Welcome to Term 4!

With everything that has already happened this term, it would be understandable if it feels like we are more than two weeks into the term. As busy as that makes us as students, parents and staff, we can look south of one or two state borders and be very thankful that so much is possible for us. A perfect example of this is that this week was camp week for our Year 3, 6 and 9 students. Although our camp program across Years 3-10 differs in location, emphasis and length, they are all opportunities for students to try new things, to be challenged, to increase independence, to develop their teamwork and leadership skills, to strengthen relationships with peers and staff and of course to have fun. If you have been on campus recently you may have seen some of the improvements to our grounds and outdoor facilities. An amazing new deck extends out from the Year 6 classrooms and takes advantage of the natural shade provided by the established trees. At approximately 200m2 it will be an excellent flexible location for student class and break use and is an attractive option for parent and community events too! Elsewhere in the grounds, paths have been replaced, the dozen new 12 seater outdoor tables have been installed and additional bench seating is being installed in Junior Years locations. Further works are planned in the coming months with the Christmas school holidays providing an opportunity for more disruptive works. Over the holidays we replaced the interactive whiteboards and projector combinations in Prep-Year 5 classrooms with large interactive touch screens on motorised height adjustable stands. The greater than $60,000 cost is a significant investment in keeping current technology in our Prep-5 classrooms but the benefits are already obvious. Also in the technology space we have upgraded the wireless access points across the campus. The access points provide the wireless connectivity that is now as essential to school operations as power and water. This $60,000 investment might not be obvious but it is part of ensuring our technology infrastructure continues to support student learning in spaces across our P-12 campus. We look forward to sharing many of this term’s events and activities with you, including next week’s Spring Spectacular concerts and the Year 11 Formal next Saturday.

Mr Anthony Dyer Principal

From the Principal

Volume 38 • Edition 16 • 15 October 2021

From the Head of

Junior Years

Staffing & Class Groups 2022

Most families across the Junior Years are aware of the cautious stance taken when inviting class placement requests from families. I have children of my own and understand how much they would love to be placed with their best friend, or a preferred teacher that a sibling may have had. I also realise how important it is for them to grow as individuals and not be reliant on others for their academic and social successes. I encourage all families to allow their children to grow emotionally, academically, socially and independently as they transition to their new 2022 class. I strongly encourage parents to place faith in the judgments and insights that our teaching staff have into individual students and their school persona. I have the highest regard for the insights that our teachers offer into the placement of students for the following year. I also have the highest regard for the quality and competency of each of our teaching staff in their professional capacity as educators. As these class formations will be under consideration in the coming weeks, if you have any information you would like considered, please place any specific requests for consideration in writing, to myself or your Class Teacher, no later than Monday 8 November. Ultimately, I will be guided by our teaching staff and their knowledge of your child and any pertinent information you may be able to provide in relation to your child’s specific learning needs. Please understand that all considerations are taken seriously. This process is very complex and many things need to be considered when shaping a new class. That said, we do not and cannot guarantee that your request will be granted. Please be aware that once class placements have been allocated, there will be no further movement of class arrangements except in exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances. I appreciate that some parents are anxious to know which teachers will be on particular year levels. At this stage we are very close to finalising this, and I will let you know very soon.

Year 5 Final Junior Assembly- Wednesday 1st December 8:35am

We will formally say goodbye to our Year 5’s as they embark on the next stage of their learning journey and move into the Middle Years. They have been a fantastic cohort of children as they have moved through the school. We are still working through the logistics of the event, but parents will be and are invited to attend.

