Lenten appeal 2018

Our school campaign for Lent 2018 focuses on the first Marist school in Bangladesh and in particular how families, as a result of the school, now see a brighter future for their children. Many families in Bangladesh are reliant on work in tea gardens. Unfortunately since the days of British rule, there are very few…

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Ash Wednesday liturgy

Today the College marked the start of Lent with a liturgy for Ash Wednesday. Father Gavin led the liturgy and spoke to the boys about making a sacrifice and helping someone else. Ashes were distributed to staff and boys. The annual Lenten appeal was also launched by Year 12 boy Jet Williams (See separate post).

Singing practice

The strong participation by the boys in the singing at the various Masses and liturgies here at the College is well known. It is one of the strong traditions of St Joseph’s College. Last night at the start of study we had a quick 25 minute singing practice in the Chapel before heading off the…

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Year 9 Visual Arts Art Express

Year 9 students visiting Year 12 HSC works from Art Express

Visual Arts students on excursion

Dinner tonight

Family Mass

Sunday Family mass

Converting data sizes

Mr Vane-Tempest’s maths class learning to convert between bits and bytes and megabytes and terabytes.

Relaxing in the dorms

Evening study

Evening touch footy

Order of operations in Maths

The boys in Ms Di Lorenzo’s class learnt about order of operations this week.

Making crepes in French

Boys in Ms Berriman’s French class making crepes.

Welcome to the new boys

Welcome to the new boys and their families. Already it is great to see them working hard. Also impressive is the way the rest of the boys have welcomed them all into the year group.

First assembly

Year 9 at the first school assembly for the year. The school welcomed Dr Chris Hayes at his first assembly.