newsletter ISSUE 4 | 17 March 2014

Patrick Innes-Hill Principal

Last week I was able to attend two events which were both our students. Seeing those students chatting with, laughing with remarkable. and praying with the Crossroaders made the morning even more touching! The first was the drama department’s annualOff the Cuff festival of improvisation. This involved fifty of our Senior Students in Attending these two, very different, events was a real privilege. two hours of “drama sports” – hilarious improvisational team It was so good to see so much energy, confidence, skill and challenges along the line of “Whose Line is it Anyway.” So, I fun at Off the Cuff, but it was even better to see the sense of was able to watch our Year 12 boys team produce a two minute camaraderie amongst the students - I loved the fact that the Cinderella, in the style of an opera; I saw an interview with an seniors were so encouraging to the juniors! To then see the “expert” on the training of flying monkeys, improvised by our students exploring the practical outworking of their sense of Year 7 boys; I was treated to the entire history of in two compassion and service, as well as learning so much from the minutes (including didgeridoo accompaniment); and I was able Crossroaders was wonderful. to watch the instant development of a drama entitled “Tommy In his book “Bread for the Journey” Nouwen wrote: and his Time Travelling Trainers,” complete with an uproarious discussion of the physics of time-travel and the “Tommy killed his “Joy is hidden in compassion….Being with a person … offering own Grandfather therefore Tommy cannot exist” paradox. simple presence to someone … can bring us deep joy. Not happiness, not excitement, not great satisfaction, but the quiet joy Then, the following morning, I went to the Crossroads Service at of being there for someone else and living in deep solidarity with New Life Church, Robina, which was being led by the Emmanuel our brothers and sisters in this human family. Often this is solidarity Chapel Band – something they do every term. Crossroads is in weakness, in brokenness, in woundedness, but it leads us to the no ordinary service; it a weekly event “where people 18yrs+ who centre of joy, which is sharing our humanity with others.” have a physical and/or intellectual disability meet every week” for worship and fellowship1. So I was able to spend an hour in the I strongly suspect the ‘competitors’ in Off the Cuff felt some of that company of some wonderful people, chatting with them about joy in the support they shared, as did our students at Crossroads. everything from autograph hunting to the problems in the EPL, to If they can take the memory of these events forward into the whether it’s better to clap or raise your hands in worship. And I wider world, then they will undoubtedly become the kind of future was reminded of Henri Nouwen, who himself gave up the life of citizens we as a College, and we know you as parents, dream of a Harvard Theologian to live in community with adults rejected nurturing. because of their disabilities. Nouwen once said, “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” Choosing to share worship with the Crossroaders Patrick Innes-Hill was a choice to open myself up to joy. The morning was made 1http://www.church.nu/experience-worship/disability-programs/ even more remarkable because we were being led in that joy by

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Mark Gladman Head of Spiritual Life

