Pastoral Care 

• 2024 Mental Health Month: 'Let's Talk About It'
• Year 9 Camps
• House Cup
• Raising Resilient Teens webinar

2024 Mental Health Month Theme: ‘Let’s Talk About It’

In NSW, Mental Health Month is observed annually throughout October.

This year’s theme, 'Let’s Talk About It,' prompts us all to reflect on our mental health and overall wellbeing, irrespective of whether we’ve personally encountered mental illness. It emphasises the significance of maintaining good mental health in our daily lives and encourages a proactive approach to seeking help when necessary.

At the start of next term the Black Dog Institute will be talking to our students about the importance of positive mental health. Year 10 will also address this topic in the Term 5 program at the end of the year.

Year 9 Camp: preparation for Workul Koo Rites of Passage Camps

We return to Term 4 with Year 9 Pastoral Care camps starting in Week 2. Please ensure you have complied with Mr Steinman’s information and consent requirements for:

1. The Year 9 Camp generally
2. The Paddle Board and Surf lesson specifically

Year 9 Barron: Monday 21– Wednesday 23 October

Year 9 Purton: Wednesday 23 – Friday 25 October

Year 9 Rice: Monday 28 – Wednesday 30 October 

Year 9 Treacy: Wednesday 30 – Friday 1 November

Students are required at school with their manageable sports bag and day pack of prescribed equipment by 8:00 am to pack the trailer and bus for each camp and should return by 2:00 pm from each camp.

House Cup

The House Cup was inaugurated in 2010 as an opportunity to acknowledge participation in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities across the College which greatly influence the cohesion of our school and the way in which we value ourselves as a community which is accepting of all activities across our school.

Points are allocated and award for involvement in events and activities from Debating, Music, Drama, Boxercise, Robotics, Sports, the Edmund Rice Society, Immersions, Athletics, The Manly Jazz Festival, The 39 Steps, Film Festival, Premier's Reading Challenge, da Vinci Decathlon and Open Day, to Student Empowerment and Wellbeing Teams, the Old Boys BBQ chain gang and all other activities which accrued points throughout the year.

Other examples which accrue points include the Red Dirt Immersion and Year 7 RE Literacy Touchstone Letters to our partner schools around the world in Edmund Rice Beyond Borders. 

Therefore, when the House Cup 2024 was presented the participation of every student, their representation and connective  involvement across the life of the College was considered.

In 4th Place on points 1,587……… RICE 

Narrowly in 3rd Place on points 1,677……… PURTON

And... the winner of our House Cup for 2024 is TREACY  who tallied 2,256 points. 

Congratulations also to BARRON House in a close run for second place on 2,019 points.

Well done to the students and community of St Pius X, and I know in 2025 there are plans for the House Cup to be even bigger and more hotly participated!

Raising Resilient Teens

Mr Martin Gillogly - Assistant Principal, Pastoral Care