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The school uniform, when worn properly, looks fantastic. Uniform, from the Latin uniformis, means simply ‘one form’. There are no grey areas as to the types of shorts boys wear; the black leather lace up shoes students wear (excepting our youngest pupils); the correct socks; facial hair; hair being tied back; and rules that apply to jewelry. However, these are particular areas that some students choose to interpret loosely.

All students are reminded constantly about the school’s expectations regarding the correct adherence to our uniform regulations. I take this moment to advise that students are expected to return to school in Term 2 in full compliance with those regulations.

For some, that means they will need to replace non-regulation shoes over the vacation. Year Coordinators, the Head of Secondary and the Director of Pastoral Care will insist that the school uniform is worn correctly from Day 1 of Term 2. They will make contact with parents and carers if students are reluctant to comply with school expectations.

Unfortunately, I had to attend a Diocesan meeting in Grafton yesterday, so was absent from the Closing the Gap assembly held in Secondary. Mrs Spry will report on this in her column this week. Thanks to Ms Webb and Mr Bennett for their enthusiasm in planning the Closing the Gap celebration.

Next Thursday, Mr Ian Young retires from teaching. He joined the staff at BDC in May, 2007, and has taught English in the Secondary school.

On Wednesday next week, we will hold a Whole School Mufti Day, with a gold coin donation being collected to aid cyclone devastated Vanuatu. Funds raised will be given to the Anglican Board of Mission – Australia (ABM), who will donate those monies directly to their Vanuatu appeal.

A State of Emergency was declared after Cyclone Pam, one of the fiercest cyclones in living memory, caused immense destruction and loss of life in Vanuatu and 65 neighbouring islands, affecting a population of 267,000.

Congratulations this week to:

The following Year 10 students: Carmen Gerrard, Rahel Wheatley, Sarah Medway, Meg Tennant, Max Kornhauser, Morgan Walker, Gus Dolan, Jai Goffer, Tim Wilson-Douglas, Sam Purcell, Matthew Hunter, Noah Klipin, Quinn Forsyth, Tegan Hannaford, Lucy Wilson-Spillane, Samantha Pilpel, James Murray, Cem Yumru, Daniel McEvoy, and Laura Cross. These students worked all day on bush regeneration on Monday this week on the banks of Newport’s Creek on the BDC campus. They learned about the bush regeneration process and species identification from Brent and Kris Hely of Coffs Coast Bush Regeneration (our NAB Seed Funding partners), and spent the day weeding invasive species, and planting native rainforest species.

Whilst I love chocolate and hot cross buns I am just amazed at the commercial side of Easter. There appears to be more and more Easter Eggs in the aisles at the supermarket each time I do my shopping and for many weeks now I’ve seen hot cross buns displayed on the shelves. I wonder how many children understand the significance of the egg at Easter and its symbolism of new life?

Our Lenten journey takes us into those desert places, those uneasy spaces as Jesus joins us along the road of reflection. Its while we’re in these places that we’re encouraged to look deeply into our hearts and recognise those things that get in the way of us connecting with God, you know those stumbling blocks that we label as sin. With contemplation and prayer we might begin to understand God’s forgiveness for us.

I’ve heard it said, “If nothing changes, nothing changes” Lent gives us that breathing space and an opportunity to search within our self to find our true self and identify the areas that may require and welcome change with Jesus as our guide.

Christians around the world will celebrate the beginning of Holy Week on Sunday 29 March ‘Palm Sunday’ as we celebrate Jesus triumphant arrival into Jerusalem. We celebrate Holy Week with its climax of Good Friday and Easter Day; it is the most sacred week in the Christian calendar.

May we walk with Jesus towards Jerusalem and experience the joy of Palm Sunday and the events of Holy Week as they unfold. May we come to know Jesus, the Lamb of God whose sacrifice paid the price for the ultimate gift for humanity.

If you are interested in attending a service during Holy Week Bishop Druitt College will hold its annual Easter service on Thursday 2 April commencing at 9.15am in the Branson Centre. There are many other services to consider during Holy Week as outlined in the flyer for St Johns Anglican Church, McLean Street, Coffs Harbour.

