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A RECAP I did write about these significant events in the Souls
Schedule but for the bene-fit of the wider school communi-ty,
please find an update on what was a busy week below.
SWIMMING The annual Inter-School Swimming Carnival has been held
and it was an event to behold. The swimmers gave it their all and
the supporters looked great in their black and white and kept up
the encouragement all night. I really enjoyed being in amongst
the action, watching the interac-tions between all ages and how
school spirit is transferred from the older students to our newer
students. Whilst these events have a team focus we also
congratulate our individual age champions and runners up: Kayden
Fogarty, Lu-ka Hall, Harry Titley, Toby Fitch-ett, Slayd Hall,
Kithryn Kelly, Danielle Milton, Kade Banset & Tayla Davidson.
Well done to the whole school for your support of the event. We
would also like to thank the staff from Charters Towers State High
School for organising the carnival and pass on our con-gratulations
to Columba’s swim-ming team on their victory.
Contents
Headmaster’s Report Page 1
Planning Meeting Flyer Page 2
Little Souls Page 2
Deputy Head Page 3
NAPLAN Table Page 3
Dean of School Page 4
Dean of Students Page 4
Horse Club Page 4
Team Souls Supporter
Shirts Page 4
Values Education Page 5
Table of Career
Excursions Page 5
School Chaplain Page 6
School Prayers Page 6
Junior School Page 7
Sport News Page 8
Cattle Club Page 9
Instrumental Music Page 10
Head of Boarding Page 12
Feetham House Page 12
Captains Report Page 13
Page House Page 13
Ramsay House Page 13
Captains Report Page 14
Alban House Page 14
Captains Report Page 14
Becket House Page 14
Captains Report Page 15
Chad House Page 15
Cowboys Trip Page 15
Julia Creek DIRT ‘n DUST Page 15
Staff Profile Page 16
Headmaster
Issue No 4/2016 11 March 2016
2016 Inter-School Swimming Champions: Toby Fitchett (15 Years),
Luka Hall (14 Years) and Kayden Fogarty (13 Years)
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JUNIOR SCHOOL INSTALLATION OF LEADERS On Wednesday the Junior
School, Year 12 leaders, staff and family members gathered in the
Chapel for the installation of the Junior School Leaders for 2016.
This was a lovely event with our Year 6 stu-dents making their
pledge to the school and the school offering their support in
return. At the con-clusion of the ceremony the Preps and Pre Preps
lined the aisle as the leaders left, giving them each a lit-tle
gift that they had made. I know the Seniors are keen to work with
the Year 6 leaders as they formu-late their plans for the year.
STATE HONOURS ENSEMBLE PROGRAM (SHEP) Last weekend, our musicians
head-ed off to Cairns to participate in the State Honours Ensemble
Pro-gram. The program is organised by the Queensland Conservatorium
based at Griffith University. The students had a great time making
music with other students from Northern Queensland. Many thanks to
Miss Croker for organis-ing the trip and supporting the stu-dents.
STAFF We welcome back Mr Alan Watts who has taken on a short term
contract to cover the classes of Mr Peter Wallis (Head of Science)
who is recovering from an operation. We are thankful that Mr Watts,
who retired at the end of last year, was able to assist us,
maintaining that all important continuity for the students. I
received a lovely email from Sis-ter Kate McCartney thanking the
school community for their prayers and support on the sudden
passing of her father. Whilst Kate has been away, Sister Bindi
Brassington has done an amazing job maintaining the high standard
of professional care to our students. Thank you Bindi.
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A BUSY SCHOOL It has certainly been a week with plenty of
variety. Netball has com-menced and Wendy and I had the opportunity
to watch some of the junior girls go through their paces. There was
even a match where both teams were from All Souls St Gabriels which
made cheering easier. A change of scenery from the courts to the
Showgrounds, as we had a look around Beef Expo with the Cattle Club
members. A bit of an education for a “city slicker” but I am now
far better informed when it comes to ovarian scan-ning. Finally a
trip into Townsville to watch the rugby league boys. SCHOOL
PLANNING The school has received funding to undertake a project
through In-dependent Schools Queensland to look at area of self-
improvement.
The initial committee meeting was held this week with a
con-sultant travelling to Charters Tow-ers to work with the group.
This will provide us with the oppor-tunity to take a step back from
the daily activities and shine a light on areas of our operations
so that we may enhance the ex-periences for our staff and
stu-dents. MESSY LENT AT ST PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Join us for some
fun activities at St Paul’s Church where we cele-brate ‘Messy
Lent—from Palm Sunday to Easter Day’ on Satur-day 19th March, from
5.30 - 7.00 pm. Activities suitable for families, and stay and
share a meal only $5 per family. For more information phone Rhonda
4787 4240. Darren Fleming Headmaster
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Sam Kelly
It’s March already. The holidays are already looming and there
are so many activities that students have had the opportunity to
participate in.
The first Exam Schedule should be out on the 10th of March for
the dates of 17th to the 22nd of March. This should enable students
to ef-fectively start their time manage-ment for their best
performance. Thank you to Miss Thomson for helping me organise this
for Term 1.
The 2017 Scholarship exams will be held on Saturday 19th March.
There are a range of academic scholar-ships available on our
Facebook page for entry to Year 7 or Year 11 in 2017. ASSG also has
music schol-arships available. The closing date for both academic
and music schol-arships is Friday the 11th of March. As my
youngest, Kithryn, is in the production of Beauty and the Beast, I
unfortunately cannot be there for the running of this event. A big
“thank you” to Miss Marley (HOD Maths) who has kindly agreed to
take on the running of the academic day and Mrs Moore for the music
scholarship schedule.
