MANY CULTURES • ONE FAITH Term 1 Week 7

SHALOM NEWS

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Camps popular amongst students

Mr Burgess and his Sports

Academy crew are keeping the

young people of Shalom Christian

College busy with camps to

Crystal Creek.

In the last fortnight, Mr Burgess

has taken the Year 9/10 boys, the

Year 9/10 girls and the Ollera

Creek, Crystal Creek and Alligator

Creek classes in boy/girl groups.

As well as this, Mr Burgess got

everybody down to Apex Park

last week for swimming,

volleyball, canoeing and fishing! It

was great to see everyone being

so active and healthy!

From the Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers

We are well into the term now. We

have started NRL, AFL and

Basketball. Today, we had Matty

Bowen (ex-Cowboys full back)

come in and speak with our

students both Primary and

Secondary and the students really

seemed to enjoy his words and

advice.

The School has a new Board

Chairperson, Mrs Elaine Rae. Mr

Mike Millard has retired from the

role of Chair, but we are grateful

that we still have the wisdom and

knowledge of Mike, who remains

as a member of the Board.

Mrs Judith Geary and Mr Robert

Packer have also retired and we are

also grateful for the contribution

they have made.

We welcome Mr Scott Anderson to

the Board. Scott is from Palm

Island and Southern Queensland.

Kind regards,

Chris England

Term 1 Week 7

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FAST FACTS

524 The amount of burpees it takes to burn off one large

chips from McDonalds

1 week The time it takes for a smoker’s sense of taste and smell

to return; after quitting

Confraternity Carnival update

The Shalom Christian College- St

Anthony’s combine team has

continued to improve out of site

in preparations for the

Confraternity Carnival at

Rockhampton during the Term 2

school holidays.

Experienced team members such

as John Tom (Boigu Island, Yr13),

Cody Sturt (Townsville, Yr13) and

Aaron O’Brien (Townsville, Yr13)

are helping mentor and support

younger, less experienced players

such as Jason Mimi (Woorabinda,

Yr11), Jason Taylor (Doomadgee,

Yr11) and Lucas Peters

(Townsville, Yr10).

It was also exciting to see

Shalom-St Anthony’s win against

Ryan Catholic College in the

interschool competition. Well

done to all those working hard for

Confraternity.

Shalom picked in Eagles and Kickstart Teams

AFL has definitely started

already, with the local Townsville

representative side beginning

their training. Congratulations to

Elliot Clarke (Kalumburu, Yr11)

for being selected in the Under 16

Townsville Eagles side, and for his

commitment to training since

November 2015 to present.

The Queensland Indigenous

Kickstart U15 team will also be

drawing players from Shalom,

which will be announced in the

next issue. Well done to the group

of boys who showed their Shalom

talent to Eddie and Kath from

AFL.

Interns at Shalom

A big Shalom welcome to the

newest members of the Shalom

family, Pamai Dau (2015, Boigu

Island), Annie Ingui (2013, Boigu

Island), Cenita Cubillo (2014,

Jabiru), and Talena Morgan (2014,

Milingimbi) who have started

working at Shalom to assist with

activities, both in school and

boarding time, to keep our young

people busy with activities.

We look forward to hearing more

about the awesome activities our

interns will be running with the

boarding and day students.

A new addition to TAIHS

Pamai Dau (2015, Boigu Island)

has recently commenced at

Townsville Aboriginal and

Islander Health Service, in the

footsteps of Talena Morgan

(2014, Milingimbi), James

Matthew (2013, Innisfail), and

Patricka Gisu (2014, Townsville)

in securing a traineeship position

to complete her Certificate III in

Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander Primary Health Care.

Congratulations to Pamai!

Cowboys Community Program

The Cowboys Unity Program

enables selected students to join

a traineeship in Certificate 2 in

Sport and Recreation that places

an emphasis on leadership and

work-readiness.

It provides some of our students

with an opportunity to work for

the Cowboys and to gain real-

world work

experience. Participants have

been vigorously preparing to

enter into schools and after

school care centres to organise

and conduct games and activities

for young children.

You may have seen program

participants around school

wearing their newly minted

Cowboys Unity Program polo

shirts!

