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Welcome to Semester 2. I hope that the school holidays gave you time to be with your children, and that they were able to make the most of their time at home. Certainly, it was a busy time for our Year 12 students, as they prepared for their HSC Trial examinations.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: PUPIL FREE DAY 1st AUGUST

The Coffs Cup Holiday is now gazetted such that we are obliged to close the school at 12 noon on Thursday, 1st August.

The holiday is now gazetted such that it applies to workers under the Awards applicable at Bishop Druitt College. This was not the case last year.

Bus companies cannot change their schedules to collect students at 12 noon, so we cannot offer a half day of school. We have no alternative but to make the entire Coffs Cup Day PUPIL FREE. College staff will be at school until noon, when the school will close. All staff at the College are entitled to the Cup holiday half day.

Vacation care will be available from 8.30am - 6.00pm for families who wish to avail themselves of this service. Places are limited. BOOKINGS CLOSE FRIDAY, 26 JULY. Bookings are essential. Please see the advertisement at the end of this newsletter for more information and booking procedure.

*IF CHILDREN ARE BOOKED IN TO VACATION CARE, THEY MUST BE DROPPED OFF AND COLLECTED BY PARENTS/CAREGIVERS AS CHILDREN MUST BE SIGNED IN AND SIGNED OUT.

Congratulations to Joseph Dean, one of our College Captains, who is one of 25 students from around the country who have been awarded one of the new Tuckwell Scholarships at the Australian National University in Canberra. Joe negotiated two intensive sessions of interviews in Canberra. Providing his UAI score meets set prerequisites, the scholarship is worth $20,000 per year over the course of his undergraduate degree. This is an outstanding achievement.

It has been a busy holiday period for a number our students –

Toby McCann (10) travelled to Europe in the vacation to compete in Track & Field championships in various cities. His first meet • was the Welsh Track and Field championships, where he placed 3rd in the final of the U16 400m. He then raced in Belgium at the International De Nivelles meet, which was a ProAm event. Toby won his race in Belgium. Not a bad effort, given that he broke a toe before the final of his final in Wales.The BDC Under 10’s and BDC Under 12’s Rugby Teams competed in the ARU Coffs Coast Rugby Challenge at BCU Stadium • over the holidays. Teams traveled from regional NSW to compete over the three days where the theme of the event was to foster the love of the game and promote the “Spirit of Rugby”. The ARU were looking for one team in each age group that lived up to the “Spirit of Rugby” ideals by constantly maintaining high standards of fair play, enjoyment of the game, team spirit and standards of behavior of which players, parents, clubs or schools and indeed the code in general could be proud. Both of these teams were awarded the Spirit of Rugby awards for their respective age groups which is a credit to each player. Each player was awarded tickets to attend a Waratahs Super Rugby home game of their choice next year as guests of NSW Rugby.There were also a number of other BDC secondary students playing in combined Coffs Harbour teams in this competition, and • both Noah Baptiste (8) and Declan Akers (8) were picked for representative selection for the MNC U15s development squad. Rebecca Black (9) played for NSW in the U16 National Basketball Championships in the holidays in Adelaide. The team finished • top of their pool but missed out on a count-back qualifying for the finals. Her team was the only team to beat Victoria who were the eventual winners. Unfortunately, Rebecca broke her wrist during the tournament.Stephanie Grey (9) was awarded the Philosophers’ Choice Medal in her age group at the Australian Philosothon held in Melbourne. • The students and staff nominated participants whose contributions to the discussions were the most valuable and impressive.Mrs Sarah Stokes and her husband Rob, welcomed a baby daughter, Koa Anne into the world•

BUY A BRICK

Over $30,000 has been raised by this campaign. Bricks will remain on sale indefinitely. If you missed out on buying a brick or bricks before the opening of the Branson Centre, we will continue to accept orders, and will periodically order a batch of bricks to be fixed to the back wall of the Branson Centre. These will be tax deductible in the relevant financial year.

Principal’s App of the week: Dragon

from the principal

chaplain’s chat

Alan BallPrincipal

Welcome to Term 3. I hope that you and your loved ones had a wonderful break. During the last week of the holidays I attended a retreat for Clergy and enjoyed finding time to just sit in the sun and contemplate. It’s so important to allow ourselves to take time out for rest and to recharge our batteries.

