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MAGAZINE PIN OAK ISSUE 22: TERM 3, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 BOOKWEEK DT SHOWCASE K-6 Contents 3 Headmaster’s Report 4 Big Issue 5 Films, Music, Books 6 K - 6 News 7 More K-6 8 Feature Article 10 Deputy Reports : Learning & Pastoral 11 In the Spotlight 12 MusicArtDrama 13 On the Branch WOOL 4 SCHOOL 14 Gallery Wool4School™ is a real life fashion design experience and competition. The competition is open to Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and Calendar 11 Design and Technology, Textile Designs, Home Economics 15 and Visual Art students. Sport Wool4School™ sets the challenge to design an original outfit 16 made from one of the world’s most innovative and natural fibres – Australian Merino wool – and one that is inspired by your own personal style. This year, Year 7, 8 and 9 Design and Technology students Pin Oak Team entered the competition. The results have just been announced and Oxley College got an Honourable mention! Editors in Chief Special Congratulations to: Kaarina Allen, Cate Patterson and Heidi Bevan Savannah Sandilands Year 8 Student Editorial Team Alexia Cheaib, Ruben Seaton, Evangeline Larsen, Grace Patterson Year 9 Evelyn Bratchford, Ryan Tan, Maddie Thomas for their Honourable Mention Student Photographer DESTINATION: Olivia Donovan, Lachlan Burns. George Simpson PARIS BY SAVANNAH SANDILANDS Designer YEAR 8 Emma Croker THE AND THE DRESS IS Design Assistants ALL MADE OUT OF THE Dylan Whitelaw, Savannah Sandilands, Grace TWILL WEAVE MATERIAL: MELTON. THIS MATERIAL Patterson, Bree Feary, Lachlan Billington-Phillips, IS WARM AND Cameron Grice COMFORTABLE. THE PATTERN ON THE DRESS IS A SCREEN PRINT. Head of Marketing and PR Emma Calver THE PATTERN ON THE SKIRT AND BLOUSE IS A Staff Editor SCREEN PRINT ONTO THE Beattie Lanser MATERIAL. THESE GLOVES ARE THESE OUTFIT REFERENCES PARIS BECAUSE MADE OF STOCKINGS ARE Oxley College OF THE PATTERN THAT IS FEATURED MELTON MADE OF ON MOST OF THE DRESS. THIS IS TOO TO SINGLE JERSEY Railway Road, Burradoo, NSW, 2576. INSPIRED BY THE METALWORK MATCH THE KNITTED WOOL PATTERN ON THE EIFFEL TOWER, Ph: 4861 1366 DRESS AND THAT IS IDEAL WHICH IS A MAIN FEATURE OF PARIS. JACKET. FOR SKIN ANOTHER LINK THAT THE OUTFIT HAS [email protected] THESE GARNMENTS. TO PARIS IS THAT THE COLOUR WOULD SCHEME IS THE SAME AS THE FRENCH ALSO BE FLAG. WARM. OUTFIT MADE UP OF: I WOULD WEAR THIS OUTFIT Jacket BECAUSE IT LOOKS QUITE Dress -‐ PROFESSTIONAL AND CHIC. I Stockings -‐ LIKE THIS SORT OF LOOK AS IT IS Gloves -‐ CLEAN AND FINISHED 02 -‐ HEADMASTER’S REPORT “Finding self discipline and stillness in the middle of this world is certainly a value we can increasingly cultivate” The five Oxley Values, again, are: Wisdom and Knowledge Cognitive strengths that entail the acquisition and use of knowledge - Creativity - Curiosity - Open-mindedness - Love of learning Oxley’s Values - Perspective - Reflection I have written several times over the last year about our vision and our mission. I have said much less about Fortitude our values - primarily because we haven’t thought that Emotional strengths that involve the will to succeed in there was anything to change, improve or recalibrate. the face of adversity, external or internal The wellspring from which they are taken is deep - Integrity and lasting. Oxley is a school founded on Christian - Courage principles and these find expression in so many of the - Persistence words below. Many of them are explicitly from the - Enthusiasm Old or New Testament. Others are derived from two - Resilience millennia of Christian philosophy and the catechism - Optimism of major Christian denominations. Oxley draws from - Confidence wisdom from wherever it is found and some of the concepts can be found highlighted in other faith Humanity traditions. Many philosophies, ideas and ethics in Interpersonal strengths that involve caring for others these words come from good people with a humanist and provide meaning or secular orientation. - Kindness - Love All of them were considered and synthesised into the - Respect form you see below by Peterson and Seligman in 2004. - Social awareness They are highlighted in their book ‘Character Strengths - Appreciation of beauty and excellence and Virtues’. The Oxley College Board, Headmaster - Gratitude and Executive at