1. Art and Diseño

No. 21
3 December 2014
From the Principal
Last Sunday we commenced the new Church year with the
start of the season of Advent. Advent is a short season of
preparation for the celebration of the feast of the birth of
Jesus at Christmas, a feast which focuses on the love of
God for all peoples and all creation. In Advent we are called
to “watch and wait” and “prepare the way of the Lord”, that
It has been another productive season for all our ACC teams,
is, to give ourselves some time in the busyness of the
with over ten teams playing off for premierships in cricket,
season to reflect on the significance and the promise of that
tennis and volleyball. The final results are in the sports section
birth in a Bethlehem stable.
of this newsletter.
We also commenced this week the new academic year for
The Paradian has been distributed to all students and I
all students with their 2015 classes and timetables. On
acknowledge the work of Anthony Cicutto and his committee in
Monday we held assemblies to mark the beginning of 2015
putting together another excellent College year book. The
studies and to celebrate the transition of some staff and
student reports are being finalised and will be available
students between campuses. On this Friday there will be
electronically next Monday.
final year level assemblies at which academic awards will be
announced and the traditional school spirit and leadership
There are a number of other important events in this final week
awards will be presented for each house. The list of
of classes including the VCE Commitment Night for Year 12
awardees will be on the College portal.
students and parents on Tuesday; the Carols under the Cross
featuring our music students and teachers on Wednesday.
I acknowledge the cooperative and enthusiastic way in
which students of all year levels participated so well in the
This is our last newsletter for the term and the first newsletter
events of last week. The Year 11 students enjoyed a
next term will be posted to families by 23 January with any
successful Leadership Retreat at Phillip Island and I
necessary information for the return to classes on 29 January
received many compliments from employers who engaged
for Years 7, 11 and 12 and on 30 January for all year levels.
our Year 10 students for work experience. Congratulations
to the Year 9 students and their staff mentors on their
We wish all our Parade families a safe and refreshing summer
involvement in the various activities and challenges during
holiday and a happy and peace-filled Christmas and
the Yarangabee Otways Experience, despite some very wet
prosperous New Year.
weather at the outset.
Dr Denis J Moore cfc
Principal
From the Assistant
Principal - Staff Welfare
and Development
Catholic Identity - Peace and Justice
On Friday 21 November, Parade College held its 6th
Peace and Justice Day at Amberley Retreat Centre in
Lower Plenty. Over the years we have been hosting these
days, we have invited a number of different Primary
Schools to participate. On this occasion we welcomed
students and staff from St Damian’s (Bundoora), Holy
Year 7 students proudly display their
Certificates of Participation
Trinity (Eltham North) and St Mary’s (Greensborough).
The Amberley Retreat Team led students through a
Ladies’ Auxiliary and Fathers’ Committee
number of activities which enabled them to creatively
I would like to acknowledge and thank the members of our
explore some important
parent groups who have worked tirelessly all year for the
issues related to social
ultimate benefit of our students. Special thanks to our
justice.
respective Presidents and Executives led by Mrs Veronica
This type of activity gives
expression to our Catholic
Identity and our commitment
to the EREA Touchstones,
in particular to ‘Justice and
Spiteri and Mr Jeff Warke. Veronica and Jeff share a
common attribute of being able to bring people together
and encourage active involvement.
Community Mass - All Welcome!
Solidarity’ in which we seek
Friday 5 December 8.10am
to be a College which
Thanks to our priests who continue to provide
“nurtures a culture of critical
wonderful support to us.
reflection and prayerful
discernment in justice and peace issues”.
Our Strategic Plan (2013-2016) calls us to “strengthen our
partnerships with local primary schools” and our Year 7s
and teachers very much enjoyed the company of the
Grade 5 and 6 students and the staff who came with them.
