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BISHOP DRUITT COLLEGEFAITHFULNESS IN SERVICE

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BISHOP DRUITT COLLEGECOFFS HARBOUR 6 September | 2013

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It’s almost over . . . the election campaign, that is.

The past five weeks have seen the usual ‘promise fest’ from both sides of politics as each jostles to convince voters one is more deserving of their vote than the other. With both major parties overlapping in the centre of the political spectrum, not too much will change with a change of government.

As a teenager in the Whitlam years, school hours were often filled with the philosophical arguments of the Right and the Left. It was the time of the end of the Vietnam War; refugees; Medicare; scandal; blocked supply; Khemlani; and the Dismissal. School was in Werriwa, Whitlam’s electorate. Mark Latham and I were in the same class.

Teachers often led the conversations, and our English and History classes often diverged from the syllabus for healthy debate to occur. Perhaps it is the combination of sapping 24/7 mass media coverage and a certain ‘genericness’ of our current crop of politicians that stultifies that sort of animated conversation among our students today.

Our leaders need to be people our children admire – for their honesty, integrity, and humility. David Pocock, the outstanding rugby flanker (who, but for a knee reconstruction would be playing for the Wallabies against the Springboks tomorrow night) stands tall among young leaders in our children’s eyes.

He is a man of courage and conviction. He blacks out the logos of his rugby boots, ignoring potentially lucrative sponsorship deals – because he refuses to lend his name to companies who benefit from sweatshop labour conditions in Third World countries. His stance saw ‘Heroes Boots’, begin. He runs his own charity, ‘EightyTwenty Vision’, which helps a remote community in his native Zimbabwe. He and his partner refuse to marry legally until their gay friends have the same rights.

Whether or not we agree with his sentiments is not the purpose of this example. It is about the value of following one’s conscience.

Here is a rugby superstar who could concentrate on ‘Brand Pocock’, become phenomenally wealthy and thrive on the dollars his talent and global adulation would derive. Rather, this 23 year old idealist is content with the salary his rugby talent demands and is determined to make a telling mark on his society.

Here is a man who models idealism, conviction, compassion, moral fibre, determination, and an immense work ethic. Here is a leader our young men and women can admire.

Congratulations this week:to all of the BDC students who attended the Da Vinci Decathlon tournament at The Armidale School this week. • to the U10’s and U12’s Rugby teams that won their respective grand finals in the CHJRU night competition. This is a great effort • from these boys. The U12 team went through the season undefeated. Thanks to Paul Spinoglio and Patrick Ward for coaching the U10 team and Craig Lang and Shane Oxley for coaching the U12’s.

Buy A Brick updAte

All bricks that were ordered by sponsors will be delivered early next week. They will be affixed to the wall of the Branson Centre before the end of term.

I hope many parents will be able to see the bricks during the busyness of the EYE Festival and the Valedictory celebrations that we will hold during the last week of term. Please feel free to drop in and have a look in that last week if you have the chance.

If you would still like to purchase a brick, order forms are available on the College website. We will wait until we have a sizeable number before placing a supplementary order.

principAl’s App of the week: GoogleGoggles

There’s much excitement this week as the 2013 political campaign is in its final stages. Over these past months it has been hard to ignore the saturation of political news by the media as they follow candidates around on the campaign trail, to determine who the people will elect as the leader of this country. Like many of you, I too have been weighing up the promises of each party and wonder if they are really based on truth and will follow through to provide hope for a nation who trusts, that whomever is elected, that good governance will follow.

This week, I have reflected as we explored the meaning of the words of Jesus in the parable of the sower and the four types of soil that are used as an example. We learnt that the seed is Gods word and where it falls is very important for it to survive and mature. Our hearts and minds may be like the path that the seed is scattered on but it will have no chance of growing because it is just too hard. Perhaps the seed that falls onto the stony ground takes root and then dies out because of its shallow roots, then there is the seed that begins to grow but is choked out by the distractions of life, but we are reminded for the seed to fully grow it needs to have

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from the head of secondaryruok?Please support our efforts with RUOK? Day next Thursday 12 September, by wearing yellow and bringing a gold coin donation to support the foundation in the fight against suicide.

hollows wins!Congratulations to Hollows House who are champions for 2013. The House points are tallied from all sporting carnivals, House Shout and College merit awards. Congratulations to Sutherland House who took out the House Shout this year in a very close contest.

