今日吃瓜

Key Dates 鈥�

• Mon 21 to Fri 24 November 鈥� Marian and Lavalla Swimming Lessons 
• Monday 21 to Wednesday 23 Nov 鈥� Year 11 Exam Feedback days  
• Wed 23 November 鈥� Y10 River Cruise 
• Thu 24 November – Y7 to 11 Secondary Awards and Principal鈥檚 Assembly, 8.45am, Marcellin Gymnasium.   
• Thu 24 November 鈥� Y11 last day 
• Tue 6 December 鈥� Y3 Pizza Pool 
• Tue 6 December – Y6 Mass and Graduation, 5.30pm, Marist Auditorium 
• Wed 7 December 鈥� Y4 Pizza Pool 
• Wed 7 December 鈥� Kindy to Y5 Awards and Carols Evening (Compulsory Event) 
• Thu 8 December 鈥� Y5 Pizza Pool 
• Thu 8 December 鈥� Y6 End of Year Celebration, Adventure World 

This week we introduced 2023 students into both entry points of the College. Our budding Newman Beings for Kindy in 2023, and our incoming Year 7 students joined the campuses on Monday and Tuesday respectively. We thank everyone involved with these transition activities and we look forward to welcoming the new families into our Marist family in the coming months. As with all things, finishing well is connected to starting well. We ask all our students to focus on finishing the 2022 school year well. We still have three weeks to go, and lots of magnificent learning experiences are planned to see out the year. 

This weekend marks the feast day of Christ the King. We are reminded on this feast day that faith in Christ, the King of love, provides an avenue for hope, love, freedom, and ultimately inner peace. The power in Christ as King, is not the power of earthly wealth or riches. It is the power to rise above, to liberate from evil, to defeat temptation and therefore avoid the pain of sin. The power of love draws good from evils. Love can melt a hardened heart. Love brings peace to the bitterest conflict and ignites hope amid darkness. The state of grace offered through love is never forced, it respects our freedom. Christ came 鈥渢o bear witness to the truth鈥� (Jn 18: 37), that being the link between love and inner peace. In our consciences, we get to make the choice. To choose good or evil. To choose truth or illusion. The Marist characteristic most closely linked to this notion of love is Presence, in essence to show love to those around us, we must be present to our community and those closest to us, present with both our time and attention.  

Instrumental Program

Research from neuroscience shows that music can enhance the function of the brain in children. Musical endeavours like singing and learning to play an instrument, stimulates the brain. This full brain workout leads to improved brain structure with the formation of additional neural connections.  

The Music Department is now accepting applications for instrumental/vocal lessons for 2023. We offer lessons on piano, voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, electric and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, violin, viola, cello, double bass and ukulele. 

Please click on the applicable application link below.  Applications must be submitted by Friday 2 December. 

If your child is currently enrolled in instrumental lessons program, you must complete an application form to continue lessons next year.  

 

 
Please read terms and conditions carefully.  

Queries should be direct to: 

Elaine Knight鈥�elaine.knight@newman.wa.edu.au鈥痮r 9204 9485 
Margaret Goldsmith鈥�惭补谤驳补谤别迟.驳辞濒诲蝉尘颈迟丑蔼苍别飞尘补苍.飞补.别诲耻.补耻鈥�or 9204 9488 

Yvonne Wiese yvonne.wiese@newman.wa.edu.au or 9204 9472 

End of Year Reporting 

The College uses the Australian Curriculum judging standards across the College to discern the end of year grades for student reports.鈥�鈥疌onsideration is given to a variety of inputs such as observations, running records, summative and formative assessments, to report on each learning area.鈥�鈥疘 thank our teaching staff for their diligence, accuracy, and professionalism used to prepare meaningful reporting as a critical element of our Learning Cycle. 

Please ensure you have your details to log into SEQTA in order you can retrieve the reports. Any families leaving 今日吃瓜,鈥痠ncluding鈥痮ur class of 2022 students,鈥痑re reminded to download all reports from SEQTA as鈥痜iles will be archived at鈥痶he鈥痚nd of December and will鈥痭o longer be accessible. 

Any log in queries should be directed to the Student Data Administrator 

Allwell Testing 

The Allwell Test is a test that can report the ability of a student against the following components: 

• General reasoning 
• Verbal reasoning 
• Non-verbal reasoning 
• Mathematics 
• Reading comprehension 
• Spelling 
• Writing 

Years 2, 4 and 8 2022 Allwell results will be uploaded to SEQTA on Friday 18 November and results will be available for viewing from 4.00pm. 

Leaders of Wellbeing 2023 

We are pleased to confirm the following Leaders of Wellbeing for 2023. 