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

Shalom my friends

from the principal

chaplain’s chat

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Rev Marion TanfieldChaplain

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Easter Services Palm Sunday 7.00am Eucharist 29 March 9.00am Eucharist Monday 6.30pm Meditation 30 March Tuesday 6.30pm Meditation 31 March Wednesday 10.00am Eucharist 1 April 6.30pm Meditation Maundy Thursday 6.30pm Foot Washing 2 April 8.00pm All-Night Vigil Good Friday 9.00am Good Friday 3 April Liturgy Easter Day 5.30am Service of Light 5 April 9.00am Easter Eucharist

pastoral careBuilding resilienceSome kids are resilient by nature – their temperament helps them to be mentally and psychologically tough. You know those kids; they get straight back up after a setback or disappointment. Rejection in the playground doesn’t rattle them. Unfortunately, not every child has such natural resilience.

The good news is that most of the research shows that resilience can be nurtured and developed, particularly when parents themselves are resilient and they actively foster it in their kids.

Resilient kids share four basic skill sets - independence, problem-solving, optimism and social connection.

From a resilience perspective, it is said that parents need to coach kids through some of their more challenging moments and then review what they may have learned for next time. By all accounts, research says, avoid solving all their problems for them.

We can promote a lasting sense of resilience in our kids by:Having a positive attitude:• Your attitude as a parent impacts on their ability to bounce back from some of the difficulties they face. Make sure you model a ‘you can do it’ attitude for your child when he meets some of life’s curve balls.Looking for teachable moments.• Many kids’ learning opportunities are disguised as problems. Make the most of these opportunities so that kids can grow and learn from some of the challenges they face.Making kids active participants in the family.• Active participation in a family develops the self-help, problem-solving and independence skills that are necessary for resilience.Building kids coping skills.• There are plenty of strategies you can pass on to kids to help them cope when life doesn’t go their way, including acceptance, getting away for awhile, and normalisation.

Promoting resilience in kids is a not a single event but a continuous process that requires adults to be supportive and empathetic when things don’t go their way. It also requires you as a parent to have faith in yourself, and your child’s ability to cope. Please feel as though you can contact us through the Counseling Department or relevant stage or year coordinators for strategies to help with resilience.

Sue O’ConnorActing Director of Pastoral Care

from the head of secondaryToday at the secondary assembly we acknowledge the ‘Close the Gap’ movement in Australia. This is an initiative to close the gap that exists between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, particularly in terms of health.

Our assembly began with Mr Bennett who shared a few statistics with our students. I have copied parts of his speech below.

Most of us sitting here today can statistically expect to live to the age of 79 (male) and 84 (female). However, in Australia right now if you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person your average life expectancy is 10-17 years less than most of us sitting here today. And remember this is a national average, in remote Indigenous communities this gap is much wider.

Newborn Indigenous babies are more than twice as likely to die at birth in the first year of life than other Australians.

Indigenous children are more than 30 times more likely to suffer from anaemia and malnutrition than other Australian children.

The rate of youth suicide is 5 to 6 times higher among the Indigenous population than for other Australians.

Unfortunately I could go on and on with these type of statistics and each statistic highlights the GAP that needs to be closed. We are such a blessed country in so many ways. We are rich beyond imagining compared to most of the world’s population, yet how blessed and rich are we really if we continue to allow this gap to persist? How can we be truly proud of ourselves as a nation when the people who have lived here for tens of thousands of years, whose land we stole, continue to suffer these injustices?

We then heard from our Year 10 student Jacob Mercy-Ireland who spoke to the secondary students about the issue of mental health for Indigenous Australians. His speech is below. Jacob also showed us a short video clip from Beyond Blue that was very powerful.

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scienceLast week we received results from the qualifying examination for the University of Sydney’s Gifted and Talented Science Program. In November last year, 32 students sat the exam. These students are now in Years 9 and 10 and all received Certificate of Participation during class this week.

Special congratulations go to the following five students who were ranked in the top 12% of all entries and who have received offers to attend the 2015 holiday programs at the University in Sydney: Susan Brown, Jack Brown, Rhyys Turner, Jake Tyler and Alice Jeffery.

