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• Tuesday 07 March:  P&F Meeting AGM (via Google Meet) 6.30pm - email sent to parents/carers 01 March with a link to join the meeting).

• Friday 10 March:  Year 7 Vaccinations:  All students need parent consent completed online prior to the day of vaccination.  Full details including links are contained in a letter sent to all Parents/Carers (24 February).

• Saturday 11 March:  4.00pm-6.00pm - Class of 2017 Reunion - The Deck - staff welcome (the ex-students love to see their teachers!).

• Monday 13 March:  Year 7 Parent/Carer/Teacher Meetings.  This is an opportunity for a three-way conversation that includes your daughter.  Full details including links are contained in a letter sent to all Year 7 Parents/Carers on 24 February.

• Wednesday 15 March:  NAPLAN commences for Years 7 and 9 - (see Ms Boyd-Boland's Director of Teaching and Learning article in this issue - "Students need to arrive with a fully charged laptop and headphones".

• Wednesday 22 March - 3.30pm-6.00pm:  College Open Afternoon - For families who have applied or enrolled for 2025.

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• COLLEGE CANTEEN:  REMINDER
• Our canteen uses a cashless system so it imperative that students' have credit on their cards.  We are unable to provide service to students who do not have credit available to spend.  It is also critical students DO NOT provide their ID card and password to other students.
• For further information from the canteen and this week's specials (which is included every week) - please see the Canteen article later in this issue.

Dear Parents and Carers

I have always admired the humble cupcake for the enduring role they have played in my life.  I think they were the first thing I baked and my first experience of contributing something to a shared experience.  I probably left the kitchen covered in baking debris, but what I remember more was the joy (or the good acting) of my family.  That has continued over the years, and with their portability are often my 'turn to' contribution to a morning tea, picnic or other spontaneous moments of hospitality.  Over the years, I enjoyed seeing my own children enact the same rituals in the kitchen.  They have been powerful memories this week as the humble cupcake has been front and centre of student led activity.  Today was "Vinnies' Pride" day and cupcakes created the colours of the rainbow and the powerful messages of diversity and inclusivity.  The intake of food colouring would have been high, but the symbolism of colour is strong in the context of a rainbow.  A rainbow forms when light strikes (water).  It is a great metaphor that we need to let 'light' into our lives and into the darker places where fear, doubt and prejudice can hold us back from being, and allowing others to be their most authentic selves.  It has taken me too long to realise the truth that has underpinned many of the Pride activities in Sydney this month, including a Human Rights conference - Love who you are, choose who you love.

My other powerful cupcake revelation came through the post from a volunteer at St Canice's kitchen, where cupcakes made by our students are highly appreciated.  The love and care invested in each little morsel is so evident and carries so much more than a sugar hit.  I share with you this letter of appreciation:

"Dear Mrs Fry - What an amazing surprise to see myriad boxes of cupcakes arriving at the St Canice's coffee shop where I was serving last Thursday - dozens of them!!  I had only just been discussing with my fellow 'barista' how few buns and cakes we had that morning from leftovers from Baker's Delight. 

We were thrilled to receive them, and I wanted to pass onto you, the whole school and particularly the 'cupcake bakers' how much our 'customers' loved them.  We displayed them on trays and each cake was specially chosen - some people took two.  They (the cupcakes) were pretty, funny, colourful, cheerful and delicious (I confess I even had one - I couldn't resist).  We were so proud to tell everyone that they were made by the girls from St Vincent's College.  I pass on the thanks from the over one hundred lovely people who enjoyed them.

Thank you girls, for your thoughtfulness and the care you took in their decoration.  You brought many smiles to many faces and many warm feelings of knowing you care for others less fortunate than yourselves.  What a great school to give your girls the opportunity to give back to their community."
"...PS:  The smiling faces on some cakes were wonderful - and so were the gluten free.  So thoughtful..."

When next someone asks you what you made or are making, let your answer resound "JUST cupcakes"!

Mrs Anne Fry
Principal

It is a true privilege to witness students transform their aspiration into action.  Since the beginnings of Term 4 the 2022-2023 Student Leadership Team have spoken about their commitment to nurturing community with a focus on diversity and inclusivity.  And today was a defining moment in seeing these leaders shine as people of justice and joy.

