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Car Lottery on Sale Now Pulteney Grammar Celebrating 170 years Review Weekly Term 2, Week 9, 28 June 2017 From the Principal Contents Fabulous Winter Concert! From the Principal On Saturday 24 June, I was most privileged to attend the Winter Concert at the ABC From The Director of The Studios, Collinswood to hear our students perform across a range of ensembles. The quality Pulteney Foundation of the performances was outstanding and a testament to the many hours of practice invested From The Chaplain by our students. In addition, the concert confirmed the high calibre of ensemble and What’s News? instrumental teaching on offer at our school. Performing Arts I thank Learning Area Leader – Performing Arts, Jonathon Rice, for his leadership of the Community talented and skilled teaching staff, the music tutors and support staff. I also extend that Sport thanks to every member of the Friends of Music Committee who provided outstanding support and a warm welcome. Save the Date Equestrian Success Our Pulteney Grammar student riders have achieved outstanding results at the Equestrian Saturday 19 August 170th Gala Ball SA and Mitavite Interschool State Dinner. Our team includes: Claire Nitschke (Year 10) Saturday 26 August Winter Intercol Courtney Munro (Year 8) - Secondary State Dressage Champion Abbie Lewis (Year 7) - Secondary State Show Jumping Champion Friday 27 October Valedictory Day Grace Neuhaus (Year 9) - Secondary State Combined Training Champion To cap off these wonderful individual awards, the team were announced the State Friday 3 November Pulteney Golf Day Interschool Champions for the year, achieving first place by over 70 points with one less Friday 10 November rider than their competitors. An excellent result. We congratulate all the riders and their Remembrance Day Assembly supporters. Tuesday 5 December Pulteney Celebrates Staff News Sunday 3 December Mrs Anne Branson retires at the conclusion of this term after 12 years of service to Pulteney. Year 12 Farewell Dinner Mrs Branson has been an invaluable support to so many in the administration of the school. Friday 8 December I am sure that we will see her return in future to relieve administration and reception staff but, Carols at The Cathedral in the meantime, we wish her every happiness. At the end of this term we say farewell to Mrs Kim Butler-Nixon from Year 5. In these last two weeks, Mrs Butler Nixon has been working with Ms Tess Corcoran to ensure our students receive the very best care and experience a smooth transition. We look forward to Ms Corcoran’s contribution to Year 5 and the Prep School and we wish Mrs Butler-Nixon all Last chance to get the very best for her future endeavours. theEarlybird price Mrs Virginia Bubner, ELC Educator, has accepted a teaching position in another school beginning in Term 3 2017. This is a wonderful opportunity for Mrs Bubner, as her new role for the Gala Ball will enable her to further her teaching experience. I take this opportunity to thank Mrs Bubner for her wonderful care of our youngest students in the ELC, including Vacation Care. Book before Mrs Linda Davis, Languages Teacher, will be on Long Service Leave for all of Term 3. Her replacement for that time will be Ms Yu Fukuda (Hall) who is well known to some of the 30 June to save https://www.trybooking.com/PAIB students of Japanese as she has provided some in-class support during this term. Ms Hall is an experienced Japanese teacher; having taught Japanese at University, Secondary and Primary levels and we look forward to her contributions. I wish every member of our school community a safe holiday break. I know the Year 12 students will be working diligently to maximise their learning in the upcoming mid-year examinations. Students in all year levels will be receiving feedback via reports to be posted to families early next week. I encourage students and parents to consider this feedback and use it to set new learning goals for the term ahead. I look forward to seeing all students return in Term Three, refreshed and ready to embark on new learning opportunities! Anne Dunstan Principal From the Director of The Pulteney Foundation Annual Giving Once a year, every member of the Pulteney community is invited to make a gift to The Pulteney Foundation Annual Giving Program in support of the school. The aim of our Annual Giving Program, is to provide funds for modest, achievable building projects and to support our scholarship program. Fee income alone doesn’t cover the cost of some additional resources and facilities desirable for our students. Participation is the key, not the level of generosity. The number of donors has grown substantially over recent years and I am most grateful for this. All donations to the Annual Giving Appeal are tax deductable and donors are acknowledged in the news@pulteney. Please join me in supporting the appeal in this 170th year of our great school. Your donation, no matter its