Sue SiwinskiHead of Science

Carmel SpryAssistant Principal (Head of Secondary)

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Mental Health & Suicide I’m standing up here today to talk about one of the most important issues that face not only the Aboriginal communities around Australia, but also one of the issues that face many youth aged between 10 to 25 all over the world today. The issues that I’ll be bringing up are mental health problems; including depression and anxiety, and the high rates of suicide in the Aboriginal community aged between 10 to 25.

80% of suicides in Australia in 2011, with the person being aged between 10 to 25 were aboriginal people. Further into the topic of suicide rates, there were between 100 to 150 reported suicides by Aboriginal people just in the year of 2012. I believe that mental health is a major problem in the Aboriginal community.

Some of the main issues that cause this state of mind vary from; loss of identity to substance abuse problems, including alcoholism and drug use. The impact of history continues today with problems such as anxiety, racism, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression becoming a more common issue in Aboriginal communities across Australia.

What can be done? Just listening to this speech can help, as community awareness is a very powerful tool. Individually we can all fight racism and recognise the valuable and rich culture that aboriginal communities have. By supporting ‘Close the Gap’, it is a step forward in solving these issues within the aboriginal community, as a community we can make a stand.

Blood donation

english / drama

For many years BDC has had a very strong culture for blood donation. Every Monday, the Red Cross courtesy bus collects up to four students and takes them to Coffs Harbour Blood Donation Centre located at HomeBase. Each donation is used to help up to three people, meaning every week BDC students are saving the lives of approximately 12 people in the community.

The Red25 movement was unveiled early this year, which aims to get 25% of the population to donate blood. The strategy of Red25 is to encourage people to donate blood as a group, whether that be friends, family, school groups or work colleagues. Within Red25 is the Schools Challenge competition which tallies the total number of donations for each school within a year. Importantly - parents, teachers and friends of the BDC community can contribute points through Red25. All you have to do is join the Bishop Druitt College team online: http://www.donateblood.com.au/who-can-give/red25/join-group

Last year our total was 94 points. Let’s try to smash that number as a whole school community in 2015.

On Wednesday 1st April Year 8 English and Year 9 Drama students will have a wonderful experience. The Bell Shakespeare Company, the most prestigious performers of Shakespeare’s plays in Australia will be sending its Actors at Work troupe to BDC to present a potted version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

This directly supports the English curriculum for Year 8 and the experience of theatre component of Year 9 Drama. Students will be treated to a mix of performance and critical discussion as the actors interpret Shakespeare’s romantic comedy for a modern teenage audience. Students will bring home a letter explaining the details. Permission slips must be returned to the secondary office by Monday 30th March.

Ethan Moran (Year 12)Blood Donation Youth Ambassador

Sandra JamesEnglish Teacher

careers news All secondary students encouraged to manage their career dreams and goals by logging into the secure student area of the Careers website at: http://bdccareers.com/?page=secure-area. The latest updates include a new Digital Portfolio system; rebuilt interests test enabling students to navigate to their results easily; and added skills and abilities and work values activity. Develop your resume and cover letters using the website builders.




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Robyn CrispCareers Adviser

YEAR 10 WoRk ExPERIEnCE Congratulations to those students who have already arranged their work experience placements for 23-27 November 2015. To avoid competition, students are encouraged to think, talk about and apply for work experience placements as soon as possible.

Students have also been sent an email to encourage them to read ‘applying for a job’ section in the ‘job guide’ at: http://www.jobguide.thegoodguides.com.au/Looking-for-work

The Work Experience Handbook outlines what is required along with the deadlines for forms to be returned to the secondary office. The Handbook and forms can be found online at: http://bdccareers.com/?page=required-documents. It is important to note the date the forms are due to the secondary office as late forms will not be accepted after the dates listed or by email. Students not undertaking a work experience placement will attend school as normal.

