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Brtsb""e Girls Grammar School Newspaper : i, ,Goryor"!ting the Appeal News

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built rafts, had fun. and go to know one another and ourselves better

Drama which was a wonderful way 10 make friends. especially from other year Ievds Then som of us speni a week at the Antarctic Expeditioners' Training Camp experiencing everything Antarctic : Scott's expedition through The Fir on the Snow. Antarctic

Ruth Earley

17 WAS NEW. fT WAS DJFFERENT. JTMAOE us FEEL GROWN up.

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New subjects. and many new teachers wasn't as scary as we thought it would

We built bridges with the boys from Brisbane Grammar. 11 was grea fun but incky. We had 10 design and make a bridge out o paddle pop sticks that would h in as much weight as

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We used computers to design model houses, to speak to people i other countries and to create web pages showing our journey rimugh Year 8. The whole school can read about our Spring Hill experience, our maths and science classes and lots or other interesting things on GrammarNet We entered competitions, attended festivals, swam and ran in sporting carnivals and were the most enthusiastic spectators ... And then there were lessons mm But that's another story! ! ! .. but wait there was more!

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There was all the music. We sang in choirs for the School and for the House. There we concerts where we played, especially the magnificent Proms Concert at the ity Hall. We were all so proud to be part of that. if you like to sing, play a musical Instrument or listen to wonderful music, this school is for you

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be. Our Year 12 Seniors saw to that! We were quickly into Interhouse

landscapes of our own construction, a phone call to Mawson Base talking to people who were reaUy there. The students then held a Forum to decide on the future o Antaretica ... but wait there was morel

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During Greek Week we enjoyed the BGGS Olympic Ganies, mad scale drawings, ketches and models of ancient Greek buildings. created masks and performed Greek tragedies Throughout all this fun we got 10 understand a little of how much the past Is in our present.

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There was the Year 8 camp. We spent a week at our Memorial Outdoor Education Centie at Imbil. We camped out

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Polish^ on the Telescope Problemis When I wrote our first report late last immeasurable. We have acquired year, we were cheerfuny optimistic about expertise not only in the physical aspect a reasonably short lime period of of building a scientificinstrumen but the completion - "by last Xmas" we said. if exposure to the endless discussions on only we had known, we would have said optics and astronomy with o1he telescope makers, especially during the animated "next Xmas" round table discussions at meal breaks Tashen Dromey The extra time has definitely not been wasted. Barring any major unexpected We have along the way also acquired a catastrophe, we hope to have the considerable understanding and telescope completed andin working order kilowledgeofthe technica andtheoretical over the Christmas holidays. Both aspectsin the field of optics, particularly Pathcia Hack and I will return to the regarding the inner workings and designs School in the new year 10 hand over the of different types of telescopes from the finished telescope. We hope to avail simple to the complex. The experienced ourselves to viewino demonsirations of telescope makers were always on hand the night sky, and any discussions giving us their unstinting help and advice pertaining to our optical wonder whose creation was of Sisypheun efforts on our If the was a particular quality that I would antibuie to telescope makers, I P would say infinite patience and in reinembmnce of the seemingly perseverance. This was an unexpected unending task of mirror regrinding and but importsn lesson Iha both Paincia and repolishing that w have been through. I leanit in our year of association with we have affectionateIy christened the telescope making BGGS telescope SISyp/,, us after Sisyphus in the Greek myth. As punishment For anyon wishing and willing 10 take Sisy hus was condemned eternally to the time and elfo to build a telescope. rolling a rock u a hill from the top of patience and perseverance are the which it always toned down again. Our defiitite prerequisites more than anything experience at times was not too 'ssimilar else. As one seasoned telesco e maker commented. learning to build a telescope from his hallL scmtch is not unlike a training What we have learnt and acquired in the workshop for sainthood! many months of our association with the telescope making workshops have been

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The Sinal Business Studies students have successfully opened and nianaged what should become an annual tradition throughout the School. After market research was completed and contacts built with our Imbil Outdoor Education Cen and Kaygees macadamia flavouring and packaging, we were ready to design our unique logo letterhead, and packaging concepts. Major difficulties wer experienced in the final week as Ih colour hotocopier had an appetite for the labeUing paper. Luckily all was finished on schedul du the hard work o Mr Davissen, Administration, Library and Storeroom staff Torn!!y Nilts officiaUy opened on I I October at The Girls Granunar School Open Day. The stall was situated in the main walkway. which coninbuted to th many sales Iha we niade to the past. present and future Grammar community. Over the five hours the macadarnta nuts sold quickly and by 1.30pm two of the three avours were sold out. By the end of the day all three flavours. Honey Roaste Roasted Salted and Plain were sold out. orally Nuts made an estimated profi 0 $400. in establishing this business we have learn much about business rocesses and problems nunugh this valuable practical experience. Because of the huge success a School Day. Totally N"ts is presently ordering more macadamia nuts 10 be ready for the Christmas niarke

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Mind and Body

Healthy Heart,

nunugh all aspects of its structures and Health Promoting Schools also have daily operations, to assist students, devised weeks focusing on different staff and members of the School relevant subjects. in these weeks you community to develop and maintain could find information on the topics physical and emotional health and posted all around the Physical well-being. " The second goal looks at Education Department and the School the unhealthy nature of the students' Also various visitors have come to "over activity". Growing concern is address the assembly to go into more placed on the students' lack of detail on the various sumounding issues. Some of these people were Dr funie Swam and Dr Carla

only improved the School but they have even more new improvements up their sleeves Health Promoting Schools is making schoolbetter for notjust the students but also the family and staff. The cornimttee, which involves the whole School, has a busy schedule ahead for us to learn, benefit and enjoy!