We are celebrating NAIDOC week in recognition of Indigenous Australians and during Chapel this week have explored the history and the theme for 2013 “We value the vision: Yirrkala Bark Petitions.”

In August 1963, the Yolngu people of Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land sent two bark petitions - framed by traditional ochre paintings of clan designs to the House of Representatives. These petitions protested the Commonwealth’s granting of mining rights on land excised from Arnhem Land reserve and sought recognition of the Australian Parliament of the Yolngu’ people’s traditional rights and ownership of their lands.

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Tim EganAssistant Principal (Head of Secondary)

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Well the term has certainly started with a bang. We were lucky enough to host the Australian Girls’ Choir for two days. There is mention of this visit in the Music report, but I would like to make comment myself. I was captured by the way in which these girls represented themselves, their families and their organisation. The most amazing part (aside from the amazing singing of course) was their passion to be proud of their talents and share it so enthusiastically. Every girl and staff member had a genuine love for what they were doing and this was evident in every performance and workshop.

It is passion such as this that makes the school environment a vibrant place. I often talk about contributing to the College through activities that you are passionate about. Sporting, Cultural or a club, it doesn’t matter. These activities not only provide the life to our College, but it allows students to become fully immersed in the life of the College. Everyone needs an interest or a hobby outside of our work or study - what is yours?

Just by way of explanation, the reports for our middle school students (Years 7-9) have been evolving over the past couple of years. The Term 1 report is a progress/settling in report and is focused on pastoral care, hence the Tutor Teacher comment. The Term 2 report is an Academic progress report for the year and has comments supplied by each teacher and have intentionally removed the Tutor Teacher comment from this report. The end of year report will included complete reports from all teachers as a final yearly summary. I encourage you to send your comments regarding these reports to secoffice@bdc.nsw.edu.au

The Student Environment Group was delighted to return to school after the holidays to find our brand new Water Refill Station installed (thanks Mr Mac!) at school adjacent to the canteen. Every year in Australia, millions of plastic water bottles are thrown away with less than 30% being recycled. Most of these bottles end up either in landfill or floating in our oceans. The Student Environment Group would like to encourage all students (and staff) to bring their refillable water bottles with them to school, fill up with clean filtered water, and help make a positive difference to the environment.

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Rev Marion TanfieldChaplain

Asserting title to Yolngu country under Yolngu law, the petitions were the first traditional documents recognised by the Commonwealth Parliament and helped to shape the nations acknowledgement of Aboriginal People and their land rights. We value the foresight, strength and determination of the Yolngu people whose Bark petitions set into motion a long process of legislative and constitutional reforms for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People.

Because of the vision and the actions of the Yolngu people today we look to a better future that better understands and celebrates the unique connection that Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders share to country, as we continue to build an Australia that reflects the achievements and furthers the aspirations of its people.

We also watched a video clip about the King of Yarrabah Vincent Scrieber who inherited this title and responsibility as a descendant from a long line of ancestors and who has now taken his place as leader. Yarrabah is a small aboriginal community with just over 3000 people it is situated on the east coast of Australia about a 45 minute drive (37km south) from the city of Cairns.

Vincent’s message to his people is to never lose their identity, as they look back to the past to learn from their mistakes. They have a vision of once becoming one whole community again, just as their ancestors did. His message to “give to one another” and “to be honest with in yourself” “put other people first, family and friends and yourself last,” and in his words “to look up at the sky and ask for help,” that together with their ancestors they are able to celebrate their spirituality through culture, dance, story and art as they come together in one Spirit.

One of the most important character traits a leader possesses is vision. As a culture we could lose our most valuable resource “leadership” if we don’t have vision and follow it with action. Cultures that allow families and communities to exist with no stable, healthy authority and leadership eventually delve into chaos. Proverbs says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” A culture without vision is directionless.

So together lets celebrate what the Yolngu people stood up for; what is right and just for their people and their land and may we all be encouraged to have a vision and pursue it with action to bring about change that is right and just.

Throughout our journey may we grow and reap the good harvest as we too discover Jesus together.

Shalom

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careersIt is great to be back this term and I am very grateful to Lisa Rae for her great work as acting Careers Adviser during Term 2. The latest annual ‘Australian jobs’ publication is available in the Careers lounge and provides useful information about the labour market as well as evidence of the value of post school education and training and that the demand for skilled workers is growing strongly.