For new parents, and a reminder for returning, all requests for
early leaving or “days off” need to be re-quested and approval
sought before parents pick the student/s up. There is a definite
reason for this: for support of both staff and stu-dents
academically. We have had students leave without handing in
assessments or missing vital lessons for assessment. Once a request
is lodged, I coordinate staff to ensure that no assessment is
missed. If the request is for extenuating circum-stances e,g major
illness, we will endeavour to work around the as-sessments to
support families and students. In Years 11 and 12, we follow the
guidelines and assess-ment policies of the QCAA (Queensland
Curriculum and As-sessment Authority) which states
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that schools need to ensure con-sistent conditions for
assessments and there are specific guidelines for illness and
absenteeism for assess-ment due dates. Included in this is the
provisions and the expectations of drafts. In the eyes of the QCAA,
drafts are mandatory to ensure stu-dent authenticity of work. In
the event that a student fails to hand in the final assessment by
the due date, the draft will be used as the final assessment
submission. Staff at ASSG work closely with students, parents and
boarding staff to avoid non-submissions of assessment. Thinking
about the last 3 years, I cannot recall one non-submission for a
senior subject. To continue this success, we all need to work
together. This also applies for leav-ing early at the end of term.
We have travel day to support families with the distance of
travelling home.
Looking forward to next term we already have many activities
organ-ised: 1. NAPLAN: NAPLAN testing for
Years 3,5,7 and 9 is during the week starting the 10th of May:
Should you have an appoint-ment or event that your son/daughter
will be away and re-quires catch up tests, please let me know on
0409 783 658 or at:
[email protected]. All students require: a B type
pencil, eraser and calculator (for Years 7 & 9). 2. Anzac Day:
Although this falls
on Monday holiday, this is still considered a whole school
ac-tivity. We have already started our marching and I have to say I
was impressed with the organisation our senior stu-dents and House
staff showed right from day one of practice.
3. Year 10 Semester 2 Senior Ex-perience Information session
will be held on the Term 2 travel day. During this session, we will
use booklets and pow-erpoints to cover the materials students will
need to make their decision. There will be an opportunity to have
questions answered. Selection sheets will also be given out. An
e-mail will be sent out to all Year 10 parents with more
information and rsvp request for catering purposes. For those
parents who cannot make this session, all booklets, powerpoints and
selection sheets will be availa-ble on our website.
This has been a busy first term. I would like to thank parents
for the support they have shown in sup-porting the staff and school
activi-ties.
Deputy Head
Tuesday 10
May Official test date
Wednesday
11 May Offi-cial test date
Thursday 12
May Official test
date
Friday
13 May
1. Language
conventions Yr 3: 40 min
Yr 5: 40 min Yr 7: 45 min
Yr 9: 45 min
3. Reading
Yr 3: 45 min Yr 5: 50 min
Yr 7: 65 min Yr 9: 65 min
4.1 Numeracy
Yr 3: 45 min Yr 5: 50 min
Yr 7 (calculator): 40 min
Yr 9 (calculator):
40 min
Catch up
tests permit-ted
20 minute
break
20 minute break
2. Writing
Yr 3: 40 min Yr 5: 40 min
Yr 7: 40 min Yr 9: 40 min
4.2 Numeracy
Yr 7 (non-calc.): 40 min
Yr 9 (non-calc.): 40 min
Catch up tests
permitted
Catch up
tests permit-ted
Catch up tests
permitted
Catch up
tests
mailto:[email protected]
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Dean of School
Karen Storey End of term As the term draws nearer to its close,
students and staff are busier than ever. We have just 3 weeks to go
until Easter and the holidays and I am sure I am not alone in
wondering how on earth I am go-ing to complete all of the jobs I
still need to get done before the end of the term. I know many
students will also be having this thought in the weeks ahead. As
parents and teachers we need to ensure that students are
well-organised and well-supported in completing as-sessment tasks.
For some who will have the inevitable ‘I can’t do it’ meltdown in
the near future it is important that we point out for them that
they are capable of ac-complishing any set task and that there is
always support available if they are struggling. In senior school,
these supports include teachers, tutors, senior residents, Deputy
Head, Flo, senior students and more. If students are unsure who can
help them, they need only ask and they will be pointed in the right
direction. Parent-Teacher Interviews As always we will again be
offering Parent-Teacher Interviews at the beginning of Term 2.
These will oc-cur on Travel Day, Monday 11th April, from 2-4 pm in
the dining hall. The main topic of conversation at these meetings
is generally the Term 1 progress report which you will receive
around the Easter Holi-days however, it does not have to be. If you
wish to make an appoint-ment to speak with a teacher re-garding
your child’s progress at Parent-Teacher Interviews please contact
Mr Jon Teichmann through the main office or via email on:
[email protected]
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Dean of Students Shannon Lee
The term continues to tick along at a steady rate. It feels like
only yes-terday I wrote my last entry, there-for not much from me
this time.
Business time We are again approaching the busi-ness end of the
term, assessments are due and it is exam time. Last week during
Headmasters Assem-bly I spoke to the students about keeping on top
of their workload and starting that piece of assess-ment that has
been sitting on their desk untouched for the last week. By the time
this goes to print it will be crunch time, I strongly encour-age
all students who are having difficulties with assessment or a
deadline to speak with their teach-ers as early as possible. I’m
sure they will be more than happy to help.
Thanks Ky Last edition I sang the praises of a couple of Senior
boys who had been helping out with the U12 and 13s cricket. This
time I would like to give a special shout out to Ky Banset in Year
11. Ky also plays in the 1st XI and came along to watch the 13
Years play BTC. One of the boys in our team was dismissed for
a duck and was very disappointed with himself. Ky sat and
consoled him, humbly sharing memories of times he had shared the
same fate. By the time he was due to field the 13’s player was in
good spirits and ready to get back out there. Nice work Ky, keep up
the good work!
