Issue 20 - 22 July 2022


Year 12 ETHICS OLYMPIAD TEAM with their gold medals

Francesca Oaten, Emeline Kwok-Valevale, Mia Richter-Weinstein, Kyria Lambropoulos, Sofia Dermody.

(See Mrs Brooks' Deputy Principal's article in this issue) 


Reminders

Friday 22 July - Saturday 23 July - Sunday 24 July:  Boarders' IN-Weekend.

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Teaching and Learning Important Dates:

Monday 25 July:   Year 9 Online Parent/Carer Teacher Meetings.

Monday 01 August:  Year 7 Online Parent/Carer Teacher Meetings.

Monday 01 August - Friday 12 August:  Year 8 Elective Preferences Submission.

Monday 01 August - Monday 15 August:  Year 12 HSC Trial Examinations.

Wednesday 24 August - Tuesday 06 September:  Year 11 Final Blocked Assessments.

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COLLEGE PHOTOS - TUESDAY 26 JULY 2022

A reminder that the College photos will be taken next Tuesday.  Please ensure that your daughter strictly adheres to the College Uniform Policy (pages 40-41 Student Diary). 

If you ordered your photos in Term 1, Advanced Photos has assured the College that your order is still active.  If you cancelled your order and wish to place a new order, please visit:  www.advancedlife.com.au using the code that has been emailed to you.

If you require any further information, please contact Mr Hekeik by email:  hekeikj@stvincents.nsw.edu.au or by phone (9368 1611) at the College.

Mr Joseph Hekeik
COR Associate

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From the Principal, Mrs Anne Fry

Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome to our first newsletter of the new semester.  While there is a newness to the semester, unfortunately, the messaging remains very familiar!  We are starting the new semester as a new surge of Covid takes control of our city, our public transport and indeed, is lurking around the College classrooms.  Already high absentee rates are occurring in both staff and students.  At the moment there is an obvious void in mandated public health mandates and we are left as individuals to act with personal responsibility in the interests of the common good.  We are strengthened by our commitment to the values of generosity of spirit, service of the poor, respect, justice and hope.  To give expression to these values, I am asking that as community we set ourselves very high standards of preventative behaviour - masks on public transport and when directed at school, good cough etiquette, hand-washing, testing regularly and staying home when sick.  The reluctance of our leaders to act on our behalf leaves us with profound personal responsibilities to preserve life.

Our first assembly of the semester allowed us time to recommit to the value of hope.  We started the year fully cognisant that hopes are realised through the changes we are prepared to make.  As the year progressed, we needed the reminder that wishful thinking is no substitute for true hope.  I thank our student leaders for making such a powerful start to the semester with their messages of hope to the students.  Unfortunately, there were some technical issues with the live-streaming of the assembly to some Year levels, but the majority of the students were able to hear the strong NAIDOC message of "get up, stand up, show up".  What was particularly positive about NAIDOC week this year, is that it has occurred at the time when there is a new political momentum to fulfil the hopes of the First Nations of Australia through implementing the Uluru Statement of the Heart.  This commitment was strongly endorsed by the Plenary Council of the Australian Catholic Church, where Catholic schools were encouraged to play a significant role in educating with truth and hopefulness.  We here at St Vincent's College are fully committed to being part of the forward journey.  I acknowledge that St Vincent's College is on the land that was, is and always will be Gadigal land.

The new semester will be challenging, but particularly so for our Year 12 students who will complete their secondary education this term.  Half of their secondary education, 2020-2022, will have been completed under the shadow of Covid.  History will have a special place of respect for the young people of the world who have had the natural felicity of their childhoods and adolescence so disrupted by the virus.  Let us do what we can to keep them safe.

In hope,                                                                                                                         

Yours sincerely

Anne Fry
Principal

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In Sympathy

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

 

Emily Nathan  (Year 10) and Lucy Nathan (Year 8) - Grandmother.

Ms Joanne Tardo (Staff) - Father.

Mr Robert Graham (Staff) - Mother in law.

Ms Gemma Thompson (Staff) - Grandfather. 

 

May they rest in peace.


From the Deputy Principal

Welcome to Semester 2. And to our Year 12 parents and carers, I acknowledge the particular nature of this term - the last term of your daughter’s schooling and one I hope and pray will be blessed with plenty of occasion to express gratitude for the many gifts of your daughters and all who have supported their journey of education.  It is always a joy to celebrate the milestone of graduation for the Class of 2022 whilst they also prepare for whatever their next chapters will be.

