Autumn 2010 - St Luke's Anglican School

THESTLUKE’SWAY Autumn Edition 2010
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P R I N C I PA L’ S P E N
The nine weeks of Term 1, while at times very wet underfoot, were never slow flowing
or stagnant. We started off the term celebrating the fine OP results of the 2009
Year 12 cohort. While many students “over achieved” I particularly congratulate
Michelle Ong on her excellent OP 1 result. The seniors of last year have dispersed
to all parts of Australia and overseas. We encourage them to stay in contact with
us and share what they are doing as part of The St Luke’s Way Old Saints page.
We welcomed Ayrial Mammino (School Captain and OP1, 2007) back as the guest
speaker at this year’s Academic Assembly where we traditionally give out the
Academic Colours for the previous year. We enjoyed listening to how Ayrial coped in
her veterinary course, being such a slightly built person and overcoming prejudices.
Term 1 was full of highlights. The Principal’s welcome barbeque followed by the
House performances in Rock Pop Mime was new this year as were two staff
versus student soccer matches that occured over two lunch times. The Year 6
students moved their Shakespearean Theatre Restaurant performances to Term
1 with great success. It was a great evening, highlighted by fine food, polished
performances and good company. I am sure this will come across in the photos.
Some items stay on the School calendar, as they are important to the traditions of
St Luke’s and help set it apart from other schools. The Ash Wednesday Service at
the start of Lent and the end of term Worship Service before Easter are always a
feature of Term 1. It was a privilege that we could welcome the Covenant Players
to be a part of our end of term Service this year. Also participation in the Bundaberg
Cooking Goes Hi-tech
Catering and Hospitality Studies have been growing in
popularity to the extent that Senior students have had
the opportunity to select Hospitality Studies on two lines
of the subject selection form for the past two years.
While at the same time discussions with focus groups
of parents highlighted the desire for greatly improved
catering facilities.
Prioritising the needs of the School along with the
available funds for current and future development
is always a difficult task. However, the receipt
of funding through the Building the Education
Revolution in 2009 allowed the School to bring
forward the redevelopment of catering facilities in
line with student and parent needs, and the new
Hospitality room became a reality.
Once the old library had been moved, the space was
District Secondary Schools Sport (BDSSS)
Swimming Carnival where we managed to win
both the Aggregate and Percentage Trophies,
again in very poor weather conditions, as you
will see, is a strong tradition of the School.
In years to come, Term 1, 2010 will be
remembered for it being very wet; we
even had cyclone Ului threaten us briefly.
Unfortunately, a number of camps had
to be postponed; but you will see that
Year 4 gamely ventured on, albeit with
a modified program and had a fun time.
Our building program came on line this term
with the use of the new Catering Room, which
you will see is all new and shiny. There will be
more on the new buildings in the next edition.
We start Term 2 in the new Performing Arts
Centre and by the standard of performance
of the students in the Term 1 concerts, the
St Luke’s Music Program is in an excellent
growth phase.
There is much to read and look at in this edition of The St Luke’s Way, and I hope
you get a sense of the positive vibe that is currently a
part of St Luke’s.
redeveloped into a catering facility that would be the
envy of most schools boasting eight new commercial
gas stoves, two large turbo fan ovens and cooling
racks, a commercial dishwasher, more than ample
preparation space and all in stainless steel.
The new facility has meant that we can’t remove
the smile from Mrs Gill’s face, which is certainly well
deserved after spending so many years in the old
catering room.