ListeningHeart T2 2008 - St Mary's College, Broome
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<strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> <strong>Broome</strong>
From the Principal: Mr Tony Treacy<br />
Welcome to the Term Two edition of ‘Listening Hearts.’ We are developing this quarterly<br />
publication as a means of communicating to all interested in our <strong>College</strong> community our recent<br />
activities but also the energy and ideas that contribute to the growing culture of our<br />
school.<br />
As we move into our last month of preparations for the Centenary celebrations it has been<br />
humbling to hear from so many people sending messages of good will. We have received<br />
responses from past principals, teachers, students and friends far and wide as they make plans to join our celebrations.<br />
We look forward to seeing all our current families throughout the week of the 26 th July to 2 nd August.<br />
It will be a pleasure to welcome visitors from Taiji in Japan, during the Centenary celebrations. As the Japanese community<br />
of <strong>Broome</strong> featured in the story of <strong>St</strong> Mary’s from its’ earliest days, it is fitting that Mr. Shiomi the Principal of<br />
the Elementary school in Taiji, with six students and two staff members from <strong>Broome</strong>’s sister town join us at this time.<br />
I extend my sincere appreciation to our families who have offered to host the students during their stay.<br />
This Term was alive with learning activities which have produced so many positive outcomes. I commend our students<br />
for their hard work and the staff for their dedication to providing a wonderful learning environment for our children.<br />
The mid-year reporting process is complete and I thank our primary parents for their partnership in meeting with<br />
staff and we look forward to meeting our Secondary parents early in Term Three.<br />
I trust all will enjoy this publication and wish our families a safe holiday period with the chance to spend quality time<br />
with your children and the children able to rest and refresh ready for an exciting third term.<br />
<strong>St</strong>udent Leadership Team:<br />
<strong>St</strong>udent leadership is an important part of school life on both the Primary and<br />
Secondary Campuses.<br />
At the beginning of the <strong>2008</strong> school year, student leadership took a new direction<br />
on the Secondary campus. In the past our student leaders were known as<br />
the SRC or <strong>St</strong>udent Representative Council. Amongst many changes that occurred,<br />
the name of our student leadership group has been changed to the <strong>St</strong>udent Leadership Team. There are representatives<br />
from each year level as in the past.<br />
With the changes, came a fresh approach to the everyday running of the school with students and staff working together<br />
to achieve the best possible outcomes for every student. The role of the SLT has become even more important<br />
and will play an even bigger part in our school life, for the remainder of the year.<br />
The ‚Get on Board‛ program is a program which focuses on getting students to become more actively involved in all<br />
aspects of <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong>. There is a focus on education and learning, sense of community, responsibility for one’s<br />
behaviour and individual student ownership of these things. Assemblies and activity workshops are held on a regular<br />
basis to reaffirm what the students are doing, also to develop strategies to improve responsibility, punctuality, pride in<br />
uniform, respect for oneself and for others, working together as a whole school community taking ownership of the<br />
school and what happens in the school and the public image of the school in the community. Activities this term have<br />
included repainting the bollards at the front of the secondary campus, rubbish pick ups, gardens tidied, locker clean-up<br />
and botanical signage for our native trees and shrubs. We have also had a couple of fun days as a reward for the students<br />
hard work.<br />
At the beginning of the year the SLT members attended a leadership day to work with a number of guest speakers to<br />
enable them to improve their own skills, especially teamwork, public speaking and leadership.<br />
The Leadership Team will continue to work closely with staff to improve and extend this program and the culture of<br />
learning at <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong>.
