Gateway Learning Communityc/o Balmoral State High SchoolThynne Road, Morningside, Qld 4170P.O.Box 120, Morningside, Qld 4170Phone & Fax: 07 3399 6821

GLC website: www.learningplace.com.au/sc/gbr/glc

Cup runneth over with booksWell known, award winning, children’s author, BrianFalkner, was the special guest speaker at the 2011Year 6/7 Readers Cup Brisbane South Regional Finals hosted by Bulimba SS on 16 June.

Brian, author of such titles as ‘Brainjack’ and ‘The Tomorrow Code’, addressed the excited, buzzingcrowd about the wonder of books and also conducteda ‘First Line’ quiz for which the students were askedto guess the books beginning with a series of ‘firstlines’. The idea being that sometimes the first line ina book gives you a good clue about the story to follow.This quiz was a fun accompaniment to the ‘Reader’sCup’ competition proper- one and a half hours of franticwriting, with only 30 seconds to answer a series ofquestions relating to six books nominated by the organisers, the Children’s Book Council of Australia.

Twenty-seven school teams competed from as far away as Logan, two of those from the GLC- BulimbaSS and Norman Park SS. The six enthusiastic students in each team were well prepared having readand studied carefully the six books in preparation for the series of in-depth questions from the panelof expert literary judges. Norman Park SS placed 5th on the day and Bulimba SS came in 11th, bothteams thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to take part in this great event to promote a love of readingin young people.

June 3, 2011 will be an important day in the history of Morningside SS, as the school celebratedthe official opening of its new Resource Centre and Hall, funded under the Federal Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) Program.

The BER program has dynamically changed Morningside SS, not just physically, but also its teaching and learning approaches and extra curricular offerings. The school now has more spacesfor learning that allow staff and students greater much greater flexibility.

Morningside SS Principal, Jann Simmonds, spoke of the school’s plans for these new learning spaces.

“Our children are our future. The environment in which they learn is now aplace of which we can be proud. We willwork to preserve these buildings for thefuture, to build on them and to developprograms that use their potential to facilitateimproved learning for our students.”

Special guests at the opening included ourFederal Member for Griffith, Kevin Rudd;State MP for Bulimba, Di Farmer; Cr ShayneSutton and Principals from fellow GatewayLearning Community schools.

Interestingly, both Kevin Rudd and Di Farmerwere able to add very personal contributions

to their speeches at the opening with Kevin having in sent all three of his children to Morningside SSand acted as Secretary of the P&C, and Di Farmer a current parent of the school. The official openingwas a special occasion for the students of Morningside. The school leaders competently hosted thewhole ceremony; indigenous students performed a welcome dance and the choir sang beautifully.

It was a moving and memorable event for all who attended.

Happy retirement, SandySandy Dalzell’s retirement plans can be summed up thus- she is not retiring ‘from’work rather she is retiring ‘to’- to what we know is a jam packed life full ofleisure pursuits, travel, friends and most importantly for Sandy time with family,especially with her new granddaughter.

Sandy will be greatly missed, not only by Bulimba SS where she has worked since2005 as the Business Services Manager (BSM), but also by her friends and colleagues from the local GLC schools and the GLC office, with whom she has workedclosely during her time at Bulimba SS. Sandy made a significant contribution to theGLC. She willingly took on the role of GLC financial management guiding the budgeteach year and smoothly managing across-school accounting arrangements; was a

key member of the GLC BSM’s network providing support, wisdom and friendship for office staff fromthe other schools; and was a member of the GLC Chaplaincy Committee which manages and links thehighly successful Chaplaincy programs at Balmoral SHS, Bulimba SS and Norman Park SS.

Sandy, all of us in the GLC thank you for your hard work and dedication for the benefit of somany, and we wish you all the very best for a richly deserved, long and happy retirement.

Kids Against CagesAdvocating for a good cause can bring about change, and that is what Maegan Micola, a Yr 5 studentfrom Norman Park SS, is hoping to achieve through her campaign to raise awareness of the plight ofcaged chickens through her “Kids Against Cages” initiative.

Maegan’s passion for the issue was ignited by first hand experience, “In my family, it is my job totake care of our three backyard chickens- Isabella, Alice and Lulu. They are very nice chickens and Ilove to look after them. Because I keep chickens I know the difference between caged eggs andfree range eggs. I know that chickens which are used for caged eggs live quite differently to mine athome. I feel very sad to think they will never get to roll in the dust, or play in the rain like mine athome. These are my chickens’ favourite things to do.”

Maegan learnt that “farmers who keep caged chickens are protected by a code of practice law” anddecided to do something about it. “I have sent a letter to the Federal Agricultural Minister, Joe Ludwig,asking him to change this law. Many other countries have made this change, and I would like Australia to do this too. I am trying to get as many kids as I can to send a letter too, because it will

take many letters.” To achieve this Maegan first spoke tostudents at her own school and then contacted the GLCschool principals and arranged to speak to students atseveral assemblies about the difference between cagedand battery farm chickens and free range farms.

At the assemblies she spoke passionately about the issueand requested students support the cause by completing apost card and sending this onto the Federal Minister forAgriculture. Our future is indeed in good hands with youngpeople such as Maegan who are prepared to stand up andbe counted. You can join Maegan’s campaign at www.kidsagainstcages.com/Site/My_Blog/rss.xml

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Above - Emmi, Ava, Isabella, Lara and Ivana from Norman Park SS, and Tom,Ahva, Amanda, Jemima from Bulimba SS with author Brian Falkner at the Brisbane South Regional Readers Cup competition held at the Bulimba SS Hall on 16 June.