PK 鈥� 2 Edwina Battersby 

Year 3 鈥� 6 Justin Kirry 

Year 7 Scott Smith 

Year 8 Jo Smith 

Year 9 Luke O鈥橫ara 

Year 10 David Husband 

Year 11 Sarah Ellam 

Year 12 Gemma Beekink 

New Staff/Staff Movement 

A very warm welcome to our new staff 

Secondary Drama Teacher – Josh Lang 

Secondary English Teacher –  Alida Kempen 

Design and Technology Technician –  Joshua Gabriel 

Primary Teacher  – Amy Dawson 

Education Assistant  – Caroline Napier 

Ms Caroline Fuhr will be finishing as a Dance teacher effective the end of the year and will be taking a role in Iona Presentation College. We wish her all the best in her future endeavours. 
 

2023 Term Dates 

Term 1 

• Monday 30 Jan – Staff Commence 
• Tuesday 31 Jan – Staff Professional Learning Day (College Closed) 

• Wednesday 1 Feb – Students Commence: K-Y7 and New Students Y8 -11 (Orientation) 
• Thursday 2 Feb – Students Commence: Y8-12 
• Monday 6 March – Labour Day 鈥� Public Holiday (College Closed) 
• Thursday 6 April – Term concludes for staff and students 

Term 2 

• Monday 24 April 鈥� Marist Faith Formation Day (College Closed) 
• Tuesday 25 April – Anzac Day 鈥� Public Holiday (College Closed) 
• Wednesday 26 April – PK-12 Students return 
• Monday 5 June – Western Australia Day 鈥� Public Holiday (College Closed) 
• Friday 30 June – Term concludes for staff and students 

Term 3 

• Monday 17 July – Staff Professional Learning Day (College Closed) 
• Tuesday 18 July – PK-Y10 Parent Teacher Interviews  
• Wednesday 19 July – PK-12 Students return 
• Friday 11 August – Staff Wellbeing Day (College Closed) 

• Monday 14 August – Staff Catholic Faith Day (College Closed) 
• Wednesday 20 September – Y12 last day 
• Friday 22 September – Term concludes for staff and students 

Term 4 

• Monday 9 October – Staff Professional Learning Day (College Closed) 

• Monday 9 October – Y7 2024 Orientation Day 
• Tuesday 10 October – PK-12 Students return 
• Thursday 23 November – Y11 last day 
• Friday 1 December – Y10 last day 
• Thursday 7 December – PK-Y9 last day 

• Friday 8 December – Staff Professional Learning Day (College Closed) 
• Monday 11 December – Staff Professional Learning Day (College Closed) 
• Tuesday 12 December – Staff final day (College Closed) 

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Dear Parents and Guardians

Building Leaders at 今日吃瓜

The most powerful marketing strategy in our community is the conversation that is had at the dinner table between students and their families.  These conversations generally predicated on the day these students have with particular reference to their teachers.  As a parent, I have heard about so many teachers and enjoy hearing how engaged my children are in their learning.  It is the hope in our community that student engagement which leads to growth is underpinned by good teaching. 

At our recent Newman Parents Committee Meeting, a question was put to me about why there has been a significantly high turnover of teachers.  There are a few reasons that I put to the group that I would like to share with the wider community.

1. Promotional positions:  今日吃瓜 is committed to developing teachers and leaders.  In recent days we were awarded the Educator 2022 5-Star Innovative School Award (see Educator Award below).  This program is indicative of how we develop leadership.  The fruits of such a program are better learning experiences for our students.  What it also does is give leaders the opportunity to move into promotional positions, either in our school or in other communities.  This year we have seen 9 teachers and leaders appointed to promotional positions across the sector.  This includes myself as Director of School Improvement for Marist Schools Australia, Lisa McClue as Principal of Our Lady of Good Counsel Karrinyup, Jenny Miraudo as Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning at Corpus Christi College Bateman, Katya Anderson as Head of Primary at Corpus Christi College Bateman, to name just a few. 

In addition, Stuart McClorey, former Leader of Wellbeing Primary, is our new Director of Mission and Catholic Identity.  Mr Simon Martino, former Director of Mission and Catholic Identity, has been appointed Deputy Principal Secondary.

• Commensurate experience:  We have teachers who have been in our community for a significant time and made the decision to move to other Colleges to deepen their experience as teachers.

• Opportunity:  Post COVID-19 restrictions, there has been a general teacher shortage across the country.  Consequently, there are more opportunities for teachers to move when positions become available.

The benefits of recruitment are that we have appointed outstanding teachers and leaders who will commence in our College in 2023.  Newman is a good school of choice for employees and I am looking forward to seeing our continued growth in 2023.