As educators we reflect upon our purpose for education in the times in which we live and look for ways to see that realised in the context of our own communities.  Since 2021 the Gonski Institute for Education (GIE) (which sits within the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture at UNSW), is underpinned by a strategy focused on creativity, collaboration, and inclusion in order to solve real-life problems.  The GIE works across disciplines at the intersections of education with health, justice, social policy, business, and economics to address and advance educational equity.  Its interdisciplinary reach positions it uniquely to ask bold questions, challenge conventional thinking, and propose evidence-based solutions.  Their work is organised under three broad themes overseen by leading educational researchers:  

• Achieving educational excellence with equity at scale (focus: systems and policy)
• Building education communities (focus: schools and their communities)
• Realising every learner’s potential (focus: classrooms, learners and their families)

I have a particular interest in reading in the area of achieving educational excellence through the consideration of building education systems for equity and inclusion.  As educators we are asked to consider how we are creating environments and pedagogies for culturally responsive schooling.  It is vital that we create the space for authentic listening to enable this.  Our Ignatian spiritually invites us to see the goodness in all and to pause to listen, reflect and act upon the discernment that arises in this Ignatian way of proceeding.  Student voice informs us what matters to the young people we are educating and enables them to play a leadership role in being authentically responsive.

Our Year 12 Class of 2023 decided they would build upon Sydney’s current hosting of World Pride to advance their own Vinnies Pride.  They wanted a clear visual that signifies the celebration of inclusion whilst also generating an energy of joy felt when communities are at their best.

The Year 12 Student Leadership Team articulated their vision -

“Our purpose is to create a celebratory community event that recognises all diversity at Vinnies and today specifically celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. We want to celebrate this diversity and part of what makes the Vinnies community so strong.  As a Year 12 cohort, we have discussed our role as leaders in nurturing an inclusive community, particularly as leaders of Justice.  The Year 12s in each House have brought in cakes decorated in their own House colours and put them all together to make an amazing rainbow, representing all of us.  As we look forward into the year, we hope that all members of our community can feel valued and affirmed for all of who we are - our gender diversity, our cultural diversity, our country and city diversity.  We hope the rainbow cakes are a visible symbol of our commitment to justice through inclusion.”

“Today was a celebration that felt so full of Vinnies spirit … to see all Year groups mingling together, dancing around the cupcake stall, culminating in a congo line with the junior students joining in - it made us feel so proud to have created such a palpable community spirt.  It really was a visible celebration of our diversity with a genuine care for each person within this community.  We are really, really proud”.
Lucy Fraser and Summer Robinson - College Co-Captains

I am certainly grateful for the vision and hope of our senior students.

Finally, I add a prompt to ask that you be as prompt as possible in returning your daughter’s Camp and Retreat permission letters, including updating Emergency contacts, medical details and dietary requirements on Edumate to enable the safe care of your daughter.  This includes the camp venue online medical and consent forms for Years 7, 8, 10.  This is the weekend to please attend to this - permission notes are due back at school this coming Tuesday 7 March.  We very much appreciate your support to enable our organisation in the care of your daughters.

Mrs Elizabeth Brooks
Deputy Principal

Testing.  It can easily appear to dominate education as it is testing that is often picked up by the media where performance and league tables are easily reported and easily manipulated into sensational headlines. As a number of our cohorts are about to undertake testing of different forms over the coming weeks it is timely to put testing in its educational place.

One function of testing can be to offer us insights into ourselves.  This is the purpose of the Careers Testing that Year 10 will be completing on Tuesday 7 March.  It can seem quite early to be starting to think about careers; our Year 10 students have yet to reach Stage 6 and have several years of school ahead of them before they start to make choices that might direct them into different professions and vocations.  However, rather than narrow thinking this testing is designed to achieve the opposite and broaden the horizons of our students. 

