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THE OracleIncorporating the Collegian Communicator Term 1 2016 Junior School Courtyard p06 Widespread p10 Year 9 and 10 Students recognition for Experience running Ormiston College Staff virtual businesses ORMISTON COLLEGE C - 33 C - 59 C - 100 M - 100 M - 03 M - 06 M - 58 Y - 34 FONT: PROXIMA NOVA BOLD K - 21 K - 53 CORPORATE LOGO 1. STACKED The Oracle Ormiston College OracleTHE Ormiston College The Early Learning Centre, Puggle’s Administration Ormiston College Burrow, offers a quality Kindergarten P +61 7 3821 8999 reflects the individual program that is aligned with the Early F +61 7 3821 1311 Years Learning Framework, and care for E [email protected] spirit, integrity children from 15 months to five years, Visit our website at in a safe and nurturing environment. and values of a www.ormistoncollege.com.au Enrolment applications for all year co-educational, Oracle Editor levels are accepted from birth. Parents Valerie Warwick independent, are advised to make an application non-denominational for enrolment well in advance of the Layout/Production/Prepress required year of entry. Brand By Design, Jessica King Christian school, Scholarship information and enrolment Photography catering for students application forms may be obtained Staff, students and parents from Prep through from the Registrar. Old Collegians Ruth Ryan Photography to Year 12. P +61 7 3821 8999 E [email protected] Printing Fergies Print and Mail ORMISTON COLLEGE Contributions welcome Dundas Street West • Ormiston Please contact the editor Queensland 4160 • Australia [email protected] PO Box 1835 • Cleveland DC Queensland 4163 • Australia ABN 96 010 613 135 2 Welcome From the Headmaster From the Editor Now, more than at any other time in the history of What a wonderful way to education, it is important that we have the confidence, celebrate yet another term. Our first pages announce knowledge and ability to make innovative decisions that the results of our graduates will benefit the future of our students. from the Class of 2015, an For many years Ormiston College has outstanding achievement. focused on education for the 21st century. Results are, after all, the ruling We have placed tremendous importance outcome of input, which clearly on developing programs that will provide demonstrate the effort and our students with the preparation they determination of our Year 12 students require to fulfil their potential in later life. and their teachers. ‘Later life’ will more than likely unfold in an Term 1 has been a hectic, exciting exciting and shifting world where strong whirlwind for students and teachers learning foundations, digital competences, in Junior, Middle and Senior School. the ability to apply knowledge to new You will read of many innovative situations and collaborate with others challenges that have been met with to solve problems will see young people great enthusiasm and reward. Even thrive. at the lower end of the spectrum I believe we can be proud of the many you will see the difference nine changes that we have implemented weeks has made in the growth and and continue to implement in this confidence of our children in the regard. Moreover, I am overwhelmed Early Learning Centre. at the enthusiasm these changes have The Biennial Prefects’ Breakfast bought about from staff and the obvious hosted dozens of past College collaboration between staff and our Captains and Prefects, giving us students. the opportunity to catch-up on The following pages provide a minor their outstanding careers and glimpse into some of the ways in which accomplishments since leaving we are moving forward: Our Centre school. One cannot help but feel – for Learning and Innovation (CLI), Ormiston College ticks all the boxes! Makerspace, Code Club, Robotics, Enjoy sharing a portion of our Australian Business Week, MATLAB and our growing number of Microsoft Innovative Term 1 news. Educator Experts, are all indicative of the contemporary nature of an Ormiston Valerie Warwick College education. Editor Brett Webster Headmaster 3 College News Outstanding Results Outstanding results from the Class of 2015 OP1 STUDENTS Jarrod Allen Brielle Andreatidis Georgia Balshaw Jonathan Dunne Florence Guyomar Quangvy Ho Keely Lynch Georgia McLean Alexander Muirhead William Pilgrim Athena Stein OP2 STUDENTS Joshua Burton James Copperthwaite Erin Dunne Kate Ganter Ann Ghea Hayden Harris Emily Meaney Michael Poole Kirsty Tait Priya van Wessem OP3 STUDENTS Edward Allen Yasmeen Debeze India Hedger Brittany McDonald Yonatan Mendels Rachel Naulls Dylan Pearse Martina Toman We thank them, not only for upholding The Class of 2015 and the staff who The College our long-standing reputation of supported their schooling can be community academic