Nearly a year of planning by our dedicated STEM Fair team culminated in a spectacular exhibition last Thursday when our College was buzzing with excitement as students, families and staff were drawn into a world of innovation, creativity, invention and exploration. There was an abundance of activities to discover from solar telescopes to earthquake towers, zapping machines, mini robots, worms and much, much more. The Year 4 Pinball Alley was a tremendous hit with visitors of all ages! We are very appreciative to Graeme Jenkinson and Des Janke for sharing their telescopes and expertise with us. How wonderful to be able to see the solar flares on the sun in so much detail and explore the stars. A huge thankyou to staff and students who have been working on projects since the beginning of Term 2, your hard work produced the most amazing collection of projects! Thankyou also to staff, students and parents who gave their time to run activities on the afternoon, help with setting up and packing away.

Winning Projects

Students or groups of students marked with an * projects have been entered into the Griffith University Gold Coast Schools Science Competition being held 27-30 August 2018.

Prep Science

• Prep Red & Prep Blue

Year 1 & 2 Science

• 1A- class award
• Tom Clarke, Lucinda Conn, Angus Paffey
• * Tilly Ryan, Poppy Campbel, Lucy Reed
• * Olivia Hiesler, Charlee Walker, Jack-Jack Bond
• * Aaron Cleary

Year 1 & 2 Technology

• 1B – class award
• Tilly Ryan
• Indi Wilson

Year 3 & 4 Science

• * Declan Grimes, Travis Gater, Noah Cook, Sophie Jeude
• * Marlee Carpenter, Mia Ryan
• * Isabel Johnston, Leila Boland, Emmysen Crothers

Year 3 & 4 Technology

• * Emmy Harms, Chase Price, Ruby Daniels, Joshua Van Zelst
• * Kai Rush, Travis Gater, George Morgan, Harry Burton

Year 5 & 6 Science

• * Loretta Carpenter
• Ella Price, Liberty Jackson
• Allie Hobson, Emily Griffiths, Madi Martin

Year 5 & 6 Mathematics

• Bronson Barnett

Year 7 & 8 Science

• * Felicity Stephen
• * Shawnee King
• * Mackenzie Wedrat

Year 9 & 10 Science

• * Patrick Boland
• * Connor Merton
• * Charlotte Crothers

Year 9 & 10 Technology

• Jacob Staheli, Morgan Allen, Dylan Nobbs, Jack Henningsen
• Maggie Laffey, Jennifer Nothdurft, Sophie McGowan

Year 11 & 12 Science

• * Claudia Nothdurft
• * Laura Cook
• * Shivai Vakade
• * Eliza Bradford

This week our focus Virtue is Transcendence and the Character Strength is Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence.  This week I encourage you to take a moment, to stop and appreciate all that surrounds you in the everyday:  

Dear God,  

Even though we can travel great distances in search of beauty,  

let us open our eyes to the simple pleasures that surround us everyday,  

breathe in  

and appreciate their wonders.  

Amen 

INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 

The Catholic Church is the 3rd largest employer of any kind in Australia: Wesfarmers, Woolworths, the Catholic Church, Federal Public Service, BHP, Rio Tinto, NAB, CBA, Westpac and ANZ 

(facts compiled by Rev Dr Richard Leonard SJ 2018) 

OLSC Day 

Next Friday we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, (officially 1 September).  All students are asked to wear College Sports Uniform on this day.  We will have classes as normal until after lunch then we will take part in some whole College activities and Mass.  

Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum 

Throughout this term, our College will be implementing the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum with students in Prep- Year 10. The curriculum is based on principles of best practice in child safety education and centres around three key messages: Recognise, React and Report.  

It is important that the key safety messages of the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum: Recognise, React and Report are reinforced, both at school and home. I encourage you, wherever possible, to talk with your child about safety to help them stay safe now and in the future. 

Information about the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum can be found at www.education.qld.gov.au/child-safety-curriculum or see your child’s class teacher. 

ST JOSEPH'S PARISH RECONCILIATION 

The sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated at St Joseph's during the week beginning 19 November 2018.  The Sacramental Program of preparation will begin with a group meeting on Thursday 11 October at 7:00pm.  

Who is eligible?  Children who  

• Have been baptised, and  

• Are currently in year 2 or above. 

If you would like to enrol your child in this Sacramental Program please contact St Joseph's Parish with your child's name and parent/guardian contact details, 46624011 or dalbyparish@twb.catholic.edu.au  or Cate Brennan via OLSCC Office.   Enrolment forms and payment will need to be completed at the information night. If your child was not baptised in St Joseph’s, please bring to the Information meeting: 

a copy of the baptismal certificate or an extract which can be requested from the Parish where your child was baptised. 

Cate Brennan

Assistant Principal Mission

Junior

Netball

The College will send a team to the QLD Primary Schools Samsung Cup in Bundaberg on the weekend of September 15-16. Thanks to the girls and families who have made themselves available for this event

AFL

Congratulations to Gabby Banks who has been selected in the Darling Downs Girls AFL Team for the State Championships at Maroochydore in October.