Educator Award

In recent weeks 今日吃瓜 was awarded the Educator 2022 5-Star Innovative School Award presented to only 5 Western Australian Schools.

The Award was for our Middle Leadership Program, Leadership Accelerator 鈥� Drive to Excel.  We partnered with The Liminal Space 鈥� Dr Shane Glasson, and Brendan Spillane Consulting to create and deliver this bespoke ‘Leadership Acceleration’ course that runs over nine days. This model uses cutting edge research to develop our leaders individually first, then as a collective, aligned with the College’s strategic intent.

Congratulations for our Middle Leaders for the way in which they immersed themselves in the course.

Finish of 2023

With 3 weeks to go until the end of Term, we look forward to the Christmas festivities.  Advent commences 27 November.  This is a really important time in our liturgical year as we prepare for the birth of Christ.  Across our College, we look forward to our liturgies and our prayer is that we finish well.

John Finneran

PRINCIPAL

“Give thanks to the Lord for He is good: His love endures forever.” Psalms 107:1听

Over the past week, I have met with many families who are looking to enrol their children in 今日吃瓜. This has ranged from our youngest students looking to enrol in Kindergarten in 2024 and 2025, right up to students who are looking to enrol in the high school. One of the responses I really enjoy hearing from families is what I really consider the 鈥榟eart鈥� question: 

What are your hopes and aspirations for your child, and what are the things that are most important to your family? 

In one way, the responses I hear to this question are very different. After all, every family has their own set of values and things they consider important to their children鈥檚 future. But in all those responses, I often hear the same things being said: for their children to be happy, to have a supportive friendship group, to have the chance to take part in different experiences, and to be challenged to be the best they can be. 

The vision that we share for our students includes all of these things, and can be summarised in a single sentence 鈥� for our children to become good Christians and good citizens. We hope to form our young people into those who can make a difference in our community, inviting them to take part in formal learning through our Religious Education, Eucharistic celebrations, and Youth Ministry experiences that allow them to put both their faith and learning into action. It is both a privilege and a pleasure to be doing such work. 

Altar Servers听

Over the past couple of weeks, a number of our Year 5 students have been taking part in training to become altar servers. This has been supported by our acolyte and RE teacher, Mr Mike Diamond, and our Religious Education Coordinator, Jane Short. It was wonderful to be a part of this process with these students and to see them so willing to serve in our school community –  they have certainly approached their training with a great sense of excitement and enthusiasm. At yesterday鈥檚 Community Mass, they were commissioned and officially welcomed into the Ministry team. We wish them all the best in their commitment to the Church.  

Congratulations goes to: Avia Picotti, Mila Picotti, Eva Menzies-Stewart, Siara Henny, Elise Cakar, Arlia Della Franca, and Addison Barr. We look forward to supporting them in their new roles within the College. 

Year 10 Gamechangers and Mini Marists听

This week, our Year 10 Gamechangers group made a visit to the Lavalla campus to meet with our Year 6 Mini-Marists. The theme was 鈥楳aking Connections鈥�, which is all about building relationships and creating kinship across our year levels. Students split up into groups and spent time getting to know each other and reflecting on the different projects they have spent time on this year. They ended the session with a game encouraging students to learn more about each other, which we hope will lead to more opportunities for us to build bridges between the primary and high school. A big thanks to all those students who took part this week.听

St Vincent De Paul Society Christmas Appeal听

This week information will go home to families regarding the annual St Vincent de Paul Society Christmas Appeal. This appeal provides hope, comfort, and dignity to over 3000 families in Western Australia who will be struggling during the Christmas season.  

This year, the College will be supporting the St Vincent de Paul Society at both St Cecilia鈥檚 Church in the Parishes of Floreat / Wembley (Primary donations) and Our Lady of the Rosary, Doubleview (Marcellin donations).  Donations can be made at all three campuses by Friday 2 December. Primary donations are to be taken to classrooms or left in administration, and secondary donations can be left in the Champagnat Chapel. 

Information regarding suitable donations will be communicated to families this week. We are very grateful to the support of our community in this important initiative. 

Community Mass听

It has been great to see so many of our students, especially in the Marcellin campus, attending our Community masses over these past few weeks. We warmly invite the entire 今日吃瓜 Community to gather with us for Mass at 8.10am on Thursday mornings in the Champagnat Chapel. Mass is celebrated by a Priest from a local parish and is hosted by both primary and secondary school students. Please see the upcoming schedule below: 

Week 7: Thursday, 24 November; Romero and Year 4 Green 

Week 8: Thursday, 1 December; Thomas More and Year 3 Blue. 

