Around the School

Eisteddfod

Congratulations to Year 12 Music student Elsbeth Rathborne 1st place for “Burn” from the musical Hamilton with a score of 93! Well done!

Space jump winners and third in the short play section at the Eisteddfod today... woohoo!

Congratulations to year 7 students Heather Bassett and Riley Fittler who won their event in the short play section at the Eisteddfod.

Congratulations to our students who competed in the Ensemble section of the Eisteddfod.

Yr 11/12 came 3rd

Yr 10 girls won their section

Yr 10 boys received Highly Commended

Yr 9 came 3rd

Well done students and teachers.

Dance Eisteddfod

The 2019 dance eisteddfod proved successful for all. We had a total of 21 dancers representing O’Connor.

On top of school groups, some performers competed in up to 28 dances each over the 5 days ranging from solos, duos, groups and school groups In all different styles of dance. Many of these dance routines placed very well with competition from areas such as South East QLD and North Coast NSW.

A few highlights include:

- Winner junior jazz championship -

Molly Brazier

- Winner junior New England championship

Caitlin Jubb

⁃ Runner up senior classical championship

Lara Windred

⁃ Runner up intermediate New England championship - Taryn Ramage

Also, Taryn Ramage's major HSC dance composition was entered and placed 1st.

List of competitors -

School groups:

Georgia MacMahon

Makaala Dodd

Sophie Troon

Gabby Williams

Lily Moore

Riley Smith

Charlotte Killen

Paige Brown

Charlotte Jones

Solos/duos/groups:

Breanna Caldwell

Neve Crotty

Isabelle Murphy

Alexis Cook

Kianni Streicher

Paige Ramage

Molly Brazier

Lara Windred

Bethany Perryman

Caitlin Jubb

Grace Heagney

Taryn Ramage

Well done everyone!

Congratulations to year 10 student Meg Lawry who won the New England Vocals Championship 16-18 years at Eisteddfod. Well done!!!

Catholic Schools Week

Celebrating Catholic Schools week - Maths awards and Mr Chapman announcing the pi challenge to be held on Thursday. How many decimals of Pi can you recite? 3.14......... Catholic Schools Office Diocese of Armidale #MissionLearnCare

Debating

Armidale Secondary College visited us today for some friendly debates. It was a great learning opportunity for all involved.

Pi Day

On Thursday, May 30, O'Connor students gathered in the library at lunchtime to compete in a pi recital competition. Pi is a number that gives how many times the diameter of a circle fits around its circumference. Three and a bit! It goes on forever without a pattern.

The competition was part of Catholic Schools Week at O'Connor.

The winner was Alex McMahon from Year 10 who recited an amazing 135 digits! Second was Year 7 student John Harris with 111 digits. Equal third was Angus Scrivener (Yr 9) and Georgia McMahon (Year 11).