The tests will provide our Year 10 students with insights into their personal preferences for relating to others and responding to situations.  It captures the kinds of problems that they have strengths in solving and helps to identify the ways in which current attributes and skills might open up career opportunities that students have yet to consider.  It is the case that ‘we don’t know what we don’t know’ and this type of test is designed to reveal possibilities that we did not know existed.  It’s the starting point for thinking that will continue throughout Years 11 and 12, and most likely well beyond formal education given that we live in a world where careers are constantly evolving and where it’s now the norm to change careers multiple times during one’s working life.

Another function of testing can be diagnostic, offering insight into students, schools or states that are in need of supportive intervention.  This was the primary purpose of NAPLAN which is often lost in the media’s efforts to use it as a ranking tool.  Testing always needs to be about the student first and foremost - they are the ones undertaking the testing after all.  NAPLAN is tracking a student’s learning progress and growth across years and stages of learning.  Even then, NAPLAN offers us a fairly narrow view of learning progress.  It measures literacy and numeracy skills, which are significant, but are not the only skills that a student is gaining and developing at school.  Therefore we need to tread a careful line, acknowledging the value NAPLAN holds and asking our students to take the test seriously and complete it to the best of their abilities.  But we also want to ensure that it is recognised as one of many lenses through which we can learn about our students, and therefore ought not to be a source of anxiety or stress for our Year 7 and 9 students.

I trust that all our students in Years 7, 9 and 10 will constructively engage with these testing experiences so that the feedback they receive in the coming months is purposeful and offers helpful insight that might inform future steps on their learning journey.

Key notes for parents of  for Years 7 and 9 students:

• Students will download the locked down browser to their devices on 7 March (Year 7) and 9 March (Year 9).  This is essential for each student to be able to access the tests.
• Students will complete practice questions during class on 8 March (Year 7) and 9 March (Year 9) so they are familiar with the navigational functions of the platform and have had recent experience of the kinds of questions they will encounter.
• Students start the NAPLAN tests on 15 March and need to arrive with a fully charged laptop and headphones.

Ms Alison Boyd-Boland
Director of Teaching and Learning

How we don’t all have a sugar headache, I do not know.  Our 'Pride Celebration' in cupcakes has just ended, and we have managed to celebrate who we are in vibrant colour.  For us at Vinnies', our celebration this week is certainly a celebration of diversity, but our celebration is firmly established in the understanding that all people are loved into being by God, all are unique and all are made in God’s image and likeness, able to love and be loved, worthy of love in its fullness.  According to John’s Gospel Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full.”  All are afforded the dignity of living in fullness, knowing themselves - who they are and who they are called to become.  Imagine if we could all be the very best of ourselves, if our gifts and uniqueness could be fully lived, fully realised and fully appreciated.  What could our world be?  If women had not been limited and belittled, beaten and denied for the past few thousand years, and all that giftedness and brain power and creativity and brilliance had been allowed to flourish, what could our world look like today?  What diseases could be cured, what injustices could be an historical study, rather than a daily experience?  Imagine if our LGBTQI+ community had always been accepted and embraced and celebrated as equally loved and desired by God, what wonders could our society behold, what joy could be deeply felt in waves across our world.  I'm just wondering. 

Night Patrol:  We have a proposal - and I want to flag it with you.  The Saturday night shift needs a team.  We are thinking we could cover it with a team of Dads and Daughters.  It might mean two Saturday nights in the year for a Dad and his daughter in Year 11 or 12.  It is a fantastic thing to do together.  Have a think about it and when it comes to signing up to a roster, we will be ready to go.  It’s easy and there are lots of people who will show you the ropes.  I love it.  It might involve some sandwich making as well, but that won’t be onerous.  I am confident that our great Vinnies' Dads and their daughters could make a real difference to the growing numbers of homeless and those really struggling in Sydney.
Save the Date:  Saturday 18 March, 4.00pm-6.00pm…Dads and Daughters.  The Fathering Project has an offer that you will not be able to refuse.  More information to come.  It will be a winner. 

