People listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses. – Evangelii Nuntiandi听
As a Catholic community we strive to be witnesses to our young people and each other through our actions. The final two weeks of term 3 sees our attention drawn to our Year 12 students. Our prayer in the final two weeks is they finish and finish well, recognising the dignity of each other and celebrating the success of their time at 今日吃瓜. As a Marist community we like Champagnat, hope that their lives may be an echo of what they have been taught during their time at the College.
今日吃瓜 Parents Morning Retreat: Golden Thread听
Our Marist Tradition offers our community so many different opportunities for formation. This term we are offering a Parent Retreat. Br Bill is the Director of the Hermitage located in Mittagong NSW. Throughout the year, he comes to 今日吃瓜 to work with staff in faith formation. He is scheduled to return this term in Week 9 and once again spend the week with staff across the College. This time we are offering a Parent Retreat focussing on the Golden Thread. All are invited to attend, regardless of their religious experience. Please register .
Morning session: Thursday 15 September 9.00am – 11.00am
Community Mass听
A warm welcome is extended to the whole 今日吃瓜 community to join us for our regular Thursday morning Community Mass commencing at 8.10am in the Champagnat Chapel on the Marcellin Campus. The Mass is celebrated by a Priest from one of our local parishes and is hosted by both secondary and primary school students. The schedule for the next 2 weeks is as follows;听
Week 9 Thursday 22 September, Fr Garner hosted by Catherine & Yr6 Blue
Week 10 Thursday 29 September, Mons Kevin Long hosted by Brigid & Yr6 Green
Thu 15 Sep 鈥� Y6 IPSHA Athletics Carnival, All Saints College, Bull Creek
Thu 15 Sep 鈥� Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Opening Night, 6.30pm, Marist Auditorium
Thu 22 Sep 鈥� Year 12 last day
Thu 22 Sep 鈥� Year 12 Ball, 6.30pm 鈥� 11.00pm, Frasers Restaurant, Kings Park
Fri 23 Sep 鈥� End of Term 3
Welcome to Week 8 and welcome to spring. This week there were a number of focuses on wellbeing and resilience across the school. As we finish another busy and productive term, it is a timely reminder to check in on each other to ensure our Marist family are travelling well. Over the last two weeks we have had Newman students compete across the school in the Speak Up finals in Primary and the Spirit of the Arts, Catholic Performing Arts festival continues for students in Years 3 to 12. Our Primary Athletics Carnival was a great success today, with the sun coming out to shine as our young people exhibited the sportsmanship and participation that defines our Marist family. The Year 7s came together to dance the night away on Thursday of this week and our Year 10 Children, Family and the Community students took on a virtual baby during Week 7 鈥� they were shattered by the end of the week. There were numerous excursions and camps across Primary and secondary, including Outdoor Education, Humanities, Science and Gamechangers. It is magnificent to see that we are once again able to provide these life-giving experiences of challenge, collaboration, and celebration to our students.
NAPLAN
NAPLAN Reports for our Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students will go live on SEQTA next week, Friday 16 September. Hard copies will be posted to your mailing address.
R U OK? Day
Yesterday was R U OK? Day, the National Day of Action to raise awareness around mental health and suicide prevention. Students and staff were reminded that every day is the day to ask 鈥渁re you OK?鈥� Starting meaningful conversations when we notice signs that people we care about might be struggling could help them to open up. Asking if someone is okay is not always easy, but it could change a life.
Staff and students were encouraged to accessorise with yellow items. Yellow iced cupcakes were available for sale on all campuses, proceeds of which will go to R U OK to use towards mental health awareness.
