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‘... He will show you a way out...’ 1 Corinthians 10:13 NLTFeeling lost isn’t new to the

society we’re in. It’s the result of ‘doing our own thing’, which human beings have done at every point in history. Giving in to temptation ends up leaving you dejected and fed up.But: everyone gets tempted.

Others have resisted; and so can you. God, your God, will show you a way out.Great! But what does that help

look like? The first practical tip is recognising which people and situations can cause you to fail badly. Be honest.Secondly, get–outta–there. Turn

over the channel and choose not to give in to your feelings. Make a phone call. Get accountable. Pray. Whatever you do, don’t just sit there and attempt to fight it with your own willpower. Maybe turning to someone outside of yourself feels the same as giving up. But the first thing Christianity teaches us that every one of us, on our own, will fail when left to our

own devices. It’s totally valid—and a much better option—to look outside yourself and turn to God, even when all you feel is the desire to sin. Look to God, because He’s bigger than our own drive to do wrong. Turn to friends who you trust and who love you and will stand with you.And, when you see one of

these exit routes, take it. Ways out can be here one second and gone the next. Don’t miss out on stepping out of temptation, and into God’s better life. Telling another person you’re struggling with something can be hard, but worth its weight in gold (Check out James 5:16!) Pray for courage, and then make the move to connect.

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Our school is an incredibly vibrant, active and busy community. There’s always so much happening and plenty of opportunities to engage with school life.There are a number

ways that you can remain connected with what is happening.• Facebook• Twitter• School App• Website• Newsletter• Email updates

Central Coast Adventist School

• Campus News• Primary News• Primary Sport• Secondary News• Secondary Sport• ALPHA• Host families needed

Updated RecordsPlease ensure that you keep your address and contact details updated with the school office. We use all these records to contact you and if they are incorrect this can lead to delays in communication.If you need to update your records or change any details please contact the Admin Office by phone or email admin@ccas.nsw.edu.au

A reminder that an email was sent out last week with important information regarding the Registration process for the 2015 SPD iTHIRST CAMPOREE in January. This information requires your attention and immediate action if you wish to attend this awesome event. The email contains full information and an explanation as to the need for the urgency.

The deadline for Registration for the Camporee is this coming Friday, 4th April. In the meantime if you would like further information please contact the Club Secretary via email on centralcoastpathfinders@gmail.com

Gold Coin Finale!All classes will be presenting their gold coin trail, in Assembly this week (Friday). The class who has raised the most money will receive a pizza party first day back back at school, next Term.So let’s add as many coins to your class collection as possible!A reminder that all funds raised will be used in the development of the quiet zone in the playground.

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Email: mail@rhemacentralcoast.com.au Web: www.rhemacentralcoast.com.au

Phone: 4367 4042

We’re looking for volunteers to help in our office.

If you want to be part of this exciting evangelistic outreach ministry, love dealing with people, and know your way around a computer,

get in touch and lets talk about it!

You can be blessed to be a blessing to our members, supporters and listeners.

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CIS Swimming Last Wednesday we had 11 students represent out school and region at the CIS Swimming Championships. Congratulations to Max Anderson, Ji Allum, Kai De-Bellis, Zoe De-Bellis, Jay Davis, Oliver Marotta, Riley Marotta, Daniel McLoughlin, Sienna McMullen, Brodie Sweetman and Samara Woolley for swimming at this high level. Special mention goes to Samara Woolley and Daniel McLoughlin for their entry to the CIS team for the NSW school’s swimming titles.

After Schools SportsAfter school sports finishes this week for term 1. Terms 2’s activity lists have been emailed out last week. We still have limited space left for dance and soccer for students in years 2-6. Thank you to all who have made this terms sports such a success.

Cross Country TrainingWe are not finished with our training just yet! School cross country team members are encouraged to attend training and anyone else who would like to keep up their running fitness are more than welcome to attend. Sessions are still Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. We have 3 school weeks left for training before HRIS.

CIS SoccerWe wish Harrison Steele and MacKenzie Zammit all the best as they represent the school and HRIS at the NSW CIS Soccer tournament in Sydney on Friday.

Basketball CoachesWe have our primary school basketball team selections early next term. We are looking for coaches for the year 3&4 boys and girls teams as well as the year 5 & 6 girls team. If you are keen to coach one of our teams, please contact Mr Davis or Mr Kosmeier before the end of the term.