Around the <strong>College</strong> in term 2<br />
Biggest Morning Tea<br />
Biggest Morning Tea – Fundraiser for Breast<br />
Cancer Research.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Hospitality and Tourism students<br />
prepared and served<br />
Morning Tea for staff on Wednesday 21 st<br />
May, over $100 in donations was forwarded<br />
To the Breast Cancer Research Association.<br />
Fr Daniel and Principal Mr Tony enjoy morning tea<br />
Miss Angela in the picture ...<br />
Year 7 student, Nara Shioji painted a beautiful<br />
portrait of Miss Angela for her Office.<br />
<strong>St</strong>aff Professional Development and Course Planning Day.<br />
May 30 th was a student free day to enable staff to be involved in professional development and course planning on<br />
both the Primary and Secondary Campuses.<br />
Secondary staff worked in Curriculum areas to develop courses of study for Semester two and beyond.<br />
Miss Brighid & Mr Mark Health and Physical Education<br />
teachers plan courses of study<br />
Humanities course planning Mr Kees & Mr Paul
Cultural Exchange to Melbourne.<br />
Some of the Kimberley<br />
Art auctioned in<br />
Melbourne.<br />
Brandon Mc Carthy and<br />
Ben Phillips , entertain<br />
the guests prior to the<br />
Art Auction.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> Cultural Exchange to Melbourne<br />
26 th April – 24 th May, <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
As they prepared for their journey to Melbourne, the students<br />
selected to go on this year’s exchange wanted to gain<br />
an insight into life in the city. Living with a host family, and<br />
being a part of the everyday life of that family, to attend a<br />
large academic school, and to have the opportunity to be<br />
involved in the many experiences that would come their<br />
way. The students were also all looking forward to having<br />
the opportunity to share their culture with their host families<br />
and with students in the schools they were visiting. They<br />
wanted to learn about the culture and lives of the families<br />
and students they lived and went to school with.<br />
Reflecting on their four weeks in Victoria, the students were<br />
positive about their experiences. They are grateful to the<br />
host families and schools who provided the opportunity for<br />
them to be part of a different way of life away from their<br />
family life in <strong>Broome</strong> and their schooling at <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Art Auction, 9 th May, <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
The Cultural exchange program between <strong>St</strong> Mary’s<br />
and Genazzano and Xavier <strong>College</strong>s is in its 20 th<br />
year.<br />
Recognising the difficulty of fundraising a significant<br />
amount of money annually in a small rural<br />
community, and to ensure the future of the exchange,<br />
Genazzano FCJ<br />
<strong>College</strong> hosted an Indigenous Art Auction. The<br />
broad collection of paintings from across the Kimberley,<br />
included traditional ochre paintings from<br />
desert artists, Wandjina spirit paintings of the artists<br />
from the Derby area, to contemporary indigenous<br />
paintings from <strong>Broome</strong>, were generously donated by the<br />
artists.<br />
The eight <strong>2008</strong> <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> Cultural Exchange<br />
student and two staff members were in Melbourne and<br />
attended the event. <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> Cultural Exchange<br />
Co-ordinator Ms Vicki McKenna and Joe Ross,<br />
Chairperson of the Indigenous Youth Leadership Program,<br />
both spoke about the importance of establishing<br />
and maintaining relationships between indigenous and<br />
non-indigenous people, and the importance of the positive<br />
outcomes for participants and families and the<br />
schools involved in the<br />
Exchange Program.<br />
About 300 people attended the auction, and enthusiastic<br />
bidding for the 44 pieces of art work resulted in all the<br />
work being sold, and enough money raised, to establish<br />
the <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Cultural Exchange Fund.<br />
Jennifer Cambridge<br />
All the <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Exchange students felt that their host<br />
families valued family life, and providing an education for<br />
their children, so that they will be able to follow their chosen<br />
career. They also realized that to achieve their goals the<br />
students had to focus on their studies, working hard at<br />
school and their homework.<br />
The students enjoyed, among many excursions and experiences,<br />
going to AFL matches, a trip to country Victoria,<br />
catching up with Mr Simon, a past teacher from <strong>St</strong> Mary’s at<br />
Bendigo Catholic <strong>College</strong>, and their visit to Sovereign Hill<br />
in Ballarat. The food tasting tour at Queen Victoria Markets<br />
and the visit to VICTECH where they listened to, and met<br />
three inspirational indigenous sportsmen – Michael Long,<br />
Dean Rioli and Anthony Mundine, were memorable experiences.<br />
As the students prepare for their host brothers and sisters to<br />
come to <strong>Broome</strong> on the return Exchanges, they are looking<br />
forward to sharing their culture and lives with the Melbourne<br />
students.<br />
Vicki McKenna, Rika Hamaguchi, Sara Knights and<br />
Brandon McCarthy with paintings to be<br />
auctioned.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Exchange students with Dean Rioli,<br />
Anthony Mundine and Michael Long.