Key Dates

• Fri 11 November 鈥� Remembrance Day.  Poppies are available for a gold coin donation in the main administration office of each campus. 
• Mon 14 to Fri 24 November 鈥� Marian and Lavalla Swimming Lessons 
• Thu 24 November – Y7 to 11 Secondary Awards and Principal鈥檚 Assembly, 8.45am, Marcellin Gymnasium.   
• Wed 23 November 鈥� Y10 River Cruise 
• Thu 24 November 鈥� Y11 last day 
• Tue 6 December 鈥� Y3 Pizza Pool 
• Tue 6 December – Y6 Mass and Graduation, 5.30pm, Marist Auditorium 
• Wed 7 December 鈥� Y4 Pizza Pool 
• Wed 7 December 鈥� Kindy to Y5 Awards and Carols Evening (Compulsory Event) 
• Thu 8 December 鈥� Y5 Pizza Pool 
• Thu 8 December 鈥� Y6 End of Year Celebration, Adventure World 

Welcome to Week 4, can you believe that we are nearly halfway through the final term of the year? Our Year 12 students started their ATAR examinations this week, and our Year 11 Students will join them next week. We wish our students well in their examinations.  

The Primary school staff are working hard to prepare an amazing transition step-up experience for the students later this term. The day will assist with setting the students and teachers up for success in 2023.  We had our incoming 2023 Year 7s join us for a transition evening last week, and the Year 6 Graduation is just around the corner. 今日吃瓜 continues to be a place that does not stop!  

World Teachers鈥� Day last Friday, 28 October offered us a chance to acknowledge and celebrate our teachers. The place of teachers in the world cannot be underestimated. They are the professionals that play a significant part in preparing young people for all other professions. The influence of a kind teacher can stretch a whole life long.  A sincere thank you to all our wonderful educators for the work that you do and for going above and beyond for our student community. 

Year 7 2023 Transition Workshop 

Last Tuesday 25 October the 2023 Year 7s joined us for their first workshop. Our Year 10 Peer Mentors and Guild Coordinators assisted in the running of the afternoon, which included afternoon tea and 鈥楪etting to Know You鈥� activities. The 2^nd and final workshop is on Tuesday 15 November. The focus will be 鈥楪etting to Know the School鈥� and understanding what it means to be a 今日吃瓜 student. Our Year 7 2023 cohort will learn how to use their locks and practice, using a timetable, getting around the College. The Peer Mentors are looking forward to this second opportunity to get to know our Year 7 2023 students. 

Exams

Students and visitors to the College are reminded that WACE exams are currently taking place and Year 11 exams commence next week.  The final exam date for both is Friday 18 November. We therefore ask you are quiet when walking around the Marcellin Campus, especially around the Auditorium and the Exam Centre.   

NPC Meeting 

The next meeting will take place on Monday 7 November 6.00pm, at St John Henry Learning Hub. This group is critically important in providing input and feedback. We encourage parents to join us at this meeting to gain insight into our school improvement plan and to discuss school concerns.

Visual Arts and Technologies Exhibition 鈥� Art Festival 

The festival was a celebration of two spectacular showcases of creative talent.  The Dance showcase opened with 鈥楳ythos鈥� on Sunday 23 October with their human storytelling of iconic stories, and on Wednesday 26 October 鈥業gnite鈥� showcased our emerging artists and designers from Kindergarten to Year 12.   We were in awe of our student鈥檚 endeavours in painting, printmaking, ceramics, drawing, sculpture, textiles, and woodwork.

Special thanks must go to our Arts Learning Area and staff who worked very hard to put this event together.

New Staff / Staff Movements 

Leader of Wellbeing PK-2: Edwina Battersby  

Leader of Learning Primary K-6: Catherine Young 

Congratulations to both Edwina and Catherine in their new roles. 

Uniform – Bathers and Rash Vest requirements鈥�&苍产蝉辫;

As previously communicated, the College has introduced New College bathers and rash vests. In keeping with College uniform expectations, students are required to adhere to the following changes relating to College bathers and rash shirts.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;

• Years 1-2: No change.鈥疭tudents continue to wear their own personal bathers and rash vests.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
• Years 3-9鈥�(2022): College bathers and rash vests (old or new) are compulsory.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
• Years 3-10 (2023): New style College bathers and rash vests will be compulsory. No old bathers or rash vests can be worn.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;

** Due to stock issues earlier in the year, students in Years 7 to 10 may wear the older version of the College bathers and rash vests for the remainder of 2022. New bathers and rash shirt must be purchased for 2023.鈥�鈥�&苍产蝉辫;

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