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Last Friday was a great day for student leadership and all it demonstrates within our Catholic school communities.

At midday I attended the commissioning of leaders at St Virgil’s College and was impressed by the conviction with which the boys publicly committed to serving their fellow students informed by the story of Blessed Edmund Rice. Scott Brennan, Old Virgilian and GYC graduate of 2000, spoke to the boys of his dreams and successes and most importantly of the unexpected challenges he has recently faced with his health. His message to the newly commissioned leaders was not one of positioning themselves in the spotlight but rather of encouragement to be grounded by the need to be good, compassionate and generous always, particularly when no-one was watching them. It was profound advice.

Later that afternoon our GYC student leaders and their families were welcomed to a reception where their generosity to our community was aknowlegeded. Archbishop Porteous spoke to them of their courageous decision to make personal sacrifice in serving their peers. Surrounded by their friends, family and teachers, they were left in no doubt that they will have our every blessing and support with each step they take. Their first collective responsibility was to plan for and contribute to our Ash Wednesday rituals and our traditional Walk for Hope, marking the beginning of our Lenten journey and celebrating our community as one. It was a great day of declaring our commitment to one another through friendship and being together, almost 1000 strong at the Tolosa Park Reserve. With Caritas as our focus we will work hard over the next six weeks to extend that friendship beyond our school gates to reach out to those in our world who so desperately need our compassion and practical support.

We look forward to seeing you at our Parent Information Evenings next week when we will introduce you to the finer detail of life in the senior secondary world and our expectations and hopes for students. Mrs Bobby CourtIt is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God’s will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you - try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as God’s will yourself. THOMAS MERTON

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPALS SUCCESSFUL AND ENGAGED LEARNING On 13 March 2015 at our Commendation Ceremony, we will celebrate students’ academic, sporting, cultural and/or service achievements and effort from the previous year. The ceremony is an excellent opportunity to rejoice in our Christian values and positive learning culture. It is timely for us to find inspiration from this, by considering the characteristics, belief systems and habits of successful students in our College. Flourishing students have a passion for learning and understand that their abilities can and will develop through perseverance and hard work. They understand and believe the strong evidence base indicating that intelligence can be developed (see, for ex-ample, the work of Carol Dweck or Angela Duckworth). These students have a tendency to be resilient in the face of setbacks, embrace challenge, learn from criticism and view effort as a worthwhile path to achievement. As students and supporting families, we encourage you to believe in the endless possibilities of learning and to ensure students have a study plan in place. We urge you to: • Nurture your intellectual curiosity; • Pursue your passion and interests; • Follow your heart; • Examine your values, beliefs; • Challenge yourself; • Be determined to work hard; • Read; • Enjoy learning; and, • Never give up.

UNIFORM Please ensure students are wearing correct uniform each day, noting that when wearing shorts, black socks are not part of male formal uniform, nor are they part of the sport uniform. For sports uniform, white socks must be worn.

BUS APPS Metro has advised it has released a free mobile bus app to assist with planning your travel, managing your account and re-ceiving the latest information on bus schedules. You can download the app from https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/metro-tas/id933119921 or visit the Metro website at http://www.metrotas.com.au

Dr Emma Burgess, Glenorchy; Ms Helen Spencer, Hobart

Phone: 6238 4300 Email: principal@gyc.tas.edu.auGUILFORD YOUNG COLLEGE

THE LENTEN JOURNEY TO EASTER BEGINS…Yesterday (Wednesday) we gathered on each Campus for Liturgies of the Word which invited all to prepare for Lent by engaging in being more prayerful and mindful, more generous and more disciplined. In his recent Catholic Communique to staff in Catholic schools, our new Director of Catholic Education, Mr John Mula, said, “Ash Wednesday marks the begin-ning of Lent and the chance to receive a cross of ashes on our forehead to symbolise our oneness with Christ and our own mortality. We leave the Church with the mark still on our foreheads so that we carry the sign of the cross out into the world. However, that is the only time in Lent when we are encouraged to be ‘external’ in what we do.” Here are some ‘exter-nals’ worthy of consideration to carry forward throughout the Lenten period (author unknown) ...

Give up complaining - focus on gratitude.Give up pessimism - become an optimist.

Give up harsh judgments - think kindly thoughts.Give up worry - trust Divine Providence.Give up discouragement - be full of hope.Give up bitterness - turn to forgiveness.

Give up hatred - return good for evil.Give up negativism - be positive.Give up anger - be more patient.

Give up pettiness - become mature.Give up gloom - enjoy the beauty that is all around you.

Give up jealousy - pray for trust.Give up gossiping - control your tongue.

Give up sin - turn to virtue.Give up giving up - hang in there!

WALK FOR HOPEOur first Walk for Hope grew from our desire to reach out to the victims of the tsunami in Aceh on 26 December 2004 This year the College will raise money for Caritas Australia through Project Compassion. The theme for 2015 is Food for Life and this was the focus on our educational, fun, inter-House activities during Walk for Hope, yesterday. Please consider donating online to Caritas at www.caritas.org.au or through your son’s or daughter’s Guilford Young College House page or through the Project Compassion box held by the tutor.

UNVEILING OF PAINTINGS, CATHEDRAL CENTREOur Principal, Mrs Bobby Court, Hobart College Captains, Blaise Heaney and Alex Donnelly, along with Innocent Michael, Hadi Sulieman and Ochen Ochaya, represented GYC at the unveiling of two paintings commissioned for the Cathe-dral Centre which encapsulate Christ reaching out to refugees and asylum seekers. The students were very moved by the account of a young woman’s journey from the Sudan to Australia. Archbishop Julian Porteous blessed the paintings.

