Bulletin

Wednesday 28-Friday 30 April:  Year 7 Camp - The Tops.

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Friday 07 May:  6.30pm-10.30pm.  Mother Daughter Dinner - link to book. 

For any specific inquiries please direct them by email to:  community@stvincentscollege.nsw.edu.au

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Please see the Sport and Health Report article in this issue for training and competition dates/results. 
Information is also on the College website in Sport

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REMINDER:  All students must have a valid OPAL card to travel on buses and trains.

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Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome back to Term 2, and a special welcome to our new students, families and teachers.  It was a very busy week that started with our staff on Monday.  Our professional learning day was presented by Dr Judith Locke who many of you enjoyed engaging with via Zoom last year.  Her area of expertise is developing confident and capable young people, and she worked with our staff around strategies that build resilience.  As I sat enjoying her very engaging manner, I was encouraged to try to arrange a time for her to present again to parents, this time in person.  She regularly writes columns for the media and she posts these to her Linkedin account.  I think many of you would enjoy reading her insights into the current challenges of parenting.

The return of the students on Tuesday brought back to the campus the energy and sound-track that we missed during the holidays.  Empty schools are always forlornly silent and only appreciated by the neighbours.  To me, the place seems much more alive with the sounds of conversation, laughter, bells, the calls of Mr Hekeik to "move to class"!  Most of the students looked as if they genuinely had made an effort with their uniforms over the holidays but unfortunately, there have been other students who have made poor choices.  In particular, could I ask parents to check the length of their daughter's skirts so they pass the "overhead stretch test"!  After this first week of leniency we will soon be sending students home to have their skirts altered, which will be inconvenient and totally unnecessary (if preventative action is taken).

On Wednesday, the College Assembly time had the theme of commemoration - religious, civic and personal commemorations from the seasons of our lives.  We commemorated Easter and then through powerful prayer, histography, story and ritual, commemorated ANZAC Day.  This year we have been able to return to public celebration and our students and staff gathered with great reverence to commemorate.  My particular thanks to Ms Parish, Mrs Kenderes, the Extension History class, our bugler Freya McGrath (Year 10) and all who made this a wonderful experience.  Our final commemoration was for Mr Brian Mudford, who died last week.  We remembered him as a loved husband, father, brother, son, man of the land and friend.  Commemoration is very different to celebration, and it is in our remembering that we keep alive our sacred, national and personally treasured connection to those who have shaped us.

Lest we Forget.

Yours sincerely

Anne Fry
Principal 

The College community offers its condolences to the following who have lost a loved one recently:

Jemima Hutchinson (Year 12) and Maggie Hutchinson (Year 9) - Beloved Grandmother - and Grandfather earlier in the year.

Matilda Gallagher (Year 8), Georgia Gallagher (Year 11), Charlotte Gallagher (Class of 2020) - Beloved Grandfather.

Chloe Mudford (Year 9) and Alison Mudford (Year 7) - Beloved Father.

Alyrah Harriott (Year 8) - Beloved Grandmother.

May they rest in peace.

Welcome back to Term 2.  It is always a delight to listen to the reunions and catch-ups of students and staff after a holiday break, and this time it has been blessed with interstate reunions of extended families and trips to favourite country and coastal holiday spots.  And if not - our beautiful city continued to shine and give the replenishing rest that recharges in readiness for the routines and committed work of school.

Staff returned to a day of professional learning.  Our 2021 College Goal is to create and respond generously to opportunities to learn and grow.  We have set ourselves the goal to optimise learning through developing a shared understanding of expectations, behaviours and responsibilities.  In so doing, we seek to shape a culture of owing responsibilities - students, staff, and parents, recognising the impact we each have on student learning and growth.

Our guest facilitator for the day was Dr Judith Locke (Director of Confident and Capable®), clinical psychologist, former teacher, school counsellor and workplace trainer.  Many of you were able to participate in Judith’s online Parent Seminar and have commented on the helpful tools of trade that strengthen our parenting of adolescents.  Judith’s second book has been released - The Bonsai Student - which focuses on how to encourage a student's confidence and capability in their schoolwork so they become motivated and responsible at school and ready for the years that follow.  This was the focus of our staff workshop as we recognise our partnership with you as the primary educators of your child and with our shared goal to provide opportunities for students to adopt self-determined responsibility and agency for their learning, and the tools to navigate problem-solving and achieve realistic goals of purposefulness and fulfilment.

