Year 9 and Year 10 Subject Selection Evening

Please note the date has changed for this event: Tuesday 22 August.

This information evening has been delayed by one week and will now take place in the Performing Arts Precinct on Tuesday 22 August.

The information session for students and parents of Year 8 students selecting subject choices for Year 9, in 2024 will commence at 6.30pm. The information session for students and parents of Year 9 students selecting subject choices for Year 10 in 2024 will commence at 7pm.

Both presentations are short information sessions covering the subject selection process and platform we use to make subject choices online. They will also cover information about the number of Core and Elective subjects’ students are required to study, and where to access information about the subjects offered in each year level.

There will be no specific subject information given on each of the different subjects available to study because of the sheer volume on offer. This information is available in the Subject Selection Book. Learning Area Coordinators will be available on the night to address any questions you may have regarding the selection of subjects to study.

The timeline around the Year 9 and Year 10 subject selections are as follows:

Monday 14 August - Release of Subject Selection Booklet online
Monday 21 August - Edval WebChoice portal opens for student to select
Tuesday 22 August - Parent Information Evening
Monday 28 August - Signed Edval WebChoice receipt to be handed into Student Reception

NAPLAN

QCAA has released the Student Reports for Year 7 and Year 9 students to schools. The hard copy report will be posted home to parents of those students who participated in NAPLAN this year. You should receive them this week.

Students are now assessed in 4 proficiency levels:

Exceeding: The student’s result exceeds expectations at the time of testing.
Strong: The student’s result meets challenging but reasonable expectations at the time of testing.
Developing: The student’s results indicates that they are working towards expectations at the time of testing.
Needs additional support: The student’s results indicate that they are not achieving the learning outcomes expected at the time of testing. They are likely to need additional support to progress satisfactorily.

The following document has been provided by QCAA to explain the change from reporting in numerical bands to proficiency standards for NAPLAN. A hard copy of this document will be enclosed with your child’s NAPLAN report.

Yr7/8 Core Studies Learner Conferences (ie Parent-Teacher Interviews) Friday 1 September 2023

Yr 7/8 Core Studies Learner Conferences will be conducted in the Waterford Centre from 8:30am to 3:00pm on Friday 1 September 2023 (Student Free Day for all students). Interviews will be of ten minutes duration. The rooms the interviews will take place in on this day are below. 

Please note that there will not be a second session scheduled for the September Learner Conferences. Learner Conferences will open for parent bookings through Sia --> Parent Lounge --> PT Interviews at 8:00am on Monday 21 August and close at 3:00pm on Tuesday 29 August.

Please review the wealth of information about your child’s progress available on Sia before attending these interviews. Your child is encouraged to attend the interview with you.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Year 11 Exam Block & Year 12 Mock Exam Block

Attached is the Year 11 Exam Block Timetable (Wednesday 6 - Monday 11 September) and the Year 12 Mock Exam Block Timetable (Monday 4 - Friday 15 September). Students need only attend school for the exams they are to sit during this time, however, students who are behind in their schoolwork may be required to attend school to complete outstanding work. If this is required, these arrangements will be communicated by individual class teachers.

Please remember that normal school rules regarding uniform and behaviour continue through the exam block. These expectations are outlined in the attached documents.

We wish our students all the best with their studies.

Mr Brendan Maher
Assistant Principal - Administration
maherb@shalomcollege.com 

Parents and Carers of Year 11 & 12 Students 

If your child has obtained their Provisional Licence and wishes to drive to and from school you are required to fill out a Permission to Drive Form and return it to Student Reception for approval by Mr Aaron Brown.  Once approved the details will be placed on our School Register.

Preferred Student Absentee Option 

Parents are able to inform the College of student absentees via Parent Lounge, using the below pathway:

Parent Lounge> Student Details> Attendance> "+Add Absence Notification"

The Shalom College App has now been updated so when parents select "Absentee" it will re-direct to Parent Lounge for the absentee notification to be added.

For Parents that do not already have the College App please click below:

ALL student absentees should be notified to the office by 9am each day.  If no notification has been received, an absentee text message will be sent out to parents to advise of the student's absence.