Good luck during the exam block!
Horse Club Report Gayleen Lawrence Year 11 The past two weeks
have been busy for the Horse club girls. We welcomed a new girl
Angela Jones to Horse club with her horse Curi-ous. Due to it being
too hot to ride our horses, Sally has been teach-ing us a range of
skills and tech-niques on the ground, such as bandaging our horse’s
legs and tail.
The girls have also been busy cleaning troughs and setting up
the dressage arena. However, amongst all the work we did man-age to
ride our horses and work on our rhythm, half halting and
can-tering. We look forward to the next couple of weeks before
the
holidays.
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Values Education Barbara Salisbury Career Aspirations James Cook
University (JCU) School Engagement team ran programs for our Year 7
to 9 students. The pho-tos below show the students en-gaged in
learning about university and setting goals for their future. I am
very grateful to the team of four JCU staff who put a lot of
ef-fort into making the day a success.
Year 7 students Darcy Deans and Jasmine Elliott
Piper Godfrey and Will Holt from Year 7
Year 8 playing university Myth Busters
University Discovery challenge
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This is an example of the additional events that we run to help
our stu-dents prepare for their future. Below is our events so far
for 2016. There will be many more added as we final-ise guest
presenters visiting the school. Please note the following dates as
these events provide good opportunities for students to explore
their interests. If you have any ques-tion, please contact me and
I’d be more than happy to help out.
Date Excursion/Presentation
Description Year Level
1-3 Feb
Year 10 Charters Towers Get Into Uni Camp
Students stay in JCU accommodation and spend three days
exploring different courses and what uni life is like.
Interested Year 10 stu-dents
7 Mar Career Aspira-tions – Get into Uni by JCU
2 lesson session for each year group with JCU staff and
ambassadors running interactive activi-ties.
Year 7 to 9
27 Apr CQU presentation Central Qld University will talk to
students about their course options
Year 11 and 12
tba May
TORGAS presen-tation
Group Training Organisations work with appren-tices and trainees
to partner them up with a suita-ble employer. TORGAS explains how
this works and the opportunities available in this region.
Year 10, and interested Year 11 and 12 stu-dents.
17 May Futures Dinner
Business people from our region are invited to join our Year 12s
for dinner. Year 12s swap ta-bles each course so that they talk to
a variety of people about their life experiences.
Year 12s
20-21 June
Alternative Pro-gram last week Term 2
Year Groups have various activities, some nor-mal lessons run.
Schedule is finalised closer to time.
20-21 June
Year 11 Job Inter-views
Students put in a full application and attend a ‘mock’ job
interview with a local business person. Held at ASSG.
All Year 11s as part of CAD assessment
22 June
Application Es-sentials
Workshops on how to apply to university through QTAC.
Year 12
11-14 July
JCU Residential Experience 3 day camp – ap-prox. cost $160
tbc
Students stay in JCU accommodation and spend three days
exploring different courses through faculty presentations. The best
way for students to make an informed choice about what they would
like to study at uni OR if they want to go at all.
Any interested Year 11 and 12 students
27 July Dalrymple Trade Training Centre Careers Expo
This replaces our need to travel to SF4NQ Ca-reers Expo in
Townsville and makes it possible for more year groups to attend. It
is predominant-ly trades focus, but JCU and CQU are also there.
Year 7 to 10 students, 1 hour visit each
8 Aug Townsville Ca-reers Expo
A good way to talk to people from Universities across
Queensland.
All Year 11, limited places for Year 12
21 Aug JCU Open Day
JCU opens its doors and puts on lots of displays. A great time
to go as a family and look at the ac-commodation available, courses
on offer and to ask about scholarships/finances etc.
School takes one bus load of any interested Year 10 to 12
students
Other Tertiary OPEN Days
Google or go to this link to find out when other institutions
are having their Open Days
http://www.openday.com.au
Make a special trip, or maybe you’ll be in the area at the right
time. Most institutes are hap-py to take families on a tour, all
you need to do is make an appoint-ment.
JCU team – Jacinta, Brit, Emma and Nathan
http://www.openday.com.au
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In our thoughts
and prayers; We continue to pray for
Sr Kate and her family as
they mourn the loss of her
father.
We also pray for the fam-
ily of Bishop John Lewis
as they mourn his loss.
We pray for the Kemp-
ster family, in particular
for Zac during his recov-
ery. We also pray for Ky-
lie, Claire and Harry as
they support each other
through this challenging
time.
We pray for those experi-
encing challenges in set-
tling into the routine of
school and boarding life
and for those who support
them.
We pray for speedy re-
coveries for Peter Wallis
and Bishop Bill as they
recover from surgery.
School PrayersSchool Prayers
Dean of School
School Chaplain
Br Nathan-James SSF Junior School Leaders’ Induction Students
from the Junior School, their family and friends recently gathered
in the Chapel to partici-pate in and witness the induction of the
2016 Junior School Leaders. It was especially good to welcome
Olivia Titley and her family as she accepted the responsibility of
the Office of Junior School Chapel Pre-fect. A friend commented on
my Fa-cebook page asking what a Chapel Prefect does. For Olivia,
this means she will take on leadership of the Junior School Chapel
services each Thursday. She will also occasionally be invited to
represent the Junior School or the wider School commu-nity at
particular events – for exam-ple, ANZAC Day services. Olivia will
also be responsible for helping nur-ture the spiritual life of the
Junior School. Congratulations to all of the new Junior School
leaders and members of the student representa-tive council. We look
forward to your contribution to the School this year.
