of 1995 Standing Committees Property Management.

Chairman - Mr. Reg Brownell. Committee - Sr. Margaret O'Sullivan IBVM, Dr. Anne Hunt, Mi: Bill

Brazenor, Mr. John O'Loughlin, Mr. Peter Suffren. Mi. Henry Turnbull, Mr. Ian james, Mr. Tom Parrott.

The Property Management Committee is responsible for the care, development and lise of land

and buildings leased to the school by the Loreto Institute. It has a role both with regard to maintenance and capital improvements.

The

()iii¤>ing

school

refurbishinent

ancl

improvement program has continued with the complition of the "B" floor of the Mary Ward building and the Green Verandah area, Council hils also

approved expencliture on the Oak Parlour for its refurbishment as part of a long term program to

conserve the historic house, under the guiclance of the school's

c<)11servation

advis<) 1,

the

Ian

PI) tte 1

Fc, i ind.iii on.

As mentioned previously, the Property Committee has spent considerable time focusing on tile

A full propert)' audit is underway to provide the basis

development ofthe Propeity Strategic Plan. An audit of

for the development of a ten vear Property Plan which

the property and building facilities currently iii

will have, as its primary focus, development on the

existence has been undertaken. The Propertv Plan is

existing school site.

beiiig developed in conjunction with the Education Plan

Perhaps one of the greatest challenges facing

to ensure new facilities are adaptable to the

Council, identified in the Strategic Plan, is the funding

requirements of future education. I wotild like to thank

of the development plan whilst maintaining a fee

Reg Brownell and his committee for their significant

structure that ensures that Loreto Mandeville Hall

contribution towardA the %01-1001's properh' m.magement

continues to offer a Loretc) education to giRls within tile

und Tom Parrott for the implementation of manv of the

vision of Mai v Ward.

Committee's decisions. A special welcome and thanks is

The Strateiric Plan encompasses many exciting-

extended to the new tiletill,ers of this committee, Bill

opportunities and Council looks forward to sharing the

111*21/enor, .jolin O'Loughlin, Peter Suffirn and Henrv

vision for Loreto Mandeville H.ill with the wider School

Titi-iil)1111, who have added a great cleal of experience,

Ck)ninitillit)' ill lt)96.

experti Se and elithlisiaxin to the Propertv Coillinittee.

126 LORETO · Mandeville Hall

Public Relations

Chairman - Mr. .john Mckinnon. Committee - St. Ellison Taffe IBVM, St. Helen Maguire IBVM, Dr. Anne Iltint, Ms. Tania Salzatio, Ms. Zena Roslan, Mrs.

Margaret Bridge'i-, Mt. Kevin Halpin and Mr. Ian James.

The Public Relations (:c,mmittee's focus is on the

development of a more infonnative coniinunication with the wider Loreto Mandeville Hall School

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C 'c)111!minity, and to raise the awareness of the features ancl benefits of a I.oreto education with the objective of ununtaining eilrolments.

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f

Activities that the Committee have been involved

with inc·lude proinotion of School Open Days, which are very iniportant occasions for showing prospective parents the depth and variety of a Loreto education, School Information Nights and School Tour Days.

There is an ongoing program of developing closer ties with feeder Parishes to Loreto Mandeville Hall. The

School's Prospectus is being re-designed, with the

CDC)0

release scheduled for early 1996.

Closer ties have been forged with the Past Pupils' Association, with tile new Development Office providing secretarial services to the Association and briefings at Association meetings on plans and development within the school.

With the recent appointment of Mrs. Margaret Bridger as Development Officer and the increased importance of this role in future plans for I.oveto

Mandeville Hall, the present Public Relations Standing (knnmitter will be replaced by a Development and

''<3133·r

Entrance Hall of historic Mandeville Hall

l.c,innmnications (:cimiliittee. The Committee is

The Building Fund plays an important role in

presently working on the linalisation and presentation

helping to repay the del)t incurred during the last

of the Strategic Plan to the Loreto Mandeville Hall School Community.

The Couticil thanks .john Mckinnon and his

Committee for the continued excellent promotional output of the School during 1995.

Finance

Chairman -Mr. David Beatty. Committee - Sr. Ellison Taffe IBVM, Sr. Helen Maguire 1111'M, Dr. Anne Hunt, Mi-. Paul Hoy, Mr. Bryan Madden, Mr. Ian james, Mr. Tony Teinas.

The Finance Committee is responsible for setting Finance Policv and overseeing the financial

management of the school, while the operational financial management rests with the Principal and the Business Manager.

property development and refurbishment program.

The Scholarship Fund now has an established corpus of $380,000 which provides income to f und a number 01

scholarships and bursaries. This continues to be all important component for ensuring that Mary Ward's wish to provide a Catholic education for girls across a br(,ad socio-economic spectrum is achieved.