Monday to Thursday: 8.00am to 12.00pm

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 3.30pm to 5.30pm

Friday: Closed

Pathways Information

University

• CQU Principal’s Recommendation Scheme 

Upcoming University Open Days 

• Sunday 13 August Griffith Open Day
• Saturday 26 August ACU Open Day
• Thursday August 31 CQU Virtual Open Day

Work Experience

• Register for Professional Shadowing & Work Experience in the September School Holidays.
• Reflecting on Work Experience 

Additional Learning Opportunities

• 10 Jobs You Didn’t Know Were Dangerous
• Interested in Sports? Consider these careers
• Volunteering Ideas – Where Can You Start?
• What’s it like to work in a zoo

Events

• ADFA Open Day

Job Opportunities 

• 2024 ATO School Leaver Program
• Apprentice Plasterer Required
• Individual support Trainee (Disability)
• Qantas Engineering Apprenticeship Program

Click on the HERE for complete Pathways Newsletter for further information.

The Pathways Team
Mrs Liza O’Donnell, Mrs Kim Toll, Mrs Kathy Laing, Mrs Monique McLucas & Ms Jacinta Cook
Liza_ODonnell@shalomcollege.com
kim_toll@shalomcollege.com
kathryn_laing@shalomcollege.com 
monique_mclucas@shalomcollege.com
jacinta_cook@shalomcollege.com

Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CJXJY 

After the success of our recent ‘Empowering Women – Breakfast’, Shalom College, in partnership with Brave Brothers, will be holding a Men’s Wellness Breakfast on Thursday 31 August in the lead up to Father’s Day. 

The breakfast will feature a one-on-one interview with Darius Boyd, (Former NRL player for Brisbane Broncos, Newcastle Knights, St George Illawarra Dragons, Queensland Maroons and Australia) and interviewer Scott Lamond (Chief of Staff at ABC Wide Bay and a director of Brave Brothers.)

Following a brilliant sporting career Darius Boyd has become a vocal ambassador for mental health issues and an advocate of support for men's health, using his platform to educate, inspire and raise awareness around the topic.

Held at The Waves Sports Club Sails Function Room, the breakfast will also include a fundraising raffle, with a list of prizes and ticket sales available on the day. All money raised from the event will go to Brave Brothers. Brave Brothers is a local organisation that aims to provide direct support for men’s mental health, and prostate or testicular cancer sufferers and their families. 

EVENT DETAILS:

Thursday 31 August 

6:45am-8:15am | The Waves Sports Club Sails Room 

Tickets $40pp

All students, parents, staff and members of the community are welcome to attend.

Tickets includes a Big Breakfast. Dietary requirements can be requested during the booking process.

Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CJXJY 

RYDA is a National Road Safety education program for youth in Australia. It provides youth with the skills and strategies they need to stay safe on the roads. 

The RYDA workshop features highly engaging practical demonstrations, real-life narratives, videos, quizzes and interactive role play. The RYDA approach supports youth development in a number of areas including social resilience and anticipating and managing risk. Created for senior high schools, RYDA gives students a unique opportunity to set road safety goals and build strategies alongside the friends they will most likely be riding with, as drivers or passengers. At the workshop, students attend six interactive sessions at a dedicated venue over the course of a school day. Back in the classroom, we give teachers everything they need to continue the learning throughout the school year.

On Wednesday 16 August – All of our Year 10 Students will attend a one-day workshop organised by the Queensland Police Service Bundaberg in cooperation with Rotary Bundaberg.

Buses are organised by Bundaberg Police and Rotary. They will transport the students and staff to and from the venue on the day. The Buses will depart Shalom at approx. 9.00 am and return before 3.00 pm on this day.

The workshop will be held at the Bundaberg Recreational Precinct, Kendalls Road.

Lunch is also supplied for the students and staff, free. If your student requires any special dietary requirements for the lunch please complete the attached google form.

Please Note: Normal day full School uniform, including hats, is required to be worn for this event. Please bring a small backpack with your own waterbottle and a pen to write with.

Special Dietary Requirements Form

Mr Peter Robinson
Student Welfare
High Performance Program
After School Activities 
Peter_Robinson@shalomcollege.com

On Friday we held our resurrected First Draft Writer’s Festival for invited Year 9 and 10 students. This year we celebrated the theme ‘Home Grown’ in conjunction with this year’s Book Week theme ‘Read, Grow, Inspire’.

