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- Principal's Reflection
- Curriculum
- Mission
- Quiet Achiever
- Sport
- Pathways
- Absentees
- Student Drivers
- Tuckshop - Changes to Flexischool Orders
- Vinnies Christmas - Hamper of Peace Appeal
- Uniform Shop - Book your 2025 New Enrolment Uniform Fitting
- Year 11 Religion and Ethics
- Uniform Shop Hours
- Term Dates for 2024
- Term Dates for 2025
- Shalom Sunday Markets
- The Catholic Parish of Bundaberg
- Community Notice Board
One of my favourite all time movies is the Australian classic, ‘The Castle’. Towards the end of the movie, Darryl’s bumbling solicitor, Dennis Denuto is seen enjoying his newfound fame and publicity after helping Darrly keep his home, polishing a new brass plate on the front of his office which read, ‘Dennis Denuto, Solicitor, ‘as seen on TV’! I’m not wanting to ‘big note’ myself, but I was recently seen on ‘A Current Affair’. ACA asked to interview me in regard to Government initiatives around Social Media for young people. I didn’t say anything in that interview that any educator in Australia could not have said just as well. We all know that with the benefits of Social Media come some significant pitfalls.
The Government, to their credit, are trying to do something positive in this space for the health and wellbeing of young people. But, as parents, we all need to be clear that it is parents that need to do the ‘heavy lifting’ in this space. Many of us have been prepared to permit our children to have a smart phone and then stepped away from keeping an eye on how it is used. Many of us have absolved ourselves from the responsibility of monitoring what our children say and what is said to them online. This has had some awful outcomes. I regret not doing more with my own children on this, but parents do need to be more involved. Being able to view what young people say and do online is not an invasion of privacy – it is just good parenting. Despite what young people will say, you are not the only parent who wants access to your child’s online life. Also, it is not about not trusting your child, it’s much more about not trusting everyone else in the online world you may not have met and having some idea about the interactions between those people and your child. This is not an easy issue, but it is so important. Governments can do something, but parents are a much bigger player in this than government. If you are interested, below is a link to my ‘as seen on TV’ moment –Enrolments 2025 – we would really appreciate parents advising us as soon as is possible, if your child won’t be returning to Shalom in 2025. Quite a number of families are waiting on positions as they become available.
Mr Dan McMahon
Principal
mcmahond@shalomcollege.com
Year 12 Academic Results
Students will use their myQCE Student Portal Account to access their final Year 12 results and their Senior Educational Profile (QCE and Senior Statement) on Wednesday 11 December. Students will be able to access their results from 9.00am onwards.
ATAR Scores & University entry
Year 12 students will be able to access their ATAR score by visiting their QTAC ATAR Portal account on Friday 13 December.
Any student who has applied for University through QTAC will be able to access their offer status by visiting their QTAC Application Portal on Friday 13 December.
2025 DATE CLAIMER
To recognise the excellent academic achievement of our 2024 Year 12 Seniors we will hold an Academic Scholars Assembly on Thursday 30 January where we will present our College Dux Award and the Top of Subject Awardees. The assembly will take place in the PAP during our usual Thursday assembly timeslot (11.35am).
From DESBT to DTET
DESBT has changed its name again to Department of Trade, Employment and Training (DTET).
Please find the newly released publication called 2025 School Leavers Guide. This is a wonderful informative resource that would be useful for our recent graduating cohort, but also for Year 10 and Year 11 students.
2025 Stationery Lists
All stationery lists are now available on the College website. They can be accessed by visiting: https://www.shalomcollege.com/enrolment/stationery-list/
Mrs Gail Norris
Assistant Principal - Curriculum
gail_norris@shalomcollege.com
Giving Tree Wrap Up
Thank you once again to our wonderful College community for the generosity on display at the Giving Tree Assembly. Besides the array of toys that featured in last week’s newsletter, we also had approximately $3200 in cash and $2500 in gift cards donated. This generosity will greatly benefit our local community. St Vincent de Paul are best placed to ensure our donations get to those with genuine needs this Christmas. Over the last few days, some of our Year 9 students have had an opportunity to assist Vinnies staff with sorting all the donated toys into categories. Following this, they had the opportunity to select toys to be packaged for individual children who will receive them as gifts this Christmas. This has been beneficial for the Shalom students who demonstrated empathy and care in how they selected the gifts for vulnerable young people in our local community.