oTHER oPPoRTunITIES The UNSW Rural Clinical School in Coffs Harbour will again hold their information days for high school students who are interested • in studying medicine. The proposed dates are 1st and 2nd June. The days will target Year 11 students and priority will be given to unsuccessful applicants from 2014. Please see Mrs Crisp if you are interested.ADF Gap Year Program - applications close on Monday 27th March. Go to • http://www.defencejobs.gov.au/education/gapyear/ for further information.Coffs Harbour Campus and online Personal Trainer courses (Certificate 3 and 4 in Fitness). Go to • http://www.fitcollege.edu.au/CoffsHarbour.aspx for further information.

uPCoMIng EvEnTS31st March – UMAT meeting for Year 11 and 12 students interested in pursuing medicine and other health courses. Careers • lounge at 1.35pm.1st May – University of New England Open Day visit arranged by the Coffs Harbour District Careers Association. Permission notes • due to the secondary office by 1st April.14th May – Australian Defence Force presentation. 1.35pm in the BDC theatre.• 20th May – University of Wollongong Open Day visit.• 21st May – Coffs Coast Careers Directions Day for Year 10 students at CHEC (11.35am – 12.35pm)• 17th July – White Card Course – available for Year 10-12 students interested in employment or work experience in construction • or manufacturing.

from the head of primaryAnother busy week has passed and we are all looking forward to the holidays. Many of our children participated in the music camp last weekend and parents were impressed in how much they had learned in such a short time. The opportunity to play together is a very valuable part of learning an instrument.Our Performance Choir joined other school for Harmony Day last Sunday and it was good to have our music teachers there to guide the choir. Many thanks to parents who go out of their way to support their children in outside school activities.

Yesterday at assembly we saw the ELC perform the culmination of a term’s work on Africa, not only singing and playing musical instruments, but some yoga, too. Many parents stopped in to the classrooms afterwards to see all the work that the children have been doing.

We also had two groups of girls perform dances they had been practising over the term. Students are encouraged to go to Performance Club on Thursdays if they wish to perform at assembly. There were also students playing musical instruments, how impressive were these young performers and the pieces they played were quite sophisticated. These opportunities are things outside the curriculum bit assist in our students growing through their experiences.

Next term we have the return of two of our permanent staff, Rebecca Ireland and Maretta Wood. We have been blessed to have had two great teachers to start the year and I am sure their students will miss them. I would like to thank both Emily Kadwell and Dean Walker for the great job they have done this term. Both Rebecca and Maretta have been working with these two to ensure a smooth transition next term. Rebecca has been coming in to help with hat making, gardening, and had worked with Dean to ensure the transition goes smoothly. Maretta has been in touch with Emily and the school while she has been away so she is aware of what is going on. It is such a tribute to staff who work in such a professional manner and have the welfare of all our children at heart.

Next Wednesday is mufti for the whole school, so if children would like to wear casual clothes for the day, we are asking they donate a gold coin to the Vanuatu Appeal. Please remember that shoes must have toes covered, and shirts must have sleeves, while very short shorts are not to be worn. A hat is still compulsory for children to play outside.

Next Thursday you are welcome to join us for our end of term Easter Assembly starting at 9.15am that will be held in the Branson Centre. After recess we will be holding our Easter Hat Parade for Stage 1 students and we would love to see you all there, again in the Branson Centre.

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Karin LisleAssistant Principal (Head of Primary)


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3C have been writing persuasive texts to try and convince Mrs Lisle that we need a pool built at BDC!Congratulations Felix Benton, you are our Writer of the Week.

5D - DictationWe can spell the same sound in different ways. Look at dog and swan. I have been finding out about these words. They both have the sound ‘o’. (g1) So do the words waffle and wander. This makes spelling difficult. This is one reason why I have to do homework. (g2) I do mine on several mornings during the week. My homework also includes learning certain vowel sounds. (g3)

Term 1 Week 8 Spelling Focus: different ‘ea’ phonemes

Sometimes ‘ea’ says ‘e’ and sometimes it says ‘ee’ (G1, G2, G3) read (‘ea’ can be said as ‘e’ or ‘ee’ here!) bead (ee) dead (e)mean (ee) bread (e)neat (ee)

