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Joeys Year 7 2019

Vaccination time

Pain levels shown in photos may not reflect reality.

From the College Counsellors: Parent Talk

The counselling service is hosting a parent talk on the 25th of November 6-7:30pm.

Last term during assembly Amanda Riedel, CEO and Founder of the Harrison Riedel Foundation, spoke about the launch of the YourCrew App. YourCrew is an app for young people to let others in their lives know how they are feeling so they can be encouraged to get the support they need. Parents are encouraged to…

Bull rush

A quick game of bull rush to warm up for PDHPE this morning.

Study skills

At the end of Term 4, Year 7 will have their first formal exam period when they will be examined in each of their subjects. To prepare for this process we started with a study skills session in Period 2 today. Today the boys learnt about: Organising a good study enviroment Eliminating distractions The importance…

Holiday reads

We are encouraging all boys to embrace the 20 minute reading challenge these holidays. By committing to reading for 20 minutes each day, most boys should get through a novel over the break. If you commit to this challenge over one year: 20 minutes reading a day = 1,800,000 words = 26 novels Not sure…

Junior athletes

The junior athletes being acknowledged at the Athletics Rally.

Year 11 study help

A few of the year 11 boys dropped into study to help the year 7 boys with their studies tonight and also talk about how they manage their academic workload.

Haircut time!

Trampolining

The boarders expended some energy at Skyzone Alexandria last Saturday night.

Thursday evening activity

The end of a big week when a lot of assessments were due. To their credit, the majority of the boys completed their work, so time for a bit of murder ball and tug-o-war in socks! The facial expressions in the tugowar are the best…

Ms Henderson-Wilson’s ensemble in action

Bowling

A few weeks ago the boarders went bowling on Saturday night.

Music pins awarded

This morning at Year 7 Division meeting Mr Howe, Head of Music, presented the boys with music pins. Boys who participate in one ensemble received a bronze pin, two ensembles a silver pin, 3 ensembles a gold pin.

Year 7 R U OK? Day donuts

This morning during Pastoral groups the boys participated by R U OK? day by chatting to their mates over a yellow donut. The boys received cards with some questions and guidance about how to ask a mate if he is OK and then shared a donut while they talked with their mates.

Book Week Event – Literary Speed Dating at the State Library of NSW

St. Joseph’s College Resources Centre and Monte Library initiated a highly successful joint literary event to celebrate Book Week 2019. Forty-five students from Years 7 to 11, who were identified as passionate readers, were selected to visit the State Library of NSW and participate in a library tour and Literary Speed Dating activity. Each student…

Rugby pennant winners

Boys in sport teams who are undefeated throughout their competition season are awarded a pennant. During the winter sport season, the 13C, 13D, 13F and 13G rugby teams were undefeated. Representatives of those respective teams, Ben, Wallace, Toby and Noah, went up on stage to collect the pennants on behalf of their teams at assembly…

Athletic carnival awards

Congratulations to the individual athletics champions at the recent College Athletics carnival. They were recognised at assembly on Thursday. u13 Championship Leon 78 points Lucas 66 points (equal second) Oliver (Year 8) 66 points (equal second)

Indoor rock climbing

The boys scaled the heights of indoor rock climbing today. A few challenged and overcame a fear of heights and a few showed that they might have careers as mountaineers…

Science project

When your Science project is nearly the same size as you… it looks good Ignatius!

Rowers

Some of the new year 7 rowers watching and learning!

Clear night in Sydney

Great views from the roof of the main building tonight.

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

UNO in Pastoral group

Playing UNO in Mrs Hookham’s pastoral group.

100 m

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

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.

Interschools snowsports at Thredbo

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

Cheering at Kings

Early start for 13G rugby

Sport results for 27 July

Lawrence performing at Wednesday morning mass

Each Wednesday morning there is an optional Mass in the Chapel at 8:10am before school. This week Laurence performed on guitar at the Mass.

13D, E, F and G Rugby

64 great photos below of 13D, E, F and G rugby last weekend courtesy of Mr John Flitcroft.

Cheering at the rugby

Academic application awards

Last Thursday at the Headmaster’s Assembly, Year 7 boys were presented with Academic Application awards. These awards are not based on marks or academic achievement but simply the effort and application that the boys show towards their studies. Each teacher votes for boys in their class who meet this criteria. Congratulations to the following boys…

Early Saturday morning

View of No. 1 field early on Saturday morning from the roof of the grandstand with Arthur and Wallace who were helping to set up for the day. A number of Year 7 also helped throughout the day.

13B Football

Congratulations to the 13B football team who had a great 4-1 win against Riverview on Saturday!

Poster squad 2

Pictures now fixed. The poster squad was busy overnight in preparation for tomorrow’s game against Riverview.

Cow day

At the end of Term 2 Year 7 participated in what is colloquially called “Cow day”. It is actually for the Technology topic on Agriculture and Food Technologies. We had a vist from the smart farmer who discussed: milk production in Australia imports and exports markets for milk nutritional needs of their age group and…

Sport results 22 June

Da Vinci decathlon

Some Year 7 boys recently attending the Da Vinci decathlon at Knox Grammar School. They were fantastic ambassadors of the College. They participated enthusiastically in the day and had fun doing so. We didn’t bring home any prizes but I think the boys would agree that it was a challenging and very worthwhile day.