The audit report froni KPMG again found the school's operations, financial recording and reporting were all in order.

Following investigations by the Finance Cominittee. the School Council approved the appointment of Cassidy Hunter and Nutbean as auditor of the newh incorporated Loreto Toorak Association. This firm has extensive experience in relation to the accounting and audit of schools and is also the auditor for the I.oreto 01 dei .

The budgetary process is the key financial

During the year. the Finance Committee imrstigated

management strategy. The 11)94 linancial result was a

a nuniber of matters relating to fees with the objective of

stit plus of $60,578, which was $9,072 below budget.

Capital expenditure in 1995 included $65,000 tc,wards

helping the parent body meet payments. As a result, a

securing the long tenn lease on the Rowing Shed.

The fee c c,1 leclion rate con ti tmes at .111 excellen t level

munber of new fee arrangements will be introduced in 1996.

levels of connibutions enable the school to maintain its

I would like to thank David Beatty and his committee for their continued excellent work perfonned in overseeing the school's financial managenwnt and lan

high educational stanclards as well as undertaking

james for the high standard of linancial reporting to

important facility implovements to enhance this

Council which contributes significantly to Council's

echication process.

smooth f unctionilig,

01 97% and building fund donations at 83%. These

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Council Review.

John Mckinnon has been a member of the Advisory

Chairman - Mr. john Arthur. Committee Members -

Board and (k,uncil for live vea] A. For the last three years,

Sn Ellison Taile IBVM, Dr. Anne Hunt, Miss. Elizabeth

john has chaired the Public Relations Standing

Butt, Mr. Paul Hov.

(:(mimittee. Under his guidance this committee has

The (knmcil Review Committee is a new Standing

addre>xed the issue of improving colillillillications With

Committee established in 1995. Its functions are to:

the School Community both present, past and

• Monitor the working of the Council

prospective, with a particular foctix on maintaining

• Evalizate (1)until performance

school enrolinents, particularly during the recent

• establish lists of potential meinbers of Council and its

economic recession.

0)mmittees

• Orientate and induct new Council members

Finally, as I conclude this Report, my seventh and last as Chairman of, firstly, the Advison· Board, and now, the

• Arrange Council iii-servicing and educational needs

Loreto Mandeville Hall School Council, 1 reflect on

• Review the functions of sub-committees and their

fifieen fulfilling vears of association with the School. I

membership • Develop the relationship between Council, the School Community and Scliool Associations.

remember the excellent and dedicated staff who

committed so much time and effort towards the

education of our daughters, the wonderful parent

The committee is very impoitmt in the cotitext of

coninlunity that is so well represented by the Parent

overall management of the School Coillicil and the

Associations, and the girls who strive so hard to be

benefits have ahready been seen in 1995 with an

worthy representatives of Loreto Mancleville Hall.

excellent in-service seminar with Si. Pat Murray IBVM,

I have great admiration and respect for the Loreto

on the leadership role of School Councils, and the

Institute and the Sisters who have been associated with

development of an inforinative iticlitctive program for

the SchooL I colignitulate thein on their fbresight iwid

11 ew counci 1 1 11( 1711)(i·s. Mi s. Barbara Kitchen was the fit st

the manner in which they have addressed the future

Council Member to benefit from this new program.

governance of their schools through the establishment of School Councils. St. Deb-die Rofe IBVM, a former

Thank-you and Farewell.

Principal at Loreto Mandeville H.ill and now Provincial

1)1. Anne Hunt completed her Doctorate of

of the t.oreto 01-der, has been insti ziniental iii leading

Theology in 1994 and took out her degree in March this

the waY for the introduction of the School Councils.

year. The School Community celebrated Anne's

Our Strategic Plan sets out the vision and direction

significant achievement at the time and it was wonderful

for I.oreto Mandeville Hall as we move towards the

to see the happiness and pride of our Principal as we

twenty- first century ariel I feel very comfortable with the

shared in her celebrations. We are indeed fortunate to

School's future, knowing of the leadership capabilities

have a person as well qualified and educated as Dr. Hunt

of the new Chairman, Mr. Paul Hoy, and other niembers

as Principal.

of the School Council. I wish Paul every success as he

The school again achieved outstanding academic results iii 1994 and Council extends its thanks and

congratulations to all staff for their commitment and contribution in the many areas of- the school: education, the arts, sport, administration and the pastoral care of the girls.