Zero2Hero
On Monday 5 September we held the first of our parenting series presentations. In partnership with Zero2Hero, 今日吃瓜 invited three well known experts to our Marist Auditorium to speak to our parent and broader community on Resilience, specifically providing thoughtful insights into how to develop Resilient Young Minds, Claire Eaton, Claire Orange, and Linda Stade. As a mother to a lively 13-year-old, I certainly found the session useful, and entertaining. My take aways…there is no substitution for connection and presence with your child. Teach you tween or teen how to focus on trying to stay above the line at least 80% of the time. When your young person approaches you with outrageous comments or tricky topical conversations, raise your eyebrows in a curious manner and seek further information. Finally, when conflicts and disagreements occur in peer groups, try not to get involved. Instead encourage your young person to Look for the good, Lift others up or failing that, Leave the person alone, give them space. Claire Eaton referred to these as the three Ls.
Languages / Multicultural Week
The Languages Learning, once again, provided our students with various events throughout the week, Taiko 鈥� Japanese drums, Brazilian dancers, Indonesian musicians, accordion performance, and the ever-popular gelato van! These events are just some ways we can bring greater cultural awareness to the College.
Historically, this week is about celebrating those who have come from other areas of the world, and being able to share their culture, beliefs, and values with our multi-cultural country.
Year 7 2023 Parent Information Evening
The College is running the Year 7 2023 Parent Information Evening on Monday 12 September at 6.30pm in the Marist Auditorium. This presentation covers relevant information about your child鈥檚 Year 7 experience in preparation for their transition from their current schools into their first year of secondary schooling here at Newman.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 鈥� College Production
Excitement is building as we get closer to the opening night of our College production. Students, staff and members of our College community have been working very hard to ensure they dazzle you with their musical skills and creativity.
Based on the famous novel by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory features an original score composed by Marc Shaiman with lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray) and a book by David Greig. The score also pays homage to the Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley score from the 1971 film with songs from the motion picture including 鈥淐andy Man,鈥� 鈥淚鈥檝e Got a Golden Ticket,鈥� 鈥淥ompa Loompa Song,鈥� and 鈥淧ure Imagination.鈥�
Tickets are going fast so be sure to secure your tickets to a night of pure imagination! Click to purchase your tickets.
15/09/22 Opening night: 6.30pm
16/09/22 Performance 2: 6.30pm
17/05/22 Performance 3: 11.00am
17/09/22 Performance 4: 6.30pm
18/09/22 Performance 5: 11.00am
SHINE Announcements
It is with great pleasure to announce some of the wonderful events our SHINE students have participated in recently.
Firstly, at Lavalla several students participated in the Children鈥檚 Book Council of WA Create a Book competition. Students spent time carefully curating their books and developing their stories. It is exciting to announce that Kate Gordon in Year 4 achieved second place for her book “Brother, Sister” in the story book category. We congratulate Kate for her efforts and her success in this wonderful competition. Well done Kate, we cannot wait to read more of your wonderful stories.
This term we have several students working towards the FameLab Academy Science communication competition. The FameLab is the world鈥檚 leading science communication competition that aims to discover charismatic early career scientists who can inspire people to see the world from new perspectives. We commend our school finalists 鈥� Ethan Wynne (Year 9 鈥� Physics); Holly Kallawk (Year 9 鈥� Space); Leyla Do (Year 9 鈥� Height); Hannah Woolfrey (Year 8 鈥� the heart) and Alyssa Petracca (Year 8 鈥� Fingerprints). It is exciting to commend Leyla Do (Year 9) who will participate in the State Final on September 20 at the Heath Ledger Theatre.
Students Who Have Participated in State and National Representation
The College would like to recognise and celebrate the achievements of those students who have represented their team, sport, or activity at a state or national level. If your child has participated in an activity that falls within that category, we would love to hear from you. 鈥赌�
This morning I had an opportunity to farewell the staff and students on the Marcellin Campus as I prepare to go on Maternity Leave as of Week 9. I am so privileged to be witness to the growth, resilience of our students and see their sense of family spirit and presence to one another each and every day. At the heart of our Marist community is the notion of family spirit and I am looking forward to embracing this with my own child and family. I would like to thank the families within our College community for their ongoing support. See you in 2023!
