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The Rite Journey
All current year 8 parents are invited to attend an information evening for ‘The Rite Journey’ on Monday, November 18th at 7:30pm in the PAC.
This is more than a casual invitation. This is a program for Year 9 students at LCS in 2019 and is a new initiative for our school. The implementation of this program is significant for many reasons, so it is important that this session is well attended. Our partnership with your children will be further enhanced by your attendance and active participation.
Please note this meeting is for parents only. It would be ideal for all parents of our 2020 Year 9 students to attend.
Why mention this in our Herald which goes to a much wider audience than the parents of one particular year group?
Part of the The Rite Journey involves the students finding a mentor. Potential mentors are everywhere. They may be adults a student knows through sport, hobbies, interests, community or church, friends of their parents, or parents of their friends, neighbours, grandparents, extended family, teachers (past or present) and so on. So if you are reading this as an interested person in the school, it could be that one of our Year 9 students comes up to you and asks you to be their TRJ mentor. We hope that you will be willing to support this initiative as we strive to build up our young people as they find their way in God’s world, in God’s place and in God’s time.
What is The Rite Journey?
The Rite Journey is a unique educational programme designed to support the development of self-aware, vital, responsible and resilient adults. Given the current lack of Rites of Passage in the Western World, young people are left to invent their own, which are often unhealthy and unsafe.
The Rite Journey reinvents the traditional process of a Rite of Passage to assist in transforming the adolescent from dependency to responsibility.
For over 15 years The Rite Journey has been providing unique educational programs in schools and organisations designed to support the development of self-aware, responsible, respectful, resilient and resourceful adults. By raising young people’s consciousness about transitioning from child to adult & having conversations with them about what really matters we can assist in guiding their journey into adulthood.
The year-long program uses a Rite of Passage framework to deepen the students’ experience of this important life transition. Throughout The Rite Journey students explore and discover consciousness, connection, communication, challenge and celebration.
Based on real experience – The Rite Journey has been created by experienced classroom teachers, trainers and authors drawing on their successes when working with adolescents. The program has evolved over 15 years of teaching The Rite Journey, with real students and in real classrooms. Over the course of 2019, our team of teachers and support staff will deliver this programme with an intentionality to show where God’s truth speaks into the lives and the development of the character and faith of our students.
This information session will be led by the author of ‘The Rite Journey’, Andrew Lines and staff who have been working with our team of Rite Journey teachers – Mrs Michelle Reid, Mrs Fancy Reyes-Ibarra, Mr James McGeachy and Mr Ryan Bosker and other key people in delivering Professional Learning for the program at LCS.
The last week for our 2019 Year 12 Students
It started with Wear your name Wednesday, continued with Throwback Thursday and ended with a awesome breakfast celebration on Friday. Lots of fun and costumes for our Year 12's last week including some of our staff who relished the opportunity to join the festivities. Our Year 12 students have now officially finished at LCS and are on study week before end of year exams begin. Please pray for all our students as they prepare for their exams, final assessments and future beyond our school.
An exciting day in Year 2
Geoff McLean from Wallaby Walkabout Tours visited our Year 2 classes last week to speak about the first Tasmanian Aboriginals. He spoke about how the Aboriginal people lived, what they ate (primarily from nature – not from grocery shops!) and showed students some artifacts. Students learnt the names of a few different Tasmanian Aboriginals and about when and where they lived. They also heard about the different people groups and languages that the Aboriginal people spoke.
One thing that amazed Year 2 students was the large fungi that Mr McLean brought in. One in particular grew on a gumtree and Geoff keeps it in the freezer so it doesn’t deteriorate. Students also saw wattle grubs and the best thing was that they were alive!!! A common misconception is that people call these witchetty grubs but these live on the mainland and not in Tasmania. Students found out that Wattle grubs live in wattle trees and they’re the ones we see here.
Students were able to touch and feel the displays that Mr McLean brought in, which was very special. They loved holding the wattle grubs the most and it was exciting to feel them wriggle around in their hands. What an exciting visit for our Year 2 students and we thank Geoff for visiting our school.
New Accounts Officer in 2020
We'd like to introduce Kathy Miller, our new LCS Accounts Officer in 2020. As we farewell Donna Hill at the end of this year, Kathy will be working with Donna from now on to ensure a smooth transition in this role at our school. You can imagine that this will be a VERY busy time for her to lean the ropes as Back to School Stationary Orders come in! Welcome Kathy and thank you Donna for your many years of faithful service and the ways you have greatly blessed our school community.
Congratulations to our winning Year 9 students
Two of our Year 9 Advanced Science students, Catrina Atkinson & Cooper Orchard-Skey have taken out a national prize for the Great Ocean Road – Careers made here – Curds & Why programme, winning $250.