Mi s. Barbara Kitchen, a past Loreto student and the mother of two daughters elli'l'ently attending the schoc)1, joined Council in 1995. As previously mentioned, tile various Standing Committees have been strengthened

by the addition of new committee members who are either parents or staff with particular expertise in the

fields of their respective Committees. hi keeping with Council policy of ensuring on-going change to Council niembership, Mr. Reg Brownell, Mr. lohn McKinnon and I will stand down from Council at the end of the year. Reg has been a member of the Advisory Board and. more recentlv, Council for seven Years. During this time, he Ims been a key illetiiber of the Pic,petty Standing Committee, chairing it for the last three vear<. Reg, with his particular expertise in the propertv field, was a significant contributor to the 1988

- 1992 five year property development program and more recently has led the work on the property development of the Strategic Plan,

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assumes his new role.

jolm Aithur (Chainnall)

Principal's School Report for 1995 The remarkable Cardinal.john Henry Newman, one

of England's greatest tlieologians, who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism 130 years ago,

wrote: "To live is to change; to be perject is lo have changed 0//en." In tliese times (,1 unprecedented change, parents and school staff are very important models to Voting

f

people ofhow to face and to embrace change. Certainly, our school is a wonderfully lively, energetic, ever changitig place, anything but stale and inert. Each year

t

brings new people. Each year we rejoice in new challenges and new endeavours, as we strive to carry forward our great mission to be all that Mary Ward

:...

would want us to be as a school in the 1990s.

We commenced the 1995 school vear with 902

students (271 in the junior School and 631 in the Senior School). Once again, our Year 12 graduates achieved splendid results. In total, our 1994 V.C.E. students completed 1852 Common Assessment Tasks during the

year. Overall, 14.3% of the results were A+ grades. 37.3% were A's (A+ or A) and 38.3% were B's. 75,6% of the results were A's or B's. 94.2% of all grades were C or above. In terms of TER scores, 7.4% of the Year 12 Dr Anne Hunt

students achieved a TER above 98.00 (compared to 2% State-wide). Another 15.8% achieved scores above 95.00

(compared to 5% State-wide). 33,7% achieved a score of 90.00 or above (compared to 10% State-wide). 52.6% of our students achieved 80.00 or above (compared to 20% State-wide) ; and 86.3% achieved scores of 50.00 or above

(compared to 50% State-wide). Dux of the School for 1994 was Catryn Walters with a TER ()f. 99.95 Wic

maximum TER possible, with only 21 students iii the State achieving this score).

The Year 12 Councillors for 1995 chose Respect the d*brure - seek the good as our theme for the year. It was 21 most fitting and inspiring choice for this, the United Nations Year of Tolerance, prompting us further than mere tolerance. The theme urges Lis not just to tolerate differences, be it between individuals, groups or nations, but to respect them and, moreover, to go further still and actively look for the good iii the other.

1995 was to prove a special year for renewing our connections

with

sisters

from

the

its global mission of education for a better, more caring, more just world.

Curriculum initiatives

It has been another year of exciting initiative. in school curriculum development: Years 8 - 10 elective structure: The Wednesciav

Creative Studies programme which was introduced into the Year 10 programme in the 1970% has now been irplaced by an expanded elective programme for Years 8 - 10 which is designed to allow greater flexibility and choice of elective subjects. Students now choose 3

electives (from French, Japanese, Indonesian, Drama Music. Art and Home Econ o inics) in each of Wai s 8 - 10.

Drama: We are delighted to introduce Drama as a

subject into the Senior School elective programme iii 1996, starting with Years 8 and 9, to move into the VCE in the ensuing years.

LOTE (Languages Other Than English) across Years

wider

7 - 12: With the introduction of French in the lower

international IBVM community. Sr Roswitha Bach

priniary levels, French is now well established from Prep

our

IBVM, from Germany, visited in March and conducted a

to Year 12 at Loreto. As fl·0111 1995, japanese and

seminar on the spiritual life of Marv Ward, reminding us once again of what an extraordinary woman our foundress was. Later in the year, we were delighted to welcome Sr Pat Miziiay IBVM, from Ireland, who conducted workshops fur staff and students on I.oreto educational philosophy together with evening seminars

Indoliesian now coninience at Year 7 .ind, in 1996,

japanese will move into Year 12.

We conducted our first home stay programme for

our students of J,ipatiese, visiting our sister sclic,0,1.

Fukuoka Kaixei Girls' High School in.japan. This trip compic·ments the programme of trips to Indonesia for

for the SCI-tool Council and for parents, past pupils and

our students of Indonesian and to New Caledonia for

friends of Loreto. She reminded us of the crucial place

student% of Fiench. We were also plea,ed to welcome Miss Mai Yoshida ax.japaliese Teaching Assistant for six months. She quickly proved herself to be a great asset to our school and students benefited enormously from her delightful presence and generous involvement iii school

of educating for values in our I.c,reto philosophy of education. Then, Sr Margaret Burchell IBVM, recently 1-cturned from her time in war-torn Rwanda, visited us ill

Mission Week. How blessed we are to be a part of this world-wide IBVM family, sharing iii and contributing to

life.