Year 12 Complimentary UAC guides are available from the Careers lounge. As soon as trials are completed students are invited to book an appointment with me to receive support and guidance with preparations for life beyond school. Early entry (SCU, UNE, CSU and CU) and scholarship applications are to be completed in August and university entrance applications to the state-wide admission centres (i.e. UAC, QTAC and VTAC) are due by end of this term.

The students should be very proud of their effort to both fundraise and secure a Green Schools Grant to enable the purchase and installation. It really is exciting for the whole Student Environment Group to see the tangible reward for their passion, dedication and hard work.

Brett Bennett and Rosey LangStudent Environment Group Coordinators

Rebecca BrownVisual Arts Faculty

Tom Anderson11 Cottee

visual art

ski trip

It is official! The Visual Arts staff are proud to announce the winner and accompanying awards for the Year 8, 2013 Mock Archibald Competition! Congratulations to every entrant and winner, as you can see the works are an amazing array of talent. The winners will receive their prizes at their Year 8 Year Meeting.

The bus trip turned out to be a tedious ordeal for some, who found sleeping on a bus full of kids difficult. By the time we reached Jindabyne the excitement of the snow that soon waited had taken over from our lack of sleep. We had half a day on the slopes on Sunday where we regained our bearings on our boards and skis. The Vikas Lodge accommodation was awesome and the guys there really looked after us. The week on the slopes turned out to be eventful, but at the same time we all had an amazing time. Whether it was Olivia’s poor organisation skills, or Corey trying to squeeze 5 people onto a 4-person chairlift, the week was filled with funny events that provided much laughter and enjoyment. Even though everyone pushed limits, we came back with only one minor injury. Poor Ash Wicken had a crash during his lesson and broke his wrist. Luckily he waited until the second last day to fall over so he still had a good go on the slopes.

I’m sure I can speak on behalf of all the students who came, and send out a huge thanks to the teachers who came on the trip. Without the help of Mr Findlay, Mr Andrews, Ms Reinhold and Ms Gudgeon, the trip wouldn’t be possible and I couldn’t have asked for a better group of teachers to take us. I had an awesome week and I highly recommend it to anyone contemplating future ski trips.

WinnerRobert Farrow’s painting of

Brody Fergusson

People’s ChoiceAmelia Barbaresco’s painting

of Wenonah Fullbrook

Highly CommendedLondon Hawke’s painting of

Mickaela Adendorff

Encouragement AwardMiko Pringle’s painting of

Nadia Holden

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Coffs Harbour Post Secondary Careers Market - 24 JulyCoffs Harbour Education Campus 9.00am to 1.30 pm Hundreds of representatives from about seventy universities and colleges provide vital information about post secondary options across Australia. 2014 course guides, early entry advise, scholarship information booklets, apprenticeships/ cadetships information will be available. All BDC Year 12 students are to travel to this event by bus from the college during recess and tutor time so as not to miss lessons so close to trial examinations.

This is the one and only annual ‘tertiary study focused’ careers market that occurs in Coffs Harbour. Transport costs have been • paid for in advance through subject levy.Parents are also invited to browse stalls and speak with representatives from the many universities there. •

Post Secondary Pathways Information Evening August 21 5.45pm - Bishop Druitt College TheatreAreas covered include university and TAFE applications, gap year, cadetships, scholarships, fees, costs, accommodation and much more.

Year 10Congratulations to students who have successfully completed work experience and /or their White card. Appraisals and certificates are ready to collect from the Careers lounge. All BDC Year 10 students should have completed their Personal Achievement Portfolio last term. This portfolio with covering letter, resume, personal statement and copies of awards and achievements will be constantly updated.

In Term 3 Careers classes students will research potential occupations and tertiary courses to assist with choosing subjects for Year 11 and 12.

Please note August 6: Year 10 Subject Information Evening at the College at 6pm

Useful Careers links:http://www.bdc.nsw.edu.au/our-community#services http://www.qtac.edu.au/Downloads/Schools/Tertiary_Prerequisites_2016.pdfhttp://www.qtac.edu.au/Schools/Resources.html

Stephanie GreyYear 9

Robyn CrispCareers Advisor

philosothonFrom speaking in different languages, to the airhostesses on the plane, to dancing with buskers in the streets of Melbourne, BDC’s Philosophy team had an incredible time at Melbourne for the National Philosothon. We can’t wait to host the Northern NSW State Philosothon later this year!