Touch Football

Year 5/6 students interested in representing the College at the SWQ and QLD All Schools Carnivals next term please sign up and collect letters via the Sports Notice Board. 

Senior

SWQ Touch Football Carnival

Congratulations to all players, families who braved the cold and windy conditions at the SWQ All Schools Carnival on Sunday. All teams performed well with the highlights being the Under 13 Boys team who won their division and the Open Mixed Team for winning their division for the fourth straight year. All results are listed below and teams are now preparing for the QLD All Schools Carnival early next term. Thanks to Mrs Hegedus, Mrs Sankey and Mrs Gleeson for coaching our teams.

13 Boys

Win vs Downlands College 3-0

Win vs St Mary’s 1-0

Win vs St Edmund’s 7-1

Win vs Chinchilla SHS 6-0

Win vs Wilsonton SHS 10-0

Win vs Centenary Heights SHS 3-0 (Counts as a QLD All Schools Game)

Final

Win vs St Mary’s 4-3

15 Boys

Draw with Dalby Christian College 2-2 (Counts as a QLD All Schools Game)

Win vs Harristown SHS 1-0

Loss to Downlands College 3-0

Loss to Centenary Heights SHS 3-2

15 Girls

Loss to Chinchilla SHS 2-1 (Counts as a QLD All Schools Game)

Loss to Glennie 2-1

Loss to St Joseph’s College 3-0

Win vs Fairholme B 6-2

Open Mixed

Win vs Dalby SHS 4-1 (Counts as a QLD All Schools Game)

Win vs Toowoomba Christian College B 11-0

Win vs Wilsonton SHS 8-0

Quarter Final

Win vs Scots College Warwick 10-1

Semi Final

Win vs Faith Lutheran College 5-1

Grand Final

Win vs Chinchilla SHS 7-3

QLD All Schools Touch Football Carnival

Version 1 of the QLD All Schools Touch Football Draw has been released and placed on the Sports Notice Board. This will most likely change in the next few weeks. At this stage all games are on Thursday Friday and Saturday (October 11-14) with finals only on Sunday.

Netball

Best of luck to the Open Senior Vicki Wilson Cup Team who will compete in Toowoomba on Sunday The Junior Vicki Wilson Cup Team will compete in Toowoomba on Sunday September 16.

Rugby Sevens

The College will send Boys and Girls Team to the Scots Warwick Sevens Carnival on Saturday September 15 and the QLD All Schools Sevens in Brisbane on October 27-28. More details about these carnivals will be passed on later this term.

Water Polo

Any Boys or Girls interested in attending Darling Downs Water Polo Trials for 2019 please see Mr Lincoln for more information. Students must be born between 2002 – 2006 and be enrolled at school next year.

Tennis

Last Thursday Ben Forbes, James Hegedus, Patrick Kelly and Harry Daniel attend the Darling Downs Schools Tennis Challenge in Toowoomba. Thanks to Mrs Forbes for organizing this event for our students. The team finished in third position overall out of seven teams. Results are listed below.

Round 1:

OLSCC defeated Assumption College Warwick – 6 sets 24 games to 0 sets 2 games

Singles wins to Ben, James, Harry and Patrick

Doubles wins to Ben/Patrick and James/Harry

Round 2:

Toowoomba Grammar 2 defeated OLSCC – 3 sets 17 games to 3 sets 16 games

Singles win to Harry

Doubles wins to Ben/Patrick and James/Harry

Semi Final

Toowoomba Grammar 1 defeated OLSCC – 4 sets to 2 sets

Singles win to James

Doubles wins to James/Harry

Third Place Playoff

OLSCC defeated Toowoomba Grammar 2 – 5 sets to 1 set

Singles wins to Ben, James and Patrick

Doubles wins to Ben/Patrick and James/Harry

Tim Lincoln

Sports Coordinator

Year 7 Science – Biology

Year 7 science students have been discovering the world of biology. This has included how biologists classify all living things in a scientific process called taxonomy. The students have interacted with a resource kit recently borrowed from the Queensland Museum. This resource was used for students to classify and investigate Arthropods. This Phylum includes insects, arachnids, crustaceans and myriapods. The kit allowed the students a hands on experience when investigating taxonomy and a large area of the animal Kingdom.

Chelsea Scores in Driving

Year 6 student, Chelsea Butler, has just completed her first year driving in the Junior Quarter Midgets – Qld. At their recent presentation day, Chelsea was placed 3^rd overall in her age group and received a huge trophy for the Club Championship Encouragement Award. A wonderful achievement for a talented girl!

Congratulations to Mrs Cruickshank's Year 4B class on taking out the Speech and Verse Speaking Championship at the Dalby Eisteddfod. 

Reader of the Week

You were spotted reading a book at lunchtime recently. Please see Mrs Jenkinson for your reward. Well done & keep reading.

Book Week Character Parade

It was like falling down a rabbit’s hole when walking into the MPC this morning. The area was awash with the much-loved, and at times quirky, characters from the student’s favourite books. A lot of imagination went into costumes and it was matched by the enthusiasm of our junior school kids.

Check out our picture gallery.

And the winners are….