Iacqui Mantle & Anna Moore EARLY in the first term of school, Mrs Hancock introduced a great new concept into Grainmar, Health

Promoting Schools. The am of this new program, based on the World Health Organization's School Health hittiative was to create physical and emotional we" being for students, their "balance", and after realizing this problem Health Promoting Schools families and staff. have already created many new solutions. in fact the new initiatives introduced by Health Promoting Schools have already created a light at the end of the tunnel To ensune the School received the maximum benefit out of Health Promoting Schools, a student coinimttee chaired by Alex Moles and Freyr Paterson was created. The conimttee which has representatives The evidence of Health Promoting from each year level meets regularly to Schools work can be seen throughout discuss a runge of issues. During these the whol School. One of the first meetings the committ has two main innovations that took place was the Grade 9 Parent and Student Alcohol goals in rind. The principal goal is Night where classes discussed with outlined by the coriumtt an parents problems to do with alcohol. "Brisbane Girls Grammar aims,

Paterson. Some other major initiatives put forward by ars are new suggestion sheets available for each student, a healthy tuckshop. a major survey on students' eating habits and Jump Rope for Heart which earned $600 for the Heart Foundation. in less than a year, the Health Promoting Schools Committee members not

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- with an opportunity to enjoy and Mother recent celebration was the value in defining of our coals and again celebrate the remarkable quiet and reflective Board dinner to aspirations for the future. activities of the girls in this School. mark the 21 years of leadership by

A number of celebratory events have The breadth, depth and height of the Principal, Mrs Hancock. it was On a more routine basis, the Board taken place within the School in these activities should challenge an evening highlighted by nostalgia, has continued to meet and to Ian for recent months in which the Board each of us in our own lives. reality and optimism. Looking back the future of the School. in the last has been pleased to be involved. One on the achievements or the past is of few months this planning has is the 11nveiling of the magnificent involved physical facilities at finbil. stained glass window in Ih library further expansion of computer foyer. in dedicating this "thing of hardware and software, negotiations beauty" to "the Senior Class of 96" with the City Council and other Mrs Hancock has built into the bodies about the physical physical infrastrucrore of the School environment around the School, and the vision we have toI every involvement in the wider educational Graminar girl - optimal personal organisations and policy-making development to achieve a satisfying bodies within the state. The Board and fulfilling life. in this window, has committed itself to continued individualism is celebrated along support of the sporting, creative and with greatness. They are symbolised cultural aspects of the studentagenda by the contrast of the images of in addition to the more strictly based eagles with butterflies. The Board academic cumculum.

thanks an congratulates Iennifer Andrews for her creative genius, Warwick Blair for his expert craftsmanship. and Iudith Hancock for her vision.

As 1997 draws to a close. the Board looks forward to Speech Day and the end of year social events. We anticipate apositive1998, continuing the process of combining innovation and excitement within our broad based liberal environment.

The Board of mrsrees S, @,, di, ,81ro, " left: Professor Li, ,dn Rose, ,"re, ,. Mr Ricl, "rd Ben, "ys. Dr Joh, , Woollett. Dr Jan Brow, ,. Mr loft, I Pieta, er (Seerei", y to lite Board). hadg Margaret MCM, ,,. do Seare fro, ,, 1<17: Ms Eliz"belli Jameson, Mrs Indrih Hd, ICOck (Pri, 161pnl). r Cherre!I Hi, $1 Photog, uph: I@ck Dale

Open Day provided the school community - past, present and future

Frie"ds of Girls Grc, mintzr Mentoring Breakfast - Health & Medical Sciences

Professor John Pearn Deputy Head (Student Affairs) The Graduate School of Medicine and Department of Prediattics and Child Health Royal Children's Hospital

MORE than two thousand years ago, the Father of Medicine, MPPocrates of Kos spoke of the bond that exists between students of medicine and their teachers' This Hippyratic tradition is very much alive today; and was very much in evidence at the Networking Breadast held at the School on 30 July 1997. Medical practitioners, pharmacists, maxillo-facial surgeons and health therapists

in embryo form.

All are totally realistic and this outlook continues one of the great traditions of Girls Grainmar - that spint that all is possible with hard work. Over the years we have had many visits from groups from Girls Grainmar and it has always been a point of pride to see the blue and white unifoinis in the corridors of the Hospital where I work. Nothing magic happens at the moment of graduation in Grade 12. nor at the moment of graduation as a doctor or therapist or veterinary surgeon. Life continues as a continuum; and senior members of the profession regard the most junior of student who would aspire to enter it, already as a coneaoue.

to discuss in detail contemporary issues which face senior students at Girls Grammar who are making decisions about their future.

life. in medicine career options after graduation range from all aspects of clinical medicine, from benchtop medical research to the philosophical aspects of medical ethics or the field studies of medical sociology.

