First Nations Reconciliation Day and Flag Raising Ceremony 

On 30 May, 2022 Assumption College and St Mary's held our first joint Roconciliation Day at Assumption College. 

Our special guests included, Elder Sam Bonnor, Police Liason Officer Mady Bahr, Councillor Andrew Gale, and other fellow community guests.

Students, Cooper Murray, Hayden Kenny and Kirra-Lee Curtis raised the flag at the front of the College, before we moved our guests to St James Hall where we were addressed by our Principal, Mrs Liisa Hammond, and Councillor, Andrew Gale.

A special mention must go to one of our Githabul students, Kyanne Kearns, for delivering a moving speech to our audience. 

We wish to extend our appreciation to all those involved.

Altitude Day

Miss Brackin and Mr Donnelly

On Monday 23 May, 2022, five students from Year 9 attended Altitude Day in Toowoomba. Altitude Day empowers Year 9 students to be positive leaders within their school and wider community. It gives them the opportunity to network with students from other schools, in their region, and be inspired by young leaders who are doing incredible things in our world.

This experience gives them the confidence to be themselves, and the framework to turn their passions and goals into reality. Each student thoroughly enjoyed the day and represented the College exceptionally when interacting with other Year 9 students from various schools around the Darling Downs.

The key pieces of information that the students took from the day include the following quotes:

• Aspire, Acquire, and Take Action
• Don’t wait for someone else to do it, you take the action and do it
• You can achieve if you put your mind to it
• Limitless vision                                   

Year 7 Mathematics

Class 7D are studying angle rules this week. Today we tested the rules we have been learning to see if they do, indeed, work. And they do! Students used their math sets and learned the correct way to measure the size of an angle using their protractors.  We enjoyed learning about the practical side of mathematics.  Next week we will be hunting triangles!

Noosa Film Academy

I am looking for some more students to sign up to the Noosa Film Academy Workshop so that it can run next term. It is a one day workshop, Tuesday of Week 3 Term 3. Our presenters take the group through all the stages of developing an idea for a film, find the filming locations, casting, filming, acting, recording, editing, adding sound etc. to produce a short film. Students can learn so much about film and be able to apply it to a variety of assessment tasks across a range of subjects – or just for their own creative ends. There is no cost involved and this is the last opportunity for this organisation to visit us. So please, ask at the office for a form – and get your name on the list!

Art Display

The current art display of students' completed tasks include a Year 10 Impressionist painting experiment and final works from our Senior Art Students - one a series exploring ideas of abstraction and colour fields, the other when moved becomes a moving image of dance using the design of a zoetrope. (A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion). It is always enjoyable to see what our students can produce. As the term comes to an end, more work will be displayed as Year 9 complete their Environmental Unit and Year 10 complete their Modern Art Unit.

Term 4 – Territorial Theatre Performance- Year 7 & Year 8.

We had to cancel our Term 1 booking with the theatre performance about the transition from primary to secondary school called Territorial. I am pleased to announce that the performance has been rebooked for our Years 7 and 8 cohort for Term 4 on Thursday 6 October, 2022.

More information will be sent home to families closer to the date. We look forward to the students enjoying the performance and reflecting on whether it reflects “life” and to have some conversations with them about how they have settled into life at Assumption College and what they look forward to next year.

Assumption College P & F Meeting

Dear Parents / Guardians, please be advised today, Monday, 13 June 2022, the Assumption College P&F Association AGM Meeting will be held at the College. Everyone is welcome to attend. Should you wish to find out anything further, please do not hesitate to contact the College office on 07 4660 4000. Kind Regards, Assumption College P&F.