Father Terry Bergin
Our Lady of the Way, Kingsbury
Father Vincent Le
St Damian's, Bundoora
Father Anthony Girolami and
Father Varghese Kattikatt
St Francis of Assisi, Mill Park
Father Michael McEntee
Sacred Heart, Diamond Creek and
St Thomas The Apostle, North Greensborough
Father Michael Knight
Sacred Heart, Preston
Father Steven Rigo
St Mary’s, Greensborough
Thanks for your support throughout 2014. May the peace
and joy of the Advent season be with you all as we move
closer to the celebration of the birth of Christ and the hope
this brings. We look forward to a year filled with
excitement and possibility.
Students celebrate what they have achieved in the
grounds of Amberley Retreat Centre
Ms Cate Livingston
Assistant Principal - Staff Welfare and Development
2014 Paradian
From The Director of Music
Dear Parents of our Bundoora
and Preston Year 12 students,
Your copy of the Paradian is now
from Reception at Bundoora
Music Department Christmas Concert
Tonight, 7.30pm, Rivergum Theatre
ONLY.
The Parade College ‘Carols Under the Cross’ is 7.30pm
available for personal collection
TONIGHT (Wednesday 3 December) in the Rivergum
Please collect your copy from
Theatre. All Music students will be performing music to bring
today and before midday Friday
in the Advent season.
19 December, when Reception
closes for the holidays.
Instrumental Music 2015
Any student wanting to enrol (or re-enrol) in the Instrumental
Mr Anthony Cicutto
Music Program in 2015 are urged to complete the application
Paradian Editor
form now available from the Music Office (W40).
All students currently learning an instrument in Semester
Two will have an application form sent home in the mail.
Clearing Lockers
Places for popular instruments like guitar and drum-kit are
filling quickly. Fee charges remain unchanged for 2015.
A.M.E.B. Success
Congratulations to Year 10 Lynch student Gideon Van Twest
Smith who recently passed with Honours his Grade 6
Australian Music Education Board clarinet examination.
All parents/guardians please note that students at both
campuses have been advised that they MUST clear their
Mr Martin Macaulay
lockers by Friday 5 December and they will need to take their
Director of Music
padlocks home with them. We would appreciate parents/
guardians reminding their sons that they need to do this.
The College cannot take any responsibility for missing items
or locks left in/on the lockers after school finishes (Friday 5
December 2014).
Mr Rod Macdonald
Property and Services Manager
From the
Sports Desk
Congratulations to the following:
Year 7
Jye Murphy (B13)
Year 8
Jasdip Dosanjh (H16)
Year 9
Aaron Kostopoulos (H16)
Year 10
Thomas Wilson (B03)
Term 4 Sport 2014
Congratulations to our Term 4 premiership teams:
The criteria for this award is sportsmanship and
excellence in their chosen sport plus representation
Year 10 Tennis
in at least one of our carnival teams of swimming,
Year 8 Div 2 B Volleyball Preston
athletics or cross country. The four students were
Year 10 Cricket
standouts in meeting both criteria and are deserving
Year 7 Div 1 Cricket
winners.
Year 9 Cricket
2015 ACC Swimming
Amazingly, all games were won in close
The swimming squad for 2015 will be training two
circumstances with Year 7 and 9 cricket won in the
mornings per week at the Watermarc Pool in
final over and the Year 10 tennis clinching their final
Greensborough in the lead up to the ACC Swimming
in a tiebreaker. These premierships resulted in
Carnival on Friday 20 February. Any new students
Parade claiming 16 flags in 2014, up from 13 last
who are interested in joining the team will be given
year.
an opportunity to sign up and receive information
regarding trials on the first day of term. Further
In addition, our Year 10 student body claim the ACC
details can be obtained off the college website or
Aggregate Award as a reflection of the most
from Mr Gaut.
consistently performed school across all ACC sports
throughout the year in Year 10 sport.
Term 1 Sport 2015
The senior sport of Volleyball will commence Round
1 on Wednesday February 4, whilst cricket and
tennis will resume their season on this date after an
early Round 1 was played in the last week of Term 4.
