Grammar Gazette- Issue 1, 1996

Schoo news Anzac Day remembrance Inaugural Chinese s'ster school visit

Jenny MacGillivray

mire uus defoyed gad we were Ihe

On Wednesday the 24th or last """ to IC""e Aria"e bet"gran at Aprll, during the weekly assembly, Nor O", POS, "hen ,he mines @" Girls' Grammar held an Aumc Day "Walkers Ridge " ,JPfoded. This assembly in the MeCrae Grassie c"", ed ,he "harem4w"CF" to fire Sports Complex Me 61, "s and needless to say we The ceremony involved some were"', 10"g gal"'"g off ,,, e mark wonderrul music, listening to the "do"b""g" all Ihe way to fond, hg erperiences of a re"I ANZAC pier a"d being Jus, abo", forI in" through the diary or Lieutenant when we 80,101heligh, CF. P","bon, d James Joseph Creatorex, the Ihe "PrinceAbb", y, tnnghte, . MCI grandralher of Mr Barry Harry Pearso" who g""e me milled Creatorex, the manger Dr. he Girls' bon, b cockeeps"*e. Ant, edum"@s Crinumar sports con Iex, as well ab@", 9:30 cm gad dire", b@r*ed in us a drum", it presentstion by senior ,he qfte, "@@, L Tineid, Aria"c, ado students 4:40 am in keeping with tradition, The "Creatorex said wished to Last Post and Reveille were ptsyed. conduct his address at a rairly These pieces were performed on personal level and to direct i at Ih trumpet by Menssa Hickey, a students' This was because he has student in year eleven. Although memories or when he was young she was nervous, Me"55a said she and he was only reminded or the was "proud to be chosen to PIny in hardships rather than having thei memory of all those who fought for personal impart explained in school form or a dramatic resentstion Fo"owing a minute's silence Mr Their pertormance was a credit to Gnato. *x took the stage and read the macs and to the poem itself an excerpt from Its grandfather's Another poem was read out by diary. Described by his grandson, a year twelve student, Sophie Lieutenant James Joseph Pearson. This poem was written by Creatorex was a quiet, private man Lieutenant James Joseph who had "a fairly hard up bingi"g Creatorex, and was "Dedicated to in the country". He always lived E. Weston. 4th Light Horse around the Snowy Mountsins or Regiment, died of wounds" the Victoria" Alps until he married, Overalltheassembly wasahuge when he then moved to Melbourne success, both in commemorating and bull up a family business An the Ariaacs and in holding its account from Lieutenant audience captive 'When you can Creatorex's diary follows hear a pin drop, Iknewlhad them, " 2000"Joys:to, "tyh, @" said Mr Creatorexin response to onlyo, , R"her mying time lines his audience's readion PC, 7 rye"* e",, y"*," cad e, cryb@dy mumqj6riiyorstud", Ismul re, y manh 001he alertb", cue, 71hi"g cerium, y in" espeda"y tire poem, pus, ed oralrtght etcep, Ib, on on rery sad and muchig. of"score early mrhe ", ght Un^N@ dying mumobvh. . ", eagerribly k" O", POS, in something of h",, y. ale a*"o1 with tielthk mmruts or Thin"gh some ,re"61e wi, h tire mac errs^ 0111/5, ^,,,, 15 SHOP 59 JRnjt, . !At, 'lid, f$ '11 tip!g '14/1rlt THE WER CENTRE. BRISBANE. QLD 4000 The Friends of Girls' Grammar thank he Pen Shoppe for its generous support weree, an Each student stays with a What do tomets you have to pay for. pungent metro stationus. bomb ramily whose son or daughter proof garbage cans and mailboxes attends Lycee Saint- aul After the group leaves have in common? The answer is these are items you would have Ameouleme, the next destination experienced on the 1995/1996 is Paris. This visit to Paris Brisbane Girls' Grammar tour to includes tours to the Curiei Tower, Louvre Mus*un and France On the 31st December 1995 shopping un the Champs-Elysee fourteen students orBrisbane Girls' These are just a leg events Grammar school arrived in included on the itinerary IVith Ihirty days spent in Amenuleme, France. Angoulen, e, a oman town in the rin"leipalits. or France, sinde"15 return with Charente. is the home of Lycee both a wider comprehensive Saint-Pa"I, Grammar's sister French vocabulary and a greater school in France. This trip is jus, knowledge or a country other one of many exchanges which have than Australia This e, perlence is worthwhile transpired over many years between Grammar and Lycee and rewarding and should be enjoyed by all. This tour is on once Saint-Panl Tints tour to France is designed more \n the coming Christmas to enhance the students knowledge break. Details or this trip will be or the French language and French culture This happens very readily distributed shortly. For any queries as students are immersed in the seeMrsThomquist. HeadofLOTE SUBanna Siegal language and cull"re 10r thirty days Furthering French friendships