size, will make a difference and will be appreciated. You can go to https://www.bpoint.com.au/payments/pulteneyfoundation to make a donation. Mark Bourchier Director of The Pulteney Foundation From the Chaplain Being a disciple in a postmodern world. One of the great things about my role as Chaplain at Pulteney is that I am free to minister to parishes on Sundays. Parishioners are grateful that Pulteney makes this possible and in all the parishes I have visited so far, there are people who have sent their own children and often have grandchildren at Pulteney or know of family and friends with Pulteney connections. In recent weeks, I have visited the parishes of Lockleys, Kapunda, Hamilton, Prospect and Kilburn and last Sunday I was invited to preach in the parish of Gawler. I got to know this parish as a visiting priest when they were between priests last year and I celebrated the midnight Christmas Service and several Sundays during the year. They, like many Anglican parishes, are few in number but dedicated and strong in faith. Many are very elderly and the 90 plus year old people I meet are proud of their longevity and active involvement in the community. The gospel reading from Matthew focused on Jesus sending the disciples out to minister in his name. The metaphorical statement ‘the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few’ is made and is as relevant today as it was in Jesus time. Many people who work tirelessly in community organisations that greatly enrich our communities are at times discouraged by the lack of engagement of others in voluntary community groups. It might be the local school, service organisation or the many sporting clubs that make such a difference to people’s lives. The same gospel also explored, using the example of sheep, the vulnerability of a harassed and helpless crowd of people, who did not have a leader to care for and guide them. Jesus was moved with compassion. The translation of the Greek word originally used to convey Jesus’ teaching literally means ‘to be stirred to the bowels’. The need to be well lead and cared for is important. However, it does not have to be perfect. In much the same way, as imperfect but properly executed first aid saves lives, so it is with leadership. eW know that throughout history amazing, seemingly impossible things have been achieved by ordinary people who have contributed to communities well beyond any paid or formally recognized role they may have had. Christians have the miraculous and mysterious example of Christ to be inspired by, and in some traditions saints contribute to this witness as well. However, it is in today’s world the work of many generous and compassionate volunteers that also brings God’s kingdom to earth. Ordinary acts of care and compassion make a difference to the lives of others. Rather than be discouraged by other people’s lack of engagement we should instead focus our energy and be proud of our intentional, deliberate commitment to lead and act with compassion towards the needs of others. Prayer Second Sunday After Pentecost All-powerful God, in Jesus Christ you turned death into life, and defeat into victory: increase our faith and trust in him, that we may triumph over evil, in the strength of the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Term 3 Confirmation Pulteney’s Confirmation Service will take place at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 12 September (Term 3, Week 8), in the Robert Henshall Sports Gym. Confirmation is considered very special, so a bishop will join us and confirm your child. If you and your child would like Confirmation and be involved in preparation that seeks to confirm the promises made at baptism, please contact with the chaplain. Deep Peace, Michael Lane Chaplain What’s News? one ninety Year 11 University Visits Last week, after finishing their exams, Year 11 students had the opportunity to visit a university campus to get a ‘feel’ for university life and experience first-hand some of the facilities through interactive workshops.Throughout the day, they had an opportunity to be involved in a number of workshops, where they were able to: • explore the ins and outs of planning a city’s development in an Architecture seminar • look at health provision issues in reference to Bowel Cancer screenings in a Psychology workshop • describe the traits of an ‘outstanding’ teacher, plan an excursion and look at the impact of ICT in the classroom in the Education session • investigate the effects of exercise on the body in the Sports Science clinic • discuss the implications of cannibalism from a legal perspective • tour nursing and engineering facilities • hypothesize about how a group of lizards were related, based on their observed connections and play matchmaker to birds, through listening to their mating calls, in the Animal Behaviour activity Students enjoyed the opportunity to ‘fast track’ themselves into their future and have positively commented on their experience.