Judith reminded us of the need to offer adolescents high but not extreme Responsiveness (support, care, affection) and to increase our Demandingness (demanding maturity, consistent consequence, constructive criticism) to enable growth.  Praise is to be earned and proportionate to encourage adolescents to become their own measurer of achievement.  By continuing in open and honest dialogue with you as parents and carers we enable a partnership that is understood and consistent for students.  Judith’s research signifies that over-parenting by parents and educators can in fact result in poor life skills with reduced resilience, increased experiences of anxiety and perfectionism, narcissism or a sense of entitlement or risk taking behaviours.

The process of learning (at schooling and home) offers opportunity to develop essential skills:

1. Resilience - ability to cope with difficulty

2. Self-regulation - ability to forego current pleasure for future gain

3. Resourcefulness - ability to cope in the moment/pivot initiative to improve

4. Respect for others - not just focus on self

5. Responsibility - wanting to contribute to the community.

Teachers will continue to refine the methodologies for learning and the processes for instilling and following up student responsibilities at school so that we enhance students’ capacity to grow towards being the confident and capable adolescents they aspire to be.  We will seek to build the scaffolding for student learning, then slowly dismantle so students can build for themselves and learn to manage difficulty through thinking through complexity.  Naturally our knowledge of individual student learning needs and adolescent developmental capabilities informs this process.

When a student experiences difficulty in her learning, we will seek to identify the area of opportunity in the child that allows them to form the character traits to manage.

As we start the new term, may I also ask for your support in pushing back on a few behaviours that we see at school and thus support us in our consistency of responsibility and high expectation.  This includes your insistence on adhering to the school uniform policy, not messaging or replying to your daughter via mobile phone or social media during the school hours and not coming to the school to deliver items or pick up your daughter unless called by the school.  We are skilled in supporting your daughter’s wellbeing if distressed and better still - supporting her to navigate her ability to cope and recover.

It is a challenging but privileged role we play as educators.  Our youth are full of capability and we look for ways that instil belief in their capabilities. 

Mrs Elizabeth Brooks
Deputy Principal

Wednesday’s College Assembly, our first for the term, served also as our commemoration ceremony for Anzac Day.  It was a poignant reminder of the human sacrifice brave Australian and New Zealand men and women have made in serving and fighting for the freedom of others. In our year of Generosity of Spirit, the ANZAC story reminds us of the ultimate and selfless act of generosity - fighting for the right for others to live freely and without persecution. I had the privilege of commemorating with the Year 12 cohort and I would like to commend them on their poise and reverence.  Despite the sun beams and April wind-chill factor, the girls rose to the occasion stoically and I was indeed moved by their decorum, when the wreath was finally laid at our SVC memorial, on Garcia lawn.  Our colleague Ms Kate Parish, Head of History, narrated the commemoration and as I listened to the testimonials, I was reminded that despite Gallipoli going down in the history annals as one of the biggest amphibious military blunders, much learning, courage and perseverance from the ANZAC troops and their commanders enabled Gallipoli to in some ways be viewed as a success in courage and perseverance. Gallipoli built the reputation of an emerging nation - a new country with no self-identity to become identifiable as a resilient, rugged and resourceful country, with a self-image and nationalist pride to be envied by the rest of the world.

Over the last few of my Bulletin articles, I have been reminding our learning community that as we continue to inform, transform and empower our flourishing learning culture, it is important to remember and celebrate the wellbeing and learning frameworks that engage our Vinnies girls to be resilient and courageous in their learning. Taking setbacks on board, making mistakes and then turning failures into success stories are all part of the Vinnies spirit.  At SVC, academic excellence and academic care go hand in hand. In supporting our girls to reach their fullest potential in this rapidly changing world, we need to allow them to make bold choices, challenge assumptions and take responsibility for seeking new insights.  One pragmatic way in which we are encouraging our students to challenge assumptions and take responsibility for seeking new insights, is in our dynamically evolving reflective learning practice.  My colleagues - the academic team (Heads of Departments) have been collaborating to improve the ways in which our students respond to feedback on their summative assessment activities from Year 8 to Year 12, with Year 7 very soon to experience the model. Across the departments, teachers are finding new methods on the traditional ways we give feedback. What we have begun trialling is a way to encourage students to truly engage in the marking rubrics and criteria first before diving to the mark.  We are finding that in this new way of engaging with teacher feedback, students are gaining a much more robust understanding of where they are in their mastery of their curriculum.  This reflective learning practice provides students with the ability to think as a marker and therefore respect the intricacies of the marking criteria.  In doing so, we are finding that the students are gaining deeper insights of their learning outcomes - the ones which ones they have mastery over and which ones are still under development. Armed with the teachers detailed feedback about how to keep extending the skills they have mastery over and how to address the skills needing further development and consolidation, the mark reveal then further informs this detailed advice, rather than the mark being the primary focus for the student. Students are growing confidence in the ‘power’ of understanding feedback to grow their learning.  I invite you to have a conversation with your daughter about how she is finding our student-centred feedback approach.

