Month: May 2016

Boys see Joeys Old Boys at the rugby

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Year 9 at Waratahs v Cheetahs.

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Joeys Old Boy Ned Hannigan runs on for his Waratah debut as Year 9 boys look on.

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Joeys Old Boy and SJC boarding staff member Tom Robertson interviewed after winning man of the match for the Waratahs.

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Ned Hannigan talks to the boys and signs autographs after the game.

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Top 10 borrowers

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“By digesting books, I am creating myself. You are what you read.” Malcom Knox

Reading is the single most important skill a person can master, but it does not come naturally and many people struggle. Reading is a skill that is mastered by practicing, much like mastering any other skill such as riding a bike, playing football or playing a musical instrument. The more you read, the better you will be at it, and the more you will enjoy it. All the research points to a strong positive correlation between time spent reading, academic achievement and long-term emotional wellbeing.

It is critical that children read content they enjoy, to find a book that connects with them and try to spend at least 10 – 20 minutes a day on quiet sustained reading. Before going to sleep is perfect! The staff in the Resources Centre encourage all boys to come to the library to borrow a book and if they are unsure about what to read, we are more than happy to make suggestions. Alternatively, they can view books recommended by other Joeys boys on our HUB website.

Below is a list of the Top 10 borrowers for Year 9 in Term 1. These boys are all well on their way to academic success and emotional wellbeing. Well done boys!

  1. Mitchell Hoare
  2. Hugh Bokenham
  3. Ted Hines
  4. Curtis Fricot
  5. George Johnson
  6. Michael Jones
  7. Zac Lawler
  8. William Qiu
  9. Nicholas Mirow

 

 

A quote from Andy Griffiths which for me sums up the power of books…

 

“For me, books – both reading and writing them – have always represented an opportunity to take a walk on the wild side. To leave the comfortable, well-ordered confines of normality and go to where the wild things are. And not to play with the wild things, but to go inside their minds. To become a wild thing. And to become a wild thing so completely and utterly that, when you shut the book, you have totally forgotten you have even laboured under the delusion that you were a human being.”

 

Happy Reading!!

 

Linda Roden | Head of Library
St Joseph’s College | Mark Street, Hunters Hill, NSW 2110 | Locked Bag 5009, Gladesville, NSW 1675
T +61 2 9816 0854 | F +61 2 9817 1208 | E lroden@joeys.org| W www.joeys.org

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Final Lenten Appeal

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La Valla 1During Lent the boys were asked to donate money for the College Lenten Appeal which was for La Valla School in Cambodia. We also held a very successful 20 minute recess challenge which was a cake stall for the boys to buy cakes kindly prepared by a number of parents.

The donations have been finalised.  The College raised just under $22,000 in the appeal which will make a massive difference to La Valla school.

Year 9 raised $4,000 of that which was the second highest total in the school after year 12. We are the second smallest year group with just 3 students more than Year 7 which is the smallest. On average Year 9 donated $24.54 per student, which was also the second highest in the school (see chart below).

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TrainLink bookings for June Long Weekend and End of Term 2 2016

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Dear Parents and Carers,

TrainLink bookings are now being received for County Boarders for:

  • June Long Weekend – 2016
  • End of Term 2 / Return for Term 3 – 2016

The college is required to comply with the cut-off date specified by TrainLink.  Please note the following closing dates for booking through the College:

 

Travel dates – 2016 Closing Dates
June Long Weekend

To Home:  10 June / To SJC: 13 June

 Bookings close : 9th May 2016
End of Term 2 – Return for Term 3

To Home: 24 June / To SJC: 18 July

We urge you to make your bookings now through the College, even if you are not sure; bookings may be cancelled without administration fees if done so by the cancellation date noted on the booking form.

To make your bookings, please fill out the relevant form which can be found on the College website http://www.joeys.org/about-us/transport/ or by following the “About Joeys” tab – then “transport”.

Simply return the booking form(s) by email to travel@joeys.org (queries may also be forwarded to the same email address).  Alternatively, bookings can be faxed to (02) 9816 0861.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Regards

Greg Smith | General Coordinator
St Joseph’s College | Mark Street, Hunters Hill, NSW 2110 | Locked Bag 5009, Gladesville, NSW 1675
T +612  9816 0879 | F +612  9816 0912 | E travel@joeys.org  W www.joeys.org

 

Books and Blokes – Tom Fleming

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BB4Books & Blokes Breakfast

Tomas Fleming

24 May, 2016

Our next Books & Blokes Breakfast will feature what will no doubt be a moving presentation by Holocaust survivor and Joeys grandfather, Tom Fleming (formerly Fleischmann).

Lolli’s Apple is a memoir of a young boy’s innocent view of the Holocaust during the last years of World War 2, Lolli’s Apple is written from the perspective of 6 year old Tomas, who along with his pregnant Mother Lolli, experience all the horrors of transportation to first Auschwitz, and then finally Terezinstadt concentration camp. With death all around them, Tomas’s resilience and ability to adapt, and his Mother’s resolve to keep her little family (later including newborn, Peter) alive is nothing less than astounding.

About the Author

Tomas Fleischmann was born in what is now Slovakia on 27 June 1938. Tomas is one of only 123 survivors of 16,000 children who went through Terezin Concentration Camp during WWII. He and his pregnant mother Lolli survived arrest, internment at Szered Camp, transportation to Auschwitz and internment at Terezin where Lolli gave birth to another son Peter.

Tomas, his mother Lolli and his brother Peter later migrated to Australia where Tomas changed his name to Tom Fleming.

Tom later attended Parramatta High School in Sydney and practiced an illustrious career in textiles. He has also won several national awards for his inventions. Tom is a regular speaker about his holocaust experience with Courage to Care a major anti-bullying project that has visited schools and communities across regional and metro Australia reaching almost 250,000 people.

Tom is also a member of the Child Survivor Group in Sydney.

To attend this breakfast RSVP here:

Mother’s day stall

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Boys: Mother’s Day is this Sunday. There will be a mother’s day stall this Thursday and Friday at recess and lunch outside the Farrell Auditorium. There will be gifts available for you to purchase for your mothers for $5 and $10.

Fathers: please remind your sons (and take this as a reminder for yourselves).

Mothers: please pretend you didn’t read this message.