Bulletin

Our Year 7 students who feature in Photo of the Week (above), have had a most irregular start to secondary school. They almost have the equivalent of another "first" day on Monday as they put on those distinctive winter uniforms.  They will instantly look much older, so be prepared for another milestone moment and get the camera ready.  We understand they will be both excited and nervous and you can let them into a little secret...their teachers and Principal are too!

Anne Fry
Principal

(Also see the 'Pastoral Care' article from Ms Edelle McCrudden, Acting Head of Cater House)

Dear Parents and Carers

The much anticipated return of all our students and staff is scheduled for Monday.  It comes with both anticipation and trepidation as we once again become a community of over 800 staff and students on-site.  The confirmation of a positive case of a Year 7 student at another Sydney Catholic School should take away any complacency we might be feeling about the return.  Being back together will require us to EXPECT and RESPECT responsible behaviours to keep ourselves and others safe. There is a risk of "white-noising", but we must keep repeating the key messages:

• WASH/SANITIZE your hands
• Do not come to school if you are unwell
• Maintain physical distancing where possible
• Get tested if you have even the mildest symptoms.

The Premier of NSW has indicated that she believes that positive cases at schools will continue to occur over the next few months.  This will 'trigger' a response from NSW Health to shut the school for 24-48 hours for deep cleaning and contact tracing.  If that were to occur at St Vincent's College, we have good plans in place and we would immediately default back to Foxford for the short term closure.  While I hope we never have to use them, we do have these plans in place.  It is critical in this time that we continue to have current contact emails, so please, as many of you have had changes in employment arrangements, could you ensure we have up to date phone and email information.  Please direct these changes to ricer@stvincents.nsw.edu.au or registrar@stvincents.nsw.edu.au .

Our sense of community is strong, and one way of eventually benefitting from that strength is to take advantage of the Business Register that is now linked to our College website.  The register provides details of a wide range of wonderful businesses run by current parents and ex-students.  This has been a wonderful collaboration between parents looking for a practical way to support the College community during COVID-19, and the Advancement Team.  I enclose the link HERE

While on the subject of enterprising parents, I would like to thank a parent or parents, who sent me a present through the week.  There was no identifying name other than a message signed "Parents".  Thank you - the gift caused me immense amusement and delight.  Once sport resumes in Term 3, you might spot me wearing it while watching a winter sport.

A big shout-out to our Boarders and Boarding families.  It is National Boarding Week and it has been lovely to see the featured photos and stories on the College Instagram and Facebook.  Many of our Boarders will be heading back to Sydney this weekend to be ready for school on Monday.  We know there will be sadness at saying goodbye to home, family, horses, pets and the wide open spaces.  Be assured, your home away from home is ready to welcome you back!

Enjoy the wintry weekend ahead.  It will be a good opportunity to get the winter uniform ready.  Girls are expected to be back in full uniform, well groomed and compliant with jewellery and nail polish.  That is not meant to sound petty, but rather, we believe it will be an important part of re-establishing routine and normalcy.

I am really looking forward to sharing in the "non-contact" greetings as our community re-gathers on Monday.

Yours sincerely

Anne Fry
Principal 

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

Penelope Larkin (Year 8) - Uncle.

It has been a delight listening to the buzz of senior students increase this week, and now we look forward to welcoming Years 7-10 students back to community on Monday.  I hope you have taken opportunity to engage in conversation about how your daughter is feeling about her transition back to the school campus as we imagine there will be anticipation of joy coupled with tinges of sadness that some of the comforts of home routines may appear to be ending.  It is very likely that students have enjoyed working snug in Ugg boots with their pet by their side or appreciated this time with more meals and walks with family.  It is important that families identify that which you hope to retain from this time of togetherness whilst looking to the benefits of learning as a relational activity with peers and teachers.