In this year of Hope, I reflect that hope is real belief that drives our choices and actions. This can be seen in all our year groups this term.  Year 12 students are now preparing for their Trials in a little over a week, whilst also dreaming big of university courses, overseas travel and work possibilities.  Year 11s are consolidating their final term of Preliminary Study whilst also discerning their individual and collective strengths as they take over the reigns of leadership of the student community.

Years 10 and 8 are identifying their interests and passions as they make Subject choices to transition up to their next stage of learning.  This step forward recognises the agency they have in determining their learning journey.  It has been a real joy to engage in dialogue with Year 10 students and parents in their Subject Selection interviews and listen to the maturing voice of these young women as they make choices to realise their aspirations with a growing awareness of their own strengths.  And finally, Years 9 and 7 students will engage with their parents and teachers in the upcoming Parent-Teacher interviews.  For all of Years 7-10, who have received their Semester 1 Reports, now is the time to review goals and refine actions to get there.  We do not simply hope to do well or improve - we set targets, plan, develop strategies, experiment, develop effective learning behaviours, risk making mistakes, collaborate, respond to feedback in order to realise our hopes.  New terms offer new starts.  My Year 9 English class is jumping from Shakespeare’s walled Verona to the eerie hills of Gothic literature.  The new topic offers opportunity for each student to embrace what is new and challenge themselves to extend their knowledge and skills.

At our Assembly this week students showcased their learning within and beyond the classroom as a source of invitation and inspiration for all students to seek new opportunities in co-curricular, social justice and service action to grow towards being our better selves.  The photo at the front of this Bulletin, is our Year 12 ETHICS OLYMPIAD TEAM.  Whilst this team of five creative and critical thinkers achieved gold medals at the end of last term to position themselves in an international final against Singapore, Canada and China this coming week, they acknowledge their process of learning in collaboration with their Vinnies' peers Years 9-12 each Wednesday lunchtime where they explore ideas and develop their arguments.  I encourage you to have the conversation at home that prompts your daughter to consider if there is an area of interest she may like to have a go at this term.  It does not seem so long ago that our Class of 2022 were commencing as Year 7 students and here they are in their last term about to graduate.  We hope all our students are able to make the most of their opportunity for a St Vincent’s College education by identifying and growing their strengths, and along the way generously share with others.

Wishing you an enjoyable weekend, hoping for some sunshine. 

Mrs Elizabeth Brooks
Deputy Principal


From the Director of Teaching and Learning and Education Administration

”No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.

God sees your resolve. God sees your determination.

And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.” - Joel Osteen

This week I had the opportunity to address students across the College about pausing and reflecting on this point in their learning journey.  Whilst everyone is on a learning journey, it is individual, and subsequently everyone is at a different point.  It was helpful to consider a 400m athletics race made up of four distinct 100m legs.  Years 7-10 are halfway through their learning journey for 2022 and having just received Semester 1 Academic Reports, are at a useful point to stop and reflect.  I challenged students to consider honestly their learning effort and achievements so far and to consider what needs consolidating and what needs changing.

For our senior students, they are poised looking at their home straight with only a term to go each.  Year 11 have their final term of their Preliminary courses, which includes their final assessments in the form of an Assessment Block commencing in Week 6.  Year 12, our Class of 2022, have their final term of classes at the College with their Trial HSC examinations commencing in Week 3.  With all assessments, the emphasis is always on them being the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.  This relies on the premise that sufficient rigorous work and diligent effort has gone into the preparation for the assessments.  Earlier in the year I had specifically spoken about this outlook as the “three Ps” - Plan, Prepare and Perform.

In the Assembly I challenged students to be realistic and honest about the reflection on their efforts to date.  The product of this personal reflection is an audit of their resilience and rigour with their studies.  This thought process is a catalyst for engaging in a deeper, more meaningful and productive way with their learning in the time ahead.  I shared with the students that this is the action of taking responsibility for their learning.  A decision to engage more or differently with learning, based on honest personal reflection, is an active and positive outcome.  Deferring, or not engaging is also a decision, whether one is conscious of it or not.

In reality, the final results of this year’s learning for each student are truly measured against their ability and potential rather than any mark, grade or rank.  I challenged students to extend themselves out of their comfort zone to achieve their best.  Whatever the outcome, this alleviates the dread of any personal regrets when feedback on work generates an inner recognition that one could have done better.  This may not always be evident outwardly, particularly if results appear pleasing, but I flagged to students that they would know in themselves.

