FROM THE PRINCIPAL

I think I would be correct in saying that we will have one of the largest representations of Siena students in the history of our involvement in the WALK FOR DANIEL on Friday – and that history has been since this important day began. We will have 146 students and 23 staff attending. This gives a strong message that Daniel’s memory is still very much alive but hopefully also affirms Bruce and Denise that their work in keeping our young people from harm is highly valued and respected.

Hopefully there will also be an equally impressive turnout for the inaugural DANIEL MORCOMBE CUP game played between Year 10 teams from Siena and Mountain Creek, both schools that Daniel attended as he completed his primary schooling at Mountain Creek SS. Our team were presented with their jerseys and a polo shirt by the Federal member for Fisher Mal Brough (who is playing in the NRL Masters game after ours) and Garry Heath from ISC, who have supplied this sporting apparel. Also present was Siena parent Anthony Farquharson who has been the driving force for this new initiative. Best wishes to the boys and to Paul Clough who has been training this team.

This Friday is WORLD TEACHERS DAY and it was most appropriate that our prayer at this week’s assembly focussed on the role of the teacher in students’ lives and how important they are to student futures. The staff at Siena give of themselves in so many ways to the growth of your children in those three dimensions we hold dear at Siena – Prayer-Care-Learning - and it was most gratifying to see this recognised and acknowledged by the students.

Brisbane Catholic Education use this time every year to congratulate teachers who have reached milestones in their service to Catholic education and yesterday Kim and Peter Cook were recognised for their 30 years of dedicated service. Veronica Bayliss also announced to the students that she will be retiring at the end of the year and the student response indicated just how much she has been appreciated by them. Anne Forzatti, who is currently on leave, has also indicated that she will retire at the end of this year.

Many groups to CONGRATULATE this week:

The talent on display at MUSICA SIENA was very impressive. All of the groups – the strings, percussion, guitar and vocal ensembles, and the College Choir and Concert Band presented a quality and range of music that one would be happy to pay good money for. Congratulations students, and to your highly talented tutors who helped prepare you for the night, and in many instances, joined in – Maria Salmon, Helen Worthington, Inez Durrer, Donna Langford, Lyn Wordsworth, Basil Barletta and of course, Todd Wynyard who is the driving force behind out Instrumental Music Program for his exceptional organisation.

Our SURF LIFE SAVING team took on all-comers at an interschool carnival and came away victorious. While we can’t lay claim to having developed this team into the powerhouse that it was, hopefully we can say that their desire to achieve for their school had some part in their performance. Relay results would certainly reflect this.

BASKETBALL grand finals were held last week with mixed results and Water Polo has grand finals next Monday. Congratulations and best wishes for teams who are now finished or involved on Monday night – results are elsewhere in the newsletter

Mr Graeme Hight

60 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs 4556 College email: ssippydowns@bne.catholic.edu.au

Web Page: http://www.siena.qld.edu.au Phone: (07) 5476 6100 Fax: (07) 5476 7022

Absence Notification: (07) 5477 3098 Uniform Shop: 5456 4397

29 October 2015

Term 4, Week 04 34-15

Catholic College

FROM THE APRE GPBS (Gather, Proclaim, Break, Send) is a website that aims to connect faith, liturgy and life. They have published a thought-provoking article for the upcoming All Saints Day - November 1st. Saints are Beatitude People As the gospel for celebrating All Saints Day, the Beatitudes suggest the many ways Christians through the centuries have embodied these sayings. They challenge us who belong to the communion of saints today to live in ways quite the reverse of profit-motivated values. The first beatitude asks that the saint be poor in spirit. It directs all of us to recognise the experience of the economically poor and to enter into the difficult condition of the poor, their powerlessness to influence social systems that keep them poor. The saint lives the “preferential option for the poor,” one of the principles of Catholic social teaching. The second beatitude calls us to accompany people in tragedy and sorrow, to be their comfort. The third beatitude asks saints to be meek. It promises the whole earth to those with little. Meekness in this beatitude actively recognises the injustice in which we can find ourselves, does not deny wrongs, and keeps working to make changes that will contribute to healing. The meek saint is not passive. The fourth beatitude challenges us to act from a deep spiritual realisation that all is not well in the world, not all have enough to survive let alone thrive. The saint that has an appetite for justice knows it demands action. Saints are merciful and will receive mercy, the fifth beatitude promises. The sixth beatitude is a challenge to see God in our lives, to be single-minded in our intention to act with love toward all of our neighbours. The sincere of heart live a deep interior life in communion with God. The seventh and eighth beatitudes call blessed not those with big salaries and no worries but those who work for peace and bear persecution. They challenge us to join in the work of bringing the reign of God to Earth. How lucky we are to have in Bernardino, Catherine, Mary, Frederic and Teresa, five House Patrons who so clearly live these Beatitude values and provide us with examples worthy of imitation.