Please know that the Pastoral team have been discussing with teachers that students are returning from a significant disruption and, for some, their family and peer relationships or their perspectives of their world may have presented challenges.  Our priority is to reconnect and press refresh on their learning and relationships.  So much learning about new ways of learning has taken place for students and teachers that we can capitalise on our Foxford experience; at the same time, we do not wish for any students to feel overwhelmed about returning if she is feeling behind.  This will become the platform upon which we lift off as our learning returns face to face.  Socially we are looking at providing activities and spaces during lunch breaks for both physical well-being as well as quieter zones for interaction and reconnecting with peers.  Please do not hesitate to contact your daughter’s Tutor teacher, Head of House or College Counsellor deprendegasts@stvincents.nsw.edu.au should you have concerns regarding your daughter’s re-entry to school.  We can dialogue with class teachers in discreet ways as we set up the class groupings that support the nurturing of peer relationships after this time away.  We have already commenced this dialogue explicitly with students in their Pastoral Care lessons online and will continue to do so upon return so that we identify both the challenges and hopes of their peers and support their actions to support each other.  I look forward to the reconnections of our younger students on Monday.

Whilst parents and carers have been updated by Mrs Fry regarding arrangements for students’ return to school, more specific information for students is provided via the Student Admin messages and the Student Wellbeing and House Google Classrooms.  Please encourage your daughter to refer to these if she has queries.  One significant modification we have implemented for the next two weeks as we transition the entire student body back on campus is the arrival time and Tutor arrangement.

For Weeks 5 and 6 only, we will conduct Tutor time in the Year and House based pastoral care CP groups (ie: Year 7 Aikenhead; Year 9 De Lacy etc). Students will meet in these groups on three mornings a week and have a slightly later start two mornings a week.  We hope this slight stretching of arrival time at school will decrease student traffic along Victoria Street.  Importantly, it allows for reconnecting with year group peers.  Heads of House and Tutor teachers will circulate amongst the students during this time.

The days students will have a ‘CP Tutor’ are as follows:

Mondays and Thursdays - Years 7, 10, 12 in CP groups.

Tuesdays and Fridays - Years 8, 9, 11 in CP groups.

Wednesdays - All Years - still in CP groups.

On the day a student has her CP Tutor, she is to be at school by 8.30am and in allocated classroom by 8.40am.  On the day she does not have a CP Tutor, the student is to be at school by 8.50am to be in her Period 1 classroom at 8.54am.  On Wednesdays, all students are to be at school by 8.50am.  These arrangements include senior students in Years 11 and 12 as we return to supervised Study lessons.  Senior students may depart from the school at the beginning of lunch/Period 6 if she has a Study lesson in Periods 5/6.

Students are to wear full winter uniform with blazer; they may wear PDHPE uniform to and from school if they have a practical lesson in PDHPE to remove the need for change rooms.  Students are permitted access to their lockers if they so choose, but they may opt to bring a small shoulder bag to carry their belongings; no big packs to be carried around the College.  Whilst the canteen is not yet opened in Week 5, please know that the Library has resumed its regular hours as published in the Student Diary.

We look forward to seeing many more smiling faces Monday morning.  I express my admiration and gratitude to all families as you have partnered with the College during this time of our ‘Foxford’ history and I hope you too are looking forward to your daughter’s return to school. 

Mrs Elizabeth Brooks
Deputy Principal, Pastoral Care

This week we transitioned our Year 11 students from Foxford to face-to-face teaching and learning, thereby complementing our Stage 6 cohort return.  For all intents and purposes right now at Vinnies we are a Senior campus, and it has been wonderful to witness the reconnection of our relationships with these young women whom we are so fortunate to educate.  However, it is all of our student/teacher relationships that we miss most.  It is with joyful, yet cautious anticipation, that we look forward to our Years 7-10 students transitioning back to school on Monday to join their big sisters and in doing so, breathing the collective student life back into the College.

For our Year 12 students the ability to be physically present with their teachers and peers has been reassuring and the new normal of teachers remaining in their ‘golden enclosure’ whilst teaching, and our constant Lady Macbeth inspired hand sanitising rituals are the new way of being safe in the classroom.  I have and continue to commend our graduating Class of 2020 on their resilience, determination and good humour in finding the balance between adopting these new rituals yet normalising them as much as possible in their HSC year, to ensure they are engaged in their learning ‘every lesson, every day’. 

NESA released the HSC Timetable last Friday 15 May and students also received their personalised HSC Timetables in their Student Online accounts.  The welcome news is that the HSC examinations will now begin five days later than initially scheduled by NESA, and will now proceed from Tuesday 20 October to 11 November.  As a result of this NESA decision, the HSC Trial examinations have been pushed back by two weeks and will now commence in Week 5 of Term 3 from Monday 17 August to Monday 31 August.  NESA has ensured us that every HSC student receives their results and ATAR on 18 December.  This later commencement has enabled us to look at planning for extending more teaching and learning days at the College, which is underway. More immediately, optional HSC workshops will be on offer these coming June/July holidays and the students will no doubt welcome these opportunities to consolidate their learning and work on their practical major works.