Year 5 Expo - Monday 1 November

One of the major highlights every year has been the way the Year 5 children develop both independently

and intellectually during the Year 5 Expo. The plan at present is to have parents attend the Year 5 classrooms and outside areas for the presentations. We aim to start this at 5:45pm to make sure we have enough light. The GSLC Expo represents a significant event in the life of our College and students learning experience. The Expo is an opportunity for students reaching the end of the Junior years curriculum and to bring together the essential elements of our Inquiry Programme and share them with the whole school community. It is also an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the GSLC learner profile that they have been developing throughout their time at school. For example being a risk taker, a thinker, being open minded, reflective, to name a few. The Expo serves a number of key purposes: To ask students to engage in in-depth, collaborative inquiry: To provide students with an opportunity to

demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning;

To provide students with an opportunity to explore multiple perspectives on an issue;

To allow students to apply the skills they developed throughout the Junior Years Inquiry Programme and to reflect upon their educational journey;

To demonstrate how students can take action as a result of their learning.

Unlike other units of inquiry, in the Expo, it is students – not teachers – who lead the planning, development, and presentation of their work. As a first step, students worked together to pick a theme that they are interested in, this started a few months ago. They have been supported by their teachers, whose task was to help them find and connect with resources, conduct research and organise their ideas, and find the best ways to present their findings.

Mr Tim Lambert

Head of Junior Years

Junior School Class Awards Term 4 2021 Week 1

Prep Kookaburras Payton Perquin

Prep Possums Archie O’Neill

1A Taj Leckie

1B Sachi Kani

2A Rafael Fawcett

2B Lilly Tully

3A Darby Donovan

3B Jackson Clark

4A Hugo Fawcett

4B Lucy Blair

5A Poppy O’Rourke

5B Alba Sayer

Spring Spectacular

Concert No.1 Junior Strings, Guitars & Choir

Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021 Time: 3.45pm Venue: HPE Centre

Groups Performing: Year 4 Strings, Junior Choir, Movie Music Strings, Year 4 Extension Strings, Little Fiddlers, Senior Choir, Advanced Guitar Ensemble, Junior String Ensemble

Concert No.2 Bands

Date: Friday 22 October 2021 Time: 3.45pm Venue: HPE Centre

Groups Performing: Yr 4 Band, Maroon Band, Intermediate Flutes, Clarino-va, Saxophone Quartet, Clarineteers, Percussion En-semble, Junior Jazz Ensemble, Gold Band

Concert No.3 Senior

Date: Friday 22 October 2021 Time: 5.45pm Venue: HPE Centre

Groups Performing: Musical Theatre, Pop Strings, Jazz Band, Vivaldi Strings, Senior Dance, Senior Strings, Aurora, Kokolo Djembes, Orchestra

Pastor’s Pastures

A Little Foolish Wisdom

A new term begins and we are straight into it! It’s a biggie for our Year 12s as they prepare for their final exams and graduation. Our Year 11s this term also go up a gear as they commence their Year 12 subjects. A little light relief can sometimes be just what is need-ed to ease the pressure and bring us down to earth again. On the last day of Term 3 we were treated to such relief. In Chapel our drumming group had the privilege of performing with our invited guest, Nathaniel Combs from Rhythm Culture. The piece they played was a dance rhythm from Guinea and Mali called Korredjuga. The dance is traditionally carried out by the village jester whose antics, while crazy, disruptive and often funny, are an important antidote to the stressful and heavier village issues. The Korredjuga has a unique way of re-centering the community. Behind his apparent foolish jokes lies a deep cathartic wisdom. Below is the video link to the Chapel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjLHvEYmQQA St Paul describes God’s message of self sacrificial love in Jesus as a kind of divine foolishness. But he reminds us all that “the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.” (1 Corinthians 1:25). I thank God for the time out Chapel brings our community. Through it God lovingly disrupts our week, sharing his wisdom and strength through the good news of a loving Saviour and Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Happy Term 4!

Pastor Simon Cooper

Outdoor Movie Night Buy your tickets via this link

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Tournament of Minds

Tournament of Minds has a long tradition at Good Shepherd. This year there have been two teams competing in the Secondary Divi-sion – one in the Language Literature discipline and one in the Arts. Working around the COVID restrictions and lock down in Term 3, the teams have had to show resilience, flexibility and determination in order to work through their solution. In previous years, teams have had to prepare a ten minute dramatic presentation to be presented to judges after a six week preparation time. Successful teams then go on to compete at the State finals with a three hour preparation time for another ten minute performance. This year, teams had to submit a video presentation of their solution and competed against the whole of Queensland. It is with great excitement that we can announce that both of our teams placed first in each of their disciplines. They will now go on to compete at the national competition this coming Saturday.