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Music: Tlie introduction of an instrumental strings programme at Years 2 and 3 was one of the highlights of It)93 and, in 1996, we look forward to the introduction

of a shnilar plogramme, an instritinental brass programme, at Year 3.

VCE Art: The in tic ,(litction of VI 71.-Studio Art to 0 111

progi iumne in 199:3 has proved a great success, enabling

studentx to specialise in Photography and providing extension for those students who plan to continue with Art iii their tertiary studies.

Civics Education: After careful consideration of the

most appropriate place for civics education in our core prograinme, we have decided to include it at Year 9, commencing in 1996 (taking the place of the previous Australian History programme at that level). The

programme seeks to foster a broad ranging understanding and appreciation of Australia's political, legal and economic structure and systeni.

Special Education: With the appointment of an additional nwinber of staff to our Prep - 12 Special Eclitcation Department in 1 <)98, we xhall effect a verv

Year 2 Strings Back: Leanne Thien, Lisa Valmorbida Front: Jane Eves, Anna Marantz

sill)stantial expansion to our Special Eclication programine. Our goal is to cater even inore for ,tii(lents

wiliner ili t|le SeC()11(hirv Mtll€1('111.%' Sc'Ctic)11 Of the lt)915

with special needs, both the gifted and talented and

Australian

those with Icarning dil Itculties.

extraordinary success at the 1995 Tournainent c,1 Miticlh

Press

(k,iincil

Prize. We en joved

Notebook computers: After cletailed im'extigation

Competition this year, with 7 teams competing and one

and consideration of the range of issues involved, we

team, comprising Georgie Coleman, Annabel Smith.

have decided to hitioduce notebooks into the school

Emily Smith (¥7), Megan Walters, Katie Taylor (¥8),

programine in 1996 at Year 10. Since arriving at this

Edwina I lolbeach and Madeleine Healy (170) winning

decision, staff have worked with great enthusiasm iii

its way to the State final. In the Indonesian Language

preparation for this exciting initiative, preparing to re-

Competition organised by the VILTA, Gemma Dean

shape the curriculum and teaching and learning

071) won Third Prize in the Year 11 Written

strategies in order to maximise the educational benefits

Competition and Nicole Gialeli 09) won First Prize in

to be gained from the use of notebooks. This decisioii to

the Year 9 Beginners Written Competition. Kate

introduce notebook computers N one part of wider

Turnbull 09) achieved the best st:111(1:11-clised score fol

rang-ing- developments in technology for lis at Loreto

our school in the Australian Mathematics (knilpetition.

Mandeville Hall, inchiding CD-ROM, the internet,

Our stilclents were:lwardecl liumerous prizes at the It)t).5

networking, nmlti-media and computer applications

Roval Melbourne Show Att (:c,nipetition: Rachel

across the currie illum, 2,11 geared to provicling our Sticlents \Vith all education that is going to Mt·11(1 them on to tertiary xmdr ancl into their careers with the attitudes,

the values and the skills that will give them a leading edge.

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In a number of areas of endeavour, several students

achieved outstanding results: Amy Scally (Yl 1/94) and Genevieve Wallace (112/94) won 1994 Premier' s Awards

toi their outstanding results. Genevieve Wallace and Catrvn Walters won Australian Students' Prizes ($2,000) for their academic achievements in Year 12. Cati-vn

Walters and Prue Nolan (712/94) won Newman College

sclic,lai-ships, Cati )11, the Archbishop's Scholarship and Prne, the Simon Failey Scholaiship. Catrvn also won tile Dean'x Prize for attaining the highest score for entrv into the First Year of Melbourne University Facultv of Science course. Natasha Holmes (Yl 1/94) was awarded

a Monash Prize as our top Year 11 student in 1994.

ChliStine %11111111,11'tino (U 1 ) WIKS Sclected to participate in the l_Inited Nations Youth Summit, hosted bv the

University of Melbourne to mark the 50th .ililliversar\' of

1994 Dux of Loreto Mandeville Hall

the United Nations. Veronica Angelatos (\12) wax.joint

Catryn Walters, with Dr Anne Hunt

130 LORE['O · Mandeville Hall

Mcinerney (Yt)) - First Place; Kate McCartney 01)), Nicole Curtain (Yl 2), Caroline Agardy (Yl 0) - Second Place, joanna Halpin (YI) - Third Place. Olivia Elsley

Third Place in the SCSA Cross Counti*v competition,

Virginia.Juries (Y12) won the jack Schaefer Fencing (knnpe i i ti (,n.