Finally we wish all of our sportsmen, their families
and the wider Parade College community a very safe
and holy Christmas season and look forward to your
support once again in 2015.
For all information on Parade Sport including
previous match reports and fixtures, check out the
Parade website www.parade.vic.edu.au/
Year 7 – 10 Sports Presentation Evening
ParadeCollegeSports
Thank you to all students and their families that
Mr Craig Seckold
attended the Sport Presentation Evening on
Director of Sport
Tuesday. We were able to recognise all of our best
player/coaches award winners, our 16 premiership
teams as well as the Sportsman of the Year at each
year level.
From the
Business Manager
Law In Operation Visitor
Please note the following important dates applicable for
Old Paradian Tarek Elamine visited the Year 9 Law In
our Bundoora Office and Preston Office.
Operation class to speak to them about his role as a
criminal lawyer and to answer any questions they had
Preston
regarding their studies. Tarek spoke to the class for well
Office Closes
4.15pm Thursday 11 December
over an hour about his legal experiences, his start as a
Book Collection
9.00am-12.00pm Wednesday
Parade student and his journey since leaving the College.
21 January (Mackillop Centre)
Office Opens
8.15am Wednesday 28 January
On Thursday 23 October, an Old Paradian, Tarek
Teachers Return
Wednesday 28 January
Elamine, arrived to speak to our Year 9 Law class. Tarek
Students Return
Years 7, 11, 12 - Thursday 29 January
is a criminal lawyer who is also now working in
Years 8, 9, 10 - Friday 30 January
commercial law. When he arrived, he immediately talked
about his early career in criminal law. He told us about the
many interesting cases he has been involved in and the
Bundoora
Office Closes
12.30pm Friday 19 December
many different types of clients he has had. What
Book Collection
9.00am-12.00pm Wednesday 21
interested me the most was how he strives to help all his
January (Yarangabee Centre)
clients. It was a real honour meeting someone very
Office Opens
7.45am Wednesday 7 January
successful, and also someone who grew up in the same
Teachers Return
Tuesday 27 January
suburb as me.
Students Return
Years 7, 11, 12 - Thursday 29 January
Michael Putinja Yr9 H18
Years 8, 9, 10 - Friday 30 January
Tarek was an inspiration to all of us. He showed us that
Mrs Janelle Sheahan
nothing is ever handed to you, that you have to work hard
Business Manager
in life, but if you do you will be rewarded. He told us to
remember that money is not everything, that family,
friends and health is more important. Whilst Tarek has
worked hard to develop his law career he is an example
of how important a well-balanced life is.
Joshua Roperto Yr 9 H12
We were very grateful to Tarek for taking time out of his
busy schedule to share his stories with us
Ms Anne-Marie Morello
Community Action Convenor
With exams just finished and the beginning of Year 12 looming ahead, a three day getaway to Phillip Island promised to be the
ideal end to a long and demanding Year 11. Although the weather on the first day did not mirror this, our spirits were not
dampened and it was an air of anticipation which filled the two hour bus ride enroute to Cowes, Phillip Island.
Our hopes were realised upon our arrival, when we were able to participate in a variety of relaxing, challenging, and most of all,
enjoyable activities such as the giant swing, meditation, high ropes course, crate climbing, and raft making. Students were split
into different groups allowing us to spend time with close friends as well as peers with whom we were not so familiar. Tuesday
morning brought with it a welcomed change in weather and a break in routine as our usual activities were replaced by a choice
of visiting 'A Maze’N Things', surfing, bike riding, bushwalking, fishing, playing golf, and going to the beach.
