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Thank you to for the fabulous support I received in my fundraising for the NSW Cancer Council. With a great effort from the students at school, members of the wider BDC community, local businesses and friends from as far away as New York, I raised $5,600.

As promised, my dance teacher and I performed our routine for both school assemblies yesterday – and great fun seemed to be had by all. I am eager that we remain focussed on the need to use our privileged position in society for the good of many who are less fortunate than us, so taking a high profile in my endeavour was in great part to show our students that anyone can put themselves out of their comfort zone to help make a difference for others.

Taking that theme to an extreme, last week’s guest speaker at the Captains’ induction, Brad Carron-Arthur is running solo from Canberra to Cape York to raise funds for a mental health initiative. Since last Friday, he has run to Byron Bay. You can follow his progress at bradrunsnorth.com. It was quite humbling to hear his humility, despite the fact that he is running the equivalent of five or six marathons a week!

Lockers for Years 10-12 are on our agenda and will be ordered next week. These will take some time to produce in our colour scheme, and will be installed as soon as possible. More shade structures are also on our minor capital priority list and will be erected once we have engineering and building approvals.

Thank you to the P&F for hosting the ‘Welcome to Parents’ function last night. It was a great chance to meet new families and to hear of the work the P&F does for the school. I encourage you to become involved with our P&F.

Congratulations to Luke Matten who has been named in the national U17 Softball squad after recent trials in Melbourne. He will face further selection trials for the national team in June. We wish him every success.

The College is a hive of activity and I really enjoy the banter of little children’s voices from Primary as they sit and eat together and play right outside my office. Sometimes they tap on my door to say hello and I have fun joining in their conversations. It’s a very busy time and it can take a couple of weeks to actually get into some sort of rhythm with so many class rooms to find, and adjusting to a different teacher than the students had last year. For me it’s a new timetable every year with classes for Chapel in different timeslots. But after a while it becomes the norm and I become familiar with the routine and everything starts to settle down. Hopefully this is happening for our parents as well.

For all students, it is a time of watching and working out where they should be, new timetables, and for some, a new experience in an unfamiliar setting. Most children are good at watching and sorting out whom they will choose as friends. In Kindergarten it’s the whole group, but as they get older children are more selective until they find the right fit in their circle. It’s wonderful to see new relationships forming and our students making and meeting new challenges in their lives at the College.

Our theme for Chapel this cycle is Wholeness as we reflect upon Mark 1:29-39:

As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.

That evening, at sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered around the door. And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found him, they said to him, ‘Everyone is searching for you.’ He answered, ‘Let us go on to the neighbouring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do.’ And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons. NRSV Bible

Today we would probably equate wholeness with our wellbeing. The Bible talks about wholeness as something that starts in the centre of our being and organises our lives to live rightly from the inside out. It works through our relatedness to God, to self, to life, and to others. I encourage you to look around you and see what things are contributing to your wholeness or wellbeing.

Throughout our journey may we grow and reap the good harvest as we too discover Jesus together.

Peace

Alan BallPrincipal

Marion TanfieldChaplain

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A reminder that the Year 7 Meet and Greet evening is on next Thursday 16 February here in the COLA commencing at 5pm. Parents will have the opportunity to speak with teachers about settling into high school and transition matters. This will be followed by a camp information session in the College Theatre at 6pm. I look forward to seeing you there.

The College allows Year 7-10 students to wear sports uniform on a Monday for the scheduled sport time. It is important that the correct footwear is worn with this uniform. The College diary gives the direction for this item and states that they need to be “predominantly white joggers”. Please assist us with this request, as it is important that growing feet have the correct support while playing sports.

The Secondary school enjoyed the performance of Mr Ball and his dance instructor Carol Young at assembly on Thursday. Thank you to all families who supported this fundraiser for the NSW Cancer Council. Mr Ball raised $5,600 and the combined total of all contestants was approximately $50,000. It was all worth it just to see him shake his tail feather!

As some of you may be aware, Year 11’s have the opportunity every year of participating in community service in Cambodia. I was one of the lucky teachers who took 29 students at the end of last year and I am proud to say what a fine bunch of students represented BDC in a foreign country. All students enthusiastically built 20 houses in a very poor village near Phnom Penh and then we went on to paint a whole school, inside and out, near Siem Reap.

