Learning and Teaching News

Drop and Write Program 

Literacy is a fundamental component of our boys’ education. To further support their literacy needs, throughout Terms 1 and 2 boys in Years 5, 7 and 9 participate in our Drop and Write program. This program is run by our classroom teachers and supported by our Curriculum Leaders and College Leadership team. Our focus for this year is sentence structure, cohesion and punctuation. All boys have been provided with an A5 drop and write booklet, which will be placed inside the plastic sleeve in their College diary. I encourage you all to spend some time looking through these booklets and seeing what your son is writing!

Here are some examples of what our boys are doing! The stimulus is provided below.

Jacob Newman 7 Slattery

Julian Cassar 7 Slattery

Darcy Mahoney 7 Slattery

2021 ATAR achievements and Semester 2 Academic Awards 

During assembly last Wednesday, the top ten achieving ATAR students from the Year 12 2021 cohort were welcomed back in order to recognise their outstanding academic achievements. As a College we congratulated the following students:

Noah Wright

Noah was in Ephrem House and studied Literature, Maths Methods, SOR, Specialist Maths, Chemistry and Physics in senior. He achieved an ATAR of 99.05 and will be studying a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) at UQ.

Jacob Kumaru

Jacob was also in Ephrem House. In senior he studied English, Maths Methods, SOR, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Jacob is enrolled in a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences with a Health major at Bond University on a scholarship and is also awaiting the result of his medicine application. He achieved an ATAR of 99.05.

William Waters

Will was in Gilroy House and studied Literature, Maths Methods, SOR, Economics, Chemistry and French in senior. Will has been awarded an academic excellence scholarship worth $30,000 and study a Bachelor of Business and Law (Honours) at QUT. Will achieved an ATAR of 99.15.

Leon Simonetti

Leon’s senior journey was very different to the other Year 12s last year as, due to COVID-19, he was studying from home for 5 terms across Year 11 and 12. Leon kept in touch with his Literature, Maths Methods, SOR, Japanese, Modern History and Physics teachers as well as his Foley House mates online during this time. Leon was awarded the Champagnat Award for Conspicuous Effort in Study and Boarding at the end of last year, as well as being placed first in Japanese, Literature and Modern History for internal results in 2021. After his military service, Leon will come back to Australia to complete his Bachelor of Law and Economics at ANU. He achieved an ATAR of 99.15.

Oliver Vandenberg

Ollie was in Slattery House and studied Literature, Maths Methods, Specialist Maths, Physics, French, Biology and Cert III Christian Ministry and Theology in senior. He was awarded first place in Biology for internal results at the end of last year. Ollie achieved an ATAR of 99.40 and will be studying a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) at UQ.

Samuel Garbellini

Sam is currently preparing to start at the Australian National University where he will study Bachelor of Finance, Economics and Statistics (Honours). He was also awarded a $10,000 per annum scholarship at ANU. Sam was in Slattery House and studied Literature, Maths Methods, Specialist Maths, Economics, Physics, Cert III Christian Ministry as well as Geography which he was awarded first place based on internal assessment. Sam achieved an ATAR of 99.55.

Jacob Anderson

Jacob was in Gilroy House and studied Literature, Maths Methods, SOR, Economics, French and Music. He achieved first place for internal assessments in Economics, SOR and French as well as sharing The Brother Terence Heinrich Memorial Prize for Equal First Aggregate in Year Twelve. Jacob is undertaking a Bachelor of Business at QUT on the QUT Academic Excellence Scholarship worth $30,000. Jacob achieved an ATAR of 99.55.

William Curr

Will was a member of Gilroy House and studied English, Maths Methods, Specialist Maths, SOR, Music and Chemistry. Will shared The Brother Terence Heinrich Memorial Prize for Equal First Aggregate in Year Twelve. He also completed Year 12 on the score of 100/100 for both Maths Methods and English, gaining him the title of first in Queensland for these subjects. At university, Will is studying a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) at UQ, with the plan to study Medicine in the future. He achieved an ATAR of 99.75.

Alexander Pitman

Alex was presented with the 2021 Proxime Accessit for second highest ATAR achievement in the 2021 Year 12 cohort with an ATAR score of 99.80. This placed Alex in the top 120 students in Queensland. Alex is an Old Boy of Slattery House who studied SOR, English, Math Methods, Specialist Maths, Chemistry and Physics. He will be studying a Bachelor of Computer Science at UQ. Congratulations, Alex.

