Contents 1 From the Principal 2 As the Chaplain Sees It 3 From the Chair of the Board of Management 4 Discovering the ANZAC Spirit 6 Harmony Day Celebrations 7 Celebrating Being Australian 8 Our Australia 9 Our Commonwealth Games Hero IN &OUT OF THE CLASSROOM 9 Our Multicultural Classroom 27 A Jurassic Experience 10 Gita Italiana 27 Girls Go For IT 11 Parlez-vous le franc;ais? 27 Music In Partnership 12 USA Dance Tour 28 Bubblemania - Kindergarten Family Day COMMUNITY 29 Mathematical Mayhem 14 Service Programme CAMP WEEK 15 Helping Hands Project 30 Year 9 Dwellingup Camp 18 Saintly Students Doorknock 30 Year 8 Camp for The Salvation Army 31 Year 5 New Norcia Camp 19 Students Go Casual For a Cause STAFF NEWS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS 32 Staff Achievements 20 National Schools' Constitutional Convention 32 First Aid Training Continues at ASC 20 Amanda Young Youth Summit 33 Wedding Bells 21 Have Sum Fun 33 From the Ladies' Forum 21 Student Recognised 33 John Teschendorff Artworks for Mathematical Excellence FROM THE ARCHIVES SPORT 34 Trips & Exchanges Over the Years 22 Swimming Champions 23 Teams Sailing OLD SAINTS 24 Girls' Football 36 From the Old Saints' President 25 Stars of The Western Front 37 Old Saints Vs Current Students Sports Day 26 Rowing 38 Old Saints News 26 First XV Rugby 41 5 Year Reunion, Class of 2001 From the Principal IN THESE TIMES OF INCREASINGLY FAST, SAFE TRANSPORT AND OF EASY one's own exposure to AND UBIQUITOUS ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, WE ALL HAVE GREATER other countries will be the major means of gaining an ACCESS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD THAN HAS EVER BEEN THE CASE. international perspective. It will primarily be when we live in another country that we really Professor Fazzal Rizvi of the Department of Educational needs to be recognised that mere exposure, and mere gain a vivid understanding Policy Studies atthe University ofIllinois, mentioned during reflection, can lead to a hardening of prejudices. If the of how different are the a 2005 Melbourne symposium on internationalisation experience is to be valuable it must be undertaken with local behaviours, outlook and prejudices from our own of education that, in the late nineteenth century it took some humility. behaviours, outlook and prejudices. Queen Victoria sixteen and a half hours to send a message How does All Saints' facilitate the sophistication of our of greeting to US President Buchanan at his inauguration, At All Saints', we encourage students to think about students' minds? By assisting both the movement into our via a trans-Atlantic cable, and that a telephone call international exchanges, international GAP year environment of people from outside, and the movement between New York and London now costs less than two placements and international study, if not now, then of our own to the outside. cents for every three minutes, as compared with $300 in during the course of their post-school training. We have, as a consequence of trends of globalisation, 1 1950. Furthermore, in the thirty years between 1970 and More directly, we are offering increasing numbers of 2000, world tourism increased seventeen-fold. more and more peripatetic families moving temporarily College tours to other countries. For many years we have to Perth from other nations and joining All Saints'. Their Perth remains, reputedly, the most isolated provincial conducted Italian language tours and we continue to presence enriches us. We also welcome a small number capital in the world. The distances are just as vast as they offer these. We have, in the past, had periodic French '- of overseas students who are here purely to receive an C ever were but they are now more easily bridged. We can and Japanese language tours; the French tours began :::J Australian education and will subsequently return to their ro now more easily reach anywhere else, and Perth's isolation again this year and will now continue on a cycle. The next N own countries, and a larger number of students who o makes it more important for us than for most peoples to Japanese tour is being planned. o were born elsewhere but whose families have, for various O'l take advantage of those opportunities. reasons, taken out Australian citizenship. Last year, we had our first Service tour, with a highly All Saints' College is committed to an international successful trek to Vietnam, undertaken by a party of We have, for a number of years, welcomed young adults outlook in recognition that other societies do exist, exist around thirty. Mrs Angel is currently looking for an from overseas to work their GAP year with us: we have with an integrity of their own, and exist with differences in appropriate objective for a follow-up