The second component of our camp comprised four liturgy sessions spread out across the three days. Not only did these offer
respite from strenuous camp activities but they also gave us a chance to thoroughly reflect on our time at Parade whilst looking
forwards towards the future. However, I feel the most important part of these sessions came with the sharing of the staff mentor
for each group which provided us with the opportunity to listen to real life experiences, knowledge, and advice. These sessions
rounded out what was ultimately a rewarding camp experience in which we were able to relax, have fun, and reflect, so it is with
great excitement that I now look forward the year ahead and beyond.
Ben Ferraro
2015 School Captain
Below: Year 11 Lynch students
Above: Year 11 Bodkin students
From The Old Paradians
Millie Commits Vietnam Tour de Force
to College Archive
Lieutenant Colonel David Millie (Ret.), the Old Paradian
awarded an MBE for service with the Vietnamese and the
Americans through the Vietnam War, has graciously
donated a copy of his recently-released memoirs to the
Parade College archive.
God and Sport
Dicko’s Tome Tackles the Big Issues
David’s book, Team 19 in Vietnam, is the result of seven
years of research on the back of extensive war diaries
kept through his 12 month tour in Quang Tri Province – a
Is there a link between sporting performance and faith?
crucial tactical site along the demilitarised zone and North
This is but one of the many lofty questions tackled by
Vietnam’s gateway to the South.
Russell Dickson (1981) in his recently-published tome On
Your Marks.
Taglined “A book for elite sportspeople. A message for
every sports fan”, Dickson’s On Your Marks . . . examines
the fortunes of elite athlete Hepz Sullivan, who
inadvertently confronts the question whether there is a
possible link between sporting performance and faith.
Dickson can talk the talk because he’s walked the walk. A
former Captain of Parade’s 1st XVIII, he also represented
Collingwood in 20 senior matches through the 1980s and
David, a former member of the renowned Australian Army
in later life competently served as coach of Diamond
Training Team Vietnam, the country’s most highly-
Valley outfit Greensborough.
decorated unit of the war, was a senior advisor and a
planning and operations officer with the Military Assistance
Married with two children, Dickson, “elected to stop the
Command Vietnam (MACV) Team from 1968 to 1969. As
world after 25 years in business management to work on
well as the MBE, David is the recipient of a Bronze Star for
personal pursuits he never could find the time for” -
Service (USA) and a Cross of Gallantry (with Bronze Star),
amongst them his literary offering.
Vietnam.
To read more, go to www.oldparadians.com.au
Old boys fly the flag for ’04
The final year class of 2004 rounded out Parade’s reunion
gatherings for 2014 in boisterous fashion on Friday night,
with more than 50 old boys returning to the College after
10 years.
During his year-long tour, David worked with province
senior advisor Colonel Harley F. Mooney and Major John
Shalikashvili, who would later become chairman of the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Working with diverse groups of
soldiers and civilians, David helped conduct a number of
These were the true banner wavers for 2004, as a total of
operations, including missions against the Viet Cong
336 former students who either completed or would have
infrastructure and insurgents, pacification campaigns, and
completed Year 12 ten years ago are listed on the OPA
refugee resettlement projects.
database.
David, a student at the Old Bluestone Pile from the final
Amongst those on hand were Francois Abou-Haila and
year of the Second Word War through to 1955, agreed to
Ryan Willits. Also present was Parade College Principal
participate in the following Q and A on his recent return to
Dr Denis Moore, Assistant Principal Cate Livingston and
the College.
teachers Ivan Kummerle and Paul Watson, the latter also
a final year student of the class of ’04.
To read the Q and A, go to www.oldparadians.com.au
The 2004 College Captain Brayden Geary, currently
based in London, sent a heartfelt message to his old
mates, which was read on the night.
