The VALUE for Week 8 of Term 3 will be :

JOYFULLNESSJOY is a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.

“Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.” Robert Louis

Stevenson

“A cheerful heart is good medicine.” Proverbs 17:22 “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and

be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24

Our Primary Volleyball team who participated at the SSV competitions earlier on today

Weekly Newsletter for Parents, Students and Friends of Gilson College

Smoking and Soft Drink

I am just old enough to remember when there was debate about the benefits or harm

caused by smoking. It was in the mid 1960s that the first report (Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service) was released. However the time preceding this was characterised by intense arguments from both sides of the issue.

Now fifty years later nobody questions the link between smoking, cancer and premature death. Despite this, in the USA 45 million adults still smoke, 8 million live with serious smoking related health problems and almost half a million people die prematurely. In Australia, about 3 million people smoke despite the habit being ‘recognised as the largest single preventable cause of death and disease in Australia’ (ABS). Most adult smokers state that they wished they had never started and would like to be able to quit.

The first concerns about smoking were raised during the 1930s and for the next forty years or so tobacco companies highlighted medical research and used medical doctors to endorse their products. The American Tobacco Company would send free cartons of cigarettes to doctors asking them to identify that some brands were less irritating for those who had ‘sensitive or tender throats’. Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds and other companies also engaged in some rather ordinary behaviour in trying to sell products that harm. You can see some surprising advertisements here: http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1848212_1777633,00.html

Today we marvel that there were once physician-tested and approved cigarettes and perhaps it is an indication of how mass marketing and commercial interests tend to override our personal health needs.

Recently I came across an article that reminded me of this past history when I read how the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) a non-profit research group investigating the causes of obesity identified that we are the problem. Focusing on the need to exercise more (no one should argue with this!) however GEBN’s public announcements appear to avoid the role of diet and sugar sweetened soft drink or sodas – and no surprises they have, according to the New York Times, significant linkages with Coca Cola that involve the same personnel, funding support ($1.5 million) and website creation.

Here is what other research scientists say, if you give up soft drink:

You’ll be less hungry; you’ll look younger; you’ll lose more weight; you’ll get sick less often; you’ll reduce hidden fats; you’ll stop your bones from breaking; and you’ll have more energy (http://time.com/3996117/soda-obesity-aging/). I wonder how long before the connections here are widely accepted?

It’s worth a thought.

Mark B Vodell Principal

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Gilson Gazette - 28 August 2015

General News

GCCC AnnouncementsNO Adventurers afternoon meeting this Saturday 28th

August.We are all invited to attend the Gilson College Community

Church “KIDS CHURCH”Please see flyer for more information.

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Calendar 2015

Term 3 Week 08

m01 - 04 Sep• VET Year 11 Rafting

m02 September• Canberra Infromation Night

m05 Sep• GSD Foundation and Year 6

Term 3 Week 09

m06 Sep• Working Bee

m07 - 17 Sep• Year 9 Camp

m09 Sep• Year 2 Excursion - Scienceworks• Primary Art Show

m10 - 17 Sep• Year 11 Avondale Trip

Term 3 Week 10

m14 - 25 Sep• my* mission Trip

m18 Sep• Term 3 Ends

Term 4

Term 4 Week 01

m06 October• Term 4 Begins

m06 - 09 October• Swimming Foundation and Year 1

Term 4 Week 02

m11 October• Working Bee

m12 - 16 October• Swimming Foundation and Year 1

Term 4 Week 03

m19 October• Year Puberty Clues

m20 October• Year 10 Camp

Term 4 Week 04

m25 October• Working Bee

m27 October• French Themed Evening

E-Safety for Parents WebsiteHere is a government website

that has been developed to answer many parents questions about: • protecting your child from

cyberbullying• regarding translating the jargon

in the cyber-world• covering parental controls• explaining strategies for dealing

with inappropriate content• about protecting children from

on-line predators• regarding how much time

children should spend watching a screen.Here is the link. https://esafety.gov.au/education-

resources/parent-resourcesThe site has other features

that may interest parents, such as a section on Complaints and Reporting and the Cybersafety HELP button.

College FeesA reminder that fees are now

overdue. Please contact the College Bursar to make arrangements.

