The Roar Newsletter Issue 17 Term 2 2021

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Issue 17

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Thursday 27 May 2021

upcoming major events

A conversation with the Head of College Mr John Weeks

Super Blood Moon… perfect backdrop to a Stellar open launch of Innovation Centre The open night of our new Innovation Centre was a very special night for the whole school.

4 June 2021

Footsteps Disco

Students on Campus West (Saints) will dance the night away at Footsteps Disco.

Our students organized some amazing demonstrations of just what modern education looks like, with the use of a wide range of technologies including VR goggles, Spheros Robotics, 3D printers and laser cutters, drones, aquaponics, with great interactive displays from Lumination and Bricks 4 Kidz!

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of our new centre, which will enable our teachers and students to embrace a wide range of STEM based learning activities linked to real world situations.

A special thanks to Mr Jackman, Mr Reeks, Ms Barclay and their team of staff and students, who worked so hard to bring the Open Night together so successfully.

7-9 June 2021

Literature Festival An impressive list of authors and illustrators will hold presentations and workshops.

The Official Opening of the Innovation Centre will be held on Tuesday, 13 July 2021 at 10:00 am. Please RSVP to events@scotsallsaints.nsw.edu.au In case you missed our Open Night – check out the pictures on page 8. A video from the night will be available to view in next week's The Roar.

A stellar night for Scots All Saints College!

17 June 2021

Coffee and Prayer

The next Coffee and Prayer will be held on at Campus West (Saints) Chapel.

For more events view our Online Calendar

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Absentees

From the Chaplain

It is important the school knows the where-

Rev. Michael Bennett Chaplain

abouts of your child/children.

If your child is absent from school for any reason you must notify the College.

Brian Booth

You can easily contact the College by logging the absence on Operoo using the Absence form or by ringing reception on 6331 3911 as soon as possible.

Following on from last week’s article, I mentioned that 20 years ago I produced a national television program Life: Body, Mind and Spirit. As part of the series I interviewed several famous Australia Christian sporting heroes, and one interview was with cricketer Brian Booth.

I remember one of the stories he shared was when he was a boy. He was playing in a cricket game with this father and during the game the opposition got them all out for 27. Brian said to me that he was quite dejected as they walked out onto the field and were heckled and laughed at by the opposition. He said his father then spoke to the team and gave a ‘Churchillian’ style of address: “Never give up … make every effort to win this game.” His father’s words and the determination of the team worked as they got the opposition all-out for 26 and won the game!

During the interview, Brian used the story to talk about the Christian walk. His point was that we need to add to our faith perseverance, trusting in a great God – particularly when things seem to be at their bleakest.

Brian was of course alluding to the Apostle Peter’s writing: “For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.” (2 Peter 1:5,6) There may be one or two of us in our community that are facing challenging circumstances or an uncertain future, may I encourage you to talk to God and place your hope in Him. God never promises that life will be easy, but he does promise to strengthen us, journey with us, and get us to our eternal home.

I am a phone call away, if anyone would like to talk further – 0410 650 090.

Amen

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Careers Advice Mrs Helen Jones Career Development Officer

It is certainly a busy time in the Careers space at the College with many NSW University Early Entry programs now open, along with accommodation and scholarships applications. All Year 12 students are encouraged to make a time with Ms Helen Jones to assist with this process. Please be mindful of the University timelines for these applications and do not leave it to the last minute to produce your supporting documents. Especially if these are dependent on someone else completing them. ANU Early Entry has now closed.

Currently Open are: CSU Advantage Program (closes this week 31 May 2021) https://study.csu.edu.au/study-options/pathways/charlessturt-advantage University of Canberra (Closes 25 July 2021) https://www.canberra.edu.au/future-students/apply-to-uc/ early-offer-round University of Canberra Early Offer Webinars and Details 27 May 12:30 pm - Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ SSPYvkvVQ8y7gW2xrZ_RAg 1 July 5:00 pm – Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ QBZZ2AyTR6yabvxcydPPvg University of New England (Closes 17 September 2021) https://www.une.edu.au/study/study-on-campus/get-earlyentry/apply-online Anna Brown Recruitment Visit Many students look to take a Gap Year after Year 12 and many more in the current climate are looking domestically.

