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PAGE 2 PRAYER POINTS 1. Pray for Year 3 and Mrs Datta. Please pray for Alana Greige who has had a series of sinus operations and has been recovering slowly from much discomfort. 2. Praise God for the funding for a chaplain for two days per week. Pray that this ministry will be a blessing to the whole school community. Pray that the right person will be appointed to this position and the other ones being advertised. 3. Pray for the board and staff as we prepare for secondary schooling in 2013 and look to main taining what we have across K-6. THANK YOU A big thank you to Mr Peter Chan who took photos of our Athletics Carnival. You can see some of the wonderful photos of the day on our display board under the awning. THINGS HAPPENING AT SCHOOL Assembly: The last assembly of term will be held this week (14 th June) starting at 2:20pm, featuring Year 5 (main item). There will also some art work displayed by Year 2 and some of our pianists, drummers and singers will perform. All families are welcome! Cross Country: The CSSA State Cross Country was unfortunately run the day after our athletics carnival (which we have booked well in advance) and we didn’t expect our students would do as well as usual. However, there were still some great results: Kelly Wilson 52 nd (11 year girls) Sabrina Kemala 88 th (9 year girls) Rachel Giles 93 rd (12 year girls) Matthew Zeinoun 94 th (11 year boys) Isaak De Luca 99 th (10 year boys) Intra-school Gala Days: Last week, Years 3-6 enjoyed a morning of relaxed and friendly inter-House competition in soccer and netball. Booth House won the netball with Liddell coming second. In the soccer, Anthony Dalleh showed great leadership in igniting Court House to two wins after a draw in their first game while Nikola Vucetic-Cafritza also demonstrated good leadership for Booth which finished second after a win, a draw and a loss in their three matches. Attendance in May: Once again this year, we have monitored student attendance during May as a federal government requirement. The attendance figure appears on the “MySchool” website. This year our boys were outstanding with a 97.9% attendance across the school. Girls had an attendance rate of 95.8%. Year 4 was the best attended class with only eight absences across the month including just one day from the boys! The next best class was Year 1 followed by Year 2 and Year 5. Debating: On Friday, the debating team hosted Northcross Christian School’s second team on the topic “Libraries are Obsolete”. Once again the debaters performed well but were just beaten by one point.
PAGE 3 Public Speaking Competition: Well done to all finalists in the Public Speaking competition. What an effort, to get up and speak in front of the whole school. Final place getters and finalists are to be congratulated! Finalists were: Kindergarten: Joel Tilaye (1 st ), Amy Sorial (2 nd ), Fine Haumono (3 rd ), Lachlan Tang and Gabrielle Timothy- Samy Years 1 and 2: Jennifer Pilarinos (1 st ), Mekayla Ibrahim (2 nd ), Phoebe Tilaye (3 rd ), Jeffrey Lin, Boram Woo, Faith Son, Viliami Haumono, Sharon Choi, Shekinah Lowe, Joanne Kay and Jordan Jang. Years 3 and 4: Madeline Curtis (1 st ), Victoria Truong (2 nd ), Lara Saad (3 rd ), Tony Hall, Justin Stojanovski, Rachel Glossop, Rebekah Thompson and Mary Lee Years 5 and 6: Jeannie Back (1 st ), Kayla Saad (2 nd ), Lisa Soliman (3 rd ), Jodie Sia, Matthew Zeinoun, Gianna Bernardo and Caitlin Rinaldi, SCHOOL PHOTOS If parents would like to order Year 6 candid and the Year 6 Leaders photos, please see Ruth. We have order forms and samples of the photos in the office. SECONDARY FOCUS •Small School Focus: We live in a world where we often see things from the “Bigger is Better” viewpoint. Sometimes, larger businesses, including churches and schools provide great opportunities for those that are involved. However, there is a great advantage in a small secondary school: it is very difficult for students to become lost in the system and that can be an issue in even the best of big schools, including selective and major independent schools. In a small school, the teachers have such a great involvement with the students and it’s rare for that involvement not to translate into a greater interest in their wellbeing and academic progress. I believe that the students at my previous school “punched above their weight” to a large degree and this was mainly due to great teachers who were vitally interested in their classes. The pioneer years of a school also attract great interest and input. The first few years at GBCCS will certainly not be lacking attention on their progress and general well-being! * Year 7 Arts: There are two components of this subject at Stage 4 (Years 7 and 8): Visual Arts and Music. Mr Shume will be teaching Visual Arts although it is the school’s intention to introduce a specialist to this position by 2014 or 2015. We are fortunate that we already have a pottery kiln and the new multi-purpose room will easily provide for the requirements of the syllabus. We are intending to introduce a part-time music teacher from next year. We see Music as an extremely important component of what makes a Christian School and we are blessed to have some wonderful Music people within our school community already.
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