21 July 2010
Welcome back
Welcome back one and all to Radford College, as we commence Term 3 of 2010. The term ahead will be a particularly important time in the life of Radford, as we move closer to the formation of our next Strategic Plan, whilst we also undergo the process of Registration and inspection. At such times, we pause to reflect on the achievements of the College with thankful hearts. Yet we also focus our minds anew on the challenges that lie ahead. We delight in past success but it we must continue to gaze into the future if we are to be ready to contribute to its ultimate shape under God.
Holiday activities
The mid-year winter break brings a welcome punctuation mark to the busy schedule of Radford College life. Over the holidays, however, there still was considerable activity. Students and staff from the College travelled to the Battlefields of World War I in France and Belgium, helped to build a house in a Vietnamese village, reunited with the people of Dare in Timor Leste, and joined with other Round Square schools in Singapore. Students also represented the College in Football (ACT) and in Netball (Qld), and battled difficult conditions in the NSW snowfields with the Radford Snowsports team. We thank all students for their support in these matters and honour the efforts of our excellent staff and parents who made these things happen.
Maintenance
The College continues to improve our facilities in each holiday break. The work on the Junior School Stage Two is now in its final months, though the welcome rains this year have delayed the expected completion date. A painting program that is akin the on-going task of painting the Harbour Bridge continues each holiday period. We have also been refurbishing classrooms on a rolling schedule, this time focussing on Rooms 30-32.
New Staff
We welcome a number of new staff and students this term. In the Junior School we welcome Ms Melissa Alexander to Year 3-6 Music; Ms Kelly Mara (Year 6) and Ms Emily Goodrum (Year 4). In the Secondary School we are pleased to welcome Ms Christie Harvey (Year 7 Humanities/Japanese), Ms Melanie Garner (RAVE and AD&T), Ms Kareena Little (AD&T) and Ms Sue Gascoigne (Visual Arts). We trust that all of these outstanding people will find great fulfilment in their time at Radford.
Strategic Plan
The College Strategic Planning process now moves into its final stage. Preliminary drafting is underway, and in the coming months we will reconvene focus groups of the Radford community to consider the general direction of the draft plan. There is still time for the community to be involved and to have your say. We really appreciate the high level of engagement from our community in the surveys and in the four focus groups.
College Registration and IB PYP
The College welcomes the sense of accountability and reassurance that comes with the ACT Department of Education Registration system. For a week in Term 3, we will host the Registration Panel who will meet staff, students and parents as part of their work. Later in the year, Radford College Junior School will host the International Baccalaureate Authorisation Panel as they consider our application to be considered an IB World School in the provision of the Primary Years Program (PYP) Curriculum. The PYP is fully compliant with the existing ACT Curriculum requirements. The consequence of these initiatives will be to ensure that Radford is well placed both locally and internationally.
Each student should see the coming weeks as an opportunity to refresh their own goals for the remainder of the year. The academic tone of the College is excellent and the learning culture is conducive to intellectual growth and personal integrity. With a sense of anticipation, I welcome everyone back to the College and look forward to further progress.
Best wishes for a happy term,
Peace
FROM COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Miss Celia Lindsay
UNIFORM SHOP HOURS - note changes for Term 3
Monday: 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Tuesday: closed
Wednesday: 8:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday: closed
Friday: 1pm- 5:30 pm
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF STUDIES - ITAC
Mr Richard Wardman
Year 7 Parent/Teacher Interviews
Date: Wed 28 July
Time: 4.00 – 9.00pm (no interviews 6 – 6.45pm)
Location: TB Millar Hall
Length of Interviews: 5 mins
Note: where a teacher takes the same class for 2 subjects then one interview space has been allocated.
Online bookings and Help through the Intranet Home page.
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF STUDIES – SENIOR SCHOOL
Mr Michael Lewthwaite
Information Evening – YEAR 11 2010
Current Year 11 students and their parents are invited to attend an Information Evening on Tuesday, 27 July at 7.30pm in the TB Millar Hall. The evening is intended as an opportunity to consider your child’s position and options, now that they have completed their first semester of Senior School.