Uniform ItemsSome students have indicated that they have lost uniform jumpers and jackets in the locker rooms, in some cases barely worn this year yet. It is likely that others have mistakenly picked them up or “borrowed” them for their personal use and forgotten to return them later. Can we please request that encourage your students to do the following:1. Name every expensive item of clothing with a

permanent label2. Leave expensive personal items and clothing

locked in their lockers rather than on the racks or in school bags

3. Check the clothing they have at home to be sure they have their own and not someone else’s

4. Return any items of clothing belonging to other students to Trudy at the office as soon as possible

Thank you for your support and assistance in this matter.

Duke of EdinburghStudents who are 14 years old or older, like doing interesting things or want to start doing interesting things, you need to join up with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. There are three levels; Bronze, Silver and Gold.• Students doing Pathfinders- your camps

can count toward the Adventurous Journey’Expedition Component

• Students doing such things as studying music or in a choir – this can count toward your Skill Component

• Students doing such things as playing in a basketball team or engaged in a physical activity training program – this can count toward the Fitness/Physical Recreation Component

• Students doing such things as helping out in a soup kitchen, Doing Master Guides, training younger team sports, helping out in Sabbath school or Sunday School programs – this can count toward your Community Service Component.

These 4 things combine to make up the Internationally recognized Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. In NSW alone, there are 12,000

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participants who are helped out by some 25,000 volunteers.Students- this is an opportunity to do interesting things, meet new people and make your efforts contribute toward the strength of the community.Parents- this is an opportunity for you to be part of that group of 25,000 where you too get to do interesting things, meet new people and make your efforts contribute toward the strength of the community and the growth of our young people.For more information see Mr Pengelly and have a look at http://www.dukeofed.com.au/NSW.html

Choir Tour (26 June - 7 July)Choir students are reminded that the Choir Tour deposit ($400) is due to be paid by the end of the term (April 11) and that the permission slips for need to be signed and handed in to Mr Zyderveld or Miss Maua.

White Card TrainingPlease be advised that we will not be running White Card training on campus this year. Unfortunately, we haven’t had enough interest to run the program on site but there are a host of local trainers available for students who would still like the qualification.

Careers TestingOur Year 10 cohort recently went through a series interest, aptitude and values surveys to help guide their career choices. I’d like to encourage all parents to ask their children about the results! Not everyone has finished the process and I am currently following up on the assessments with individual classes. However, to finish the tests or access the results, go to https://app.edits.net/

University & College Open DaysAttached to this newsletter and available via the school’s app, is a list of open events for a wide variety of tertiary institutions in 2014. If your child is looking at their options for next year, it is well worth going to the source and seeing just what is on offer. While most of the major open days don’t start until August-September, there are events already taking place that may be of value.- Mr Robartson

SurfingLast Friday the Central Coast Surfing School Titles were held at Avoca Beach. CCAS entered 3 teams in the event that consisted of junior boys, senior girls and senior boys. The surf conditions were okay early with waves around the 2-3 foot mark, but as the day progressed it deteriorated as the low tide approached and the winds got stronger. All the teams surfed really well firstly with the senior boys, getting to the semi finals. Both Thomas Lyons and Nick Fallon surfed well through the first and second round but came up short in their semi final. The junior boys Adam Tarasenko and Malachi Seisun also surfed well during the heats, but definitely saved their best performance for the final, finishing 4th overall for the day. The Senior girls, Lauren Tindale and Jessica Ellen-Standen surfed their best heat of the day in the finals and in trying conditions, finished 2nd overall for the day. Thank you to all the students and parents that attended the event. As always it was a great day.

AFL On Monday, the Under 14’s AFL Swans Cup Gala day was held and a young CCAS boys team made their way up to Tumbi Umbi to compete. The first game was against St. Edwards. It was a hard game for the CCAS team, as a well-trained St. Edwards team ran away with the game right from the opening siren, beating CCAS convincingly. The second game was against Lisarow. It was quite a tough, physical match. CCAS kicked their first goal for the day much to the delight of all the boys and the parents supporters. Unfortunately, CCAS were not strong enough to keep up with Lisarow, who won the game by 28 points. It was a great day for the boys, who will come back next year bigger and more motivated. Well done boys.