Anna Brown visited the College this week talking to interested students from Year 10-12 about opportunities working as a Jackaroo/Jillaroo/Governess in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and far north Queensland. This was a great lunch time session, students were able to ask Anna questions regarding the application process, what the conditions of work would be like and importantly what would be the pay! Anna recruits for many Agricultural companies and is a great point of contact for our students. https://www.annabrown.com.au/ St John’s College, University of Sydney.

Year 12 students had the opportunity to attend another ‘Lunch and Learn’ session this week, when a representative of St John’s College University of Sydney visited our Senior Campus East (Scots) Senior School, Boarding (Years 9-12) 4173 O’Connell Road BATHURST NSW 2795

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campus. The application process was clearly outlined and students were given information on what scholarships and bursaries were available. St John’s College was established in 1858 and is the second oldest University College in Australia. It has been coeducational for the past 20 years and provides accommodation on campus at USYD, all meals and academic tutoring. Applications are now open for 2022 residency and conditional offers (subject to acceptance to USYD) will be made in September.

University of Sydney - Your Future in Business & Student Panel - Live Q&A and Presentation 2 June 4:00 pm Join USYD to hear about how the Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Sydney will prepare you for your future in business. Hear directly from their students to learn more about the range of support available from their Careers and Employability Office (CEO), and how Business School students can boost their employability skills, gain practical industry experience and a variety of a real-world opportunities. https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ iAc2xSkKQ_eEZp-ft1_aWw Charles Sturt University Year 10 Night 1 June 6:45pm Join Charles Sturt online for a Year 10 subject information night where Year 10 students will get a head start on their post-high school adventure! The interactive online event will kickstart career ideas, give tips on subject selection.

Register here: https://charlessturt.zoom.us/meeting/ register/u5Elf-urrjMjHtIixSBVuZ7VDOLB9JQQ95L3 Western Sydney University – Scholarships Western offers a wide variety of scholarships recognising academic excellence, community involvement and leadership skills. Scholarships are also available for motivated students experiencing disadvantage. Visit the Scholarships page for more information and to register interest: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/future/why-western/ scholarships.html?cid=em:CAA-news-scholarships-pageEGMT_Apr21 Careers with Maths and Data STEM The latest edition of Careers with STEM is all about careers that count. Discover how people who use maths and data are helping us through the COVID-19 pandemic, to understanding and predicting extreme weather and bushfires. Meet a real-life health data scientist, a YouTube trend expert, an extreme weather meteorologist, bushfire analyst - even a plumber who uses maths every day and reckons you should stick with it, even if you don’t have your sights set on uni! https://issuu.com/refractionmedia/docs/cws_maths_ data_2021

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Bell Shakespeare performance

Year 9 had the opportunity to watch ‘Such Sweet Sorrow’

by Bell Shakespeare.

The players showcased Romeo and Juliet offering a wonderful performance, insight into the play and a deeper understanding of this seminal text. Some students even had the opportunity to participate.

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Everyone is welcome to attend

WRITING CLUB with Ms Sams

TUESDAY LUNCHTIMES Library, Campus East (Scots)

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Extension Music Recital Concert On Tuesday 25 May teachers and family were entertained by Oscar Stocks and George Butler as they presented their Extension Music Recital concert. The evening was entirely organised by the students who were completing the concert organisation component of the Music Extension course.

Oscar presented two works for Horn and Piano by Strauss and Hindemith accompanied by Ms Sargeant, and one work for solo horn by the Australian composer Paul Stanhope. The challenging nature of the French horn and his repertoire provided significant challenges for Oscar in the performance, but his consistent commitment to practice allowed him to rise to the occasion.

George presented the jazz standard Moose the Mooche by Charlie Parker accompanied by the jazz trio of Mr McKenzie, Ms Sargeant and Millaine Longmore. George’s love of jazz and commitment to the style was communicated to the audience through his high energy performance. George concluded the evening with two more Jazz works by Kenny Garrett and Wayne Shorter entertaining the audience and showcasing his improvisation skills. We wish the boys all the best as they continue their preparations for the HSC performance exams at the end of Term 3.

