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REFLECTION DAYSA special feature of the College calendar are the Year Level Reflection Days, which we know students look forward to each year. Reflection Days are an important and distinctive feature in the overall Religious Education and Pastoral Care curriculum of a Catholic school because they provide an experiential component in the curriculum that explicitly addresses young people’s spirituality. Reflection days are regarded as an integral part of learning programs because of the reflective and prayer opportunities they offer students. They provide occasion for students to explore questions of personal identity and to further examine their personal relationship with God. They also provide the opportunity to gather as community and enable teachers and students to interact socially. A reflection day intends to draw on the relationship between student wellbeing and religious experience; leading to the holistic development of each student. An enormous amount of planning goes into each of these days and their success relies on the encouraging contribution that year level staff members make to each day. There has been a great deal of positive feedback from students about their reflection days this year and we know that they are appreciative of the time and space to engage in another kind of learning.

This week the Year 12 students and their Mentor Teachers headed off to Camp Wilkin at Anglesea for their overnight retreat. This program is the culmination of the Year Level Reflection Days over the last 5 years and offers year 12 students some time in the middle of a very busy year to reflect on various aspects of their life. As year 12 students move into a key transition time, from secondary school into the adult world, it is important to connect with the values that have been important in their lives so far and to understand how these values can inform decisions into the future. We are grateful to Mrs Mary-Louise Towns, Mrs Jenny Stafford and the Senior Mentor teachers for affording these students this opportunity.

PERFORMING ARTS CURRICULUM SHOWCASEThere is no better way to experience student learning than to watch it transpire on the stage. The Junior and Senior Performing Arts Showcases gave an enthusiastic audience the opportunity to experience curriculum come to life through the drama and music performances that were presented. In the space of one semester, year 7 students have been able to master the basic elements of their chosen instrument and come together as a class ensemble to present two short songs as performance pieces. Many students have never played an instrument previously and to witness their capacity to begin to sight read music and coordinate their efforts to play as a group is a wonderful testament to the music program and the teaching staff within the program.

Drama performances require the skills of script-writing, interpretation, team work and performance abilities and there was plenty of this in evidence across the two the nights. We are also very pleased that the Dance program is really moving along this year and that performances were included across both Junior and Senior Programs.

Thanks go to Ms Mari Eleanor, Mr David Ellis, Mrs Susan Scott, Mr Paul Keelan and Ms Jessica Schemioneck for their ongoing work with students in the curriculum program, for their work in polishing up performing pieces and for their organisation and commitment to these Showcase Evenings.

ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITYWe advise that the Annual Report to the Community 2014 has been submitted to the Victorian Qualifications & Registration Authority (VRQA) and can be accessed on the College website. Copies are also available at School Reception in the Administration Building.

Rita Grima and Raymond Pisani - Co-Principals

From the Co-Principals

Marian College196 Glengala RdWest Sunshine 3020Phone 9363 1711Fax 9363 2386www.mariansw.catholic.edu.au

ISSUE 912TH JUNE 2015A Community growing in Faith & Love • Serving Others • Striving to Achieve • Thinking for the Future

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Marian NewsEVENTS:

JUNE15th• Refugee Week• Correction Day No

Classes

16th• Semester 2 Begins• SCSA Cross Country • Final day for Re-

submission of Unit 1 & 3 Assessments

17th• Parent Forum - Chris

Daicos:Building Resilience in Adolescents 7-.8.30pm

• Cross Country Div 1 & 2 20th• Saturday Detention 24th• Performing Arts

Showcase Matinee

25th• Performing Arts

Showcase• Whole School Assembly

- Amended Timetable• Last Day of Term

Students Dismissed at 3.00pm

‘With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon theground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.’

O God from everlasting to everlasting, God of our childhood, God of our future, we have come to this day and we give you praise.There are moments when we encounter you in the small and the ordinary, moments of grace when we glimpse you in what is earthy andtransitory: in a glance, a sound, a symbol, a touch, in the fleeting moment filled with infinite grace, in the parables as we hear them again, and remember that, in these small things, we find echoes of your Kingdom. Oh God, fromeverlasting to everlasting, from whom we come and to whom we go, we have come to this day and we give you praise. Amen

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National Parents/Carers Fact Sheet Version No. 3 as at April 2015

2015 information for parents and carers WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION?

