War on Waste - Doing Great Things!

Together with the 2 week Red Bin Challenge, Ocean in Focus, Oak Flats High School, Warilla High School and St Joseph's took to the shores of Little Lake for Clean Up Australia Day.  We collected over 200 cigarette butts, straws, bottle tops, fishing line, rope, small plastics, soft plastics, 9 full garbage bins that will go to landfill, a dumped suitcase and a bag of clothes!  We are extremely proud of the 6 students that attended last Friday.  They were all so enthusiastic and not at all worried about handling the rubbish.  As we collected rubbish, there was lots of talk about how we can better educate the whole school community with regard to waste management.  Our job on the day was to collect as much rubbish as we could to prevent it from ending up in the ocean.  Most of what we collected, did end up in landfill, but nonetheless, it didn't end up in a fish, bird or turtles stomach.

Our students were also featured in the Illawarra Mercury for their outstanding contribution.  Please read the great article here!

Presentation at Nazareth Primary School
On Friday 1st March, Callum Ellis from Year 12 was invited to attend Nazareth Primary School to give 3 x 45 minute presentations to our Primary Year 6 Leaders at a Leadership Day focusing on 'Journeys'.  Callum was accompanied by Mr Casolin and Mr Fenech, along with our whole VR system and he amazed all the Year 6 leaders with his presentation on his VR Journey in animation as well as a great opportunity to showcase St Joseph's.  Labor MP Anna Watson and the Principal of Nazareth Primary School were extremely impressed with Callum's display and the way that Joseph's goes above and beyond to support students in developing their career paths.  Congratulations Callum on an outstanding presentation.

Ash Wednesday 
On Shrove Tuesday 5th March, Ms Wilson, Mr Fenech and members of our Mission Team attended a Mass at Stella Maris Primary School, celebrated by Father Bryan Jones and attended by representatives from surrounding Diocesan schools, to collect ashes which were used at our own Ash Wednesday Liturgy.  

Year 11 Hospitality 
Year 11 Hospitality students have completed their first few practical lessons. Learning how to hold, use and clean a range of knives to cut a variety of vegetables into various classical French cuisine shapes and sizes-jardiniere, julienne, brunoise etc. They also made clarified butter (ready to cook croutons in for Caesar salad next week), crushed garlic and each student cut 2kg of onions into finely diced (brunoise) and finely sliced half rings. This fortnight we used these precision knife/cutting skills to make Thai Beef salad and Rice paper rolls.