Above - Everyone gets involved in cutting the celebratory cake at the official opening ofMorningside SS’s new Resource Centre and Hall..

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“Stunning” was the response by a GLC Primary Principal to the performance of Common Thread ‘Choose Happiness’ onSaturday 18 July at Balmoral SHS Hall. “It was inspiring on so many levels. Inspiring to see how our kids perform on stage;inspiring to see the effort that our teachers and the teachers and artists from other schools and places have put into this;inspiring to see the talent; inspiring to be reminded that happiness is a choice. A choice we all can make. ”

This student-devised multi-media production, involving some 78 students from 5 GLC schools and hosted by Balmoral SHS,gave the young people of our community a voice; an opportunity to express how they, as young people, respond to issuesand ideas important to them. These students spent two school terms exploring the common threads of everyone's desire forand pursuit of Happiness, to create their own expression of their discoveries to share with the audience in their performance- Choose Happiness.

The performance season of four shows ran from 16 to 18 June, playing to a total audience of 750 at Balmoral SHS Hall.

The students started their ‘Common Thread’ journey in February thinking about the concept of happiness. Community visitorsshared their stories about their journeys towards happiness and their stories became springboards/inspirations/possibilities. It seemed we all want to be happy but life doesn’t always make that easy.

Then professional artists from the Theatre, Film, Music and Dance industries joined theprocess and with a team of fabulous teachers, mentored the students to shape and polishtheir ideas into a 100 minute long show full of dance, drama, music, film, physical theatre and movement. As well, two regional schools, Pioneer SHS in Mackay and Good ShepherdCollege in Mt. Isa, linked with the theme and contributed videos of performance activities held in their schools

Artistic Director, Robin Francis reflects, “Common Thread 2011 was Happiness! Working with inspired, excited young people is a dream and this production was a testament to what can be achieved if we stop and listen to their voices.”

Read more about ‘Common Thread’ on Page 2 of this newsletter

Common Thread 2011“Choose Happiness”

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Common Thread is a magical performance and you get to express what you want to- your own ideas. I absolutely loved Common Thread. It was one of the best things ever!”

Cannon Hill SS student

“Really beautiful. I loved it.”

Katie Stewart, Education Officer, Queensland Theatre Company

“Common Thread has been such ahighlight of high school and somethingI will not ever forget.”

Balmoral SHS Yr 12 student

“I have 5 children and 10 grandchildrenand have been to more school productionsthan I can count, but this one was by farthe best, because it meant something.”

Interstate visitor

Common Thread to me meant meeting new people, learning about myself and others and what I can do, being one as agroup and being excited about what youhave done.”

Cannon Hill SS student

Common Thread has given me the chanceto express myself and find out who I am asa person. The teachers and artists give upcountless hours to make teenagers feelspecial.”

Balmoral SHS student

“Common Thread was such a lovely learningand growing experience and a great chancefor my son to feel independent and makegood decisions. We’d do it again in a heartbeat!”

Parent

“I came out smiling from ear to ear.”

GLC teacher

The Gateway Learning Community is Balmoral State High School, Bulimba State School, Cannon Hill State School, Morningside State School, Murarrie State School, Norman Park State School and Seven Hills State School.

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One of the outcomes of the recent Common Thread student theatre project hosted by Balmoral SHS for the GLC, and celebrated in this issue of the GLC newsletter, was the positive and productive relationships that developed between students of all different ages from across the GLC schools. Participants talked of feeling like a big family, or about being accepted by people from outside their usual friendship group.

This capacity to ‘build bridges’ across schools, and with the wider community, is a distinguishing feature of the Gateway Learning Community. The many collaborative, across-school projects and linkages occurring between our seven state schools have emerged from mutually agreed educational priorities and are actioned through the enthusiasm of the students, staff and parents involved, often with the support of and partnering with community organisations and business. This edition celebrates the culmination and progress of several of these projects.

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Above - Norman Park SS student, Maegan Micola, addresses the Balmoral SHSSchool Assembly. Maegan is pictured here with Balmoral SHS school leaders,Megan and Charlie.

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After a wildly successful debut year in 2010, Rock Da House is back withmany fresh new faces and a new repertoire of classic rock tune ‘covers’. The students involved drawn from Yr 5 to Yr 10 have formed six across GLCschool bands with the goal of staging a GLC schools’ tour in mid Septemberto perform in front of classmates.

Twenty five students with an interest in performing in a rock band, and withdemonstrable musical skills, were selected by audition to participate in theGLC Rock Da House Project facilitated by Glenn Bruce from Seven Hills SS,Melissa Goldie and Alison Harvey from Balmoral SHS and supported byother teaching and music staff from each of the participating GLC schools.

Once registered to participate the students were given a special password tolog online onto a supervised ’Rock Da House’ Project room set up on Education Queensland’s Learning Place website.

There, online, they met their band buddies, came up with a name for theirband, did some online research, selected two songs, shared lyrics, chordcharts and music files, and began practising their parts.

Then over four rehearsal sessions after school at Balmoral SHS the groups met and polished their performances.

The idea originated in discussions between GLC teachers who were aware that there werea lot of talented guitarists, drummers and vocalists in our schools, additional to the instrumental music students who already rehearse and perform. This extension opportunitywas devised to make public the talents of these student musicians linking them with othersacross the GLC schools to form bands and play for the enjoyment of all.

As we go to print the bands are in full rehearsal and they are really coming together!So look out in next issue of the GLC Newsletter for photos of the Rock Da Houseshows.

Common Thread was back in 2011 with a vengeance! Our themewas The Pursuit of Happiness and CHOOSE HAPPINESS was themessage the students presented in four fabulous shows.