Almost 600 students from 25 schools across Australia participated in the programme which saw them explore the relationship between chemistry, curds and cheese. Students then used their newly found knowledge of dairy and science to design a billboard promoting the Australian dairy industry. LCS's ‘dairy billboard’ won second place, after being judged among the most insightful & creative in the country.
“We’re extremely proud of our Year nine students, Cooper and Catrina, who jumped at the opportunity to learn about how chemistry is involved in cheese making, and showed their creativity to win this award for our school,” said Mr Russ Hendra (LCS Science & Health Teacher).
Burnie High School took out first prize for $500, while LCS came in second receiving $250 and WA College of Agriculture from Western Australia came in third receiving $100 for their school. The programme was offered as a curricular activity within the school’s Year Nine Advanced Life Science class. Well done to Catrina & Cooper!
Iron + Clay
This week Iron and Clay came to visit our Middle School students and provided a great time of music and reflection. Iron and Clay are a team of creative artists and performers that stand as 'role models',
directing youth towards understanding their value and full potential through our music, dance, sharing, entertainment and education. Our students danced, sung and heard speakers share from their heart about how their lives have been transformed. It was a great celebration and very inspiring for our students to hear.
Science Challenge Team Report
On Wednesday 23rd of October, our Science and Engineering Challenge Team left for Bunbury Western Australia to represent Tasmania in the National final of the Science and Engineering Challenge. On the day they arrived in Perth they were given a sightseeing tour of Perth with Adams Coaches, taking in sights such as the Perth DFO, Optus Stadium, The WACA, Perth CBD and Elizabeth Pier. The team then travelled 2 hours south of Perth to Bunbury.
Day 2 the team had a relaxing day taking in the sights of Bunbury, including its amazing beaches, followed by a special meal at the Dolphin Experience; provided by the Science Challenge organisers.
On the day of the challenge the team were given their challenges and the teams allocated to them were drawn out of a hat. They were given challenges such as making a catapult, radio receiver, robotic hand, Mars Mission rover, hovercraft and the famous ‘Bridge’. They also had challenges such as cracking codes and providing electricity for a town effectively. LCS did exceptionally well in a number of challenges especially the catapult, robotic hand and radio dish, but others proved to be exceptionally difficult this year. However, despite a few difficulties, our Science Challenge Team managed to still come second overall with a score of 927.13, beating our third place team by only one point.
LCS would like to thank our many sponsors for this trip, especially Vos Group, without whom this competition would be extremely hard to take part in. We would also like to thank all of the parents and staff who have helped us with fundraising for this trip, especially Mrs Maree Lawes, Mrs Katrina Barracu, Mr Graeme Smith, Mrs Liz Winter and Mrs Tanya Socorro who all put in a huge effort in helping with the fundraising and organisation for this years’ National Finals trip. A final thank you to our wonderful Science teachers that support and inspire our students every year; Mr Darryl Bain and Mrs Janette Boyle.
2020 School Fee Update
A new LCS Fee schedule has been published for 2020 - this has been updated on our website and you can download a copy below.
Lids for Kids
We've had a great response to the Lids for Kids venture being run by Life Skills. Some of our students will start to count how many lids have been collected soon, so we hope to bring you a grand total later this term.
Please continue to drop your lids into our office - we still need them!
As part of their Connecting to the Community Curriculum, Life Skills needs milk bottle tops, soft drink tops and flat water-based tops so they can be recycled and used to make prosthetic hands for children in need. This project is run by Envision Hands, which is a not-for-profit community initiative that uses 3D printing to turn plastic waste into mechanical hands and arms for kids, with the products being sent around the world. They report that over one million bottle tops have been collected so far, so let's add to that through your donations which can be dropped off at our school office. For more information, check out the article below.
2020 Calendar has been updated
Our calendar for 2020 has been updated - please download the newest version below
Windsor Park Entry Gate
From Term 4 there will be no access to the school via the back school gate (Windsor park side) from 9.30am-2.45pm daily as it will be locked.
This gate will be open at the start and end of school as per normal but only be locked from 9.30am to 2.45pm.
LCS Vimeo
Did you know that our school has a vimeo channel where you can see the many films our Visual Production & Design Team create about our school community? Vimeo is a great way to show prospective families more about our school as it allows the opportunity to explore school areas and programs at leisure. You can click on the Vimeo logo on our website, view some creations on our Facebook page or use the link below to see all of the audio visuals that have been created by our team. Below is one sample of what you can see on our page and we'd love you to follow us!
LCS Vimeo home page - click HERE