Primary News

MATHEMATICS PROFESSIONAL LEARNINGThis week (National Literacy and

Numeracy week) was a fitting time for our teachers to continue their ongoing professional learning work with our Mathematics consultants.Sue Fine worked with Primary teachers and Michael Richards with secondary teachers. Both consultants spent some with teachers in their classrooms observing, demonstrating and providing feedback and feedforward. Our secondary English teachers recently worked once again with our English consultant Lisa McNeice, revisiting learning and teaching in this area. These activities are all part of our regular professional learning program.

AWARDS NAMESOn Monday morning in our

Primary Awards Assembly a student from each class was acknowledged for demonstrating the value of

Fairness.FW Shreyas BomirasipetFSJ Xavier Vidal and Sarah Kovoor1A Leander Jayasuriya1AL Lennox Pham2G –Esha Grover2H -Priyanka Chandra2L – Leanne Poon 3A – Alicia Guerra3B – Saumya Dania/Deniz Daymen4P – - Logan MacGregor4T – - Ayman Rahman and Ayush

Rawat5G – Elioan Kifle5S – Isaiah Harvie6JM – Chris Nicolaou6R – Guntas KundiFrench – Maby Addis

Year 6 Canberra Information Night Wednesday 2nd September

7.00pm Parent of Year 6 Students

please come along to attend the information evening for Canberra, important information will be presented about our upcoming camp in Term 4 along with itinerary’s, luggage lists and other important information for both parents and students. We will meet in the Year 5/6 Building at 7.00pm.

Seniors’ Connect – Reading ProgramLots is happening with our

seniors connect program over the next few weeks residents from THRV will be visiting our Foundation and Year 1 students to listen to reading and to read to our students. Earlier in the Year Foundation and Year 1 students have made birthday cards for residents of THRV. Look out for photos or click on the seniors connect link on our website under the GCCC tab for photos and reflection of what students have been doing so far.

Primary Sports Dates for this term:• 9th September, ASV Cross

Country First three Adidas Fun Run

qualifiers will be represent Gilson in our sister school cross country.

I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is

my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.Psalms 18: 1- 2

Verse of the Week

• 15th September, Division Athletics

District qualifiers only.

CALENDAR DATES• 24th – 28th August – Book Week• 5th September – GSD Foundation

and Year 6• 9th September – ASV Cross

Country• 9th September – Art Exhibition

Secondary News

Careers EmailAs of September 1, all non-Gilson

College e-Mail accounts registered to gilsoncollegecareers.com will be removed from the system, in order to streamline student resources under the single e-Mail address. If your child has an account on gilsoncollegecareers.com under their own personal account, and would like their account to remain active, please ask them to e-Mail Mr. Westray (scott.westray@gilson.vic.edu.au) with both the current address being used for their account, as well as the Gilson College e-Mail address they would like to have it replaced with (eg. 15_firstnamelastname@gilsoncollege.vic.edu.au for a current Yr12 student).

Careers News• Course/Career Profile - Jessica

Gay, Psychological Science • Course/Career Profile - Joseph

Alvarez, Medical Radiation Science

• Course/Career Profile - Mitch Cowan, Environmental Science and Management

• Upcoming Open Day dates• Projected job growth statistics

- Health and Social Assistance and Education and Training has highest projected job growth by 2019.

• Key dates for Year 12 students applying for Early Entry programs

• New Advanced Surface Science Lab at La Trobe University

• Exciting business and sport programs at La Trobe University for Indigenous students

• Career profile- Nuclear Materials Modelling Leader

• Federation University - excellent results for teaching quality in the Good Universities Guide

• Federation Generation - new marketing campaign from FedUni

• ACU Passion for Business early entry applications close 31 August

• Living It at CSU competition • New Engineering course at

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GILSON COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHURCH PRESENTS

KIDS CHURCH SATURDAY 29TH AUGUST 2015

STARTS AT 10AM (ECO SCIENCE ROOM)

PRESENTER – SANDRA ENGLAND

THE ARMOUR OF GOD EPHESIANS 6 : 10 - 18

Come and join us with your children and family. Even get

to see and hear some of our children leading in Praise &

Worship. A morning not to be missed! Snacks afterwards.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) - unique to Australia