I would like to thank all involved-Production Coordinator extraordinaire, Sally SchmidtThe artists - Euan Gray, Anna Yen, Elizabeth Ross, Zoe Houghton,Kezia Randell, Suzannah O'Brien, Sasha Holland and Samantha Mills

The teachers- Tennille Bates-Thomas, Shannon Bell, Joanne Roberts,Juanita Oberle, Jane Bickle and Alison Harvey from Balmoral SHS;Nancy Seib from Morningside SS; Joy Pohlner and Jayne Aguiar,from Cannon Hill SS; Rebecca Ramsden from Bulimba SS andGlenn Bruce from Seven Hills SS

Balmoral SHS Principal, Allison Crane, for your support and belief inthis project GLC wonder woman, Cherry Van Ryt Community connections guru, Jackie CannAdministration staff at Balmoral SHS for their commitment and support,Parents for making the commitment to their childrens' education THE STUDENTS who are stars in their own right!

I would also like to acknowledge the Brisbane Airport Corporationfor their generous cash sponsorship and the many local businessesthat donated goods for our fundraisers and show- McGuires ColmslieHotel, Di Farmer Member for Bulimba, Councillor Shayne Sutton,Lorna Jane, Studio Metro, Suburban Bootcamps, Ahmets on Oxford,Port of Brisbane, The Coffee Club, Kevin Rudd Member for Griffithand Ricoh for the colour printing of the programs.

Finally, to Katie Stewart, Education Liaison Officer at the Queensland Theatre Company, thanks for connecting our two regional schools, Pioneer SHS in Mackay (Juliana Guinane) and Good Shepherd Catholic College in Mt Isa (Anna Telford), and thanks to students and staff from these schools for contributing video vignettes of their ‘Happiness Week’ activities to the Common Thread show.

As Artistic Director of the 2011 show, I have learnt a lot and enjoyed having the opportunity to create an inspiring and meaningful production. Common Thread 2011 went above and beyond - connecting the common threads of young people across our state.

Well done and congratulations to all.

Robin Francis - Artistic Director Common Thread 2011

Physical activity is an essential part of every child's physical and social development.One way to ensure children build exercise into their everyday lives is to involve themin regular, well-organised sporting and recreational activities offered by communitysport and recreation clubs.

To make the search for local club sports a little easier Balmoral SHS hosted an awarenessraising day of ‘come and try’ sports opportunities called the Balmoral ‘Smart Moves’Sports Expo for local Yr 4 students on 19 August, 2011.

Brisbane City Council Suburban Initiative Fundsgrants from both Shayne Sutton’s MorningsideWard and John Campbell’s Doboy Ward generously subsidized the cost of transporting270 students from nine local state schools -Bulimba SS, Morningside SS, Cannon Hill SS,Seven Hills SS, Norman Park SS, Mayfield SS,Tingalpa SS, Carina SS and Murarrie SS.

Throughout the day students rotated through introductory skills sessionsoffered by qualified coaches from ten locally based sports clubs andassociations:

• AFL Qld with Morningside Panthers• Southside Eagles Soccer Club• Carina Leagues Triathlon Club• Carina Leagues Bowls Club• Mayfield Netball Club• Softball Qld• Brisbane Hockey• Australian Rugby League Development• Qld Touch Football• Qld Cricket and Carina Leagues Cricket Club

Visiting students were served fresh fruit for morning tea and lunch, whilst staff and coaches were served lunch, allcourtesy of the Balmoral SHS Hospitality Department.

Carina Leagues Club also generously sponsored the event by providing all students with a drink bottle and carry bag in which to collect flyers and promotional material given out on the day and state Member for Bulimba, Di Farmer,and the Australian Sports Commission provided ‘active’goodies to add to the bags.

This is the fourth year Balmoral SHS has hosted this sportsexpo in response to Education Queensland’s priorities to actively encourage schools to involve students, parents and the wider community in events that promote increased levels of physical activity.

Putting proportionalreasoning in contextOver 2000 student responses were collected by the 40 teachers involved in the GLC Proportional Reasoning Projectas a diagnostic analysis of where their students were in theirunderstanding and application of proportional reasoning toeveryday tasks and calculations.

This data will add to the international body of knowledgeabout proportional reasoning and locally provide a base pointfrom which GLC teachers will trial a variety of techniques andstrategies to target the teaching of proportional reasoningmore effectively. The whole premise of proportional reasoningis that it involves specific higher order thinking skills fundamental to almost every aspect of our daily life.

At the second and third sessions of four for 2011, researchersfrom the University of Queensland, Dr. Geoff Hilton and Dr. Annette Hilton, have workshopped with the GLC teachers practical strategies which are applicable across a whole rangeof classroom contexts, not just in Maths lessons themselves.

The “Proportional Reasoning as a Key to NumeracyAcross the Curriculum” is a three year ‘ARC Linkage Project’ funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), inconjunction with Education Queensland and SA Department

of Education and Children's Services. It aims to enhance student mastery of proportional reasoningthrough educational echnology applications.

World Vision Australia started the 40 Hour Famine in 1975 for the purpose of raising money to help children, their families and communities in desperate need. 36 years on, around 300,000Australians take part each August. Balmoral SHS has a continuing tradition of its students participating in the 40 Hour, as Balmoral SHS’s Chaplain, Gary Cazzulino, explains-

Wow!! I’m so impressed. We signed up over 80 students from Balmoral High to do World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine this year! That’s around 1 in 6 students, which is a fantastic effort!