Year 11 State School’s Constitutional Convention
In week 7 some of the Year 11 Politics and Law students attended the State School’s Constitutional Convention at the Constitutional Centre in West Perth. Students participated in a range of workshops centered around the role of the Governor General, the head of state and potential constitutional reform.
Languages Week
Languages Week was celebrated in style at the Marcellin campus, with a range of lunchtime activities and performances for all students to enjoy.
Japanese Taiko drummers, Indonesian and Brazilian dancers, along with an Italian accordion player, entertained our students and staff at lunchtimes, and some lucky students got to join in with cultural songs and dances. The Italian Gelato van was again very popular with delicious gelato, as was Japanese Origami and Anime viewing in T Block. Instead of the regular bell at the end of each day, students were dismissed with some popular music from a range of countries including Japan, Italy, Greece and Spain.
The Year 7 Japanese classes participated in a Taiko Drumming workshop, while Year 8 students improved their chopstick skills in a chopstick competition. The Year 7 and 8 Italian classes will enjoy a scrumptious pizza cooked just for them, early next week.
It has been a wonderful week celebrating Languages and the richness that foreign cultures and language brings to our community.
Year 7 Disco
Year 7 students had a fantastic night at the Disco on Thursday evening. The students danced the night away and were entertained with fun games organised by our Year 12 Student Leaders. A big thank you to the Year 12 Student Leaders, Mr Puljiz, Year 7 PCG Teachers and Mrs Bramanto for a great night!
Week 9 Guild Activities 鈥� Wednesday 14 September
Guild Activities will be held during Extended PCG this upcoming week. These activities will be year group-based competitions where Guilds can earn points for the Champagnat Shield. This will be the Year 12 cohort鈥檚 final Guild Activity! All students are permitted to wear their Guild Uniform to school on this day.
Year 8 Allwell Testing 鈥� Monday 19 September
Year 8 Allwell Testing will be held on Monday 19 September from 8:45am 鈥� 12:40pm. Students are required to bring a blue or black pen and a scientific calculator. Information about the sessions will be shared with Year 8 students during Week 9. Students with special arrangements will receive separate communication confirming their arrangements.
The purpose of the Allwell Academic Assessment is to:
Provide another point of information about your child’s relative strengths
Provide the school information about any gaps in the cohort’s learning to better tailor teaching and learning programs.
Parents will receive a report back with information about your child’s current level of achievement in the areas of mathematics, reading comprehension, spelling, and written expression.
Students cannot study or prepare for the assessment, and it does not count towards any end of year grades or reporting.
Year 10 Peer Support Training Day 鈥� Tuesday 20 September
Year 10 students were invited to apply to be a Peer Support Student for our 2023 Year 7 students. Applications are now in, and students will be invited to participate in a Peer Support Training morning in Week 10. During this time, students will prepare to support our incoming Year 7 students for the transition into high school.
Industry Breakfast
On Monday 29 August, all Year 12 students attended the annual Year 12 Industry Networking Breakfast. This event is arranged by the College as part of the Year 12 Pathways program, and aims to provide students with useful insights into future employment post-school. Each student was able to select a table and engage in conversation and professional discussion with an adult who is employed in an area of interest. We were fortunate to be able to draw on the resources of our past students, current staff, and wider community and we are grateful for the many generous adults who volunteered their time to attend and speak to the Year 12s. The careers involved covered a wide spectrum, including medical, finance, education, law, construction, trades, health, marketing, real estate, and entrepreneurship.
Year 12 Final Day & Ball
The final day for our Year 12 students is fast approaching! Further information will be sent to Year 12 parents in Week 9 outlining the final week festivities for our Year 12 students. The final day will begin with a Farewell Assembly and end with the Year 12 Ball.
This week we announced the appointment of Mrs Lisa McClue to the position of Principal at Our Lady of Good Counsel Karrinyup.