Not only did the students work hard to complete these projects but they showed great interest and respect for the culture of this damaged country. We will continue to support charities in this war-torn country and would like especially to support improving the facilities in AnCharnh Primary School.

If you would like any information about this trip or any other information regarding the pastoral care of students, please contact me. Ph: 66515644 ext 269 | klisle@bdc.nsw.edu.au

The Visual Arts Faculty would like to warmly welcome back all our students in 2012. There have been many exciting changes in the faculty this year that include a new teaching space and once again it will be an adventurous and engaging year in Visual Arts.

We would like to welcome back Mrs Brown who will be teaching with us again this year. We are looking forward to teaching with her and are sure the students will once again be engaged by her enthusiastic spirit and passion for the Visual Arts. A warm welcome is extended to Mrs Phillips who returns to work with us this year in a full time capacity.

Students in years 7, 8, 9 and 10 have been given their first Science assessment tasks for the year so they have plenty of work to do at home. All of these tasks are also available from the BDC website http://www.bdc.nsw.edu.au/is-information-services

Tim EganAssistant Principal (Head of Secondary)

Karin LisleDirector of Pastoral Care K-12

Natasha FoggiatoVisual Arts Faculty

Sue SiwinskiHead of Science

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The Book Club Issue No. 1 booklets have been distributed and orders will close on Friday 17 February. Orders may be sent to school and handed to your child’s teacher at any time before that date. For parents who are new to Book Club as well as a reminder for those who have placed orders in the past, the following things need to be noted when filling out a Book Club order:

Fill out your child’s full name and class on the order form; clearly mark all items to be ordered.• Check the total of the order and enclose the correct money if paying cash. • Cheques must be made out in one of two ways – either to ‘Scholastic Australia’ (no variations on this) or ‘Bishop Druitt College’. • Credit card payments are made by telephone or online BEFORE you send the order to school. The information slip on the bottom • of the order form is sent to school with the Book Club order. Finally, and very importantly, put your completed order plus payment in a securely sealed envelope, which has your child’s full • name and class written on the front.

Thank you for your support of Book Club. Your orders enable us to receive extra books for our classrooms, library and teacher resources by way of the ‘Free Picks’ and Bonus Points systems. Most importantly, it is a great way to keep our children reading.

It was a full house in the library this week and students were keen to borrow from our wonderful collection. We do require the students to have a library bag to help protect the books, particularly in wet weather. The students have a library lesson every week but we are also open from 8:15am every morning and Monday through Thursday lunchtimes. While the students are getting used to their new classes and timetables, it would be appreciated if you could help remind them to pack their library bag and return their books regularly. Parents are also welcome to borrow from the library, either to get books to read to their children or to find a good book for themselves from the senior library.

All Primary parents are encouraged to attend the Information Evening next Wednesday 15 February. The session will begin at 5pm in the College Theatre. I will briefly introduce staff before you return to your children’s classrooms with their teachers. Please note that this is not the opportunity for a one on one interview. Rather it is an opportunity to hear about class routines and expectations. Parent/Student/Teacher interviews are scheduled for later this term, but if you feel the need to meet earlier, please make an appointment with your child’s class teacher through the diary or via email.

Graeme NaftelAssistant Principal (Head of Primary)

Linda MorganBook Club Coordinator

Marlene EvansPrimary Librarian

primary school leadersCongratulations to this year’s SRC representatives. Charlotte Bennet-Hill, Isabella Corlis, Bram Eastman, Peter Halling, Sean O’Leary and Sayla Veswhite were elected by their classmates to take on this important fundraising role.

Congratulations also to the following Primary School House Captains:Hollows – Perry Foster and Robert Hocker Cottee – Kate Eighan-Moase and Bailey Peadon Murray – Nanda Soe and Sam O’Donnell Sutherland – Zoe Pade and Jonas Naftel Kngwarreye – Grace Koster and Ben Shannon O’Shane – Manuli Narangoda and Curtis Smith

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Primary SRC Representatives 2012Primary House Captains 2012

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Deserts

Deserts are barren wastelands, which house only the most adaptable plants and animals.