As Mrs Fry mentioned in her article, this way forward in our reflective learning culture, further supports the wisdom of Dr Judith Locke.  As a community we all want nothing more than to support and encourage our young women to be the very best versions of themselves, but first, we must develop them into confident and capable young women.  Our flourishing, reflective learning culture is ambitious, yet achievable. Ultimately, our courageous women of action will be resilient, self-regulated, resourceful, respectful and responsible lifelong learners, if they are given ample practice in these attributes whilst in adolescence. 

Mrs Jasmin Mano
Director of Teaching and Learning

So much has happened. 

The Ponytail Project last term had the potential to have many of our students create a new direction in hair art in the Eastern Suburbs - the short, blunt and hopelessly crooked.  But no. Concern about short term dodgy bobs disappears when we note that not only was a HUGE box of locks sent off to be made into wigs to support the dignity of those in treatment for cancer, but a whopping $41,930 was raised for the Cancer Council efforts in research and treatment.  Charlotte Patchett and her supporters have done an incredible job.  This will change lives.

Year 12 Retreat went ahead.  Thank God!  The ‘content’ of the retreat was vastly different from previous years.  The theme, “What Really Matters” was presented to retreatants as a question that they might seek to answer for themselves in this time and place.  It was presented as a beginning for contemplation.  It was also presented as an exclamation that tied into personal journey, situation, identity, family, desires and longings.  We considered ideas around trust and relationships.  Our two guest presenters were extraordinary.  Fr Ramesh Richards SJ spent the day with us, sharing ideas about what you do when what really matters to you clashes with what really matters to people whom you love and respect.  Ramesh presided at Mass.  “That was the best Mass I have ever been to in my entire life, Miss.”  “I reckon that’s how Mass should always be.”  The reactions of our Year 12's were great to hear, and it was indeed very moving and uplifting to be part of it.  I think it had a lot to do with students designing the liturgy - they made choices about readings and music, they wrote prayers that were THEIR prayers, and the Homily was shared.  Our students are great thinkers.  They reflect deeply, intelligently, remarkably.  Their ideas were shared with the whole and Ramesh was one of us in the hearing.  “Miss, how good was Mass?”  Ramesh certainly helped.  He offered the Sacrament of Reconciliation which was very well received.  There’s something quite moving about seeing our young people forming a long line, waiting to enter into what many in the church and out of the church might say is an outdated and irrelevant Sacrament:  It was certainly not irrelevant for our girls and Ramesh’s gentle, energetic, genuine way of proceeding ensured that the Sacrament was grounded firmly in the now.  It is our hope that Ramesh will be part of the story of Year 12 2021 for many months to come.

Our next presenter, Sallie Hammond, told an extraordinary story of her life lived in service of the poor and marginalized; the young who have no choices and who are rejected and limited at every turn.  Sallie provided a story about what really matters to people, to society, to the world, to her.  She challenged us to move beyond what matters FOR me to what matter TO me as a human, linked in love and service to other humans. 

Our last day of Term 1 saw three important liturgies in preparation for the Easter Triduum.  Year 7 gathered to hear and pray their way through a selection of six Stations of the Cross.  Tutor groups presented their station.  Questions were considered about how the story of cross relates directly to our lives.  We prayed and we sang.  The focus here was the story of Good Friday.  Years 8 and 9 engaged in a solemn and moving liturgy in our chapel with a “Washing of the Feet.”  This ritual, taken from John’s gospel story of The Last Supper, focused on Holy Thursday.  It was quiet, reflective, engaging and gently led by Ms Tina De Souza.  Years 10, 11 and 12 were in the Hall in a Liturgy of the Word, led by Fr Richard Leonard SJ.  Richard gave us an aching question about ‘washing feet’ through a story of an individual whose outward appearance is very confronting.  He asked us, “Could we touch, kiss, love, and treat with dignity, this man who so really repulses us?”  The growing for us as Christian people is in the space between our desire to be able to say “yes” and the likelihood of our rejection; our ‘No - too hard for me, too much to ask’.  Jesus’ message for Holy Thursday is the challenge to be able to touch and kiss and be with wholly, genuinely, lovingly, those who are rejected.  He gave us a great deal to ponder and to wonder about, and to try to put into practice.