Sometimes ‘ea’ says ‘e’ and sometimes it says ‘ee’ (G2, G3)deafening (e)leave (ee) deadened (e) measure (e) measuring (e)treasure (e)

Sometimes ‘ea’ says ‘e’ and sometimes it says ‘ee’ (G3) threatened (e) reasonable (ee)treaty (ee) leavened (e)creature (ee)feature (ee)

Term 1 Week 8: Word origins and meanings

Prefix: ‘in-’ (meaning ‘not’ - like ‘un’)

invalid incorrectinactive -> inactivityindecent -> indecencyincredible

4DJ have been studying persuasive visual texts. We have created a poster to persuade the public to buy free range eggs instead of caged eggs. We have used a range of visual techniques and language features to persuade our audience. Here are some of our posters.



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Eating insects

Eating insects is one of the future winners! I’ll prove it here right now on this piece of paper and after you’ve read this you’ll be dying to taste a grasshopper or a cockroach and before you know it you can’t keep yourself from eating those scrumptious little morsels as my dad would say. I will show you my main reasons in the following paragraphs:

AMAZINGLY already one third of the world is already eating insects and I will change that by the time you’ve read this. Besides it’s not like there are 2 or 3 to choose from, more like 2000 insects. Now you know your menu will definitely not be empty. They also contain protein,fibre,nutrients,minerals,vitamins, calcium and iron.

FACT:Anyone can eat insects because NO one is allergic to them.

The world will reach to 11 billion people and that’s where insects come in as a free and cheap produce. Insects are really easy to find, catch and cook.All you need to do is go out to your garden, find a bush, get a net, then BOOM you have a nice tasty meal waiting to go into your mouth.Insects use HARDLY any space if not or none at all. They help with South America and the poor states and have great food security.They also STOP world hunger, YES!

It’s amazing some countries already sell insects at their restaurants and cafes. Mexico does a specialty on chilli grasshoppers and San Francisco also does a specialty on termite tacos, YUM! Cambodians eat tarantulas and the people of Thailand deep fry crickets. After you’ve had a few you get VERY, VERY full.What I’m saying here is that they are very sustainable.

Surprisingly there is lots of foods today that include insects. I’ll list a few, there is pasta sauces,salads,stir fries,you can deep fry them,roast them and char grill them. But that’s not all.

FACT:100 grams of crickets is 121 calories.

Insects grow all season so they are NOT going to run out anytime soon.There is also less greenhouse gasses.Cows are really bad for the environment because they fart and burp deadly toxins.When I first heard that I was amazed because ever since I was a baby my pop had cows and he still does but I never knew they were bad fancy that.

FACT:Insect bodies only have 3 body parts the thorax,abdomen and head.

I hope I have proved that eating insects is a GREAT idea!

Nikita Martin 5P

KG students have been working on adding more descriptive detail to their stories. Students were asked to draw a picture and explain what they have drawn. Here’s what some of them created.

A slow turtle lost his friends and then he found another kind friend to play with. They played a fast game of tips.Sam Gillespie

A colorful butterfly with sharp spikes on his wings bumped into a prickly bush and the sun was really, really hot but a nearby river cooled him down.James Quodling (Writer of the Week)

The old blue tongue lizard saw a delicious fly and thought he might eat it because he didn’t have any breakfast. Next the lizard stuck out his long blue tongue and he tried to catch the fly but he missed because the fly was too fast.Jacob James

The scruffy black puppy was chasing a little brown mouse. The little brown mouse quickly ran away.Tiarna Mitchell

One sunny day a grey and white fluffy rabbit hopped out of her burrow and it was hungry so she tried to pull some carrots from the ground but they were too strong. Charlise Hawkins

One sunny morning a stripy blue-tongue lizard came out from its rest and saw some black rocks and when it went to have a look it found some delicious flies to eat. Malia Edwards



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Twilight ConcertBDC Symphony Orchestra

with Guest Conductor Maestro Warwick Stengards (Vienna)

Following a day of workshops and rehearsal, The BDC Symphony Orchestra will hold a concert in the College Theatre at 5:00pm Tuesday 31 March.