We met amazing, inspiring people and couldn’t imagine a better location for the Philosothon than arty Melbourne. The team cruised the eateries and markets of Melbourne with relish, and throughout the trip mused over philosophical challenges with equal gusto. The competition may have only been three days and we didn’t come out with a trophy, but the friends, memories and new perspective we took away will last for years to come.

PHILOSOPHY!Having a ballInteresting people, places, ideas, artLearning and loving it,Open-minded COIsShopping!Opinions offer insight and understandingTeamwork makes new friendsHilarious moments to be rememberedOpportunities to explore a new cityNot to be missed!

Team consists of: Mrs Paff, Mrs James, (the brave teachers) Joel Rutter, Sunny Williams, Jack and Susan Brown, Sarah Graham-Higgs, Dan Williams, Rhyss Turner, Max Kornhauser and Steph Grey, along with teams from masses of other schools nationwide participating, even one from Singapore.

PS (from Mrs Paff) Congratulations to Stephanie Grey for winning the Philosophers’ Choice award for her age group.

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Karin LisleAssistant Principal (Head of Primary)

from the head of primaryI hear so many families have had a good long break in the holidays. Trips to Paris, Fiji, Thailand and Bali, Broome and Brisbane being the most popular, and of course, who could complain about the weather if you stayed home in Coffs Harbour? I spent the holidays learning, it was so inspirational. I met a fantastic educator, Andy Hargreaves, a Canadian who has been conducting studies around the world on best teaching practice. Many ideas from this PD and others will be forthcoming in our staff meetings. Last term we studied the introduction of the National Curriculum in English. Teachers developed new programs and trialled the use of them in the classroom. They have also been sharing their learning with colleagues and observing good teacher practice in the classroom. This term we will be integrating technology into the curriculum.

I hope you were pleased with the reports of your children last term. So far we have had very few problems with the delivery by email, but if you have not received your child’s report could you please contact me immediately. Thank you to the parents who have replied to the questionnaire attached to the report. If you would like to comment on your child’s report or the manner in which it has been delivered, could you please go to: http://goo.gl/JCeuC

Congratulations to all the children who entered competitions and received awards over the holidays. Leith Honor and Harry Ward were awarded second prize in the Community Service Award at the Sawtell Chilli Festival for raising money for our sister school in Cambodia. The De Jong sisters, Annaliese and Bianca, won several prizes there, too, ranging from colouring in competitions to cooking a fabulous chilli jam. Bella Ashley in Year 6 had an article published in ‘Wild’, a national magazine. She wrote:

On one adventure during our Australia journey we got lost on a bike ride in darkness and amongst trees. Lesson number one: we started too late. Lesson number two: check everything before you go, because we forgot half our water and were sweating loads. Lesson number three: check your route on good maps, we didn’t know it was hilly. Lesson number four: always tell someone where you’re going…

I am so proud of these and all our children for the great work they do in school and out. Have a great weekend, everyone.

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Craig VerbruggenHead of Mathematics

Byot BlogI know that both Tim Egan and Alan Ball have featured the TED app in the past. This week I want to talk about this website specifically. It features speeches that are informative, inspiring and intriguing, and they cater to almost any topic that exists. These are great for student research projects, professional development for teachers and many other disciplines. It also caters to assist people in continually learning and satisfies the generally inquisitive nature of human beings. Technology is transforming our opportunity to learn and is doing so in a rapid manner. My favourite quote for the week is from JJ Abrams (producer of LOST, Mission Impossible and Star Trek etc): “It (technology) is now democratised. The creation of media is everywhere. The stuff that I was lucky and begging to get when I was a kid is now ubiquitous”.

