NEWS FROM GRAMMAR 2015

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Contents From The Headmaster's Desk..................................3 BHOGA Report........................................................4 Writer in residence - Chris Haslam...........................4 Co-Captains Converse..............................................5 Pathways to Journalism............................................6 The Early Learning Centre........................................8 Learning Indonesian at Broadland..........................10 Gallipoli ANZAC Commemoration...........................10 A Chat with Bruce Fairfax.......................................12 Boarding House Dining..........................................13 Design and Technology..........................................14 Christmas Camp 2005-2014 – My Journey.............15 Glover Glory...........................................................16 Never Bored - 6 questions For Adam Mostogl (2005) to Ponder....17 Out & About...........................................................18 Nurture, Challenge, Inspire - Exhibition..................20 A Return School Visit From a WW2 Evacuee To Tasmania.............................................22 Elizabeth Street Chapter Reunion...........................24 'Little Grammar 1930-1970' Book Launch..............25 In Memoriam.........................................................26 Donald Ian Fraser - A Grammar Connection From 1897........................26 Reunions...............................................................28 A Grammar Get Together For World Teachers’ Day...............................................30 Father Son Success...............................................30 <strong>2015</strong> Annual Fund.................................................31 Social Calendar <strong>2015</strong> ............................................32 Editorial Team Pip Manson - e: pmanson@lcgs.tas.edu.au Margo Bastow - Marketing and Communications Manager e: mbastow@lcgs.tas.edu.au Photography - Rob Burnett Design - Direct Design Printing - Foot & Playsted Beauty and the Beast
From the Headmaster’s Desk Build your kids’ character, don’t just give them stuff! Kindness, honesty and integrity - these are ways of passing on lifelong values. Headlines like the one above, which accompanied an article I found in The Age in February this year, really challenge me to consider how we ensure such vital messages are conveyed to our students. I used the article as a basis for a talk I gave at the launch of the new book, Little Grammar 1930 -1970: our Formative Years to an audience of over ninety ex Grammar Preparatory School students. My aim was to discuss lifelong values and how we form them. The talk drew parallels between the benefits of an early childhood education from a past, perhaps more innocent era and the ways we now address this vital task in the learning programmes of our very youngest learners. These are easy words to think and write but not half as easy to successfully enact. Yet we know that the essential concepts remain the same. Early Learning is a vital time for growth and skills acquisition for expanding and inquisitive minds. Features such as imagination, play, fun, physical activity, singing, music, nature, and writing speaking and reading still play as much a part as they ever did. What has changed is the media driven context in which our youngest students now have to seek their place in the world. A quick sample of the recent newspapers tells us about the scourge of radicalisation, drugs in sport, epidemics of violence against women and the drug ice, children held in detention and the local challenges for young people getting a start in work in our regional city. As contemporary educators it is essential that we help young learners to form strong and enduring values, to develop lasting character traits for them to apply in the way they live their lives. The Age article suggested three essentials of a worthy values education: a sense of value or dignity, a sense of meaning, and a sense of belonging. These traits are found in great abundance among the various generations of Broadland and Grammar alumni. On June 15 this year we celebrate the school's 169th birthday and thus begin the school’s 170th year of unbroken operation. This is a significant milestone when we look forward to celebrating the life and vitality of our school, of reminding ourselves of the essentials of an education of substance and we make wise plans as we seek to serve the needs of future generations of Grammar people. Stephen Norris Headmaster page 3
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Page 11 and 12: After some lovely days in Istanbul
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Page 21 and 22: Nurture Nurture Challenge Pip Manso
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Page 25 and 26: Book Launch The launch of the book
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