came to talk with senior students So many of the health professions - (Year 12) and tertiary students medicine. nursing. pharmacy, who are Inaking decisions about a dentistry and the the rapies - offer a future career possibly in passport to the world medicin or one of the other health sciences. From the point of view of the visiting professionals who came it was a most gratifying experience The wondrous thing about Ih

The Networkino Breakfast at the School brought home to many of us

as visitors the wonderful ambitious health professions is that they are in plans that most senior students no way narrowing as a pathway for have. professional life. Careers in surgery, in medico-legal Rather, after graduation they offer disciplines, in medical research and almost limittless OPPorturtities for a in specialist neonatolooy (the care fulfilled and rewarding professional of newborn babies) were all there

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Viewp in s Reminiscing and e eating: A tribute to t e 1997 ear welyes

call did not exist and school finished at 3.10pm every afternoon. h

ear Eight Grammar girls stood on hit this grade when the Sports Centre their tiptoes and were counted. officially opened on March 15,1995

Susanna Siegal

Five furious. frenzied flurried, funny boarders ate from the canteen the Ih School's 1201h anniversary. and f itful years are coming 10 a Friends of Girls Gramnlar was omentous changes followed in the It was 1995 that provided this rowdy close or a hitleinore than two hun- established and a new House named succeeding years. in 1994 Grammar group of YearlOs with shock. To be dred Year Twelve students. The re- Beanland was created. won the QGSSSA Swimimng for the precise it was "That camp at finbil" ansation of this forthcoming mile. Gramnar had no Sports Centre. first time in seventy-four years and as it is now refe ed to in memoties stone as started orig ram ites own Amongst complaints of "We are memory lane and the emergence of rinssing Models Inc" "I'm cold/ mixed emotions. The seemingly grumpy/ tired/smelly/hunthomesick strong and sarcastic are unravelling and want a real toilet' the Year 10s at their emotional seams as their completed theirrespective camps. in schoolties choke back the tears. Oth- this year subjects were selected for ers have become introspective and the final years of eleven and twelve withdrawn, moving within th school and 1995 soon became 1996 and the grounds unbelieving and dumbstruck yearof reckoning. The YearElevens by the prospect of leaving high of 1996 were soon downloaded with school. Thereareeven some students leadership infonnation and serious who have begun an emotional oner work leaving no time for any social coaster ascending with growing hys- activities. However 1996 was a tencs and descending with dramatic successful year as leadership displays of drama. The future seems developed within the Year Eleven umea 'stic o all. body with vigour and rigor. This year's Year Twe ve students small art facilities no internet or e- the construction o the MCCrae The 1997 Year Twelve body will began Girls Grannmar as bright and all. However, today s Year 12s GrassieSports an Recreation Centre never forget their teachers, friend or eager Year Eight students in the still manaoed to bloom unde such began. lit this year the Year Nine fiend. The 1997 Year Twelve body ancient year of 1993. in the year of teachings from favoutitefonners aff students watched in awe as Ih will never forget their experiences 9 3 assembly was on Tuesday members as Mr Ajister Kentwel running hack began to shank whilst as jovial or burdensome. Abov all afternoonatCentenaryHallpreceding Japanese and Mr Peter Weyand the huge climbing wall was erected. else the 1997 Year Twelve body afternoon disintssal, afternoon rol Computer Literacy . in 1,993 the However the immense impact only will never forget Grammar. Sqm ,.\ I 97

A Japanese EXchange Student's View of Year 8 Camp

orienteering, the stupid bit a Magpie, Next, about dinner at campout. We And mm I did canoeing for this first attacked me suddenly! ! Moreover the cooked Spaghetti Bolognais and time. Of course I'm very bad. So I bird swooped on my head ove and cheesecake. Everything was cooking think I was annoying for everyone. over. I was using violent language (in I'm sorry ... it was very tiring to walk Japanese) to the bird then. And when I andclimb the mountain, bun managed also went back, it appeared agani! I to climbto the top! 11was disagreeable cried in spite of myself "O God!" and that we couldn't have a shower it followed me. if I looked at it. it everyday. Ihadashoweronlyonce! ! I looked on with indifference. I rushed spent a long time soaking in the bath into the toilet while thinking it was when I got home. Anyway ... I think I good at following me. And then I was well until a girl dropped the spaghetti enjoyed our camping. ifsomeoneasks hiding for a while. The next morning I on Ih ground. But everyone ate it. Ine "How was your camp?". I will was in our tent. Thereupon I heard the I'm surer at grass andtwigs, however remember the stupid bird first of an ... soundofsomethingfalling on our tent. i was pretty good. We couldn't say Inyinto apassion whenlsee the same ipeeped out urnntentionally ... irumed "This is cheesecak " proudly. But we kind of bird. Attention - Be careful of pale immediately. Yes! it was the could have nearly. So the food was Mac ies!! Do ou think in firs stupid bird!! I'm wondering if i was good experience of camping out was a just chance ...??? success? Maybe! $<^,.