Information Evening – YEAR 11 2011
Current Year 10 students and their parents are invited to attend a Year 11 Information Evening on Tuesday 3 August at 7.30pm in the TB Millar Hall. Information packages will be distributed and representatives from all major subject areas will be in attendance to answer questions.
It is important that all students and at least one of their parents are present to obtain the essential information about the program of studies and the factors involved in choosing courses for Years 11 and 12. This will be the best opportunity available for you to do this.
FROM THE HEAD OF LIBRARY
Mr Curtis Watson
Looking for ways to help your children with their assignments?
Assisting With Assignments is an evening for parents of students in Years 5 to 12. More details and registration form...
Date: Wednesday, 4 August
Time: 5.45 for 6.00pm, ending by 8.00pm (light refreshments available 5.45 to 6.00)
Venue: Library (Years 5-12), Radford College
MATHEMATICS
Mr Tim Grabovzsky
Year 10 Maths Day
On Thursday June 24, 10 students from Year 10 competed in the inaugural Year 10 Maths Day at Burgmann College. The day was designed for top mathematicians to compete in teams of 5 against other schools from the Canberra region. It is also a prelude to the tough ANU Year 12 Maths Day held annually. There were four rounds of competition during the day where students had to solve lateral thinking type questions. Going into the final round, the Radford 1 team was sitting first and the Radford 2 team, seventh. After the final round the results were Radford 1 second, and Radford 2 equal third. A fantastic result against a total of 16 teams. The students had a great day and enjoyed the mathematical challenges as well as meeting like-minded students from other school around Canberra.
The teams were:
Radford 1 (2nd overall) Radford 2 (3rd overall)
Nisha Nangrani Edward Xing
Aaron Nguyen Joanne Lee
Jevan Wong Kim To
Qian Qian Chen Martin Tran
Helen Huang Naomi Kwong
Head of Junior School: Mr Paul Southwell
JS Reception: Mrs Kerrie Shevlin
Catch up with the latest Junior School News
Access all the latest information on university courses, scholarships and admission information, further training, Australian School Based Apprenticeships (ASBAs), apprenticeships, Gap Year opportunities, job vacancies and more. . .
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A full list of the items included in this week's Student Pathways bulletin appears below:
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Health Initiatives from ACT Health
Reflection
Rosalia is thirteen. She lives in a two bedroom shack on an earthen floor with seven others overlooking Dili, Timor. She rises at five for her chores, leaves at seven for school, walking three kilometers up hill. She is a beautiful girl and dreams one day of being a doctor (her father died from ‘sickness’ when she was young).
James lives in Brisbane. He had a holiday recently on a cruise ship. He loved it. A daily smorgasbord of food was offered, but he preferred nuggets. Chicken nuggets. Every evening: fish, roast, seafood, stir-fry, curry? No. Just nuggets. Nuggets. Nuggets. Nuggets. When they got home, James’ family stopped off at Mac D’s and he had to choose again. He chose nuggets! (The name is fictional, but the story is no concoction.)
Rosalia and James share a remarkably bland diet. Rosalia’s is not nuggets though. It’s rice. Rice porridge. There are two notable differences. Rosalia has no choice. She also is not obese. Read a fuller outline of Rosalia’s story here. It is offered gently, respectfully and not as an opportunity to consume another’s story before move quickly on to another byte.
Saint Paul writes this in Romans 12: (Transl: laughingbird.net)
Sisters and brothers, in light of all the generous breaks God has given you, I urge you to offer in return the only thing you have that comes within cooee being enough: your whole selves, bodies and all . . . Do not model your life on the usual aspirations around you. Instead, allow God to completely remodel your life. This will start with changing the way you think, so that you will be able to tune in to what God wants, which of course is always what is good and worthwhile and for the best.
When Jamie Oliver faces NUGGETS (and pizza) in his food revolution, he is working in a surprisingly priestly role. (This is the reality food show that has caught our attention!) Jamie’s vision is very simple. Could families stop deep-frying their breakfast, eaten disparately around the tele and gather around some simple, more wholesome flavours at a table, breaking bread together? He is right. In this lies the art of revolution. May we find ourselves in the faces of those who love us, gracing our senses with some simple, MSG free stimuli, eating what we need rather than what we can. Maybe it does catch us off guard that one of the very first places the risen Jesus is encountered is around a table. So be careful. Eating together in your home is where God is pleased to dwell. It only takes two or three. It is the root of revolution. It’s path leads to food enough for all.