• CSU Engineering Future Students competition

• Creative Arts information evenings at La Trobe University

• Interested in working in radio - partnership between CSU and Southern Cross Austereo

• Interested in horticulture? Open Day at BurnleyPlease note the Careers newsletter

will now be available from Wednesday as well on the ‘Careers Newsletter’ page on gilsoncollegecareers.com. For more details please visit the College Website or the College App - Skoolbag

KEY CALENDAR DATES• 1st Sept - 04 Sept VET Year 11

Rafting• 6th Sept - Working Bee• 7th - 17th Sept - Year 9 Camp• 7th - 17th Sept - Year 9 Camp• 10th - 17th Sept - Year 11

• 14th - 25th Sept - my*mission Trip

College Events  

 

WHAT AN EXCITING WEEK WE HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS WEEK! This  week  was  national  Literacy  and  Numeracy  Week  so  as  usual  at  Gilson  College  we  have  explored  a  number   of   books   through   the   lens   of   Numeracy.   We   certainly   found   that   the   2015   Children’s   Book  Council   theme   of   ‘Books   Light   Up   Our   World.’   is   true!   Books   lit   up   our   world   in   a   special   way   this  

week.   Teachers,   students   and   parents   had   fun   at   our   opening   Book   Week   Character   parade   on   Monday,   teachers   and  parents   read   favourite   storybooks   to   students   in   the   library,   in   the  pergolas  and   in   the  classrooms.   As  well   as   books   that  show  that  words  and  numbers  can  go  together,  classes  have  also  explored  books  that  have  important  values  to  learn.  Book  titles  ranged  from  ‘Follow  the  Rabbit-­‐proof  Fence’  in  Year  6  to  ‘The  Doorbell  Rang’  and  ‘Thank  You  Grandpa’  in  Years  1  and  2.  Of  course  teachers  also  explored  during  class  worship  and  Encounter  learning  and  teaching  times  more  from  the  book  that  lights  up  our  world  the  most  –  the  Bible.  Our  annual  Book  Fair  was  also  successful.    

FROM MRS HOLLAND AND KULSOOM IN YEAR 2L: Mrs.  Holland  writes,  “On  Monday  while   I  was  reading  Thank  you  Grandpa   to  my  class,   I  cried.   It’s  a  beautiful  story  that  talks  to  young  children  about  the  more  difficult  things  of  life.  Later  we  created  big  ‘hugs’  that  contained  messages  to  our  loved  ones  and  then  encircled  the  messages  with  big  “huggy”  arms.   That   night   one   of   the   girls,   who   knows   first-­‐hand   the   sadness   of   loss,   voluntarily   wrote   this  

account.    Her  Grandfather  told  her  that  if  I  cried  when  I  read  it,  then  he  would  take  her  for  a  treat.  After  I  read  it,  I  wrote  to  him,   letting  him  know  that  even   though   I  had  not  cried,   the  writing  was  so   tender,   she  deserved  her   reward  anyway.  See  what  you  think?”    ‘Two Parrots’ by Kulsoom Shah. I  used  to  have  two  parrots.  Their  names  were  Dorito  and  Shrayu.  They  loved  to  fly  around  the  house.  Shrayu  would  bite  when  I  took  him  out   from  his  cage.  Dorito  would  not  bite.  They   liked  kissing  each  other.  When  Dorito  died  Shrayu  was  very  sad.   I  think  he  was  lonely.  I  tried  to  be  his  friend.  He  did  not  want  to  play  with  me.  My  grandpa  told  me  to  let  him  go.  I  took  the  cage  outside.  I  opened  the  cage  and  said  goodbye  to  Shrayu.  He  flew  up  and  over  the  fence.  He  looked  back  and  then  flew  away.  I  had  tears  in  my  eyes.  

