Joeys Year 9 2018

Agriculture excursion today

Mr Junee’s agriculture class visited a number of properties today at Mangrove Mountain.          

Synapse competition winners awarded at assembly

The Year 9 winners of Synapse last term were today awarded their certificates at assembly. Congratulations to the Year 9 winners: DECLAN HOURIGAN DAVID TALIFERO HENRY WORRELL LUCA MANFREDI DYLAN MCCANN XAVIER LEE ALEX CHOI

Colo 9.3

The Colo bulletin and a selection of photos from Colo group 9.3. If you would like more photos or high resolution photos, please bring a USB and see Mr Blair.

Rugby 2 June

A selection of photos from rugby last weekend.                                                                                              …

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Champagnat Family Mass

Congratulations to the following Year 9 students who received Champagnat Awards at the Champagnat Family Mass last Sunday: Henry Den Joe Hogan Bernard Lund

Reconciliation week

Last week was Reconciliation Week and the Indigenous boys presented at assembly.  

Oil painting still life

                                     

State of Origin recess

As has become tradition in recent years, the boys had blue doughnuts for recess this morning in support of NSW in the State of Origin tonight. If you look closely you will see that there is one maroon doughnut. No one would touch it as it sat by itself, isolated…getting ready to lose….

Congratulations: Winners of the 10 word book review challenge

    Library and Information Week 10 Word Book Review Challenge Students were invited to tell us the plot of their favourite book in 10 words or less. Below are the Top 10 reviews. (All books available to loan in the RC) Congratulations to Daniel Chenu in Year 8 and Billy Jack Velder in Year…

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Lenten Cake Stall

Last week, with the help of the Year 9 Parent Reps, the school held a cake staff to raise money for our Lenten appeal in aid of the Marist School in Bangladesh. The boys made a donation in return for some delicious cakes at recess. Particular thanks to all the families that donated cakes and…

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Sacrament of Confirmation

Last week Bishop Terence Brady gave the Sacrament of Confirmation to a number of boys here at the College including from Year 9: Hamish Alston, Dylan Connaghan, William Gahan, Joe Hogan, James Makris, Dylan McCann, Oscar Ortolani, Sebastian Salaberry.

Congratulations to the winners of Synapse 2018

ANNOUNCING THE WINNING TEAM: TEAM HARRY HOUDINI DECLAN HOURIGAN DAVID TALIFERO HENRY WORRELL LUCA MANFREDI DYLAN MCCANN XAVIER LEE ALEX CHOI Well done to all teams for your excellent participation and collaboration on the day. It certainly was inspiring to watch you all in action. The winners will receive the certificates at a Headmaster’s Assembly,…

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Vivid Sydney

Last Saturday night the boarders who were staying in took a trip to Vivid Sydney. We travelled to North Sydney and parked the bus at the Shore school then walked across the Harbour Bridge. For many of the boys it was the first time they had ever walked across the Harbour Bridge. There were great…

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Colo 9.2

The Colo bulletin and a selection of photos from Colo group 9.2. If you would like more photos or high resolution photos, please bring a USB and see Mr Blair.

Da Vinci Decathlon

Last week the following boys attending the Da Vinci Decathlon at Knox Grammar School. Attending were: Noah Fogarty, Henry Worrell, Bernard Lund, Nick Baksa, Henri Mead, Damian Ryan, Declan Hourigan, Luca Manfredi.

Books & Blokes with Adam Spencer

“With my book, I’m excited to know I’m feeding the Geek in others” For our Term 2 Books & Blokes Breakfast we celebrated Maths week by inviting self-proclaimed maths geek, Adam Spencer, as our guest speaker. Adam was thoroughly entertaining and spoke of his life-long love of numbers, and his belief that maths is at…

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Father son camp – save the date

The weekend of 25th and 26th of August 2018 is the Year 9 Colo Father Son weekend. There is some general information below and more detailed information including booking form is here. I highly recommend that your son and his father (or father figure) attend this weekend if at all possible. It is a great…

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Literacy and numeracy challenge

In recent weeks Year 9 have been involved in an online literacy and numeracy challenge. Competition has been between individuals as well as classes. Below are the Top 16 Year 9 boys in each. Well done boys!

Year 9 at Mass last Sunday

Last Sunday evening Year 9 did the readings and offertory at Mass. Families are welcome to join us for this Mass starting 8:15pm each Sunday night (except Sundays where there is a Sunday morning Family Mass).

Year 9 Drama

Some of the drama performances and performers in class this morning.

NAPLAN

The boys have commenced their NAPLAN testing this morning.

Waratah signs autographs

After the rugby tonight the Waratahs signed autographs on the field. Many are Joeys old boys who took the time to have photos with the boys, including Ned Hannigan.

Waratahs v Blues

The boarders are at the rugby at Brookvale Oval tonight.

Joeys boys attend the 2018 Sydney Writers Festival

We had the great privilege of escorting 30 enthusiastic readers and writers from Year 7 – 11 to attend the 2018 Sydney writers Festival at Carriage works. According to Robbie Matchett in Year 11 “All the boys who were able to attend thoroughly enjoyed the Sydney Writers’ Festival. We were able to listen to and…

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ANZAC day Assembly

                ANZAC day was last week so we observed ANZAC day at assembly today. The Australian, New Zealand and French flags were placed on stage. Year 9’s Henri du Maurier carried the French flag. The last post was played and the Ode was recited by the boys. Lieutenant-Colonel…

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Fitness training

Rugby fitness training at Tarban Creek.

15B football training

Football training at Riverglade Reserve, right next to the Harbour.

Synapse

A few photos of the boys involved in Synapse today. More details and photos to come early next term.

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