RAS
$5,500 was spent on a house in Vietnam (from the RAS Charity Fundraiser). It was built in the holidays by a bunch of senior students. They worked hard. The house will stand at least for 80 years. Less that 60 minutes after it was finished, the family moved in. Ask the students who travelled to Vietnam and Cambodia, and of all the amazing things they saw and did, building the house is at the top of the list.
Timor Leste We returned again last holidays for a second cup of tea. It was an incredibly rich experience. It is a great privilege to come close to people who share something of their lives. Timor fight hard for their own independence. Education is a most prized opportunity among parents and children. Our partnership is about enhancing their autonomy, principally through education. We wait now to see what will be taken up with the Home Language unit. We complete the second chapter of the '42 Footsteps documentary with some supplementary curriculum material. We distribute the dictionaries to teachers (not to students). Some of our money is being used to feed the students lunch (otherwise they don’t come to school). The early readers in Tetum were received with great delight. It will take a while to tell some of the many stories.
FROM THE COLLEGE COUNSELLORS
Ms Elise Woodman
The College psychologist, Ms Gayelene Clews, is on leave for Term 3. In her absence Dr Elle Lieber (Psychologist) and Ms Rebecca Neilson (Psychology Intern), will be replacing her. Dr Lieber will be at the school on Monday, Thursday and Friday. Ms Neilson will be at the school on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Ms Leah Robinson, a Masters of Social Work student, will be doing a placement at Radford in Terms 3 and 4. She will be supervised by the school Social Worker Elise Woodman.
FROM THE YEAR 12 COORDINATOR
Ms Janelle Stacey
Year 12 Revue - Madhouse
Dates: Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 July
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: TB Millar Hall
Tickets: $12, on sale lunchtimes in Main Quad, or at the door.
FROM THE YEAR 9 CAMP COORDINATOR
Mrs Rebecca Cashmere
Year 9 Parents: Outward Bound will present an information session for all parents of Year 9 students on Tuesday 24th August 2010. The session commences at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre.
Year 9 Students: Now is the time to start to look at ensuring that you have the appropriate gear for camp. A gear list can be downloaded from the Year 9 Camp Intranet page.
Year 10 Parents and Students: Do you have any second hand camp gear that you would like to sell? There will be a classifieds section on the Year 9 Camp intranet page as well as an opportunity to have your items in a second hand stall on the 24th of August.
Please email Mrs Rebecca Cashmere with the following information (1) Details and photos of items, (2) Price (3) Seller contact details.
HOD: Mr Mathew Irving
Administrator: Mr Allan Pennicook
Canberra Symphony Orchestra Noteworthy Program
The CSO will once again be running its very successful Noteworthy Music Education Program on Thursday 29th July and Friday 30th July at Llewellyn Hall. Twenty four music students will be representing Radford College as part of the Noteworthy Workshop Program and performing with the CSO in the opening piece of the Concert
Choral Concert - Sunday 8 August Radford Chapel, 3pm
Our annual Choral Concert featuring all of our Radford Choirs, will be held on Sunday 8 August at 3pm in the Radford Chapel. A must for all lovers of choral music!
National Choirs Eisteddfod - Friday 13 August and Saturday 14 August
This year's National Choirs Eisteddfod will be held on Friday 13 and Saturday 14th August at Llewellyn Hall for the Chamber Choir. Further details will be made available via Choir Rehearsals.
Evening of Fine Music
This year's Evening of Fine Music, featuring guest flautist Kiri Sollis, will be held on Saturday 21 August. Tickets are $20 each (includes a Champagne Supper) and are available from the Performing Arts Office. For further information please contact Allan Pennicook on 6162 5341 or email allan.pennicook@radford.act.edu.au.
Term 3 Classroom Music Recitals
Year 9 Wednesday 25 August 5.30pm JS Hall
Year 10 Wednesday 8 September 5.30pm JS Hall
Piano and Music Ensembles
Students involved in Piano and Music Ensembles are reminded that rehearsals are on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes only.