Mrs Catharine Hannan

FROM THE ICLT PROGRAM LEADER

LAPTOP COLLECTION 2015 Parents, please note the following arrangements for the laptops for the end of 2015:

Year 12 As advised in your letter from Mr Hight, students will return their laptops and chargers to the IT department before the conclusion of the year. At that time they will indicate if they wish to get their laptop back. If this is the case, programs on the device will be wiped and it will be reimaged with the programs it was purchased with. If devices are given in on time, these should be available for collection during the last week of school (30 November – 3 December). After this time, it will be assumed you no longer wish to collect the device and they will be donated to our sister school in Fiji.

Year 11 Students will return laptops to the IT department as soon as they have completed their final assessment tasks requiring the device (by 26 November at latest). These will be repaired and reimaged over the holiday break and returned to students on their return in 2016.

Years 7-10 This year we introduced a new program called Self Service which allows the IT department to push out updates to Mac devices without having to physically collect and reimage them. Due to this implementation, we will NOT be collecting ALL of the devices at the end of the year. Instead, we will be conducting checks on all devices in the coming weeks and looking for those that have unreported damage or software issues. Those students will be advised that we will be collecting their laptops before they complete the year for repairs and reimaging, with return of the laptops at the start of the 2016 school year. So for the vast majority of Year 7-10 students, they will keep their laptop over the holidays.

Please note though, these devices are not to be taken overseas if you are travelling on holidays as they are not covered under insurance for this. If you intend taking them, you will need to arrange your own coverage. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me (efenwick@bne.catholic.edu.au). Mrs Anne Fenwick

FROM THE LEARNING ENRICHMENT PROGRAM LEADER Recently the Year 10 FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING team competed at the National Finals in Brisbane on the topic of Human Enhancement. Congratulations to Tess Fitzpatrick, Holly Mitchell, Sophie Holzer and Shaun McAnally on their tremendous result. As a Year 10 team competing in the Year 10 – Year 12 Senior division, their booklet was scored 5th highest in the competition. This is a credit to this awesome team and a result of their outstanding preparation and commitment to the program – well done team!

On the same weekend, our Science/Engineering team competed at the OPTI-MINDS State Finals at the University of Qld. On Saturday, the students had to participate in a Youth Forum and ideas market where students had the opportunity to put forward their ideas for a better future. Then early on Sunday morning, the team were given their Science/Engineering challenge to solve and were put in lockdown for three hours on their own, under the supervision of a teacher from another school, to design their machine, write their script, make props and costumes and prepare their performance. In the afternoon we were blown away by their wonderfully creative solution to the challenge as well as their very entertaining and witty performance. Congratulations to Ruby Daly, Kerri-Ann Meakins, Sam Bolton, Liam Morey, Lauren Ward, Olivia Goodman and Mitch Santoro on their fantastic teamwork!

On Tuesday night this week, students doing Program Challenge in Semester 1 in 2016, and their parents, met to begin the process of sourcing mentors for our Mentorship Program next year. These students are encouraged to attend the earlier part of the Celebration Evening for the current cohort of PROGRAM CHALLENGE students on Thursday 5 November from 5pm to view their static displays and sit in on the first one or two presentations. Mrs Julie Bolton

FPS – (L-R) Sophie Holzer, Shaun McAnally, Tess Fitzpatrick, Holly Mitchell

OPTI-MINDS (L-R) Kimberley Brady, Mitchell Santoro, Kerri-Ann Meakins, Olivia Goodman, Sam Bolton, Liam Morey