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Iwent on the Year 8 camp from 8 to 12 September. I actually enjoyed it very much, but I was very tired. I noticed some differences between camping in Australia and in Japan. The camps which I experienced up to now were not so hard because we don't have campout. So this time, I slept over in the tent for the first time. I was very worried about that because I hate

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Oh What a Day - the Whale Watching Way The sheer size of these gentle mammals is awe irispiting - the male Humpback it wushuge. itroUedover. it rocked the that seemed to find our scrutiny so boat. it swam away. it came back. it interesting was easily the length of the swam under the boat. it swam beside the boat. it seemed very aware of our boat. Its tail came out. its nose came enthralment and performed beyond out. Its fin came out. And so began and expectation. showing off and basking in progressed our Whale Watching day. our attention - for nearly three hours Whileforsomethe novelty woreoff, for One cold August morning, thirty weary others the fascination lasted well into boarders, parents, friends, mistresses Ih afternoon. To observe these gentle and the occasional Gap student, giants from within touching distance struggled with hats, eskies, jumpers, both above and below the water. cameras and other miscellany onto the coupled with the unexpected and waiting bus. Four hoirrs, two videos and breathtaking opportunity to expertenc several silly songs later they emerged their 'conversation', to most people with much higher spints, at the Urangan with a very warm and fuzzy feeling Boar Harbour. Hervey Bay. Led by three model seniors who had taken it Despite several very embarrassing themselves to distribute the moments and a lack of warm sensible upon contents of he lunch eskies - somewhat clothing, the excursion left us with unevenly - the group lunched quickly many wonderful memories of enormous and then boarded the very yellow boat, bags of snakes, huge piles of of the Spint of HeIvey Bay. The captain chocolate aswdlascopiousphotographs: assured us that whales had been sighted "T/, is is a wlia! tail, and this is a, ,other on the earlier morning trip, and that h Ivh@Ie toil. and a, joiner. a, Id am oilier Z06 Y"Ie

Space Camp - to the moon and back

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Are you friends with a Space Camper? things that we did was take part in You U know if you are because their mock missions, in which we could every second sentence begins with "In work in a simulated control room, Amenc ... ' U fortunately. those of space station or orbiter. We you who are already sick o it will just conducted three practice rimssions or have to suffer a bi longer because one hour each, so that w could try out Space Camp is an experience that none each of the areas, then an Extended of us willsoon forget. To say it was Duration Mission (EDM)lasting for fun would be a gross understatement. six hours. During this six-hour To say it was the holiday of a lifetime mission. the counsellors could throw is getting closer. but doesn't fully all sorts of problems at us: anything capture Ih s wit of the imp. I think from buzzer anomalies with ashing the best I can do is to say that we had a lights and buzzers, to medical chanc to fly to the moon and back, abnormalities for which Ih counsellor and it was the most amazing journey would choose someone and give them of my life a list of symptoms which they had to act out. The counseMors could also We amived at Space Camp fresh from give us thinking anomalies, which the Madott Hotel in Los Angeles, were less obvious and more complex expecting a brief interlude between our major destinations, which hopefully I spent the first half of the EDM in the would not tok up too much of our space station. in these three hours we valuable shopping time. But we had handled problems fairly well. Parn no idea just how good Space Camp had a paranoia attack and became

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would be. We were placed in teams of hysterical, so Phil ducttaped her to a eighteen or nineteen people. I was part chair. foistsn lapsed into a diabetic of the legendary Von Braun team. The coma and once we had firtished team consisted of me, Edwina Newton, arguing about what was wrong with Dale Newton, Georga Cooke, Erin her, we were able to revive her. So O'Hanoran and Susan Iehne from things wer going well ! Then, Grammar, one girl from SomerviUe suddenly we were hit by a solar flare. House, two girls from Colorado, two All the lights started nashino and finally the delegates agreed that guys from Virginia, one from lowa, buzzers and alums were going off all individual countries would impos and seven guys from a school in around us There was nothing we could trade sanctions at theirown discretion Florida Daring the week, we all Meanwhile the Year Elevens heard a clip-on koalas were soon depleted and Kristen collapsed in a heap and died Modem History lecture in the our lessons on how to speak with an Gentmam Theatre on Globalisation Aussie accent were a hit. Although Space Camp was by far the by BriariHoepper, authorofthe Year best part of the hip. we had a million 11 and 12 Modem History textbook. Space Camp was packed full of other once-in-a-lifetime experiences in activities - everything from lectures to LA, San Francisco and Orlondo. But scuba diving. But one of the many that's another journey! ! .......................................... . Are yo" ap"st sinde ofBrtsb""e Girls Grammar School? . Were yo" here between J973 - 1977? . . W@"t to catch "p with yo"F1^,'ends^. om high school? . . Please coinaget the school on (07) 3332/300for intoringtio" . . @bowt @ 20 ye@r Re""tom. . .......................................... GRAMMAR GAZETTE OCTOBER 1997 - Page 5 do. We evacuated the space station. and sat in the airlock nearby with our non-Americans among hundreds of heads in our laps. We survived. but Space Campers. we we something of we had no power. Then we were told a novelty. Our supply of Vegem, 're and that we all had radiation poisoning.

