Joeys Year 9 2018

School photos this Friday

School photos will be taken this Friday 25 May. A reminder, particularly for parents of day students, that this Friday the boys must wear blues pants and blazer to school. Also: Hair neatly cut and combed, clean shaven Shoes cleaned and polished Black belt and black socks to be worn At the end of last…

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…

Multiple Scorers for 19 May

Rugby 15A’s Henry Roberts – 3 tries Paddy Burns – 3 tries Ned Dalton – 2 tries Toby Landers – 2 tries Samuel Taber – 2 tries James Hendren – 7 conversions 15B’s Jordan Lancaster – 2 tries 15E’s Jesse Cheung – 2 tries 15G’s Charlie Kelso – 2 tries William O’Connell – 2 tries…

Sport results 19 May

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…

‘Navigating your teen’s mental health’ webinar by Blackdog Institute

FROM THE COLLEGE PSYCHOLOGISTS ‘Navigating your teen’s mental health’ webinar by Blackdog Institute Monday 28 May 2018 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEST Whether your teen is experiencing issues now, or if you want to be prepared for the future, this webinar will benefit any parent or carer of a young person. Delivered by a…

Info for young people and parents for the launch of 13 Reasons Why, Season 2

FROM THE COLLEGE PSYCHOLOGISTS 13 Reasons Why: Season 2 premiered on the popular streaming website, Netflix, last Friday the 18th of May. In time for its launch the mental health organisation, Headspace, released discussion guides for parents and young people. These discussion guides provide helpful information to viewers and the wider community about the shows…

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!

u15 Rugby

u15 Football

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).

Multiple point scorers 5 and 12 May

Under 15’s 5 May – Rugby 15A’s Paddy Burns – 2 tries 15B’s Hamish Alston – 4 tries Ned Shortis – 2 tries Archie Gallagher – 9 conversions 15D’s Xavier Horton – 2 tries 15H’s Christian Angelucci – 3 tries 12 May – Rugby 15A’s Henry Roberts – 2 tries James Hendren – 1 try…

FINAL TICKET SALES FOR THE WHITE PARTY

It will be ALL WHITE ON THE NIGHT. Final tickets on sale now, don’t miss out. Follow the link. http://shop.joeys.org/events/p-f-major-whtie.html

Year 9 Drama

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

Sport for Saturday 19 May

Below are the sport fixtures for this weekend. Any sport cancellations will be posted to this webpage: http://www.twitter.com/JoeysSport. Games are on unless indicated otherwise on this page. (You do not have to have a twitter account to view this page)

Sport results 12 May

NAPLAN

The boys have commenced their NAPLAN testing this morning.

Info from the P&F association

FRIDAY 18 MAY 10.40AM-11.00AM LENTEN APPEAL – RECESS CAKE STALL SJC Mission Office, in conjunction with the P&F, is running a cake stall at recess. Your Year Reps are asking families to bake or buy cakes, biscuits and slices and send them in (drop items to your sons’ ref – Year 7 to the…

Academic application awards for Term 1

Congratulations to the following boys who received an Academic Application Award for their studies during Term 1: Joshua Barlow Patrick Burns William Gahan Bernard Lund Luca Manfredi Dylan McCann Harry Parnaby Henry Roberts Edward Scarf Benjamin Scott Fletcher Youens

Sport for Saturday 12 May

Second hand Basketball shoes + Joggers

Dear Joeys Parent/Carers, You may remember that over the last two years, we have been collecting second hand basketball shoes to send to the Philippines and Rugby boots to South Africa. For those of you who are new or have a poor memory, for the last two years we have collected second hand basketball shoes…

Sport results 5 May

Debating results 4 May

Parent reps – Jack’s Bar this Saturday

Hello, Welcome to Term 2, we are looking forward to seeing everyone at the Year 9 Dinner on Friday night. We will have a special area set aside after the game on Saturday for parents to gather at “Jacks Bar” look out for the no. 9 Balloon. Below is an article about the history of…

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…

LENTEN APPEAL – RECESS CAKE STALL

On Friday 18 May the SJC Mission Office, in conjunction with the P&F is running a cake stall at recess (10.40am-11.00am). The Year Reps will be asking families to bake or buy cakes, biscuits and slices and send them into College on the day of the sale (drop items to your sons’ ref – Year 7 & 8 to either the Year 8…

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…

Fitness training

Rugby fitness training at Tarban Creek.