Cacti and other plants can survive because they can conserve water within themselves or have roots that go very deep to the water deposits.

Animals that live in the deserts are mostly rodents, reptiles and birds. During the day, deserts can reach up to 145 degrees so the animals come out at night and feed.

Deserts suffer from erosion and the rocks are crumbling in arid deserts. But polar deserts are being affected by global warming which is melting the ice.

To conclude, we need to try and help preserve both arid and polar deserts. By trying not to crumble rock and turn off the power when it is not being used, we can help preserve these wonderful environments.

By Riley Maddeford (6CP)

The Accident – an excerpt

I was practising skateboarding for the big comp that was coming up. I was so excited I even decided to take my dog for a walk with me. We were having so much fun. I took some money with me just in case I wanted an ice-cream. Bob, my dog, was so excited I didn’t need to pull him out of the house like usual. Bob normally doesn’t like going for a walk. Because I wanted to get some practice for the comp I took the long way around town. I went past the lake, past the park and through the main street, to the skate park and back for an ice-cream.

As we arrived for an ice-cream (still going very fast) Bob smelt something and stopped suddenly. I went flying off my skateboard. Before I knew it I was being offered a free ice-cream by the ice-cream lady who happened to be my teacher. I was in so much pain because I had broken two arms and was balling my eyes out.

Before I could tell Ms Azbell, my teacher, what was wrong she called an ambulance.

By Perry Foster 6OF

Tate Rutter (6OF)Desert Watercolour

Grace Koster (6CP)Self Portrait

Jack Winchester (6F)Perspective Gallery

Desert Survival Diary - Day One

Dear Diary,

It’s the 21st of February 2012. I’m the only survivor of a helicopter crash after a dust storm in the middle of the Egyptian desert.

From where the helicopter crashed I managed to find two litres of water, 12 purifying tablets, a backpack and a book entitled, ‘How to survive in the desert for dummies!’ In the book it said that the first thing to do was to start looking for water. The book also said that you might find water under the ground where a tree might be. I thought to myself, ‘That’s a lot of help! Where am I going to find a tree in the desert?’

Night came slowly. My drink bottle was nearly empty. Then I spotted a camel in the distance, which was a good thing because I had watched a Bear Grylls episode where he gutted a camel and slept inside it. The only problem was that I didn’t have a knife.

Then on the other side of the camel I spotted a nomad and I thought that I might just follow him until I find out how to go about stealing the camel!

To be continued.

By Monte McEntyre (6F)

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ensemblesPlease note that ensemble rehearsals have recommenced this week as follows:

Is your child learning an instrument yet? Here’s a wonderful opportunity for Year 4, 5 and 6 students to be in the Bishop Druitt College Primary Training Band 2012.

If your child is interested, please contact the Music Department on 6651 5644 ext. 218 and we will get your child started! Rehearsals are as above and, each child will be tutored in a small group for a 30-minute lesson. The cost is $12.50 per week and instruments are $35 per term to hire.

Learning a brass instrument is fun and rewarding and it is with pleasure we welcome back Lisa and Gergely Malyusz to the BDC music team in 2012. Lessons are available on trumpet, trombone, tuba and we also have some French horns arriving very soon!