2016 Junior School Chapel Prefect, Olivia Titley, with Chapel
Prefect Samuel
Meteyard, Mrs Akers and Mr Fleming
Vale Bishop John Lewis A requiem Mass was held for the late
Bishop John Lewis, 7th Bishop of North Queensland on Saturday 27
Mar 2016. As Diocesan Bishop, the Right Reverend John Lewis had a
connection with the School during his Episcopacy. Bishop Lewis was
remembered as a person of faith, vision, energy and leadership.
Four areas of his ministry were highlight-ed; support for the role
of women in ordained ministry, continuation of the teaching
ministry of Church
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Schools, the importance of the Church’s role in social welfare
and ministry to indigenous communities. Representatives from All
Souls St Gabriels School and St Paul’s Char-ters Towers attended
the Mass. The School was also invited to send a serving party to
assist with the litur-gy. Bishop Bill, current Bishop of North
Queensland thanked the School for their representation and in
particular gave his thanks for the members of the serving team. The
Requiem was presided over by the Primate of the Anglican Church of
Australia Archbishop Philip Freier. The Archbishop took time to
person-ally thank the serving team who were described as
professional, dis-ciplined and well trained.
The School community offers its thoughts and prayers to Bishop
Lew-is’ family and friends as they mourn the loss of Bishop John.
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei.
Requiescat in pace.
Servers, Connor Rose, Dylan McKenna and Jessie Hall, at the
Cathedral
Below: School Representatives and serving team with Archbishop
Philip
Freier, Primate of the Anglican Church at the Requiem Mass
for the Late Bishop John Lewis
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Junior School
Tina Akers Head of Junior School Sharing our Learning Journey
Throughout the year we will come together on many occasions to
cel-ebrate the JS students’ endeav-ours in the classroom, on the
sports field and in the wider school community. On Tuesday 22
March, grandparents, family members and friends are invited to
share the learning journey our students have taken this term. The
day will pro-vide each child the opportunity to participate in
learning activities with family members and friends and showcase
some of the many things that they have been learn-ing. It will be a
wonderful way to celebrate each child’s successes and show the
children the im-portance you place on their learn-ing by valuing
their unique efforts and achievements. The day will start with the
tradi-tional ‘Big Breakfast’ hosted by the Junior School Support
Group and performances by our JS Choirs, dancers and musicians. We
look forward to sharing the day with you. Clean Up Australia Day
Last week Sophie Coffison (JS En-vironmental Prefect) spoke to all
of the JS students about the im-portance of caring for the
environ-ment and keeping our School clean. After morning tea on
Friday 4 March, each class picked up rub-bish and tidied up the
grounds around the Junior School and Bur-ry Oval.
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improve the quality of education and service at ASSG Junior
School. Little Souls Our last day for Little Souls this term was
Wednesday 9 March. It has been lovely to see so many families
joining us on Wednesday mornings. Our Pre-prep room and yard
provides a safe and se-cure environment where our mums, dads and
grandparents can relax with their children. On behalf of all the
families I would like to thank Mrs Limkin for or-ganising the fun
activities for the “Little Souls” to enjoy this term. Save the
date: Little Souls will re-sume again next Term on Wednesday 20
April and our Year 6 Leaders and Student Council representatives
will be busy plan-ning a morning of activities and games for Under
8s Day on Wednesday 18 May.
Easter Raffle Tickets for our Easter raffle went home with JS
students this week. Tickets are also available for pur-chase from
the JS Office and Secondary Student Services.
After the clean-up, Sophie and our JS Captains: Annika Peace and
Co-rey Guldbransen were interviewed by Charters Towers Plus More
http://charterstowersplusmore.com.au They were asked why they felt
it was important to “Clean Up Austral-ia” and as leaders in the
Junior School, how they would help to maintain a clean, healthy and
safe School environment. The interview and filming of the students
cleaning up our School can be viewed online from Thursday 10 March.
The World Day of Prayer The World Day of Prayer (WDP) brings
Christians of many traditions together to observe a common day of
prayer each year. Each year, the service focuses on a different
coun-try and a specific theme. “Receive children, receive me”
prepared by WDP women in Cuba, is the theme for this year. On
Friday 4 March, Olivia Titley (JS Chapel Prefect), Gemma Gilmore
and Jade Stoll (Year 6 Leaders) were chosen to accompany Mr Ian
Dietrich at the World Day of Prayer service hosted by the Charters
Towers Baptist Church. They were great ambassa-dors for our School.