Front (L-R) Ruby Daly, Lauren Ward

FROM THE INDIGENOUS AMBASSADOR

Recently Peter Mulcahy, an indigenous artist, storyteller, historian and teacher spent three days at Siena. Peter is an inspiring and enthusiastic presenter who worked with many teachers in a variety of subjects. He helped introduce the Year 8 Science geology unit, using his (very heavy) collection of rocks used traditionally by local aboriginal people for tools, weapons and painting. Peter spoke to several senior R&E classes about Aboriginal spirituality, enthralled the Year 10s with the Aboriginal creation story of the Cooloola area, painted with art classes and even had a crack at romantic poetry with Year 12 English students. Feedback from teachers and students suggest the visit was an outstanding success and we hope to continue and extend this program. Mr Bill Kelly

FROM THE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CO-ORDINATOR QUOTE OF THE WEEK -“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.” Elie Wiesel

MUSICA SIENA on Monday night was our inaugural concert featuring our six College music ensembles. The celebratory sounds were very well received by a fantastic audience and our students definitely stepped up and showed great performance and musicianship skills. Thank you to all students and parents who attended and special thanks to our wonderful music staff who work hard every week to realise these important opportunities for Siena students. Congratulations to everyone!

AWARDS NIGHT is on Friday 6 November and the following ensembles will be performing: String Ensemble – play from approx. 6.35pm to 6.45pm and then at 7pm (arrive by 6pm) Guitar Ensemble – play from approx. 6.45pm to 6.55pm and then at 7pm (arrive by 6.15pm) Concert Band – play at 7pm and then again during the evening (arrive by 6.30pm) Vocal Ensemble – sing at 7pm (arrive by 6.30pm) Choir – during the evening (arrive by 6.30pm)

Students are to wear full school uniform and must remember to bring instruments. SUNSHINE COAST YOUTH ORCHESTRA Congratulations to all the Siena students who performed in the SCYO Gala Concert on Sunday. It was a fantastic concert from our young musicians. Special mention to our string teacher, Mrs Maria Salmon, for her guidance of this organization as its musical director overseeing its continual growth, both in quality of musicianship and quantity of students involved from year to year. Well done! DATE CLAIMERS

Wednesday 4 November - Guitar Recital (all Guitar teachers) 6pm to 7pm in Benincasa at Siena College (arrive by 5.45pm) Thursday 5 November - Piano Recital (Mrs Wordsworth's students) 5pm to 6pm and 6.30pm to 7.30pm in Benincasa at Siena

College Tuesday 10 November – Singing /Piano Recital (Mrs Langford's students) from 5.30pm in Benincasa at Siena College Thursday 26 November - String Recital (Mrs Salmon, Mr Goh, Miss Inglis and Miss Durrer's students) 5pm to 6.30pm in Benincasa

at Siena College RE-ENROLMENTS have been emailed to all currently enrolled families with the opportunity to continue or cancel enrolment in 2016. Your prompt return of this form and the $15 enrolment fee (if continuing) to the school office will confirm your place for 2016. Some tutors may suggest changes to lessons structure (e.g pair to individual) via this form and parents are asked to check all details very carefully and update any incorrect info as necessary. RECRUITMENT If your child is interested in starting a musical instrument in 2016, or they are wanting to re-invigorate interest in a previous instrument, please email me to sort out a time to try options. Alternatively, collect a 2016 Instrumental (and Singing) enrolment pack from student access and return the completed form and fee to the office ASAP. Places will fill up quickly so get to this sooner rather than later. MUSIC IN THE COMMUNITY “A Night at the Proms” is a concert presented by the Sunshine Coast Symphony Orchestra at 7pm on Saturday 21 November at Lake Kawana Community Centre. This is always a crowd-pleasing concert and a great opportunity to hear a live symphony orchestra playing familiar repertoire! Remember, if you need to contact your child's tutor, details are shown on the top left corner of the lesson timetable. If you have queries regarding anything musical – please email us to SienaMusic@bne.catholic.edu.au Mr Todd Wynyard