tour. This year, we had people from Germany, England, Scotland, Canada culture, in values, and in behaviour. had our first Dance tour, to the USA, again a very rich and and South Africa, and their interactions with us have rewarding expedition. We have also had several other It seems to me to be self-evident that, while we can grow surely been of value to both them and us. destinations suggested for possible future tours and we in understanding of these differences through reading Anotherway in which we receive non-Australian fertilisation are now investigating the possibility of a China tour in and through learning gained from Perth, our richest is through our staffing. Slightly under twenty per cent of 2007. understanding will come through direct experience. our teaching staff have a first or second degree gained Students who are fortunate enough to undertake any To feel such subtle differences requires our direct outside Australia. of these tours have the opportunity to add another, interaction with people from outside societies so we All of these contributions from people with overseas internationally aware, dimension to their character. can observe the multitude of facets which make up their experience and knowledge contribute to our environment character. Every time we experience such an interaction and ethos having an international undertone. Dr GA Shaw we grow in understanding and every time we reflect on Principal the interaction we grow a little more. However, it also From the individual student's point of view, however, "THE LORD SHALL JUDGE BETWEEN NATIONS, AND SHALL ARBITRATE FOR MANY PEOPLE; THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES, AND THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNING HOOKS; NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE." (ISAIAH 2:4) 2 As the Chaplain Sees It~I-·'-'- ----=.:::::::::~ As I look daily over the sea of faces that make up the with people of greater ethnic diversity, and began to That is why All Saints' allows for groups of students to All Saints' College family, I see a wide variety of facial realise that it was just as likely that we could be friends travel overseas as part of language studies and, this year, features, skin tones and ethnic characteristics, yet I would with, and live with, people from Sudan, Thailand or Chile, dance studies, as well as the Vietnam Service Trip last '- C be hard pressed to say that none of us here is really an as it was from England, Italy or Holland. year. I hope in years to come there may be cultural tours :::::l fl) Australian. also - tours that will take students to a different land to N It can well be argued that the seeds of discontent in our o learn about how people have lived in the past and are o In our diverse Australian population there lies an land which grew into opposition to the "White Australia (J) living now in that place. undercurrent of an Australian culture which is rich Policy" came as a result of more and more Australians and varied, and is always being added to as the racial travelling the world. In so doing, our isolated eyes were Of course, travel costs money, but so do many things that composition of our population grows. We have a wide opened to the realisation that all people, irrespective of have neither the lasting value of travel, nor the long term ranging national identity and culture, even to the point culture, race and belief, want a happy, harmonious life, benefits. Promoting our growth as people together in one of having developed our own vocabulary; a vocabulary and that this can be achieved only when different peoples peaceful world seems to me to be a high priority matter. that the "true blue, fair dinkum, ocker cobber Aussies" get to know each other. With a view to a world where they "shall not learn war understand, and which new comers to our land even Here in our College we constantly seek to promote the anymore", I encourage parents to encourage their sons eventually appreciate as their own. idea that whatever diverse background we may have and daughters to travel, in the name of world peace, Late in the 1960s, when the late Sir Billy Snedden was come from - and in a sense we are all migrants - we can harmony and good will in our land. What better way Minister for Immigration, he made a public comment all live together peacefully, appreciating each other's could we achieve a scene where the sons and daughters concerning the then "White Australia Policy", to the differences and traditions. of non-white, non-English speaking parents, who have effect that the growing prosperity of Australia meant that been born in this land or made it their home, could stand When I hear from former students that they have been, more and more Australians were then travelling overseas.