Ms Elizabeth Sargeant, Music Teacher

SASC Performing Arts Academy presents

Friday 4th & Saturday 5th June 7pm Aikman Hall Campus East (Scots)

Showcasing Elective Music, Art & Drama

Tickets trybooking.com/BQZVM

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Evatt NSW Competition Last Thursday, Scots All Saints College hosted the regional round of the renowned Evatt NSW, a Model United Nations Security Council diplomacy competition.

Teams of two students debate, amend and vote on resolutions from the perspective of their assigned nation. It aims to educate young people about Australia’s place in the world and empower them as active citizens.

Congratulations to the following teams of students who represented their nation with diplomacy and gained valuable public speaking, negotiation, teamwork, research, and diplomatic skills.

Year 12 Callum Duncan-Keen and Robert Jeffries - CHINA Year 11 Isaac Poole and Joseph O’Neill KENYA Year 10 Akaal Arora and Jacquilin Ismay UNITED KINGDOM Charlotte Bertwistle and Annabel Rennie - FRANCE Emily Brown and Ella Kay - NORWAY Luke Woodhead and Harrex Upston - USA Year 9 Chelsea Stocks & Meike Willis MEXICO Mrs Sarah O’Neill, Senior Learning Support and Enrichment

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International Food for Invictus On Wednesday, 26 May, Year 9 and 10 students had the task of trying food and a new cuisine for their Invictus class challenges.

International Prefect Mark Liu, with the help of other international students, organised an International Food Stall in the dining room for students to try a different cuisine. The dining hall was decorated with flags, posters and other material to compliment the food in the dining room.

The food was absolutely brilliant and massive thank you goes to the dining staff for preparing the food (and cleaning up the mess afterwards), the International students for organising the event and those who helped run the event behind the scenes.

We are all very appreciate and glad to have our stomachs full.

Emily Brown (Year 10)

Prepare for the future STEM Scholarships 2021 Apply now students currently in Years 5 to 8 who wish to commence with us in Term 3.

Applications close Friday 11 June To find out more contact our College Registrar, Mrs Lisa Ellery on 02 6333 4726 or email lisa.ellery@scotsallsaints.nsw.edu.au

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Innovation Centre Opening

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Campus West (Saints) Preparatory School, Junior School (Years K–4), Middle School, Boarding (Years 5-8) 70 Eglinton Road BATHURST NSW 2795

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Cross Country - Year 1 to Year 8

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National Simultaneous Storytime Wrap A big thank you to Ms Williams and Mrs Wells for organising this wonderful Junior School event last week. It was a great success as you can see in the photo!

2021 SASC Literature Festival ‘Space for Stories’ - June 7, 8 and 9 A particularly interesting point to note as we introduce our final two presenters, Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle, is that they have collaborated on a number of books. Their most recent collaboration is the 2021 publication The March of the Ants. We are very excited to have them both as part of our Literature Festival line-up!

Ursula Dubosarsky

Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Sydney, Australia in 1961, the third child in a family of writers. From the time she was first able to read, at age six, she wanted to be a writer. She wrote stories and poems and puppet plays all through primary and high school.

Ursula is currently the Children’s Laureate and a frequent visitor in libraries, schools and festivals around the world, talking about books and reading, and teaching children and adults the art of creative writing.

Picture Books

Tohby Riddle Tohby Riddle is an awardwinning writer, illustrator, cartoonist, designer and sometime editor based in Sydney. He has written and illustrated numerous wellloved picture books; written a young adult novel; was the cartoonist for Good Weekend for nearly ten years; and is a former editor of The School Magazine, a literary magazine for children published by the NSW Department of Education.