His TED talk is about how many things in life represent a mystery box and he draws inspiration from these in his movies and TV series’. This talk is pertinent to education, technology, inspiring students and catering to their curiosity. Watch it by clicking the link below:

JJ Abrams: The mystery boxhttp://itunes.com/apps/tedconferences/ted

Lorelle NewtonBook Club Coordinator

scholastic Book cluBThe Book Club Issue No. 5 booklets have been distributed and orders will close on Friday 2 August. Orders may be sent to school and handed to your child’s teacher at any time before that date. For parents who are new to Book Club as well as a reminder to those who have placed orders in the past, the following things need to be noted when filling out a Book Club order:

Fill out your child’s full name and class on the order form, clearly mark all items to be ordered.• Credit card payments are made by telephone or online BEFORE you send the order to school. The information slip on the bottom • of the order form is sent to school with the Book Club order.

Please note that all payments for Book Club are now to be done by telephone or online with your credit or debit card. You will receive a receipt number after you have paid and this is to be written in the space provided at the bottom of the order form. Orders are then sent to school as usual.

Online payment: www.scholastic.com.au/paymentPhone Payment: 24 hours free call 1800 557 908If there is any difficulty with this new arrangement please let me, or your child’s class teacher know. Thank you for your support of Book Club. Your orders enable us to receive extra books for our classrooms, library and teacher resources by way of a rewards system. Most importantly, it is a great way to keep our children reading.

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grade of the week - year 4

A sincere thank you to the families who hosted the 56 members of the Australian Girls’ Choir this week. You very generously cared for our guests for three nights, which was a very big commitment. Our choristers had the opportunity of participating in workshops and performing with this outstanding vocal group. This was a fantastic experience for our students. My thanks go to Mrs Ruth Stuart for organising the visit.

Betrayal

In the future (13000 years later) in Fiji a dragon called Drakon, who had bright, gold and yellow scales, was flying through the sky.

One night Drakon saw a black shadow running in the ancient forest so he flew down to see who it was. When he got closer he could see that it was the wicked witch, who was very small but very fast. When Drakon saw the wicked witch he flew down to catch her but was caught himself by the wicked witch’s assistant. Then Drakon was taken to the wicked witch’s castle. That night Stealth, who had a very big mansion, came home and saw that Drakon had not come home yet. He knew that only one person could catch him, SHEBA, THE WICKED WITCH.

One night Stealth went out to Sheba’s castle to rescue Drakon. When Stealth got to Sheba’s castle he went to the entrance of the castle and peeped around the corner to see if there were any guards. But for his luck there were no guards at all. The door was open so he walked over to the door and saw that there laying on the ground were the guards. Then he saw hoof tracks on the ground next to them. IT WAS MAMBO ARMY!! He knew that mambo army had earned some bad records over the years. He knew that mambo army would never come to Sheba’s castle for no reason. They were here for Drakon so Stealth had to act fast to rescue him. Stealth ran into the castle and ran to the dungeon. Then he saw that two of Sheba’s guards were dead. Stealth ran out of the castle as fast as he could and went to see if he could see Drakon. When he got out of the castle Drakon was standing right in front of him. But when Stealth tried to walk over to him mambo army came out of hiding and killed Stealth. Then Drakon blew fire at mambo army. Mambo army had learned how to protect themself from the fire but Drakon did not know that. Then out of thin air came Sheba’s helper, who threw a magic potion at mambo army. In that potion was acid. Then Drakon joined forces and tried to kill Sheba but were nearly killed themselves.

It was a hard battle with Sheba but they killed her. When Drakon got home he made a grave for Stealth and lived happily ever after.

by Michael Spinoglio 4H

The students in 4M had to improve a few very basic sentences by using descriptive language. Some chose to continue the story.

The old, bald, blue-skinned man walked into the haunted, purple house. Inside he saw a scarred black shadow with the scars showing white. He walked to the tangled spider-webbed bedroom where the horrible shadow was. He kicked the lined, wooden door. White light beamed and the man felt a chill creep painfully, prickling his hairy back. The magic shadow sneered evilly. Searing his hands were burning green flames. He felt a tear on his cheek. He could not defeat the terrible monster.

by Oscar Caldicott

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Hunter Black and Paige Marr (4M) “Out in Space” collage and mixed media

support earn & learn 2013! Thank you to all who participated in this year’s program. We collected 23,820 stickers! This was a huge effort and we look forward to the instruments and other musical equipment that we can buy for the students. Thanks again - A great team effort.