THANK YOU, FR BRIAN NICHOLSGYC attended last Sunday’s formal farewell from the Cathedral for Fr Brian Nichols. His 16 years of pastoral ministry included offering GYC generous service, wise counsel, often presiding at wonderful liturgies and ritual prayer. We wish him well as parish priest at Sandy Bay-Taroona Parish.

FROM THE DIRECTORS OF MINISTRY

Mrs Simone McManus, Hobart; Ms Kylie Sullivan, Glenorchy; Acting Director of Religious

Education, Mrs Lisa Herd

ASH WEDNESDAY PRAYER SERVICE, St John’s Church, Glenorchy

COURSE CHANGES Many students have made changes to their course of study over the past two weeks. Parents will have signed a form to approve these changes or confirmed the change by phone or email. If you have any questions about your son’s or daughter’s subjects please contact us. From Week 3 a change will only be considered where a communication is received from a parent and it may be necessary to make an appointment to discuss the change. Many classes are now full.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY At House Assemblies last week students were presented with information relating to our academic integrity requirements which includes information about plagiarism and the College Deadlines and Exten-sions Policy. Students have signed an internal declaration form and later in the term they will be required to sign a TQA form to guarantee that they will abide by the external assessment rules of the TQA. The TQA imposes serious conse-quences if students are found to be in breach of these regulations. Further information is available at the TQA website at tqa.tas.gov.au and from our College website at www.gyc.tas.edu.au/courses

QUALITY ASSURANCE MEETINGS On Tuesday 10 March (following the long weekend) all GYC teachers will be involved in meetings with colleagues from other Catholic, independent and government colleges. This day is a valuable opportunity for ensuring comparability of standards, the sharing of resources and general professional learning. It is a student free day and no classes will be held. We encourage students to make some time available on this day for working on assignments, preparation for tests or revision of work covered.

INTERIM REPORTS On Friday 13 March Interim Reports will be posted. These will provide parents and students with an overview of general progress and application at this stage of the year together with a tutor report.

UTAS COLLEGE PROGRAM The UTAS College Program allows Year 11 and 12 students to study universi-ty-level units at the same time or in addition to their TCE studies. The program provides great opportunities to extend and reward hard-working students. UTAS will hold an Information Session for students, parents and teachers on Wednesday 25 February, 4-6pm at the Uni Centre Foyer, Sandy Bay Campus. Further information is available on the College website, www.gyc.tas.edu.au/courses Mrs Vivienne Hale, Hobart; Miss Heidi Gregg, Glenorchy

FROM THE DIRECTORS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

Phone: 6238 4300 Email: principal@gyc.tas.edu.auGUILFORD YOUNG COLLEGE

The sporting calendar for 2015 is underway. Girls’ soccer and swimming trials were held

earlier in the week; boys’ tennis had a bye and boys’ cricket and sailing began their rosters

yesterday.GYC rowers, past and present, participated in the club

reunion, which included a mini regatta at the new facil-ities on Saturday afternoon. Triple Olympian and gold medallist, Dr Scott Brennan (GYC 2000) was a special

guest.Mr Zain Wright

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SPORT

A reminder to parents and students that the MORRISBY CAREER TESTING will be held on TUESDAY 10 MARCH at the Hobart Campus.

Year 12 students interested in completing a 12 month GAP YEAR with the Navy, Army or Air Force in 2016 are encouraged to register their

interest at www.defencejobs.gov.au

Year 12 students who wish to apply to study Medicine at UTAS (or a number of health related degrees at interstate universities) will need to sit the UNDERGRADUATE MEDICINE AND HEALTH

SCIENCE ADMISSION TESTING (UMAT). Registration for UMAT is now open at umat.acer.edu.au The UMAT test will be held on 29 JULY

2015 at the University of Tasmania.

Mrs Jo Haneveer, HobartMr Richard Clark, Glenorchy

TO KEEP UP-TO-DATE WITH CAREER INFORMATION, VISIT THE COLLEGE WEBSITE: www.gyc.tas.edu.au/careers/

FROM THE CAREERS ADVISORS

GYC boys’ cricket team before winning its first match.

Phone: 6238 4300 Email: principal@gyc.tas.edu.auGUILFORD YOUNG COLLEGE

BANNER PHOTOS: Page 1, the Roe family (Luke is Vice Captain of the Hobart Campus) at the Student Leaders’ reception ; page 2, progress on the Creative Arts Link; page 3, the Barwick family (Lyndall is House Captain of Rice House) with Head of Rice House, Jane MacDonald; page 4, House Mascots at Walk for Hope, from left,

Tenison House (H), MacKillop House (G), Guzman House (H), Rice House (G),, Bosco House (H) and Carmel House (G).

IMPORTANT DATES

23 FebruaryParent Information Evening, HOBART

7:30 - 9pm

24 FebruaryParent Information

Evening, GLENORCHY7:30 - 9pm

25 FebruaryUTAS College Prog.Sandy Bay Campus

4-6pm

5 MarchVET Information

Evening, GLENORCHY7:30 - 9pm

6-9 MarchUN Youth Tasmania

State Conference Hobart

10 MarchMorrisby Testing Hobart Campus

Student-free day

13 MarchCOMMENDATION Ceremony, DEC

12:30pm

College Colours Cocktail Party, hosted

by Dominic College

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GYC WILL AGAIN BE SELLING ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS AS A FUNDRAISER FOR THE NEW CREATIVE aRTS lINK

Any YEAR 12 STUDENTS IN 2014 who have not collected their references or their Year Book, these documents are available from their former Campus office.

STUDENT LEADERS’ RECEPTION

WALK FOR HOPE