Class Representatives Class Representatives are valued members of
our Junior School com-munity and their time and commit-ment are
very much appreciated. Thank you to the following parents who have
volunteered to be the Class Reps this year:
Pre-prep Melissa Nunns Prep Belinda Boyle
Year 1 Sarah McGuire Year 2 Sarlina Teti Year 3 Erica Finlay
Year 4 Jenni Hare Year 5 Bindi Brassington/ Alisha Maff
Year 6 Renee Stoll
I look forward to meeting with these parents and providing a
fo-rum for discussion, feedback and the sharing of ideas and
sugges-tions that will help us continually
http://charterstowersplusmore.com.au/news/news/
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Sport News Sport News
Karen Storey Secondary Sports Co-ordinator
Inter-School Swimming The annual Inter-School Swimming Carnival
was hosted by Charters Towers State High School at the town pool on
February 25th and 26th. Our swimmers and spectators conducted
themselves extremely well to achieve some pleasing results. A
summary of the results appears below: Age Champions
Boys Championships
Girls Championships
Althea Norton Combined Aggregate Trophy
Age Group Runner-Up Champion
Open Boys CCC CCC
Open Girls Tayla Davidson CCC
16yrs Boys Kade Banset CCC
16yrs Girls Danielle Milton CCC
15yrs Boys Slayd Hall Toby Fitchett
15yrs Girls BTC CCC
14yrs Boys Harry Titley CCC
14yrs Girls BTC Luka Hall
13yrs Boys CCC Kayden Fogarty
13yrs Girls CCC BTC
12yrs Boys CCC CCC
12yrs Girls CCC CCC
Place Griffith’s Memorial Trophy (Boys relays)
A & R Duckworth Trophy (Boys Aggregate Shield)
Points Points
1st CCC CCC 87 342
2nd ASSG ASSG 61 262
3rd BTC BTC 32 92
4th CTSHS CTSHS 20 46
Place Morton Cup (Girls
relays)
Rattray Shield (Open/16yrs Girls
aggregate)
Don Doyle Memorial Shield
(12yrs to 15yrs Girls aggregate)
Coleman Cup
(Overall girls
aggregate)
Points Points Points Points
1st CCC CCC CCC CCC 77 120 214 334
2nd ASSG ASSG BTC ASSG 62 76 129 200
3rd BTC BTC ASSG BTC 53 40 124 169
4th CTSHS CTSHS CTSHS CTSHS 18 19 41 70
Place School Points
1st CCC 873
2nd ASSG 625
3rd BTC 415
4th CTSHS 172
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While we are still a way off taking the title from Columba, the
improvement in our swimming culture at ASSG this year has been very
evident in both the number of students involved in training
sessions and also the attitude of students towards these sessions.
I credit this improvement to 3 very influential individuals who
have ‘lead the charge’ with regards to swimming this term. Tye
Bolton has spear-headed our swimming training, running enjoya-ble,
engaging and challenging sessions for our competitors and to Tye we
are extremely grateful. Liam Durrington and Tayla Davidson, our
2016 Swimming Captains, have led from the front, encouraging and
persuading our swimmers to attend these training sessions and
spread the positive culture of swimming at ASSG. To Tayla and Liam,
the students and staff say thank-you, for a job well done!
Inter-School Sport: Unfortunately we have not played a full round
of tennis or cricket since I last wrote. We had a week off due to
the Inter-School Swimming and then last week’s games were rained
out. We hope to be back in action this week with games against
CTSHS. The final round of sport will take place against CCC next
week (16th to 18th March) with the 1st tennis and cricket matches
being played under lights as part of a CCC Pink Stumps fundraiser
on Friday evening, 18th March. It would be great to see many
supporters present in the new Souls supporter shirts to cheer these
teams on. Good luck to all teams!
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Cattle Club
Mikala Gough
Year 11
The last few weeks have been pretty constant with everything as
we await the arrival of our cattle. Lately our achievements have
been focused upon our new members and educating them in the Cattle
Club ways. On Tuesday 1st, Cattle Club jumped in and gave Horse
Club a helping hand with moving their equipment and setting up the
dressage arena. After the humid day was over we had been rewarded
with a bit of rain on the Thursday which sad-ly resulted in us
cancelling the afternoon activities.
On Saturday 5th March 2016, Cattle Club journeyed to the
Charters Towers Beef Expo. While at the Expo, our mem-bers attended
some interesting speeches about ultra-sounding and 3D printing of
the composition of cattle. Every-one that attended had a great time
and received valuable information about other companies that were
there. Alt-hough all the agricultural information was great, our
students managed to run into some old boys and girls that all had a
chin wag about their previous years at Souls. But one old boy in
particular caught our attention when he and the Cattle Club members
started to sing our beloved Chapel songs, it was no Bro. Robin
performance, but it was still an A+ effort. Although our bright
green shirts had clashed with the committee’s shirts, All Souls St
Gabriels Cat-tle Club received really positive feedback about our
common courtesy.
All in all, this year has started out well, the club members
really enjoyed the day out at the Expo. We as a club look forward
to doing a whole lot more this year. The seniors also look forward
to enjoying their last year out alongside Lionel and Mr Fleming.
Don’t be shy pop down and see how we work 3:30 - 5:00 pm Tuesday
and Thursday.
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Instrumental Music
Leslie Croker Instrumental Music Coordinator
The Instrumental Music department is off to a great start, with
99 students enrolled so far, taking lessons in Brass, Woodwind,
Strings, Voice, Guitar, and Drums. Our Music Tutors this year are
Mr Ron Sellars (voice/guitar), Mrs Jaime Richards (piano/flute), Mr
Stephen Price (drums), Mr Peter Wallis (guitar), Ms Julia Maclay
(piano, theory), and myself (brass/woodwind/piano/strings). Several
of our students have already performed during communion in Chapel,
and others are preparing for upcoming performances for
Grandparents’ Day and Lady Day.
Hopefully by now, you are hearing your children practising at
home between their lessons. Please encourage this habit. Learning
an instrument, or learning to sing, means training a whole new set
of muscles and there can only be improvement when these muscles are
exercised regularly. Even as little as 20 minutes, four times per
week, will greatly accelerate students’ learning.
SHEP On Friday, 4th March, 6 students travelled to Cairns to
attend the State Honours Ensemble Program over the weekend.