Children's Christmas Mass
Mrs Sandra Freeman
Assistant Principal - Mission
Sandra_Freeman@shalomcollege.com
Indee B has emerged as a quiet achiever during her two years at Shalom and we would like to celebrate her contribution to Damien House. Academically Indee always works well with her teachers to excel in her classes. Indee always involves herself energetically and enthusiastically in House activities and has a wonderful sense of humour! Indee’s kindness and care for others, as well as her commitment to Damien House make her worthy of commendation as this week’s quiet achiever.
If you would like to submit any sporting achievements about your child/children along with a photo, please email your submissions to GillsS@shalomcollege.com
Please note photo submissions must only include photos of students from Shalom.
You can also keep up to date with anything sport related via our Facebook page - Shalom College Sport.
Shalom Cricket
Congratulations to Shalom students (and staff) Sophie S, Jessica A, Eloise C and Mr Simon Gills who attended the 13-15yrs Girls Cricket State Championships in Ipswich recently. The three girls were part of the Wide Bay team that finished 7th. Mr Gills was a QLD Official/Selector for the carnival.
Shalom Surf Life Saving
Recently the Shalom Surf Life Saving team competed in the annual Wide Bay Schools Surf Carnival at Bargara. The Shalom students performed brilliantly all day, claiming the ‘Water events’ trophy and the Champion School Trophy. Congratulations to the three Shalom Age Champions, Ethan G (13yrs), Aarj D (15yrs) and Freddie C (16+yrs). Thanks also to Mrs Giles, Mrs Moller, Mr Stranieri, Mr Crowley and Mr Gills for attending as team officials, event officials and water safety.
Shalom Hockey
Congratulations to Shalom students Ethan K (U16), Courtney K (U14) & Sophie A (U14), who all gained selection in QLD Indoor Hockey teams over the past month. Gabrielle A (U16) was named a shadow.
The QLD Indoor teams will compete in their respective National Championships held in Canberra in January 2025.
This is a wonderful achievement to have so many selected in QLD Indoor Hockey teams considering the sport is so small in this community and Bundaberg players have to compete against much stronger centers with many more players and far greater indoor experience.
Mr Simon Gills
Sports Coordinator
GillsS@shalomcollege.com
Pathways Information
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
- See the range of part-time, full-time and apprenticeship roles on offer on the Pathways Sia Page
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Test Drive a Career Today – Applications Open for December school holiday Work Experience (students may also be eligible for work experience during exam block, pending exam schedule)
ADDITIONAL LEARNING
- LinkedIn for Students – Creating a Professional Profile
- Micro Volunteering – Contribute to causes you care about in small manageable chunks of time
CAREER SPOTLIGHT
- Discover the Future of Artificial Intelligence – What is it and how does is differ from traditional computer programming?
UNIVERSITY
- CQU’s Bachelor of Nutrition – learn about the dynamic world of food and nutrition science
Let’s get Future Ready. Guiding you towards career success in this week’s Pathways Newsletter
The Pathways Team
Mrs Liza O’Donnell, Mrs Kim Toll, Mrs Kathryn Laing, Ms Jacinta Cook & Mrs Cristel Simmonds
Liza_ODonnell@shalomcollege.com
kim_toll@shalomcollege.com
kathryn_laing@shalomcollege.com
jacinta_cook@shalomcollege.com
cristel_simmonds@shalomcollege.com
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.
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.
Thanks to those Parents who have already completed this form for their child.
A reminder that there will be no Flexischool orders this week (9) and next week (10). The tuckshop will still be operating.
Mr Mark Algie
Tuckshop Convenor
mark_algie@shalomcollege.com
Click on the below link for suggestions of items to donate for the Shalom RE Hamper of Peace Christmas St Vincent De Paul appeal.
Mrs Trish Ingall
Head of Department - Religion
patricia_ingall@shalomcollege.com
Uniform Fittings – For Year 7 2025 and Year 10 Girls 2025 are by appointment only.
Please book via the link: https://wearittoshalombundaberg.simplybook.net/
Dates available: October 2024-January 2025
All fittings will take place at the Shalom College Uniform Shop until further notice.