(Yl 1) attended the Victorian Schools Constitutional

The Gynmastics Club has had another successful

Ck,livention. Emily O'Connell (Yll) was selected 1-om

(,vet- 100 applicants across Australia to attend the

year. Four Year 5 girls Goanna 1)owning, Tessa Custance, Eliza Ralph, Philippajolinston) achieved Level 5. In tile

Alistralian Student Mineral Venture Scheme in Tasm·ania in

APi our Junior and Senior ti·ams achieved Second

january 1996.julia and Sarah Gurry (Yl 1 ) attended the

Place and Third Place respectively, with inclivicluals achieving First, Second and Third places. Iii the 1 1-1 (le pe' 11cle lit Girls' Schools Gynmastics Competition, ourjunior team was placed Third in the I.evel 5 optional

Melbourne Atistralia Remembers' Youth Foruin, Co-curricular activities

Music: We were pleased to have Out' music ensembles perform in various venues during the year, the Mandeville String Orchestra and the Vocal Ensemble at the Telstra building, the Concert Band and the Brass Ensemble for Stonnington Council, as well as some

shopping centre perforniances. The Vocal Ensemble won Third Place in the Unaccompanied Section and an Honourable Mention in the Open Section of the (lamberwell Eisteddfod. Nathalie Resciniti (Y[2) won the Intermediate Section of the Lesley Barklamb

Scholarship for flute. Marie-Danielle Turner (Y9) gained Second Place and Catherine Fernando (Yll), an

section and our Intermediate team, Sea)nci. These

results secured our ranking among tile top five independent schools in gymnastics. The competitive Aerobics teams represented the sdiool in 10111- clifferent statewide competitions this year with the teams witining places in tile top half of the competition.

In Skiing, our Division 4 team achieved Eighth Place in the Alpine section of the Victorian Interschools' Ski Championships and our Division 5 team, Fourth Place.

We enjoyed outstanding success at the Head of the Schoolgirls' Regatta, winning five cups; three at Year 9,

Honourable Mention, at the Waverley Eisteddfod

one at Year 10, and the Senior Quad Saill Division 1. As

(Violin Solo, 1 6 Tears and Under). In that same

well, our Senior First Four made its way to the Final for

Eisteddfod. Lisa Crosato (Yl 2) won First Place in the

the first time for Loreto Mandeville Hall. Of our 17

Vocal Solo (18 wai-s and Under) and an Honourable

crews, 8 rowed their way to their Finals: a superb result.

In Tennis, Julia and Sarah Gurry (Yll) won the Seitior Doubles, while.joanne Halpin and I,aura Zillegac won the Under 14 Doubles of the Kooyong Schoolgirls'

Mention (30 vears and Under). We were honoured to welcome Mr Graliain Abbott, ASSociate Cotichictor with

the Melbourne Symphony ()rchesti <1, as artist-inresidence working with our orchestra and Mr Glenn

Grass Tournainent. Our Senior Tennis Teain missed out

Gould, the notable Melbourne pianist, who conducted a

011 the Zone Association Shield by only one game, 1,itt

11),iftercl,18% for 11 1-11!inber ofoill- phino Stlicielith.

Sport: Round robins have proved a success across

reached the final of the Tennis Coaches Association of

Victoria Championships.

Years 7 to H) and we shall contitme to conduct these.

The Athletics Team competed in the GPSVSA and GSSA competitions and gained First place in the SCSA

4th

Athletics Carnival (Division 2). Iii the Athletics Premier

League, the team achieved Third Place in the Junior Division and Fifth place in the Senior Division. The Track Relay team enjoved considerable success in the

Victorian Schools Relay Championships. We were particularly delighted to will a bronze medal in the Year 7 4X 100!11 relay (Megan Dowling, Sara Pacini, Adelaide Hamilton-Green, Louisa King). Through the generous support of the Itivergowrie Foundation, we were able to engage the services of three specialist coaches for the

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1995 athletics season: Mr Manfred Lewardowski

(sprints/hurdies), Mr Rod de Highden (distance) and Miss Denise Passinore (throws).

The Swimming Team made great progress this year with all girls improving their personal best times by sec (,licls during the season. The Te.im'.s efforts were rewarcled with First Place in the SCSA Swimming

ATHLETICS YEAR LEVEL CHAMPIONS L-R: Year 12- Camilla Bourke, Year 10- Jane Kenny, Year 9- Rachel Hoy, Year 7- Adelaide Hamilton-Green, Year 11- Sarah Gurry and Julia Gurry (Equal) Absent: Year 8- Claire Baxter

Hockey is showing real strength. Our junior Train

Carnival (Division 2). Primv 07.oughlin (37 1) won the Senior A Diving at the GSSA Swimming ('(,mpetition.

won thi· Zone Shield, undefeated for the season,

Our Senior Cross Countrv team (Lesley Horder,

and goal scoring in the .junic,r team. The junior .ilid

Nerita Benetti, jacqui Carroll, Emilv O'Connell alld Vii-ginia Grant) won Third place in the Senior Division

the Zone Round Robin. Adele Brazenor (¥9) was

ofthe SCi\ Chainpionships. Daniela Norman (¥9) won

selected to represent Victoria iii the U 14 hockey team.

