Vicki Clark

On Wednesday the seventh of November Vicki Clark from the Aboriginal Catholic ministry dropped on by to Christian Brothers’ College St Kilda in the year 9 campus to present the proud race project. Vicky laid down her opinion on national sorry day and explained what it meant to be an Indigenous Australian.

A clever idea from the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Victoria in enabling Catholic schools to celebrate local indigenous people and their stories. Proud race is the unique initiative, capturing the attention of school community across Australia.

Since proud race was launched in June almost 200 schools have signed up to take part in the program including Christian Brothers’ College St Kilda. The proud race concept will enable each school to record and celebrate the stories of indigenous Australians on life-size bollards which will be exhibited in venues throughout Australia.

This initiative is hoping to skyrocket through schools around Australia and promote the idea of not only what it means to be an Indigenous Australian but to get recognised for the great they have accomplished.

Proud race empowers communities to participate in keeping the spirit alive of the “I feel proud today” campaign, to commemorate the national apology delivered by former Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Kevin Rudd.

The aim for 2012 is to have over 1,000 bollards placed in venues right around Australia, each one telling a story of a member of a ‘proud race’. It is the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Victoria’s hope that the Proud Race program will grow as the bollards are added to each year to commemorate National Apology Day.

 

http://www.cam.org.au/acmv/Proud-Race.aspx

Local Languages

Local Languages:

The local Aboriginal language should be taught in schools all over Australia.

There are more than 200 Australian Indigenous languages. Less than 20 languages are strong, and even these are endangered. The others have been destroyed.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the teaching of Indigenous languages in government, Catholic & independent schools. In 2005, when 133 languages were taught in schools, 45 were Indigenous languages. So why should we stop now?.

Melbourne do not seem to be doing much about the indigenous work even though they have indigenous people living there.

How dare we cover up a language and culture that we have no authority over. Australians need to respect, and see the bigger picture when it comes to this great land. They were here first and their here now and we must respect and not sweep the indigenous culture under the rug.

Australians need to know about their own country’s history as if we do not generations to come will start asking questions that we will not have the answer too. In schools teachers teach other languages such as Italian so why not our own.

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Indigenous-Australia

Sin Radio (90.6)

The boys from Christian Brothers’ College have been heading into the city through a subject called Front Page News. Front Page News is a class all about journalism. The city experience isn’t to go to the movies or go hanging out in the city but to a radio station called Sin Radio (90.6). Sin Radio gives the boys an opportunity to let their voice be heard to raise topics that don’t seem to be heard and let them express themselves. Sin radio is designed for students of all sorts to come in. The radio station gives the boys the motivation, confidence and self-belief of talking to an audience.

 The boys got split up into about a group of four. Each week a new group of boys got to experience the radio station and express themselves. But it is not as easy as you might think. It takes a lot of planning from writing a script of what you are going to talk about to choosing the music. You got to get the times right on track as you only get an hour minute to minute second to second. There are a few things to look out for such as keeping approximately a palm away from the microphone, not reading directly off the script, not laughing to loud, not interrupting a person when talking, no shout outs and not to move the microphone as it makes a terrible sound.  

The Social

The year 9 boys from Christian brothers’ college interacted with the girls from Presentation college Windsor in an event called the Social on Friday the 2^nd of November. The social was an event set up by the PCW girls to get both year levels to interact with one another, and have a great time. There was dancing and a lot of socialising there were a lot of different songs which meant a lot of unique dances such as the gangnam style dance. It was a hit for both the schools and something to be remembered for a life time. The social was an interesting, unique and a successful great event.

Cafe' Balaclava

Once again, a new group of students have been selected for Café Balaclava and have made some great meals again!

From chicken snitchels to ice cream food cannot get any better.

The first week, the group made pasta, brownies and milk shakes. The milkshakes were perfect, as were the brownies. Judging by all the comments, the pasta was prepared to perfection.

The next week, Café Balaclava made chicken parmigiana, fried rice, orange slushies, chocolate ice-cream in a cup and lamington. The chicken parmigiana was a little undercooked, but despite this, many students had taken the risk of contracting salmonella and ate the chicken which they said tasted very nice. The fried rice was under salted, however the chicken was prepared perfectly and the vegetables complimented the dish perfectly. The orange slushy was very well made, many had descried it as a 7-11 slurpy and the crushed ice was greatly adored by the tiered students eager for refreshment. It is evident that their chocolate ice-cream was home brand, yet it did not stop any students in eating and greatly enjoying it. The lamington was very sweet, making it an absolute pleasure to eat.

The third week of Café Balaclava, the students made Teriyaki Chicken wraps, orange juice, milkshakes and brownies. The Teriyaki Chicken smelt as though it had been made in a restaurant, it was precisely salted and the vegetables were yet another bonus. The drinks group made the most tasteful orange juice many had tasted, despite all the pulp. The milk shakes were an absolute delight to drink and were very refreshing. The brownies were soft and had been made very well; however, they did not beat the brownies made by the first group this year.

The most recent Café Balaclava dishes were: “The Lot” burger, Malteser muffins, strawberry smoothies and potato chips. All the dishes looked great and were very tasty and not to mention very refreshing. The burger was great but cooled down very quickly and that was the only down side to that. The malteser muffins tasted great; in fact it was one of the best desserts that the café Balaclava team have created. The strawberry smoothies tasted great and were very refreshing and the potato chips were good but a little soggy and they cooled down really fast. The café Balaclava team did great and finished the term strong.

The new Café Balaclava team has put a lot of effort into preparing the food and have created a beautiful impression of all the staff and students in the Balaclava campus all on a plate!!!

Fit for life artical

Last Thursday a class from Christian brothers’ college in year 9 Ryan went on two separate bike rides, one was the higher ability group and the other the lower riding abilities group. Mr Edwards and Mr Owens two teach from the school took the higher ability groups, and rode from CBC to the out skirts of Port Melbourne then right down to Elwood beach and back to School. The ride took 1 hour and 10 minutes and was approximately 22 kilometres.  The group with the lower ability were taken by Mr Williams and an emergency teacher.  The group rode from CBC to Brighton Beach then back to CBC.  All the students enjoyed the experience and had a lot of fun riding together and being active.

The Tasmanian Devil

Today the devil is a Tasmanian icon. The Tasmanian Devil seemingly headed for extinction, But the population gradually increased after they were protected by law. They were particularly common in forest, woodland and farming areas of northern, eastern and central Tasmania.

These numbers have dropped since the Devil was introduced to a fatal Facial Tumour Disease. The condition in Tasmanian devils, characterised by cancers around the mouth and head.

Today the devils are being introduced to a new area of living and breeding, as Australia hopes to protect their native iconic animal from extinction in a place called Maria Island, Tasmania.

In a behavioural test designed to find out whether Tasmanian Devils are suitable to be sent to Maria island, the devils are first being tested in such ways such as with tourists e.g. cameras and reflections. What happens next will determine if the animals are suitable to be released into the wild on Maria Island and hopefully determine the solution in saving our own iconic animal from extinction in our own backyard.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3619585.htm