The holiday has come and gone.  Easter Sunday, the great celebration of new life rising from the horror of death had a different significance this year.  Churches are open to larger capacity again.  There is hope for the world burgeoning.

I drove to Uluru.  I missed the wonder of waterfalls cascading from the rock, filling the pools around the base where the ancestors live and protect the place, by three weeks.  I was there just in time to see the splendour of new growth against the red sandstone of Uluru, and the shock of green exploding from crevasses, carpeting the slopes of Kata Tjuta.

New life.  It was breathtaking to see our land in recovery from the fires that I drove through Christmas before last.  Easter writ large. 

As I write I am mindful that loss and sadness is the experience for many in our community at this time.

They remain in our thoughts and prayers.

Mrs Jo Kenderes
Director of Faith and Mission

The Waverley Youth Art Prize encourages creativity in young artists from across Sydney.  It is open to anyone aged between 9-18 years old who are living in, studying or even simply, who plays in Sydney’s east.  All artworks are hung so that each artist will get to experience the joy of exhibiting and see an audience appreciate their work.  Young artists also go in the running to receive encouragement awards including art packs and vouchers to attend classes at local institutions such as the National Art School.

Each year the Waverley Youth Art Prize has a different theme for which artists create their work in response.  In 2021 the theme is:  We are Family - Ancestors, Bloodlines and Belonging. 

Artworks are accepted across a broad range of mediums including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video/film/new Media. Entries close 21 May 2021. For more information visit https://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/recreation/arts_and_culture/youthartprize and Waverley Youth Art Prize entry details  .

Mr Steven Taylor
Visual Arts Teacher

UAC Digital

Let's Chat Webinars

UAC Digital is a new initiative from UAC that assists students with their career decisions by providing relevant, up to date information about careers and courses.  Registrations are now open for UAC’s Let's Chat series of webinars on courses and careers in Medicine, Business and Economics, Communication and much more.  During each webinar, university professors, lecturers and student ambassadors will give prospective students an insight into their chosen area of study.  All dates and registration links are available from the UAC website:  uac.edu.au/schools/uac-digital.  The Let's Chat session links for April and May are listed here:  Medicine, Health Sciences, Construction and Engineering and Teaching.

Macquarie University

Macquarie University is hosting a number of events throughout Term 2 that interested students and parents may like to attend.

YEAR 12 ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION

On Tuesday 4 May from 6.00pm-7.00pm, MU is hosting an information session for Year 12 students to find out about specific courses, entry, pathways, scholarships and support services etc.  Registrations are essential for this event - register  here

YEAR 10 SUBJECT SELECTION ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION

On Wednesday 5 May from 6.00pm-7.00pm, MU is hosting an evening for Year 10 students and their parents.  Find out how your subject selections may or may not affect your university entry.  Registrations are essential using the link here.

Q & A SERIES - TERM 2

Years 10-12 students

An online Q&A series held (via Zoom) every Tuesday during Term 2, commencing on Tuesday 11 May at 5.00pm.  Students and parents are most welcome. To view the schedule and registration details go to the link provided  here.

UTS - Sydney

UTS Bachelor of Accounting Co-op Scholarship webinar will be held on 12 May 2021 at 6.00pm.  If you are interested in a career in Business, particularly accounting, this is a wonderful opportunity to secure some financial support while you study plus undertake some excellent work experience placements.  To find out how to apply and what the scholarship offers go here or contact Carin Alberts at carin.alberts@uts.edu.au .

UNSW

Year 10 Subject Selection and Information Evenings

(22), 28 April and 12 May (ONLINE)

UNSW’s interactive live streams will help students navigate the HSC Subject Selection process, explain how UNSW admissions and scholarship applications work, and give attendees insight into university life.  Parents are welcome to join these evenings, as well as participate in the live Q&A session.  Find out more here, registrations are essential.

Years 11 and 12

LAT Information Evening

On 6 May (ONLINE), this webinar is for any student planning on studying law at UNSW.  Learn about the Law Admission Test (LAT), an entry requirement for all undergraduate law double degrees at UNSW.  Topics covered include key LAT dates for the year ahead.  Parents are welcome to attend.  Registrations are essential here.