The Sandwich Project is going well.  I received some very generous Woolies vouchers this week, AND, one Mum told me the story of her daughter who has just got her first job.  She is going to put a proportion of her weekly wage towards a Woolies voucher to feed the homeless, and her parents are going to supplement it.  I was really moved by that.  That’s loving creativity.  Thank you!  If you or your family would like to ‘fund a filling’ just email me a Woolies voucher kenderesj@stvincents.nsw.edu.au or have your daughter drop in a gift card.  I promise I will put the funds to good use.  We are making 180 sandwiches now for Night Patrol, and that costs about $150 each fortnight.  

I delivered 150 wet-packs to Matt Talbot on Thursday.  They were so appreciative.  If you’d like to contribute, just by a ticket on Humanitix    https://events.humanitix.com/copy-of-matt-talbot-wet-pack-support-2023 .  A $10 ticket will supply enough funds for two wet-packs - each one has tissues, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion, cotton buds, hand sanitizer, a comb, toothbrush, toothpaste and of course a razor, all in a ziplock bag.  Our Matt Talbot volunteers put them together every week.  

Mrs Jo Kenderes
Director of Faith and Mission

Double Bay Library

Rowan Kunz from Art of Smart is running two FREE workshops in March:  The first is Early Entry, Scholarships, Cadetships and Co-Op Opportunities: Wednesday 15 March 5.00pm-6.30pm.  Registrations for this event are essential using the link found here

The second is jump start your HSC:  Thursday 30 March 5.00pm-6.30pm.  Registrations for this event are essential using the link found here.

Teaching

The NSW Department of Education offers a how-to-guide to help high school students kickstart their teaching career.  Students can apply for a future teacher scholarship program which offers a range of benefits including financial incentives.  For more information use the link found here.

Macquarie University

A series of live and online seminars are being held on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 March at Macquarie University for students in Years 11 and 12.  Hear from expert HSC teachers in the following subjects:  English (Advanced and Standard), Mathematics (Advanced and Standard 2), Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Legal Studies, PDHPE and Physics.  Learn more here.

University of Sydney

Sydney College of the Arts (SCA)

Interested students and their parents are invited to take a tour of SCA’s studio facilities, workshops and labs.  Tours run on the last Thursday of each month starting at 4.00pm.  To book a tour contact sca.enquiries@sydney.edu.au .  For more information visit this site

Weekly Webinar Series

The weekly webinar series is designed to help students discover what it's like to study a Bachelor's degree at Sydney University.  These webinars are best suited for students from Years 10-12, and include tips on your school subjects, preparing for university and how to choose a course.  The series also includes faculty-specific tasters.  For more information and to register visit this site.

UNSW

UNSW Year 12 Medicine Information Evening

14 March.  UNSW’s Medicine Information Evening for current Year 12 students, will provide insight into the blend of hands-on clinical experiences and research-focused learning that you will be immersed in as a UNSW Medicine student.  Participants will also find out detailed information on the application and admissions process for 2024 entry, including special entry schemes such as Rural, Gateway and Indigenous Entry Schemes.  To find out more information and to register your interest go here.

Charles Sturt University

CSU 2023 Medicine Information Night

29 March.  Based at their Orange campus in regional NSW for two years followed by three years of rural and regional placements, the Joint Program in Medicine is offered by Charles Sturt in partnership with Western Sydney University.  Parents are also welcome.  The presentation will begin with an overview of the course and their facilities, entry requirements, key dates and how to apply.  Clinical placements, career opportunities, support services, scholarships, UCAT and more will be discussed.  Registrations are essential using the link found here.

ANU Canberra

ANU Open Day will be held on 18 March.  ANU’s Open Day is your chance to tour the campus and accommodation, learn about the academic colleges, degree programs and support services, and chat to current students about campus life and their ANU experiences.  View the program and register your interest here

ANU Tuckwell Scholarship

Apply before 12 April.  The Tuckwell program has a focus on giving back to Australia and is the only one of its kind that nurtures scholars to fulfil their broader community ambitions over and above the pursuit of an undergraduate degree.  Each year ANU award 25 scholarships which offer talented and motivated students the opportunity to realise their potential by providing financial support, personal enrichment and development opportunities.  For application details use the link found here.

Ms Helen Marshall
Careers Adviser

This Week in Jazz Band

Vinnies' is getting Jazzy!! (again...) 