Buy A BuddyNext Thursday 12 September, Year 12 will be auctioning themselves as buddies to the rest of the Secondary school. The money raised at auction is donated to the Cambodia Tour at the end of the year. If your children ask you about this, it is legitimate and I would ask you to support this worthy cause. Have a conversation with your children about amounts they are allowed to spend at this auction. The best thing to do is to encourage groups of friends to get together and pool amounts to purchase buddies. The aim is to raise at least $1500, which is the cost of building materials for one house.

yeAr 11All the best to Year 11, who are completing end of Preliminary Course examinations over the next seven days. It is important that students present for examinations in full College uniform and at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Have a great week.

fertile soil that is lovingly prepared. I wonder what that could mean for us here in this community as I am reminded of the rights and responsibilities for all students who attend this college.

At Bishop Druitt College all students have the right to a safe and caring learning environment in which everyone is treated with respect. And with every right there is a corresponding responsibility and I believe that rights are an aspect of a healthy community and the mission of social justice within our Christian community, provided that the same rights are followed with the appropriate responsibility and with respect for all. For rights without responsibilities to support that right are unjust! I would like to revisit the parable of the sower and remind us all, that in order for the seed to grow and be nurtured to maturity it involves quite a lot of responsibility to produce a soil that is fertile and lovingly prepared in order to gauge a greater harvest. Students have the right to search for Gods purpose in their life and every student has the responsibility to respect the right of others to also search for Gods purpose.

The Diocese of Grafton is in the process of selecting a new Bishop; I have included “A prayer for a time of choosing a Bishop” could you please include this prayer next time you pray. Eternal God, shepherd and guide, in your mercy give your Church in this diocese a shepherd after your own heart who will walk in your ways, and with loving care watch over your people. Give us a leader of vision and a teacher of your truth. So may your church be built up and your name glorified; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

dAte clAimerAFRICAN DINNER WITH SONG AND DANCE: On Saturday 28 September after the 6p.m. service at St Johns Anglican Church Coffs Harbour at 2 McLean Street. There will be a charge with proceeds going to Anglican Board of Mission projects in South Sudan. Please come along and bring your friends for a great might with delicious food and good company. For further information please call the parish office on 665114700.

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

Shalom

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Rev Marion Tanfieldchaplain

Byot BlogThe internet has a plethora of self help sites that run on any device. There are a large amount of emerging sites that can assist our students as they transition into University or other post high school study. I am going to talk about a couple of things that students can do as they move to University:

Sophia.orgThis is a fantastic site that students can sign up to. It provides assistance and video tutorials for a number of courses and is continually growing in the support that it provides. Some of these courses are online and paid. http://www.sophia.org

iTunes UThis can only be accessed on Apple devices. iTunes U is an app that can be downloaded on the Appstore. It has a number of Universities worldwide that provide many of their course notes and video tutorials free to download. These are all searchable from


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Rebecca BrownVisual Arts faculty

Kathy RossAssistant year 11 coordinator

Sue Siwinskihead of science

within the app. Harvard University has a huge number of free course notes, videos and mid-term assignments available in Statistics, Computer Science and many other degrees. These are great resources for students studying similar courses in Australia.

Kahn AcademyA fantastic website, also available as an app. This website is truly incredible. Free video tutorials on anything from Mathematics, Science, Economics and History. It’s scope stretches from Primary School right through to University level.

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Year 11 has recently completed a unit concerning portraiture and the individual. This stunning example is by Clarice Berry. All the students are to be congratulated on their experimentation and skill. The exhibition is short lived and very professionally set up. All are welcome this week in the Visual Arts space!

Last Saturday some year 11 students together with their committed parents organized a fundraiser to raise money for the Year 11 BDC Cambodia fund to build homes for Cambodian communities in need. Over $3000 was raised on the night. A guest on the night commented: “It was a fantastic night and achieved a tremendous result towards the Cambodian fundraising goal. The barn style atmosphere was terrific complete with mural, hay bales and barrels and the stage, lights and sound were just like being at a concert. The Bostocks were definitely a crowd pleaser and the warm up act of the talented BDC kids were also well received.”

