From The Principal
Dear Parents, Carers and Students,
As a school community, we have so much to be grateful for.
School Musical Performances
In particular, during Week 5 many parents, students and staff thoroughly enjoyed the performances of the School Musical, Cinderella. To all who purchased tickets - thank you for your much appreciated support. To each member of the fabulous cast and crew, and to the Director Mrs Burns, Mrs Mercieca, Mr Dennelly, Mr Burns and all members of our wonderful Creative and Performing Arts Faculty - thank you for your dedication and passion which were again very evident in this year’s school musical. All participants put their heart and soul into each performance and are to be highly commended for all their hard work and the success of the show!
Bishop’s Student Excellence Award Ceremony
On Tuesday, 23 August, I attended the Diocesan Bishop’s Student Excellence Award Ceremony with our School Captain, Neave Keenan and her parents. On behalf of the school community, congratulations to Neave who is the very deserving 2022 recipient of this most prestigious award. Well done Neave!
MacKillop Community Day
On Thursday, 25 August the School celebrated our first ‘Mackillop Day’ with a meaningful and spiritually inspiring full school liturgy held in the Gym. We were reminded of the trail-blazing nature of the life of our nation’s first saint, St. Mary of the Cross Mackillop. As members of this Catholic school, we were encouraged to follow in Mary MacKillop’s footsteps by: being people of justice and ecumenism, being courageous and hopeful, having a deep faith in our God who provides, and by living the Gospel with a Josephite heart. Also highlighted was Mary MacKillop’s inspirational quote, “never see a need without doing something about it”.
Congratulations to the following students who were presented the inaugural MacKillop Awards at this assembly. This award recognises students who in their words and actions epitomise the following values demonstrated by both Mary Mackillop in her lifetime & and the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart today: justice, service, compassion, respect, humility, courage and hospitality.
Year 7 Mackillop Day Awards Recipients: Isaiah Infante, Amy Jedrzejcza, Edward Robinson, Alyssa Shepherd and Nikita Toseska.
Year 8 Mackillop Day Awards Recipients: James Billett, Katelyn Blissett, Bella Brennan, Hayden Smith and Pradhana Sreejith.
Year 9 Mackillop Day Awards Recipients: Emily Di Pietro, Ethan Field, Anabella Filipovic, Chloe Norris and Matthew Shepherd.
Year 10 Mackillop Day Awards Recipients: Mackenzie Best, Chloe Bloomfield, Aidan Curnow, Isabelle Dimitrevski, Isabelle Plattner, Lucas Thompson and Isabella Toohey.
Year 11 Mackillop Day Awards Recipients are: Aaron Jeffery, Jasmine Kaschubs, Tara Massey, Bailey Miller and Nicholas Schulz.
Year 12 Mackillop Day Awards Recipients are: Teya Garcia, Jake Heys, Charlotte May, Jack Tomasi and Zara Williams.
The following students received Principal’s Gold Awards at the Full School Assembly on Monday 15 August:
Ryan Cazalet-Smith
Lucas Thompson
Isabelle Dimitrievski
Isabelle Plattner
Sarah Taylor
Jessica Seveque
Liana Carella
Alex Quinion
Jasmine Kaschubs
Indiana Taylor
Vincent Nardi
Hannah Hill-Harrison
Emily Allen
Isabella Micovski
Chelsea Whalan
Katelyn Blissett
Eva Mutton
Holly Collins
Timothy Bloomfield
Cooper Hill
Hayley Jedrzejczak
Tahlia Coan
Rithika Sutheesh
Cate Mansbridge
Ryan Cergovski
Leon Photiou
Travis Grimson
Aiden Mcewan
Phoenix Chetcuti
Alphons Lijoy
Ellie Micovski
Talisha Ristevski
Gemma Cresswell
Michael Broomham
Blake Barsby
Nathan Berto
Mia Haslam
Breanna Cresswell
Declan Bone
Lachlan Daly
Billie Elliott
This is a fine achievement with each of these students having been issued 48 merit stamps for respect for self, others, learning and/or the environment. Congratulations and well done to all recipients.
It is pleasing to see so many students being rewarded for their outstanding effort and positive behaviours for learning at school.
Senior Students
Year 12 returned to school from their Trial HSC Exams last week and are now busy finalising their preparations for the HSC Exams next term. Meanwhile, Year 11 students are revising in preparation for their end of Year 11 examinations scheduled to commence on Thursday 15 September in Week 9.
Reminder - Book Week Celebration Day
We look forward to celebrating Book Week on Monday 29 August and hope as many students as possible will demonstrate school spirit by dressing up for this fun day!
Have a well deserved relaxing weekend everyone!
Mrs Jenny Bell
Acting Principal