As of 2023 St Vincent’s College has officially recommenced Jazz Band!  However, you may be aware that this is certainly not the first Jazz Band we have had. Unfortunately, due to the influence of the pandemic, Jazz Band came to a premature end.  With some of my fondest memories in the SVC Performing Arts realm being Jazz Band, I was determined to revive the life of jazz at St Vincent's... and .... (drum roll please, no pun intended) - it worked!

We are incredibly lucky to have such sensational musicians in our student body and beyond dedicated Performing Arts staff who have reshaped the group, reintroducing Jazz to the College and replenishing aspects of 'life lost' in Covid.  We rehearse every Tuesday and explore different pieces, developing personal and ensemble skills which are so important to develop, to replenish some long-lasting lockdown effects and continue the tradition of Jazz.  We hope to be performing some very fun, jazzy tunes we all know and love, reminding us of the love of music at Vinnies’ - especially a love of Jazz.

Hannah Singh, Year 11

Catholic Schools Public Speaking Competition

Tonight, eight of our talented students will represent the College in the first round of the Catholic Schools Public Speaking Competition held at Waverley College.  This is a knockout style competition that is held over the next three Friday evenings.  Ava, Ella, Charlotte, Katja, Taylor, Joanna, Lily and Chelsea along with Ms Brien, have been working hard writing speeches and rehearsing them in preparation for tonight’s event.

Thank you Ms Brien and best of luck to our St Vincent’s team.

If you have any questions regarding co-curricular activities, please email peoplesb@stvincents.nsw.edu.au

Ms Belinda Peoples
Co-Curricular Co-Ordinator

Co-ordinator of Sport:  Ms Jacinta Jacobs:  0418 416 663 jacobsj@stvincents.nsw.edu.au

Head of Volleyball and Touch:  Ms Elyse Harmanis - 0434 610 870 elyse.harmanis@stvincents.nsw.edu.au 
Head of Water Polo:  Ms Jacinta Jacobs - 0418 416 663
Head of Tennis:  Ms Tonya Hetreles - 0411 984 352

Website:   www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au/learning/sport

For all draw and venue information go to:   www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au/sport/weekly-sports-draw/

IGSA Spawtz:  https://igsasport.spawtz.com/  

TERM 1 SPORT

Congratulations to all teams on some great games last weekend. Many played in very hot conditions but we all still kept our cool!  We had lots of great photos of DADS IN SPORT which was fantastic! 

(Photo below:  Dads in Sport at Volleyball.  See more photos straight after this Sport and Health Report article).

Please make sure that you always check the College website for any sport information or email your head coach.  If you are going to miss a training session or a game for any reason - you must email at least one week in advance so that substitutions can be found if needed.  All players are expected to be at all training sessions and all matches, to be eligible for a Pocket Authority if the team ends up winning the Premiership.  Attendance will be marked at each session and demerits given for those who have not notified us of their absence.

Winter Sport Registrations are open on the College website front page.  If you wish to play IGSA Netball, IGSA Basketball, IGSA Soccer or IGSA Hockey, you must register before Friday 10 March.  These sports run for Terms 2 and 3, and once you have registered this is for both terms, although there may be slight team and grade changes in Term 3.

IGSA Tennis

All tennis teams have had a strong start to the season and we are looking forward to seeing some more great matches this weekend.  It was great to see some Dads enjoying the matches on the weekend for Dads in Sport Day!

The Tildesley Tennis Squad is training hard for the prestigious Inter-Schools Competition which is being held at Pennant Hills next week on Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 March.  We had some great lunchtime matches this week with some staff challenging our players for practice.  Thank you to Mr Azzopardi, Mr Schroeder, Ms Parish, Mr Milenovic and our coaches Tonya, Elyse and Matija, who all gave our players a good run!  Best of luck to all our players, hope you have a great tournament!

below:  Lunchtime tennis practice with staff

IGSA Training Times

SVC 1 - Thursday Mornings  7.15am-8.15am

SVC 2 - Wednesday Afternoons  3.15pm-4.15pm

SVC 8 - Thursday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 3 - Thursday Mornings  7.15am-8.15am