Students from all over North Queensland are nominated for the
program by their teachers, and the highest level of students are
chosen and given places. It’s a weekend of intense rehearsing, with
some of the best conductors in Australia, culminating in a concert
showcas-ing the pieces they’ve learnt. While exhausting, it’s a
fantastic ex-perience for our students. They spent the afternoons
relaxing at the Cairns Coconut Holiday Resort, swimming, jumping on
the jumping pillow, and relaxing in front of the T.V. Saturday
night in-cluded going out to dinner with families from CTSHS, and
former ASSG student, Leonard Leicht-Stevens, followed by a trip to
the Cairns Night Markets. Here are what the students had to say
about their experience:
Chantelle Reynolds Best musical moment: When the whole choir
sang together. We sounded really good. Also, when I got a
diffi-cult part of the song right. Best non-musical moment: When we
went out to dinner and the night markets. General comment about the
SHEP experience: I thought that SHEP was a really good experience,
as I got to meet lots of new people and I learnt a lot from Jess
(our singing conductor).
Kurtis West Best musical moment: Listening to all the harmony
put together, which sounded amazing. Best non-musical moment:
Catching up with friends, and going to dinner and night markets.
General comment about the SHEP experience: It was a great way to
meet new people, and learn more and achieve more musical
knowledge.
Harry Kempster Best musical moment: When we played the piece
Spheres in the concert. Best non-musical moment: When we tried out
the piece Army Ants for the first time. General comment about the
SHEP experience: Great experience and fun with other musicians.
Definitely would recommend it to others who want to grow their
musical ability, and have a great time making new friends.
Lacey Marshall Best musical moment: Learning Hanging Tree with
all the harmonies. Best non-musical moment: Going out to dinner.
General comment about the SHEP experience: It was fun and a good
experience.
Erin Bidewell Best musical moment: When the choir sang Our Poor
Bird successfully in a round (or cannon). Best non-musical moment:
Going out for dinner at the Rattle’n’Hum. General comment about the
SHEP experience: It was a great learning experience for me, and a
great experi-ence in general to be able to sing in a choir with
other more experienced people, as well as a professional
director.
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Harry Kempster had a go at conducting the Wind Ensemble during
their warm up.
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Kithryn Kelly Best musical moment: When everyone’s parts started
coming together and it doesn’t sound like your average vo-cal
group. Best non-musical moment: Just chilling in the room, in my
bunk, playing Minecraft (which is all I do when I’m not at SHEP).
General comment about the SHEP experience: I liked it. Miss Croker
Best musical moment: Watching the conductor of the Wind Ensemble
pull an extra burst of energy and intensity out of an exhausted
group of school students at the end of a day that included 6 hours
of rehearsing. Best non-musical moment: Listening to students sing
along to Thomas the Tank Engine while relaxing in the motel room?
Watching Harry showing how he could (not) do 30 pirouettes? The
cheer that went up when a foot-ball finally came down from the
shade cloth above the swimming pool (kicked there by Mr Mossley)?
It’s hard to choose! General comment about the SHEP experience:
Having gone to SHEP myself as high school student, it’s great to go
back as a teacher and meet the professional directors involved and
still be able to learn from and be inspired by them. The students,
while tired and sometimes a little grumpy, were overall
well-behaved and a pleasure to take away for the weekend. Thanks
must go to Mr Haddon Mossley for his assistance with supervising
students over the weekend.
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Charters Towers students who attended SHEP, with Wind Ensemble
director, Peter Morris.
Obligatory selfie with the Leicht-Stevens family after dinner
and the night markets.
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Head of Boarding Darren Guldbransen Head of Boarding Mobile:
0415 903 479 Email: [email protected]
Boys’ Boarding Feetham House Jake Diery Senior Resident Mobile:
0419 471 433 Email: [email protected] Page House Davin
Marshall Senior Resident Mobile: 0409 071 433 Email:
[email protected] Ramsay House Brendan Travers Senior
Resident Mobile: 0400 751 433 Email:
[email protected]
Girls’ Boarding Alban House Narelle Kelly Senior Resident
Mobile: 0419 771 433 Email: [email protected] Becket House
Teneil Smale Senior Resident Mobile: 0407 142 493 Email:
[email protected] Chad House Yvonne Schaefer Senior
Resident Mobile: 0439 764 638 Email:
[email protected]
Dormitory News Dormitory News
Head of Boarding
Darren Guldbransen Just about every day in this job someone does
or says something that makes me laugh, but at the end of last week
I came across something that cracked me up. It was the funniest
thing I had seen for a long time. Every year I inevitably end up
knocking heads with our Year 10 boys, and this year’s group is no
exception. I have no doubt in twelve months time we will all
be-come besties again, as always hap-pens, but right now we don’t
seem to be able to agree on anything. At the moment I have a few
minor sanctions in place for them, but in-stead of sitting around
and sulking about it they put their heads to-gether and came up
with the at-tached slogan. Staying in the elec-toral campaign theme
that is going on at the moment our group of would be politicians
put out a flyer that was printed on A 3 paper and stuck them up in
various areas of the school. It certainly got my at-tention and
struck my funny bone but I am not absolutely sure there aren’t a
few Year 11 Page House finger prints on this document as well. Well
done guys, that was pretty clever.
Feetham House
Jake Diery Senior Resident Term 1 is just about dusted. I know a
lot of the boys are looking forward to holidays and getting home.
They need to remember it’s not over until the fat lady sings. So
keeping on top of their assessments and prep is a must at this time
of the term. They do not want to be running around the day before
they go home trying to hand in overdue assignments. The boys in the
dorm are keeping on top of the cleaning duty which is great to see.
One thing that needs improving in the dorm is phones. I have a
col-lection of 2nd phones starting to fill my draws up in the
office. The boys cannot help themselves but stay up late and text.
Please next term, do not let them bring back 2 phones. If they have
them, they lose both phones for a week.
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The boys have been getting in to their sports, With the Bulls
and Miners starting to play games on the weekends. Running training
has been going great with 90% of the boys getting up and going. I
would like to thank all the people who came to the swimming
carni-val especially the boys who went on leave but still came to
support the school. Also I would like to con-gratulate Jack Winsper
on winning his roping down south and being selected to go to
America and com-pete for Australia. Well done Jack.