Bishop Druitt College and the organisers of the event would like to thank the following families and businesses for their generosity:The Berry Family Blush Make-up and BeautyEnchanted Clothing SempreEssential Health A Bit on the SidePrecious Petals Florists Serene Massage Health and BeautyAnn Hobson Beauty Therapy Woolworths, Park Beach PlazaColes PaperboysTutti Frutti

Many thanks also to the incredible team of parents and students who worked so hard to make the event happen.

mArine science experience for yeAr 10 And 11 studentsThe Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour Daybreak is inviting students currently in Year 10 and 11 to apply for their local weekend Marine Science experience. This residential weekend school is Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 October 2013, for talented students interested in marine studies and marine careers. The cost is $430 and includes accommodation in the Jetty YHA hostel, all meals, field trips, canoeing, snorkeling, a Dolphin Marine Magic tour, lab work at the Marine Science Centre and more. Applications close on Friday 27 September and it is limited to 21 participants - so apply early. Copies of the form can be collected from outside the Science staffroom or online at http://www.coffsharbourdaybreak.org/rymarine

csiro science showYear 8 students all attended the CSIRO science shows at BDC last Thursday. Scott, the presenter from HQ in Sydney, entertained them with many demonstrations and science ‘toys’ involving forces, electricity and magnetism. Comments from students in the audience included “Plasma energy can create enough electricity to light up a bulb after being conducted through a student’s body; the student didn’t feel a thing”“Angular momentum can be used to turn spaceships when they are in outer space”“Projectors mix red, blue and green light energies to project white light”“Infra-red comes out of a remote control and you can use a ‘selfie’ camera to see it”“We watched a super magnet move down inside a metal pipe using a digital camera projecting an image onto the screen”“Scott made science fun and exciting and did some really cool experiments”


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careers2014 CSU foundation accommodation scholarships open September 9: http://www.csu.edu.au/scholarships

year 10, 11 or 12 students interested in music? Why not consider going to the ‘rock school’ January 6-10 2014 at Griffith University, Gold Coast campus. Collect application forms from me, or see http://www.griffith.edu.au/music/popular-music/high-school-and-community-programs/rock-school

maquarie university - uni in a day friday 27 september Thinking about Macquarie University? See http://mq.edu.au/uniinaday/home.html

Year 11 students interested in participating in Sydney University - Uni in a day on either 30 September or 2 October. Please see me.

reminders: Defence Forces presentation 17 September 2013. Students are required to return a permission note to attend, please collect from your tutor or me.

New and continuing TVET students please submit EOI forms to me before September 13.

from the head of primaryByot in yeAr 6As part of the transition program for students moving onto secondary school in 2014, next term students in Year 6 will be allowed to bring to school any technological device that will be of benefit to them in their learning. A document will be sent home next week outlining the details of the BYOT (Bring your own technology) policy. this does not mean that the school is expecting parents to purchase any device no matter how convincing your student may sound. Students have access to laptops and iPads at school so no student will miss out on opportunities for learning if they do not bring their own device to school. This may be a time for students and parents to discuss purchase of a device over the Christmas break if you all agree this is necessary. At the Year 7 Orientation Day there will further explanation of how things work in secondary. Once you have read the BYOT document, if you have any further questions could you please direct them to the class teacher or myself.

eAt it to BeAt itWe all know that eating healthy food helps us to maintain good health. Sometimes it is difficult to get our children to eat the required 2 serves of fruit and 3 serves of vegetables needed every day not to protect against harmful diseases but to maintain a healthy weight. At BDC we have joined the Eat it to Beat it campaign run by the cancer council and are encouraging our students to develop a healthier lifestyle. Below is an example of a recipe to try at home. It is a great addition to any lunchbox.

easy Vegie slice

Ingredients4 slices wholemeal bread 1 tablespoon polyunsaturated margarine 4 lean slices ham 1 small onion 1 small zucchini 1 tablespoon SR flour 2 teaspoons finely chopped parsley 2 eggs ½ cup grated fat-reduced cheese