The Children’s Book Council of Australia announced the 2018 Book of the Year winners on Friday 17^th August.  All of these books are available from our Library.

Book of the Year – Older Readers (Ages 13-18)

Book of the Year – Younger Readers (Ages 8-12)

Book of the Year – Early Childhood (Ages 0-7)

Picture Book of the Year (Ages 0-18)

Eve Pownall Award (Ages 0-18)

Chrichton Award for New Illustrators (Ages 0-18)

Light up the Night!

Students from 2A, 3A and 3B were joined by siblings and their families Saturday evening as the excitement built for the Dalby Delicious and Delightful annual lantern parade. A menagerie of sea creatures filled the skyline as our students made their way past the many onlookers and into the festival. Thankyou to Mrs Bennie, Mrs Hemmings, Mrs Martin and Ms Joyce for supporting students to brightly represent our College at the festival.

Magpie season is upon us again and we expect some swooping activity from our resident magpies. There is little we can do about this unless they become so severe in their attacks that we can direct the Council to come and remove the offender. It is important for our students to observe sensible practices to avoid getting injured by a swooping magpie. These include;-

• wearing a hat
• keeping head down
• avoiding walking in areas where magpies swoop
• walking in groups
• Wear a bike helmet or have a flag on the bike when riding
• carry a stick or umbrella
• wear sunglasses to protect eyes

Click on the button below to read the Fact Sheet on Swooping Magpies. The College needs to ensure safety of students and staff at all time however people must be responsible for observing these practices as they move around the campus and to and from school each day.

We have had an incredible response from local businesses for sponsorship of our up coming Saints Race Day. This unique and stylish event coordinated by the College P&F Saints Races Committee is being held on Saturday, 1 September at Bunya Park Race Course, Dalby. Thanks to our generous sponsors, your race day experience is set to be one to remember.

Shine Lawyers have sponsored the Saints Marquee which will include a seat for you and your friends at a table of 10 and a delicious Ploughman's Lunch sponsored by Urban Paddock. The marquee will provide a stunning location for you to enjoy your lunch plus the company of racegoers with all the track side action right alongside.

Tickets for the Shine Lawyers Saints Marquee are available from The Shop, Dalby and the College Office for $40/head or a table of 10 for $350 so be sure to secure your table now.

General admission to Bunya Park with access to the HEQ Viewing Deck are also available for $25 per head. General admission will allow you access to all areas on course however no allocated seating or catering is included with GA tickets.

Golding Air Conditioning and Heating are sponsoring the bar for all refreshments while Milli and Robe have sponsored all the Fashions on the Field. Racegoers are invited to stay on into the evening for entertainment from the Live Band, Solitary Man, sponsored by the Criterion Hotel.

There will be a live auction throughout the day of some fantastic prizes donated by Nev and Kartina Walton, Dr Lotte Verhoef, Wild River Concreting and Ray White.

We would also like to thank the Dalby Herald and SNAP Printing for their sponsorship of all our advertising and marketing material. 

Thank you also to our Silver and Bronze sponsors who have generously donated to our Saints Race Day. 

We encourage students to leave their own sports equipment at home and to use the equipment provided at the College (including soccer and footballs) during break play.  In Junior School students may borrow equipment from the Sports Shed at lunch time.  If students prefer to bring their own equipment to the College it may only be 1 item, e.g. a skipping rope, 1 handball sized ball or 1 Soccer/Football ball, to play with at designated play time.  This item must fit in their school bag and be stored in there whilst travelling to and from school and throughout the school day.  The owner will be responsible for the equipment at all times.  It should be named clearly.  By bringing this item (eg ball/rope) to school they understand that it becomes shared equipment with their peers and may be played with in a team group situation by a number of students not dictated by the owner of the item.   

UNIFROM SHOP NEWS

Please note, there has been an increase in the uniform prices which will be effective from 1 September 2018. Click on the link button for the new price list.

TUCKSHOP ROSTER

WE NEED YOUR HELP

St Joseph’s Catholic Church has accepted a proposal from Dalby State School to provide parking in the Church carpark and at the IONA grounds for a gold coin donation.  All money raised will go to Drought Angels.

Volunteers would be appreciated to assist with donation collection and guidance to parking areas at both venues.  

Parking will be manned from 7am to 11am – Any helped would be greatly appreciated.  Just call in and she the volunteer at the Edward St entrance at IONA or the Church Car Park and they will assist.

UNIVERSITY OPEN DAYS

University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich  Saturday, 1 September 10am to 1pm

University of Southern Queensland, Springfield   Friday, 7 September 3pm to 7pm

STUDENT PROTECTION CONTACTS FOR OUR LADY OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS COLLEGE

Please contact these officers via the College Office or in person.

Mr Peter Cuskelly, Principal

Mrs Melissa Irwin, Director of Teaching and Learning, Student Services

Mr Luke Holmes, College Counsellor

Mr Nicholas Blauw, Teacher

STUDENT PROTECTION CONTACTS APPOINTED BY THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL AUTHORITY TOOWOOMBA

Peter Simpson, Student Protection Officer

Barbara Woods, Student Protection Officer