August | 2019 | Joeys Year 7 2019

Short story competition

Congratulations to Thomas, Luke and Thomas who all won prizes on the recent 50 word short story competition.

Joeys Boarders rugby team wins Grand Final

Congratulations to the Joeys Year 7 Boarders team who play for Hunters Hill rugby club in the Sunday competition each week during winter. Yesterday they won the grand final of their division. This is the first time since 2014 that a Joeys team has done so. Special thanks to Mr Jim Lloyd who coaches the…

Sunday night Mass

Year 7 boys doing readings at Mass.

Rugby 7’s

Rugby 7’s underway on back ovals

Athletic testing

With the main winter competition season over, the boys are moving into Rugby 7’s, Futsal, AFLX and tennis. This will be the case for a few weeks until Summer Sport trials begin. On Tuesday afternoon the boys had a number of tests described below. They will have the same tests completed again in the future….

UNO in Pastoral group

Playing UNO in Mrs Hookham’s pastoral group.

Athletics Carnival

Last Monday was the College Athletics carnival. The whole school travelled to the Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre. All boys were required to compete in at least the 100m sprint and 200m sprint. It was great to see so many boys from Year 7 wanting to get involved in all the other events. To the…

1500 m

The 1500 m is a tough event being 4 laps of the track. This was an optional event that the boys could participate in but you will see how many boys have a go. I have cut the race down to a few minutes but you might notice a group of Year 7 boys running…

100m relay

Long jump

The long jump pit is right in front of the grandstand and it was great to see so many boys having a go.

200 m

Each boy in Year 7 ran the 200m event.

Shot put

Keen competition during the shot put.

400 m

High jump

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to get video of the high jump right until the end when Lucas was the last man jumping. He jumped 1.55m and just missed a Personal Best of 1.57m.

100 m

All Year 7 ran in the 100m. Congratulations to Billy who won the 100m championship.

Multiple point scorers 10 August

Rugby 13C’s James de Szoeke – 3 tries Will Booth – 2 tries Tomas Moloney – 5 goals 13D’s Edward Ghattas – 3 tries Thomas Shaw – 2 tries Nicholas Callanan – 2 tries Henry Howard – 6 goals 13E’s Eddie Scarf – 2 tries 13F’s James Forder – 2 tries and 3 goals Archer…

Sport results Saturday 10 August

Hunters Hill (Joeys boarders) rugby team

A “hair-raising” experience in Science

It is amazing what a little static electricity can do to improve a hair-style.

Tugowar in socks

Tug-o-war in socks requires skill, teamwork, hand/feet coordination (and also uses up lots of energy!).

Murderball

At some schools this game is called dodge ball. Here at Joeys we call it “Murder ball”.

13E rugby

13E’s entering the field with a 13G tunnel. They won 68-5.

13G warm up

Winning team warm-up photos. Its all in the warm-up – particularly at 7.30am with a temperature of 4 degrees. The mighty 13Gs defeated Kings 13Fs by 45-10.

Jazz in August

From the College Counsellors: What is rumination?

Interschools snowsports at Thredbo

Max and Cooper competing at the Interschools in Thredbo last holidays.

Multiple point scorers 3 August

Rugby 13A’s Oliver Neate – 2 tries 13C’s Ben Bayfield – 2 tries Tomas Moloney – 1 try and 3 goals 13D’s Thomas Shaw – 2 tries 13E’s Edward Ghattas – 5 tries D’Arcy Vaughan – 8 goals 13F’s Archer Landers – 5 tries Angus McRae – 2 tries Bailey Elias – 2 tries James…