(gold coin donation)

Maestro Warwick Stengards, who resides in Vienna and works throughout Europe, travels the world regularly to conduct concerts. He is in Australia to conduct the Australian Doctors Orchestra and the Australian Youth

Orchestra’s Young Symphonist’s Program in Toowoomba QLD.

multicultural harmony day performance

Bdc orchestra workshop day and concert

drum kit / percussion lessons

Thank you to Mrs Stuart and Mrs Meulenbroeks and the students who performed at this event last Sunday. From all accounts it was a great day and I’m sure our students enjoyed themselves; they certainly did the College proud.

A reminder that this exciting day of musical tuition is taking place next Tuesday 31 March, and all members of the Orchestra are expected to attend for the duration. Running sheets for the day are available from Music Administration, or alternatively I have posted it on the BDC Orchestra Facebook page. We would like to cordially invite all members of the College community to a short concert at the conclusion of the workshop day, commencing at 5pm in the Theatre here at the College. The concert is expected to run for no longer than one hour.

Phill Stitt has a limited number of places open for students wishing to learn the drum kit. If you are interested, please contact Mr Hodges in Music Administration.

The students in KG made poppies for BDC ANZAC Day display being shown at the CEX Club from April1 until April 26.

We enjoyed a fantastic weekend of music making at the Primary Music Camp last weekend. The children were all very well behaved and participated in the activities of the camp enthusiastically. A big thank you to the tutors for the weekend, Ms Buchanan, Ms Ray and Mr Cimino, for their expertise, and a special thank you to our student tutors Stephanie Egan and Ursula Cooper for their participation and guidance; it was fantastic our the younger students to have an older “peer” to look up to. Of course, we would not have survived the weekend without our “camp mum” Mrs Booth!

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footBallThe Open Boys Rep Football team played Belmont CC School in the NSWCIS Football Cup (soccer) on Wednesday the 25th of March. The side had just come off a close loss in gaining back the NCIS Gala Day Cup after losing narrowly to Lindisfarne at TAS in Armidale two weeks ago. The game was played missing a couple of Year 12’s still due to Half Yearly exams and the remaining players were solid in defence for most of the game, played silky football in the middle third, and had Kaman Malou and Heath Jones to break away as quick strikers in attack. The first 20mins were experienced by the boys trying to find their feet against a side they had not met before. After most of the possession was played out in their own half during that time, they started to hold the ball up, pass well and then really began applying pressure. Will Booth in goals was excellent, and after Heath Jones scored two great goals on fast breaks we were heading towards a comfortable victory with 7mins left on the clock. Unfortunately for my stress levels, this was not to be. A quick goal after a lapse in defence saw Belmont CC (from the Hunter region) suddenly back in the game, and then an unfortunate hand ball just before the final whistle saw them draw even at full-time. Straight to penalty shoot outs in the NSWCIS Cup and we were fortunate to have Will Booth in goals and some steady heads by Kaman Malou, Isaac Allman, Andre Pocilujko, Lawson Tinmouth and even Will Booth in the penalty shoot out saw us take it home 5-3 in penalties.

Craig Verbruggen - Coach

Dale CondonHead of Music k-12

dates for the diary:

Japan tour fundraising BBQ

– Tuesday 31 March – BDC Orchestral Workshop Day and Twilight Concert– Wednesday 1 April (from 5pm) – Piano Soiree for students of Liz Jameson

This important fundraiser was held last Friday and was an outstanding success. Through the hard work of Ms Ray and the Friends of Music, we were able to raise over $1,000 towards our tour to Japan at the end of this year. Many thanks to Ms Ray, Tim Jeffery, Ruth Dorman, Tristan Buchanan, Tom Tuohy and Gaelan Parnell for cooking and serving in the oppressive heat, and to Kim Strydom and Colleen Williams for their kind donations. See photos of students enjoying the food from the day!

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Good luck to Maddi Gough (10) and Zac Freuden (12) as they compete at the Australian Open Swimming Championships in Sydney over the Easter holidays. This event is a selection trial for the Australian team for the Swimming World Championships.