COVID-19 as a global pandemic and like other significant world events gone by, will alter permanently the lens from which future work-spaces view the running of their business operations.  So too has this pandemic taught us much and made us think outside of the square as a College.  We appreciate all of the feedback that has been harnessed from the Foxford program, and we have learnt just how innovative we can be pedagogically when we think outside the square.  Even when this pandemic is over, what will remain are great pedagogical insights and ways to engage our 21st century SVC learners to think deeply and draw upon their knowledge and skills to apply them to find real world solutions to authentic problems. 

NESA has as part of their COVID-19 response, given permission to schools to make decisions about flexibility with syllabus outcomes and content they teach and assess for Kindergarten to Year 10.  This has come as the most welcome news to the academic team at the College as Heads of Department are now busy re-designing programs and assessments to allow opportunities for our Stage 4 and 5 students to engage in the wonders and insights of learning for enjoyment and curiosity.  Applying this learning to harness their deeper learning, so that they may be able to transfer these skills across their subjects is an essential life learning attribute for our students that will assist their ability to think flexibly and agilely beyond the HSC and into their real life contexts.

Yesterday was 'International Tea Day' and as the meteorologists are predicting a wild and woolly weekend, I hope that you take some time to put the kettle on and enjoy a cosy cup of tea with your families, grateful for the reconnection to the simple pleasures of life, of which the lockdown continues to remind us.

Mrs Jasmin Mano
Director of Teaching and Learning

Next week on Tuesday we will acknowledge Sorry Day as part of National Reconciliation Week.  Sorry Day is a big deal for us here at St Vincent’s.  We take time out of our learning to learn differently; to listen to stories, to sing songs, to watch our First Nations students dance and proudly share with us their culture.  Sorry Day has become OUR culture.

Each year we remind ourselves of what Sorry Day is about.  It isn’t a commemoration of the Apology to the Stolen Generations.  That happened on 15 February 2008.  Sorry Day has been around much longer.  The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998, one year after the tabling in parliament of the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997.  This report was the result of a Royal Commission into the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.  This was government policy for decades.  Names were changed, papers destroyed and families left broken.  I was thinking today, that for mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, the fear and trauma of ‘losing’ a child through this government policy must have been similar to every mother’s nightmare of losing the toddler at the shops - but with the panic stretched out over 20, 30, 50 years, not just a few minutes or an hour.  Some stolen children were never reunited with their families. 

Sorry Day is not really about apologizing; it is about being sorry ‘with’ someone.  It is about acknowledging the depth of the hurt, recognizing that this policy was wrong and standing in solidarity with these families who continue to suffer inter-generational trauma.  Stolen children were often sent thousands of miles from home, raised in institutions, suffering as we can only imagine in the days when ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’ was the ‘positive parenting’ program of the time.  How can anyone know how to parent when they have not been parented?  How can anyone know how to love when they do not feel loved?  So, our Sorry Day is about recognizing that the Stolen Generation is a part of our history and the effects of it continue today.  It is part of the lived experience of many of our First Nations students. 

This Sorry Day, our girls will interview Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, member for the Northern Territory, about her role, her family and her love of country.  She is Yanyuwa, from the Gulf country, and her spiritual origins come from the sea.  Like many of our First Nations girls, she travelled a long way from home to study as a boarder at St Scholastica’s College in Glebe.  Her work as head of NITV and SBS News galvanized her concern for justice - not just for her Yanyuwa family but for her Sydney family too.  Her role in the political arena is a natural continuation of that concern; caring for country, caring for people, caring for women and those on the margins. 

I’ve spent a bit of time with Malarndirri on country, learning from the Yanyuwa elders, the Garrwa, Marra and Gudanji traditional owners, sitting down with them and not talking.  I found you learn best when you sit down, listen and let the wisdom of the elders get a chance to get a word in.  I found that learning works best when it happens according to the timetable of the country or the ancestors - not my own schedule.  You can’t rush that kind of learning.