Brayden’s message can be found at
www.oldparadians.com.au
(image courtesy Phil Carter)
Mr Tony De Bolfo
Old Paradians’ Association CEO
Calendar
3 December
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Booklist Collection
Last day for submitting Booklist for 2015
for Yrs 8-10
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Yr 10 & 11 Reports released online to
Years 7-10 2015
Wednesday 21 January 9.00am–12.00pm
parents at 9.00am
*
Yr9 ExCEL: Excellent Race Day
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Homework Club 3.15-4.30pm
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Christmas Carols Under The Cross,
7.30pm Rivergum Theatre
4 December
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Christmas Party for the Elderly
5 December
*
Year Level Assemblies
*
2014 Paradian distributed p4 (Yr 11’s
Students attending Bundoora campus in 2015
collect books at the Yarangabee Centre.
Students attending Preston campus in 2015 collect
books at the Mackillop Centre.
during tutor group)
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Term 4 Ends
7 December
*
2nd Sunday of Advent
8 December
*
“Saturday Detention”
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2015 Year 7 Orientation
*
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9 December
VICTORIAN SCHOOL TERM DATES
2015
TERM 1
28 January
27 March
2015 Staff Induction
TERM 2
13 April
26 June
Yr 7-9 Reports released online to
TERM 3
13 July
18 September
TERM 4
5 October
18 December
parents at 4.00pm
10 December *
OPA Luncheon
11 December *
Preston office closes 4.15pm for
holidays
14 December *
3rd Sunday Advent
North of the Yarra
19 December *
Bundoora office closes at 12.30pm for
School Booksellers
holidays
21 December *
*
4th Sunday of Advent
Summer Solstice
25 December *
Christmas Day
26 December *
Boxing Day
1 January
*
New Years Day
7 January
*
Bundoora Office reopens at 7.45am
21 January
*
Book Collection Morning, 9am-12pm at
Preston & Bundoora
28 January
*
Preston Office reopens at 8.15am
52-56 Strathallan Road
Macleod
9458 4749
Update Your Contact Details
It is important that we have the most up to date contact
details for parents at all times. If you are moving or you
change your telephone number, mobile number or email
address please ring our Registrar, Mrs O’Connor, on
9468 3304 or email [email protected] to
update your details
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Fathers’ Committee
Parade Fathers’ Committee
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Enhancing father son relationships
Meeting
Monday 9 February 7.30pm
Boardroom Bundoora Campus
Next Meeting
Our Thanks
We would like to acknowledge and thank Jackie Brennan
Wednesday 11 February 8pm
for the running of our 2nd hand book sale this year. Even
Boardroom
though the amount of books have decreased due to the
Bundoora Campus
introduction of the iPads, there were still some Year 12
books that were available for purchase. We would also like
to thank all our members who came out and assisted,
giving up their time to help on either one or both days.
I extend my thanks to all committee members on the
outstanding work you have put in during 2014 and wish you
Thanks again and hope you are all able to help again
a Merry Christmas.
throughout the year assisting our community and providing
for our boys.
It would be great to see new members for the Committee
next year and everyone is welcome.
Christine Liuzzi would like to thank all the ladies of the
Parade College Ladies’ Auxiliary for their support and
friendship throughout all her time that she has been
involved as a committee member. She wishes her
successors, Judy O’Connor and Marina Konstantinou, the
best of luck.
Also best of luck to Jackie Brennan as she stands down as
Treasurer and Clare Love takes over.
Help Needed for our Coming Year in Term 1 2015
Please keep in mind the following events as we will be
requiring as much help as possible as we start off the
New Year with a busy Term 1 of events. Please email
us if you are able to provide some of your time in
helping with any of these events:
Year 7 Welcome Morning Tea
Thursday 29 January 2015
Year 7 Information Night
Thursday 5 February 2015
Art Show Opening Night
Friday 13 February 2015
Open Day – Both Bundoora and Preston Campuses
Sunday 15 February 2015
President Veronica Spiteri
Outgoing Secretary: Christine Liuzzi
Secretary Judy O’Connor/Marina Konstantinou
[email protected]
Jeff Warke
President PFC
0409 174 208
[email protected]
Become an Active Member of the Fathers’ Committee to
support the Parade community