On Tuesday 16 Year 7 and 8 students participated in the local indoor cricket competition. We entered a team of Year 7’s and a team of Year 8’s. CCS also entered two teams with Jetty high entering one.

Both teams were competitive throughout the whole day. The Year 7 team claimed early bragging rights with huge win over their older peers. Multiple losses for both teams meant they had to fight it out for third place. The Year 7’s made a great start with Luke Neal and Stephen Chang combining for 31. This good start was consolidated with their score reaching as high as 83 before some vital wickets left the year 8’s with a target of 67 to win. In contrast, there was a slow start to the Year 8 innings. A score of -10 left the rest of the team with some work to do. Some big hitting from Caleb Williams-Lee and a four off the last ball from Max Jones meant the Year 8 team claimed 3rd place by just one run.

Jetty High claimed first spot with victory over CCS.

Martin Kelleher - Coach

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upcoming events

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This award recognizes Secondary students who are active participants in sport and display the Olympic ideals of fair play and sportsmanship. This award is open to students in Years 11 or 12 who have represented their school in one current Olympic sport and at least two other sports. Interested students can see Mrs Hilton for more information on how to nominate.

TERM 2Secondary Cross Country - TBAFriday 24 April – NSWCIS Primary Boys Football, Kings School, North ParramattaWednesday 29 April – Junior and Senior Primary Cross Country, BDCWednesday 29 and Thursday 30 April - NSWCIS Secondary Swimming, HomebushWednesday 6 May – NCIS Touch Football, Goonellabah Wednesday 6 May - U15 and open NSWCIS Rugby League trials, Chester HillThursday 7 May – Open NSWCIS Girls Basketball trials, Castle Hill

Year 9 camp notes will go home in week 10. Please ask your child which group they have nominated for and check your calendars to ensure there are no clashes, it is better to know earlier rather than later to ensure they are in the correct group. Groups 1 & 2 for boys and girls will attend camp from Sun 31 May – Wed 3 June, Groups 3 & 4 boys and girls will attend camp from Wed 3 June – Sat 6 June.

When the notes arrive home, please read them thoroughly and fill in all necessary sections and return them to the box situated in the College front office by the due date.

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On Thursday 26th March the Opens Boys Rugby League team competed in the NRL Country Cup Carnival at Advocate Park. The boys had games against South Grafton High and Macauley College of Grafton. Matches were 15 minutes halves.

Our first game against South Grafton High began with a solid set and good field position. South Grafton worked their way down field on their first set and scored a easy try. Our boys hit back strongly and scored a try to Jack Conlan and a against the run of play a try to Malchero Antony Samburuma. South Grafton scored before the break to be 12-10 ahead at halftime. The second half was a tight affair with solid defence. Both teams scoring with the scores locked up at 16-all at full-time.

Our second match against Macauley College start well with us scoring first through a determined run by Ethan Pocilujko. Possession went against us in the period before half time and Macauley were able to score 3 tries. In the second half we started with determination and after catching the ball from the kickoff, Malchero Antony Samburuma spun away from 3 defenders and passed to Jack Conlan who ran the length of the field to score. The remainder of the game was a tight affair with time beating us at the finish. The score was 16-12.

The boys put in an excellent effort for both games against very sizeable opposition. We look forward to further opportunities for the coming year and building into next year as the squad was mainly Years 11,10 and 9.

Paul Driscoll - Coach

Coffs Harbour War Memorial Pool Scholarship Application Coffs Harbour War Memorial Pool is introducing an innovative concept to its training program. The aim is to produce quality swimmers who will be trained under the guidance of our head coach. We are calling for interested applicants from a swimming pool or surf club background to apply for one of two fully paid twelve month training packages.