Utensils Knife and chopping board 23 cm round or square microwave- proof dish Cup Fork Grater Mixing bowl Microwave oven

Method1. Cut the crusts off the bread. Spread bread lightly with margarine. 2. Arrange spread side up on the bottom of a shallow dish. 3. Cut up the ham in small pieces. Put in a bowl. 4. Grate the onion and zucchini using the big holes on the grater. Add to the bowl. 5. Add egg, flour, parsley and cheese. Stir well. 6. Use a fork to beat the egg. 7. Spoon mixture over bread. Cover with plastic wrap. 8. Microwave on MED-HIGH for 8 minutes. Serve hot or cold.

Enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend.

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167 ORLANDO ST COFFS HARBOURLIFEHOUSE CHURCH

Maretta Woodon behalf of the primary slt

primary slt newsOn Friday August 2, the Primary SLT organised a Jeans For Genes Day. Thanks to the great support of students and families, we were able to raise $502.20 for this important cause. The money has been forwarded to the Children’s Medical Research Institute to help them continue their work in finding cures for childhood diseases.

Thank you also to the students who participated in the World Vision 40 Hour Famine. It is now time to collect your sponsor money and bank it online or return money and booklets to Mrs Wood. Every donation helps World Vision support their 2013 target country, Malawi, providing food and health care, particularly for children.

The EYE Festival is fast approaching and last week several Year 6 students helped with printing t-shirts with the logo for our ‘Bugs Alive!’ theme. A logo design competition was held at the beginning of this term and the winner was Keira Williams in 3M. A colouring competition will be run during EYE Week and the designer of this artwork was Bianca De Jong in 5D. Congratulations to these two talented artists and thanks also to all the students who contributed their great ideas. Over $1500 was raised from the printing of shirts and these funds will support our World Vision sponsor children. Thank you to all families who supported the EYE Shirt fundraiser again this year.

ants’hillvania

Be water wise

We are excited that Year 6 and Year 1 will be presenting a musical, “Ants’Hillvania”, during the EYE Festival. The students have been working tirelessly to bring the production together. All students are involved in some capacity, from major roles to set construction and costuming, and their attendance at each of the two performances is vital to the success of the play.

We would love to have Bishop Druitt College parents and friends in the audience.

dates: Wednesday 18th September – 5.30pm; duration: Approx. 40 minutesVenue: Branson Centreentry: Gold coin donation

We would appreciate a gold coin donation on entry – the money raised will go towards our Bicycles for Cambodia appeal.

The students from 6F recently worked with Jane from Water wise to find out just how much water Bishop Druitt College used and how much we spent in the process. How much money do you think that BDC spends on providing us all with the precious water we need each year? Twenty dollars a week? Fifty dollars? Maybe even $100? In fact, Bishop Druitt College spends approximately $250 a week on its water expenses. That’s a staggering $13 000 a year.

Every time we use a cubic metre (or 1000 litres) of water it cost the school around $1.80. So when you have a drink, wash your hands or clean off your paintbrushes the money literally flows down the sink!More amazingly, to pump the water away from BDC that we flush down the toilet it costs us more like $2.50 a cubic metre. To put this in simple terms 6000 cubic litres of water get used in our school every year. That’s 6 000 000 litres!

“How does this relate to me”? I hear you ask.“What can I do about it?” You may say. “I need to have a drink, wash my hands and clean up after myself don’t I?”

That’s true and we don’t want you to stop these things, BUT here’s the thing: We from 6F went around the primary school and identified no less than 12 separate bubblers and taps that leak. While many only dripped a little bit this all add up to needless WASTE

On Sunday, September 29th Mr Penny’s band ‘The Toads’ is putting on a ‘toadally’ awesome children’s concert at Coffs Harbour’s LifeHouse church. Complete with Reggae theme, the 11 piece band will feature familiar faces Dan Sensei and Mrs Crismale on saxophones and Mrs Stuart on keys. The concert will be recorded and filmed to create a live DVD and we would love you to come and help us pack the room. At the conclusion of the concert there will be food and coffee available for purchase as well as face painting and a jumping castle. The concert, to be held in the kids’ section of the church is free entry and families are most welcome. We’d love to see you there!!

where: LifeHouse Church, 167 Orlando Street Coffs Harbourwhen: Sunday 29th September, 9:30amdress: Reggae, greens, reds, yellows and dreadlocks.contact: Mr Adrian Penny email: [email protected]

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Kyle Lang, Luke Walker and Colby Noble giving a demonstration of how miners panned and dug for gold.