FROM THE GUIDANCE COUNSELLORS, VOC ED & CAREER’S CO-ORDINATORS 207 SQUADRON AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE CADETS Is holding Information Nights on 2 and 9 November 2015 at 6.15pm finishing approx. 8.00pm. Location – Parade Grounds, Nambour High School, 1 Carroll St, Nambour. Applicants should be aged between 13-17 for enrolment, have an interest in aviation, want to meet new people, wish to experience samples of Defence Force life, are keen to have fun and wish to learn leadership skills. More information can be obtained by contacting the Administration Officer at: admino.207sqn@aafc.org.au

Totems

CONGRATULATIONS to two of our Year 10 students who have just secured school based apprenticeships in Cert III Carpentry. Jake Jeffery who has signed up with Black Dog Construction Services Pty Ltd and will be working with Jason Witney. Taylen Merton who has signed up with Bidgood Constructions Pty Ltd and will be working with Craig Bidgood. We wish them every success in their future careers in construction.

VACANCIES Full-time 1st year apprentice Chef (perfect opportunity for school leaver) working at The Bradman River House. They are seeking someone who is passionate about food and the hospitality industry and who wants the opportunity to learn from a highly experienced and patient chef.

Interested students should email their cover letter and resume to k@ozcook.com or if you have any questions, please phone Kate Poynton on 0405 522 982. Kate is more than happy to chat to students about the position and what is expected of them in the workplace.

Mr Peter Cook and Mrs Maree Cansick

FROM THE SPORTS CO-ORDINATOR CURRICULAR SPORT YEAR 7 Unfortunately the weather has not been kind to sport this week and so we made the decision to postpone the Year 7 Surf Safety Program for today. The good news is that we don’t miss out on this week’s activities as they have been postponed until 19 November.

YEAR 8 & 9 We also had to cancel Interschool Sport this week.

Next Wednesday 4 November the Year 8s are HOME and Year 9s AWAY to Kawana SC. The school sport program continues with students enjoying learning new skills in Ju Jitsu, Lacrosse or Zumba.

YEAR 10 The Year 10 students continue to enjoy their rotation of recreational activities which include ice skating, big boing, laserzone, ten pin bowling and beach activities. These activities will continue for the next three weeks.

CHAMPION SCHOOL SURF LIFESAVING CONGRATULATIONS to our Surf Lifesaving Team on winning the Champion School Trophy at the Interschool Surf Lifesaving Carnival last Friday. Congratulations also to the following Age Champions:

1st 15 Years Boys – Byron Turton

2nd 16 + Girls – Morgan Bellero

3rd 13 Years Girls – Kaitlin Roberts

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Congratulations to James Anstey, Bailee Johns, Luke Krigovsky and Saskia Letchford (reserve: Jake Krigovsky) who have been selected into the Sunshine Coast Regional Water Polo Team this week to play in Toowoomba in March 2016. RECENT SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS Congratulations to Ben Sharp (Year 7) on his selection in the QJCA (Queensland Junior Cricket Association) Cricket tournament representing the Sunshine Coast for U13s. This is a five day tournament competing against teams from across the State at the Gold Coast in December. Congratulations to Taj Hudson (Year 11) who represented the Sunshine Coast at this year’s Futsal State Titles. Taj has now been selected in the Queensland Futsal 16s Boys team to compete at the National Championships in early January next year in Sydney. Congratulations to Eleanor Anstey (Year 7) who has been selected in the regional water polo team for the 14 Years state titles coming up in December. Eleanor also recently won gold at the QSS Softball 12 and Under state titles. REGIONAL 15-19 YEARS CRICKET TRIALS – WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER Students interested in attending the 15-19 Years Regional Cricket Trials need to collect the required permission letter from the sports office. REGIONAL AQUATHLON/ TRIATHLON TRIALS – SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER Students interested in attending the Regional Trials for either Aquathlon (12 Years) or Triathlon (13-19 Years) need to collect an information and permission letter from the sports office asap. Nominations close on Sunday 1 November. Mrs Michele Akers WATER POLO Another sensational game by the Intermediate Boys A team. Initially St Johns looked threatening, scoring the first points but Siena boys quickly countered the attack and then continued to dominate the game. Well done….next game the FINALS. GO SIENA!