Cadetships in Business and Technology

Applications are open for the Business Cadetships Program and for Technology Cadetships under the ETCAD Program.  Cadets combine study at the university of their choice in Sydney with paid work at either UBS or Barrenjoey Capital Partners.  Applications for both programs close on Wednesday 26 May.  Go here for more details on how to apply.

Sydney Design School Information Session

On Wednesday 28 April at 6.00pm, students interested in finding out more about a creative career in interior design should try to attend Sydney Design School’s Information Session.  Attendees will find out about studying their accredited courses during the day, evening or online.  The information session will be held at Level 2, 40 Oxley Street, St Leonards.  Register online to attend here.

Ms Helen Marshall
Careers Adviser

Calling all Siblings!

Enrolment is underway for the Year 7/2023 intake, and a reminder to all of our families that enrolment for siblings is automatic, however, a completed online Application for Enrolment is required.  If you have a sibling entering Year 7 in 2022 or 2023, please complete an online application as soon as possible.  You can apply via the College website under the Enrolments section.

I look forward to welcoming all our new students and families. If you have any enrolment related questions (or would just like to say hello), please feel free to contact me directly via registrar@stvincents.nsw.edu.au.

Mrs Robyn Pedley
Registrar

Sport Staff Contacts for Term 1 2021:

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

Head of Football:  Mr Hugo Forlico:  0411 615 031
Head of Basketball and Netball:  Ms Elyse Harmanis:  0434 610 870   
Head of Hockey:  Ms Laura Wiggins:  0418 329 929
Head of Athletics/Cross Country:  Ms Jacinta Jacobs:  0418 416 663.

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

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

Cross Country

The IGSA Cross Country Carnival will be held in Week 3 on Friday 7 May at Frensham.  Final training sessions with Tash will be on Mondays and Wednesday 3.15pm-4.30pm from the College.

We still need some more girls to compete in the 15, 16, 17 and 18 years age groups.  If you are interested, please see Ms Jacobs to pick up a Permission Note.

All runners competing in this event need to have the correct running singlet (Nbr 21), navy blue shorts or leggings/bike pants and good running shoes to compete.  Touch/Basketball singlets can be worn as long as we add the number 21 to it.

After the Athletics Carnival on 19 May, trainings on Wednesdays will change to E S Marks Field and Mondays will remain at Rushcutters Bay.  All IGSSA cross country permission notes must be returned to Ms Jacobs by Monday 13 May.

Below:  IGSA Cross Country

INTERHOUSE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL - E S MARKS FIELD - WEDNESDAY 19 MAY

The highlight of the term will be the inter-House Athletics Carnival which is being held on Wednesday 19 May.  All students are encouraged to compete in as many events as possible for their House.  Girls wishing to compete in the first event, the 800m, are to be on the first bus.

The inter-House 1500m will be held at fitness training on Monday 17 May, and any girls interested in competing for their House must register with Ms Jacobs via email.  There is also a copy of the carnival program and records on the noticeboard for those who would like to get prepared for the carnival.  Relay teams will be selected at the next House meetings.

The College athletics team is chosen from this carnival, with one girl permitted to compete in each event at the IGSA Carnival at Homebush on 12 and 13 August next term.  Fitness sessions on Wednesdays will change to E S Marks after our carnival and all girls selected in the squad are to attend as many of these sessions as they can.  The College team will compete in two lead up twilight meets at Homebush on Friday 30 July 30 and 6 August.  More information will be given to the team once selected.

Below:  Athletics Training

TERM 2 SPORT

SEHA Hockey

St Vincent’s has entered three teams in the SEHA hockey competition for this term.  Good luck to all teams for their first games this Saturday.

All teams train on Wednesday afternoons at David Phillips Field at Daceyville from 4.00pm-5.00pm.  All information can be found on the College website.  Please make sure that all players have shin pads, hockey stick and mouthguard for all training sessions and matches.  The bus leaves at 3.15pm from Victoria Street and will return to the College at approximately 5.30pm.  Note:  If students are being picked up from the field - it must be at 5.00pm, otherwise they have to go back to the College on the bus as we cannot leave any students unattended.

Ms Laura Wiggins
Head Hockey Coach

IGSA Basketball

We have entered three teams in the IGSSA competition this term, three senior, two junior and two Year 7 teams.  All information can be found on the College website.

