Year 9 were recognised for their academic excellence and academic application in Semester 1 at assembly this morning.

Boys who received awards:

Academic Excellence and Academic Application:

Rhys Barrow, Nicholas Davies, Nicholas Rath, Oliver Sidgreaves

Academic Excellence:

Ruestam Bhangal, Nicholas Chan, Angus Dermody, Daniel Gibbons, Duncan James, Nicholas Jones, Jack Lewis, James Moore, Kobi Russell, Ben Tuite

Academic Application:

Patrick Bingham, Thomas Creighton, Ned Denton, Lucas Easton, Joshua Hewitt, Kaylam Hogan, Samuel Kanaan, Harrison Marr, Cian McCann, Daniel O’Brien, Matthew O’Malley, Dominic Sestanovic, Francis Stackpool, Edward Sykes.

On Friday night the Year 9 French students attended a French dance night. It was a great night with plenty of beaming faces and positive comments as we left the venue, having made new friends and enjoyed the music and atmosphere.  It is possible that some of the joy came from the fact that they pretty quickly realised they were the only boys’ school there and that the ratio of boys to girls was about 1:5.

The following great photos of the 15A and B rugby from last weekend against Shore are courtesy of Daniel Gibbons in Year 9.

Year 9 French with our three Hunters Hill-Le Vesinet Exchange students working together.

The Hunters Hill-Le Vesinet Exchange is in its 27^th year and Students in Years 9-11 who study French can participate by going to France to stay with a French family in the outer Parisian suburb of Le Vesinet, a sister municipality to Hunters Hill  for 6 weeks in December/January, before reciprocating and receiving their French host brother in June/July.

It was the French students’ first day at school after 3 weeks of holiday time with their host families (Each of these students have been hosted by a current Year 11 student studying French), exploring places far and wide such as Thredbo, Hamilton Island and Byron Bay. Although wearing a uniform was a complete novelty for them, they easily slipped into their roles as honorary “Joe Boys” for the 3 weeks ahead.

Y9 French working in small group with the three students from France asking about film and cinema popularity in France.

Julian Doyle, Robbie Matchett, Will Dyster, Zac Lawler with Le Vesinet exchange student Oscar Beriot learning about popular movie genres in France.

Sam Kanaan, Jordan Olivieri, Martin Floch (From Le Vesinet) , Matthew Smith, Rhys Barrow and Ed Benjamin discussing TV shows in French.

Le Vesinet student Gaetan Klocpocki with Nic Rath and James Moore, noting the most popular TV genres for French teenagers

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.

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)

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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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.

Report and photo courtesy of Mr David Wiseman.

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.

Last 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!