Congratulations to Sara Pacini (37) for her leadership Intennediate HockeY Teams were both undefeated iii

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We were pleased to host the SCSA Basketball

Careers

Education:

Careers education

.incl

competition this vear. even more pleased th.11 (All

counselling is a vital part ofour commitment to prepair

Senion; reached the x, 1 111 -linals. We made a return to the

our stticlents for life after school. Differential Aptitude

SCS.\ U)]Itw-1,1111 cc,liipetition, winning Third Place. We

1-(·sting and a week'A \Vork Experience for Year 1(), a

competed in the Victorian Schoolgii-lA' Netball

Carcers hilormation Night for Year) 10 - 12 invoking

Colilpetition, our Year 8 team jilst Illissing olit on the

some 50 xpeaker•. a VCE Seminar with Dr Michael Carr-

tinals. In 11)95, with the iessixtance of enthlisiastic

(;regir, 1 lead ofllw Cenur for Adolescent I Ic,Ilth, and

pairilt,4, wc have participated in a Satill'(lav netball

a 1bt-tial-v (1)111-se Information Night for War 12 were

cotupetition al l)inu·an Mckinnon ReS/1-ve.

hig-Might* of the careers ecilication progi-alilinc

Cricket is showing- an exciting- 1-esurgence, with our cricketers showing considerable interest and talent We

01'ganised bv Mr Man Mc-(:at-thy, our Careers Advisor and Mrs Margairt Capp, Student (2)lilist·11(11-.

look 14)11'111(1 10 great (li·\'c·lopments in thix area in It)96.

Review of our school uniform: Following lititilll'oils

Iii Water polo, 14,·lic Podolakin (Yl 2) was selected for

coininents in recent yearK calling for changes to the

liu· 199.5 \'ic·torian >U·coticlarv Schoolgirls li20

Achool uniform, we decided to review the current school

waterpolo 1(·am, 1111(1 Rel)(·kit.]ageurs (314) for the Under

uniform. A posta] Atit ;'ey of family opinion I )11 tlic·

17 Victorian waterpolo ti·am.

uniform wax conducted in Term 1. Following the

The 14(litc·xtrian Chil) 1,11% now well und truly

preparation of a design concept, the Mothers'

est.11)liNhed its(·If :1% all thiltilltNiastic and well-organised

Association. the Fathers' Association, and the Past

Chil). C 7111) members, I lennione and Phoebe Knowles,

Pupils' .\Asociation, and fill,illy, the School C .c)1111(·il, as

(111.ilified for the State Dre>;sage Championship, in 1995.

wcH 11% represclitatives of the student communitv, Imve

Debating: Ilite™·lic)01 and iliterhouse debating has

been conxillted. heinx ofthe new.)orts uniforin will be

grown and strengthened in 199:3 and both interschool

hiti-oduced for the 1996 school vear..\ cleciAion lia+ vet

1111(1 intellic,life competitions were successful. The

10 1)(· reached ill ny,ect of tile school uniform.

Del)ating Ax>(iciation of Victoria competition wax

With thanks: Loreto Mandeville Hall is 1,]oxed in the

expanded to include \2,11 8 and Our teams acquitted

expertise and gene 1 osity whic h so Illam' 11 iembers of the

themsch·es well. ()111- School Debating Captain. Kathnn

sch<)01 communitv contribute to the school.

Bannon (J-12), and li·i>rilla Ruffolo (170), Prudence Tehan and F.li/a Curtain OB) were each awarded Best

Speaket-% twice in their respective divisions of the coinpetiti<)11.

Bushwalking: Thanks to the generosity ancl

rhank you to the IBVM for its ongoing i,xsiance and All])port fol- C)111- Achool.

Conin'atulations and thanks to School Captain, Alice Hunic and to School Vice Captain. Fiona Haimnoncl toi their leadership of the school in 1995.

commitment of the staff, bushwalking is now a well

01)£·cial thanks to the members of out- School Council

extablished part ofthe extra-curricular programme. Last

for theil- lillihiling support, advice. and assistance clilling

December. a group had a walk iii Cradle Mountain, 1.lsinania. We are phuming- another trek to Nepal in Dect·inber 1996.

Community service and fund-raising: As followers ol 11.irv WIll-(1. 0111- mission is to educate ()111 students to "be

werken 0/ truth mid dom 0/jit.,tire". Hence, our traditic)11 of fund-raising and Alippolt for social senice plc)jects. 011 both a local alicl an iliternational level. War 7 had a l

14((-ord Night in stipport of 1.(,trio Entallv and a Readathon for the Multiple >klric,Mis Societv. The 32·ar X

Record Night gave support to Sr Trish Franklin 111\ \1 iii her work in Vietnam. War 9 conducted a cake baking· fillicl-raiscr for the Anim Exclaile Ast]1111.1 Foundation.