the time adapted them a little so that - Humour they segued in particular with Oxley’s tradition. For - Spirituality example the section on Fortitude refers specifically to - Respect for our natural environment the School’s motto ‘Patience and Fortitude’. As you read over them you can see them humming Justice away in the foreground of so much that we do. The Civic strengths that support a healthy community life values of wisdom and knowledge are connected with - Fairness our focus on enlightened academic rigour. The second - Leadership value, of fortitude, links to so much of what we do to - Teamwork ‘strive, stretch and stick’. The third and fourth values, - Service of humanity and justice, link to so much of our Ethics programme. This can be seen in our Service Learning Mindfulness programme and also many of the Ethics lessons in Character strengths that protect against excess Cornerstone. The last value - mindfulness - is also - Forgiveness appropriate in an age where anxiety and stress can - Humility be a response to the hyper connected and hyper busy - Self-discipline lives that we lead. Finding self discipline and stillness - Patience in the middle of this world is certainly a value we can increasingly cultivate. Adapted from Peterson & Seligman, 2004 03 BIG ISSUE Is there a storm coming? 1929. 1937. 1973. 1987. 2000. 2008...2015? The shared the trait of little or no revenue streams and more economically informed of you would have more importantly no profit. Has any of this made picked up that all of these dates shared one you think of today? This last year tech companies similarity, a stock market crash. The latest and like Snapchat, a company which has little revenue more well known crash, the Global Financial Crisis and absolutely no profit, has been valued at over (GFC) of 2008 cost the world a staggering fifteen U.S.$19 billion dollars, that is more than Qantas, trillion dollars. That is US$15 000 000 000 000, or Bank of Queensland, Caltex Australia, Channel 9 ten years of Australia’s aggregate GDP. There were and Harvey Norman...combined! worries that such a collapse could have wiped out Most of us have probably heard of the stock market the whole financial system. Thankfully the world woes in Shanghai, with the composite falling was able to recover from such a scare...but have over 50%, in what people are now describing as we learnt our lesson...? the ‘Chinese stock market crash’ and the recent The dates above are just a handful of the dozens slides in the Dow Jones Industrial Average have all of crashes the world has experienced. Fear is in prompted fear into the humble investor. Even some our DNA. Economist, John Maynard Keynes has a of the worst trading days in years have still left theory about people’s ‘animal spirits’ and the idea gains of the Shanghai composite at over 50%. So if that people are like buffalo - a few get spooked and not a full blown market crash, then what? Perhaps the whole herd starts running. Financial perils have a severe market correction in company valuations. been documented as far back as the 1600’s. The Recently the Australian stock market has had its real problem is that not only are we not learning biggest fall since the GFC, as only seven of the from our mistakes but that crashes are becoming ASX200 showing positive daily returns, wiping bigger and bigger. It was Karl Marx who suggested nearly $60 billion of value in markets. this inherent weakness of capitalism and the belief This year the news has been littered with that the higher you climb, the harder you fall. economic tales of the debt crisis in Greece. Citizens withdrawing from their bank accounts, interest rates at all-time lows, house prices at all-time “a few get spooked and highs, the U.S. facing the biggest stock losses since 2011, the Chinese financial crisis and the list goes the whole herd starts on and on and on. Now there’s always some expert somewhere who says a crash is upon us or a boom is around the corner, so it is up to you do your own running” research and determine whether it is or isn’t a safe time to invest. Today there are already signs of us falling victim Perhaps the question we should be asking, rather to old habits. The ‘dot com boom’ saw extremely than ‘Is there a storm coming? Is...Has the storm overvalued tech companies. 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