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• Blake Werth for looking around the classroom and tidying up after others without being asked.• William Fanshawe for helping the Year 1 and Year 2 community by organising the sports bageach day.• Timothy Penquitt for relating positively to all of his peers and teachers.Leadership: • Callum Pamenter for setting an excellent example for others by showing them howto line up, sit on the mat and work hard. Well done, Callum.• Lucas Burke for an excellent work ethic and positive communication with others.• Saxon Rawson for his accumulation of class ‘Awesomeness’ points.• Noah Balfe for helping his class members by leading creative discussions during group work.Reading Club: • Isaac Sandaver, Bradley Worboys, Alex Chalvatzis, Sharman Shan, BenChalvatzis, Xavier O’Donnell, Angus Skull (500 Club Reading Award).GPS Man of the Match (Cricket v ACGS):• Sheldon Moore: Year 5 for taking two greatwickets.• Isaiah Creed: Year 6A for a tenacious battingeffort.• Abdul Arshad: Year 6B for good batting anda tidy bowling display.• Brian Wakista: Year 6C for a strong battingperformance.Mr David MacknishHead of Junior Schooldmacknish@ipswichgrammar.comFAMILY MATTERSScreen Time Study: A recent study conducted in Norway with 10,000 teenagers aged from 16-19 revealed that more than 90% of girls and 80% of boys used a screen in the hour before bed.Throughout the day, girls’ average use of a screened device was 5.5 hours and boys averaged 7hours per day. Hysing and her colleagues discovered that any screen time above two hours perday affected the sleep patterns of the teenagers. The result of this poorer sleep was a decline inschool performance, in part due to the blue light emitted by the devices, triggering the body’snatural inclination to stay awake.These statistics are alarming. Teenagers have great difficulty in self-monitoring their usage so it isreally up to parents to monitor their teenagers’ screen time. Parents also have the responsibility tomodel appropriate behaviour and are not in a good position to tell their children what to do withscreen time, when they are also using screened devices to excess. Conversations about what isappropriate usage and when it is appropriate need to take place in the home. For instance, usingdevices at meal times may be determined to be inappropriate. Use of devices an hour before sleepmay also need to be one of the hard and fast rules in the family as the negative consequences oflack of sleep are not just visible in poor school performance, but also in a reduction in mentalhealth. If you have concerns please contact me.The Brave Program: If your child or teen has difficulties with anxiety or just seems to havetoo many worries, we would like to introduce you to BRAVE Self-Help – an interactive, onlineprogram for the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent anxiety. It was developed
y a group of researchers from the University of Queensland and now, with the support ofbeyondblue, this program is now freely available to all young people aged 8 -17 years old whoare living in Australia. BRAVE Self-Help provides strategies for children and teenagers to bettercope with their worries. There are 4 programs available, one for children aged 8-12 years, one forteenagers aged 12-17 years and one for parents of children at these ages respectively. The programcan be accessed as often as you like, from the comfort of your own home. For more information, orto register for the program, please visit www.brave4you.psy.uq.edu.au.Dr Mark TaylorGuidance Counsellormtaylor@ipswichgrammar.comACADEMICSArt: All classes have begun the yearkeen to explore and create. We welcomeespecially those parents and boys who areexperiencing dedicated Art lessons for thefirst time. As we all know being creativeis fun but there are skills and techniquesthat require concentration and practiceto master allowing our creative mindsto grow and expand.This year we hopeto keep you more informed with regularupdates on individual classes and therebybringing you into the inner sanctum of theVisual Arts.Year 10 students are exploring Portraiture.The initial stages encourage seeing andunderstanding the proportions of the face.Any feel that they see faces everyday butwhen faced with really looking at a face itis quite a challenge. We begin with Realismto get the basics before going into areas likeExpressionism and Simplification. At thisearly stage the goal is to see what’s reallythere, not what you think is there.SPORTS & ACTIVITIESQuote of the week: Courage doesn’talways roar. Sometimes courage is thatquiet voice at the end of the day saying“I will try again tomorrow”. – MaryAneRadmacherMr Nigel GreiveDirector of Sports & Activitiesngreive@ipswichgrammar.com
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