The Learning Pit analogy that is in every classroom in the College, illustrates that learning is never an easy and straight path.  It involves pushing into uncharted waters and struggling with new ideas and skills.  It is in this struggle that meaningful learning occurs and is the time to be resilient.  It is useful that students are aware, and anticipate, that such struggles are part of everything that is worthwhile in life.  Such a consciousness prevents such a hurdle as not coming as a surprise, but one to prepare for and overcome.  Walt Disney expressed this aptly: “Everyone falls down.  Getting back up is how you learn how to walk”. 

Mr Bob Anderson
Director of Teaching and Learning and Education Administration

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From the Director of Faith and Mission

Cupcakes are our secret power.  We delivered 150 of the most exquisite cupcakes to St Canice’s today, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Vinnies' girls.  I promise I did not do any taste testing, but it was very difficult.  Thank you, families.  We had cupcakes with exquisite decorations and others that were all about the cake:  A perfect combination of sweetness and light.  The clients had begun to line up at Canice’s Kitchen when I delivered them.  I wish I could describe the delight on so many faces. “Oh wow! Cupcakes!”  I promised that we would be back next Friday with another 150.  If your daughter would like to join the cupcake roster, she can access it on the Student Life Google Classroom and sign up to bake a dozen cupcakes on a Thursday evening, bring them in on Friday morning and I will deliver them. 

Coffee Queens had its grand opening for Term 3 this morning, with record sales.  The playlist is still a hit and Ms Butter - our expert barista - churned out the coffee and hot chocolate with efficiency and joy.  Thank God for Ms Butter!  We had some new helpers from Year 11 along for the ride and they were terrific, taking orders, setting up, packing down and not burning the banana bread.  That is a great relief to me as burned banana bread is fast becoming my signature dish.  The Coffee Queens team are sporting new aprons and caps.  We think we look very swish.

The Father Daughter Winter Sleepout has a new date.  We had to shift the date because of a set of circumstances that seemed to be compounding and then they became insurmountable.  Thanks to those parents who wondered where it had gone.   Our new date is Friday 19 August.

Now, health advice suggests that the new wave of Covid infections is going to increase between now and then.  We will be sleeping in a very well ventilated space so that gives a sense of safety, but it is important that dads and daughters make an informed decision about their engagement in the sleepout for themselves.  Masks will be important when we are inside and the usual distancing protocols will be expected.

We have two FABULOUS guest speakers:  Dave Hammond, former head of Jesuit Social Services in Mount Druitt, will share his story of homelessness.  Dave is a most engaging speaker and a deeply good man.  It will be a privilege to hear his story.  We also have Jesse Wynhausen, Youth and Family AOD Counsellor (Psychologist) from St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst.  Jesse will share some insights into good relationships and how to maintain them. 

We will have soup and a bread roll for dinner, and watch a movie together.  We will have a simple breakfast in the morning with a cup of coffee or tea.

We think $10 a head will cover our costs for catering, but we invite you to make a donation on the day to support the work of St Canice’s.  They really make a difference in the lives of our homeless neighbours.  I can’t imagine how they cope in this freezing rain.

One more important thingSaturday Sport.  If your daughter has committed to a team and wants to do the sleepout on Friday night, she will need to bolster her commitment.  She may need to bring her sport gear along on Friday evening, ready to head out to sport in the morning - and she will need to be full of energy.  Being tired after the Winter Sleepout does not excuse us from our sporting commitments.  We can do it, Vinnies' girls.  We can do it all - kick a goal for justice at the sleepout - and kick goals the next morning for your team.

A team of great dads will be sending out more information, led by Malcolm Wise, father of Ella in Year 12.  If you’d like to be part of the action, click on the LINK HERE and sign up.

We did Night Patrol on Tuesday evening and we got to spend some quality time in the Van with Molly Barwick, Sophie Slee, Cella Keenan and Mia Timbs. They were brilliant.  Each one took on a responsibility.  Molly was navigator and expert listener.  She was able to serve sandwiches with a smile and at the same time listen to Fernando tell his heart-wrenching story of health problems, neglect and deep fear.  I felt dreadful having to hurry us along to the next stop.  Cella was in charge of coffee, tea and hot chocolate.  She got every order right and her customers came back for seconds and thirds.  She shared good conversation with Richard and they were in agreement on many philosophical issues and opinions on the human condition.  They decided that relationships are really all about perceptions - we never really know what’s going on inside for people, so we should never judge by what we perceive to be the truth from the outside.  Mia Timbs was the champion of the set up - everything was exactly where it needed to be every time and her efficiency in the pack up was exhausting.  All that with a smile and a spring in her step.  Sophie kept us to time and made notes about how many ‘customers’ we had.  She was brilliant.  That information will really help St Vincent de Paul plan for future runs in the van. 

