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Tuesday 17 August
Year Assembly
Year 8 Immunisations
P & F meeting - staff room
Wednesday 18 August
Year 12 QCS Feedback Session 2
College Board Meeting
Tuesday 24 August
College Assembly
Wednesday 25 August
Year 12 QCS Feedback Session 3
BDSSS Track & Field (Pre-Events) to Fri
Monday 30 August
Year 12 QCS Final Briefing
Tuesday August 31
Year 11 retreat to Wed
QCS Test Year 12 to Wed
Year 8→9, 2011, 6pm
Year 9→10, 2011, 7pm
Information evening - PAP
Monday 6 September
Year 10 retreat to Wed
Year 11/12 exams to Fri
Tuesday 7 September
College Assembly
P & F Meeting
Thursday 9 September
Wide Bay Track & Field to Fri
Wednesday 15 September
College Board Meeting
Friday 17 September
Wide Bay Surf Carnival
Classes Conclude Term III
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This coming Sunday is the feast of the Assumption. In the Catholic tradition we believe that Mary, the mother of Jesus, had such a special place in the story of redemption that she was taken bodily to heaven. Mary doesn’t get as much attention as she once did. The following story is told by Fr Richard Leonard SJ and is pretty relevant to this particular feast day.
On August 15, 1975, the entire parish council of a village outside the capital of Chile was arrested by the military police. For months the villagers tried to find out where the men had gone and why they had been taken away. Abduction, torture, and illegal imprisonment were daily realities for Chilean people under General Pinochet.
Word arrived in November that the corpses of the parish councillors could be found in Santiago’s morgue. My cousin, Catherine, an Australian nun working in that parish, took the mothers of the eight men to the morgue. Catherine later wrote to me, “there were over 300 corpses piled high on each other and the mothers had to roll someone else’s son over in an attempt to find their own.”
As the mothers searched they began to weep loudly, realizing how evil we can be toward one another. As they wept they prayed the rosary. As one mother, and then another, found her son, they called out more desperately, “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.”
Catherine’s letter continued, “For years I rejected devotion to Mary because I felt oppressed by the way generations of men in the Church presented her – blue veils, white skin, always smiling, a perpetual virgin and yet also a mother, an ideal I could never achieve, but one to which I was told I should aspire. In the experience of the village mothers, however, the distortion of who Mary was for a poor and suffering world faded away. Far from feeling distant from their devotion, I found myself praying with them, knowing that Mary was with us in our shock, anger and grief. One of the women told me, on the way home, that Mary knows what it’s like to bring a child into the world and claim his dead body in her arms.”
Fourteen years later, in 1989, Catherine died in that village of hepatitis. Her family had been trying to get her to come home for months, but she lied about how ill she was and said that she could get everything she needed there. The only consolation Catherine’s family got was when a letter arrived from the mothers in the village. When it was translated into English it read, “We want you to know that we were with Catherine when she died. We would never have let her die alone for she was one of our children too. We often prayed the rosary with her. She seemed to like that, thumbing the beads she used ever since she brought us back with our boys. We have buried her next to our sons and put on her tombstone the line she asked us to inscribe, “Mary my friend, my companion and mother of the poor, pray for me.”
Mary is in union with all of us who feel the poverty and unworthiness of our humanity. Like her, God calls us to face down our fears and take up the same mission – to remain faithful to the kingdom Jesus proclaimed no matter what, whether it’s in our relationships with our family, colleagues, or friends, at home, at work, or in searching for the bodies of our children in a Santiago morgue.
The feast of the Assumption tells us that it is possible for humanity to be assumed into God, that God will remain faithful to us as we are faithful to God. And not understating the special honour Mary received, we affirm that she prefigures the joy that can be ours in the life to come.
This is why now is not the time to move away from a rich devotion to Mary, so let’s reclaim the sanest, most inclusive and Catholic of heritages that makes room for a poor woman to say something to our poverty and to a poor and suffering world.
Federal Election and Catholic Education have been very keen to have the major parties table their approach to the funding of Catholic schools before the Federal election. This information has now been published and is contained in a later section of this newsletter under ‘From QCEC’. Please take time to read this.