This is a wonderful and well-deserved opportunity for Lisa. She is an authentic faith filled leader who has great passion for young people and their learning. She has a great technical proficiency to analyse a student’s learning journey and respond both strategically and operationally. She is a people person who engages well with all members of the community. Lisa has been a highly valued member of the College Executive and Senior Leadership Teams.
We look forward to farewelling Lisa at the end of the year to wish her well and to acknowledge her vast contributions to 今日吃瓜 during her tenure.
I will be working with Marist Schools Australia in the coming weeks on the appointment process for the replacement of Lisa, to commence at 今日吃瓜 in January 2023.
Acting Deputy Principal Secondary
This week we farewell Mrs Carla Pastorelli, Deputy Principal Secondary, as she commences parental leave. Our best wishes go with Carla as she embarks on this new phase of her journey.
Mr Simon Martino, currently Director of Mission and Catholic Identity, has been appointed Acting Deputy Principal Secondary, commencing this week. Mr Stuart McClorey has been appointed to the position of Acting Director of Mission and Catholic Identity.
National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC)Conference
Earlier this week I attended the NCEC Conference 鈥�The Future is Listening鈥� in Melbourne.
Delegates were addressed by the Most Rev Peter Comensoli – Archbishop of Melbourne, Nicholas Moore – Chair NCEC, Hon Jacinta Collins – Executive Director NCEC, Federal Minister for Education – Jason Clare MP, as well as other notable speakers.
The major themes that emerged were:
The ongoing formation of staff, students and families respective to the declining number of Catholics as per the last census.
School improvement 鈥� sector and school strategic priorities and measurement to ensure learning gain for each student over their primary and secondary education.
Educational pathways that are responsive to technology, sectorial needs.
Student agency.
Wellbeing of staff, students and appropriate resourcing.
Funding allocation for Catholic schools.
Workforce retention and recruitment.
Our school is entering the final year of a 3 year strategic directions plan as of the end of 2023. We have just completed our school climate survey (DISA) which will provide significant feedback and input into the consultation period for our Strategic Directions going forward. The aforementioned themes will be instructive in determining the future directions of our community. What continues to be assured is the importance of teachers, their development and their capacity to ensure that our students have the very best learning experience.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I highly recommend families attend our 2022 College Production.听 This musical is based on the 1964 children鈥檚 novel by Roald Dahl and has devoured the hearts of readers and theatre goers over many years.听I am sure that everyone will enjoy seeing Charlie Bucket and his Grandpa Joe as they join a small group of contest winners who get to tour the magical and mysterious factory of the unusual candy maker Willy Wonka.
Please click to purchase your tickets.
Newman Parents
The very first parent centred partnership event with 今日吃瓜 and Zero2Hero was held on Monday evening.
A big thank you to all those staff, parents and guardians who attended the event. 500 people attended and enjoyed a highly engaging and educational session, focussing on building the resilience of our children. The feedback has been extremely positive.
Zero2Hero has committed to developing a series of similar events across the Calendar year to educate and engage our parent community. Should you wish to provide input into which topics are chosen, please click .
On Monday 22 August, the College gathered on Founder鈥檚 Court to acknowledge the Age Champions and Champion Guild for the 2022 Guild Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to Chisholm Guild for their outstanding effort on the day taking out 1st place in the overall rankings. I would also like to congratulate the following Age Champions:听听
1st
Lucy Hills听
Jaxon Peel听
2nd
Andrea Acuna听
Josh Thomas听
3rd
Sydney Poor听
Josh Downes听
Year 12 Girls and Boys
1st
Meg McAullay听
Michael Pethick听
2nd
Amanda Barilla听
Daniel Gleeson听
3rd
Madeleine Irish听
Cooper Stevens听
Year 11 Girls and Boys
1st
Hayley Swift听
Krystian Martyniuk听
2nd
Imogen Boss听
Matthew Tomassone听
3rd
Harper Gamble听
William Sartor听
Year 10 Girls and Boys
1st
Jenna King听
Adam McAullay听
2nd
Jodie Belunze听
Charlie Cossom听
3rd
Sarah Cabello听
听Flynn Morrison听
Year 9 Girls and Boys
1st
Hannah Seaborn
Sonny Gosling听
2nd
Poppy Vogl听
Bobby Bogos听
3rd
Sienna O鈥橰ourke听
Cooper Trovarello听
Year 8 Girls and Boys
1st
Clancy Boss
Kai Denham听
2nd
Jade Thorstensen听
Emmett McHugh听
3rd
Bailey Trovarello听
Alexander Kingwell听
Year 7 Girls and Boys
STEM Festival 2022
This year to celebrate National Science Week the college held a combined event over two weeks, involving the Marcellin and Lavalla students. There were 14 events in total, organised by the Science, Technologies and Maths departments.