Brianna Malouf and Grace Twentyman giving their presentation about different groups of people on the goldfields during the Australian gold rush era.

Dear Oma,

Daddy is working hard every day to find gold. Sometimes I help too. I hold his bucket while he fills his pan with dirt. Then I empty the water into the pan and Dad slooshes the water around while tilting the pan. Dad carries a small wooden box around in case of a find. All he has is seven measly specs, sitting on a bed of cotton wool. He is very careful and goes ‘Ow’ every time he empties the pan, as if he is disappointed. He has never smiled on the gold fields, but inside I know that he is as excited as a young dog on its first walk. I miss Bearchre. How is he? Is he being good and eating his dog food?

Everyone suspects dad’s claim is a good one. They ask to trade, but he never says yes. He just swishes his pan and says, ‘no thanks, mate’. He pretends to be Aussie but when we go to bed, he always tells me a story in Dutch. Nothing but Dutch.

A letter from the gold fields by Lucy Alkemade (5P)

This week 5S have been learning about the Australian gold rush and different groups of people that lived and worked on the goldfields. Students presented their information to the class in a range of fun and creative ways.

grade of the week - year 5

and the school spending unnecessary MONEY. In fact, one bubbler outside the music department leaked at a rate of 50 millimetres a minute, that’s 3 litres an hour, OR 72 litres a day, OR 504 litres a week... OR 28, 000 LITRES A YEAR. That’s 28 of these boxes a year full of water, down the drain, gone, lost. Wait for it: This equals no less than $50 a year down the gurgler from JUST ONE leaking bubbler!

As a result of our findings we have submitted a maintenance report to Mr Mac and his team so that these taps can be repaired ASAP.

NOW I still hear you say, “So what? This has nothing to do with me! I can’t be held responsible for leaking taps! Isn’t this some one else’s problem?”

Well try this on for size! On at least 10 different occasions either 6F students or Mr Freeman walked around our Primary campus to inspect our bubblers and taps after students had gone back to class or gone home for the day. ON EVERY SINGLE OCCASION we found that students were leaving taps and bubblers running. Not just dripping BUT RUNNING! In other words some of us are leaving taps flowing after we have finished using them. We have to work together to put an end to this.

Think for a moment. If one slightly leaking bubbler costs the school $50 a year and wastes 28 cubic litres of precious, life giving water, how much are we pouring down the sink when we rush, forget or just don’t care enough to turn taps off properly?

From now on when you stand at the bubblers and taps in the toilets you will see one of our brilliant posters. They are designed as a reminder for you to stop the flow of the H2O! When you see them ask yourself, “Have I turned the tap off as well as I can?” If you have trouble turning a tap off ask a bigger buddy to help you. If you feel that the tap is too hard to turn off then come and see us in 6F or tell your teacher and we will see if we can get the problem fixed and make it easier to use.

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Last week Bishop Druitt College sent a strong contingent up to play at Grafton in the NCIS Gala day with two primary netball teams (1 x Mixed and 1 x Girls), four secondary netball teams and five primary and 11 secondary tennis players.

Summer had certainly arrived at Grafton with temperatures in the low 30’s by the middle of the day. It was great to watch the primary tennis matches with good performances by Carla Strydom and Natasha Watson-Merritt, with Mea MacGuiness, Harvey Summersell and Max Jones playing exceptionally well and unlucky not to make the finals.

The secondary teams had some really strong players through every age group with our girls doing the best on the day. Arthiya Azeem beat her sister Arshiya in the final of the Open girls and Sophie Eichman and Isabella Lovelock played a cracking final against each other, with Isabella just winning 6-4. It was a great match to watch with some great shots played, especially after Sophie fell heavily in the last 2 games of the match.