This year’s World Vision 40 Hour Famine is focussed on East Timor, one of the world’s poorestcountries that’s no more than a one hour flight from Darwin. People there are so poor and hungrythat they’ve taken to eating “Akar” which basically the bark off a local tree that they soak inwater and then cook. Akar has practically no nutritional value but it’s all they’ve got to eat, so theirchildren are growing up stunted and malnourished.

So thank you to all the 40 Hour Famine students and supporters from across the GLC,you’re making a real difference to lives in our region.

Right - Daniel, Ella & Ruby from Seven Hills SS rehearse their string sections

Below - Tayla from Norman Park SS and Makebafrom Seven Hills SS sing up a storm with SevenHills SS teacher Mr. Glenn Bruce.

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Smart Moves into Club Sport

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Norman Park and Bulimba SS’s have been pleased to welcome Minandi De Wilzem to the chaplaincy staff until the end of this year, working alongside Melissa Gregory in her chaplaincy role.

Minandi, whose chaplaincy work to date has been in a high school setting, is keen to experience primaryschool chaplaincy in order to better understand the young people of today.

She will be focussing on supporting students across both the schools.

Welcome Minandi

Above - Allison Crane, Principal Balmoral SHS, ‘Perry’ the school mascot,with Crs Shayne Sutton and John Campbell

Below - Constance and Alex from Seven Hills SS and Joshua fromBulimba SS being introduced to Lawn Bowls. Below -Zac from Seven Hill SS takes on Balmoral

SHS mascot ‘Perry’ in a rugby league tackle.

Above - Trying out a ‘change’ in Triathlon

Above - Saul from Norman Park SS and Anthony from Cannon Hill SS put on the gloves for softball

Right - Having a shot at goal in netball

Left - Caitlin from BulimbaSS and David from SevenHills SS trade balloons in afun netball activity.

With Thanks!

Above - Common Thread Production Coordinator Sally Schmidt, Balmoral SHS teacherJuanita Oberle and Artistic Director Robin Francis in the theatre at the Old Museum, SpringHill for the Common Thread 2011 Intensive.

Above - Good Shepherd Catholic College students, Bronte, Katie, Cassie, Tarron and Demi, out andabout getting footage for their ‘Happy Dance’ for their Common Thread video vignette.

Below - All the stars of Common Thread ‘Choose Happiness’.

Above - Pioneer SHS students created a ‘Family and Friends’ photo collage as part of their 5 Day Happiness Project

Left - Jayne Aguiar, Danielle Phelan and Veronica Seib from Cannon Hill SStrial experiments in astronomy for future use with their

Right - Mr. Chris Meagher, BalmoralSHS science teacher shares online resources with GLC teachers

Above - Balmoral SHS students and Chaplain Gary get set for the 40 Hour Famine

Above - Chaplain Melissa and Minandi De Wilzem with Norman Parks SS students. Above - Bulimba SS students enjoying the support provided by school Chaplaincy

Above - Dr. Geoff Hilton demonstrates an experiment that involves proportional reasoning skills to GLC teachers Ian Jackson, Balmoral SHS and Adam Mead, Norman Park SS

Above - Dr. Geoff Hilton and Dr. Annette Hilton from the University of Queenslandworking with GLC teachers for the GLC Proportional Reasoning Project

Life is like a rollercoasterThere’s always ups and downsIt takes you on loops and turnsAnd round and round and round

Sometimes I ask for sunshineBut I get rain-filled cloudsLife is like a rollercoasterThere’s always ups and downs

How did you deal with things like this?Did you ever fight with friends?Yes of course, there’s always ordealsYou work it out in the end

Do things always have to be down?Can’t life just be smooth?You’ve got to have the lows to have the highsYou’ve got to get in the groove

Life’s not about the moneyIt’s not about the painIt’s not about what you haveOr what there is to gain

Life is about familyLife is about friendsIt is about togethernessAnd helping the whole world mend

Eleven GLC teachers looked to the skies, well, to the Sky View Café website anyway, at the second ScienceSparks Professional Development Workshop held at Balmoral SHS on 21 July.

At this session Balmoral Science teacher Chris Meagher discussed content, introduced resources and facilitatedpractical experiments that the attending teachers could later make use of in the Term 3 science unit speciallywritten for and by GLC teachers called ‘Phases of the Moon’, adapted from the Australian Curriculumunit ‘Sensational Seasons and Heavenly Bodies’. In this unit students investigate how changes on Earth,such as day and night and the seasons relate to Earth’s rotation and its orbit around the sun, and how thesechanges influence human activity on Earth. Using everyday materials like polystyrene balls, string, torches and world globes, the teachers enthusiasticallytrialled simple experiments to assist students explore concepts such as day and night, moon phases, eclipses and seasons. This second Science Sparksworkshop for 2011 is building capacity within the primary schools in the teaching of Science whilst establishing links to the Balmoral SHS Science Department for curriculum support, equipment borrowing and practical advice.

Life is like a RollercoasterMentored by professional musician, Euan Gray, the 2011 Common Thread Band wrote these original lyrics which they put to an original music score and played at‘Choose Happiness’. The chorus is reproduced here- a message from our youth we should all listen to.

Rollercoaster Song Chorus

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Above - Enjoying a taste of cricket with QldFire Player Lyndall Daley and Qld Bulls Players Ben Cutting and Alistair McDermott

Below - All in for a kick of soccer.

Above - Murarrie SS students Hannah and Maddisonhave their hockey sticks at the ready.

Below - Getting the feel for handling the football at Touch Football

Above - Cameron & Brock from Seven Hills SS practice guitar riffswith Balmoral SS music teacher Mrs. Alison Harvey

Below - Luke from Bulimba SS, Reilly from Norman Park SS, Harry fromSeven Hills SS and Kolya from Norman Park SS show what’s in store forRock Da House audiences

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This offer expires 31 December 2011. Certificates are available from GLC school offices.