<strong>College</strong> Assemblies in Term 2.<br />
Remembering Anzac Day<br />
This year Anzac Day fell in the school holidays. So, on the first assembly<br />
day in Term Two, Wednesday, April 30 th , both the Primary and<br />
the Secondary campuses of <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> joined together in the<br />
undercover area of the Secondary <strong>College</strong> to commemorate the anniversary<br />
of the first major military action fought by the Australian and<br />
New Zealand Army Corps.<br />
The students listened to our guest speaker, Ted Davies of the British<br />
Army, who has been the secretary to the <strong>Broome</strong> RSL, speak about the<br />
bravery and courage of Australian soldiers and the sacrifice they made<br />
for our country in all the wars they fought in.<br />
The students stood silently as the Ode was recited and the Last Post<br />
was played. <strong>St</strong>udents then honoured the fallen men and women with a<br />
minute’s silent reflection. The bugle then played The Rouse after<br />
which everyone repeated, “Lest we forget.”<br />
Mr Ted Davies delivers the Anzac address<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents were dismissed to their classrooms having paid their respects<br />
to the soldiers who died for their country.<br />
Primary School Assemblies<br />
The children in Pre-Primary have been studying fairytales all term. This theme has been integrated into all learning<br />
areas and class activities. We have focused on size comparisons, ordinal numbers and story structure. Our buddy class<br />
5/6 MF has worked with PPA through lots of activities. To conclude this topic we shared our assembly with them by<br />
presenting Goldilocks and the Three Bears in both Aboriginal English and <strong>St</strong>andard Australian English. The children<br />
all spoke clearly into the microphone and presented themselves well to the audience. The assembly was lots of fun and<br />
enjoyed by the school.<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents in PPA perform at Assembly<br />
Senior Campus Award recipients.<br />
Primary School students who received Award<br />
Certificates
JOURNEY OF THE ICON AND CROSS.<br />
WORLD YOUTH DAY , SYDNEY <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Icon and Cross leaving One Mile Community<br />
Primary School students at the Cross<br />
When the Icon and the Cross arrived in <strong>Broome</strong> on June, a group of<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> staff and students joined parishioners and community<br />
members to walk with, and to help carry the Icon and Cross into<br />
<strong>Broome</strong>. The procession started from the One Mile Community,<br />
through Chinatown, up Kennedy Hill to the Prison, before moving to<br />
the Cathedral for the official welcome to <strong>Broome</strong>.<br />
A liturgy was held at the Senior Campus to welcome the Icon and<br />
Cross to <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong>. The Icon and Cross was carried to the<br />
Primary Campus and erected in the Holy Place where classes gathered<br />
for reflection.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s students carry World Youth Day flags in Icon & Cross procession.
ST MARY’S COLLEGE LIBRARIES ...<br />
FUN IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL LIBRARY<br />
The Library is always a very busy place. Each day children<br />
come and discover how much fun reading can be. They hear<br />
about new and exciting books each week and many reserve<br />
books regularly. There is always just the right book for everyone,<br />
and we search until we find it. Most of the children<br />
know how to search the Library catalogue on the computers.<br />
At lunchtime the Library is a popular place to be.<br />
Some children are on computers, some play chess, some play<br />
board games, some read on the cushions and some use the<br />
Smart Board to play Library games and others colour in or<br />
find fun on the activity table.<br />
The children are always willing to help tidy up, clean and put<br />
books away.<br />
Early in the year we had Andy Wright, a storyteller who de-<br />
lighted the children with his stories of growing up.<br />
He impressed everyone with his vitality and enthusiasm<br />
and he inspired many children to go away<br />
and write their own story.<br />
Book Week <strong>2008</strong> is in week 5 of Term 3, the theme this year<br />
is “Fuel Your Mind”. We have a display of the shortlisted<br />
books for the Australian Children’s Book of the Year competition<br />
and we are reading one book each week. We enjoy trying<br />
to predict the gold medal winners. We have already booked<br />
our times with guest author Elise Hurst who will be at the Public<br />
Library during Book Week.<br />
Our Library is a place for fun and learning where<br />
students can enjoy both the old and new technologies.<br />
Whether they are reading a book, listending to<br />
a story, using the Smart Board, or researching on a<br />
computer, the students are acquiring skills that will<br />
last a lifetime.<br />
Di Leitch,<br />
Librarian.
SENIOR SCHOOL LIBRARY, YEARS 8 TO 12.<br />
Miss Tristan has been talking to classes<br />
about the shortlisted books for the Children’s<br />
Book Council,<br />
Book of the Year Awards to be<br />
anniounced in August.<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents have been encouraged to borrow<br />
and read the shortlisted books, and predict<br />
which books might be the winners.<br />
AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL,<br />
BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents utitlize the Homework Centre in the Senior Library after<br />
school each day. Year 11 and 12 students have access to Notre<br />
Dame Library for weekend study.<br />
<strong>St</strong>udy centre.
PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF ST MARY’S<br />
COLLEGE<br />
ADVANCE NOTICE FOR<br />
YOUR DIARY:<br />
ST MARY’S COLLEGE<br />
PARENTS’ AND FRIENDS<br />
PARENT INFORMATION<br />
SESSIONS<br />
TUESDAY NIGHTS IN AUGUST/<br />
SEPTEMBER, <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Families at the P & F film night<br />
The <strong>College</strong> Parents and Friends have had a busy term. ‚Surf’s<br />
Up‛ was screened early in Term 2 on the Primary Oval. The<br />
atmosphere was warm and welcoming, there was a wonderful<br />
selection of curries available for dinner, and we managed to<br />
raise over $2500.<br />
It was great to look out to the sea of faces enjoying the night<br />
and it was wonderful to see so many families enjoying a relaxed<br />
evening together and with friends.<br />
During Term 3 the Parents and Friends will host a series of<br />
family information evenings. The topics are Resilience<br />
(August 5), Additive Alert (Aug 26) and Cyber Bullying (Sept<br />
9). The talks will aim to provide useful practical information<br />
for parents and will be an opportunity for parents to come together.<br />
We invite all families of the <strong>Broome</strong> community to<br />
take the opportunity to come along and hear these varied and<br />
interesting speakers. Further details will be available early in<br />
Term 3.<br />
As always, the Parents and Friends are keen to hear new ideas<br />
and would welcome your input. We would love to hear from<br />
you if you have anything from the odd hour free, where you<br />
maybe able to help, or are keen to join in the discussions at our<br />
monthly meetings. It would be great to hear from you.<br />
Rachael Madin<br />
Tuesday 5 th August<br />
7 – 8 p.m.<br />
Library,<br />
Primary Campus<br />
Resilience Parent Workshop.<br />
Presenter: Andrew Fuller<br />
Child Psychologist<br />
(from Melbourne)<br />
Tuesday 26 th August<br />
7 – 8.30 p.m. Hospitality and Tourism<br />
Centre<br />
Secondary Campus SMC.<br />
Additive Alert.<br />
Presenter: Julie Eady<br />
Author of Additive Alert – your guide to safe<br />
Shopping.<br />
Tuesday 9 th September<br />
7 – 8.30 p.m. Hospitality and Tourism<br />
Centre<br />
Secondary Campus SMC.<br />
Cyber Bullying<br />
Donna Ambler<br />
Community Police Officer.<br />
This talk will help us to recognise and deal<br />
with the very real modern day 'Cyber Bullying'<br />
that our children face.
SPECIAL EVENTS ...<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> Feast Day – 23 rd May.<br />
Our whole <strong>College</strong> Feast Day Mass was celebrated by Bishop<br />
Christopher, Father Daniel and Father Richard at the Secondary<br />
Campus undercover area. This was a special occasion to<br />
once more celebrate the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians<br />
who is the Patron Saint of <strong>Broome</strong> and Australia. The tradition<br />
of crowning the statue of Mary and the throwing of flowers<br />
was commenced by our first priest in <strong>Broome</strong>, Fr. Nicholas<br />
Emo on the site now occupied by <strong>St</strong>reeters over 100 years<br />
ago. The students were commended for their prayerful attitude<br />
and excellent participation.<br />
After Mass the Secondary students went to BRAC to enjoy a<br />
day of activities and fun while the Primary students were<br />
involved in a tabloid sports day on their Campus.<br />
Linney’s Art Awards.<br />
Recently some of the <strong>St</strong> Mary’s students participated in the annual<br />
Linney’s Art Competition held in <strong>Broome</strong>. The <strong>2008</strong> Art<br />
Competition was opened this year to include schools from<br />
Derby, Lombadina/Djarridjin, Beagle Bay, One Arm Point and<br />
Bidyadanga. <strong>St</strong> Mary’s submitted entries from both the Primary<br />
and Secondary Campuses and included Visual Art and Digital<br />
Imaging. The theme this year was ‘Kimberley Kids At Play’ and<br />
the artwork was on display at the Boulevard for two weeks in<br />
May. Congratulations to all students who participated and especially<br />
to Abbie Ford from Yr 5/6 in the Primary who won 3 rd in<br />
her age section and Josh Button from Yr 8 for his Digital Image,<br />
he won 3 rd in his age section. Extra accolades go to Danielle Sibosado<br />
from Yr 9 who won People’s Choice Award for portrait<br />
in pastel and paint.<br />
<strong>St</strong>aircase to the moon<br />
screen print.<br />
Gary Hamaguchi, Yr 11<br />
Abbie Ford, 3rd prize.