Lent Lent is a season of 40 Days in Memories the lead up to Easter, set aside A grief support program as a time of repentance, prayer and fasting. It is a season in which we seriously reflect on ’Memories’ is a program to support our walk with God and on senior school students who have the person of Jesus as we experienced loss. It is a group approach the time where we interaction and education program regarding grief and loss from an commemorate his death on the adolescent perspective. Sessions will cross, burial and resurrection. be facilitated fortnightly by our school Lent is a time in which we focus on Jesus’ sacrifice, contemplate what this means counsellor, Mr Unser. for us and reflect on how we are living our lives in the light of these truths. It has The group process will ensure that traditionally included times of fasting or denial of something; or, in recent years although students will be encouraged has included taking something on for our edification as Christians. Either way, to engage in discussion and learning, these are never meant to be to show piety, but as an act which encourages us to no student will be forced to speak. maintain steadfastness during the Lenten season. The focus of the group learning experience is to provide strategies and Lent is not an observance commanded in scripture, but neither is it condemned or encouragement for coping with grief forbidden. The facets which make it up - fasting, penitence, prayer, devotion, are and loss. either explicitly commanded, or encouraged in the Bible, often by Jesus Himself. If you would like more information As a multi-denominational school, we have students, families and staff whose regarding this program, please contact denominations explicitly encourage the Lenten season. There are also a growing Mr Unser [email protected] number of mainline evangelical and Pentecostal denominations who over the past or Mrs Ramsay decade or so have rediscovered Lent and its meaning in the Church, encouraging [email protected] their members to actively involve themselves in Lent as a time of intentional “There is not a typical revitalising of their faith in the lead up to Easter. response to loss, as there is At Emmanuel, we no typical loss” are encouraging our students from Prep Meeting Times: through to Year 12 to consider the season of Tuesdays - each fortnight, excluding exam periods and other whole school Lent in age appropriate commitments. Each meeting will be held ways. This began on during a different period so students will Tuesday March 4, with only miss one individual class in a term. our inaugural Shrove Tuesday Service in the Venue: Student Support room near B8 College Courtyard in Group Leader: Mr Unser with the morning, and the invitations to occasional special guests Pancake “Chooseday” Topics: Race for our whole school at lunch. In Christian Education classes and chapels, students are • Myths and Facts about Grief reflecting on the Easter story and are considering their response to that. • The ‘Right Way’ to Grieve • What to Say and How to Answer If you would like more information on Lent or what various year levels are doing • Stages of Grief during these last weeks of Term 1 as we approach Easter, please feel free to • Symptoms of Grief contact me. • How to Support a Friend • New Roles in the Family • Balancing Home, School and Friends New Chaplaincy Contact • Discovering Your Own Strengths • Understanding Resilience To assist us in continuing to provide the school with the best Chaplaincy support • Dealing with Depression we can, we have created two new and easy ways to contact the Chaplaincy • Strategies for Grieving Your Way Team. We now have the following email address: [email protected]. au This will ensure that the appropriate member of the chaplaincy team receives Mrs Adele Ramsay and responds to your need. Please use the above email address for everything, Director of Student Welfare from prayer requests to making appointments for you or your children. Alternately, you are invited to contact me directly on 5561 4034. Should I not be in my office, your call will be forwarded to me wherever I am, on or off campus. We hope that these communication systems will enable us to serve you better. events / notices

Term 1 2014 2014 careers expo Weeks 8, 9 and 10

Junior School Wed 26 Mar JS Parent/Teacher Interviews Mon 31 Mar JS Parent/Teacher Interviews Thurs 3 April House Cross Country Prep – Year 3: 9.00 – 10.30am 9 – 10 Year Olds: 1.00 – 12.30pm 13 – 19 Year Olds: 1.00 – 3.00pm Fri 4 April Easter Service 1.00 – 1.40pm One Day Only: 9am – 7pm Parents Welcome For further details, please go to: www.gccareersexpo.com.au Co-curricular/Dance Program Concludes Last Day Term 1 7 April – 20 April Easter School Holidays