Featured at our event were some suitably talented ‘home-grown’ authors.

First cab off the rank was local oncologist and author Craig Mulhall presenting his first work of fiction called ‘The King of Rhye’. This exciting fantasy novel threads together the interests of former Queen front man Freddy and is a tapestry of fairy tale, dark apocalyptic fantasy, and rock and roll.

Next, we introduced local GP Annette Tyson and her first novel ‘Garrow Head’, a compelling look back at Van Dieman’s land as it was in 1831.

Local teacher Lauren Corvino was our next presenter for the day. Lauren hails from New York via many other destinations. She presented her beautiful work ‘The Nearby Nana’ and has also published ‘The Not-So-Far Pa’.

To close, we welcomed ex-Shalom student Ben Connolly. Ben presented a lively Q&A style session about his first book, the fantasy ‘Fate Market’. Ben graduated from Shalom in 2014 and this was his first event as an author, so Shalom has featured highly in his career.

The students were all wonderfully engaged and treated our visitors like rock-stars, an overall successful and worthwhile event. 

Australian Kart Championships - City of Melbourne Titles

Congratulations Ky B.  Ky competed in Melbourne recently, at the City of Melbourne Titles. He had an awesome weekend coming away with a win.

KA2 class:

Qualified 2^nd 
Heat 1 – 1^st 
Heat 2 – 6^th 
Heat 3 – 1^st 
Final – 1^st

Ky returns in 2 weeks to compete in the final round of the Australian Kart Championships.  Well done Ky and all the best for the final round.

Mr Peter Robinson
Student Welfare
High Performance Program  &  After School Activities
Peter_Robinson@shalomcollege.com

2023 Vicki Wilson State Finals - Netball

Last weekend, Shalom College’s Junior Vicki Wilson team travelled to Brisbane to compete in the State Finals of the 2023 Vicki Wilson competition.

The team played their ‘Pool Rounds’ on Friday, facing some very tough competition in Moreton Bay College, Mountain Creek SHS and Canterbury College. The team finished the pool rounds with a win against St Eugene’s College, moving them into the playoffs for 9th-16th place.

During the ‘Finals’ round, the team played extremely well to record a strong win first up against St Patrick’s Mackay, before suffering a deflating loss to the Deadly Choices First Nations Invitational team. Moving into the playoff for 11th/12th place, the girls pulled themselves back up after this defeat and recorded a solid win against Wavell SHS, a netball school of excellence.

With over 200 teams starting the Vicki Wilson Competition, 11th place overall is an excellent achievement, and in the 2023 competition this also made the Shalom College Junior VW team the highest placed regional school in the competition. Great work team!

A very big thank you must go to our Team Manager (Ms Jess Richards) and Bus Driver & Head Cheerleader (Mr Craig Hammermeister) for also giving up their time over the weekend for the team.

2023 Junior Vicki Wilson Team
Mia P, Avah M, Nikita C, Imogen A, Lily A, Alex C, Sienna N, Zoey K, Khloe K, Ashlee M, and Hannah P.

Mrs Melinda Pearson
Learning Area Coordintor - Physical Education
Netball Program Coordinator
melinda_pearson@shalomcollege.com 

Football - QLD State 10-12 years Boys Selection

Congratulations to Nick C who recently represented Wide Bay in Cairns for the  Queensland State Schools Sport Championships 10-12 years Boys Football (soccer) 

He was successful in gaining selection in the Qld Team and is one of only two regional boys in the whole team. He will represent Queensland at the Nationals in Victoria from Sunday 15 October 2023.

Congratulations on this achievement and all the best for the Nationals.

Mr Peter Robinson
Student Welfare
High Performance Program  &  After School Activities
Peter_Robinson@shalomcollege.com

Term Dates for 2023 

Term 1: Monday 23 January – Friday 31 March (10 weeks)

Term 2: Monday 17 April – Friday 23 June (10 weeks)

Term 3: Monday 10 July – Friday 15 September (10 weeks)

Term 4: Tuesday 3 October – Thursday 30 November (9 weeks)

Breakfast is available every morning for purchase from 8.00am - 8.30am.

