Student & Parent Matters
the Mosman Youth Awards in Literature 2018
Winter Sports Photos - Wednesday 5th September
DRAFT Term Dates for 2019
Mosman Youth Awards in Literature 2018
Debating
RoboCup State Competition UNSW
SAN Hospital RunForLife Participants
Market Days 4th & 12th September - CANTEEN CLOSED
Sydney Metro Project: Letter to Chatswood residents
FREE WORKSHOP: How to teach a Learner Driver
Bright Futures: October School Holiday Workshops run by UTS
Holiday 'Learn to Sail' Program
Winter Sports Photos - Wednesday 5th September
The Winter Sports photos are being taken on Wednesday September 5 during Periods 1 – 3. Full sport uniform will be required for Rugby, Football and Tennis. All other photos will be taken in full school uniform including Blazers. Below is a summary of the photos to be taken on the day. All students need to bring their ID card for each photo they are in.
Group photo orders from the previous photo day have not been processed yet. All group photos will be processed after the Winter Sports Photos have been taken.
Miss L Proc - General Coordinator
DRAFT Term Dates for 2019
Mosman Youth Awards in Literature 2018
The following brilliant story tellers - Matthew Felice, Talis Prior and James Bellenger of Year 9 and Luca Vincenzo of Year 7 - will be attending the Mosman Youth Awards in Literature 2018 where their stories have been short listed and/or chosen to be read at this presentation evening.
Mrs Karen Keighery, our Senior School Librarian, will be attending with the students and their parents. Congratulations to our wonderful creative writers.
Mrs Michele Waterson
Debating
Debating information from Mrs Waterson can be found in the document below.
Mrs M Waterson - Public Speaking and Debating Convenor
RoboCup State Competition UNSW
RoboCup Junior is an international competition that accommodates both primary and secondary school students. At St Pius X College many of our Robotics Club students compete in the Soccer league of this competition.
Earlier this Term St Pius X hosted a RoboCup event for over 170 students from as many as 20 schools. Last week we had 7 teams of students competing in the 3 different divisions of Soccer at the State competition held at the University of New South Wales. These Divisions of Soccer include:
- Standard - Lego based robots with an infra-red soccer ball
- Lightweight - non Lego robots with an infra-red soccer ball and
- Heavyweight - non Lego robots with an orange coloured soccer ball
Each of these divisions has its own challenges and normally teams compete with two robots each; one offensive and one defensive. Our students have been working on the construction and programming of these robots over the past 12 months. Congratulations to the following teams on their results:
- Standard Soccer: Clean Whistlers 13th, Synergy 16th and LamFam 20th place.
- Lightweight Soccer: Encryption
- Heavyweight Soccer: Celestial 4th, Peppa Pig 5th and Circuit Breakers 6th place.
A big thank you to Mr ten Seldam and Mr Lai for coaching and supervising this event and to Charlie Jackson and Matthew Felice for their assistance with mentoring the Standard Soccer teams. A thank you must also go to the P&F for their ongoing financial support of this worthwhile Club.
Mr P de Silva - Robotics Convenor
SAN Hospital RunForLife Participants
Fifty of our SPX students and staff took part in the SanRunForLife at Wahroonga on Sunday 19th August which raised $30,000 towards the refurbishment of the Jacaranda Cancer Support Centre at the SAN Hospital. The photo below shows our participants.
Market Days - 4th & 12th September
CANTEEN CLOSED
Please note change of date from Tuesday 11th to Wednesday 12th. The Canteen will be closed at recess and lunchtime on Tuesday 4th and Tuesday 11th September due to Market Day Stalls operating. It will be open before school from 8am until 8.45am only. There will be no Flexischool facility and no orders taken.
Ms A Coombs - Canteen Supervisor
Sydney Metro Project: Letter to Chatswood residents
Ahead of Station Link services starting 30th September, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) will be upgrading street furniture, removing trees, installing signs and tactiles, adjusting pedestrian ramps and relocating the taxi zone to Brown Street for the duration of Station Link.
Work is planned to start on Sunday 2 September. If you have any questions about this work, please contact the delivery partner, DM Roads, on 1800 332 660 or nsw_projects@dmroads.com.au.
Free Workshop: How to teach a learner driver
UTS October School Holiday Workshops
The University Technology Sydney (UTS) is again running a series of exciting as well as educational workshops targeting primary and early secondary school aged students in the October school holidays. The program is called Bright Futures and offers a unique combination of eye-opening experiences based around subjects studied at UTS.
2018 Workshops: 2nd - 5th October
- Tuesday 2 October – Creativity Workshop – Animal Kingdom
- Wednesday 3 October – Technology Workshop - SatLab
- Thursday 4 October – Visual Storytelling: The Art of Making Worlds
- Friday 5 October – Engineering Workshop: Reach for the Skies!
Please see the flyer below for further information.
Holiday 'Learn to Sail'
