Year 8 News

Take your pick – Debating, E-Leaders, House Swimming Carnival, House Athletics Carnival, Hackett Mile, ACC Swimming Carnival, ACC Football tryouts, Games Cove, BoyzRead, College Welcome Mass, Ash Wednesday Student-led Liturgy, Hockey Clinic, Study Skills Session, Child Safe Student Committee, Class Captains, Private Music lessons, College Band – these are some of the numerous opportunities the Year 8 students have embraced since returning for the 2020 school year.

In our House Swimming Carnival held on 13 February, Ashton Roberts (Benilde) was declared the Year 8 Swimming Champion for 2020. Luke Patterson (La Salle) was Runner-Up and Owen Bater (La Salle) came in 3rd place.

On 14 February we saw the prestigious Hackett Mile held on the front oval at lunchtime. Congratulations to Edward Gibson (Benilde) who ran the distance of 1500 metres in 5.03 minutes. Joshua Grunberg (Benilde) came in 2nd place and Harrison Oliver (La Salle) was 3rd.

At the end of that week, we held the Junior Athletics Carnival where every student was able to represent his House in at least one event. Congratulations to Gabriel Uberti (La Salle) who was declared our Athletics Champion for 2020. Samuel Aughterson (Benilde) was Runner-Up and Owen Bater (La Salle) in 3rd position.

Our College Swimming Team won the ACC Swimming Carnival on 27 February. We had an impressive swimming team in Year 8 who had trained regularly since Term 4 of 2019 for this event.

Each Homeroom has recently elected the following Class Captains for Semester One.

8.1	Harry Fraser & Tommy Stacey
8.2	Rory Jenkins & Robbie Leonard
8.3	Ethan Mammos & Xavier Wallace
8.4	Harvey Dow & Lucas Shaw
8.5	Aaron Lowe & Liam Napier
8.6	Charlie Nicholls & Julian Stewart
8.7	Joshua Black & Jasper Trumble
8.8	Ciaran Gracias & Mawi McNeish
8.9	Nathan Kiremitciyan & Thomas McKeown

Wednesday 11 March welcomed in the commencement of the DAV competition. Our Year 8 team debated extremely well in their first of five debates for the season.

There are nine Homeroom Teachers in Year 8:

Ms Carmel Moloney

Year 8 Coordinator

MAD

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MAD Activities

Downball

House Debating