This scholarship is open to swimmers in two age categories; - 10 year olds -12 year olds and - 13 year olds – Opens. Applicants must live in Coffs Harbour or its surrounding districts. For further inquiries or any other information please contact our Head Coach Mr Dean Laurence. Pool – 02 6652 1779 Mobile – 0432 388 392

national primary gamesBishop Druitt College has been invited to compete at the inaugural National Primary Games to be held in Tamworth on the weekend of 11 & 12 July 2015. These games are open to Primary students in Years 5 & 6 and are being organised by the Northern Inland Academy of Sport. There are a variety of sports that can be entered, I am hoping to get teams for Basketball, Football (soccer), Netball, Rugby 7’s, Touch Football and Water Polo. As this falls on the last weekend of the school holidays I am asking parents if they can assist by being a team manager or coach. I will be there overseeing all BDC teams. There is accommodation available for teams and managers, at a cost. Parents are welcome to come and support their children but will be required to find their own accommodation.

At this stage I would like to hear from parents who would be willing to coach or manage a team and have a current Working with Children Check. When I see how many volunteers I get, I can then work out how many teams I can take away and begin trial in Term 2 for these events. For more information please go to the following link: http://www.nias.org.au/npg or call Beth Hilton on 66515644 ext 295


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parents and friendsPAREnTSJoin us for quick, informative and friendly Parents and Friends Association meetings. Don’t worry, you won’t be given a job - all committee positions are already filled! Our focus is on building our school community and fundraising is only a small part of what we do.

We meet on the third Monday of each month (varies between daytime and night-time) for a one-hour meeting with refreshments and socialising after. Find out what is happening at your child’s school, as heads of primary, secondary and our principal Alan Ball, report each month.

CAn’T MAkE MEETIngS?Contact us to join an email list of people we keep informed about P&F, or find us under “Our Community” on the school website for links to information and our Facebook page.

nExT MEETIng: 6pm, Monday 20 April in the Roger Oates Centre.

ConTACT uSPresident: Claire Simmonds 0415 495 010 [email protected]&F email: [email protected]

nsw school pupil identification cards NSW School Pupil Identification Cards allowing travel concessions are available at the Front Office for students who have reached 16 years of age and over attending a certified day school. These cards permit pupils/students to travel at the discounted rate of fare on all CityRail trains, State Transit and privately operated buses and government ferries for journeys to and from sport, evening, weekend and vacation travel. Concession cards will also be available for interstate rail journeys on Countrylink services as indicated on the back of the card. Full fee-paying overseas students are not entitled for a concession card.

uniform shopIt’s that time of year when we need to be ordering Blazers for Winter Uniform. If your child/ren are in Years 7-12 they will need a BDC Blazer as a part of the compulsory Winter Uniform. Secondary Winter Uniform commences on Tuesday 2 June. If your child/ren will need a nEW Blazer then we ask that they come and size themselves for a Blazer before the end of this term. We need to get the orders in by then to have them back by June. Can they please bring in this order form, with their details filled in and we will add in the sizing once they have been fitted. We will always fit for a slightly larger sizing so as to achieve maximum wear unless you specify differently. We will then notify you once the Blazer has arrived and discuss payment options then. The new Blazers will be $195.

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alumni profile – suZie fisher Caltex Best All Rounder – 1999I attended The University of Tulsa on a full scholarship. Graduated with a degree in Exercise Sports Science and played on the golf team all 4 years.

I was an Academic All American each year and made The All WAC conference 1st team all four years.

After completing university I turned Professional Golfer straight away in 2004. I qualified for The Australian LPGA Tour and played in 3 Australian Opens. I also played The Futures Golf Tour in American for 3 years.

In 2008 I joined the LPGA Teaching Division. I have been a member for 7 years and have been working as The Director of Instruction at The Golf Club of Oklahoma. I am a US Kids Certified Coach and TPI Junior Certified.

I am in charge of all Junior Programs and Ladies Clinics at The Golf Club of Oklahoma. I am the Local Tour Director for U.S. Kids Golf Tour in Oklahoma City.

The past three years I was named Top 50 U.S. Kids Golf Coach Honorable Mention and currently teach hundreds of Kids and adults.

Suzie FisherClass of 1999


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Trivia NightBDC

Theme:Come dressed as something starting with

‘B’, ‘D’, or ‘C’, or a combination of these.

Saturday, 13 June6.30pm

in the Branson Centre

Organise a table of 8 people at $15/head.

Bookings can be made via the Actvity Payments page on the BDC website.


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