Two Boarders report from the Residential <strong>College</strong><br />
My name is Jannen Spry-Wiggan I come from Derby but all of my family come from One Arm Point<br />
and Pendar Bay. I spend a lot of my holidays at One Arm Point with my dad and his family. We go<br />
hunting, fishing, camping and do a lot of spear gun diving.<br />
I first came from Derby to <strong>Broome</strong> on a plane to attend <strong>St</strong> Mary’s school. I am now living at the<br />
<strong>Broome</strong> Residential <strong>College</strong>. Living at the college is fun because I have lots of fun laughing, telling<br />
jokes with all my mates. We muck around at night playing games and we have our own basketball<br />
team. Some times I don’t go home on the weekends because every Saturday morning I play for the under<br />
15’s football team for the Saints we haven’t lost a game yet. It’s a great team who play together<br />
and still have fun.<br />
This is my second year here at <strong>St</strong> Mary’s school and I enjoy being here because this is a good school<br />
where I can learn. We have our own Football Academy where we go on trips to play against other<br />
teams from different schools. It’s pretty exciting going to different towns in the Kimberly and just<br />
hanging out with the boys. We always have a good time playing football. The men who run the<br />
Academy are great guys and help us out a lot.<br />
Imran Paddy<br />
My name is Imran Paddy and I come from<br />
Warmun (Turkey Creek). I flew from Warmun<br />
to <strong>Broome</strong>, when I first got to the Residential<br />
<strong>College</strong> I was very happy. I was very confident<br />
I would make friends and I did!<br />
Two days later I went to <strong>St</strong>. Mary’s <strong>College</strong> and everybody was friendly to me. <strong>St</strong>. Mary’s <strong>College</strong> is<br />
fun! There are lots of subjects there. My favourite subjects are Metal Technology, Health and Phys Ed,<br />
Religion and English. They also have the Football Academy! We get to go around the Kimberly and<br />
Port Hedland to compete in football matches.<br />
The Residential <strong>College</strong> is fun as well! Every body gets to go on camps and visit other schools around<br />
the Kimberly! The food there is delicious and healthy and they also have Foxtel! We have Saturday<br />
football matches and I play for PCYC Saints. At the moment we have won our first three games and I<br />
hope we will win the grand finals. It was worth the hard work to win our games.<br />
Even though I enjoy staying in <strong>Broome</strong> I do miss my family and friends and I can’t wait to see them all<br />
on the holidays.
Busy Times for the West Kimberley Football<br />
Academy<br />
What an action packed term it has been for the Academy<br />
boys. Our Monday After School Football Competition<br />
which is open to all boys has been very successful<br />
with over 120 boys pulling on the boots each<br />
week. Boys travel regularly from Bidyadanga, Beagle<br />
Bay and Derby to play. Local police officers have<br />
been umpiring games each week. Officer in Charge of<br />
<strong>Broome</strong> Police, Senior Sergeant Rob Neesham has<br />
organised a few of his officers to umpire each week<br />
which has been a great exercise in ‚positive policing‛.<br />
The Year 8/9 boys performed well in the Smarter<br />
Than Smoking Cup in Fitzroy Crossing and the Year<br />
10’s also represented the Academy proudly in Port<br />
Hedland in the AFL Sports Ready Cup. Preparations<br />
to send a Country Week team to Perth in July are well<br />
underway and a strong group of boys from <strong>St</strong> Marys<br />
and <strong>Broome</strong> Senior is being assembled.<br />
Recently many of our Academy members made their<br />
television debut on the ABC’s <strong>St</strong>ateline. It was a very positive story about the great work that the Clontarf Foundation<br />
is doing throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory.<br />
Attendance figures at training have been solid and other Academy functions and reward activities have been well attended.<br />
Some local sponsors have donated a pool table for each of the Academy rooms. Community support for the Academy<br />
has not waivered and the generosity of the Kimberley community has been a great factor in the Academy’s success.<br />
The boys love playing pool and a big thank you to Willie Creek Pearls, Kimberley Property Valuers, Moby Dick Marine,<br />
<strong>Broome</strong> Pharmacy, H&M Tracey Construction and Sportspower for helping us acquire the tables.<br />
Tony Delaney has embarked on an exciting and ambitious vegetable garden project behind the Academy rooms. It<br />