Hugh Torpie 

Hugh Torpie was awarded the 2021 College Dux. Hugh, who was a member of Rush House studied English, Math Methods, Specialist Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Cert III Christian Ministry. He was awarded first for internal assessment for Chemistry, Mathematical Methods, Physics and Specialist Mathematics, as well as scorring 100/100 for Maths Methods, awarding him first in the state for this subject. 

Hugh achieved an ATAR of 99.90 placing him in the top 60 students or top 0.05% in Queensland. He is enrolled to study at Bachelor of Advanced Finance and Economics at UQ. 

Congratulations to these boys and all of our 2021 graduates. 

At the same assembly, we celebrated our Year 5-10 Academic Award and Head of College Award recipients from Semester 2, 2021.

To be eligible for an Academic Award, students must have achieved:

Years 5 – 6: 4A’s or better and nothing lower than a B in the five core subjects

Years 7 – 10: 6A’s or better and nothing lower than a C

To be eligible for a Head of College Award, students received all A’s in the behavioural and application criteria in Semester 2, 2021.

Year 5 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Edward Armstrong, William Broughton, Cormac Deady, Eoin Doyle, Michael Jones, Reilly Keane, Kayden Kyoung, Connor O'Rourke, Harry Player, Royden Power, Andrew Vetter, Henry Walker, William Webster

Year 5 Head of College Awards

Berrick Barlow, Isaac Bell, Oliver Blakemore, James Burt, Hunter Chan-Riotto, Lachlan Cook, Willem Ferguson, Darcy Frazier, Charlie Kelly, Isaac Long, William Marshall, Aidan Marshall, Cooper Norlander, Eamon Reeves, Remington Sakzewski, Jesse Walter, Samuel Warren

Year 5 Head of College and Outstanding Achievement Awards

Jack Davis, Christian Manning, Thomas Ryan, Thomas Shaxson, Timothy Watts

Year 6 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Owen Aldridge, Matthew Alvarez, Harrison Barden, Elliott Broadfoot, Julian Cassar, Curtis Cuddihy, Callum Curtin, Canaan Gibson, Riley Hansel, Marshall Hair, Harrison Hind, Reilly Keogh, Julian Lewis, Jack Liddell, Darcy Mahoney, Luca Rosano, Ike Rowland, Salem Tamer

Year 6 Head of College Awards

Thomas Bedggood, Jacob Newman, Daniel Ortiz, Lincoln Ryan, Ethan Taylor, Lachlan Vacher, Alastair Williams

Year 6 Head of College and Outstanding Achievement Awards

Hamish Ansell, Clancy Barrett, Luca Bordignon, Connor Campbell, Harry Cootes, Euan Davidson, Archer Engstrom, Aidan Mansul, Harry McAuliffe, Samuel Russo, Harry Vickery

Year 7 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Luke Garvey, William Lambley, Connor Leet, Toby McCormack, Ryan Mullin, Sai Naidu, Leo Pigott, Angus Shay, Matthew Stower

Year 7 Head of College Awards

Oliver Bishop, Tyson Cooper, Lucas Dempsey, Adrian Garbellini, Tristan Huth, Samuel Imlay, James Maguire, Angus Miller, Bryn Morgan, Daniel O'Keeffe, Archie Powell, Arjun Punj, Liam Shay, Jackson Skinner, Hugh Turner

Year 7 Head of College and Outstanding Achievement Awards

Aiden Agnew, Hugh Ambrose, Otis Blaney, Eli Briza, James Dee, Oliver Eaton, Isaac Farrelly, Tobias Forbes, Harper Frazier, Oliver Hayes, Alessander Javier, Cade Kelly, Isaac McDonnell, Joseph Murphy, Lachlan Pawsey, Jack Purcell, Daniel Thirgood, Fletcher Wessling, Ewan Wood

Year 8 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Elliot Aldridge, George Collyer, Kian Dickman, Thomas Gahan, Sebastian Gardiner, Owen Hair, Ignatius Hallman, Lachlan Harney, Max Higgins, Harry Hogan, Xavier Howard, Bailey Lawrence, Benjamin Mead, Isaac Ortiz, Matthew Rowston, Elliot Schanzl, Kurtis Smith, William Spencer, Aidan Vidulin, Lachlan Vink, Zachariah Watts