(Anna was a pupil of 1.(11( to 11.ilicleville 11.ill.) Year 10

suppotted the 1).,Ilc,clil 1).n' for the Anti-Cancer (:ouncil and the 111111,1,11 Marv \\'111 (1 Walkathon for Loreto Ellic,t

. fo :'44.4

Road, Calcutta. War 11 participated in the Red (h'OMM Door Knock Appcal and Conducted .1 1.ticky Dip to

support lit„'ines(· Refugee Education. Year 12 participated in the %1,1,·ation Army Doorknock, as well as cotic!11('ting a Pig-tail !)In' to .upport Aids Awareness Appeal, "77/c' Prire /5 /?ight" and a Footv Da (with pie +ales) for Mi 1 tish FrankliiA work in Vietnam. The

whole Achool gencroudv· contlibuted tbod Col the

Malvern F.niergencv Food Prograimne as part of our Simplv Mhal ing- Mass' fur the Feaxt of the Sacred I Icart in j Une.

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Simply Sharing Mass Fr Michael McGirr S.J. and Sarah Trenchard, Year 4

the year. Thank you to Mr.john Al-thur (Chairman), Mrs Barbara Kitchen, Mr David Beam: Mi Reg Brownell, Miss Elizabeth Butt, Mi Kevin Halpin, Mr Paul Hov

for the school. Mi-s Andrea Mazile, immediate Past

(Deptity Chairinan), Mr john Mckinnon, Mis Sue Pascoe, Sr Ellison Taffe IBVM, Sr Margaret Honner

Thank you to Andrea and to Sue for their generous support and loyal service to the school.

IBVM.

Very special thanks are due to john Arthur who at the end of lt)95 concludes his term on Council and as

President of the Association, passed over leadership of the Association to Mrs Sue Olney, the new President.

With the assistance and guidance of our new Director of Development, Mrs Margairt Bridget, we look

forward to the publication of a Directory of Past Plipils in 1 .)96. We arc also keen to commission an oral history

Chairman for seven years. 111 his crucial role as tile first Chairman of our now incorporated School, john haM been an untiring source of strength and support and has laid firm foundations for the school'S ongoing well-

of the school to be completed in time for our

being and development. We welcome Paul Hov as

Hall.

School Council Chairman in 199(1

Thank vou to the Fathers' and Mothers' Associations

for their hard work and generous support for our school. The Fathers' Association donated $11,750 to the

school for the rejuvenation of our weights room equipment. Our students should be fitter than ever! The Mothers' Association enabled us to purchase violins and cellos for thejunior School instrumental programme, a computer dedicated to the Junior School Special

Education programme, percussion instruments for the Junior School, photography equipment, a portable LCD Colour Video projector and a CD-ROM machine for the Senior School, iii total, $21.300 together with another $19,215 iii October for the niove to a CD-ROM network

systein for the Senior School library. Many thanks to Mr Bernie Baliner and Mrs .Jenny johnston, Presidents of

celebrations to commemorate the 75th anniversarv of

the opening in September 1924 01 Loreto at Mandeville Thanks to all of the

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extraordinarily dedicated and skilled. Special thanks to

the school's administration team: Sr Helen Maguire IBVM (Head of the Junior School), Mis.s Pat Moylan (Deputy Head of the Junior School), Mrs Alison Miller

(Deputy Principal - Director of Pastoral Care), Mr Robert Dernelley (Deputy Principal - Director of Studies), Mr Andrew Schmidt (School Coordinator),

and Mr Ian.james (Business Manager).

On behalf of the staff, I thaiik the parents, especially those parents who give their time .711 d enel ,47 servi ng on

the many committees which work to support the school community. We value your support most highly. You really do make a difference iii oiii- goal to eclucate our Students not.just to make a living but to make a life.

the Associations, for their outstanding efforts.

Thank vou too to the members of the Past Pupils' Association for their continuing interest in and support

(Di·) Anne I-hint October, 1995

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Mothers' Asso ciation I would like to express my gratitude and congratulations to all the members of the Mothers' Association. Certainly, the committee itself has

contribitted outstandingly to the success of this year with their time, effort and inspiration, but this has been Clilianced bv the other members of- the Association who

took part in niany of the functions conducted dilring the )'('211-.

The year began for the Mothers' Association at the end of the last school year, with activities such as welcoming:ind helping visitors to our school on Open

Day, talking to parents of new students at orientation davs and 01-g.mixing and running the Senior School secondhand book sale. The calenclar vear began with the Mothers' Association soltening the blow for those whose daughters were starting school, with a cup of tea, a kind word and some introductions. The Mothers'

Association contributed to the Information Nights for all the year levels and the cocktail party for parents of

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new students, hopefully providing a wai m and welcoming atmosphere for all parents to begin the new school year.

