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Semester 1 Week 6 Friday 29 May 2020 Semester 1 Week 6 Friday 29 May 2020 Contents Principal ........................................................ 1 Our Generous Sponsors ................................ 3 Assistant Principal Mission ........................... 4 Assistant Principal Curriculum............................ 5 Tue 9/Wed 10 June……….. Yr 9 Retreat Days Tue 9/ Wed 10 June .…Yr 10 Reflection Days Assistant Principal Students ................................. 6 Wed 10 June……….P&F and Board Meetings Justice@Mercy ................................................................ 7 6:00pm Quiz questions ................................................................ 8 Auslan Club ..................................................................... 8 Indigenous Liaison Officer .............................................. 9 The library welcomes students back .............................. 9 Weekend Mass Interact Committee ...................................................... 10 Sports Department ....................................................... 10 Bishop Michael has asked that St Patrick’s be opened for Mass with a limit of 10 people Cooks Corner ................................................................. 11 including the priest. Tuckshop ....................................................................... 12 Masses at St Patrick’s are: Community News .......................................................... 13 Sunday: 7.00am 8.30am 10.30 am Mon – Friday: 8.00am 12 noon 5.00pm Exposition of the Holy Eucharist, Prayer & … Adoration Quote Saturday: Two sessions 10.30am—11.00am “Success consists of going from failure to failure and 11.30am—12noon without loss of enthusiasm.” To attend a Mass, you will need to make a WINSTON CHURCHILL phone booking: Phone 0460 423 603, between 9am and 3pm. Only phone bookings to this number will be accepted. Bookings will be taken on a weekly basis. From Friday 22nd May you can book for the Week Saturday 30th May. WORD ON THE Bookings will be taken each Friday for the following week. These are the only Masses STREET… for all our 7 parishes. You will be limited to Word that one Mass attendance until Government Crepuscular – adjective; relating to or resembling regulations permit larger gatherings. twilight; dim; indistinct. Sentence Saturday’s cold weather of bleak, crepuscular light, coupled with icy drizzle made for a memorable day to spend indoors. Mr David Hay welcoming students back to the College after home schooling. Principal A little disrespect for conventions Pandemics are no laughing matter but the ‘Australianisation’ of them can be a rare moment of amusement in an otherwise serious situation. I had no idea that a whole new slang dialect had developed, so as to abbreviate perfectly good words but somehow exercise a calming influence in bringing the everyday to the frighteningly new. But first I must share my surprise on hearing that Covid-19 has a gender. I imagined that viruses are much too small to bother with this contentious decision but apparently the ‘Academie Francaise’ that arbitrates on the French language has declared the virus ‘feminine’. Wisely, I will comment no further except to explain that this means that in speaking French you put a ‘la’ rather than an ‘l’ in front of the viral name. Australia adroitly stopped exclusively naming cyclones after females some years back. Good call! While Australia has no equivalent language academy to constrain and define the direction of our language, maybe the following extract from an article by Journalist Alice Workman in The Australian Newspaper (23 May, 2020) is a vote in favour. Then again…. “What I’ve learned in these dark times is that language is a coping mechanism and slang creates a sense of community. You’ve got to find rare moments of vernacular brevity wherever you can - iso (self-isolation), sanny (hand sanitiser), the rona (corona), soch disty (social distancing), quazzie (quarantine), the pando (pandemic) and magpie (supermarket hoarder). Or in a sentence – “Me mum’s tested pozzie for the rona, so we can’t soch disty this arvo. The fam’s in iso. Can you run to Coles and get some sanny? Our local’s been hit by magpies.” Now of course the purist may say that slang and Aussie vernacular has no place in the serious business of literacy development, but it is obvious how powerful an aspect of communication it really is. The richness of the English language and the culturally unique components can attract many a student to look afresh into a skill development so vital for success in secondary education. Mr Jim Ford Principal 1 2 Our Generous Sponsors Progress on the Brekky Van this month 3 Assistant Principal Mission ‘Miss, how can you have a relationship with someone you can’t see…especially when that someone is God or Jesus?’ This is a very real question and one that I have been asked by students on a number of occasions. The answer to this question involves the very basis on how we relate to both God and Jesus. We’ve just celebrated the Feast of the Ascension, that is Jesus’ departure from this earth after his Resurrection. Yes, you read correctly, we celebrate his departure and in fact, in the Gospel it is linked to blessing. We celebrate Jesus not being with us in the flesh and see it as a blessing! So how can this be? One way to understand this is to reflect on people who have influenced us profoundly for the good and who have since died. I had a wonderful father and I often find myself consciously living by the values he imparted. In fact, I feel closer to him as I strive to be like him. This coming Sunday the feast of Pentecost celebrates the power of the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples and energising them for their mission of continuing the ministry of Jesus. At this time of the Church calendar, I always recall the theme song for World Youth Day 2008 ‘Receive the Power’ by Guy Sebastian and Paulini which is based on Acts 1:8 ‘But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses …’. When Jesus left this earth, he promised us his Holy Spirit and told us to be his witnesses - an openness to accept the guidance that the Spirit brings to receive the power to continue to see and experience him in and through us. As we strive to live by his Spirit and by his words, he comes and lives within us and we become the revelation of the life and grace of God to those around us. That is, how people are to experience God and Jesus because they have experienced us. This is a great dignity. This is a blessing and we rejoice that we have this great mission. As we seek to live this way, we will discover God and Jesus up close and personally involved in our lives. We will develop a good relationship. Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen. Mrs Jeanette Refalo Assistant Principal Mission 4 Assistant Principal Curriculum Learning at School Vs Learning at Home It has been fantastic this week to see so many happy faces around the College and in class. Students seem genuinely keen to get back to school and see their friends and maybe their teachers!! There is no doubt however, that some students have enjoyed the ‘ learning at home’ experience, some may have even thrived. This can be due to a number of reasons - lack of distractions, no social pressures, the quiet giving them time to think and process, and the ability to work to a schedule that suits them. These reasons are all valid and something that we, as educators, cannot ignore. It also may lead to some parents/guardians enquire as to the possibility of flexible learning environments moving forward, however, there are many valid reasons as to why the most effective environment is the classroom at school. At Mercy, we centre our teaching and learning approach on the work of John Hattie, a NZ-born Australian professor who has undertaken the most extensive research into the effects on student achievement in history. Hattie says that the 50% variance in student achievement is affected by what the student ‘brings to the table’ i.e. the student’s ability and willingness to learn. 20% is made up of factors such as home life, the school environment, the Principal and peer groups. 30% of the variance is the impact of the teacher. A teacher at Mercy should be consistently using in the classroom the following strategies that are shown in research to be highly effective: Direct Instruction Feedback Group discussion Intervention programs when students struggle Peer tutoring Reflection on set goals These strategies are a few of many that are implemented and when used properly have been proven to accelerate a student’s learning by more than twice the rate of what it would take them to learn when they are not used. During our ‘learning at home’ experience, these types of strategies were almost impossible to replicate. The Zoom sessions went some way to replicate some of the classroom experience, but logistically are not possible to continue while students are back at school. Google classroom, while an extremely useful tool that we will continue to use, only has the ability to set work and allow students to interact with their teacher through messaging and submitting work online - it does not allow for the explicit instruction required for students to learn new content. I do believe that the ‘learning at home’ experience can be overestimated in its ability to sustain true learning, that is the ability to learn new concepts and skills, develop a deep understanding of these and be able to transfer this knowledge and skill to real-life or unfamiliar situations.
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