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During the holidays the BDC 5/6 Rugby Team played in the Coffs Coast Rugby Challenge played against teams from the Hunter, Central Coast, Sydney, Port Macquarie and Kempsey. This competition was held at BCU stadium over 3 days in a Gala Day format. Although the boys did not win the competition, they were awarded the Spirit of Rugby Award for their overall performance, fair play and general behaviour both on and off the field. Congratulations to all the boys and their coaches Mr Oxley and Mr Lang.

There were also a number of other BDC secondary students playing in combined Coffs Harbour teams in this competition, and both Noah Baptist and Declan Akers were picked for representative selection for the MNC U15s development squad. Congratulations to Declan and Noah.

Friday night Rugby has already begun and we are looking at extending the competition by a few weeks, which will mean a slight change to the draw, but we will advise if and when this happens.

The Girls Open Football team travelled to Sydney during the week to play against Ravenswood College in the quarter finals of the CIS Football Cup. We knew we would come up against a very slick outfit in Ravenswood, who train and play together on a weekly basis, but our girls put up a really fantastic performance.

We stunned Ravenswood with a cracking first goal from Jenny Taffs, and then the match really swung into action with the score changing a few times to be 2-2 half way through the first half. Ravenswood scored a couple more times to lead 4-2 at half time. Ravenswood kicked away in the beginning of the second half, and it looked all over at 8-2, but with our girls incredible effort and pride in themselves, they scored another 3 to get back to 8-5. Unfortunately the girls ran out of time and Ravenswood were glad the whistle blew with our girls coming back strongly. Congratulations to all the girls and our goal scorers, Jenny, Naomi Law and Bella Hill-Costin.

The Semi’s and Finals for the end of Semester 1 Basketball were played on Friday and Saturday at the beginning of the holidays. BDC had a host of teams that made it through to play the semi-finals in both Secondary and Primary, so there were many Blue and Red singlets dotting the courts late on Friday and Saturday.

On Friday night we had four secondary teams who made it all the way through to the finals. Our 7/8 Girls Division 1 and Division 2 teams played really well but unfortunately lost their finals matches. Our 9/10 Division 1 and Division 2 Boys teams also played incredibly well to make it through to the finals, with the Division 1 Bakers losing a “Nail-biter” by one basket, and the Classics also losing a close game in the Division 2 final.

On Saturday we had 5 Primary teams who made through to the semi-finals, which was a fantastic effort, and 3 teams made it through to the finals. In the 3-4 Girls, the Boomers played well but lost a tough match in their final, while the 5/6 Division 2 Beachbabes played an incredible game but also lost in another “Nail-biting” finish. However, the Division 2 5/6 Girls won a fantastic final match against SFX and enjoyed their victory.

Rebecca Black played for NSW in the U16 National Basketball Championships in the holidays in Adelaide. The team finished at the top of their pool but missed out on a count-back in qualifying for the finals. Rebecca’s team were the only team to beat Victoria who were the eventual winners. Well done to Rebecca, who unfortunately suffered a broken wrist during the tournament.

The Semester 2 competition will begin on Friday 2 August for Secondary and Saturday August 3 for Primary. Teams are almost finalised and once this has happened we will upload the information and costs to Try Booking, on the college website.

The Timpani will be a wonderful addition to our Ensemble program and for our percussion tuition. They are due to arrive any day now. I would like to thank our Friends of Music and many generous donors and the College for making this purchase possible.

The HSC Music students are presenting their final assessment task on Thursday 25 July commencing at 6:00pm in Music Room 1 (please note this a change of location, previously indicated as College Theatre). This is a good opportunity for our seniors to present their talents for nearly the last time. Whilst this is a formal assessment, you would be welcome to attend. There are no tickets for this event. We wish our students well for this important task.

Thank you to Spencer Burnet, Zoya Dryburgh and Jessie Woodward for the wonderful performance at assembly this week.

college sport

Dale CondonHead of Music K-12

up-coming eventsRugby: MNC Coast to Country Cup – Tuesday July 22; BCU Stadium St. Joseph’s MNC Shield – Thursday July 25; Port Macquarie

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DON’T FORGET THE P&F MEETING WILL BE HELD ON NExT MON 22 JULY AT 6.30PM

UPCOMING EVENTS – BDC TRIVIA AND AUCTION NIGHTDust off your electric guitars, your tinsel wig and your blue suede shoes for a night of rock star trivia at Bishop Druitt College. Join us in the Branson Centre, the vast new school hall and multipurpose centre for a night of fun and brainy challenges.