Rock Workshop
A reminder to all students that Rock Workshop will be on Wednesday next week – back to Thursdays from Week 3.
Community Music Program
A reminder rehearsal for Big Band – Wednesday 5:30pm, Orchestra 7:30pm and Chapel Choir – Monday 5:30pm. Would love to see you there!
HOD: Mr Peter Haynes
Administrators: Mr Brad Luhrs, Mr Peter Wallensky, Mr Anthony Pardy
For latest Sports News, please visit the cocurricular Intranet link at http://intranet.radford.act.edu.au and enter your user ID and password.
Chess Classes
Hungarian International Master, Andras Toth, runs chess coaching classes on Tuesday afternoons in the Radford Sports Centre. Details can be found on the enrolment form. Please contact Mr Brad Luhrs if you require further information.
Snowsports -ACT/NSW Interschools Cross-Country Ski (Nordic) event now re-scheduled for Tues 24th August
FORS is now in a position to facilitate additional Radford FORS Alpine team members students in the event, Tuesday 24th August in school term.
Expressions of interest to join the XC team are now open. More details here. Contact is Jonathan Mandl at jon@homemail.com.au or 0451 309 176
Community Relations Manager: Miss Celia Lindsay
P&F President: Mr Brett Morgan
Collegians President: Ms Kate Potter
FROM THE P&F Login to visit the P&F page on the Radford College Intranet
Next Meeting - Thursday 5 August 7:30 pm Radford Boardroom.
TWILIGHT FETE - Saturday 6 November
Fete Convenors: Amelie Barry amelie.barry@gmail.com or 0404 832 988 and Sean Harvey Sean.Harvey@defence.gov.au
We would still like to have the assistance of another person to act as Fete Co-convenor, to share the load. If you can help with this, please e-mail the P&F. If you wish to volunteer to help with the Fete in any other way, please contact Amelie or Sean.
RADFORD COLLEGE MONSTER RAFFLE 2010 - Calling all members of the Radford Parent and Business Community...
Raffle Convenor: Chandima de Silva
Monster Raffle Details
Fete Craft Group
Contact: Jean Anderson ph 6241 2117
Craft Group meets weekly during the term to make items for the Radford fete. Come along when you can, or when we are in your area, to help and have a cuppa and a bickie. All are welcome, and we would love to meet some new helpers. All materials are provided.
21 July: Adrienne Sykes 32 Nardoo Cr O'Connor ph 6247 8152
28 July: Julie Dempster 24 Vickers Cres Flynn, 6258 9425
4 Aug : tba
11 Aug: Jean Anderson 5 Dickinson St, Watson ph 6241 2117
18 Aug : Claire Reid 87 Bingley Cr, Fraser, ph 6258 9090
25 Aug : Michelle Hodge 17 Frances Burke St, Gungahlin 6242 7358
TUESDAY 31 Aug : Julie Stalker 22 Palmer Street, Hall. 6230 9250 (h) 0408 959 376 (m)
8 Sep: Jean Anderson 5 Dickinson St Watson, ph 6241 2117
15 Sep: Christa Culley 20 Mayne St, Chifley ph 6281 1352
22 Sep: Vicki Shaw 7 Holley Pl, Kaleen ph 6241 0767
LOST
A black PE bag belonging to Jack Kennedy (8LB) disappeared from outside the ADT room during Period 6 on 24 June. It contained a large number of sports items, all marked with Jack's name. If you find this bag, can you please return it to Main Reception as soon as possible?
The bag contains:
2 pairs of Radford PE shorts |
1 pair of Puma runners |
1 short sleeve Radford PE shirt with number 22 on the back |
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LOST
From the Year 10 locker area at end of last term, size 22 Radford Blazer belonging to Aram Geleris (10SUG), marked with his name. Please return to Main Reception.
CAN YOU HELP?
ACCOMMODATION REQUIRED 2011/2012
A small flat or "Granny flat" near Radford is required in 2011 and 2012 for a new female student (coming into Year 11) and one parent. They will probably be away most weekends and holidays. If you can help, please phone Bruce Condell on 4842 1678 or 0407 701 788.
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