Farewell & Best Wishes to Kellie Carlisle who leaves the College this week. Kellie is the owner of the lovely lilting Irish accent who has worked in Finance and assisting at reception. We have been very lucky to have Kellie on staff this year and we wish her well as she and her husband Michael await the birth of their first child in a few weeks. Kellie is replaced by Mrs Liz McBurney and we warmly welcome Liz to staff.
Whooping Cough - we have had at least two reported cases of this recently. Please be vigilant as this disease is easily transmitted. Infected students should stay away from school for at least five days.
Parents & Friends Meeting is on Tuesday night at 7pm in the Staff Room.
Mr Dan McMahon
Principal
mcmahond@shalomcollege.com
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Students getting into the spirit of
Jeans4Genes Day
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 Car Sculpture Unit
Cars came to life as students create cars that morphed into everything from octopi to ladybirds to chameleons. Great care and fine detail was required to create pieces that reflected the personality of the students as well as their skills. Not only was this care required in the clay building stage where fine details created texture and subtle shape but also in the painting. Here students were asked to create variations of tone and value to enhance the original clay piece. Overall a successful and fulfilling unit for both students and Year 9 teachers.
Ms Maria Fresta
Art Teacher
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During the September school holidays, Shalom College is hosting its’ first ever Edmund Rice Camp which provides an opportunity for disadvantaged primary aged children to experience a fun holiday camp in a safe environment. The organising committee is looking for donations of sporting equipment to be used at this and future camps, so if you have an extra football, soccer ball, cricket bat or other items that you no longer need we would love to take them off your hands. We also need items such as sleeping bags or quilts. Items can be dropped at the school office, or at Shalom College office.
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Last Friday Shalom College held a very successful Jeans for Genes Day. We raised an impressive $1180. Thank you to all who participated. This money will go towards research into childhood diseases – a very worthy cause.
I was extremely proud of our students and the way they embraced the idea of our support for this cause as a community and wore, with their jeans, shirts that identified them with Shalom. It was wonderful to see how many diverse activities our students are involved in. We had shirts from Confraternity Rugby League, Netball, Rowing, Drama, the Musical, a variety of trips along with Sports Shirts and of course Senior Jerseys.
Mrs Mary Taylor
AP - Ministry (Acting)
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 On the weekend of the 24 and 25 of July the ten Duke of Edinburgh students completed their Qualifying Expedition for the Bronze Award.
The Year 10 students completed an arduous two day hike in the Coongarra Rock section of Mt Walsh National Park near Biggenden. The journey included a visit to caves, swimming in the rock pool (for the brave) and climbing Coongarra Rock.
All students showed impressive fitness and navigation skills to complete the expedition. They now have to complete their Skills, Volunteering and Physical Recreation components to be eligible for the Bronze Award.
Thanks go to the teachers who assisted, Mrs James, Miss Nicolo and Mr Chappel.
Mr Brett Hoskins
Coordinator
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Catholic Schools Festival - A comprehensive report on our performances will be in the next newsletter. Students are very excited, particularly those playing in the Honour groups in QPAC on Sunday night. Some will be in workshop with James Morrison.
Music Support Group – The next meeting for this group will be Tuesday evening 24 August at 7.00pm in the music room at the back of the Precinct. All welcome.
Mrs Robyn Edgar
Performing Arts Coordinator
edgarr@shalomcollege.com
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Nearly eighty Shalom students took part in this year’s Australasian Schools Science Competition last week.