Training is compulsory.  All players are required to be at their matches 30 minutes before start time for warm up.  Full SVC Sports uniform must be worn and any non-SVC items will be confiscated.

Training times:

SVC 1:  Thursdays  7.15am-8.30am

SVC 2:  Thursdays  7.15am-8.30am

SVC 3:  Wednesdays  3.15pm-4.30pm.

Congratulations to Peggy Schell and Taya O’Loughlin who were chosen to trial for the Open IGSSA Basketball this week.  Well done to Peggy, who was selected in the team and will compete at the NSWCIS Championships later this term.

Head Basketball Coach
Ms Elyse Harmanis

IGSA Football

St Vincent’s has entered two senior and two junior teams and a Year 7 team in the IGSA football competition this term.  All information can be found on the College website.  Moore Park West is our home venue, please allow adequate time as parking is a bit tricky in that area.

Congratulations to Olivia Mitchell and Samantha Jeffs, who were selected to trial for the Open IGSA Football team next week.  Good luck girls!

SVC 1:  Training Friday mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 2:  Training Wednesday mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 3:  Training Monday afternoons 3.15pm-4.45pm

SVC 4:  Training Wednesday mornings 7.15am-8.15am

SVC 5:  Training Monday afternoons 3.15pm-4.45pm.

Head Football Coach
Ms Vanessa Brown

St Catherine's Netball

St Catherine’s School Netball competition commences on Wednesday 28 April.  SVC is fielding 17 teams, displaying just how committed our students are to netball.  Well done in the ‘keenness’ column players!

You will find all netball information on the College website under LEARNING/ SPORT/NETBALL

TERM 3 SPORT

Sport Registrations are now open for Term 3 Sport.  If you wish to play IGSA Netball, IGSA Hockey or Ascham 5-A-Side Football, you must go onto the College website and register before 3.00pm on Friday 14 May.  There is NO EXCUSE TO BE LATE.  If you have problems with online registrations, please see Ms Jacobs with your computer.

PLEASE NOTE:  Term 3 is the last term where you will be allowed to play a Sport for just one term. From Term 4 all Sport will run for two terms: 

Touch, water polo, volleyball and tennis will run in Terms 4 and 1. 

Basketball, hockey, netball and football will run in Terms 2 and 3.

IGSA Netball

Notes about the IGSA competition:  As the St Vincent's College netball page explains: If your daughter plays for RNA (Randwick Netball Association) or another association, please do not register for SVC Netball Club if game times may clash and SVC is your second priority.  If SVC priority is equal with another club priority, then enrol your daughter and we will make it work!  Sometimes it’s best to choose one or the other, so that your daughter isn't overloaded with commitments.    

IGSA game times are from 8.00am-11.00am, last game concluding at 11.50am.  We do not know the time of games until the July school holidays. Traditionally, seniors are scheduled for 8.00am/9.00am; Juniors - 9.00am/10.00am; Year 7 - 10.00am/11.00am.

IGSA netball is a big commitment for parents with travel involved all around Sydney.  Once teams are formed we try to share the travel - especially for transport of Boarding students.  The fun part is discovering all the amazing school grounds around Sydney!

Ms Elyse Harmnais
Head Netball Coach

SPORTS STARS OF THE WEEK

Congratulations to Peggy Schell, Year 11, (pictured below) who was successful in making the Open IGSA Basketball team again this year.  We wish her the best of luck at the NSWCIS Championships later this term.

Congratulations to Milly Newton, Year 8, (pictured below) who recently placed second at the Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships in the five person R&R - Rescue and Resuscitation.  Well done, Milly!

Congratulations to Alice Holstein, Year 8, (pictured below) who placed first in the intermediate section of the Australian Optimist 2021 four-day sailing regatta in Adelaide.  She really excelled in the tough conditions and huge swell. 

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

Ms Jacinta Jacobs
Co-ordinator of Sport

CANTEEN REMINDER:   NO CARD - NO PURCHASE 

• Students MUST bring their ID card to the canteen to purchase any food/drink. Please note that putting your student number in only is NOT accepted.
• Remember:  ONLINE ORDERING is also available.
• GLUTEN FREE products are available - only when purchased through online ordering. 
• You need to refill money onto your cardAT LEAST ONE HOUR BEFORE you intend to use the card (as it takes one hour to generate funds onto the card).

 View next week's CANTEEN SPECIALS: 26-30 April 2021  HERE

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