Secondary ARTS team

Coco Asher, Allie Littman, May O’Connor, Holly Purcell, Abbie Saggers, Isabella Scotton, Sydney Suter – Facilitator Mrs Natasha Purcell

Secondary Language Literature team

Skye Harman, Giselle Hoger, Tilly Miller, Amelia Paton-Reeves, Nuala Weening, Ella Westlake, Indigo Whyatt – Facilitator Mrs Sharon Schluter

Good Luck to both teams! Ms Jo-Anna Morrison

Term 4

It is hard to believe that we are already at the end of week 2 and the last term of the year. There will be many scheduled events for Middle Years students this term as they edge closer to concluding the school year but already, this term, Year 6 and 9 students have enjoyed their rescheduled camp experience, Year 7 students have a new sport rotation and Year 8 students have their subjects for Year 9 locked in, ready for their transition to their final year of middle school. The College calendar on the Good Shepherd website is great reference point and way of staying abreast of the many events scheduled this term. There is lots to do and many good times to be had before the Christmas holidays.

Link to College Calendar

Mrs Nicole Drew

Head of Middle Years Students

Year 6 Experience Days

Civic Experience

Term 4 began with Year 6 students engaging in three experience days, which were closely connected to their classroom studies. Students returned to school to find that their downstairs classrooms had been transformed for the day. Mr Oakley’s classroom become an Electoral Polling Station where students learnt about Australia’s preferential voting system. The experience culminated with student using actual polling booths to cast votes on their favourite fruit. For there to be a winner, a fruit must have an absolute majority. So voters preferences were used to deliver a result. The result was mangoes!

Mr Blanch’s classroom became the House of Representatives. This is where students role-played passing a Bill. The Bill that was put forward by the government was Homework Should Be Banned. The Bill was then debated in the House of Representatives. At the conclusion of the debate, parliamentarians voted for or against the Bill. The Whip counted the results in the House. The result was passed onto the Speaker of the House, who then announced there was an over-whelming majority in favour of the Bill, Homework Should Be Banned. The Bill was passed in the House of Representatives.

Cultural Experience

Students spent a cultural day at the Cooroy Butter Factory with an artist in residence. The artist was Gail Mackey from Draw at Doonan. Gail taught students the art of portrait drawing and painting. First students created a pencil portrait on paper, learning about facial symmetry. Once students completed their pencil drawing, they created a monochrome self portrait using paint on canvas.

History Experience

As part of the Year 6 unit of study about migration to Australia and early settlers, students spent a day at the Kenilworth Historical Museum. The visit included a visual presentation of Ed Sims memories of Kenilworth, seeing artefacts and hearing tales that provided a living history experience. After the museum, students travelled out to Conondale National Park and walked the Piccabeen Circuit, giving students a deeper understanding of the natural area before timber milling. Discussions were had about timber plantations and sustainable harvesting in regards to Hoop Pine and Silky Oak. Thanks and appreciation to our Year 6 teachers, Mr Oakley, Mr Blanch and Mrs Walter, our Humanities Curriculum Leader Mrs Tapara, Art teacher Mrs Broadfoot and teacher aide Ms Nolan for assisting with coordinating and leading these experience days.

Mrs Sandy Hardy

Head of Middle Years Studies

Year 6 Trip

K’gari (Fraser Island)

Our Year 6 cohort thoroughly enjoyed a 3 day 2 night trip to K’gari. We stayed at Eurong Beach Resort, which provided an all you can eat buffet. While the food was certainly a highlight, there were many natural elements to experience and be in awe of on the island. Within the 3 days students had the opportunity to explore the largest sand island in the world. Students visited like Lake McKenzie, Lake Wabby, Champagne Pools, Eli Creek, Maheno shipwreck, the Pinnacles (coloured sands) and Central Station.