SVC 4 - Wednesday Afternoons  3.15pm-4.15pm

SVC 5 - Friday Mornings  7.15am-8.15am

SVC 6 and SVC 7 - Friday Mornings  7.15am-8.15am

Any problems or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Ms Tonya Herteles
Head Tennis Coach   tonyahetreles910@outlook.com  Mobile: 0411 984 352

IGSA Water Polo

All teams who played last weekend should be very proud of their efforts.  We had several very hard games but everyone still played with good Vinnies' spirit!  Thanks to all spectators who have been coming to support our games.  It was especially nice to see so many Dads at the games last Saturday for Dads in Sport Day!  Please make sure you are arriving at your venue 30 minutes before start time for warm up, as some teams have been short at the start.

Training Times:

SVC 1 - Tuesday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 2 - Tuesday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 3 - Friday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 4 - Friday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

JUNIORS

SVC 5 - Wednesday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 6 - Monday Afternoons 3.15pm-4.15pm

SVC 7 - Thursday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 8 - Thursday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.   

Ms Jacinta Jacobs
Head Water Polo Coach  jacobsj@svincents.nsw.edu.au 
Sport Co-Ordinator

Easts Touch

Congratulations to all players who played last weekend, we had some great matches and some great wins, even in the heat!  We are hoping to finally get the matches at Reservoir Fields players this weekend, as long as there is no overnight rain.

All Seniors are reminded that they are still expected to be at training even if they have a study Period 6, and are not allowed to go home.  Training starts at 3.30pm at Rushcutters Bay but many are taking too long to get down there.  Please make sure you all have the correct sport uniform and shoes on - sneakers or boots, no school shoes or tights!  Demerits will be given for any breaches to College Rules.

Training Times

SVC 16-SVC 20:  Thursday Afternoons 3.15pm-4.30pm

SVC 9-SVC 15:  Wednesday Afternoon 3.15pm-4.30pm

SVC 1 and SVC 2:  Wednesday Mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 3-SVC 8:  Monday Afternoons 3.15pm-4.30pm

Good luck to all teams for their games.  Any problems or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me on the details below.  

Santa Sabina Volleyball

All seven volleyball teams had some great games last weekend, even in the very warm conditions.  Please make sure you always have a hat, sunscreen and water bottle with you at all matches.  Training is going well and volleyball has the best attendance so far, so keep up the good work.  It was nice to see a few Dads at Volleyball and helping their daughters warm up.

Please help any Boarders in your team with transport on Saturday mornings.  This needs to be organised at training sessions and if there are any problems please contact Elyse before Thursday, so that we can sort it out before the weekend.

Good luck to all teams for this weekend.  Any problems or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me on the details below.

Training Times

Juniors (Years 7, 8 and 9):  Tuesday afternoons

Seniors (Years 10, 11 and 12):  Tuesday mornings

Ms Elyse Harmanis
Head Touch and Volleyball Coach   elyse.harmanis@stvincents.nsw.edu.au  Mobile: 0434 610 870 

IGSA Swimming

The IGSA Carnival is being held at Homebush Aquatic Centre on 17 March and more information has been sent to all squad members today.  There will be a meeting and relay practice session at lunchtime on Tuesday 7 and 14 March, at the pool.  All swimmers must attend!  Please return Permission Notes AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  If you need a hard copy, please see Ms Jacobs.

Cross Country/Fitness Training

Training has commenced for cross country and is held on Monday and Wednesday afternoons with Tash from 3.15pm-4.30pm.  This is a great way to improve your general fitness or to train for the upcoming IGSA Cross Country Carnival being held at Frensham on12 May.  The girls meet outside the change rooms and then Tash will take them to either Rushcutters Bay or around the College and Woolloomooloo area.  You will be back at the College by 4.30pm.  

You can do one or both sessions, and if you are already training outside of school but wish to be in the cross country team please email Ms Jacobs.

TERMS 2 and 3 SPORT REGISTRATIONS

Winter Sport Registrations are open on the College website front page.  If you wish to play IGSA Netball, IGSA Basketball, IGSA Soccer or IGSA Hockey you must register before Friday 10 March.  These sports run for Terms 2 and 3 and once you are registered, this is for both terms, although there may be slight team and grade changes in Term 3.  Please check your co-curricular commitments and do not register if you cannot train and play every week.

