Our Lady of the Southern Cross College, Dalby
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2 Nicholson Street
Dalby QLD 4405, Australia
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Email: dalby@twb.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 07 4672 4111
Fax: 07 4672 4112

Middle Years Matters

Student-Led Conferences (Thursday 29 February)

Next week the Middle Years will be hosting their Student-Led Conferences. These conferences will take place in Yellow Block and Blue Block classrooms with teachers distributed across both Blocks. This evening presents a wonderful opportunity for students, their parents, and their teachers to chat about goals, progress, and up coming assessment. It is also presents an opportunity to discuss strategies that may support children through assessment, classwork, and homework. Bookings are still available, but will close on Tuesday 27 February. Please Review the room breakdown below in preparation for the evening. 

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Containers for Change – Praxis 

Our Year 7 students will again this year take on the Containers for Change project at the College. This is part of their Praxis class project that links to the Catholic Social Teaching of Stewardship of the Earth with a recycling theme. Students have been speaking to their peers, presenting at assembly, and will continue to sort and deposit the containers at the depot here in town. If you haven’t been to the new depot in Napier Street it is quite interesting with more mechanised sorting occurring in front of your eyes.

Through the project the students aim to raise money that will be invested back into students at the College. Since taking on the project two years ago, various Year 7 groups have raised money to purchase play equipment and games for students to use during lunchtime, breaks, and on camps. The aim is to follow this line of thinking once more and on behalf of the current Year 7 group, I ask for your support in their project. If you have any containers at home that you wouldn’t mind donating to the Year 7s please consider the following:

When depositing the containers at the Napier Street depot, use the code below:

C10003725

This way the containers will be added to the Year 7s project
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Leadership Passport
For those students who have already begun their journey of leadership skill development using the Leadership Passport, just a reminder that there are College events coming up that could be used for Above and Beyond tasks. The aim of the passport model is to encourage students to grow in confidence and demonstrate their initiative in seeking out opportunities rather than waiting for them to be presented to them. I encourage students from Level 1 especially, to reach out to teachers and discuss potential opportunities to complete the tasks associated with the Above and Beyond and Public Speaking categories. Some potential events include:

  • Early Years Bush Dance (Friday 15 March)
  • Nolan Day Celebrations (Thursday 28 March)
  • Easter Prayer Celebration (Thursday 28 March)
  • Cross Country (Wednesday 17 April)
  • ANZAC Day Service at school (Wednesday 24 April)
  • ANZAC Day Dawn Service (Thursday 25 April)
  • Come and Try Day Term 2 (Wednesday 1 May)
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If your child would like to begin developing their leadership skills. Encourage them to speak with me at school. It is never too late to start. As the saying goes the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, but the second best time to plant a tree is today.

Craig Cullen

Assistant Principal Middle Years