excellence but for being great extremely proud of these impressive role models for those students who will outcomes. congratulates the surely follow in their footsteps. Class of 2015 on The Queensland Curriculum and Their results represent Assessment Authority awarded the one of the strongest their outstanding State’s highest Overall Position, an OP1, to eleven of our graduates, followed by performances from a results, an outcome of ten OP2 and eight OP3, a magnificent result. graduating group in the determination, hard 2015 Graduates - by Institution Accepted Offers % Overall, a highly commendable 31% of Australian Catholic University history3 of the College. work and the desire to our 2015 graduates achieved an OP CQUniversity score of 5 or better, 66% of students 1 achieve. Griffith Universityreceived an OP score of 10 or better and 20 Queensland University91% of students of Technology achieved an OP score of 39 The University15 of or Queensland better. 32 95 109 87% The chart to the right shows the Universities that offered Institutions places to our graduates of 2015. These are the 1% institutions in which they will 3% study for the career paths 34% 21% Australian Catholic University they have chosen to pursue. We wish them every success CQUniversity in their future endeavours and Griffith University look forward to continuing Queensland University of Technology 41% our relationship with them The University of Queensland as they become recognised members of the Ormiston College Old Collegians. 4 Outstanding Results College News University Scholarships Our congratulations to Florence Guyomar, who received a $30,000 Vice Chancellor’s Academic Scholarship from the Queensland University of Technology. Florence will be undertaking a dual course, Bachelor of Media and Communication/Bachelor of Law (Honours). We also congratulate Emily Meaney, who received a full scholarship at Purdue University in Indiana for her outstanding diving accomplishments. Emily will be studying science at Purdue, which is known as the major science research university in America. Her course commences in August. The College celebrates and welcomes our 2016 Leaders Special events always call for the attendance of the whole school; Friday, 5 February was one such occasion. The entire College, Prep to Year 12, staff and parents assembled in the Stadium of the Somerset Sports Centre to share in the annual investiture ceremony. College Captain, Tess Photinos, welcomed special guests, Mayor of Redland City, Councillor Karen Williams, Deputy Mayor, Councillor Alan Beard, Ormiston College Board of Directors Chairman, Mr John Miller, Headmaster, Mr Brett Webster and members of the Executive. In his address, the Headmaster spoke of responsibility and the importance leadership plays at Ormiston College. The Mayor expressed the significance of the role of Prefects and wished them every success in their coming year. The following Year 12 students were then officially installed into the office of Prefect: Ryan Watson and Tess Photinos (College Captains), Georgina Carrigan, Niamh Conway, Claudia Ho, Benjamin Holmes, Sophiatou Hughes, Ryan Johnston, Natasha Lay, Samson Morley, Ashan Randula, Ashley Venables and Ella-Maree Watkins. After the formal ceremony, badges were presented to the Prefects by the Mayor. The College Captains then addressed the assembly. The event continued with the investiture of the Junior School Leaders. Deputy Mayor, Alan Beard, presented the badges to It was a pleasant, Academic Leaders, Ryan McDonald and Rachael Taylor, School Community Leaders, Ethan Hill and Ella Spiteri, Social Justice Leaders, Adam Sullivan and Lucy Thomson, meaningful celebration Cultural Leaders, Pierce Logan and Hana O’Neill and Sport Leaders, Henry Warner that was witnessed and and Paris Mertens. shared by the whole school community. At the end of the event, guests were invited to the Hall of Fame for morning tea. We congratulate our College leaders and support them in their future endeavours. 5 College News Ormiston College Staff Ormiston College Staff Prominent influencers in today’s education Global Education Conference in Hong Kong. In February, the Headmaster, Mr Brett Webster and Dean of E-Learning, Ms Tamara Sullivan, presented a practitioner-led workshop session at the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong. The eighth annual conference was the leading professional how teachers may develop the ability to create projects with development event for technology in education and explicit links to 21st century skills, plus the building of staff innovative learning for K – 12 schools in South East Asia. capacity across the campus and the global community. The presentation given by Mr Webster and Ms Sullivan allowed The conference proved to be a