So, we will take time again this year to acknowledge Sorry Day, standing in solidarity with our indigenous brothers and sisters who are struggling to re-establish connection to family; connection to country.  In generosity they offer that wisdom to this community and the whole of the Australian community.

We will be listening carefully on Tuesday.  If you’d like to hear Senator McCarthy’s maiden speech in parliament, click on the link.

It will be 30 minutes well spent.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAzrAQyz3aE

Mrs Jo Kenderes
Director of Faith and Mission

 Edible Book Festival - 15 June - students fill in the form HERE to participate.

The Patricia Rolfe Award

As recently profiled in the Scientia cum Religione magazine, this year marks the 100th anniversary of Patricia Rolfe’s birth. Each year at Speech Night, a Year 10 student with a talent in English and an interest in journalism receives the Patricia Rolfe Award. 

The English Department would love to hear from any journalists in our community who would be willing to share their expertise for a few minutes with Year 10.  Most journalists are now working from home but that doesn’t mean that ‘visiting the classroom’ is impossible.  Through the magic of technology, we can make something happen!

I would really appreciate the generosity of any journalists who could help the English Department inspire this year’s recipient of the Patricia Rolfe Award:  jarmanm@stvincents.nsw.edu.au 

Ms Monica Jarman
Head of Department English

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: 
Shakespeare Shorts is back for 2020!  Shakespeare Shorts is a short film competition brought to you by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Submissions are welcomed from film-makers of all ages and abilities, anywhere in the world.  Submissions for our 2020 competition are open now via Film Freeway.  Categories include:  Best interpretation of a passage from Shakespeare (up to 10 minutes); Best film inspired by Shakespeare (up to 10 minutes); Best Shakespeare themed Animation (up to 5 minutes).  The winners of each category receive feedback from their patron, Kenneth Branagh.  More details - here.  Submission by 21 September. 

Phone It In is a story-bombing activity offered by Spineless Wonders in collaboration with #Litfest2444:  Phone It In gives you the chance to write, record and submit a piece of microlit on the theme of SOUND.  The theme of this year's competition is SOUND.  Once you have written your 200 words microlit piece and recorded it, all you need to do is upload the audio file.  If your recording is shortlisted, you will go in the running to win a $200 book voucher!  Phone It In is free to any person aged between 15 and 18 years.  Details here.  Submission date 31 May. 

Bell Shakespeare:  Bell Shakespeare is excited to announce a film festival where students are in the director’s seat. A national festival of short films about and inspired by Shakespeare that reflect unique Australian communities. Create a film in one of two categories: Retelling — films using Shakespeare’s original text and story and Reimagining - films that adapt, rework or are inspired by Shakespeare’s works.  Details www.bellshakespeare.com.au  and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbxicXfx9m .  Submissions close 3 July.

The Story Factory has an online after school program for young writers, focussing upon poetry and the novella.  The aim is publication.  Details here:  https://www.storyfactory.org.au/year-of-poetry-year-of-novella 

Education Perfect:  Byte Sized Competitions:  The Byte Sized Competitions are a series of mini competitions (20-30 minutes) hosted by EP.  These competitions are a great way for students to learn in a fun and engaging context, as well as work alongside other students.  The English Competition is held on Monday afternoons.  Details here 

Poetry in Action:  Is on the hunt for Australia’s next generation of poets, and they want to see your poetry!  Their monthly poetry challenge opens on the first and concludes on the final day of each month.  The winner for the year will be chosen from all the monthly finalists and announced towards the end of the year.  Details here:  https://www.poetryinaction.com.au/poetry-comp/

Kill Your Darlings:  The KYD School Writing Prize gives a voice to young people writing about the issues ​that concern them.  They are seeking entries of up to 1500 words in either fiction and non-fiction, with students responding to a current social or political issue.  The winner will receive a $500 cash prize, editorial support and publication in KYD.  The 2020 School Writing Prize will be judged by award-winning author Alice Pung and KYD editor Alan Vaarwerk.  Entries are open now and close on Friday 3 July.   https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au

Ms Monica Jarman
Head of Department English

We wish to advise that unfortunately, we are unable to have ensemble groups resume until some of the current restrictions have been lifted.  Ensemble leaders will continue to have music, dance and drama activities on the Google Classrooms for students to learn, and we look forward to returning to ensemble rehearsals soon. 