After a wildly successful debut year in 2010, Rock Da House is back withmany fresh new faces and a new repertoire of classic rock tune ‘covers’. The students involved drawn from Yr 5 to Yr 10 have formed six across GLCschool bands with the goal of staging a GLC schools’ tour in mid Septemberto perform in front of classmates.

Twenty five students with an interest in performing in a rock band, and withdemonstrable musical skills, were selected by audition to participate in theGLC Rock Da House Project facilitated by Glenn Bruce from Seven Hills SS,Melissa Goldie and Alison Harvey from Balmoral SHS and supported byother teaching and music staff from each of the participating GLC schools.

Once registered to participate the students were given a special password tolog online onto a supervised ’Rock Da House’ Project room set up on Education Queensland’s Learning Place website.

There, online, they met their band buddies, came up with a name for theirband, did some online research, selected two songs, shared lyrics, chordcharts and music files, and began practising their parts.

Then over four rehearsal sessions after school at Balmoral SHS the groups met and polished their performances.

The idea originated in discussions between GLC teachers who were aware that there werea lot of talented guitarists, drummers and vocalists in our schools, additional to the instrumental music students who already rehearse and perform. This extension opportunitywas devised to make public the talents of these student musicians linking them with othersacross the GLC schools to form bands and play for the enjoyment of all.

As we go to print the bands are in full rehearsal and they are really coming together!So look out in next issue of the GLC Newsletter for photos of the Rock Da Houseshows.

Common Thread was back in 2011 with a vengeance! Our themewas The Pursuit of Happiness and CHOOSE HAPPINESS was themessage the students presented in four fabulous shows.

I would like to thank all involved-Production Coordinator extraordinaire, Sally SchmidtThe artists - Euan Gray, Anna Yen, Elizabeth Ross, Zoe Houghton,Kezia Randell, Suzannah O'Brien, Sasha Holland and Samantha Mills

The teachers- Tennille Bates-Thomas, Shannon Bell, Joanne Roberts,Juanita Oberle, Jane Bickle and Alison Harvey from Balmoral SHS;Nancy Seib from Morningside SS; Joy Pohlner and Jayne Aguiar,from Cannon Hill SS; Rebecca Ramsden from Bulimba SS andGlenn Bruce from Seven Hills SS

Balmoral SHS Principal, Allison Crane, for your support and belief inthis project GLC wonder woman, Cherry Van Ryt Community connections guru, Jackie CannAdministration staff at Balmoral SHS for their commitment and support,Parents for making the commitment to their childrens' education THE STUDENTS who are stars in their own right!

I would also like to acknowledge the Brisbane Airport Corporationfor their generous cash sponsorship and the many local businessesthat donated goods for our fundraisers and show- McGuires ColmslieHotel, Di Farmer Member for Bulimba, Councillor Shayne Sutton,Lorna Jane, Studio Metro, Suburban Bootcamps, Ahmets on Oxford,Port of Brisbane, The Coffee Club, Kevin Rudd Member for Griffithand Ricoh for the colour printing of the programs.

Finally, to Katie Stewart, Education Liaison Officer at the Queensland Theatre Company, thanks for connecting our two regional schools, Pioneer SHS in Mackay (Juliana Guinane) and Good Shepherd Catholic College in Mt Isa (Anna Telford), and thanks to students and staff from these schools for contributing video vignettes of their ‘Happiness Week’ activities to the Common Thread show.

As Artistic Director of the 2011 show, I have learnt a lot and enjoyed having the opportunity to create an inspiring and meaningful production. Common Thread 2011 went above and beyond - connecting the common threads of young people across our state.

Well done and congratulations to all.

Robin Francis - Artistic Director Common Thread 2011

Physical activity is an essential part of every child's physical and social development.One way to ensure children build exercise into their everyday lives is to involve themin regular, well-organised sporting and recreational activities offered by communitysport and recreation clubs.

To make the search for local club sports a little easier Balmoral SHS hosted an awarenessraising day of ‘come and try’ sports opportunities called the Balmoral ‘Smart Moves’Sports Expo for local Yr 4 students on 19 August, 2011.

Brisbane City Council Suburban Initiative Fundsgrants from both Shayne Sutton’s MorningsideWard and John Campbell’s Doboy Ward generously subsidized the cost of transporting270 students from nine local state schools -Bulimba SS, Morningside SS, Cannon Hill SS,Seven Hills SS, Norman Park SS, Mayfield SS,Tingalpa SS, Carina SS and Murarrie SS.

Throughout the day students rotated through introductory skills sessionsoffered by qualified coaches from ten locally based sports clubs andassociations:

• AFL Qld with Morningside Panthers• Southside Eagles Soccer Club• Carina Leagues Triathlon Club• Carina Leagues Bowls Club• Mayfield Netball Club• Softball Qld• Brisbane Hockey• Australian Rugby League Development• Qld Touch Football• Qld Cricket and Carina Leagues Cricket Club

Visiting students were served fresh fruit for morning tea and lunch, whilst staff and coaches were served lunch, allcourtesy of the Balmoral SHS Hospitality Department.

Carina Leagues Club also generously sponsored the event by providing all students with a drink bottle and carry bag in which to collect flyers and promotional material given out on the day and state Member for Bulimba, Di Farmer,and the Australian Sports Commission provided ‘active’goodies to add to the bags.

This is the fourth year Balmoral SHS has hosted this sportsexpo in response to Education Queensland’s priorities to actively encourage schools to involve students, parents and the wider community in events that promote increased levels of physical activity.