Our Night Patrol Roster is full at present, but I have a number of names on the waitlist and will email girls as spots become available.

Thanks again to our Sandwich Project team:  We didn’t break the record this time but the quality of the sandwiches was excellent.  We gave all of them away, so that’s a good sign.  John wanted plain egg sandwiches.  We will work on that for next time.

On the Formation Front, it’s important to know that today is the Feast of Mary Aikenhead.  We are encouraged to pray for her beatification - the next step on the road to sainthood.  We prayed this prayer at Assembly on Wednesday, led by Olivia Mitchell:

Compassionate and bountiful God, we ask you to enable us to remember and emulate the holiness of Mary Aikenhead.

We ask for the grace to continue to make her love of Christ and of the poor known throughout the world.

Grant that we may be encouraged by our church community to offer her public honour as one of your saints.

We pray for her beatification so that all the world may know of how she loves the poor and how she sought to change the world.

We ask this in the name of Jesus, Your son.

Amen

Mary Aikenhead managed to achieve so much in her one life.  I guess that’s not true.  She achieved even more after her life; we are the continuation of that work.  Love and service of the poor; that’s the place to start.

Speaking of feasts, 31 July is the Feast of St Ignatius.  We will be celebrating Ignatius and all things 'Jesuitical’ on Friday 29 July with our Big Movie Afternoon.  Students in 10, 11 and 12 are invited to venture to the Library at 3.15pm, grab a hot chocolate and some popcorn and settle in for a blockbuster movie.  It has love, revenge, intrigue, war, violence, struggle, murder, reconciliation and some of the best music ever written for the big screen.  No need to sign up anywhere - just turn up.

We will be focussing on the environment for a whole week from 1-5 August.  We will have activities all week but the most exciting activity will be our Environment Breakfast on Wednesday 3 August at 7.30am.  All students and staff are invited to join us for a $10 breakfast with juice and coffee or hot chocolate. 

But the breakfast is not the exciting part… Ms Ann Austin, Head of Sustainability for Bovis LendLease, is coming to chew the fat on how big development is focussing on sustainability and is looking to the future with determined efforts to protect our environment.  She comes to us with 30 years experience in local and international development.  She is passionate about sustainability, the environment, pollution of air, sea, land, waterways, kitchens, backyards, bodies and minds.

She comes to us with a strong background in Catholic Social Teaching, and for Anni, caring for the earth and every creature on it is an imperative that comes from an intelligent, informed and sensible way to live now and into the future.  We have hit the jackpot with this one.  I encourage all students to attend if they possibly can.  They can find the link to buy a ticket for breakfast on the Student Life Classroom.

Buddies Day has had to be cancelled for this Sunday 24 July.  Covid has struck our visitors and so we will have another go in Term 1 next year.  I know that sounds like a really long time away, but St Vincent de Paul have all the other Buddies Day spots filled for this year.  Our girls made great efforts to design and plan and organise.  The upside is that we will be really ready to go in 2023 for Buddies Day.

I leave you with some shots from Coffee Queens this morning.  You need to listen to some KC and the Sunshine Band while you look at them to get the full impact.

 

And a sneaky shot from Snug as a Bug in a Rug day - eating donuts and dancing to ‘Hot Chocolate’.  It made sense at the time.

Mrs Jo Kenderes
Director of Faith and Mission  

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Career News

Open Days 2022

Open Days provide students and their parents with a chance to take a tour and have a look around, chat with current students and academics, and find out all you need to know about university life.  For a comprehensive list of 2022 Open Days, check out the link found here.

University of Newcastle

University of Newcastle is a highly regarded regional university that offers a broad range of degrees.  To find out more about UNew, try to attend their Open Days:  Central Coast Open Day - 30 July and Newcastle campus Open Day - 27 August.  Registrations are essential here.

Western Sydney University

Open Day 2022

Registrations are open for Western Open Day on Sunday 14 August.  This is a chance to discover everything Western has to offer, explore presentations and student panels, meet academics and current students, and find out more about Western's early offer pathway, HSC True Reward.  Use the link found here to register your interest.