won’t be long before they will be eating healthy, fresh produce from the garden. The boys have loved working on the<br />
project. Many have given up time at recess and lunch to keep it moving and they have volunteered their time on<br />
weekends.<br />
Academy boys with the Barni they caught.<br />
Creating the vegetable garden
<strong>St</strong>udent achievement<br />
Year 7 <strong>St</strong>udents Achieve in Australian Informatics Competition.<br />
Two Year 7 students achieved outstanding results in a recent computer science competition open to all secondary<br />
school students from Years 7 – 12 in Australia, the competition is run by the Australian Mathematics Trust.<br />
Elijah Martin and Emma Rowe sat the Junior level<br />
paper for students in years 7 and 8 on 2 nd May, and<br />
were recently advised of their success. The AIC<br />
gives students external recognition of their<br />
achievements and the students receive a certificate<br />
showing their level of achievement and a detailed<br />
report showing how they went on each problem<br />
compared with others in their own year and state.<br />
There is the opportunity for students who enjoy and<br />
do well in the AIC to participate in the Australian<br />
Informatics Olympaid in September <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Congratulations Elijah and Emma!<br />
Elijah and Emma with Head of Primary School<br />
Ms Angela Alibrando<br />
Vocational Education and Training and <strong>St</strong>ructured Workplace Learning<br />
The first half of the year has seen the VET and <strong>St</strong>ructured Workplace Learning program continue to grow. Our students<br />
have the option of taking part in a number of courses offered through TAFE. Courses such as Hospitality and<br />
Tourism, Community Services, Business, Aquaculture, Automotive and Industrial skills form the basis of the TAFE<br />
based programs. Those students who are pursuing a particular area are taking advantage of the School Based Traineeships<br />
being offered, this gives them the opportunity to embark on their particular career path. The TAFE courses are<br />
all at the Certificate II level except the Industrial skills which is at a Certificate I level.<br />
Apart from those attending TAFE, we also have a number of students who are doing their <strong>St</strong>ructured Workplace<br />
Learning in a workplace of their choice. This requires them to attend a workplace one day a week.<br />
The courses being offered have provided <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> students with a broader range of opportunities to match<br />
their areas of interest. They give our students work experience in real life situations in a variety of workplaces.<br />
Throughout the remainder of the year we will continue to explore options to enhance the VET and SWL program, to<br />
provide a greater range of work experience and training options for <strong>St</strong> Mary’s students.<br />
Sonny at North <strong>Broome</strong> Concrete<br />
Sophie taking Dance Classes at <strong>St</strong><br />
Mary’s <strong>College</strong><br />
Tamalia at Centrelink
In our classrooms ...<br />
Questacon Smart Moves is a travelling outreach program promoting cutting edge research, new ideas and entrepreneurship<br />
in science, engineering and technology.<br />
On Monday 19 th May all the secondary students attended one<br />
hour sessions involving multimedia, interactive displays and<br />
informative discussion. We learnt about cutting edge ideas in<br />
Sports Science involving AFL and snow sports as well as<br />
shark protection, robotics and inventions by young people. We<br />
saw students trying to recreate the escape in the movie<br />
‘Chicken Run‛ using rubber chickens rubber gloves, umbrellas<br />
and sling shots. We also simulated computers games which<br />
rely on body movement.<br />
The talks encourage young people to get involved in Science<br />
and Technology and to be creative and innovative. Most importantly<br />
it was lots of fun and interesting.<br />
More information can be found at http://<br />
www.questacon.net.au/<br />
Questacon Hands-on—Emma and Ella involved in<br />
an Experiment.<br />
Questacon presenter Owen, with Thomas and Rowan
In our classrooms...<br />
Esah Coffin working with Pre Primary student<br />
Year 11 and 12 Early Childhood <strong>St</strong>udies.<br />
Cassia Goodwin assisting students stirring the mixture<br />
The Yr 11 and 12 girls have been looking at language development in children aged 0 - 6 years. As part of<br />
their studies the girls designed a language activity to do with the pre primary children.<br />