Novels

Campus East (Scots) Senior School, Boarding (Years 9-12) 4173 O’Connell Road BATHURST NSW 2795

Campus West (Saints) Preparatory School, Junior School (Years K–4), Middle School, Boarding (Years 5-8) 70 Eglinton Road BATHURST NSW 2795

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From the All Saints' archives

ATHLETICS AND ALL

Athletics Day at Saints’ has been a long term event since the very early days of the school’s history. One of the second Headmaster’s, Edwin Bean’s early decisions in 1878 was to establish a regular day for the Annual Sports. These gatherings quickly attained a semi-public character, attracting large attendances. Every year since then except 1893 and when the school was temporarily closed, the Annual Athletics Sports have been held. This year marks the 133rd year of this Annual event and over time many records have been set and champions recorded. This year we are hoping to have one of our past champions visit us as the sub junior champion in 1941! Grahame Down has been invited to the Middle School Athletics carnival to be held here on the 11th June.

The book The History of All Saints’ College Bathurst 18731963 has recorded the names of many of the athletics champions over that time and record holders in various events.

Some records may still stand as some events are no longer held with the change from imperial to metric measurements. John Norman Smith of the Tracey period held a record for the broad jump at GPS sports (21ft.) and throwing the cricket ball (115yards 2ft. 11in) which was a world’s record in 1897! He later went on to play football for New South Wales against Queensland and was considered to be the best sportsman the school had known. Best performing athletes of Rev. Watson’s period were H. Veness who was Junior Champion in 1927 and Senior Champion in 1929, J. Taylor, Junior Champion 1939 and 1940 and Senior champion 1941 and 1942. More recent champions are notable Old boy David John Tiller (ASC 1949 to 1953) who was Senior Athletics Champion 1953 and Tim Sargeant (1954-62) our museum curator, was Senior Athletics Champion in 1962 and Old Boys Champion in 1963! In 1989 Michael Siede, (1984 to 1989) was Athletics Champion and received the C, A, & J Thompson Trophy for Outstanding Contribution to Athletics.

His son Thomas Siede together with Megan Redpath were the Junior School Cross Country Captains in 2015 and led

All Saints' College Inter-House Athletics Champions 2004.

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Ernie (Scott) Gardner 1980.

Tim Sargeant 1962. their team to win the Aggregate Trophy in the HICES Cross Country Carnival. Emma Statham (2000-2006) was CIS Cross Country Champion, All Saints’ Opens Athletics Champion and was Captain of the NSW All Schools and Australian All Schools Cross Country Teams. Another champion in Cross Country is Todd Nelson (2011-) who competed in the School Sport National Cross Country Championships in 2015 as a ten year old. He finished third and won a bronze National medal. Todd continues to run and competed in the NSW All Schools Cross Country competition in 2019.

Richard Hobson (1981-1985), father of the Hobson girls, Lucy, Sophie, Jemina and Poppy, was an ASC athletic representative while at the school as well as being an allround sportsman. Lucy was the All Saints’ Athletics captain and Senior Girls Age Champion in 2014.

Apart from the annual Athletics and Cross Country Inter House Competitions, All Saints’ took part in the Annual WAS Athletics and Cross Country events competing against various other western schools since the early 70’s where rivalry was fierce. Many students from Saints’ were able to break records in the various fields, to name one- Natasha Kelley, (now Milgate) who has 3 children here at Scots All Saints’, broke the High Jump record at WAS in 1993.

Hopefully we will see some more champions emerge from future competitions and to quote a champion: “Victory is having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won!”.

Good luck to all the athletes taking part at the Inter House Athletics Carnival!

Todd Nelson with his medal in 2015.

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The Santos Science Experience is a fun 3 days of science activities for Year 9 and 10 students in 2021.

SPORTS DRAW Click here to Download PDF

NSW: Macquarie University, Sydney Program Dates: 7 - 9 July 2021 Apply Before: 10 June 2021 Discover 3D printing and virtual reality, meet passionate scientists at career speed dating, participate in a chemistry and physics magic show, learn more about the solar system and the world beyond earth, explore the world of Indigenous science and much more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjuV6ZX3AM

Each program is designed to provide students who have an interest in science with the opportunity to engage in a wide range of fascinating science activities under the guidance of scientists who love their work.

The program also provides information about further studies in science, technology and engineering. It highlights the wide range of careers that allow students to pursue their interest and abilities in the sciences.

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For more information, please see Mrs O’Neill and check the Santos Science Experience website: https://www.scienceexperience.com.au/

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