Month: June 2016

Year 9 French Semester 1

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The Year 9 class began the year with a traditional celebration of Candlemas and Shrove Tuesday by learning to cook traditional crepes on crepe machines, to a French recipe (written IN French!) A great time was had by all.

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Year 9 class working on storyboard

As already posted on the blog in March, they also had their first excursion as a group to the Sydney French Film Festival to see a French drama-Comedy. The Dinner leave at Leichhardt beforehand was much appreciated as well.

Late in Term 1, the boys performed their Clothing speaking dialogues and a lot of effort and detail went into these performances.

Recently the boys submitted an assessment on health, designing symptoms and advice posters in French for the Infirmary: Nic Rath’s submission about General well-being and Josh Legdin’s Winter ailments posters were both very impressive (see below)

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Robbie Matchett coordinating the ideas of his classmates

And as Mid-Year approaches and our third unit beings, the Year 9 Class have begun the scriptwriting process for their Short Film Competition Entry, to be submitted in September. Robbie Matchett is coordinating the class’s efforts and is set to star in a leading role in their production which features a dream sequence and the required element – a balloon.

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Sport results for Saturday 18 June

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All games:           Played:                 42

Won :                     29

Drew:                      1

Lost:                      12

 

vs Riverview:     Played:                 22

Won:                     17

Drew:                      0

Lost:                        5

 

vs Grammar:      Played:                 12

Won:                       7

Drew:                      1

Lost:                        4

 

Points for:           1,065     Points against:                 728!

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14F v Riverview

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The 14F’s had the honour of kicking off proceedings at Riverview with the dreaded 8.00am game.  They gathered in darkness to catch the 7.00am bus.  They then encountered a Riverview team with much bigger boys and the worst playing conditions of the day with consistent rain throughout the match.  Despite this, the boys knuckled down to the task at hand and played some entertaining rugby and ran the Riverview team off their feet.  They scored 7 tries and kept the Riverview team scoreless in their 45-0 win.  Dominic Sestanovic scored 3 tries. A great platform for the rest of the day.  Below is a photo of the happy boys after the game which was popular on Joeys Rugby twitter.

14F v Riverview 18-6-16

Report and photo courtesy of Mr David Wiseman.

Year 9 boys reading at mass

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Year 9 did the readings and offertory tonight at Mass. Father Gavin was joined in saying Mass by Father Kevin. Father Kevin who is a Filipino priest who spoke to the boys about his work with refugees in Burma.

Latin quiz

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IMG_1827Last night 4 Year 9 boys competed in a Latin quiz at Barker College. Will Page, Daniel Gibbons, Angus Dermody and Oliver Sidgreaves led the team to the finals, which is a first for Joeys. Unfortunately those pesky teams from SCEGGS & PLC Sydney were just too quick on the buzzer in the final!

Bollywood in the Year 9 Ref

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Tonight was just another night like every other in the Year 9 ref (despite what your son probably tells you).

A tiger and flamingo watched on as the boys tucked into a Bollywood inspired food under coloured spotlights. The menu included an entree of samosas and two types of curry for mains. Dessert and supper also had an Indian flavour.

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Like I said, just another ordinary night in the Year 9 dining room….

 

Upcoming dates

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Please see below some upcoming important dates for Year 9.IMG_0101

Friday 17 June – Dance Practice

There will be a dance practice for all the Year 9 boys in the basketball gym. Practice starts at 8:00am.

Monday 20 June – Dance with OLMC Parramatta

The boys shower after sport training, eat dinner and catch buses to OLMC Parramatta for a dance (dress is greys).  Buses will return around 9:00-9:15pm at which time day students can depart immediately.

Thursday 23 June – End of Term 2

The College calendar says that the boys can leave from 5pm. If they do all the right things I am hoping to get them out closer to 4:15pm but that will depend on them! Could you please think twice about requesting that your son leave early next Thursday? There are 163 students, 307 parents and carers and at least 1 staff member who would all like to finish early on Thursday. Barring exceptional circumstances, I think it is fair that we all finish at the same time!

Monday 18 July – Boarders return for Term 2

Boarders return by 8:00pm.

Tuesday 19 July – Classes commence for Term 2

Day students arrive by 8:00am for start of classes.

Canteen roster

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Click to sign up – Year 9 Roster for Shore game

Dear Families

Saturday July 23 is OUR YEAR 9 DAY to man the canteens for the Shore Home Game. As an added bonus we are also the Hosts at Jack’s bar after the game :))

It is really important that we get this roster filled because as you may or may not know the canteens are run wholly by parent volunteers.

Please find above the link to the roster.

I know a lot of you will be delaying signing up until you know what time your son/s are playing, but it’s really important we get this roster filled as soon as possible, so please sign up and if there’s a clash, see if you can do a swap with someone on the roster the week before.

Our year 9 parent group is known within the school as being one of the most active and helpful, so let’s keep the spirit going and do our best for a great day.

Looking forward to seeing as many of you in the canteen on the day and at Jack’s bar after the game – look for the number “9” balloon.

Thanks

Year 9 Parent REPS

Sport results for Saturday 4 June

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All games:

Played:                 31

Won:                     21

Drew:                      2

Lost:                        8   (including 1 internal game)

 

vs Newington:

Played:                 13

Won:                       9

Drew:                      2

Lost:                        2

 

Points for:           882         Points against:                 412

 

Despite the weather and ground conditions, the boys continued to play attacking rugby with an overall scoring average of 28.5 points per match.  Best performed age group was the 16s who did not lose a game – they amassed 177 points for and only 24 points against.  The 13s age group was also undefeated but had 2 draws.  Highest scoring team was the 8th XV who racked up 79 points against the Newington 6th XV while keeping the opposition to zero.

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Feedback from Synapse

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The boys reflect on Synapse and the da Vinci decathalon.

 

The da Vinci Decathlon was a fun and challenging experience for us all. As we stepped through the Knox gates, we were amazed. There was over 1000 students competing at one school! We sat down at the tables in the hall ready for the challenges. The first three challenges we got handed were English, Science and Philosophy. We all worked well as a team as managed to complete these hard tasks relatively well. After recess, we were handed four more challenges. These consisted of Mathematics, Engineering, Art and Poetry and Cartography. These challenges not only required us to use our knowledge but also our creative minds. After lunch, we then did General Knowledge and Code Breaking. We did both these tasks quite well. Overall, this day presented many challenges but was a great experience to be involved in.

Rhys Barrow year 9

 

i think synapse was challenging this year, though was achievable.

I do think however that the maths section was a bit too tricky.

I would have loved to see the comparison of synapse with DaVinci – i guess I’ll just have to wait until next year and hopefully I’ll get chosen.

Nick Davies Year 9

 

Synapse was a good challenge, which while a lot of fun, had its harder moments. The best parts were the general knowledge and the art and poetry. The hardest parts were the maths and the engineering. IT was a lot of fun overall and I would like to do it again.

Angus Dermody Yr 9