Science invited classes from Lavalla to take part in two events. Secondary teachers lead them through the activities. The Year 3 classes were involved in creating giant bubbles and bubbles of different shapes, such as cubes. The Year 5鈥檚 applied their chemistry knowledge to use everyday ingredients and created fizzy sherbet and ice cream. Both classes had fun and were able to take bubble wands or sweet treats back to enjoy during their lunch break.
Marcellin students were presented with a variety of activities during lunchtime that were organised by each department. Science also involved secondary student in sherbet and ice cream making. The turnout was phenomenal in spite of the rain and wind on that day. Thankfully we enjoyed sunny whether for the bubble blowing event later in the week.
The physics of flight was tested when students were encouraged to fold their best paper planes and prizes were awarded for distance flown. A Science Scinema, screening live streams from the WA Museum, allowed students a look behind the scenes at the museum鈥檚 collection of spiders and what information can be discovered from sea glass found in shipwrecks.
Mr Spriggins and Mr Gerreyn presented the ever-popular rocket and dry ice displays on the oval as a finale to the science events of the festival.
Maths got in on the sweet treat activities with, How long can you make it? Students had to stretch a lolly snake or tear a Mintie wrapper to create the longest length possible. It was a fierce competition and records were nearly broken. Shoot the Sheriff and Countdown competitions were held and Maths wound up the festival with pies won by those students who could recite pi to 10 decimal places.
Technologies offered events across the wide diversity covered within their department, including virtual reality experiences, a very popular and competitive E-Sports tournament and a Cake decorating challenge.
The winner of our cake decorating challenge was Maisie Brown and Ava Otten from Year 7. Honorable mentions go to Olivia McMohon, Hanah Woolfrey, Scarlette Sharpe, Alice Humbert, Lulu Brickland, Grace Bradshaw, Holly Kallawk, Ellen King, Karri Willesee and Emily Costly who also produced excellent designs.
The winner and champion of the 2022 Multiversus E-Sport Challenge was Christian Hoang from year 9 and runner up Oliver Hunter from year 8.
We experienced a lot of fun and learning across the College and we look forward to staff and student participation again next year.
Fiona Hassell LEADER OF LEARNING SCIENCE
Rick Bartlett LEADER OF LEARNING MATHMATICS
David Nelson Leader of Learning Technologies LEARNING AREA COOORDINATOR TECHNOLOGY
Marcellin Book Week
Here on the Marcellin campus, staff and students have been involved in a range of Book Week activities, to celebrate and encourage the opportunity to keep Dreaming with Eyes Open. There has been a PCG quiz where students have been tested on their knowledge of famous quotes, books and characters. In English classes, a range of activities have been run and students have had the opportunity to buy or win raffle tickets for a Book Voucher- and any proceeds made will go towards the Indigenous Literacy Fund.
The English staff have had their top reads recommended to the whole community on the screens in each classroom. Staff have also been engaged in a 鈥楤lind Date with a Book鈥� where donations of some great novels have been placed in a basket for their next reader to pick up and enjoy.
Friday saw staff across the College dress up as a famous book character to celebrate the end of Book Week, and enjoy a book-themed morning tea.
