All Saints' College 30Th Edition
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Columba 2010 – Columba 2010 Celebrating 30 years Celebrating 30 years ALL SAINTS’ COLLEGE Ewing Avenue Bull Creek Western Australia 6149 PO Box 165 Willetton Western Australia 6955 Junior School: Telephone 08 9313 9334 Facsimile 08 9313 5917 Senior School: Telephone 08 9313 9333 Facsimile 08 9310 4726 www.allsaints.wa.edu.au Contents Autographs From the Publications Captain 2 SENIOR SCHOOL From the Principal 3 HOUSES From the Chair of the Board 4 Cowan 70 Chaplain Chatter 5 Cowan House Captains’ Report 72 From the Parents and Friends’ Society 6 Durack 74 Durack House Captains’ Report 76 CAPTAINS Forrest 78 Forrest House Captains’ Report 80 2010 Student Council 7 Murdoch 82 From the College Captains 8 Murdock House Captains’ Report 84 From the Academic & Performing Arts Captains 9 O’Connor 86 From the Functions & Sports Captains 10 O’Connor House Captains’ Report 88 From the Community Service & Stirling 90 Environment Captains 11 Stirling House Captains’ Report 92 JUNIOR SCHOOL YEAR PAGES From the Head of Junior School 14 Year 11 95 2010 Junior School Student Leaders 15 Year 10 96 From the Junior School Councillors 16 Year 9 97 From the Community Service & Year 8 98 Environment Captains 17 Year 7 99 Transition Program 100 HOUSES Peer Support Program 101 Bussell 18 Bussell House Captains’ Report 19 CAMPS & TRIPS Drummond 20 French Trip & Italian Trip 103 Drummond House Captains’ Report 21 Mt Hotham Ski Trip & P&L Canberra Trip 104 Molloy 22 Choral Camp & Instrumental Camp 105 Molloy House Captains’ Report 23 Rottnest Art Camp & Busselton Scuba Camp 106 Riley 24 Riley House Captains’ Report 25 Margaret River & Lancelin Surf Camps 107 White Water Kayaking Camp & Adventure Out Camp 108 YEAR PAGES Southern Forests Cycling Camp & Helping Hands 109 Kindergarten F 26 Year 12 & Year 11 Biology Camps 110 Kindergarten P 27 Year 9 Dwellingup & Collie Camps 111 Pre-Primary B 28 Year 8 Team Building Camp & Pre-Primary G 29 Year 8 Mornington and Busselton Camp 112 Year 1D 30 Year 7 Team Building Camp & Year 7 Fairbridge Camp 113 Year 1E 31 Year 2C 32 SPORT 114 Year 2M 33 SPORTS CLUBS & GROUPS 120 Year 3G 34 CLUBS, GROUPS & ACTIVITIES 130 Year 3K 35 ARTS 137 Year 4H 36 ACADEMIC & MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS 154 Year 4J 37 SERVICE 155 Celebrating 30 years Year 5D 38 LITERATURE FESTIVAL 156 Year 5M 39 MANAGEMENT TEAM 158 Year 6R 40 STAFF 159 Year 6W 41 YEAR 12 2010 CAMPS & TRIPS Leavers 2010 162 Choral Kick-Start & Year 4 Scitech Sleepover 43 Collegians 168 Year 5 Bickley Camp & Year 6 Nanga Bush Camp 44 Retreat 169 Years 6-7 Darwin Tour & Years 5-7 Japan Trip 45 Ball 170 Reflections 173 SPORT 46 Final Day 174 CLUBS, GROUPS & ACTIVITIES 50 ARTS 58 Columba Columba 2010 All Saints’ College 30th Edition In this special 30th Anniversary edition of Columba 2010, it is timely to acknowledge all of our past and present students, staff and community members, who have shaped All Saints’ College into the vibrant, friendly and stimulating learning environment it is today. I hope the pages to follow reflect another colourful and busy academic year, and highlight just how far the College has progressed in the past 30 years. Thank you to everyone who generously gave of their time to provide written and pictorial contributions for this year-book. In particular, I am grateful for the assistance and support of the 2010 Publications Captain, Aidan Smith, who displayed maturity and dedication in his leadership role. Together with the hard-working members of the student Publications Committee, their creative ideas and input were greatly appreciated. Thank you also, to the 2010 Year 12 graduating students, who will be remembered for their diverse contributions to College life. We wish them all the happiness and success they deserve and hope this Columba provides them with fond memories of their final year at school. Ms Sian Orchard Community Relations (Publications) Officer Columba 2010 Editor Cover Artwork Acknowledgments Jessica Calder, Year 11 Publications Committee All Saints’ College Year 12: Aidan Smith (Captain), Rami Tawil, Shannon Beattie Co-education is Education for Life. Naturally Year 11: Monica Leslie, Laura Spadaro, Lara Kardia Celebrating 30 years Year 9: Briana Preimesberger Ewing Avenue Bull Creek Western Australia PO Box 165 Willetton Western Australia 6955 Photography Academy Photography, Bliss Studio, Rob Johnson Photography, Telephone: (08) 9313 9333 Facsimile: (08) 9310 4726 Community Relations Department, Mr Steve Tsocas, www.allsaints.wa.edu.au Miss Jaelle Wiedemann, Mrs Bronwyn Hardinge, Mr Tony Dunkley, Mr John Levingston, College staff and students 2010 Design Tony Clarke, Spirit Printing Lamb Print Proof Readers Dr Geoffrey Shaw, Ms Sian Orchard, Mrs Mary Thornton, Mrs Ann White Columba