NO Limit to Social Studies

Nina Matthews

The Social Studies Faculty has a and the United Nations would not b became grea friends. Being the only broad spectrum of subjects and involved as a whole

topics to study, and they were an covered in the Annualsocial Studies Faculty Day. Students avidly participated and all year levels had a sociable time. The Year Eights staged a World Fair in the Auditorium dressing up in national costume. While the Year Tens participated in a mock United Nations debate, with delegates from all the world powers debating human . rights issues and the use of trade sanctions in curbing their violations. Many solutions were presented but

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developed some bizarre ideas borne from the panic attacks associated with working within a time lintt. The tomis agreed that the development of original

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Laura Cameron & Cait"in Marley

Standing room only. An urinerving only other undefeated team in the situation for debaters, accustomed competition. Despite boasting two to the echoes symptomatic of Queensland State Team Salection supporter deprivation. Not a chair Finalists, anddespite posing was left empty at the Year I I considerable challenges, the Queensland Debating Union Final arguments of the 'boys next door' between BGGS and Brisbane were toppled by the cohesiv Granunar School. Held at All strength of the Girls Graniinar Hallows School at the end of term team.

The continually improving technology and often humorous solutions made the of space exploration may eventually exercise more enjoyable anow humans to communicate with extraterresinalbeings. If this eventuales Throughout theyear three very different what is the appropriate way to respond topics, all interesting and challengin@. to the situation and what are the explored. imagining the were implications? possibilities of "Homes of the Future" was a creative experience and was BOGS Future Tobie Solvers followed by th phenomena of responded to a problem similar to this as "Extraterresttial Life". The U. F. 0. that their second topic o Ih year and was hovering above Brisbane during investigated other futonsiic scenarios to this period, (later discredited as a improve a wide rang o skills, not coin any blimp encouraged girls that excluding a new preoccupation with the subjectof this unit might be closer to UFO. sightings in the Brisbane sky. home than expected As in previous years, girls worked in teams o four to investigate each of the The next unit questioned "What ar the three topics of Ih year and completed consequences of using one electronic competition booklets to solve the card to pay for everything?" Based on roblems presented by a fuiure scene or this idea of a "Cashless Society", the scenario. Although sinc adherence to final booklet of the year was judged to the Future Problem Solving method was decide which teams from Queensland necessary to successfully complete each would compete in the National Fina s in competition booklet, there was still Melbourne. The Year Nine ream room for creativity which encouraged consisting of KalaniDias, SophieFerris, girls 10 daring in their ideas Satah Hack and Eleanor O'Connan was chosen to travel to Melbourne in timeframewas dictated by rigid ctiteria. The improvements made by the girls F om a sup lied future scene or into ughout the year can be attributed to futuristic scenario relating to the current their enthusiasm and the support topic, the goups brainstonmed and provided and invaluable instruction by developed problems and ideas. A the FFS co- ordinator Mrs Stubbing ton coinple competition booklet was to and those teachers who provided include twenty problems and the basic different angles on the issues at hand: underlying roblemthat had arisen from Mrs Wain, Mr Amnson and Mrs Fairlie. them. With time advancing, twenty Whilst developing theories on human solutions to the underlying problem interaction with extraterrestrial life were devised and five criteria to forms it was necessary to have the evaluate the best solution developed. factual input of the science teachers to Finally, upon evaluating the solutions, bring the students back down to corth! the has solution was explored in more The five new teams also greatly detail appreciated the advice from the Year Twdve FFS veterans: Elizabeth Ahem, As Mrs Stubbington warned the girls, Elm Charles-Edwards, Fiona Lazar and deviation from careful phrasing and Syndia Lazams fomng to include essential elements in the proposals can hav disastrous With guidance from teachers and more results wing the coin letion of the experienced roblem solvers, girls new competition booklets most groups to the program were able to adjust to the The process in completing the October. Congratulations! competition booklets within a two-hour

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three, the debate showcased the talent of over one hundred competing tomns. The Girls Grailunar team argued its way to victory during the strategic battle titled, "th@! we havejbi!ed our indige, IONS people ". The boys were confidently outspoken but The path to victory for Suzi Black, Saran Hoyes, Alla Urbancic-Kenny, Charlotte Price and Binzabeth Veincovic began at the end of term one' Six months, and innumerable lunchtime meetings later, the undefeated team would qualify for the tension of a 'short-prep' semi

Throughout the year, the girls have laboured vimally uriai ed, over themes, case structures and rebuttals to participat in eleven debates. For their tireless coinimtinent, the team was rewarded with a coveted QDU

premiership. in recognition of their were outsmarted and outslassed by achievements, the girls received the impressive pertonnance of the individual trophies, a team trophy Girls Grammar team and $200 for the School.

Our thanks go to our 10y supporters Emma Prior, Lean Scholes, Bunna Carlisle and HeIen Ma as well as to the Year I I girls who attended the finals series'

Next y the team advances to the final round. A powerful demonstration that "SOCi@ try'"stice Senior A competition where "points of information" or j"stifles pol^ticolviole, Ice' left overwhelmed Terracians clutching interruptions. to individual remnants of a case'. speeches win challenge the skills of The opportunity to test the prowess our champion debaters ............................................. . . . . . . Old Girls Association News .The Annual General Meeting will Boarding House and the secondis . . be held in the School Staff Centre for the foyer of the Library to aug- ' : on Monday 23 Febraury 1998, merit the recent treasure of stained ' .preceded by a fork dinner at glass donated by the others ' .6.30pm. AllOld Girls are welcome Group. We ^equest any input to be . . to attend. communicated to the Association . . We are working towards the pro- by POS c/ th School phone or fax : ' duction of two stained glass win- to the President. . dows for the School. .The first is the semi-circular one The Association celebrates its . above the western passage to the Centenary in 1999. . . . . . . . . ..................................... ....... . .

