Headmaster Science Will Be Miss Jordan Young
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Issue No 10/2015 03 August 2015 Teaching mainly Junior Secondary Headmaster Science will be Miss Jordan Young. Contents Jordan is also a new arrival in WELCOME Headmaster’s Report Page 1 Charters Towers having moved As I indicated in the Deputy Head Page 3 here from Townsville. She is also a Souls Schedule of PE teacher, so she will have plenty Academic Achievement last week we start- of knowledge to share with stu- List Page 3 ed Term III with a dents, even if her main sport is full complement of Headmaster’s List Page 3 Rowing, which is never practical on staff. Dean of Students Page 4 the Burdekin. Dean of School Page 5 Besides Ms Katelyn We welcome all three to our teach- Uniform Requirements Page 5 Doyle returning for ing ranks at Souls. Staff Email Addresses Page 5 Mrs Chapman while she is on leave, our School Counsellor Page 6 CONFRATERNITY LEAGUE AND two new full time staff are Mr Mark Mighty Girls Page 6 NETBALL Nicholls and Miss Jordan Young This is becoming “old news” now, School Chaplain Page 7 but given that this is the first Phoe- School Prayers Page 7 Our new Man Arts/Design Technology nix Rising since the event I do Values Education Page 8 teacher is Mr Mark Nicholls. Mark has need to mention these two events. moved to Charters Towers from Too- Work Experience Deadline Page 9 woomba, where he was last working Tax File Numbers Page 9 In brief I can tell you that our girls at Toowoomba Grammar. Mark is also won an incredible 9 of 10 matches, Students with Disabilities Page 9 an architect, besides being a teacher, losing only their semi final and fin- Instrumental Music Page 10 and I know that he will have much ishing 3rd in Div 5, our best ever Sports News Page 11 good information and many skills to result. The boys won 4 of 6 games, pass on to our practical students in all Confraternity Rugby one of which was the Confraternity secondary year levels. League Report Page 12 Bowl final, thus coming home with some silverware. Congratulations QISSN Report Page 14 to both teams and their coaches Inter-School Formal and managers – Adrian Guldbran- Photos Page 16 sen and Darryl Fry for the boys and Futures Week Page 18 Karen Storey and Tash Meyer for Term Dates 2016 Page 19 the girls. Junior School Page 20 However, I have to say that I spent Head of Boarding Page 21 part of my holidays replying to Page House Page 22 emails of congratulations about the Feetham House Page 22 behaviour and conduct of both Ramsay House Page 23 teams during their week away. To receive such compliments from ob- New Gap Staff Page 23 servers and owners of accommo- Alban House Page 24 dation where our students stayed Becket House Page 25 is always lovely for a Head. So our Chad House Page 26 students are to be congratulated Staff Profile Page 27 Georgie Clark in action against St yet again. Such accolades make it Andrews Lutheran College at QISSN The Last Word Page 28 PAGE 2 ISSUE NO 10/2015 03 AUGUST 2015 all worthwhile for the staff who FUTURES WEEK BYOD DETAILS IN COUPLE OF work with the students. And it I am going back even further in WEEKS should be a source of pride to par- time to mention Futures Week (as I We are moving closer to announc- ents of those students also. decided to call it) in the last week ing the details of the laptops/ of Term II. We placed an notebooks that will form part of YEAR 10 NEW START “advertisement” (if you want to call our Bring Your Own Device pro- Our Year 10 students have started it that) in the Miner during the holi- gramme in 2016 for Years 7 and 8. their new courses under our new days to show our community what subject arrangement that will give we are doing to prepare our stu- Staff have been working with our them an early taste of Senior. The dents for their future and to thank consultant Mrs Puddicombe and early feedback, albeit from just two our local community for their sup- Mrs Kelly, as next year the intro- weeks, has been very promising. port. I hope that we can reprint it duction of these devices will Mrs Kelly has been given a “labour in this newsletter for your infor- change how many of our staff of Hercules” assignment this year mation. teach, and we need them to be with our ever changing timetables well prepared. Mrs Kelly is oversee- GYM READY TO GO due to staffing changes and now ing an IT Committee who will lead The new gymnasium is finished and our new course set up, but she has this process for staff. many thanks are due to Tom Hogg overcome all of the issues, spoken and his crew at school who have with countless parents and stu- I should have all details for parents constructed this large room at the dents, co-ordinated staff and made in Phoenix Rising 11. This will give southern (laundry) end of the it all work. Thank you, Mrs K. parents nearly six months before Rebgetz Centre between the the programme starts in February. change rooms. It has many strange SENIOR FORMAL looking machines and lots of The end of last week saw the Sen- TERM DATES 2016 weights to keep our students occu- ior Formal with the other Charters Our 2016 Term Dates are printed pied and I knew that our PE staff, Towers schools, this year hosted by in this Phoenix Rising. Next year particularly, Ms Meyer who runs the CTSHS. Our students looked very there will be a long Term II of elev- Cert III in Fitness course are look- grown up, but all of them were en weeks, caused by the Confra- ing forward to using it. dressed very appropriately and be- ternity Carnivals. This has been un- haved as such. Early this week Mrs Storey and I in- avoidable. terviewed candidates for the Gym ATHLETICS Being on a Friday evening rather Supervisors position, and we hope As this edition of Phoenix Rising than midweek, gave us some or- to have the successful candidate in goes to press I will be attending ganizational challenges with our place shortly. Besides being used by our Inter-House Athletics Carnival. boarders, but when students co- PE staff during school hours we operate as our 11 and 12s did this want to have the gym used by stu- As long as the weather is fine, this year, it becomes a pleasure for dents before and after school and at is always one of my favourite days those staff charged with responsi- weekends. The supervisors position of the year at ASSG. The whole bility for the event. It was a good will be a part time one and no one school is there together enjoying night. should imagine that the gym is go- great, friendly rivalry between the ing to be open all weekend or every houses. For me, it was my last formal. I afternoon and morning. The costs are too prohibitive for that. But it Athletics and Cross Country have have lost count of how many I have always been my favourite two attended over the years. When I will be open for about 20 hours out of school, and depending on de- school sports. There is something started teaching they were an un- about the simple purity of athletic known event. I would guess that I mand, there will be sessions for swimmers, girls only, boys only, competition. It is relatively uncom- have attended more than 25 of plicated and as Lewis Carroll said them, and given that I am long in sport specific sessions and general use. Students will only be able to about life, “You start at the begin- the tooth, and the music isn’t to my ning and go on till you come to the taste, you wouldn’t imagine that use the gym under direct supervi- sion of a suitable adult. All WH&S end.” I know that days such as they would be my favourite school guidelines preclude students from this Friday will be the occasions activity. But on Friday evening I using it without supervision. Also, as that I will miss next year, more simply stood for quite awhile a general rule, most Junior School than some of the seemingly more watching our students dance and students will not use the gym for important events. talk and generally socialize. I any weights work. A Guidelines for couldn’t help but be impressed by May the best house win. Use of the Gym Document will be the quality of our students. For me, distributed to everyone in due Gordon Royall it was a nice note on which to end. course. Headmaster PAGE 3 ISSUE NO 10/2015 03 AUGUST 2015 an error, please contact me so I meet with each and discuss their Deputy Head can investigate and reprint if need- results and how we can improve Sam Kelly ed. If you haven’t received your these. Year 12 and Year 11 are my Deputy Head / Academic Dean report, please contact me asap. priority during Week 2. Parents will be contacted after the inter- Reports and Lists After data has been entered, I view regarding our discussion. By now I hope that all parents and quickly organise three lists: Head- students have received their re- master’s List, Academic List and Another New Timetable ports.