Students who received awards are as follows:
High Distinctions:
Year 11 - Jordan Coonan
Year 12 Dean West and Christopher Longhurst
Distinction:
Year 8— Ned Freeman, Beth Royan, Jemma Ballinger and Louise Harding Smith
Year 9 - Jenna Woods, Brody Fox, Timothy Long Hurst, Jack Elphinstone, Jjaron Philips, Matthew Vanderberg and Deb Freeman
Year 10 - Jack Royan, Sarah Hamilton,
Erin Gibson, Erica Harding-Smith
Year 11 - Seamus Stephens, Anna Hanigan, Stephanie Killer
Certificates of Credit were issued to:
Year 8 - Michael Dark, Emily Stuart, Lucille Wilson, Hayden Otto, Joshua Collins, Holly Fasso, Jessica Holliss, Kameron Chan, Quinn Holt, Adra Aditya
Year 9 - Luke Williamson, Stephanie Pole, Ryan Odgen-Brown, Jake Albery, Hayley Bowman, Kyria Gahan, James Kelly, Benjamin Galea
Year 10 - Lauren West, Connor Sheehan, Susan Bass, Alice Galea, Georgia Bass, Jessica McDonnell, Courtney Ram, Sarah Hawe, Luke Nykiel, Aaron Aditya
Year 11 - Cavell Mammino, Saarah Ahmed, Mikayla Babin
Year 12 - Jessica Lester, Tarl Condoleon, Brodie Smith
Twenty three other students received a Certificate of Participation Congratulations to all students who participated in this competition.
Mrs Debbie Bishop
Competition Organiser
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So often when we hear the word 'vocation', we tend to think of vocations to priesthood or religious life, but every single Christian is called by virtue of our Baptism; every one of us has a 'vocation' or special mission from the Lord according to our particular state of life.
As we pray for vocations, we want to encourage people to reflect on the dignity of Marriage and the beauty of living together in a Christian family. Single life has its special place and circumstances and is also an avenue of grace, an opportunity for service. And of course, we want to encourage more people to take seriously the possibility that God is calling them to the Priesthood and/or Religious life. The important thing for all of us is a commitment to serve, to proclaim the Gospel in word and deed.
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Recently a number of Shalom students represented Bundaberg in the Country Muster. This was a carnival aimed at selecting the Queensland Country team known as the ‘Bushrangers’. The Shalom students participated exceptionally well throughout the carnival and five students were rewarded with selection in their age division’s 30 man Queensland Country ‘Bushrangers’ squad – a sensational achievement.
Four U13 players made the squad – Danyon Lister, Blair Bretag, Liam Smith and Kyle Spry. These four were joined by U16 player Nick Trost. Congratulations to these boys on their selection. They will now have the opportunity to travel to the Sunshine Coast in September to participate in the Junior Rugby Union State Championship with an opportunity to achieve further representative honours.
These players add to our already impressive list of representative players with the U15 Wide Bay squad including Shalom players Ross Pickard, Levi Johnston-Smith and Jaron Phillips.
A reminder to all interested Shalom boys that the annual Anton Toia Schools Rugby Union Carnival will be on Saturday, October 16 this year. Shalom will once again be aiming to enter a number of teams in the U13s, U15s and Opens divisions and continue our proud tradition of performing well in this carnival. Sign-on will be in the days following Winter Sport Finals Day and we encourage everyone to give ‘the game they play in heaven’ a go – whether you have played before or not. You will love it!!
Mr Brendan Maher
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Political Parties Respond to Catholic Education Requests
On behalf of all Catholic school communities, the National Catholic Education Commission asked the ALP and the Coalition to respond to a series of six requests seen as necessary for Catholic education to remain sustainable into the future.
In particular, request No.2 sought a guarantee that existing levels of Federal government funding would at least be maintained following a review of school funding next year and then moving into the next four year funding period from the start of 2013.
The Coalition has said that it will continue current funding levels to Catholic schools and systems, indexed to government school costs for the remainder of the current funding period (until 2012) and will maintain these levels in real terms for the next funding period 2013-2016.
The ALP has said it will guarantee current funding levels until the end of the current funding period (2012) indexed as for all schools, and will give a guarantee for 2013. Funding arrangements beyond 2013 will depend on the outcome of next year’s funding review. The ALP has said that any new funding arrangements after 2013 will be put forward to the community well before the next election.
It must be stressed that neither party has committed to provide more funds for the Catholic sector. Catholic schools currently receive only 60-65% of the total government funding received by Government schools. Even when parent contributions are taken onto account, Queensland Catholic schools operate on average at about 87% of the resourcing levels of government schools.
Catholic education will engage constructively with the funding review process in the coming months to demonstrate that this funding gap should be addressed by the next government of Australia.