Items available are:

Croissant Ham & Cheese $3.00 
Breakfast Bars $1.00
Toasted Sandwich $3.50
Bacon & Egg Muffins $3.50
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Wraps $3.50
Fruit Salad Tub $3.50
Yoghurt Pots $2.50
Hashbrowns 3 for $1.00 (new Term 3)

Up n Go drinks & Flavoured Milk are available everyday.

Students who train before school need to consider utilising the breakfast menu to replenish energy lost during their early morning training sessions, however, students must be dressed appropriately before entering the tuckshop and must not be late for class.

If you are interested in volunteering at our College Tuckshop, we would love for you to indicate your availability and book a shift following the link below. 

The booking system helps to accommodate our very much appreciated regular volunteers, but also families who may not be able to commit on a regular basis and have a day here or there throughout the year. The beauty of this system is that you can select your day and manage your booking, so if something comes up, you can quickly and easily go online to reschedule or cancel. Your booking will generate a confirmation email with links to manage your booking, it can be synched with your calendar and an SMS is sent the day before as a reminder. Of course, we are also here to help - simply contact Shalom College on 4155 8111.

For those of you who are regular volunteers your shifts have already been added to the schedule for this year and you should have received an e-mail for each booked shift.

Shifts last from 2-3 hours (school drop off to around 11.30 am).

No experience required!

The Shalom Markets are open every Sunday 6am-midday. Come along to purchase your fresh fruit and vegetables, local food products and handmade items. 

Volunteers Required - Markets Tuckshop

We are seeking your help!! We are always in need of new volunteers for the Markets Tuckshop and BBQ.  If your child/children would like to gain some work experience, why not get them to volunteer in the canteen. If you have a few hours you could spare to assist in our canteen, please click on the link below to register your assistance or contact Leanne via email at barkerl@shalomcollege.com.

If we get enough volunteers, it may work out that you only need to volunteer once per term.

Register to Volunteer HERE

Markets Tuckshop Roster

Markets BBQ Roster

Office Hours: 9:00 - 1:00 Monday to Friday
Parish Office: Rossolini Place Level 1, 66 Woongarra St
Phone: 07 4151 6666    PO Box 79 Bundaberg QLD 4670
Email: sbundaberg@rok.catholic.net.au
AFTER HOURS:  Anointing of the sick for medical emergencies
phone 4151 6666 and follow the prompt
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF MARY MOTHER OF CHURCH

"The annual parish "Good News" magazine is now available in all churches for a Gold Coin Donation. As you read our in-house publication of the Good News magazine this year, discover the ways in which our parish vision statement is being made clear.

Shalom College Families Business and Trade Directory 

To help assist the Shalom College community in supporting local businesses that are run by Shalom families, we have created our Shalom College Families Business and Trade Directory. If you would like to be listed in this directory, please send a copy of your business card to Mr Peter Robinson who will be establishing and developing this directory to Peter_Robinson@shalomcollege.com

St Mary's Primary School - Music Bingo Fundraiser

St Mary’s P&F Music Bingo – Friday 18 August at 6:00PM – TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Get in early and book your tickets to avoid disappointment - only 120 spots available!  

Online ticket sales are open until 4:00PM on Thursday 17 August.

Book here: St Mary's Music Bingo Online Tickets or use the QR Code below.

​Ticketing options:

Entry ticket (includes 1 x Lucky Door ticket)      $10

Pre-order Large or Small Platters or BYO Food

Pre-order from selection of red and white wines.  NO BYO ALCOHOL.  Bar will be operating - EFTPOS available for bar purchases.

*Please note pre-orders for food & drinks close on at 2:00PM on Wednesday 16 August.

Theme is SUPERSTARS!  Dress as your favourite superstar - prizes for:

• Best Dressed Male
• Best Dressed Female
• Best Dressed Group

Raffles, Money Boards & Games (cash only)

Strictly 18+ event.

Churches of Christ - Recruitment of Foster Carers

Student Travel Rebates 

Student travel rebate applications are open in October for Semester 2. Please click here to check if you are eligible.