Ms Catherine Johnson
Head of Performing Arts

This week, the Heads of House together with Mrs Brooks, Deputy Principal, Pastoral Care, hosted a Google Meet for all our Year 7 students who were eager to ask questions about their return to school on Monday 25 May. 

They asked a range of questions about their uniform, expectations and expressed any concerns they may have.  All are ready to return and excited to be in their winter uniform, and wearing their College blazer with pride. 

Ms Edelle McCrudden
Head of Cater House (Acting)

below:   See the larger screen shot photo as 'photo of the week' at the beginning of this Bulletin

Term 2 Sport Staff Contacts:

Co-ordinator of Sport:  Ms Jacinta Jacobs:  0418 416 663 / jacobsj@stvincents.nsw.edu.au
Athletics and Fitness:  Ms Natasha Stenberg:  0412 099 882. 

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

TERM 2 SPORT

We are really looking forward to welcoming students from Years 7 to 10 back next week.  It has been great to have Years 11 and 12 back this week and they were able to finally engage in some physical activity with their friends, using social distancing and hygienic guidelines.  Some played tennis whilst others had a fun game of volleyball at lunchtime. 

Next week Ms Jacobs would like to start back the fitness sessions after school on Monday and Wednesday.  Please email her if you are interested in joining in on either of these days.  Whilst we cannot play any contact games just yet, it will be nice to have a run around and chat with your friends and to see your smiling faces.  This will commence on Wednesday 27 May.

above:  Year 7 tennis

For all those still working from home, make sure you are keeping up with some regular exercise and following your PE lessons.  Try and get your whole family involved and keep each other motivated.  Some students may be struggling mentally with the uncertainty of returning to competitive sport and there are many things we can all do to help each other cope during this difficult time.  Two weeks ago I covered the impacts on mental health during these uncertain times, and last week looked at 'boredom eating'.  Today I will include some information from the Department of Education on the safe return to sport and physical activity.

Practical Guide for Sport and Physical Activity

The following practical guide provides information for schools on the return to school sport and physical activity.  As students return to full time face-to-face learning, sport and physical activity programs will initially focus on non-contact sports, with fitness being our main aim at St Vincent’s.

Safety and Hygiene

The following hygiene measures will continue to apply to all sport and physical activities in schools regardless of the phase, including once full sporting participation returns:

• All sports teachers and students must always try to practice good hygiene.
• Staff and students are required to wash their hands prior to and at the conclusion of sport and physical activities.  Encourage hand hygiene practices at regular intervals as required.
• Maintain respiratory hygiene whilst participating in sport and physical activity, encouraging coughs or sneezes to be covered and tissues to be disposed of immediately.  Always wash your hands after having coughed, sneezed or blown your nose.
• Discourage spitting or clearing of nasal or respiratory secretions at all times.  No shining of a cricket ball with sweat/saliva.
• Do not train if unwell.  Students are expected to stay away from school or be collected by a parent/carer should they become unwell during the day. Students should not be participating in sport if they are unwell.
• Do not share items such as drink bottles or towels.  Students should provide their own personal items such as water bottles, towels, clothing, mouth guards etc as required, for competitive sporting activities.
• Avoid shaking hands.  Students should not shake opposition hands at the conclusion of a sport activity.   Instead, we will do three cheers for the opposition and three cheers for the umpire. 

We look forward to seeing all students back at school from 25 May and into PE classes.  Lunchtimes we will have several activities going on that students can join in on the courts.  Fitness with Ms Jacobs will also start back on Wednesday 27 May.  This will cater for all Year levels and all fitness abilities.  It runs from 3.15pm-4.30pm and incorporates jogging, stairs, and circuit-style training in the College grounds.  

TERM 3 SPORT REGISTRATIONS

Whilst we are still waiting to hear from IGSSA if and when Term 3 Sport will be on, please note that as we have had to cancel the College Inter-House Carnival, any athletes interested in trialling for the St Vincent's athletics team will need to sign up for athletics on the website and may also choose a Saturday sport as well.  Training for athletics will be at fitness training on Mondays and/or Wednesday afternoons for the rest of this term, with the hope of training at E S Marks Field next term on Wednesdays if permitted.