Score: 12 (Siena): 7 (St Johns). Goals were scored by Luke Krigovsky (6) James Anstey (1), Josh Bellero (2), Jake Krigovsky (3). Mrs Peta Roberts, Manager Congratulations to the Junior Boys and Intermediate Boys teams who will be competing in the Grand Finals this Monday at Kawana Aquatic Centre. The Junior Boys will take on Sunshine Beach at 4pm while the Intermediate Boys will be paying at 5:30pm against St Andrews. Best of luck to both teams! Saturday morning training has also finished as the season is now at an end. A Huge thank you to Uros Kralj for taking these sessions, he has been incredible with the students throughout the season. Mr Josh Maudsley, Convenor BASKETBALL GRAND FINAL NIGHT What a great night for Siena Basketball as four teams battled it out in their respective Grand Finals. Teams that qualified were the Senior C Girls Grey, Senior C Girls Black, Senior D Girls White and Junior A Boys.

In the Junior A Boys game, everybody gave a good account of themselves but our smaller boys were out muscled by a bigger and taller team. The skill level was very high in this game and augers well for future Siena teams.

Mr Clough’s Senior D team had an easy win in the semi-final but found the Grand Final a little more difficult. More on this later in the newsletter.

Unfortunately, two Siena teams had to play each other in the Senior C Girls Grand Final with Siena Black the eventual winners. The spirit and comradery of both teams after the game was clearly evident and showed all observers “the essence of Siena”.

Overall, the night could be deemed a great success as all teams were great ambassadors for Siena and thoroughly enjoyed the hype of a Grand Final. Mr Bruce Fitzgerald, Convenor Senior Girls Div D White: Siena 26 def Grammar 18. Right from the very first whistle the girls made it clear that they wanted to win this grand final. That said, it was a closely fought game played in great spirit between two evenly matched teams. The difference on the night was our defence. The girls challenged every shot at goal by our opponents and chased the ball down court all game to ensure that any points scored against us were hard won. Well done ladies and thanks for a really enjoyable competition. We never struggled for numbers and your sense of fun was infectious. Thanks also to Mr Tony Hannan for getting you through the semi the previous week in my absence and to the supporters who turned up to cheer us on each week. Mr Paul Clough, Coach

DANIEL MORCOMBE CUP RUGBY LEAGUE As mentioned earlier in the newsletter, the inaugural Daniel Morcombe Cup is this Friday. Kick off time for the boys is 6.15pm at Kawana Sports Precinct - Field 1. The game follows a Sunshine Coast Barbarians v Mt Creek Open Boys match, beginning 5pm, and precedes the Kawana Dolphins v Beerwah Bulldogs NRL Masters game, due to start at 7.30pm. Entry is by gold coin donation and there will be face painting and jumping castles present on the night. The Year 10 boys have had a couple of training runs and are keen to throw the ball around. It should be a great game of footy but needless to say the result is secondary to the aim of raising awareness of child safety within our communities. Mr Paul Clough, Coach TOUCH Open Mixed Siena 6 def by Wii Not Fit 8. It was so good to have healthy numbers for a change and it showed against this team for whom we normally lose convincingly. Scores were even until very late in the game and our defence in particular was outstanding. Codi Jowett was on fire, scoring three, Grace Powell continued to steady the ship through structured play, Hayden Baker set up lots of attacking raids, Bronte O’Hara organised our defence with great talk, and Brayden Smith had a sound game. Mr Paul Clough, Coach

ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE - DUE NEXT WEEK

Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 History – knowledge exam Art - assignment

Art – assignment Maths – exam Drama – performance – Mrs Wight

Maths – exam

Student Devised Drama - Group Ritual Performance Program Challenge – Celebration Evening

Health – supervised written task Legal Studies – extended research response Biology – ERT due

FTVNM – final task Legal Studies - Research Response Multimodal PE - Exercise Physiology Analytical Exposition Accounting - assignment due Health – assessment piece

DIARY NOTES Friday 30 Day for Daniel Daniel Morcombe Cup, 6.15pm kick off, Kawana Sports Precinct - Field 1 Saturday 31 Disabled Surfers, Ann St Currimundi. Bus departs Siena at 8.00am Thursday 5 Nov Program Challenge Celebration Evening Friday 6 Awards Night, 6.30pm for 7.00pm start