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At the dorms by Paul Tolliday (Head of Boarding)

Looking out my window it’s been

raining all day, a side effect of the

cyclone that did so much damage

to Fiji.

But the 6 weeks we have had of

Term 1 so far have been hot! It is

so good that all of the Boarding

dorms are air conditioned!

It has been hot and we have

looked for opportunities to go for

a swim most weekends either at

Riverway, or at the Strand, or one

of the northern beaches. One

weekend we went to Crystal

Creek. Swimming is fun, healthy

and refreshing.

There has been a little bit of sport

so far for a few individuals who

are training but more will be

involved soon.

Next week the Monday night

social sport (Touch Football and

Soccer) start up again at James

Cook University, AFL and Rugby

will both be increasing as the

season is about to kick off, and

one girls is looking to play

hockey. So our year will get busy

very quickly.

The weekends have been fun with

the usual events on. Church is on

Friday nights in the Library and

last week we went to the cinemas

to watch the movie – Risen –

based on the 40 days after the

resurrection of Jesus. This was

very good. On Saturdays we have

a late breakfast then go shopping

for a couple of hours, before

returning home to have dinner

and go to a paid activity. We

have been to the movies,

LaunchZone (trampolines), ten

pin bowling, roller skating and

Lazer Tag. This week we will

watch the first home game of the

Cowboys NRL season, against the

Sharks. It will be great to see the

World Champions and reigning

Premiers in action again. Let’s

hope that they can go back-to-

back!!!

It’s good spending time with

friends and learning to get along

with each other. Boarding is a

great time of learning and

development for our whole

community.

Confro boys at Columba The Shalom-St Anthony’s Dragons played at Columba

Catholic College over the weekend, with a draw against

Abergowerie, wins against Good Shepard (Mt Isa) and

Gilroy (Ingham) and unfortunately losing against

Columba. Congratulations on 3rd

overall for the carnival.

Getting fit Great to see lots of boys taking advantage of gym

facilities at Shalom and using it to improve their health

and fitness.

AROUND SHALOM

Loving it at Crystal Creek Girls doing the ‘Water bucket challenge’ at Crystal Creek

camp.

Matty Bowen visit Shalom welcomed Matty Bowen, past North

Queensland Cowboys full-back to the school on Friday

5th

March to speak with our students.

Pinnacles Equestrian Centre 9 students had the opportunity to go to Pinnacles to

experience a day working with horses. There was some

great feedback from all students on how much fun they

had.

MANY CULTURES • ONE FAITH Term 1 Week 7

Keep Supporting Our School

Supporting us can look like:

• Ask your young person did they have a good sleep last night? Why or why not?

• Ask your young person “What is The Shalom Way?”

• Ask your young person “What was one thing you learnt today?”

• Ask your young person “What activities have you done this weekend?”

Shalom would love to hear from families how their young people are doing at Shalom.

Sometimes they might feel shame or embarrassed to talk about these things with us-they might be a new

student and not know staff very well.

Call and have a talk with one of our PC teachers or Health and Wellbeing Team

Miss Di Yr 7/8 Miss Mary Yr 9/10 Miss Allison CC Miss Lorraine OC Miss Tegan Yr 11 Mr Ryan Yr 12 Miss Sharyn Yr 12 Miss Merwez Lit

Women

Mr Jonny Lit Men Mr Neil Yr 13 Miss Sandy –

Deputy Principal

Mr Bruce – Liaison

Officer

Mr Tom – Liaison

Officer

Aunty Sandra –

Liaison Officer

Aunty Jenny –

Liaison Officer

Uncle Tom – Liaison

Officer

Miss Christine –

Nurse

Miss Shelley – Health

Worker

Miss Jess –

Counsellor

Miss Hayley –

Counsellor

Miss Leesha –

Counselling

Programs

Important Dates Saturday 5

th March – Columba College Rugby League carnival

Friday 11th

March – Secondary Swimming Carnival

Wednesday 23rd

March – ABSTUDY Travel Day

Changed your sim card? Call Aunty Kylie or Aunty Fiona and let Shalom know your new number!

Want to send your family to Shalom? Give our Registrar, Jodi McLean, a call

to talk about what Shalom can do to

help your young person