Discover Western

Discover Western webinars will provide tools and information for parents and carers in August, and advice on early entry and applications to students and their parents.  Learn more and register your interest here

Australian Catholic University (ACU)

Open Day 2022

Join ACU at the Blacktown campus on Saturday 30 July, Strathfield campus on Saturday 6 August or North Sydney campus on 13 August.  Register your interest here

Year 12 Revision Workshops

ACU is running a series of free online webinars run by experienced Year 12 examination markers and assessors for interested Year 12 students.  Registrations are essential using the link found here.  

University of Sydney

The Women's College

Tour the Women’s College facilities on Open Day, Saturday 27 August, 10.00am-3.00pm, or attend the online evening on Tuesday 23 August, 5.30pm-6.30pm.  Register using the link found here.  2023 application interviews are underway and Women’s College scholarships have opened.  For more information or to book a Zoom meeting, email Anne-Maree McCarthy registrar@thewomenscollege.com.au or phone: 02 9517 5018.

Project Management

Online Spring Camp

Interested students are invited to find out more about a career in Project Management, possible career pathways and the USYD Project Management degree.  Attendees will hear from industry professionals and participate in interactive workshops.  For more details and to register go here

Macquarie University

Learn more about Macquarie University degrees in this online series.  Registrations are essential using the link found here.

Australian College of Make Up and Special Effects, Australia (ACMUSE)

For over 40 years ACMUSE has been training industry professional makeup artists.  With a team of well-respected makeup artists, ACMUSE works with the makeup industry to deliver courses to its students.  All courses are suitable for individuals seeking a career in make-up and SFX in the following industries: Film, TV, Theatre, Fashion, Bridal and Photography.  For more information about ACMUSE courses use the link found here.

Academy of Interactive Entertainment

On Sunday 14 August, the Academy of Interactive Entertainment is hosting their 2022 Open Day.  The Open Day allows attendees to find out about AIE’s courses in Animation, Programing, Game Design, VFX and Filmmaking.  Learn about entry requirements and career pathways.  To register your interest, use the link found here.

Projects Abroad

Overseas Medical Experience and Service Programs

Projects Abroad is running a number of overseas programs for high school students in December and January.  These include medical experience in Nepal and community development projects in Fiji and Cambodia.  For more details use the link found here

Ms Helen Marshall
Careers Adviser


From the Gifted and Talented Co-Ordinator

  

The Readers and Writers Enrichment Group meets every Thursday morning before school. These students come together to share, edit, analyse, get inspired, reflect and WRITE. We have a magnificent bank of work, that continues to grow.  I share two items with you here.

Half-Way

Half-way, was what he said to me,
Hands clasped in mine, a look of pleading in his eyes.
Just meet me halfway. 

Half a body, half a mind,
Could not be much to sacrifice?
My compromise is painted blind,

But at what cost?
Hands and knees meet ground while they long for earth,
Your butcher the very same as you birth
The mother’s flesh charred and eyes burning,
Wondering how her children were led so far astray
The hands of the clock, turning,
Yet somehow, halfway, 
Becomes a whole. 

Without half a body and half a mind,
How can I possibly function?
Without a breath of fresh air, and we’re already there
A sweep and there’s haze on the horizon. 

And I am afraid of change,
Ash from your fire covers me, till the smoke fills my lungs
Is it better to be treated in some type of way, than not at all? 

For she is fragile.
No phoenix, she is delicate and battered and broken. 

She is a beg for life - not the physical existence, but rather the incomprehensible that stirs the heart.
Hands meet body and body meets ground, flesh and bones resting amongst the undergrowth.
Content, a sleepy haze, and I am with grace.  

By Lulu Oaten

 

Once Upon a Time... Reimagined

Once Upon a Beating Heart, was a heart that held all things,
From love to death to hidden dreams,
It played with the human strings.
It sank in times of sorrow and succumbed to the empty depths
Of pools that swallow Heart in whole
From the instant of an indrawn breath.
The heart needs uplifting when it is drawn,
It needs assurance, life and temptation
As with one Beating Heart is a passional organ -
That is burdened on the occasion.

By Sophie Mocsari

Ms Donna Ginzburg
Gifted and Talented Co-Ordinator


Sport and Health Report

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

Head of Netball and Basketball - Ms Elyse Harmanis - 0434 610 870
elyse.harmanis@stvincents.nsw.edu.au 
Head of Soccer:  Mr Nick Schroeder - 0431 117 565
Head of Hockey:  Mr Liam Jepson - 0422 027 649
Head of Athletics:  Ms Jacinta Jacobs - 0418 416 663.