ATHLETICS ACTIVITIES WEEK instead of the INTER-HOUSE CARNIVAL

We would like to offer some fun athletics activities for inter-House fun and competition in Week 6, 1-5 June.  There are fun challenges for everyone in Tutor Groups, as well as more serious events held at lunchtimes on the College courts.  These serious events are for the best 2-4 students in each age group in each House.  The Beep Test, Standing Long Jump, Agility Sprints and Turbo Javelin Throw will be run on the one day and you can compete in one, two or all three events to gain points for your House and to go towards Age Champion.  All other students in that age group are encouraged to come and cheer on their House on the day.

We will also run a few other fun activity challenges in Tutor Group that Dom Mitchell will send information about next week, along with some short videos showing the activities.  These will also go towards House points.

Lunch Time Events

Monday 1 June:  12 and 13 years - Beep Test, Standing Long Jump, Agility Sprint and Turbo Javelin Throw.

Wednesday 3 June:  14 and 15 years - Beep Test, Standing Long Jump, Agility Sprint and Turbo Javelin Throw.

Thursday 4 June:  16 and 17 years - Beep Test, Standing Long Jump, Agility Sprint and Turbo Javelin Throw.

Friday 5 June:  18 years - Beep Test, Standing Long Jump, Agility Sprint and Turbo Javelin Throw  (18 years - can dress up if they wish).

If any days have wet weather, these events will be postponed to the following week.  Any questions, please email Ms Jacobs.

SPORTS STARS

Please keep the Sport staff informed of any good sporting results held outside of the College.  Information and photos can be emailed to  jacobsj@stvincents.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to the energetic group of Year 11's who took to the courts this week at lunchtimes playing volleyball and handball. 

Photos below:  Year 11 - volleyball on the courts and handball in the Caritas Christi courtyard.

Congratulations to Ms Jacobs’ Year 8S PE class, for enthusiastically getting in to the '80's aerobics warm up and circuit today to celebrate the last day of Foxford lessons!  She looks forward to seeing all your smiley faces back at school next week! 

Ms Jacinta Jacobs
Co-ordinator of Sport

AISNSW (Association of Independent Schools) Resource

https://www.aisnsw.edu.au/learning-from-home/wellbeing#parents.

Greater Good Science Centre: COVID-19 parent wellbeing resources and activities

The Office of eSafety:  COVID-19: an online safety kit for parents and carers

Keeping children educated and entertained during COVID-19 crisis…It’s easy as ABC

http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/keeping-children-educated-and-entertained-during-covid-19-crisis-its-easy-as-abc/

Mindspot

https://mindspot.org.au/assets/pdf/10_Tips_for_Coping_with_Infectious_Diseases.pdf

Beyond Blue

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/looking-after-your-mental-health-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak

Headspace

https://headspace.org.au/young-people/how-to-cope-with-stress-related-to-covid-19/

ReachOut Parent discussion forum

https://forums.parents.au.reachout.com/

ReachOut Youth discussion forums

https://forums.au.reachout.com/

ReachOut.com One-on-One Support 

The Brave Program

https://www.brave-online.com/beating-stress-and-worries-about-coronavirus-covid-19/

FACE COVID ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)

If you or anyone you know needs help:

●      Lifeline on 13 11 14

●      beyondblue on 1300 224 636

●      MensLine Australia on 1300 789 978

●      Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467

●      Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800

●      Headspace on 1800 650 890

●      QLife on 1800 184 527.

Government Agencies:

NSW Department of Health

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/alerts/Pages/coronavirus-faqs.aspx

NSW Department of Education

https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/school-safety/novel-coronavirus.html

National Coronavirus Health Information Line 1800 020 080 - operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

The next meeting and AGM for the St Vincent’s College Parents and Friends’ Association will be on Wednesday 27 May 2020 at 6.30pm.

The meeting will be held via Zoom.  If you would like to attend, please register your details here.  The Zoom meeting ID and Password will be sent to you on the morning of 27 May.

Jane Palin
Community and Alumnae Relations Manager

To further support our strong community and fellowship, St Vincent’s College is establishing a Community Business Register for our families and alumnae.

We understand that the constantly changing situation with COVID-19 has impacted businesses across our community, therefore, if you would like to profile your business to the SVC community you can now join our Business Register by completing our online SVC Community Business Register Form

We look forward to supporting your business and your family.

Jane Palin
Community and Alumnae Relations Manager