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The Teimis Day at Dendv Park was very successful providing an opportunia for mothers and their friends

to meet as well as contributing to the funds raised for the year. A Film Night to see 'Nobody's Fool' was held in March to raise money for Loreto International Child Sponsorship. Preparations for the Annual I.uncheon

began iii April and culininated in a most enjoyable day

Victoria Toovey with her father after the Year 8 Father/Daughter Mass

with a spectacular fashion parade presented by Linda Britten.

An Extraordinary Meeting was called in August to discuss the suggested amalgamation of the Mothers' and

Fathers' Associations. Discussion was very thorough and resulted in the conclusion that 'There is a positive

reason for the amalgaination of the Associations in the future' and

that more discussion

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Associations will take place.

The role of the Mothers' Association is one of

support financially, spiritually and morall)' to the whole school fainilv. This includes staff, students and parents.

Manv of out- functions provide these things. We have mixed funds to enable us to donate musical instruments

and a computer for the Special Education Depal tment in the Junior School and photographic equipment a Cl)-ROM niachine for xtudent use and a CD-ROM

stacker, as well as a portable I.(ID Video Projector for the Senior School. The value of these clonations totalled

From The Fathers'

Association We would all agree that this year has fic„vii!

The Fathers have experienced a year where talk of amalgamation of the respective associations has topped the agenda. Significant steps towards fulfilling this objective have taken place. More will be heard al,out this at a later date.

The Fathers' Association was invokrd in a number of

sticcessful Father/ Daughter Maes during the year.

The Fathers are also proud of their contribution towards renewing gym equipment for all to enjoy.

On the soc ial side, a fantastic evening was had by approxiniately two hundred and eight)' people at tile Caulfield Racecouisc on 28 Octoben AM this was our

niajor fund 1 .lising event for the year, we appreciated the

$42,465.

The wholehearted involvement of the mothers in

every project-and here 1 must also niention the support given bv Class Reps and school staff-is reflected in the sliccess of the Association's year. We are

support of all those present and were delighted by the substantial aniount raised.

1 am sure evervone was iii perfect health on Sunclay morning!

all working together for our children and we gain the

The A zipport of the con ti it) Litors of atic lion items was

benefits of friendship, a sense of worth and a sense of

invaluable, and I would also like to take this opportunity

achievement from patticipation in the school life and

to thank Mary Balmer, Liz Halpin, Amie Hall, Peter

the Mothers' Association.

Tehan, Kevin Halpin, Mike I lall and Paul Holland toi

I wish the whole Loreta Mandeville Hall family all the

their hard work which made the evening such a success.

best and everv success in the years to Come.

Mrs,Jennyjohnston (President)

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Editorial Readers will notice a difference in the magazine this year. We decided to have our sports teams photographed in their sports uniforms to distinguish these photos frorn the more formal class groups, a decision which may provide a valuable historical record, in view of a proposed change in the uniform. In addition, tile music groups have been photographed with their instrnments, adding more significance to each photo. We hope you like the val'iation this has added to the presentation of your record of 1995,

In the junior School section it was decided to extend the space allocated to each year level to allow a better presentation of class photos and to provide a broader picture of activities undertaken by each class.

Another innovation was the essay competition, proposed by the Magazinc Committee and conducted in the Senior School with the winning essays in each section being published for your reacling enjoyment.

The magazine is a team effort, with the very important role ofphotography and design once again ill the creative hands of Mrs Lyn Gaza], and the result speaks volum crs for her artistic ability. Mis Lyn ne Beck has assisted iii this area, as has Ms Kathy Paterson in the collecting ofarticles and proofreading. Mrs Sally O'Byrne has coordinated tlic Junior School input most willingly and ellectively, ably assisted by Miss Cathy Sim and Miss Liz Blackie. Special thanks to Mrs

Barbara Heyhoe and Miss Patricia Moylan for their much appreciated assistance in thejunior School. Thank you also to Ms Melincla Polglaze, Mrs Patvy Hanson, Miss.jacqueline Buttigieg, Miss Tania Salzano, and Mrs 1.isa M<Ma,;ter for their vihiable assistance at various stages throughout the year. Marian BarO, as Sports Captain, has been exceptional iii coordinating sports reports, which macle the task of editing much easier. A special thank you to the members of the Information Technology Department for their cooperation and assistance.

Finally, thank you to the members of the Magazine Committee, especially Year 12 stitclents, Veronica Angelatos, Poppy Shmith and Emily Bell for their generous assistance over a number of years.

Mrs Margaret Quill (Editor)

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Absent Veronica Angelatos, Maria Spitaliorakis, Karina Chaves, Silvana Raydan, Emily Bell.

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