Bishop Druitt also did exceptionally well in the Netball with a number of teams making through to semi finals, but it was the Year 9/10 girls who won the NCIS Netball Shield on the day. This is the third year in a row that our girls have won NCIS School shield. Congratulations girls!

u15’s Joel Brown cupOn Tuesday our U15’s Rugby League team traveled to Sydney to compete in the finals of the Joel Brown Cup. They played Regent’s Park in the semi final where they started strong only to let them back in the game and be trailing 8-10 with minutes left. The team dug deep and Jack Conlon was able to push his way over the line in the dying seconds to score and put BDC into the final. The final was against William Carey and with only 2 subs, the boys were behind 10 nil at half time. They then lifted again to get back to 16 all with Mitch Napier, Ben Kearns and Jack Conlon all scoring tries. Unfortunately they could not hold on with the opposition scoring a length of the field try with the last play of the match. The boys came so close to being state champions and should be proud of their achievements. Jack Conlon was named player of the match. Well done to all the boys.

Junior Rugby is certainly looking very strong at Bishop Druitt College in 2013 with a large number of players this year and 3 teams qualifying for the finals series.

BDC under 10’s played their Grand Final 2 weeks ago and played some incredible rugby to outclass the combined St Augustine’s and Mary Help Barbarians, 45-19. This team will be a force to be reckoned with next year. There were many great performances from every player in the team, with Zeb Misios being awarded the Players Player award, and Michael Spinoglio taking out the most improved.

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Dale Condonhead of music k-12

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hsc practical examination dates 2013

Thanks to Carla Strydom and Flinders Young for their terrific performances at assembly this week.

The Sydney Symphony Playerlink Workshops are being held on 13-15 September in Lismore. We had a letter of congratulations from the organisers of this program, an expert of which reads:

“Thank you for your support…it is a tribute to the musical excellence that you nurture in your school that we have 10 of your students in the workshop this year…these students are: Charlotte Bedford, Harry Buchanan, Tristan Buchanan, Ima Caldwell, Edward Condon, Stephanie Egan, Alanna Fraser, Mai-anh Holland, Julia Magri and Daniel Williams”.

Did you know that Alice Jamison offers a wonderful singing and games based musical program for very young children at BDC. Alice has undertaken considerable professional development with the Kodaly method. It’s pronounced COD EYE!? This approach to music education was developed in Hungary during the mid-twentieth century by Zoltan Kodaly.

Alice takes classes on Monday, in the Music Department, at 12.30pm. The cost is $5 per lesson. You are able to get your child involved by contacting Alice at [email protected].

The Board of Studies has informed us that the HSC Music 2 practical examinations will be on Thursday 12 September from 1:40 – 3:25pm in Music Room 1. The HSC Music 1 practical examinations will be on Friday 13 September from 12:50 – 3:05pm.

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a kindergarten to year 12 school in the anglican tradition

Thursday 12 sepTember, 9:30am - 11:00am

111 North Boambee Road, Coffs Harbour, NSWPh: (02) 6651 5644 | www.bdc.nsw.edu.au

We are holding an ‘open house’ morning for prospective students and parents to come and experience our dynamic and disciplined Primary School learning environment. Come along to see and hear how your son or daughter could benefit from joining Bishop Druitt College in 2014. Hear from the Principal and teaching staff, take a guided tour and then join classes as you choose.

Please r.s.v.p. to Lyn Mercer by: [email protected] or call 6651 5644

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BDC under 12’s won the CHJRU under 12 grand final beating Dorrigo last Friday night. The BDC under 12’s remained undefeated throughout this years Friday night competition and played an exciting style of rugby all year. The boys along with the under 10’s and under 11’s began training back in early term 1 and have traveled far and wide this year to improve their skill level and team work which was evident on Friday night. Following the grand final, CHJRU presented each player with a medallion and presented the following awards to members of the team. Tom Winchester Players Player and Coaches Award, Jacob Oxley Best Forward, Zane Misios Best Back and Ruben Mouton Most Improved. Please join me in congratulating the winning team: Mathew Bates, Jacob Hurley, Declan Mayben, Lachlan Joseph, Alex Spry, Zane Misios, Ruben Mouton, Reuben Lewis, Seth Lewis, Mathew Corcoran, Caleb Williams- Lee, Kalani Morris, Jacob Oxley, Keelan Singh, Tom Winchester, Luke Andrews, Sam Parkes, Kaleb Ryan, Liam Watson-Merritt.