Putting proportionalreasoning in contextOver 2000 student responses were collected by the 40 teachers involved in the GLC Proportional Reasoning Projectas a diagnostic analysis of where their students were in theirunderstanding and application of proportional reasoning toeveryday tasks and calculations.

This data will add to the international body of knowledgeabout proportional reasoning and locally provide a base pointfrom which GLC teachers will trial a variety of techniques andstrategies to target the teaching of proportional reasoningmore effectively. The whole premise of proportional reasoningis that it involves specific higher order thinking skills fundamental to almost every aspect of our daily life.

At the second and third sessions of four for 2011, researchersfrom the University of Queensland, Dr. Geoff Hilton and Dr. Annette Hilton, have workshopped with the GLC teachers practical strategies which are applicable across a whole rangeof classroom contexts, not just in Maths lessons themselves.

The “Proportional Reasoning as a Key to NumeracyAcross the Curriculum” is a three year ‘ARC Linkage Project’ funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), inconjunction with Education Queensland and SA Department

of Education and Children's Services. It aims to enhance student mastery of proportional reasoningthrough educational echnology applications.

World Vision Australia started the 40 Hour Famine in 1975 for the purpose of raising money to help children, their families and communities in desperate need. 36 years on, around 300,000Australians take part each August. Balmoral SHS has a continuing tradition of its students participating in the 40 Hour, as Balmoral SHS’s Chaplain, Gary Cazzulino, explains-

Wow!! I’m so impressed. We signed up over 80 students from Balmoral High to do World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine this year! That’s around 1 in 6 students, which is a fantastic effort!

This year’s World Vision 40 Hour Famine is focussed on East Timor, one of the world’s poorestcountries that’s no more than a one hour flight from Darwin. People there are so poor and hungrythat they’ve taken to eating “Akar” which basically the bark off a local tree that they soak inwater and then cook. Akar has practically no nutritional value but it’s all they’ve got to eat, so theirchildren are growing up stunted and malnourished.

So thank you to all the 40 Hour Famine students and supporters from across the GLC,you’re making a real difference to lives in our region.

Right - Daniel, Ella & Ruby from Seven Hills SS rehearse their string sections

Below - Tayla from Norman Park SS and Makebafrom Seven Hills SS sing up a storm with SevenHills SS teacher Mr. Glenn Bruce.

Celestial PD

Da House rocks again

Smart Moves into Club Sport

Helping a neighbour in need

Norman Park and Bulimba SS’s have been pleased to welcome Minandi De Wilzem to the chaplaincy staff until the end of this year, working alongside Melissa Gregory in her chaplaincy role.

Minandi, whose chaplaincy work to date has been in a high school setting, is keen to experience primaryschool chaplaincy in order to better understand the young people of today.

She will be focussing on supporting students across both the schools.

Welcome Minandi

Above - Allison Crane, Principal Balmoral SHS, ‘Perry’ the school mascot,with Crs Shayne Sutton and John Campbell

Below - Constance and Alex from Seven Hills SS and Joshua fromBulimba SS being introduced to Lawn Bowls. Below -Zac from Seven Hill SS takes on Balmoral

SHS mascot ‘Perry’ in a rugby league tackle.

Above - Trying out a ‘change’ in Triathlon

Above - Saul from Norman Park SS and Anthony from Cannon Hill SS put on the gloves for softball

Right - Having a shot at goal in netball

Left - Caitlin from BulimbaSS and David from SevenHills SS trade balloons in afun netball activity.

With Thanks!

Above - Common Thread Production Coordinator Sally Schmidt, Balmoral SHS teacherJuanita Oberle and Artistic Director Robin Francis in the theatre at the Old Museum, SpringHill for the Common Thread 2011 Intensive.

Above - Good Shepherd Catholic College students, Bronte, Katie, Cassie, Tarron and Demi, out andabout getting footage for their ‘Happy Dance’ for their Common Thread video vignette.

Below - All the stars of Common Thread ‘Choose Happiness’.

Above - Pioneer SHS students created a ‘Family and Friends’ photo collage as part of their 5 Day Happiness Project

Left - Jayne Aguiar, Danielle Phelan and Veronica Seib from Cannon Hill SStrial experiments in astronomy for future use with their

Right - Mr. Chris Meagher, BalmoralSHS science teacher shares online resources with GLC teachers

Above - Balmoral SHS students and Chaplain Gary get set for the 40 Hour Famine

Above - Chaplain Melissa and Minandi De Wilzem with Norman Parks SS students. Above - Bulimba SS students enjoying the support provided by school Chaplaincy

Above - Dr. Geoff Hilton demonstrates an experiment that involves proportional reasoning skills to GLC teachers Ian Jackson, Balmoral SHS and Adam Mead, Norman Park SS

Above - Dr. Geoff Hilton and Dr. Annette Hilton from the University of Queenslandworking with GLC teachers for the GLC Proportional Reasoning Project

Life is like a rollercoasterThere’s always ups and downsIt takes you on loops and turnsAnd round and round and round

Sometimes I ask for sunshineBut I get rain-filled cloudsLife is like a rollercoasterThere’s always ups and downs

How did you deal with things like this?Did you ever fight with friends?Yes of course, there’s always ordealsYou work it out in the end

Do things always have to be down?Can’t life just be smooth?You’ve got to have the lows to have the highsYou’ve got to get in the groove

Life’s not about the moneyIt’s not about the painIt’s not about what you haveOr what there is to gain

Life is about familyLife is about friendsIt is about togethernessAnd helping the whole world mend

Eleven GLC teachers looked to the skies, well, to the Sky View Café website anyway, at the second ScienceSparks Professional Development Workshop held at Balmoral SHS on 21 July.