Mon 21 April Easter Monday Public Holiday Students in Year 7 (Years 4,5,8,9 and 10 were offered in 2013) Tues 22 April First Day Term 2 have been provided with an oral health care examination card to take home. Co-curricular/Dance Program Resumes If your child is in Year 7, or if they are new to the school and did not receive an examination card and you would like to arrange for Senior School your child to receive oral health care, please contact: The Oral Health Call Centre on: 1300 300 850 Mon 17 Mar Year 7 – 12 Exam Prep Week Monday - Friday 8.00 am – 4.30 pm excluding Public Holidays. Mon 24 Mar Year 7 – 12 Exam Week If your child requires disability access, please identify this requirement with the Call Centre Operator. Wed 26 Mar Master Minds Master Class at 3.30pm Fri 28 Mar Round One – SS APS Intermediate Band Camp Departs 4.00pm Sat 29 Mar Intermediate Band Camp Parking and Traffic Sun 30 Mar Intermediate Band Camp Concert 12.00pm QLD time (1.00pm NSW time) The Busbay carpark Intermediate Band Camp Returns • A reminder that the bus-lane is not available for drop-offs Mon 31 Mar Year 10 Accounting QPEC’s Eco Man and pick-ups between 8am and 4pm Incursion – Day 1 • When entering the pick-up/drop-off area, please enter the Tues 1 Apr Year 10 Accounting QPEC’s Eco Man left-hand lane if there is space. Not only is this safer for your Incursion – Day 2 children as no crossing of traffic is required, it minimises the length of the queue so that buses can enter their lane Thurs 3 Apr House Cross Country and keep to schedules so that our students don’t miss their 13 – 19 Year Olds: 1.00 – 3.00pm further bus and train links. When the queue gets long, this Fri 4 Apr Easter Service 1.00 – 1.40pm also affects Emerald Lakes residents and visitors, vehicles Parents Welcome exiting the Birmingham carpark and traffic flow at the Birmingham Road intersection. Connect Teams Depart 4.00pm Theatre Lane Year 12 Drama Trip Departs to • A temporary pedestrian only access route has been Co-curricular/Dance Program Concludes opened for users of the NIFSAN carpark opposite the Theatre lane entry. Unfortunately, a few users have started Last Day Term 1 using the lane for pick-ups and drop-offs and this is Sun 6 Apr Year 12 Drama Trip Returns compromising the safety of the pedestrians. The lane is for delivery vehicles only please, as well as for NIFSAN car- Mon 7 April Connect Teams Return approx. 3.30pm park pedestrians temporarily. onwards Emerald Lakes & the NIFSAN carpark 7 April – 20 April Easter School Holidays • The Emerald Lakes private residential estate includes all Mon 21 April Easter Monday Public Holiday land, roadways, verges and visitor parking bays to the east of our northern entry and east of the Busbay carpark exit Tues 22 April First Day Term 2 road. Co-curricular/Dance Program Resumes The College is leasing the NIFSAN carpark area only and this is accessed via the new western entrance. Users are requested to park, pick-up and drop-off only in that carpark and not in any other part of the estate. sport report DAVID WEIR Director of Sport