The U14s showed incredible heart and great improvement under Mr Blythe, to make it into the finals of Friday night Rugby last week. After losing in the dying seconds of the game the week before, the boys were keen to make amends against JPC. They again played with great heart and looked like winning to go into the Grand Final, but just couldn’t hold JPC out in the last minute of the game, to go down 17-14. Well done to all the boys, and to Mr Blythe, and we’ll be cheering them on this Friday as they play off for third place, against Dorrigo.

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The Primary boys football team played in the Barney Barselaar Cup today against St. Francis Xavier, St Augustine’s and Mary Help. Every player in the BDC team showed outstanding form and effort and the boys made it to the final undefeated. They played some fantastic close passing and worked the ball well from defence to attack, time and time again. The boys outclassed St. Augustine’s in the end winning the final 4-0. There were many great goals scored on the day with goals from, Ruben, Charlie, Max, Jonah and Declan to name a few, with a couple of cracking goals scored by Levi and Tom. A fabulous effort boys to win their first Barney Barselaar Cup!

friday sep 6 Rugby Finals Night – 14swednesday sep 11 CIS Primary Athletics – Sydneyfriday sep 13 T20 Cricket - Secondary

Jim Webbersports Administrator k-12

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Primary CIS Athletics CarnivalPrimary Open HouseEye Festival2014 Leaders Induction - 9:15am, Branson CentreYear 12 FarewellTerm 3 Concludes

dyslexiA support/interest GroupNext get together is 10am Monday 9 September at the Rainforest Café. Come along for cup of coffee and a chat. Anyone with an interest in Dyslexia is welcome. Any queries please contact Susan Robertson on 0414 343 027 or [email protected].

Bdc AnnuAl Golf dAyThe Bishop Druitt College Annual Golf Day 2013 is here again! This is a social day for members of the BDC community, friends and our business partners. Bonville

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Bonville Golf Resort4 Person Ambrose Event

Sunday 20 October12:30pm Shotgun Start

Golf Resort will be again hosting the Annual Golf Day. It is a four person ambrose competition with a shotgun start at 12.30pm on Sunday 20 October. We’re aiming to have the best Golf Day ever with lots of wonderful prizes and a raffle.

If you’re interested in playing or sponsoring the day, please fill out the Entry Form/Sponsorhip pamphlet and return to Bonville Golf Resort by fax 6653-4005, email [email protected] or post - PO Box 9 Bonville 2450.

BDC Golf Day Entry and Sponsorship form

For more information please contact Susan Nealon on [email protected]

cAllinG for expressions of interest!Want to be involved in your child’s schooling? The P&F currently have an email group that is often used to inform parents of upcoming P&F/College events, news, volunteer requests etc. You do not have to be a P&F member to be included, so if you want to help out every once in a while or just want to hear about upcoming events or information please email [email protected].

contAct usFor more information, to view our Constitution or read our latest meeting minutes, click on “Our Community” then “Parents and Friends” on the College Website. We look forward to your support.President: Allan Williams 0408 332 082 [email protected] & F email: [email protected]

next meeting: monday 16 september, 6.30 pm, Senior Common Room, refreshments provided

The Bishop Druitt College Parents and Friends Association is an organisation that supports the aims and objectives of the College. It does so through the promotion of fundraising, fellowship, friendship and fun.



http://www.bdc.nsw.edu.au/assets/pdf/Parents_friends/pf_golf_day_entry_2013.pdf

http://www.bdc.nsw.edu.au/assets/pdf/Parents_friends/pf_golf_day_sponsorship_2013.pdf






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Platform 12, 2013 Will feature BDC students: Jordan Betts, Hannah Luke, Huon Hannaford, Sharni McHeyzer and Patrick Diffey in their HSC Group Piece – “Adam’s Ribs” and Hannah Luke as Pearl Avalon in her HSC Individual Piece “Song for Nobody.”

NOT TO BE MISSED

Jetty Theatre Wednesday 11 September Tickets:$15 Adults $12 Conc.


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