The Greens’ Party education policy is to return a significant part of Catholic school funding to 2003 levels. This would mean a significant drop in government funding for Catholic schools.
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Our quiet achiever this week is Year 9 student Hayley Bowman. In her spare time Hayley enjoys lifesaving and was recently recognised for her involvement and comment to all facets of the sport by being awarded the Wide Bay Capricorn Under 14 Junior Lifesaver of the year.
Congratulations Hayley on this outstanding achievement.
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P & F GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday 17th August 2010
AGENDA ITEMS
1. Report from Car Draw sub-committee
2. Report from Markets sub-committee
3. Adaptation proposal for uniform
4. Master Planning
P & F Member. You are reminded that our monthly P & F meeting is held in the staff common room every first Tuesday of the month at 7.00 pm – all welcome. If you have an agenda item please address it to the P & F Secretary either at the school office or by e-mail pandfsec@shalomcollege.com.au no later than the last Tuesday of the month prior to the meeting. Agenda items for the monthly meeting will be published in the Newsletter prior to each meeting.
Mrs Jo Wilson
Secretary
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Joe McCorley. “Prayer in Midlife, Twenty – Ninety Years”. Midlife is a beautiful season. It is a time to reflect on what has been and what is to come in one unique journey of life.Joewill give this presentation at 7.00pm on Tuesday 17th and it will be repeated at 10.00am Wednesday 18th August at the Bundaberg Catholic Community Centre adjacent to St Mary’s Church.
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Jordan Coonan, Dean West and Christopher Longhurst display their awards from the Australiasian Science Competition
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MARKETS ROSTER
Sunday 22 August
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6.30 - 9.30AM 9.00 - 12.30PM |
Allison Reinhardt |
Ann/Dale Holliss |
Trevor Garrett |
Julie/John Walker |
John/Helen
Zigtermann |
Jo Bobbermein |
Bruce/Joy Bass |
Trevor Glass |
Shelley Greenhalgh |
Julie Vincent |
Karen Miller-Smith/David Smith |
Wayne/Carol
Hanigan |
Cathy Young |
Bob/Jan Beckman |
David/Gai Lewis |
Louise & Keith Iseppi |
Jane/Bruce Saul |
Alexandra Irwin |
Yvette Jenkins |
Michael/Louise Davis |
Clark Johnston |
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Ian Munckton |
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TUCKSHOP ROSTER
Monday 16 August
Janice Harvey, Toni Sergiacomi,
Anne Harding-Smith |
Tuesday 17 August
Shari Bauer, Neva Baldwin,
Beryl Grunske, Pauline Crossett,
Colleen O’Brien
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Wednesday 18 August
Sharon Harney, Tracy Haack,
Shevina Skopp, Debbie Caelli
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Thursday 19 August
Karen Shelley, Ann Holliss, Chris Straker, Janelle Woodham |
Friday 20 August
Anne Lavia, Melitta Sand-Otto,
Penny Heidke, Maree Condoleon |
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Ladies Dinner
25th August - 6.30pm
Panache Restaurant Shalom College
Tickets $24 for three course meal
Surprise guest speaker
Tickets available from Holy Rosary Parish Office,
Woongarra Street
Bundaberg
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MARKETS BBQ ROSTER
August 15 - Edmund Rice Group
August 22 - Japan Trip
August 29 - Vietnam Trip
September 5 - Rowing
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COPIES OF THE YEAR 9 SLIDE SHOW AS WELL AS THE YEAR 12 RETREAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FROM BROTHER ROCHFORD FOR $5.
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CLASS OF ‘85
25TH YEAR REUNION
When: Saturday 28 August
Where: Shalom college
Time: 5pm for a tour of the college 6pm start
Cost: $35 per person
Tickets available at Camielles, Earl’s Court or email Shalom2010reunion@y7mail.com to receive details for direct deposit purchase of tickets
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“UNDER THE RED, BLACK AND WHITE”
25 YEARS OF
REMINISCENCES OF SHALOM
1984 - 2008
Available from the
College Office
Limited edition -
500 copies only
$30 each
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