Finally guys the emails about leave have been great. Thank you
to all of you who send them through to me. Just a reminder if your
son is going out on leave, please just send me an email saying who
he is going with and when he will leave and come back.
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Ramsay House
Brenden Travers Senior Resident
Time To Study Six weeks have rolled by in a blink of an eye and
we are now rapidly approaching the business end of term one. The
order of the day is now studying and preparing for the impending
exam block. With the completion of the Swimming and the cricket
entering its final weeks we have a lot more time on our hands to
focus on our aca-demics. A lot of afternoons are now being spent in
the Library working on assignments and our prep sessions are
stretching be-yond the allotted time frame. Some times in the boy’s
dorm we have a tendency to be a little too relaxed in our approach
to our studies, however this does not seem to be a problem this
year. It is refreshing to see so many of our older students placing
a high-er value on their results. Tipping Nightmare The beginning
of this year’s NRL competition brings about the be-ginning of the
Ramsay house tip-ping competition. It is free for the boys to enter
and most have jumped on board, eager to prove they’re the most
knowledgeable football mind in the dorm. Many coaches will tell
their players that premierships aren’t won in March but Kellan
Knuth has got off to an excellent start, doing what most punters
would say is impossible in round 1, picking 8 from 8 and snaring a
bonus point straight off the bat. Well done Kelvinator.
Thanks A couple of weeks ago Br Nathan took students to
Townsville for the funeral of Bishop John Lewis. A number of
students attended the service as servers and we thank them but also
in attendance was Ramsay House Prefect Marshell Smallwood. Marshell
was not asked to attend but went to the
Page House
Davin Marshall Senior Resident We are into week seven and the
end of term is not far off. The holi-days will be a welcome break
for all the boys but particularly for our new boarders. They have
settled in well and seem to be coping with boarding life. All the
boys are heavily involved in running training and gym training in
the mornings and the positive attitude is great to see. We have
assessments coming up between now and the end of term and the boys
need to make sure they are managing their time so they don’t fall
behind. It can be stressful with a big workload and general
behaviour can deteriorate so please remind your son/s about
appropriate behaviour and encour-age them to work hard on their
as-signments. We regularly remind them here and it is helpful if
they are getting the same message from home. Noel Bridges has taken
it upon himself to run a footy tipping com-petition in the dorm
this term and almost every one signed up. The cost was three
dollars with a single jackpot at the end. I have decided I will buy
a pizza for anyone who gets eight from eight for the week. We will
just skip the rounds in the holidays. It should be a bit of fun. If
you are hearing things at home that you feel I am unaware of please
don’t hesitate to give me a call.
Charly Burge Feetham House Captain Now that we are getting late
into the term many of the boys are starting to miss home. We are
all eager for the holidays to start. They have been enjoying their
cricket and the 1st Footy boys have been playing in the Townsville
comp for the last couple of weeks now. A lot of the boys have been
participating in morning running that happens twice a week. This
term has been a great start to the year and I’m hop-ing that there
will be another 3 just as good.
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service anyway as a representative of the school, volunteering
his time to represent the school in the best possible fashion.
Thanks for the great effort Marshell.
Marshell Smallwood
That’s all from Ramsay Dorm for now, as always, if any parents
wish to contact me in regards to their sons, please feel free to do
so via email or phone anytime.
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Alban House Narelle Kelly Senior Resident
Welcome to week 7 in the Alban household. I don’t have a lot to
re-port since the last article even though there has been a lot
hap-pening and some days it just feels like the weeks fly by. Just
some reminders Weekend Leave: Could parents please keep in mind
that they need to let us know before Thursday whether or not your
daughters are going on leave? We are finding that some are telling
us at the last minute, which makes it hard for us to follow up.
Handing Phones In: I have been concentrating on getting (and
keeping) the younger girls in bed each night at an early hour.
Their phone calls need to be finished by 8.45 pm. I am finding that
they are on the phone to home later than this, and it puts the
whole dorm out of routine.
Kiara Henry-Nash Alban House Captain
With swimming over and done with, we now have our Alban girls
getting up early on Tuesday and Friday mornings getting into the
spirit early with training for the annual cross country event. It
is very lovely to see all the girls’ committing to these training
sessions. This tremendous effort will pay off when it comes time
for the Alban girls to dominate in the cross country. My little
Alban Alligators are participating in a wide variety of other
sports. With the netball and touch football seasons upon us, I am
pleased to say that many of the ladies have worked hard to try gain
places on these teams. I would like to congratulate all of the
girls on their hard work and valiant effort at trials, and the
training to come this year. In the weeks leading up to exam block,
some students may become stressed and anxious. If any of the girls
have any questions or queries re-garding the exam block or
assessment that may be due in the coming weeks, the Alban seniors
will be more than happy to lend a helping hand.
Becket House
Teneil Smale Senior Resident Becket Spirit As Megan reports,
Becket spirit is at an all time high. Much of our team spirit can
be attributed to our six year twelve boarders, they have worked
tirelessly this term to welcome and support their young-er Becket
sisters. Being witness to this powerful peer influence has made me
consider how valuable this support is for students at criti-cal
points in their life. As a parent, consistency is my most powerful
tool, yet one word from a respect-ed senior can secure a complete
behaviour modification in a young-er student. This mentoring also
of-fers a host of benefits for the mentor including a sense of
pur-pose and personal growth. Peer mentoring happens naturally and
is a way of learning that allows both participants to develop
trans-ferable lifelong skills. I stood in the common room last
night as our girls sang happy birthday at the top of their lungs to
Angelique and thought to myself, ‘how lucky am I’ to be working in
Becket with such a wonderful group of girls.