Breony Heaton: 5th Qld Triathlon at Hervey Olivia Skea: 2nd 100m Br, 3rd 200m IM. Senior School APS Swimming: Bay Qld team – also competing at the Congratulations to the SS Swimming Team Australian Triathlon at Twin Waters next week Max Pine: 3rd 100m Free on their outstanding performance in finishing – best wishes Breony. 2nd at the APS Carnival on Feb 25. Lachlan Jones: 6th Qld Triathlon at Hervey South Coast Regional It was the 10th consecutive year Emmanuel Bay Qld Team - Bendigo Swimming: March 3 & 5 has finished 1st or 2nd in a district that has one of the highest swimming standards in Sarah Dunnett: 10th Qld Triathlon The following students have been selected Australia. Race after race was won by Qld Paris Allen, Jack, Lachlan & Tara Sosinki: in the South Coast team to attend the Qld and National Champions. Top 25 finishes of 50+ Championships. Congratulations and best wishes. It was an outstanding team effort, with 42 Adele Phillips: Champion Gatorade Series of the 43 selected students swimming (7 Triathlons) Bailey & Madisyn Armstrong, Josh Booth, and a testament to our depth. Whilst we Daniel Bernadie, Luke Dippenaar, Tahlia only won one “Division A” race, and had no Joshua Booth: Champion Gatorade Series Griffith, Abigail Hein, Jessica Martland, age champions, we still finished 2nd with a (7 Triathlons) Daniel Miller, Adele Phillips, Max Pine, Daniel quality team that filled the minor placings all Pisconeri, Gabe Pither, Sarah Sherriff, Olivia Riley Maule: Cycling - Selected to ride with Skea, Christie Sofatzis & Ben Vincent. day long! It is a fabulous example of what a the Data#3 men’s team for the Tour of committed “team” can achieve. in March Our school swimming season concludes this As a school, we are particularly proud of this week with the Junior School APS carnival on Jacob Montgomery: Golf - Selected Thursday 13 March at All Saints. team – individually it was not the strongest to attend the Australian Junior Golf swim team we have ever had, yet their final Championships in Melbourne, with the high If available, full swimming results for the result was as good as some of our strongest performance squad. House, APS and Regional Swimming teams. Well done! carnivals are posted on the Sports pages of Bailey Gray: 3rd Qld Little ECNet, under the “Results” icon. A big thanks to Mr Adam and Mrs Pine (our Athletics 12yr Pentathlon school coaches) who prepared 2/3 of the team. Brad O’Reilly: Selected in the GC Regional U16 Australian Rules team Regional Team Selections: Congratulations to all swimmers involved. We Volleyball: Alana Neave (Open & U15 teams), now look forward to the Junior School APS Ryan Selvey and Max Stewart: Runner’s Jayden Thomson, Georgie Rankin, Emily carnival on Thursday 13 March. Up – Gold Coast Primary Inter-School Tennis Raven, Sarah-Jayne DeCelis (Shadow) Challenge Matthew Neave, Jordon Harding, Zac Hong Aggregate Points: (Shadow) Junior State Athletics 1st All Saints 1843 Touch: Lydia Brown 2nd Emmanuel 1635 Championship Results 3rd St Stephen’s 1615 (Top 10 placing’s by EC students) Feb 23 Past Students: (Last fortnight) 4th Somerset 1435 5th AB Paterson 1413 Ellen Scott-Young*: 1st Hammer Throw Emma Dick: Kellogg’s Nutrigrain Series – 6th Trinity 1302 (2nd at Aust Titles in December as well) 4th place Coolum and top 10 finish in series 7th Kings 1227 Gabby Dalton*: 2nd 2000m Steeplechase, overall. 8th Coomera 1121 7th 3000m Luke Percy: 2nd Fastest 100m Free in Annie Muir: 5th 100m, 5th 200m Tennessee University history – Automatic Individual Achievements: NCAA Qualifier. Jack Sosinski: 5th 3000m We have had another month of astonishing Hayley Raso: Runner Up as part of the sporting achievements by our students. It is Emily Casaclang*: 5th 800m, 7th 1500m Brisbane Roar team in Women’s “A” League breathtaking at times to consider the array of Lachlan Links*: 6th 1500m, 8th 800m Grand Final sporting talent currently amongst us. Below is a list of known recent achievements, with Lachlan Jones*: 6th 3000m Cross Country/ apologies if we have accidently omitted any Matthew van der Vlugt: 6th 2000m notable performances. Congratulations to all Steeplechase Athletics training: of the following students. Reminder – Our House Cross Country Monique Hay: 7th 800m, 9th 1500m Bailey Armstrong: 3rd Australian 10km carnivals are now less than three weeks Swim Championships – 15 Boys Melbourne Grace Planting*: 7th 2000m Steeplechase away. (Thursday 3 April) 9th Australian 5km Swim – Men Emma Beal: 8th 3000m P-3: 9am - 10.15am Madisyn Armstrong: 13th Australian 5km Johann Zipf*: 9th 1500m, 9th 3000m 9-12 yr olds: 11am - 12.15pm Swim – 13 years Kiah Beal: 9th 800m 13-19 yr olds: 1pm - 3pm Elle Stevens: 10th Australian Triathlon Sprint There is possibly just enough time to improve Champs Melbourne *Competing at National Athletics Championships in Sydney this week, March 12-16. your fitness levels to make a difference in your Tom Neale: Selected in the Qld OzTag team carnival results. to compete in Canberra in May GC Swim Meet – PBC Feb 22 Laura Brown: Won the Gold medal at Our coach, Mr Andrew Ferris, is running Qld Surf lifesaving Titles in the Champion Christie Sofatzis: 1st 100m Free, 2nd 50m lots of different sessions. They are free and Lifesaver event. Qualified for Nationals in Free students in Years 4 - 12 are encouraged to Perth Ben Vincent: 1st 50m Free, 1st 100m Back, take advantage of any sessions they can Bianca Jones: 1st place Qld Aquathlon at 2nd 100m Free attend. If you need to speak to Mr Ferris Hervey Bay Jess Martland: 2nd 200m IM, 200m Back regarding any athletics coaching matter, please call 0422 146 616. Angus Lythgo: 3rd place Qld Aquathlon (Open), 3rd 100m Fly