On our way home from K’gari, we stopped at the Gympie Gold museum. Students participated in a guided tour of the site. The visit built on student understanding of early settlement and migration to the area. The entire experience provided opportunities for students to gain a deeper understanding of our local area, its heritage and further develop positive relationships with each other. Sincere appreciation to our Year 6 teachers, Mrs Walter, Mr Blanch and Mr Oakley for assisting with organising the trip. Thanks also to Mr Hauser, Mrs Blanch and Mrs Nolan for attending and being additional support.

Mrs Sandy Hardy

Head of Middle Years Studies

Students had the opportunity to not only immerse themselves in the world heritage surroundings, but also develop Aboriginal and cultural awareness. The guided tours from the travel company were excellent. The activity planned for our final night was a K’gari Quiz Night, based on facts learnt through reading signage and information shared with us by our guides. Congratulations to the following teams: 1st Place: Zach Woodcock, Harry Zagami, Jett Hartshorn, Tristan Purcell 2nd Place: Aiden Perquin, Evan Bradshaw, Jacob Ostwald, Dan Cooper 3rd Place: Jozi Pride, Holly Baughurst, Natalia Pearce, Scarlett Johnson.

GSLC Boys Basketball Team

5th in Queensland (Div 2)

GSLC Senior Boys Finish 2021 Strong

Liam Switzer (10), Elijah Wood (11), Jed Murphy (11), Zak Korybutiak (11), Connor Gipters (12), Cody Mackenzie (12), Max Leary (12) and Jack Leary (10)completed an incredible 11-1 run over the last twelve games of the season culminating in a 5th place Division 2 finish in Basketball Queensland Schools Championships.

This represents the highest Open Boys finish in GSLC history — previously finishing 7th in 2015 and 9th in 2019. It’s now ‘Farewell’ to graduating Year 12s Max Leary, Cody Mackenzie and Connor Gipters as we turn out sights towards 2022.

Mr Mike Mooney Coach

Starting five pictured above l-r: Jack Leary, Jed Murphy, Liam Switzer,

Cody Mackenzie and Max Leary

Debating success It takes more than passion to argue a point well, it takes preparation, skill and tenacity, traits that describe this year’s successful debating teams from Good Shepherd. Of the six teams competing for the College, four made it through to finals and two won the grand finals for the Sunshine Coast Schools Debating Competition for 2021. The Intermediates competed against Immanuel Lutheran College, and the Seniors competed against Sunshine Coast Grammar.

Congratulations to both teams on their victories, and Good Shepherd looks forward to participating in the competition again in 2022.

Senior Team, Chancellor’s Cup defending Champions 2021: Veslemøy Berge-Venter, Carson Revell,

Katelyn Dyer, and Jemima Harman

The Intermediate Team: Indigo Whyatt, Cate Hardinge, Olivia Ashley and Ella Tudor

The College Library

Monday to Thursday Doors open at 7:30am & close at 4:50pm

Circulation desk opens:

at 7:45am & closes at 4:45pm

Friday Doors open at 7:30am & close at 3:25pm

Circulation desk opens:

at 7:45am & closes at 3:20pm

GS Aquatics Swim Club

Swim Club Nights — Now On! Tuesday’s from 5:45pm

GS Aquatics Swim Club race nights are held each Tuesday night in Term 4 2021. Nominations are open to Club members via the Swim Central portal and are essential for participation. Warm up is at 5:45pm for a 6pm start.

Contact us to join, or to come and try Good Shepherd Aquatics Swim Club!

Become a GSA member and enjoy the benefits: Improve your strokes in a fun, competitive

environment. Race to improve personal times and goals. Great practice for school swimming carnivals. Make new friends. Compete at local, state and national competitions. Free parent membership.

Carmen Heisrath

Club email: gsaquatics@gslc.qld.edu.au Aquatic Support Officer

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