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Joeys Year 8 2020 blog

News on the activities of Year 8, 2020, at St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill.

Last Saturday Night

The view from the roof.

Last Saturday night in the pool

It is still 35 degrees in Hunters Hill. Perfect for some pool footy.

15A Basketball v High

The 15A Basketball had a good 2 point win against Sydney High today in very hot conditions....

Assembly awards

Last Tuesday was the final school assembly and final Year 8 Division meeting for the year. A...

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Sport Results 8 August

Sport Results 8 August

Below is a summary of the rugby and football results from 8 August. [embeddoc url="https://blogs.joeys.org/2020year8/files/2020/08/Sport-Results-for-8-August-2020.pdf" download="all"...

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Multiple Point Scorers 8 August

Multiple Point Scorers 8 August

Under 14s Rugby 14D's Callum McCall - 3 tries 14E's Luke Hulscher - 2 tries and 3 goals Jonathan Pennington - 2 tries Shaylan Zabakly - 2 tries 14F's Jordan Basha - 2 tries Football 14B's James...

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What was he thinking?

What was he thinking?

A message for parents: Quite often as boys approach Year 9 they become very different creatures from the person their parents knew from Year 7 and 8. They don't think about the consequences of their...

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Sunday night mass

Sunday night mass

Year 7, 8 and 11 celebrated Mass in the Chapel tonight. Archie did one of the readings and Callum and Keanu did the offertory.

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AAGPS Athletics

AAGPS Athletics

Last weekend, in a fantastic team effort, a large number of Year 8 boys combined as part of the Joeys Junior Athletics Team to win the junior competition for the first time in 25 years! Usually all...

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Lunch

Lunch

Year 8 have been able to get back in the dining room for lunch 2 days per week. Here is half of them eating in the Year 12 ref, surrounded by honour boards. The year 12 ref is below the chapel and...

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Dinner tonight

Dinner tonight

This is the second sitting of dinner. To accomodate COVIDSafe requirements we need to have 2 sittings of Year 8 each night. As you can see from the plates there is no shortage of food and the boys...

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Gaelic football

Gaelic football

Mr Coupland's class are learning to play Gaelic Football at the moment. What a great way to spend Period 4 on a Friday.

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Write a book in a day

Write a book in a day

A number of students from Year 8 participated on Friday, 24 July in the annual Write-a-book-in-a-day competition. The students collaborated on the day to produce a 4000 word story as their...

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Academic application awards for Term 2

Academic application awards for Term 2

Congratulations to the boys listed below who achieved an AcademicApplication Award for Term 2. The Academic Application Awards are presented to boys who achieve 4 or more nominations from their...

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