Ramsay House Captain
Logan Guldbransen
The atmosphere around the
school and around the dorm
has changed a lot in the last few
weeks with every student set-
tled in to the term comfortably.
This has been helped by the
start-up of the morning gym
sessions and Mr Halliday’s al-
ways enjoyable running train-
ings along with afternoon activi-
ties such as Sport, Ringer’s Club
and Cattle Club which many of
the boys have been participat-
ing in. Not to mention the high
intensity, super competitive
games of cricket being played
outside Ramsay dorm in which
some high levels of talent have
been displayed. None more out-
standing and entertaining than
the return of the 2006 First XI
best batsmen Brenden “The
Beast” Travers.
That’s all from Ramsay house
this week, we will continue to
report on the progress of the
dorm and school life, along with
the inform cricket performances
of Bear.
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COWBOYS TRIP
Mac Horne Trip Coordinator About two dozen students trav-elled
to 1800 Smiles Stadium and enjoyed watching the Cowboys' first win
for the new season. We were expecting to be drenched by heavy rain
but conditions re-mained fine, thankfully. The reg-ular trip to
Maccas on the way home was enjoyed by all. Thanks go to Denis
Riddle, the bus driver for the entire round trip, Pia Taylor for
support at the ground, the School kitchen for providing a meal to
take down with us, and Flo King for collating the list and the
payments. Chad House
Yvonne Schaefer Senior Resident Netball Club Netball has a huge
following in Charters Towers with healthy com-petitions held every
week. We have had a great number of girls who have tried out for
the teams. Flying the flag for the 12’s in the Gabes Flames, we
have Piper Godfrey and Gabes Embers – Briarley Fitchett. The 13’s
team - Gabes Blaze has Kate Jonsson from White Dorm. The Gabes
Scorchers, 14’s team has Vasenai Dabea, Casey Campbell and Vivienne
Elliott, all members of this very competitive age group from White
Dorm. Gabes Sparks is a mixed team of 13’s and 14’s and consists of
Ainsley Murphy, Sarah Suhr, Zoe Donaldson, Brooke Tin-dall, Zoee
Rose, Jemma Mafrici, Jor-den Ford, and Sarah Clark. In our older
teams, we have Georgie Clark, Hollie Grant, and Di-anne Fulford in
Gabes Inferno – the Firsts, and Hughina Tindall, Ellie Ro-han, Kim
Andison, Emma Andison, Ngarita Chappell, Breanna Kent and Julia
Keough as team members of Gabes Heat and Gabes Fire. It is al-
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ways great to see the girls play, so parents, if you are coming
through on a Wednesday evening and have the time, make a point of
watching your girls. They do a great job and do the school and
themselves proud with their sportsmanship and respect for the game.
We are certainly getting to the pointy end of the term with exams,
assignments and drafts being the common theme throughout the
dormitory. Add to that gym, run-ning training, early morning
walk-ing, netball training and Wednesday night club netball, tennis
training and interschool tennis, we have a potential recipe for
disaster! We continually say to the girls to make sure that they
ask for help early regarding their assessments, but if you as
parents are finding that you are getting phone calls from your
daughters, and they seem like things are getting on top of them,
let us know. There is a lot of support that we can give them or
that they can be directed to, if we know. Several girls are taking
advantage of RINGERS Club. This helps to stay on top of their
assessments or get-ting help with prep or just requiring a bit of
extra help with understand-ing class work. I am sure that some are
actually just going to the nice cool air-conditioned library – and
are pleasantly surprised when they get a bit of extra work done as
well. We have had a great start to the year and are very proud of
the re-spect and kindness the girls show to each other every day.
They are a wonderful group of girls and I am so proud of them. It
isn’t easy to live in close proximity to a large group of girls and
they always treat each other with thoughtfulness and dignity. As
always, if you have any issues, let us know and we will do our best
to sort it out.
Megan Rigato
Becket House Captain
Lady day dinner is on the horizon
and for the Becket girls that
means we are in preparation for
the dinner as we are the hosts this
year. The girls are excited to begin
making decorations with Miss
Marley during tutor groups and
maybe some afternoons if need-ed. The girls are still buzzing
over
our victory from the swimming
carnival, which is great to see that
the team spirit is still alive away
from competitions. Our cross-
country practice is full steam
ahead with most girls going to
morning training sessions.
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Staff Profile
Staff Name: Leanne Colthup
Duties at ASSG: Math and Science
teacher
How long you have been at ASSG? Since the beginning
of Term 1, 2016
Where you are from? Originally from Coffs Harbour in NSW but
have
recently moved to Charters Towers from Moranbah
Something people may not know about you: I have a licence to
catch and relocate reptiles
What encouraged you to do this job? Our family decided it was
time to make a move and
ASSG presented us with an opportunity to stay in a
regional area and be part of a school with a strong
sense of community and spirit.
What work did you do before coming to ASSG? I was working as an
Ecologist within the resource
industry
What is your favourite aspect of your job? Being able to help
students see their potential,
I love experiencing the light bulb moments with
them.
And your least favourite? Marking
What was your favourite subject at school? Definitely science
(and sport)!
What was the most important part of your education? Experiencing
life!
Which person (or thinker) has had the greatest influence on your
life?
Tim Flannery – a leading Australian Ecologist
What would you never do, no matter the price? Go bungee
jumping
If you had a motto, what would it be? When something bad happens
you have three
choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy
you, or you can let it strengthen you.
If you could choose, what would you have for your last meal?
Coral trout with steamed potatoes
and a creamy sauce.