Trials will be held in Weeks 7 and 8 this term.  All players must attend the trials or email Ms Jacobs if they cannot attend due to medical reasons.  Please put these dates in your diaries.

NETBALL TRIALS - College Courts

Senior Trials - Years 10, 11 and 12:  Wednesday 15 March 3:15pm-4:30pm

Junior Trials - Years 8 and 9:  Thursday 16 March 3:15pm-4:30pm

Year 7 Trials:  Monday 20 March 3:15pm-4:30pm

SOCCER TRIALS - Rushcutters Bay

Senior and Juniors (if invited) Trials - Years 10, 11 and 12:  Monday 20 March 3.15pm-4.45pm.

Junior Trials - Years 7, 8 and 9:  Thursday 16 March 3.15pm-4.45pm.

BASKETBALL TRIALS - College Courts

Trials for all Years:  Thursday 23 March 3:15pm-4:45pm

HOCKEY TRIALS - UNSW David Phillips Fields

Trials for all Years:  Wednesday 15 March -  Bus leaves 3:15pm and arrives back to the College at 5:30pm or you can be picked up from the venue.

PLEASE WEAR YOUR PE UNIFORM and Sport shoes and bring all necessary equipment.  You must email Ms Jacobs if you cannot make your trial for any reason, but try to go to the other date if possible. 

SPORTS STARS OF THE WEEK

This section is to make the College community aware of some of the exceptional athletes we have in the College.  If your daughter has represented her state or country recently in her chosen Sport, please send us any results, photos or blurbs on her performance to jacobsj@stvincents.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to Siara Ortolani (Year 12) who placed second in the Senior Girls 2000m Skull at the IGSA Rowing Regatta at Penrith last weekend.

Congratulations to Niamh Mackenzie (Year 10) who competed at the NSW Junior Track and Field Championships on the weekend.  She jumped a PB of 1.6m in the high jump to get a silver medal and qualified for the National Championship in Brisbane in April.  Her jump height has also qualified her for next year too.  A few weeks ago Niamh travelled to Canberra where she also won the ACT under 20's high jump title.  Well done, Niamh! 

Ms Jacinta Jacobs
Co-ordinator of Sport

Winter uniform items are now available in the College Uniform Shop for purchase in readiness for Term 2. 

Juliet and the Noone Staff

Ph: (02) 8324 6622    SVC@noone.com.au 

Monday and Friday 8.00am-2.00pm.

Wednesday 12.00pm-5.00pm.

TERM 1 2023 Student Card Information  

Students MUST bring their Student Card with them when purchasing from the canteen.  NO CARD/NO PURCHASE. 

• Our canteen uses a cashless system so it imperative that students' have credit on their cards.  We are unable to provide service to students who do not have credit available to spend. 
• You need to refill money onto your card AT LEAST ONE HOUR BEFORE you intend to use the card (as it takes one hour to generate funds onto the card).
• It is also critical students DO NOT provide their ID card and password to other students.
• ONLINE ORDERING is also available.
• GLUTEN FREE products are available - only when purchased through online ordering. 

TO ORDER A NEW STUDENT ID CARD please click the link HERE .  Please note that students MUST use their College login to sign into the form.

View CANTEEN MENU SPECIALS for Monday 06-10 March 2023 .

We would like to extend a warm invitation for you to join the Parents & Friends Association.  We are dedicated to creating a supportive and collaborative community for families and friends of the College.  By joining, you will have the opportunity to connect with other parents, be involved in College events and contribute to creating a positive school environment for our children.  We believe that by working together we can make a real difference in the lives of our children and the College community.  Please consider joining us and be a part of making a positive impact. 

If you are interested please email:   community@stvincents.nsw.edu.au

P&F Meeting dates:

07 March - AGM  (via Google Meet) - email sent to parents/carers 02 March with link to join the meeting)

23 May 

22 August 

October TBC

Click on the flyer below or HERE .