Yours in music,

Ensemble Day Time Location Teacher

Concert Band Thursdays 1:30pm – 2:10pm M1 Mr Dale Condon

Mr Santo Cimino

Primary Guitar Mondays 12:45pm – 1:30pm M1 Mr Santo Cimino

Jazz Ensemble Tuesdays 1:30pm – 2:10pm M1 Mr Santo Cimino

Primary Training Band

Band Tutorials

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Thursdays

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Band Room

Mrs Hazel Buchanan

Primary Performance Band Fridays 8:00am – 8:45am M1 Mrs Hazel Buchanan

Senior Choir Wednesdays 3:20pm – 4:30pm M1 Mrs Ruth Stuart

Senior String Consort Tuesdays 8:00am -8:45am M1 Ms Louise Ray

Superstrings Mondays 2:15pm – 3:05pm M1 Ms Louise Ray

Mrs Sarah Matthews Fridays 1:30pm – 2:10pm M1 Mrs Hazel Buchanan

Dale Condon Head of Music K-12

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The Secondary School Swimming Carnival will be held on Monday 13 February. Students are to come to school in their sport uniform and may wear plain house coloured shirts. Appropriate footwear is required. Students who are not competing will have an opportunity to engage in novelty events on the grassed area on the eastern side of the pool. If there is poor weather, then parents should check the school website for wet weather information. Competitors will still go to the pool but there may be a modified program for non-competitors at school, which will focus on core subjects. Students should check their name and list of events on the Secondary School notice board. Any students competing in the 200IM will need to travel straight to the pool and be there by 8.30am, as this event will commence prior to the normal carnival. If anyone has any questions, they can contact me at the school: jwebber@bdc.nsw.edu.au

The Senior Primary swimming carnival is scheduled for Tuesday 14 February, also at Coffs Harbour pool and will commence at 8.30am with students competing in the 200IM & Butterfly events. These students will need to be taken straight to the pool by parents. The remaining students will leave BDC by bus at 9.00am.

The Junior Primary swimming carnival will be held on Friday 17 February at Sawtell pool. Children will leave the school by bus at 9am and will return at approximately 12pm. Parents are more than welcome to attend.

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Basketball registration has begun and some primary teams will play this weekend, (parents to be notified if this is the case), with the rest of the Primary and Secondary teams starting on 17 February. Training for all teams will commence next week.

Secondary Rugby will commence on Thursday 1 March at BCU stadium with games for Boys 13 yrs – Opens and Girls 13 yrs – Opens in a 7’s competition, followed the next day with Xavier College vs BDC 10’s Gala Rugby Challenge Cup. Primary Rugby competition will commence in Term 2.

Secondary Girls / Boys Open and Junior Golf nominations for the CIS Secondary Golf Championships, which are being held at Windsor G.C. in Sydney, close Monday 13 February.

The Linton Family: Nicola (Year 11 2005) is doing relief teaching at BDC. Robbie (HSC 2003) is in Canada, but returns to take up teaching PE. Andrew (Year 11 2008) is doing Certificate 3 in Fitness. Lauren (SC 2008) is hoping to pass an Army entrance medical. Connor Barrett (Staff 2002 - 2008) is now Boarding Master at Canberra Boys Grammar. He and Angela have three children, Finlay 6, Campbell 4, Jonah 1.

James Sproule (HSC 2004) is teaching at the Coomera River State High School in Queensland this year.

It’s a new year, which means back to school and for a lot of children, back to Out of School Hours Care (OSHC). We operate from 3:05pm, where our staff collect the children from outside of the Primary staffroom assembly point. At OSHC we begin our afternoon with a healthy snack, sometimes made by the children themselves (please refer to the weekly program). After everyone has enjoyed a light refreshment, children are engaged in a variety of activities and free play. Activities include outdoor games, imaginative play, craft and indoor activities such as puzzles, colouring-in, lego and blocks. We have children attend for the duration of the afternoon to ‘hang out’ with their friends, others who stay just an hour or two until their parents or carers finish work or even the shopping.

OSHC is a safe and fun environment for your children that operates until 5:45pm Monday to Friday. If Out of School Hours Care sounds like a convenient service you would like to utilise daily or just occasionally, please phone Natalie or Mariellos on 6651 7400, 0414 515 606 or email oosh@bdc.nsw.edu.au for further information. We would also like to take this opportunity to welcome parents of any new children, particularly those of kindergarten students, and invite you to speak with our friendly staff who are happy to answer any questions you may have about Out of School Hours Care.

college community

Scott Rodham Archivist and Alumni Officer

Jim Webber Sports Administrator K-12

Natalie Franco OSHC Coordinator

important dates & eVents

13 Feb Secondary Swimming Carnival

14 Feb Senior Primary Swimming Carnival

15 Feb Primary Parent Information Night. 5:00pm in the BDC Theatre

16 Feb Year 7 Parent-Teacher ‘Meet & Greet’ from 5pm in the BDC COLA Year 7 Camp Information Night. 6:15pm in the BDC Theatre

17 Feb Junior Primary Swimming Carnival

26 Feb Year 7 Camp