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (the national data collection) is an annual collection that counts the number of school students with disability and the level of reasonable educational adjustment they are provided with.

The national data collection will count students who have been identified as receiving an adjustment to address a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (the DDA). The DDA can be accessed from the ComLaw website at www.comlaw.gov.au.

WHAT IS THE BENEFIT FOR MY CHILD?

The aim of the national data collection is to collect better information about school students with disability in Australia.

This information will help teachers, principals, education authorities and families to better support students with disability to take part in school on the same basis as students without disability.

The national data collection is an opportunity for schools to review their learning and support systems and processes to continually improve education outcomes for their students with disability.

WHY IS THIS DATA BEING COLLECTED?

All schools across Australia collect information about students with disability. But the type of information currently collected varies between each state and territory and across government, Catholic and independent school sectors.

When implementing the national data collection, every school in Australia will use the same method to collect information. Therefore, a government school in suburban Sydney will collect and report data in the same way as a Catholic school in country Victoria and an independent school in the Northern Territory.

The information provided through the national data collection will enable all Australian governments to better target support and resources to benefit

students with disability. The data will help schools to better support students with disability so that they have the same opportunities for a high quality education as students without disability.

WHAT ARE SCHOOLS REQUIRED TO DO FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITY?

All students are entitled to a quality learning experience at school.

Schools are required to make reasonable adjustments, where needed, to assist students with disability to access and participate in education free from discrimination and on the same basis as other students.

These responsibilities are outlined in the DDA and the Disability Standards for Education 2005 (the Standards). The Standards require educators, students, parents and others (e.g. allied health professionals) to work together so that students with disability can participate in education. The Standards can be accessed via the ComLaw website at www.comlaw.gov.au.

WHAT IS A REASONABLE ADJUSTMENT?

A reasonable adjustment is a measure or action taken to help a student with disability access and participate in education on the same basis as students without disability. Reasonable adjustments can be made across the whole school setting (e.g. ramps into school buildings), in the classroom (such as adapting class lessons) and at an individual student level (e.g. extra tuition for a student with learning difficulties).

WHAT INFORMATION WILL BE COLLECTED?

Every year your child’s school will collect the following information for each student with a disability:

the student’s level of education (i.e. primary or secondary)

the student’s level of adjustment the student’s broad type of disability.

The information collected by schools will be provided to all governments to inform policy and


Student WellbeingUNIFORM REMINDERSWith us now being in the real challenging part of winter we remind both students and parents of the uniform expectations that continue to be important for our school community. These include:

• The length of the winter skirt needs to be just at knee length. Skirts are not to be hitched up at the waist to make them shorter at the knee.• The school PE jacket is not to be worn with the winter uniform. This jacket is not be worn as an alternative to the school blazer which is the most outer garment when coming to and from school.• Either BLUE tights OR long white socks are to be worn with the winter skirt and not socks and tights together.• That PE uniform is to be worn only when the student has either Health and PE classes or Tasters classes.• If a student does not have a full uniform she is required to bring a signed note from a parent explaining the reason for her not being in full uniform

Uniform is an important aspect of who we are as a community and we thank our parents for their ongoing support of this process

LAMP BEARERS AND SRC STUDENTS AT YEAR 12We are in the process of working with our uniform supplier to have the blazers of both our Lamp Bearers and SRC at Year 12 embroidered and ribboned to identify the very important role that these girls carry out in our community.

We anticipate that this will be an ongoing process and feel that it is an appropriate way for our student leaders to be acknowledged.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIESWhen parents receive their daughter’s semester report at the end of this term they will see all of the co-curricular activities that are available to their daughter’s as part of their ongoing learning.

On entering all of these activities into our new reporting system I am pleased to report that we have over 40 Leadership or Co-curricula activities that students have available to them in 2015. This list is very diverse from Lamp Bearers to Cultural Diversity Performance to Liturgy Group.

We look forward to this list expanding over the course of 2015 as we continue to offer all of our students the opportunity to develop new relationships across year levels and participate in a whole range of different options.