^.@,

their country. " in response to To close this spedal assembly, Meltsa's pinying, Miss Wil"airs, four sondents pertormed a poem. Deputy Principal, said it was great caned "A New England Far, August to see ", he capacity or young women 1914' by Les A. M"rray, in the AMSi, alto, , $114de, 11$. Je",,!fer Abenierh}, a, ,d Pill. 11^^ I'd". I',, ", I E, ,glisli class I, Jinia

hour and a half bus ride 10 gel 10 world school on lime. each ritember of Ihe

Jennifer Atomethy

The group also visited The Grand

On Mareh 31 seven students and group had many differentand personal View Gardens. based upon and a Iwo teachers leti Brisbane for IWC aspecis o1 Chinese culture brought reconsiruciion or a very famous weeksin Shanghai. whereihey slayed home to them ancient Chinese story. Dreams of the with host families and aliended the During Ihe slay the 51udent\ were Red Chamber. The YU Yuan Garden Shangha' No. 3 MiddleGirls' School. also given the OPPoritinity 10 which was built in 1554 and covered The group consisted o1 four year participate In variousle*stink at\chool. Iwo heelares. as well as a two day trip Iwelves. Cainona MCDonalcL May ranging rrom Chinese. Engli h and 10 Hwangzhou to visit a lake 10 which Nakajiina. Phyllis Chain and Iennirer mathematic< 10 flower armn"cineni. poets have come ror over a thousand Ahemethy. I year elevens. Yam calligmphy and phy ical education year\ to write preiry heng. Leah Kirinon and Emma Participaii"g in Ihe e re on Although Ihe. e outings were Hunchison. and Iw0 51n members. allowed the students to interact with arranged by the host school. Ihe host Mr us, in ham and Mr Lorraine Ihe Chine. e student and teachers' famines also organised many o1her Thornquis, furthering their underglanding or visits on afternoons and weekends This group was the n I tour froin Chtna. The Groinni r SIudeni< were The studenis weni to a n, ovie. Ihe 00 Brisbane Girls' Groinmar School 10 also lible to 11nprove Ihe Chinese and shopping. They were a so embark on a hosi family slay In $1udents understanding and honoured wiih vigils 10 Mallves and Shanghai knowledge of bo, h Binban Girl<' friends of Ihe host families. us weI as During, he two weeksihe culture Grimmar School and Australia. The stent-seeing in neighbouring country and ways o China and it people students anewered and aeked town town were shown in a remarkable hand. - questions. sung AUSiralian songs and Being in SITanghai for two weeks o11 and ironi Ihe instde approach laughi Ihe Chinese students vanou< Ih \Iudents were able to jam and As pad o a Shan hai family for AUSirali"n dances and games discover niany of the differences two weeks. the students we able 10 While vi\iiing Shanghai the belween AUSimlia and China. This *har experience o which studenis were able 10 vi

On Friday. 17 May. IWC year ninc classes went back in time 10 Ihe Middle Ages with Ihcir teach er*. Mrs Shayne Fo"erty and MISS All\on Dare De pile " few urinehroniqm such as Grammar uniforms and a maihs clanssroom aciing as a Great Hull. the scene look xi us if ii were siraighi o. 11 tit a his 10r\ Iexiboo* The alitrnoon be an wiih the jester who cried "W ICUme to Ihc banquei"'. Menalling for both Ihe e"ling and Ihe aci. 10 begin Anerday* of PNPamiion. acrobat pertomted gymnastic reins. the noble ladles and Ihe nionk showed off their linery. the thenIre company re*maded a witch trial. andihe quartet redomiud the ever popular Greensle, ,ves The riflemcron was noi the same as learning in a classroom. but it was a wonhwhile and enier"ining experi ence us the 31udenis 801 to be of his lory for an hour. in was an excelleni way 10 conclude and look back on all we had Iconed in the unit of study in And a fine time was had by all Shannon Tow

R@che Olive, ,lakes aji"e courtjesrer PhD, o8r@ph Skay, ,e Fogerq: Medieval Europe

Page 2 GRAMMAR GAZ E, Term 21996