Page 1 — Columba 2010 From the From the Publications Captain Principal This year we took a strong stance We have, for some time now, been on cyber-bullying, adopting the view looking for a significant overseas that, while some student actions service project. Following a visit might occur outside our precinct, to a small Maasai village school their consequences might impact in Amboseli in Kenya, we started on students when they are at the work to assist the extraordinary College, making our involvement young leader of the school, Teacher appropriate. We are a long way Benjamin, and the school’s governing from being able to claim that there committee, to improve their is no bullying at All Saints’, but, resourcing and to provide Benjamin consistent with our mission, we with more strategies for leading this continue to direct resources to this exciting school with all the promise troubling area. it offers its young Maasai children. Coming at the end of the year, this 2010 also saw great progress with My whole experience as Publications 2010 was a year of considerable wonderful project formed a fitting our building program. Captain started last year during activity and progress for All Saints’. conclusion to an enriching year. the Student Council Camp. This We continued our work on co- In August we started using our was great fun; a chance to make education. Mrs Edel Hailes and new Indoor Sports Centre. One friendships, relax and learn valuable Mrs Jill Dinsdale attended a Gurian of the major elements of our new Dr Geoffrey Shaw skills for the year ahead. My first Institute summer school in Arizona to strategic plan is to enhance the Principal taste of the role could not have been Publications Committee develop their understanding beyond connection between our Junior and more positive. I was packed full of that obtained during the Institute Senior Schools. It was wonderful to ideas and initiatives to put into place L to R: Monica Leslie, Aidan Smith, Ms Sian Orchard, Rami Tawil, Briana Preimesberger. Absent: Shannon Beattie, Laura Spadaro, Lara Kardia. trainers’ visit to us last year. I hope involve both sections in a number for 2010. Then February came and we will soon be able to develop of assemblies in the Centre. We all the reality of Year 12 hit me! Oh! in-house, research instruments which enjoyed the outstanding acoustics can indicate the effectiveness of the and the fine staging capacities. Every day we woke up, had the Publications Committee and the work we do. Students from every year level also 2010 – a year full of surprises breakfast and went to school from Community Relations Department had many opportunities to use the 8.30am to 3.20pm. It is a routine we worked tirelessly in an attempt We were subsequently granted It was a wonderful surprise to friendly synthetic surface for games carried out for 13 years, and yet just to capture all the emotions and Gurian Institute Model School realise that no matter what the and general physical education. around the corner is 2011 – our first experiences of an entire school status, one of only four schools with circumstances, everyone was always It was especially pleasing to see year after All Saints’ College. We year. The following pages attempt to this designation, and the only one willing to lend a hand. It was a the Year 12s take up an offer of start again. encapsulate all that is felt in the big outside the USA. Two journals, one surprise that the hardest year of lunchtime Year 12 games in the College events, and in those more international, took up articles about schooling appeared to be the fastest, In the past, our final year and the end Centre, so as to gain some benefit intimate experiences, which will be All Saints’ co-education, and I was and also the slowest of any other of our schooling seemed daunting from this new facility in their final remembered for years to come. I sure invited to deliver a keynote speech school year. And finally, it was a as we looked towards it, sometimes couple of months with us. hope we don’t disappoint! on co-education at a conference in surprise that even in my final year doubting we would ever get there. Sydney. Work on the expanded Senior School of school, I did not master the art Now, as we look forward, all we No amount of thanks is enough for Library continued, and I am confident of posing for ‘school photos’ as see is a haze, for some slightly more the commitment and perseverance Co-education remains absolutely we will be able to resume use of it at evidenced by my picture on this transparent than for others. Our Ms Orchard and her team showed central to our identity and our work. the start of the new academic year. It page. uncertainty of the future is unnerving, this year, and all of the struggles Also of vital importance is our will greatly improve both the facilities to say the least.