For any uniform related enquiries please contact
In Term 4 Students from Year 11 Religion and Ethics classes engaged in practical learning experiences to develop the skills and dispositions necessary to help them live and work successfully in a complex and rapidly changing world.
In partnership with the St Vincent de Paul Society and under the guidance of Vinnies Youth Coordinator Michael Siccama, 8 classes of students rotated through a diverse range of activities across a total of 55 lessons. These activities ranged from sorting clothing and donations for sale, rag-cutting or export, pricing items and setting them out for display in the retail area, testing games and batteries to ensure they were in saleable condition and unpacking items for the Christmas season.
It was amazing to see the students respond so positively to their experience. So many of them really thrived at implementing skills that we rarely see in the classroom: their wonderful customer service, quick sorting ability, their wonder at the huge variety of clothing styles available (especially for women) and at how few men’s clothes are donated. Many students even learned simple skills such as how to fold clothes! They really did have fun but also provided much valuable help to Vinnies, who were desperately short of volunteers at this time of the year.
A huge thank you to Michael and Vinnies for joining with us to provide this experience, to Mr McMahon and Shalom drivers for the procession of bus trips to and from the venue and to the students themselves for so whole-heartedly participating in the different activities with such positive attitudes. They really did bond and most of the lessons involved a lot of camaraderie and laughter, as well as good work. What a lovely way to finish the year!
Mrs Trish Ingall
Head of Department - Religion
patricia_ingall@shalomcollege.com
Uniform Shop Hours
Monday to Thursday: 8.00am to 12.00pm
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 3.30pm to 5.30pm
Friday: Closed
Term Dates for 2024
Term 1: Monday 22 January – Thursday 28 March (10 weeks)
Term 2: Monday 15 April – Friday 21 June (10 weeks)
Term 3: Monday 8 July – Friday 13 September (10 weeks)
Term 4: Monday 30 September – Thursday 5 December (10 weeks)
Term 1: Tuesday 28 January – Friday 4 April (10 weeks)
Term 2: Tuesday 22 April – Friday 27 June (10 weeks)
Term 3: Monday 14 July – Friday 19 September (10 weeks)
Year 12 Formal: Saturday 6 September
Term 4: Tuesday 7 October – Thursday 4 December (9 weeks)
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
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Sunday 1 December |
6:00am – 9:30am |
Danielle Morrish |
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9:00am – 12:30pm |
Volunteers required |
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Sunday 8 December |
6:00am – 9:30am |
Volunteers required |
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9:00am – 12:30pm |
Volunteers required |
| Sunday 15 December | 6:00am – 9:30am |
Volunteers required |
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9:00am – 12:30pm |
Maria McMahon |
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| Sunday 22 December |
6:00am – 9:30am |
Volunteers required |
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9:00am – 12:30pm |
Volunteers required |
Markets BBQ Roster
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Sunday 1 December |
Shalom Rugby League |
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Sunday 8 December |
Rotary Central |
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Sunday 15 December |
Bundaberg Croquet Club |
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Sunday 22 December |
NO BARBEQUE |
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.
Stewardship Renewal
As a Stewardship Parish, the Bundaberg Catholic Parish is involved in more than ninety outreaches to all in our community.
Parishioners discern their gifts and talents and then offer these for the pastoral care, support, and service of others.
The outreaches vary from visiting the sick and housebound to grounds and property maintenance; from proclaiming the scripture at Church liturgies to support of relatives and friends of recently deceased; from church cleaning to providing hospitality.
Our schools and College are the educational and faith formation arm of our parish as are St Vincent de Paul, Oz Care, and Catholic Care our charitable and social arm while the Mater hospital is our health arm. Together we strive to make a difference in our community in whatever way our gifts can lead us.
During the next few weeks, we will be renewing our commitment to serve, to be good stewards of the gifts we have been given.
We ask you to join us as together we live out our Christian commitment and our Parish Vision – “to go out, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to share God’s Love respectfully, with all people”.
For further information please email: Stewardship.Bundaberg@rok.catholic.net.au
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
Student Travel Rebates
Would you like to know more about the Non State Schools Transport Assistance Scheme and eligibility requirements? Click on the link to view the short introductory video here: https://youtu.be/ogWpq7tVaio
Student travel rebate applications open 1-31 October for Semester 2. Please click here to check if you are eligible.
Youth Support
