Term 1 WEEK 9 2019 OF 10 Year 10s - Tazzie Hike Weekly Newsl etter for Parent s, Students and Friends of Gilson College Gilson Gazette - 29 March 2019 Weekly Newsletter for Parents, Students and Friends of PageGilson College1 Year 10s - Tasmania Hike Contents general news 4 WELCOME MS KIRSTEN REED ....................................................4 GCCC ANNOUNCEMENTS ..........................................................5 PARKING OFF CAMPUS ..............................................................5 WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS AND ACCEPTANCE DAY 2019 .....5 PrIMarY news 7 AWARDS NAMES ........................................................................7 WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN .............................................7 UNIFORM ..................................................................................8 PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS ..................................................8 YEAR 3 GSD ................................................................................9 NATIONAL YOUNG LEADERS DAY 2019 ......................................9 seCondarY news 10 LACHLAN MUNDAY LEADS WEST AUSTRALIAN STATE TITLES ....10 YEAR 10 SERVICE CAMP ..........................................................11 PRIMARY CROSS-COUNTRY - FOUNDATION .............................12 YEAR 4 POLLY WOODSIDE EXCURSION ...................................13 Page 2 Editorial - Getting up Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother's womb and usually lands on its back. (Ouch!) Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the first time and shakes off the last vestiges of the birthing fluid from its eyes and ears. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its offspring to the reality of life. In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a newborn giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she positions herself directly over her calf. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She swings her long, pendulous leg outward and kicks her baby, so that it is sent sprawling head over heels. When it doesn't get up, the violent process is repeated over and over again. The struggle to rise is momentous. As the baby calf grows tired, the mother kicks it again to stimulate its efforts. Finally, the calf stands for the first time on its wobbly legs. Then the mother giraffe does the most remarkable thing. She kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd, where there is safety. Lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs all enjoy young giraffes, and they'd get it too, if the mother didn't teach her calf to get up quickly and get with it. The late Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished and they go to work. “They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do.” “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31 It's worth a thought. Mark B Vodéll Principal Page 3 Welcome Ms Reed general news Reed says her parents have been great teachers and her inspiration. WELCOME MS KIRSTEN One of the jobs that she REED has had for 10 years was as Though new to Gilson a cleaner at the MCG, rising College, Miss Reed is no through the ranks in that time stranger to the area, in fact she to Office Manager and as a is a genuine local having been consequence has met many born in the Sunshine Hospital famous AFL personalities and completed her schooling including Mick Malthouse. at Our Lady of Immaculate Some of her varied interests Conception, and St Aloysius include cooking, gardening, College. It was at ACU that she (especially roses), walking completed a BA degree and her dog and looking after her then realised that teaching two cats. She is an important was where her real passion member of the L4L Teaching was and then completed a and Learning team and is just Teaching degree. Her dad loving being involved in the is a train driver and mum a program. Welcome to Gilson child care worker and so Miss College Miss Reed! Page 4 Verse of the Week "Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might." Ecclesiastes GCCC ANNOUNCEMENTS in the number of people that using their mobile phones th - We welcome • 30 March whilst driving. It is important you to join us this Sabbath to remember that you are as our Year 3 students lead out for their GSD and Pr modelling appropriate and Jonathon Gillard shares inappropriate behaviours to the word. The worship you children. program will start at 10.00am followed by a time WORLD AUTISM to relax over a hot cuppa and a snack. Toasties will be AWARENESS AND served at 9:15. ACCEPTANCE DAY 2019 The twelfth annual PARKING OFF CAMPUS World Autism Awareness Thank you to everyone Day (WAAD) is April 2, 2019. who has been demonstrating It aims to put a spotlight on our PB4L values during pickup the hurdles that people with and drop off times before and autism face every day and after school. Please ensure that goes one step further to if you are picking your child celebrate their unique talents. up and parking outside of the As a growing global health school property that you are issue owing to its increasing parking in the appropriate places and not double parking. Unfortunately, there are a number of parents who are double parking which is a very dangerous practise. Recently we have seen an increase Page 5 The VALUE for Week 10 of Term 1 will be: EXCELLENCE Excellence is the quality of being outstanding or extremely good. It means recognising that the world sees Jesus through us, and therefore doing our very best in our work, our play and our relationships. It is not about trying to be better than anyone else, but about giving the best we can in everything we do. It means doing our best at everything we are asked to do, not because we want honour for ourselves, but because we want to bring honour to God. "Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might." Ecclesiastes 9:10 exposure in the press and progress we’ve made while common knowledge, autism still recognising how far we still is an issue that is only gaining have to go to create the future more understanding. we want. 98% of Australians have We can build community heard of autism, but only 15% understanding of autism of autistic people believe by sharing stories. A the public know how autism powerful short film called affects them. Autism presents Spectrospective will be differently in every person. No shown online and at Village two autistic people experience Cinemas across Victoria and autism in the same way. But Tasmania to share the real common to all autistic people experiences of autistic people will be challenges in social and bust myths around autism. communication and interaction Together, we can create a and adjusting to their physical more inclusive, understanding environment. world. At 11am on Sunday Joined by the international 31 March, join Amaze (the community, hundreds of peak body for autism in thousands of landmarks, Victoria) at Village Cinemas to buildings, homes and launch Spectrospective 2019, communities around the world, along with a sensory-friendly light up blue in recognition of screening of The Lego Movie people living with autism. It is a 2… all for only $5 per ticket! time for our Gilson community Show your support for the to celebrate autism, neuro- autism community by getting diversity and reflect on the family and friends together Page 6 5A Learning to play their instruments in band class for this fantastic sensory- Optimism. friendly day out! Book your FH – Emily Cus-O’Brien tickets: https://villagecinemas. FM – Sophie Allen com.au/events/sensory- friendly-films, and find out FR – Charlotte Maillard more about Spectrospective: 1H – Ameilia Maluso www.spectrospective.com. 1L – Mia Barth au or Autism at: http://www. 1W – Mandy Trinh amaze.org.au or http://www. onethingforautism.com.au 2C – NA 2J – Sadhana Sundararaman 2Z – NA PrIMarY news 3H – Charlotte Lafaele 3R – Mia Barbara AWARDS NAMES 3T – Sophia Nesbitt 4B – Pearl Makker On Monday morning in our Primary Awards Assembly 4S – Tata Kakoro one student from each 4W – Olonzo Dela Cruz class was acknowledged for 5A – Ka Leb Khenglot demonstrating the value of 5H – NA Page 7 Aidan and Dinh with comedian and Primary SRC team and SRC author, Cal Wilson Coordinator, Mr Bell 5S – Martha Rarabua worn in Term 2. Due to our 6G – Deacon Somers unpredictable weather in Melbourne we have a two 6H – Eva Varghese week period where either 6M – Sabarjot Singh summer or winter uniform French – Sandrine Coorey may be worn. However, it must be either complete WOOLWORTHS EARN AND summer uniform or complete winter uniform, not a mixture LEARN of the two. We have two collection boxes for the Woolworths Earn PARENT TEACHER and Learn vouchers. If your child brings them to school INTERVIEWS they can be put them in one of Parent-teacher interviews the collection boxes which is will be on Tuesday 2nd April located in the main office.