Kerrie Williams - Assistant to the Co-Principals – Student Wellbeing

Marian College Presents

‘Building Resilience in Adolescents’

Christine Daicos (BSW. BA. DTP)Education and Training Consultant

According to adolescent psychologist Andrew Fuller, resiliency is the happy knack of being able to bungy jump through the pitfalls of life.

The resilient adolescent has: Social competence Problem-solving skills Autonomy A sense of purpose and future

Chris’ presentation provides practical strategies to assist parents to help their children/adolescents develop these characteristics

This highly interactive and engaging workshop will provide an overview of the recent research in the area of resilience. It will provide an opportunity to identify and learn about the positive factors that build resilience. It will enable parents to consider ways of increasing and maximizing the protective factors for children and adolescents.

Chris is a highly sought after, dynamic and engaging presenter. She is a Training & Development Consultant with a background in teaching and social work. She is currently actively involved in the tertiary sector, teaching students in the Bachelor of Social Work and the Graduate Diploma of Student Welfare at Melbourne University.

Wednesday 17th June 7:00pm – 8:30pm Marian College

We are very fortunate to have Chris Daicos present this session at Marian College and request at least one parent be in attendance.

(Presentation is for adults only)

Bookings essential:Reception 9363 1711 or [email protected]

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LOTELANGUAGE PERFECT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPSAs the title suggests, Language Perfect conducted a World Championship competition in languages. Yet again Marian College participated and distinguished itself as an incredible force. Apart from the outstanding results demonstrated in the graph and tally board below, two girls in particular were phenomenal in their efforts. Silina Nguyen and Cathy Huynh, who finished first and second in the school tally, also placed 15th and 30th respectively in the world, across all languages. I would like to congratulate all the girls who represented Marian College in such an outstanding manner, in particular Silina and Cathy.

Learning a language is like understanding a Maths formula, you need to use it over and over until it becomes second nature. Language Perfect provides interesting and engaging ways to repeatedly practise the language structures learnt in class. The World Championship also provides a competitive elements where the students can compete on a world stage.

Marian College students’ have earned the school a five star rating with its use and competence of Language Perfect. In this World Championship alone, the students answered over 1,500,000 questions, almost doubling last year’s efforts. The graphs below highlight the enormous passion with which the girls engage with this resource.

BELOW IS THE TALLY BOARD FOR THE HOW HAVE DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES.AWARD STUDENT POINTSElite Award Silina Nguyen 37,25Elite Award Cathy Huynh 28,081Elite Award Caroline Nguyen 21,165Elite Award Natalia De Jesus Cham 21,091Elite Award Danica Tamsi 13,000Elite Award Phuong Nguyen 12,550Elite Award Olivia Green 10,018Elite Award Ishara Ranasinghe 10,005Gold Award Anh Nguyen 6,496Gold Award An Nguyen 4,911Gold Award Jenny Phan 4,740Gold Award Carlie Hunter 4,707Gold Award Jenny Nguyen 4,328Gold Award Nicole Tran 4,132Gold Award Wendy Dinh 3,873Gold Award Thao Tran 3,821Gold Award Lyn Le 3,785Gold Award Kylie Nguyen 3,608Gold Award Le Phan 3,427Gold Award Nga Nguyen 3,206Gold Award Trieu Nguyen 3,172Gold Award Katrina Ng 3,127Gold Award Nhi Vuong 3,108Gold Award Kathy Ho 3,012Gold Award Lillian Tia 3,006Silver Award Lyanna Villanueva 2,830Silver Award Thi Nguyen 2,586Silver Award Kelly Nhan 2,556

