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College update

UPCOMING DATES

Sunday 10 July Year 12 Holiday Seminar excursion leaves for Adelaide

Monday 18 July Year 12 semester exams commence – students please meet outside CDU Library

Tuesday 26 July Students resume semester 2 classes

Monday 1 August Picnic Day Public Holiday

Thursday 11 August Year 12 Parent / Student / Teacher Night……………………… 5:30pm-7:00pm

“excellence in all we do”

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Last Friday we felt the force of Mother Nature as the powerful hail storms hit our Grevillea Drive main building and many

other Alice Springs buildings and homes. With a large roof area and the hail blocking gutters, our top floor was inundated

with water coming through the ceilings and also entering many ground floor classrooms and offices. The end result was

around 80% of our classrooms and many staff workspaces were affected in a major way, making teaching of classes not

possible for the last week of term.

Faced with over 5cm of water lying in the upstairs Humanities Open Learning Area, an outstanding effort by numerous staff

and local contractors commenced the unpleasant, yet much needed task of sweeping the water out. Most of the upstairs

carpets and many soaked ceiling panels have now been removed

With us unable to continue teaching classes at the main Grevillea Drive building in week 11, the decision was made on

Sunday to transfer students to Centralian Middle School to continue their learning for week 11. As our top priority, Year 12

students continued their timetable classes from Monday. Our Year 10 & 11 students commenced combined classes at

Centralian Middle School from Wednesday.

Thanks to great cooperation and understanding from all students, staff and families, we were able to normalise the learning

for Year 12 students, as best we could. This was our top priority in the critical last week of term 2, leading up to Year 12

semester one exams in the last week of the four week break. Year 10 & 11 students have finished up their semester one

courses in a meaningful manner.

A great team effort by a great community of staff, students and families rallied to continue our focus on student learning.

Over the four week break our focus will be to prepare our facility in readiness for commencement of semester 2.

The last afternoon of term 2 saw teaching staff return to our main Grevillea Drive building to farewell staff leaving –

Sarah Hickmott (Tutor), Karina Fabijan (Reception), Alexandra Woodman (Humanities teacher). To all staff, students

and families have a restful break, reflect on the student reports included with this newsletter and plan how learning

can be improved even further. Tony Collins – Principal

The Storm Water Damage Upstairs Student learning continues at CMS

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Piano Lessons

If any students wish to learn piano

would they contact me on

[email protected] or pass

their interest onto Genevieve

O’Loughlin (Music teacher).

Thanks - Paul Leggett

(Relief teacher)

St John Ambulance Cover

Centralian Senior College pays an annual subscription to St

John Ambulance to cover against the cost of ambulance

transportation charges for any students transported from

the College or day excursions during normal school hours.

Students that attend school camps and trips (both within the

NT and interstate) also have a subscription paid to cover

any costs.

This means that parents or carers should not receive a bill

from St Johns Ambulance for any ambulance transportation

in these situations. However, should an invoice be received

please bring the invoice into the College. The College will

confirm that the patient is a current student of the school

and sign off the back of the invoice. The cost of the

ambulance trip will then be covered under our College

subscription.

The Alice Springs Show books are available at the Town Council

and various other places around the town. There are many sections

for children to enter e.g. Agriculture, Art, Cattle, Cooking, Craft,

Dogs, Hobbies, Horticulture, Pets and Animals, Photography and

Poultry. Enter and enjoy yourself at the show.

Term 2 Attendance Awards – For Improvement

The following students received an Attendance Award last College Assembly for improving their

attendance percentage. Well done and keep up the improving attendance.

Year 10

Cameron Braedon

Noa Brittain

Madisen Davis Tahere

Tamarah-Loua Etepo-Aunei

Amelia Findlay

Dominic Forbes

Sharney Haynes-McCallum

Padriac Jones

Tyrese Lane

Nataliea Laughton-Erlandson

Liam Malley

Corey Mueller

Brad Olinga

Chandra Pizziolo

Taigan Satour

Athena Steel

Year 11

Chloe Anderson

Shane Coulthard

Cheyanne Driffin

Katherine McKay

Neil McCallum

Joan Okoh

Krittawatt Saengpatomratana

Michael Ford

Bridget Hodge

Reshaun Kinnaird

Skye Lander

Jesse Pfeiffer

Ha Tran

Bonnie Usher

Year 12

Sheril George

Megan Heness

Kazmin Moketarinja

Kimia Jizan

Dakota McDonnell

Kiri McKay

Isabella Nicolai

Precious Palupe

Cameron Richards

Jaidyn Stanton

Carr Quitay

Jakab Stewart

mailto:[email protected]

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This year's Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) theme, Privacy in your hands,

reinforces the message that organisations, agencies and individuals must be vigilant in

maintaining a good understanding of their rights and responsibilities for the

handling of personal information.