process. The process is helpful for refining analytical and cornmunicative skills and lateral thinking abilities. Although each girl may have improved each specific skin toadiffere I extent. Mrs Stubbington cites the overall reward that most students gain from the Future Prob em Solving experience as "an improved approach to all academic tasks because the girls d velop a better strategy with tackle which to problems"

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Dutf fro the French Depariment, year year, as Gratinnar fadlies. Atopofalifetimeprovidingcultural BCGS has ties with five schools at the College- yc6e Saint Paui in elmclunent! a holiday of your the present time, in home countries Angou16me, France, has proved the As the students live eat and breathe choice!the chancetomakegreatnew of anthe modemlanguages taught most popular with BGGS in the gram. This private Catholic the language they achieve greater friendshipsinadifferentenvironment here. in Japan, our girls can attend

school has a re urntion for acadeintc fluency and knowledge of it, and excdlence and its co. educational they have the opportunity to assist in system is another appeal to our girls, classrooms to help teach their own Chin Grainmar girls can attend language. Aspects of the cu tore students tend to cherish the most Shanghai s No. 3 Middle School, have been those one reads in which shares a number of common textbooks or learns in a classroom. aspects with BOGS. it is a "key" school, which means that the They are intangible, but also the Chinese Government recognises its most meaningful. Whether they be high academic standard and feelings of personal fulfilment and consequently gives it preference in growth, memories of adjnirable people, or a certatn remembered terms of subsidies. atmosphere, they can only be Whatever country or school is achieved from such a Program.

Etch"rig sade"ts enjoy 6/@ $5 with their Gr",, MMF hosts

and improve language skills, not to litayama Gamen Tsushima Girls' Chosen, exchanges rudents havebeen mention heaps of fun! no, it's not an High School or Mie High School, dazzled by their experiences of life e exc ange sin ents have a good both well known for academic in another country. Fontng unique excuse to rave on and do a song and advertisement for that getaway you friendships with a host family often dance about their own experience in have been planning for years but excellence: the latter also being a co educational brother school of is regarded as one of the most another country, butBGGSitselfhas have never taken, it's something Anglican Chumh Grainmar, which memorable, as they are a temporary reaped rewards from the Program. it much more exciting! naturally adds interest to BGGs replacement for a much-Intssed adds to the global and accepting The Brisbane Girls Grailunar School students. if one has an inclination fadly. Newttiends provide support, natureoftheSchool, whilstproviding Sister School Program has been in towards Gennany one reason being Care and guidance throughout anew itnension of cultural diversity and tolerance. The Sister School existence since the late 1970s. Many for its famous frankfiirts and difficult times for the students, and Onmunar girls as weU as students liveryarst, or sirnp y for the s orig are there to share the good times. rOgram certain y has proven itself Overall, faintlies often find tints eariching in the Grarnmar tradition. from sister and "brother" schools in "flavour" of the languag and cultur various countries have shared this itsdf. thereis Maria-Wachtier Schule. Personally r warding and filmlfuig

An interview By Year 9 M. C. 13. Students Junette Bameau is a young French may eventually return to France. While countries, and woman who recently spent several she has been here she has seen some has found Iha weeks at Brisbane Girls Grammar Australian animals such as kangaroos, she especially School as part of her studies for the koalas, wombats and platypus. She saw likes urkish Diploma of Education at the Uiitversity them at Ih Melbourne and Sydney and Greek cod. I of Queensland. While she was at French fashion zoos. Grammar, we, the Year 9 Multicultural is won famous, Background Class invited her to our Students in France do not wear a and France has a lesson as we were currently studying uniform. Teenagers are given more bigger andwider France and its people. interviewing her freedom in France and are treated ino range of clothes seemed th best way to learn about the like adults than in Australian schools. than Australia French culture firsthand. Students are free to leave the school at Th clothes lunchtime and go home for lunch or eat expensive and Junette told us that she comes from the at a cafe in town. Some students are you have to pay town of Angers, situated on the "demi-pensionnaires" (as she was) and a lot of money beautiful Loin River. Angers is eat ahottlrree-coors lunch at thesehool for goodclothes. particularly known for its tapestries, canteen. The meals are usually quite Fashion and

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castl and its history. The town has a nice and are not expensive.

presentation are Pal, I. with Mrs 10rrruhe 7110"winis, (Sisier School Coordi, jarorj. very Important Dint right. and Ms Dane Ken"edy. (Etc"xio" chaperone). back