We鈥檙e excited that we can still share the love of reading and the magic of celebrating Book Week across the Marcellin campus, and possibly re-ignite a love of reading among our staff and students. A big thank you to the English Department for their passion and creativity in organizing the week.
Mrs Narelle Cochran LEADER OF LEARNING ENGLIGH
Law Society Mock Trial Competition Round 2
Last week the 今日吃瓜 Mock Trial Team competed in the second round of the Law Society鈥檚 Mock Trial Competition located at the Supreme Court of WA. The team鈥痯resented a fantastic case for the Plaintiff against All Saints College鈥檚 Defence team in the civil trial. Three students participated as the lead Barristers and the assisting Solicitor, whilst others played the role of the eye witnesses and Court Orderly. Students now progress onto a third round later in Term 3. Well done, for an impressive second trial!鈥�
Year 12 Politics and Law with guest speaker Kate Chaney MP
The local member for Curtin, Independent Kate Chaney visited the Year 12 Politics and Law students to share with them, her wealth of experience and knowledge. Kate shared her story with the students as they actively engaged in the Q&A session. The students were able to gain an insight into the inner workings of the House of Representatives and the role of the crossbench.鈥�
Year 11 Extended PCG 鈥� Wednesday 24 August
Our Year 11 students heard from guest presenters from Armed for Life on Wednesday 24 August. Armed For Life has worked with 450 schools across Perth and presented to over 950,000 students. Armed For Life workshops are designed to educate and equip young people鈥痶o be able to deal with the problems that we face in life. Armed For Life is a driven by the goal of helping children, teenagers and adults develop resilience and increase their wellbeing and mental health. Armed for Life strive to make it acceptable to ask for that help and address issues relating to Protective Behaviours and the Keeping Kids Safe Curriculum in a safe and trustworthy way.
The workshop was titled Healthy Relationships and Consent and covered topics that linked to the Keeping Safe Curriculum and reflected our Marist theme and Catholic Social Teachings around the Dignity of the Human person.
2023 Year 12 Leadership Applications
Applications for the 2023 Year 12 Student Leadership Team close this afternoon. Student engagement in this process has been outstanding and we look forward to reading the applications. Student and staff votes will occur in Week 7, with interviews beginning shortly after.
Father鈥檚 Day Celebrations
With Father鈥檚 Day approaching on Sunday September 4, we are taking the opportunity to celebrate the importance of fathers and father figures in our families and to thank them for their contribution to our community.
On Thursday 1 September we warmly invite fathers, grandfathers and father figures to join us at 8.10am for our Community Mass in the Champagnat Chapel and to stay after Mass for refreshments with staff and students.
Please complete this form to register your attendance for catering purposes thank you.
We wish all the fathers in our 今日吃瓜 community a very happy and enjoyable day next Sunday.
HOODS
Year 11 ATAR And Year 12 General students are excited to present excerpts of 鈥淗oods,鈥� by Angela Betzien. The class has been working all term on rehearsing and refining their performances of this gripping and extremely moving play. They have used a number of Brechtian techniques, a particular form of theatre they have been learning about this year, to assist in the shaping of the performance. 鈥淗oods鈥� themes are tough ones 鈥� marginalised youth, suburban poverty and domestic violence and they have tackled these with sensitivity and maturity. All are encouraged to attend this one night only event!
Date/Time: 30th August @ 6.30pm
Venue: 今日吃瓜 Black Box Theatre (EG4)
Tickets: FREE!
OLNA
The final round of the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) for 2022 will be taking place during Weeks 7 and 8.
Year 7 Disco
The Year 7 Disco will be held in the Marist Auditorium on Thursday 8 September from 6:30pm 鈥� 8pm. Information has now been sent to parents via Consent2GO. Our Year 12 Student Leaders host this event and it is shaping up to be a fantastic evening!
Year 12 Exam Timetable
Links to the Year 12 Semester Two Exam Timetable and Feedback Schedule can be found below.