On 25 May, Centralian Senior College

students were able to participate in a

Privacy Awareness Week Photo Booth

where students had the opportunity to

have their photos taken, including a

framed chalkboard message plus

promotional materials and information

on privacy and cyber safety.

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The first ever Clontarf Billy Kart Derby

was held at Yirara College with teams

from Tennant Creek, Centralian

Middle School and Centralian Senior

College Academies participating. The

day represented a term of hard work

from our Academy members who

designed and constructed their Billy

Karts through weekly Clontarf Contact

time. Each team had a budget of $150

to build their Billy Kart, but some

spent as little as $15.

The event consisted of two

components: Vehicle Presentation

and Racing. For the presentations,

teams did a show and tell about their

Billy Karts to a guest panel of judges.

It was great to see the Academy

members speaking so confidently

about their Billy Kart and

demonstrating what they had learnt

along the way.

Without a shadow of a doubt, the

racing was the highlight... it was

action packed and fast paced. Each

team had three sprint races with

Yirara Storm Riders coming out the

victors. Overall it was a fantastic

event which brought the greater

school community together and

developed the skills, abilities and

self-esteem of our Academy

members.

Darren Talbot

Four Centralian Senior Academy lads braved cool

temperatures over the long weekend to volunteer for the

Finke Desert race on Sunday morning. Ben Williams,

Curtis Bancroft, Felise Naufahu and Ayar Aban were track

marshals for the race which put them in the centre of the

action. The fellas got photos with three of our past Clontarf

members in Dallas Bathern, Tom Ellis and Eddie Hampton,

who competed in the race. Of course they couldn't miss the

chance to have a photo with the Finke Grid Girls to round

off an excellent weekend.

Ian McAdam

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Miss A.R.T. is a free School Holiday

Program that stands for Activate,

Reshape and Transform

It is practical, fun and filled with the

things you do not learn at school.

The Miss A.R.T. Program

runs for five days - Monday

through Friday. There will

be two groups - one for

Senior Teens (ages 16-19)

and one for Junior Teens

(ages 13-15).

The first group for Senior

Teens starts Monday 18

July 2016 and the group

for Junior Teens starts on

Wednesday 20 July 2016.

The venue is to be

confirmed.

Miss A.R.T. is an innovative program for teenage girls that strengthens their self-esteem

and resilience, builds confidence and a self-belief mindset, develops leadership

potential and cultivates their capacity to contribute to society and the lives of others. It

gives them the knowledge, tools and skills for a happy, healthy and confident future.

The content of Miss A.R.T. is based upon the A.R.T. Your Life 7 Week signature program

that was designed especially for women to help them love themselves, their bodies and

their lives. Over 800 women in the Northern Territory and several hundred women

across Australia (via an online option) have done A.R.T Your Life and they have all said 'I

wish had learnt this when I was a teenager' and so, The Miss A.R.T. Foundation was

established.

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All Year 10 students participated in the

Love Bites respectful relationship

programme this term. This programme

gives students valuable information and

time to think about healthy and functional

relationships. Students developed hip hop

tracks and posters in the afternoon

sessions to enable their ideas and

messages about respectful relationships to

be conveyed to the wider community. The

posters are currently on display within the

College and some of the hip hop tracks

have been played on ABC radio.

Students did a great job

participating. Thanks also to other

agencies and people (CYMHS, Create,

Clontarf, Girls Academy and Dan the

Underdog) who worked alongside the

school in running the programme.

Robyn Linsdell - School Counsellor

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Centralian Senior College former student, Jacinta Braun features on the right hand side of the

poster below for NAISDA Dance College, north of Sydney this year.

NAISDA Dance College is Australia’s premier Indigenous training college with a proud tradition

of producing the next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers since 1976.

Centralian Senior College Year 10

bands ‘Ground Zero’ and ‘Juice’

and also Year 12 Band ‘Room

103’ participated in the 2016

Centralian Rock Eisteddfod.

Congratulations to both Year 10

band ‘Ground Zero’ and Year 12

band ‘Room 103’on their First

Prize wins for Rock Band.

Congratulations also to Juice for

receiving the Highly Commended

award. Well done all

Well done to both Jade Thorogood

and Geremy Pedrezuela for their

great performances in the

Eisteddfod Vocal Solo.

Congratulations to Jade for

winning First prize in the 18 and

under solo vocal section and for

also being awarded the Alice

Springs Junior Singers Perpetual

Trophy for the most promising

vocalist 18 years and under.

Genevieve O’Loughlin

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