AICES Swimming ChampionshipsCongratulations to our swimmers who participated on Monday at Homebush. We had many, many outstanding results throughout the day and were privileged to hear the CCAS name spoken over the PA on quite a large number of occasions. The following swimmers have qualified through to NSWCIS Swimming next term and we wish them an injury-free and thorough preparation –• Summer Johns (Yr 11): 200m IM

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• Eden Leary (Yr 7): 400m Free & 200m Free• Imogen McLoughlin (Yr 7): 50m Free, 50m Fly,

100m Free & 50m Back• Kate Richards (Yr 8): 50m Free, 200m Breast,

50m Fly, 50m Breast, 100m Free & 100m Breast.• Samantha Richards (Yr 12):50m Free, 50m

Breast & 50m Back• Cooper Woolley (Yr 8):400m IM, 400m Free,

50m Fly, 200m Fly & 100m Fly• Ben Yates (Yr 8):100m Back, 50m Back & 200m

Back

AICES Touch Football TrialsWell done to our students who represented HRIS last week down in Penrith. We have had Sachin Thapa (Yr 12) selected into the AICES Open Boys team and Jessie-Ellen Standen (Yr 11) picked as a shadow for the Open Girls team. HRIS

sent extremely strong teams away to this gala day, so congratulations to our players who have represented our school so very well.

HRIS Boys Soccer TrialsDespite awful weather, these trials went ahead last week in Maitland. Congratulations to Jai McNamara (Yr 12) and Tom Lyons (Yr 11) who have been seleccted to represent HRIS at the AICES Soccer Trials next term in May.

Bill Turner SoccerThe boys played against Kincumber HS and came back from 1-0 down to beat them 2-1 at Kincumber earlier today. Congratulations to the team and their coach, Mr McElevey.

THE ALPHA COURSEDiscover the Meaning of Life ‘Alpha’ is an opportunity for anyone to explore the Christian Faith, especially:• those wanting to investigate Christianity• New Christians• Those who want to brush up on the basics

The next Alpha Course starts at 7pm on Tuesday, April 29 in the Naomi Frew Hall. It will run each Tuesday at 7pm during term 2.

For information and registration, please contact Carey in the Admin Office on 4367 1800 or email alpha@ccas.nsw.edu.au

Registration forms also available from The Haven Campus Church.

by Michael Grose - No. 1 parenting educator

If you were constantly holding your breath or administering first

aid as your child was growing up, you probably were raising one

of those thrill-seeking, adrenalin-charged, daredevils who loved

to experiment and take risks in order to entertain themselves.

As they approached their teenage years, these risks might have

evolved to being more sophisticated than just jumping off the top

of a tree or the “look mum, no hands” type of stunts. From binge

drinking to irresponsible driving to train surfing, your teenager may

be indulging in risky behaviours that may ultimately change the

entire family’s life.

The teenage years are some of the most valuable years of

a person’s life and can also be the most vulnerable, therefore it is

highly important that parents and carers understand what is

driving this behaviour and know how to manage these tendencies

of their daredevil child.

HORMONES

Andrew Fuller, author of the book Tricky Kids (Finch Publishing,

$26.95) highlights four hormones that influence a teenager’s

‘mood’. Adrenaline – responsible for generating the feelings

Parenting teenage daredevilsManaging teenagers who have a little too much zest for life, diving head first into situations without thinking them through requires an understanding of both their inner and outer worlds, writes Lakshmi Singh.

of being ‘revved up’ and on a ‘red cordial high’, cortisol – the

stress hormone contributing to defensive, exaggerated actions,

dopamine – which can create the ‘switched-on, pumped-up

state’ and serotonin – the “most powerful antidepressant known

to humankind.”

The former two chemicals are what you want the least of when

raising teenagers, says Fuller. “Once a tricky kid gets an adrenaline

rush, trying to change her behaviour is a complete waste of time,”

he says. Stress from family life, school or peers can also increase

cortisol, so it is important for families to provide low levels of

stimulation and develop routines to lessen the strain and make

their children feel safe from violence, ridicule or humiliation,

he adds.

In contrast, dopamine and serotonin are what you want to see

more of, says Fuller. Children low in dopamine display tired and

lethargic behaviour, which is why they seek out excitement

through risky stunts to lift their mood and achieve that ‘pumped-up

high,’ explains Fuller.

BOYS vs. GIRLS

The different goals of each gender within their social groups also

influence teenagers’ actions, says Parenting Ideas’ own Michael

Grose. The focus for girls at this age is often on achieving social

success and they may engage in risky behaviour such as alcohol

consumption and unprotected sex. He refers to the book Queen Bees & Wannabees (Random House, $24.99), where the author

Rosalind Wiseman describes girls and their social hierarchies

to include a ‘Queen Bee’ and her group of ‘Wannabes’. Most girls

are ‘Wannabes’ says Wiseman and are trying to be accepted by

the ‘Queen Bee’. This may involve doing all the dirty work just

to “please the person who’s standing above her on the social

totem pole.”

In comparison, Grose says that boys don’t want to be seen

amongst their peers as being foolish. “Boys will look at each other

and do what the group does,” he says. This may mean taking risks

and pushing boundaries to prove that they are a worthy member of

the group.

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