Year 8 Head of College Awards

Matthew Christensen, Hudson Engstrom, Kian Flynn, Harrison Lunn, Lachlan McMillan, Hamish Munro, Maxwell Reibelt, Van Sanders, Francis Schutt

Year 8 Head of College and Outstanding Achievement Awards

Timothy Bennett, Lachlan Braithwaite, Max Gallagher, Benjamin Hartfiel, Max Jones, Daniel Kelly, George Kettle, Cooper McGinn, Micah Netzler, Joshua Newman, Aidan Phillips, Tomos Pratt, Elliot Schanzl, Josiah Short, Andrew Surtees, Andrew Woodward

Year 9 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Alex Apelt, Edward Barron, Noah Coco, Zane Cooper, Charles Cowlishaw, Joel Drew, Rupert Driml, Lucas Hancock, James Henry, Ashley Kani, Nicholas Marco, Finn McCahon, Rory O'Keeffe, Oscar Pittman, Mitchell Trotter, Hugo Tully, Remy Versace, Joshua Vogler, Samuel Wilcox, Edward Wild, Max Wilson, Tristan Woods

Year 9 Head of College Awards

George Bishop, Noah Curtin, Louie Di Lucchio, Kaleb Irving, Ashley Kani, Matthew Nisbett, Liam O'Rourke, Thomas Paterson, Isaac Roach, William Rourke

Year 9 Head of College and Outstanding Achievement Awards

Maximillian Bathersby, Oliver Betts, Ashleigh Bishop, Liam Bourke, Adam Burnell, Phillip-John Catalano, Daniel Cusack, Harrison Dyer, Dominic Forbes, Tom Grinham, Henry Lambley, Harrison Lee, James Leigh, Henry O'Malley, Jesse Pattel-Brown, Henry Purcell, Nate Scott-Day

Year 10 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Harrison Barrett, Archie Bathe, Angus Bosse, George Daly, Oliver Gordon, Benjamin Kelly, Benjamin Kumaru, Joseph Lewis, Alexander Masel, Cole Miklashek, William Moon, Matthew O'Keeffe, Louis Rebula, Zachary Wright

Year 10 Head of College Awards

William Armstrong, Darcy Carroll, Samuel Collins, Ryan Cooper, John Davidson, Flynn Hubbard, Jack Johnson, Alessandro Jorquera, John Murphy, Matthew Wheeley

Year 10 Head of College and Outstanding Achievement Awards

Roman Ah Loy, Alexander Clark, Alem Fitzgerald, Patrick Hooper, Oliver Lee, Lee Martin, Archer Ryan, Darcey Salter

Middle School Numeracy and Literacy Practice (Years 7-9)

This week our middle school students will undertake testing to identify their literacy and numeracy skills.   The results from these tests will be used to determine areas of strength as well as identifying areas that require additional support for both our students and programming. Our students will receive feedback on these tests, but results do not go towards end of term reports etc. 

Boys will need the following equipment.

Testing timetable below.

Assessment calendars

All boys should now have access to their assessment dates for Term 1. Boys can access these dates one of two ways –

1. By accessing the assessment calendar on Student Café or Parent Lounge.  You can access this by following these instructions via this link.
2. By viewing the attachment in the copy that was emailed to students last week from MCA Learning and Teaching (curriculum@marash.qld.edu.au)

Monitoring Weeks (Years 7-12)

Last week, students in Years 7-9 completed this goal setting for the semester in Pastoral Group time. This week Year 10-12 students will undergo a similar process. This program allows students to reflect on previous academic achievements and set goals for the term ahead. The term goals will be written in each students’ diary in the format outlined below –

Each of the goals should be S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound). We encourage you to talk to your son about his academic goals for Term 1 and how he plans to achieve these.

Study Hall

Study Hall will begin again this week and will run the Resource Centre on Tuesday and Thursday morning from 7:45am - 8:30am. Please note Thursday’s session is a repeat of Tuesday’s lesson. These sessions are open to all boys from Years 5-12. 

Please find below the outline for the Study Hall for the remainder of Term 1.