modem art to it as well as an old-

fashioned part. Junette said that most On the subject of food, she said that she to the French. righi people stay there all their lives, and loves French food. in Angers, she ate a Kook@i and although it is not far from Paris, they lot of seafood, and some bee but she C@charel are Tower when they go to Paris as it is for onlygothereoccasionally. Itis atypical doesn't hke eating birds such as binnds of clothing which are very the tourists. We found out that the French town where tradition is very chicken, turkey, he asant, quail and popular with young French people. A poodle is not the most popular type of important. it is not multicultoral in pigeon, all of which are very popular in middle price shirt costs about the same pet in France, although dogs are contrastto larger cities such as Toulouse France. She is particularly ond of as in AUStrali although leather shoes generally very popular. The French see and Marseille. Angers has a university, desserts such as ne nottant (meringue are more expensive in Australia than in Australians as very environmentally industries and modem technology in a caramel sauce , Tarts aux Pornrries France. Junette likes wearing Italian aware, particularly in recent years (which is prepared differently from our clothes because of the classic style and Having lived mainly in Melbourne apple tart), chocolate cake and biscuits cut We would like to thank Junette for daring her five years in AUStrali which are very fin in textore such as Ies coming to answer our questions about Junette said that is unusual for a French biscuits naniais. While she has been in On the subject of stereotypes, Junette France. We feel now that w have a person to traveland workin Australia as Australia, as we are such a multicultusal was not keen to talk abou the typical better understanding of the people and it is so far from France. She is enjoying country, Junette has had the opportunity French person. as she said there are so the cultore of France. We hope she living in Australia at the moment, but to try food from many different many eople who do notgo up the Eiffel continues 10 enjoy her stay with us GinftfMAR GAZETTE OCTOBER 1997 - Page 7 Ph0, o8r@ph: John Rowel!

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Ms Andrews was excited by the challenge and embarked upon a design process that involved concerted research in which ideas and symbols suggested themse ves and were explored. The two images that be caine Ihe focal points or the window were the eagl and the butterfly. The sirength and freedom o the eagle are central features. n addition. a myriad o butterflies depict the unique nature o each person. No two sets o butterfly wings are ever alike and thus om the more Images - realistic 10 the an 11y abstract - are suggested throughout the panels

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On School Day. Saturday 11 October I . the school environment was manently enhanced b the unveiling o a vibren coriumemomtive windo at the at of the Beanland ibracy mm infonna 'on Centre by e Principal, Mrs udith Hancock The five glorious. stained glass panels were dedicated to Grammar girls past. present and future. bucin particular, the Seniors of 1996 who proved themselves such an outsruiding year grou - especially in Ih marine in which they accepted the responsibility of being role In odels as independent and dedicated young women Mrs Hancock believes "the windows

Stained glass artist, Warwick Blair, front the Stain Glass Centre, Brisbane. I k months or meticulous work to make the design a reality The 1996 Mothers' Group and President Mrs Jan Dayies were as always responsive to such an initiative and very generous in roviding the funds which The school coriumunity has responded so enthusiastically to the window that e O d iris avc decided 10 continue vision o this project with new an coinplemenatty windows ori___ other side o the doors to the library

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^antiess New Lead r in'ID Setting the scene uniq"e and subst",,, iai contributions to Ihe welfare of society. As we have seem, the growing importance of ed"calfo, I, Ihe central role given to Ie@ming. is ino

We are living in a period of unprecedented change. The prediction of A1vin Tomer in F"mre Snort and The Third W@ve as wein as Marshall MCLuhan's global vnlage have become a reality. Each day we are reminded of the tremendous impact that technology is making on the socio-economic frameworks in which we have fuictioned for so many years The world is now either local or global - there is nothing in between and our children with a click, become citizens of that world. Change for our young people is an accepted way of life. As educational leaders how can we keep pace with change and the impact it has on our students?

Adapted from a paper delivered by Judith A Hancock, chair of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, Sixth Biennial Conference, Hobart, 21 August, 1997

guard", ee that schools will keep a priority place. For that. they must show that what they cam do cannot be matched by other

means

A. the 1995 AmSA Conference in Addaide, 10hii Abbott challenged us to focus on how we should approach educating people for the changing environment in which w find ourselves He gave us a clear insight into the paradigm shi 'n contemporary human altars and called on us to recognise that

in responding to such pressures management of our sthoo s has bcco increasingly complex, but uniformimtely, at times deflected us from oar raison d'etre. While

dimension into the focal educational context of the institution

Herein lies our first challenge. in the

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no-one w atgu that school management should not reflect good

Is Imperative uirless we respond proactiveIy to these that reamties, schools as we know them, might education be part of the problem in the cry for and educational reform especially cumculum His latest efforts to develop a blueprint decision for education are based upon the best making do research and development into the nature not tau of learntng and examine the implications into the for education, work and the development hands of of cornununities world-wide. those who

Since their inception, largely during the

business

last cerium, schools as we know them an the way teachers teach have remained practices and that we can relatively unchanged, despite learn from the extraordinary transfonnaiions in society, business technology and the way students Iconi secior, we IBM captured this perception of the must never relatively static nature of schooling with an advertisement it placed in the United forget that our core States in 1994, prior to the release of its business is a blueprint for school refonn, Reinve", ing uruque ER"cado". it highlights the unchanged process with nadire of classroom structures and uruque delivery when everything else around is

simply equale roomal education with

This of coarse de rids on how one describes the curriculum. This is the problem inherent in plainimg for an essentially unkiiown tutore. despite the speculation of futurists. There are thos who believe that ther are some elements CMr, ic"!"in designed for a paper and palci! technology. If yo" ch@,, ge the feeh"o108y. then Ihe CMm'ci, !am and inner, else Jin"s also change John continues to challenge us with the concept that good schools alone win never be good enough to meet challenges of the 21st Ceriumy - a sobentig thought indeed. in summary he argues that we are still living wirh Ih@t

outcomes focusing on developing the hearts, minds and bodies of Ih young

vocational willing. Work is vital. jobs are a prime necessity, but hopefully there to human life than ajob! Is ino One often fears that those pushing coltonnist, comumtist and laissez-faire outtook of econointc rationaltsm, s ro ti aschoo systemw to resnot give students a broad perspective and the abUity to question an critique

changing, and is a sobering reminder of the realities in many schools both

people coriumitted to our care

nation any and internationally

This requires very special talents only to be round in the professional and highly s also demands that trained educator school admitstmtors are f more good As leaders in our field we managers cannot abdicate oar professional responsibilities in this area and must endeavour to ensure that whatever is decided reflects educational values and directions for the future