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/  

 

Latest Important Information for Saturday Sport

Covid Guidelines at Danebank - Girls need to wear a mask when not playing their game ie before and after they play their game.  Parents/spectators must wear a mask at all times.

Abbotsleigh Parking -  if playing netball on the outdoor courts at Abbotsleigh, please park on Lucinda and walk in through Gate 16 to access the courts.  There is no parking inside the school at that end.

Meriden Roadworks - road works will occur on Margaret Street (outside the main entrance).  Please be mindful as traffic conditions will be impacted and a lot slower and harder to park.

 

TERM 3 SPORT

IGSA Netball, Basketball, Hockey and Football

Welcome back to Term 3 Sport.  Well done to all teams who remembered to bring their training gear on the first day back, and to all others who did the right thing and turned up to their training sessions this week.  Yes, training is always on in the first week and yes, it is on in the rain as we go to the gym!

Below:  Year 7 netball team-bonding indoors

Team lists, venue details and draws are on the College website.  This is always your first place to look for any Sport information.  Please also check the IGSA Spawtz page for any changes or wet weather updates  https://igsasport.spawtz.com/ .  Please do not call the IGSA office - please always call Ms Jacobs or your head coach if you have any questions about sport.

Please make sure you have checked the College website for new team lists and numbers as some have changed, particularly netball.  IGSA is only using the indoor courts at Tempe this term, so we will have more travelling time.  They are also not using Moore Park West this term for football. 

Arrival times at venues:  Please make sure you leave enough time to get to your venue in the busy Sydney traffic so you can be there 30 minutes prior to start time, to allow enough time to sign on and warm up properly.  Please be mindful that the Covid and influenza viruses are still rampant in Sydney, so please do not share drink bottles or shake hands with the opposition - just do your three cheers only. 

All players must be in the full College Sport uniform, and please know that any non-Vinnies’ items will be confiscated.  All hockey and football players must have all their own protective equipment and cannot take the field without shin pads or mouth guards.  All netball players must remove all jewellery and have short fingernails.  Do not use tape to cover earrings. 

Good luck to all teams!

Below:  Netball training

Fitness and Athletics Training

Fitness training continues on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and will now concentrate on more athletic events in preparation for the IGSA Carnival.  All levels of fitness will be catered for at the training sessions and are not just for those wanting to do athletics.  Any students wishing to improve their fitness/athletics are invited to come to one or both days.  Students meet outside the change rooms at 3.15pm and then head down to Rushcutters Bay on Mondays and will catch the bus to E S Marks on Wednesdays.  If it is wet they will do a fitness session in the gym or run under cover - so training is always on! 

From the Inter-House events we ran at school, the athletics squad has been chosen and they will train for the IGSA Carnival in Week 5.  If any students who train outside of school for athletics missed the trials due to illness or injury, please email Ms Jacobs to be added to the list.  However, we will be using the IGSA twilight meets on 5 and 12 August in Term 3 as the final selection of the College team for the IGSA Carnival on 19 August.  All students must come to both Friday night meets.

SPORT STARS OF THE WEEK

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

Congratulations to the Athletics Squad who had their first session on the newly renovated E S Marks Field on Wednesday afternoon.  All athletes trained well and are a little bit sore this week from running on the tartan track.

 

Ms Jacinta Jacobs
Co-ordinator of Sport


CANTEEN - Term 3 - This Week's Canteen Specials and Reminders

 

TERM 3:  Important Advice from the Canteen about Student Cards:  

PLEASE NOTE:   Students MUST bring their Student Card with them when purchasing from the canteen

Students were informed last term that canteen staff will no longer accept excuses to punch in card numbers - NO CARD/NO PURCHASE. 

  • 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).
  • ONLINE ORDERING is also available.
  • GLUTEN FREE products are available - only when purchased through online ordering

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View CANTEEN SPECIALS for Term 3 Week 2 - 25-29 July:    HERE


REMINDER from the P&F: Year 8 Parent Social - Thursday 28 July

Social night for St Vincent's Year 8 parents and carers.  Book tickets via the Try Booking link below.

Date and Time:  Thursday 28 July - 6.30pm-10.30pm. 
Cost:  $30 - includes a drink on arrival with finger food served from 7.00pm.
Venue:   Bloody Mary’s, The Gazebo, 2 Elizabeth Bay Road, Potts Point.

Book via the link here:   https://www.trybooking.com/CAHKT 

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