QUOTES FROM OUR STUDENTS ABOUT HOW BOOKS LIGHT UP THEIR WORLDS

TULIP  6R:  Books  light  up  my  world  because  they  teach  me  a  lot  of  things.  Especially  the  Bible.  I  know  who  God  is  and  how  we  were  created.  Also   it   improves  my   imagination,  vocabulary  and  comprehension.  Overall  books  are  great   learning  tools  and  although  I  don't  read  a  lot,  I  enjoy  reading.  GUNTAS  6R:  Books   light  up  my  world  because  they  are  visual  and  fascinating.  Reading   is  something  we  all   learn  from,  e.g.  writing,  learning  words  we  haven't  heard  yet  and  sometimes  learning  who  the  author  is.  I  am  quite  fascinated  with  reading  and  I  believe  everyone  should  read  and  learn  something  from  it.  We  all  learn  something  new  everyday.  KRISTI  6JM:  books  light  up  my  world  because  it  doesn't  matter  what  type  of  day  you  may  have  had,  if  you  are  happy  OR  sad,  if  it  is  a  good  book  you're  reading  it  will  take  you  to  a  fantasy  land  of  happiness  and  adventure.  JINTANAH  5G:  Books  light  up  my  world  because  they  can  give  me  lots  of  knowledge,  which  can  be  used  anytime  in  life.  They  improve  my  imagination,  and  nothing  will   limit  us  from  reading  books.  They  light  up  my  world  when  I  am  especially  sad  or  feeling  down.  Most  importantly,  books  are  to  enjoy  anytime!  ISAAC   5G:   Books   light   up   the   world   with   stories,   morals   and   information.   Books   trigger   our   emotions   and  make  us  think.  VIVIAN  3A:  Books  light  up  my  world  because  they  take  me  on  the  best  dreams!  VIHAAN  1J:  Books  light  up  my  world  because  they  are  fun.  I  like  pop  up  books  and  ones  that  hide  toys  that  go  in  the  book.  

If you have a Google account you can read more quotes by scanning our QR Code.

REPSONSES TO THE STORY “I COULDN’T LOVE YOU MORE” FROM YEAR 1J STUDENTS:

AT THE BOOK WEEK PARADE, BY MILLA, FOUDATION T

I  was  little  red  riding  hood  at  the  Parade  and  I  saw  Kaitlen.  Her  friend  broke  her  wand.  We  were  walking  around  the  school  gym.  Clara  was  dressed  up  like  Goldilocks.  I  saw  Alana  in  her  costume  like  a  penguin.  I  enjoyed  the  book  week  

parade.    By  Milla  Causovski

College EventsYear 5 and 6 Book Week sharing time

SSV Events today

Right: Volleyball team in action, Below right : Helena, Claudia,

Pretty, Below left: Deborah first place holder in her track event.

College EventsPerforming Arts Concerts

College Events URL - Tonight at 7.00pm Bring A Friend Along!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/goups/parentsandfriendsgilsoncollege/ Email: parentsandfriends@gilsoncollege.com

Parents and Friends Commitee NEWS

Upcoming EventsTerm 3

* Sept 2nd - 3rd

Fathers Day Stall

* Aug 31st

P&F Committee Meeting

* Aver&Line Family Photo delivery

* ADIDAS Primary Fun – prize delivery

* Entertainment Book Fundraiser

Father’s Day Stall

Wednesday the 2nd and Thursday the 3rd of September

Primary students: Students may purchase on the Wednesday and Thursday. There will be limited stock on the Thursday. There will be gifts for Dads and Grandfathers. Great time to let the kids do the shopping.

Prep-Grade 3 parents: please put money in a purse or snap lock bag to ensure monies aren’t misplaced, and to avoid dis-appointment of lost payment.

Secondary students: May purchase on both days - only during their lunch break. An announcement will be made to advise Secondary students they can enter the Primary school’s PLA to make purchases.

Prices:

Gifts will range from $2.00 - $15.00

Gift cards 50c - $1. Gift bags will also be available.

Helpers: Our stalls cannot run without the generous assistance of parent volunteers. Assistance is required from 9.00am to 2.00pm on the Wednesday. Parent helpers will be capped at 15 people. Parents are expected to stay for the whole day.

If you are interested in helping, please email us with an ex-pression of interest to assist to: parentsandfriends@gilsoncol-lege.com

2015 / 16 Entertainment Book Fundraiser

Limited books available at the Uniform Shop. Online purchase link http://www.entertain-mentbook.com.au/orderbooks/1956x55

Aver & Line photos are at the College Office for collection

Prizes will be delivered to the classrooms soon

 

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