At this session Balmoral Science teacher Chris Meagher discussed content, introduced resources and facilitatedpractical experiments that the attending teachers could later make use of in the Term 3 science unit speciallywritten for and by GLC teachers called ‘Phases of the Moon’, adapted from the Australian Curriculumunit ‘Sensational Seasons and Heavenly Bodies’. In this unit students investigate how changes on Earth,such as day and night and the seasons relate to Earth’s rotation and its orbit around the sun, and how thesechanges influence human activity on Earth. Using everyday materials like polystyrene balls, string, torches and world globes, the teachers enthusiasticallytrialled simple experiments to assist students explore concepts such as day and night, moon phases, eclipses and seasons. This second Science Sparksworkshop for 2011 is building capacity within the primary schools in the teaching of Science whilst establishing links to the Balmoral SHS Science Department for curriculum support, equipment borrowing and practical advice.

Life is like a RollercoasterMentored by professional musician, Euan Gray, the 2011 Common Thread Band wrote these original lyrics which they put to an original music score and played at‘Choose Happiness’. The chorus is reproduced here- a message from our youth we should all listen to.

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Above - Enjoying a taste of cricket with QldFire Player Lyndall Daley and Qld Bulls Players Ben Cutting and Alistair McDermott

Below - All in for a kick of soccer.

Above - Murarrie SS students Hannah and Maddisonhave their hockey sticks at the ready.

Below - Getting the feel for handling the football at Touch Football

Above - Cameron & Brock from Seven Hills SS practice guitar riffswith Balmoral SS music teacher Mrs. Alison Harvey

Below - Luke from Bulimba SS, Reilly from Norman Park SS, Harry fromSeven Hills SS and Kolya from Norman Park SS show what’s in store forRock Da House audiences

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Cup runneth over with booksWell known, award winning, children’s author, BrianFalkner, was the special guest speaker at the 2011Year 6/7 Readers Cup Brisbane South Regional Finals hosted by Bulimba SS on 16 June.

Brian, author of such titles as ‘Brainjack’ and ‘The Tomorrow Code’, addressed the excited, buzzingcrowd about the wonder of books and also conducteda ‘First Line’ quiz for which the students were askedto guess the books beginning with a series of ‘firstlines’. The idea being that sometimes the first line ina book gives you a good clue about the story to follow.This quiz was a fun accompaniment to the ‘Reader’sCup’ competition proper- one and a half hours of franticwriting, with only 30 seconds to answer a series ofquestions relating to six books nominated by the organisers, the Children’s Book Council of Australia.

Twenty-seven school teams competed from as far away as Logan, two of those from the GLC- BulimbaSS and Norman Park SS. The six enthusiastic students in each team were well prepared having readand studied carefully the six books in preparation for the series of in-depth questions from the panelof expert literary judges. Norman Park SS placed 5th on the day and Bulimba SS came in 11th, bothteams thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to take part in this great event to promote a love of readingin young people.

June 3, 2011 will be an important day in the history of Morningside SS, as the school celebratedthe official opening of its new Resource Centre and Hall, funded under the Federal Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) Program.

The BER program has dynamically changed Morningside SS, not just physically, but also its teaching and learning approaches and extra curricular offerings. The school now has more spacesfor learning that allow staff and students greater much greater flexibility.

Morningside SS Principal, Jann Simmonds, spoke of the school’s plans for these new learning spaces.

“Our children are our future. The environment in which they learn is now aplace of which we can be proud. We willwork to preserve these buildings for thefuture, to build on them and to developprograms that use their potential to facilitateimproved learning for our students.”

Special guests at the opening included ourFederal Member for Griffith, Kevin Rudd;State MP for Bulimba, Di Farmer; Cr ShayneSutton and Principals from fellow GatewayLearning Community schools.

Interestingly, both Kevin Rudd and Di Farmerwere able to add very personal contributions

to their speeches at the opening with Kevin having in sent all three of his children to Morningside SSand acted as Secretary of the P&C, and Di Farmer a current parent of the school. The official openingwas a special occasion for the students of Morningside. The school leaders competently hosted thewhole ceremony; indigenous students performed a welcome dance and the choir sang beautifully.

It was a moving and memorable event for all who attended.

Happy retirement, SandySandy Dalzell’s retirement plans can be summed up thus- she is not retiring ‘from’work rather she is retiring ‘to’- to what we know is a jam packed life full ofleisure pursuits, travel, friends and most importantly for Sandy time with family,especially with her new granddaughter.

Sandy will be greatly missed, not only by Bulimba SS where she has worked since2005 as the Business Services Manager (BSM), but also by her friends and colleagues from the local GLC schools and the GLC office, with whom she has workedclosely during her time at Bulimba SS. Sandy made a significant contribution to theGLC. She willingly took on the role of GLC financial management guiding the budgeteach year and smoothly managing across-school accounting arrangements; was a

key member of the GLC BSM’s network providing support, wisdom and friendship for office staff fromthe other schools; and was a member of the GLC Chaplaincy Committee which manages and links thehighly successful Chaplaincy programs at Balmoral SHS, Bulimba SS and Norman Park SS.

Sandy, all of us in the GLC thank you for your hard work and dedication for the benefit of somany, and we wish you all the very best for a richly deserved, long and happy retirement.

Kids Against CagesAdvocating for a good cause can bring about change, and that is what Maegan Micola, a Yr 5 studentfrom Norman Park SS, is hoping to achieve through her campaign to raise awareness of the plight ofcaged chickens through her “Kids Against Cages” initiative.