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LOTE (continued)Silver Award Tamara Antunovic 2,259Silver Award Natasa Chenh 2,247Silver Award Surinder Kaur 2,142Silver Award Carlin Tia 2,095Silver Award Courteney Gatt 2,049Silver Award Faye Miravalles 2,003Silver Award Lisa Vella 2,002Silver Award Ni Zathang 2,001Silver Award Sarah Vella 2,000Bronze Award Dejana Miljkovic 1,510Bronze Award Vihagi Hettikanda 1,504Bronze Award Larissa Phung 1,266Bronze Award Sarah Elander 1,202Bronze Award Dahlia Cremona 1,141Bronze Award Charmaine Behal 1,111Bronze Award Katherine Sepulveda 1,068Bronze Award Ebony Buttigieg 1,011Bronze Award Rachel Horton 1,005Bronze Award Louisa Zhang 1,004Credit Award Linh Tran 920Credit Award Catelin Gatt 912Credit Award Tian-Wu Zhou 795Credit Award Sarah Masalosalo 791Credit Award Bethanie Hutchins-Tribe 790Credit Award My To 709Credit Award Tina Nguyen 702Credit Award Yael Haile 701Credit Award Rachel Tan 666Credit Award Grace Lafitanui 645Credit Award Lishika Perera 635Credit Award Quyen To 625Credit Award Rupanshi Dhawan 600Credit Award Samantha Di Mieri 572Credit Award Charlene Behal 555Credit Award Eliza Malapit 543Credit Award Jessica Brajanovski 525Credit Award Estefania Cordoba 522Credit Award Nashia Ali 504Credit Award Sarah De Fazio 502 Anna Ciccone - Language Teacher/Learning Leader

Resource CentreThe Resource Centre has recently purchased an excellent ebook reference collection called the Gale Virtual Reference Library. This collection provides a great range of ebooks on topics from Art, Drama, Religion, Sport, History, Science and Technology. Some recommended books include the Gale Encyclopedia of Science, IXL Encyclopedia of Weather and Natural Disasters, the Greenhaven Encyclopedia of World Religions and the Concise World Atlas.

Excellent features include Text to Speech technology that allows the reader to listen to the text, translation to 34 languages, easy keyword search facility, citation information and dictionary access. The user can create a folder that allows one to download, save, email or print information.

This collection can be accessed via the Resource Centre website http://accessitlibrary.mariansw.catholic.edu.au:86/ais/AccessItLibrary at school and at home. Students can obtain a password from Resource Centre staff.

The Resource Centre staff are happy to help you access the Gale Virtual Reference Library as well as our other online collections.Sofie Norello and Sharon Hayes - Resource Centre


The Arts PERFORMING ARTSCongratulations to staff and students for their performances in the Junior and Senior Performing Arts Showcases on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th June. The nights were a whirlwind of music, drama and dance, with every year level of the school performing. We now look forward to the Schools’ Matinee and the Co-Curricular Showcase events taking place on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th June. The School’s matinee gives our students the chance to perform to a large audience of local primary school students. They make a fun audience, and the girls enjoy tailoring their performances for this specific audience. The evening performance is open to all, especially family and friends, and free of charge. The night begins at 7pm and ends at 8.30pm. It’s a great celebration to the dedication of students having lessons or playing in ensembles in addition to their normal academic program.

We wish our Troupe staff and students the very best as they head to the Clocktower in Moonee Ponds to perform in the Catholic Education Office Wellbeing Festival next Wednesday 17th June. The performance is open to the public, and tickets can be purchased through the Clocktower. You can also contact David Ellis, our Troupe leader, by telephone at the College or by email via [email protected] for more information.

We would also like to thank members of our Concert Band, who were interviewed and photographed for Leader. They should be in an edition coming soon, and we look forward to seeing their fun shots!

As we prepare to start a new semester next week we again thank all our students and staff for their work, as well as our Co-Principals and School Leadership Team for their support!

Mari Eleanor - Co-ordinator, Music and Drama Co-Curricular Programs

DESIGN EDUCATIONART WORKSHOPSHello everyone, my name is Nour and I am a student in year 7 Delany.

I have a passion for Art, and since I am in high school now, I have been looking for art workshops to participate in.

I had a wide range to choose from this term, and the options were:• Sewing workshop• Jewellery workshop • Ceramics workshop• Next term there will be more workshops to choose from.

I personally was really interested in the Sewing and Jewellery workshop, as they promised to not only explore different areas of art, but also allowed students to express themselves outside of the classroom. The Ceramics workshop runs at Tuesday lunchtimes, the Sewing workshop runs on Thursday lunchtimes and the Jewellery workshop runs on Wednesday lunchtimes, so it doesn’t affect your class time.

I signed up for each of them, and I now take part in all of them.