The Rock Star Trivia Night starts at 7pm on Friday 16 August. Come dressed as a rock or pop star for a chance to win a best dressed prize. Tickets are $15 each and you can organise a table of 8 people or email parentsandfriends@bdc.nsw.edu.au to join another table.

Please note: This is an 18+ only event as alcohol will be available for purchase on the night. Lic Licence Number: LIQL550021389

To purchase tickets, please visit the College website

If you are interested in helping out on the night (bar, door, scoring etc) or donating a prize or item to auction, please email parentsandfriends@bdc.nsw.edu.au with details.

CALLING FOR ExPRESSIONS OF INTEREST!Want to be involved in your child’s schooling? The P&F currently have an email group that is often used to inform parents of upcoming P&F/College events, news, volunteer requests etc. You do not have to be a P&F member to be included, so if you want to help out every once in a while or just want to hear about upcoming events or information please email parentsandfriends@bdc.nsw.edu.au.

CONTACT USFor more information, to view our Constitution or read our latest meeting minutes, click on “Our Community” then “Parents and Friends” on the College Website. We look forward to your support.President: Allan Williams 0408 332 082 akwillo@live.com.auP & F email: parentsandfriends@bdc.nsw.edu.au

Next Meeting: 22 July 2013, 6.30pm - refreshments provided

The Bishop Druitt College Parents and Friends Association is an organisation that supports the aims and objectives of the College. It does so through the promotion of fundraising, fellowship, friendship and fun.

OSHC had a fantastic time these school holidays. We went to the cinema in town and watched Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University. We also had a Mad Haters Day and ‘Minute To Win It’ challenges. The OSHC gang then burned off some energy down at the Jr Superstars Sports were they got to jump on the trampolines, climb the rock wall and play in the foam pit. These holidays we teamed up with the St Augustine’s OSHC Centre and we had a blast on our excursion outings.

We have sent out the after school care bookings forms and information pack, please return these forms back to the OSHC Office or Front Office. All bookings must be in writing and a confirmation will be sent out either via text or email. For any enquiries please contact Marielos Urrutia on 0266517400 (phone), 0414515606 (mobile) or send an email to oshc@bdc.nsw.edu.au. We look forward to seeing you at OSHC soon.

college community

23 July25 July

26 July31 July1 Aug

MNC Coast to Country Rugby CupU14 & U16 MNC Rugby at Port MacquarieHSC Music RecitalSeen Ya’s On Show 6-8pm at BDCYear 8 Parent-Teacher-Student meetings and Subject Information NightCoffs Cup Day local public holiday - No students at school

Hours of Operation

8:30am - 6:00pm

Cost$60 per child for the day

There will be a charge of $20 per half-hour or part thereof for any children still present after 6pm

Bookings close 3pm Friday 26/7

Please contact Marielos at OSHC to book:oshc@bdc.nsw.edu.au | 02 6651 7400

Students must be dropped off and collected from the OSHC Centre as they need to be signed in and signed out.

Vacation Care for Coffs Cup DayThursday 1 August

Marielos UrrutiaOSHC Coordinator

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SATURDAY 17TH AUGUST 2013

GEOFF TURNBULL MIEL CRUDO

Coffs Coast Security

SPECIAL GUEST

WENDYMATTHEWS

Terry Powick & John Hynes will host this special evening with

entertainment by Dan Hannaford, Miel Crudo, Geoff Turnbull &

surprise guests.Massive auction of sporting

memorabilia, valuable package items, holidays and much more

Open 6pm for 7pm Dinner

$55 PER PERSON INCLUDES

DRINKS ON ARRIVAL, GOURMET FINGER FOODS,

BUFFET DINNER & DESSERTS

Limited seats available

proceeds will go toassist in the support of

the Family of Scott Snodgrass

Tickets available from Coffs Harbour Racing Club,Terry Powick (0403 064 386) & John Hynes (0419 407 250)

Ph: 6652 1488 www.coffsracingclub.com.au

SCOTT SNODGRASS BENEFIT NIGHT

DAN HANNAFORD