Maegan’s passion for the issue was ignited by first hand experience, “In my family, it is my job totake care of our three backyard chickens- Isabella, Alice and Lulu. They are very nice chickens and Ilove to look after them. Because I keep chickens I know the difference between caged eggs andfree range eggs. I know that chickens which are used for caged eggs live quite differently to mine athome. I feel very sad to think they will never get to roll in the dust, or play in the rain like mine athome. These are my chickens’ favourite things to do.”

Maegan learnt that “farmers who keep caged chickens are protected by a code of practice law” anddecided to do something about it. “I have sent a letter to the Federal Agricultural Minister, Joe Ludwig,asking him to change this law. Many other countries have made this change, and I would like Australia to do this too. I am trying to get as many kids as I can to send a letter too, because it will

take many letters.” To achieve this Maegan first spoke tostudents at her own school and then contacted the GLCschool principals and arranged to speak to students atseveral assemblies about the difference between cagedand battery farm chickens and free range farms.

At the assemblies she spoke passionately about the issueand requested students support the cause by completing apost card and sending this onto the Federal Minister forAgriculture. Our future is indeed in good hands with youngpeople such as Maegan who are prepared to stand up andbe counted. You can join Maegan’s campaign at www.kidsagainstcages.com/Site/My_Blog/rss.xml

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Above - Emmi, Ava, Isabella, Lara and Ivana from Norman Park SS, and Tom,Ahva, Amanda, Jemima from Bulimba SS with author Brian Falkner at the Brisbane South Regional Readers Cup competition held at the Bulimba SS Hall on 16 June.

Above - Everyone gets involved in cutting the celebratory cake at the official opening ofMorningside SS’s new Resource Centre and Hall..

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“Stunning” was the response by a GLC Primary Principal to the performance of Common Thread ‘Choose Happiness’ onSaturday 18 July at Balmoral SHS Hall. “It was inspiring on so many levels. Inspiring to see how our kids perform on stage;inspiring to see the effort that our teachers and the teachers and artists from other schools and places have put into this;inspiring to see the talent; inspiring to be reminded that happiness is a choice. A choice we all can make. ”

This student-devised multi-media production, involving some 78 students from 5 GLC schools and hosted by Balmoral SHS,gave the young people of our community a voice; an opportunity to express how they, as young people, respond to issuesand ideas important to them. These students spent two school terms exploring the common threads of everyone's desire forand pursuit of Happiness, to create their own expression of their discoveries to share with the audience in their performance- Choose Happiness.

The performance season of four shows ran from 16 to 18 June, playing to a total audience of 750 at Balmoral SHS Hall.

The students started their ‘Common Thread’ journey in February thinking about the concept of happiness. Community visitorsshared their stories about their journeys towards happiness and their stories became springboards/inspirations/possibilities. It seemed we all want to be happy but life doesn’t always make that easy.

Then professional artists from the Theatre, Film, Music and Dance industries joined theprocess and with a team of fabulous teachers, mentored the students to shape and polishtheir ideas into a 100 minute long show full of dance, drama, music, film, physical theatre and movement. As well, two regional schools, Pioneer SHS in Mackay and Good ShepherdCollege in Mt. Isa, linked with the theme and contributed videos of performance activities held in their schools

Artistic Director, Robin Francis reflects, “Common Thread 2011 was Happiness! Working with inspired, excited young people is a dream and this production was a testament to what can be achieved if we stop and listen to their voices.”

Read more about ‘Common Thread’ on Page 2 of this newsletter

Common Thread 2011“Choose Happiness”

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Common Thread is a magical performance and you get to express what you want to- your own ideas. I absolutely loved Common Thread. It was one of the best things ever!”

Cannon Hill SS student

“Really beautiful. I loved it.”

Katie Stewart, Education Officer, Queensland Theatre Company

“Common Thread has been such ahighlight of high school and somethingI will not ever forget.”

Balmoral SHS Yr 12 student

“I have 5 children and 10 grandchildrenand have been to more school productionsthan I can count, but this one was by farthe best, because it meant something.”

Interstate visitor

Common Thread to me meant meeting new people, learning about myself and others and what I can do, being one as agroup and being excited about what youhave done.”

Cannon Hill SS student

Common Thread has given me the chanceto express myself and find out who I am asa person. The teachers and artists give upcountless hours to make teenagers feelspecial.”

Balmoral SHS student

“Common Thread was such a lovely learningand growing experience and a great chancefor my son to feel independent and makegood decisions. We’d do it again in a heartbeat!”

Parent

“I came out smiling from ear to ear.”

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The Gateway Learning Community is Balmoral State High School, Bulimba State School, Cannon Hill State School, Morningside State School, Murarrie State School, Norman Park State School and Seven Hills State School.

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One of the outcomes of the recent Common Thread student theatre project hosted by Balmoral SHS for the GLC, and celebrated in this issue of the GLC newsletter, was the positive and productive relationships that developed between students of all different ages from across the GLC schools. Participants talked of feeling like a big family, or about being accepted by people from outside their usual friendship group.

This capacity to ‘build bridges’ across schools, and with the wider community, is a distinguishing feature of the Gateway Learning Community. The many collaborative, across-school projects and linkages occurring between our seven state schools have emerged from mutually agreed educational priorities and are actioned through the enthusiasm of the students, staff and parents involved, often with the support of and partnering with community organisations and business. This edition celebrates the culmination and progress of several of these projects.

Please enjoy reading the GLC newsletter, which is sponsored by our wonderful businesses advertisers, for whose ongoing support we are very grateful.

Above - Norman Park SS student, Maegan Micola, addresses the Balmoral SHSSchool Assembly. Maegan is pictured here with Balmoral SHS school leaders,Megan and Charlie.

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