In the Sewing workshop, we have been creating a skirt. Frist we had to measure our size, cut our material, and now we are sewing! In the jewellery workshop we are making our own beads. These will be baked and turned into fashionable jewellery!

I really enjoy doing these workshops because it helps me to become more creative. I am sure that I have encouraged other girls to join an Art workshop, as they are fun to be part of, as well as a good experience. So check them out!

I hope to see you there!

What workshops are on offer in Term 3?• Photography• Sewing• Ceramics

If you’re interested joining an art workshop come and put your name down on the signup sheets outside the office in the Design Warehouse in the first week of Term 3

Shelley Smith - Learning Leader



Asylum seekers and refugees in AustraliaAustralia has a proud history of helping asylum seekers, refugees and migrants proving to be a welcoming nation, welcoming thousands of European and Vietnamese refugees fleeing WWII and then the Vietnam War. Currently there are around 50 million refugees with more than 85% currently living in developing nations. With con-flict increasing around the world hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homes every week. In the Asia Pacific very few countries have signed the Refugee Convention meaning they have no international obligation to provide protection to refugees. We believe Australia, as a signatory to the Refugee Convention, should be a leader for our region in providing support and protection to all asylum seekers and refugees. Internationally Australia takes very few asylum seekers and we believe there are alternative approaches to our current stance that we can take. Below is a snapshot comparison of Australian asylum seeker approach against the Italian.

An issue recently dominating Australian and in-ternational media is the Rohingya asylum seeker crisis. The Rohingya people are a stateless people who, despite having lived in areas of Myanmar for centuries, have experienced high levels of persecution, violence and discrimination.

Since the 1980s Myanmar has refused to recognize the Rohingya people as one of the 135 ‘national races,’ have denied the Rohingya people basic services, and have restricted their movements severely.

According to UNHCR in the past three years more than 120,000 Rohingya’s have fled Myanmar on boats for places like Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia.

In May 2015 approximately 8000 Rohingya migrants were left stranded on boats after people smugglers that had taken them from Myanmar, abandoned their boats in the middle of the Andaman Sea and neighbouring countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia refused to look after them.

Australia has also refused to offer any support to Rohingya migrants with Prime Minister Tony Abbott responding, “Nope, nope, nope” when asked if there was a possibility of the stranded migrants to be settled and processed in Australia.

We call on the Australian government to do more to help the Rohingya people stranded and put pressure on our South East Asian neighbours to work together.

Just in time

Cover photo via Multicultural Development Association Work and Welcome website

- GDP per capita: $67,458.36 (2013) Population: 23.13 million (2013)- Introduced mandatory detention in 1992 for asylum seekers who arrived by boat.- Received a total of 69,000 asylum seekers at sea since 1976.- Introduced legislation where no asylum seeker arriving by boat would ever be resettled in Australia. - From 2006- 2011, 14,215 asylum seekers arrived via boat.- Employed defence force to turn back asylum seeker boats to Indonesia.- Around 90% of asylum seeker seekers who come to Australia by boat are found to be genuine refugees, as opposed to 43% of those who arrive with valid visas.

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Italy- GDP per capita: $25,925.88 (2013) - Population: 59.83 million (2013)- Between 2009 and 2010 Italy had a ‘push back the boats’ campaign with the Libyan government but had a change of heart and looked to protect people fleeing war torn nations.- Rescued 144,000 asylum seekers at sea just in 2014.- UN estimates 70% of asylum seekers in Italy arrive by sea.- From 2006 -2011, 152,821 asylum seekers arrived in Italy via boat.- Employed defence force to rescue asylum seeker boats. - Held a national day of mourning for the estimated 500 asylum seekers who tragically died trying to reach Italy in a horrific boat sinking.

July 2015 Volume 9, Issue 3

Special Message From the Director of Catholic Education

I write to draw your attention to a letter from Archbishop Hart, a Pastoral Letter on Same-Sex Marriage from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. The letter can be accessed through :

Pastoral Letter on Same-Sex Marriage: http://cevn.cecv.catholic.edu.au/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=26877

The Pastoral Letter is also available to download from the CAM website, http://www.cam.org.au/Archbishop/Pastoral-Letters-and-Messages/Same-Sex-Marriage.aspx

Yours sincerely,Stephen Elder

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