Yr 11 and 12 Early Childhood <strong>St</strong>udies students and their teacher Miss Gemma, have visited Miss Lisa's Pre<br />
Primary classroom and worked with the students using their language activities to improve language skills.<br />
The Pre Primary class visited the Secondary Campus Home Economics centre to work with the Early<br />
Childhood <strong>St</strong>udies students making gingerbread men. The pre primary students, following the instructions<br />
given by the older students, helped with mixing the ingredients, cutting out and decorating the gingerbread<br />
men.<br />
Krizancha Bedford works with Pre Primary students on<br />
language activities<br />
Janice Farrell assists students with decorating their<br />
Gingerbread men
Graduates 2007<br />
Bianca Howard.<br />
I am currently doing the Orientation Course at UWA<br />
through the School of Indigenous <strong>St</strong>udies. the course is<br />
for one year and I am doing the Science stream to enable<br />
me to get into the 6 week pre Medicine course that is offered<br />
at UWA. The pre Medicine course runs over the<br />
summer break, if I pass this course I will hopefully get a<br />
place into first year Medicine. There are only 8 places for<br />
Indigenous students going into Medicine from the pre<br />
Medicine course, so I need to keep working and stay focused.<br />
Currently I have been awarded 3 scholarships which are<br />
the Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship, the<br />
Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship and the Indigenous<br />
Access Scholarship. In total my Scholarships<br />
support me for costs to about $10,000.<br />
Ainslee McKenzie is working in reception at the Kimberley<br />
Office of the Department of Education and<br />
Training in <strong>Broome</strong>.<br />
Bianca Howard<br />
Ysobelle Hamaguchi<br />
I am doing Certificate II/III in Business Traineeship, next<br />
year I will do Certificate IV and the year after the Diploma.<br />
I'm doing my traineeship through Apprenticeships Australia,<br />
with my host company being BHP Billiton Iron Ore<br />
Port Hedland. I found out about it in the NorthWest Telegraph<br />
mid last year and decided I would apply for it. I<br />
applied online and in the first week of fourth term I got a<br />
phone call about doing an aptitude test, 2 weeks later had<br />
an interview, 2 weeks after that was a medical and about a<br />
month later I found out iIhad been successful and that I<br />
would be starting on 18th February this year.<br />
In going through all those stages I had to travel to Hedland<br />
for each one, which meant I had to travel down on a<br />
Thursday, have my appointments then travel back to<br />
<strong>Broome</strong> on the weekend, which I paid for, as well as being<br />
in my final weeks of year 12. But obviously it all paid off,<br />
was worth all the effort, and I'm happily getting through<br />
my certificates and work, enjoying it and learning heaps!<br />
I work with a program called GSAP, apparently it's a very<br />
complex program to work with, but I work through it with<br />
ease. Five other girls are doing the same traineeship as I<br />
am, half indigenous and half non indigenous. I think it's a<br />
really good traineeship to be doing and Apprenticeships<br />
Australia is a good employer.<br />
Ulanda White works as a receptionist at the Bali Hi<br />
Resort in Cable Beach.<br />
Ysabelle Hamaguchi
CENTENARY MEMORABILIA:<br />
Merchandise for sale<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> Centenary <strong>2008</strong><br />
Calendar of Events<br />
Remembering & Celebrating 100 Years<br />
Friday July 25th<br />
‘When the Queen Came’ Art Exhibition<br />
Saturday July 26th<br />
Traditional Welcome to Country<br />
Centenary Mass<br />
Family Night<br />
Relationships Exhibition<br />
Nulungu Exhibition<br />
Sunday July 27th<br />
School Picnic<br />
Monday July 28th<br />
School Concert<br />
Tuesday July 29th<br />
Senior Citizens Morning Tea<br />
Sports Fun Night<br />
Wednesday July 30th<br />
Film Night<br />
Thursday July 31st<br />
<strong>College</strong> Open Day<br />
Friday August 1st<br />
‘Time Capsule’ Ceremony’<br />
Memorial Rosary<br />
Saturday August 2nd<br />
Gala Dinner Dance<br />
For more information please go to website:<br />
www.stmarysbroome.wa.edu.au<br />
Or contact<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>College</strong> Secondary Campus<br />
08-9192-1035<br />
demin.anthea@cathednet.wa.edu.au<br />
Official Programme $5<br />
T-shirts $15<br />
Caps $10<br />
Fans $5<br />
Bookmarks $2<br />
Centenary Recipe Books $16