On the other hand. there have been major changes in the way we try to increase our school efficiency. Daring the 1980s we began to embrace the concept of excellence in schooling, as Hedley Beam at at (1989 p21) remind us, was based upon an international, economic concept focussing on market forces. According to Beam, lunar scliools rook 11p 111e issues of etcel!e"ce. it was in file conlexi of serving clie"Js, i, ,CFe"sip, g pmd"clipity. yeso"Fee ,, kindge", e, ,, styles, ,""rket "ICJies. deco, mmbi"ty to 5/@keho!ders. edi, carto, , us in, export commodity. ed"cations' co, 11nb, ,lion to the natto, in eco, ,0, ,Iy. ",, d being re$po, wipe to ,, I@rket forces

The National Association of Secondary

School

ipals in the United States of of cumculum as weU as som values America, in parmership with the Carnegie which are eternally valid and that without Foundation for the Advancement of them we win create a desolate tiltirre Schools do not exist simply to perpetuale Teaching, took up this challenge in 1995 which does not ensure the flexibitity and effective organisational structure or to when members recognized that as those adaptability needed in a post-modem achieve efficient fiscal management. The responsible for the day-to-day opemtions world leadership demanded is more essentially o their schools. they needed to develop a about promoting the flowering of the plan for educational refonn rather than individual human spint and accept what was being imposed on them encoumging students to question, critique, challenge, and even resist current Peter Senge in 1996 challenged us in a sinitlar way to Abbott, when he stated that perhaps o11r instr", 110, is a, Id lenderslijp The result is definitive study of what they dye. by and large. gin, ,"ded I, , a way of

The increasing tendency 10 see schools essentially as businesses 100 often in the ideological, economic and SOCietal w financial sense, is reflected in the assumptions. As Romans 12:2, reminds us, Do ,10, be co, !Ibrmed to Ihis world. bi,

believ are the key elements essential to Ihi, Iki, ,g abo, ,, Ihe M. ond 11/01 is reform of America's schools. The report, I, ICreasi, 18n, obsoleie a, ,d coll"re, - Bredki, Ig Ranks: Cl, tinging @11 America, I prodi, cling. Perlmps Inat is I'llv we itr instr, ", ion. highlights the need for Jani"g apa, r. Whai is lasting in this consistency and stability of leadership in perspective, however, is the way in which schools, panicularly if any individual Ih importance of continuity between the school is serious about making a past. present and future appears to be of difference little considemtion and is indeed at times overlooked

which way in many members of governing bodies approach their roles. Although legally directors of the relevant incorpomtedbody, many fail to understand the importance of the professional educatorfor the success of the school While many governing bodies endeavour to appoint leaders with vision to take the school into the future, the

The leadership is about promoting the flowering of the human spirit and encouraging students to question, critique, challenge, and even resist current ideological, economic and SOCietal assumptions

The recommendations apply to any type of school whether it be independent or state and demonstrates the value of pro active co-operation between sectors and shared vision for future action Do we as educators feel as strongly about school futums in this country? How can we use our collective vision 10 strengthen AUStra"an schools? This chaUenge was reinforced by Professor Phil"p Hughes at the recent Chatmien of Governors Conference in May o this year

The new is not necessarily better. Change is not a vime in itself and can only be considered so if it leads to overall Minq"errio"ing aceep!@,, ce of received wisdo"I is no longer relevant in the world we find Dunelves <1995, p447) Feline Feinandez-Amiesto notes in Millennium. a recent history of the last thousand years, that learning in the western tradition, based on old cert@intres of traditional discipline, obedience and

be Iransy'Dame by Ihe renewal of yo"r in, ..

management role appears to remain paraniount in the majority of oar schools.

it our schools

to help students

Worse SIi", such attitudes are supported

effectiveIy embrac Ih future, we must by those with major input into government policy. Take David Kamin's be leaders who appreciate Ih challenging realities, but also appreciate the impact report E"rerunsing Natto, , which that these realities win have on our reviewed private sector business practices, charges. This demands that the school and the Inliner Report on Coin tinon leader is free 10 set the vision and Policy. They are perceived by many in priorities for the schools putsu the core government and the educational and business of the school and. in partnership wider community as relevant to all sectors with other professionals incorpomte the of private enterprise, including the broader, non-academic management independent school sector

improvement. We need therefore to be able to plan, shape and direct desired change and resist what is undesired 11 is ,10 exagger", I " to say Inat then, ,I, re change. Perhaps that is what leadership is of schools as we know Ihe, " is in do"bt all about, in contrast to passively Like all o"r instrmiio, is. as o"r society managing imposed change

reinuents iise!I: alter is ino g""runtse of conri"nity. All our IFisti",!tolls nave to prove filemselves capable of, ,Iaki"g

For those who remain confident that what

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