Secondary

Year 8 Bush Dance

Grab your boots, it's time for the Year 8 Bush Dance social

• Date: Wednesday 31 August 2022 
• Time: 6:00-8:00pm
• Cost: $12 per person to cover band, pizza and a soft drink, decorations, prizes and clean-up 
• Location: Roncalli Hall
• Dress: Jeans and checked shirt
• RSVP: www.trybooking.com/947175 

Year 11 Café - Friday 26 August lunch

• Pea & Ham Soup with Mint, served with home made garlic bread  $4
• Boeuf Bourguignon, served with home made garlic bread $5 
• Caramel slice $2

Place order here: https://www.trybooking.com/949097

Congratulations Lizzie Newton - Year 11 ATAR Visual Arts

Congratulations to Year 11 ATAR Visual Arts Student, Lizzie Newton who received a Highly Commended in the prestigious Fra Angelico Award category at this year’s Catholic Arts Awards. 

Lizzies Portrait Djilba: time of transitions is an oil on board painting that depicts artist and activist Rickeeta Walley. Lizzie’s artist statement reflecting upon the artwork can be read below. Congratulations Lizzie.

The exhibition is open to the public until Friday 26 August at the Forrest Centre 221 St Georges Terrace, Perth. 

Djilba: time of transitions

Oil paint on wood

Throughout Australian history Aboriginal culture has experienced repetitive endeavours by British colonisers to obliterate the existence of First Nations people. Multitudes of actions were taken in history as an attempt to have an all-white Australian culture.  Destroying traditional land, culture and language. 

My subject Rickeeta Walley acts as a clear symbol of hope in today’s society as a strong independent Noongar women who continues to practise and teach the customs and traditions of her Aboriginal culture. Ricky, in her daily life, generously shares her traditions, language, and culture with hundreds of students. Ricky also participates and performs in various other traditional practises of her culture such as song and dance.

I painted Ricky with flowers in her hair and with an outlined border of flowers in a halo surrounding shape of Ricky’s head of wattle, Geraldton wax and banksia. These flowers are all representative of the Noongar season of Djilba. Djilba is a colourful time due to an abundance of wildflowers emerging with the warmer days, it is one of the six seasons in the Noongar culture extending from August to September and is the start of the massive flower blooming experienced in the Southwest of Australia. 

I wanted to capture Ricky as her true identity and with such rich meaning with her traditional flowers, face and body painting and the rawness of the circular wood and lack of clothing, exposing her rawness and vulnerability in exposing herself and her roots in her culture. The eyeline of Ricky looking directly almost slightly down onto the viewer is highly intentional for the effect of empowering the subject and also provoking a direct emotional response from the viewer.  Ricky is a proud Noongar woman.

Kiri Moore

Teacher   Design and Technology

Book Week 2022 23 – 26 August 

It is Book Week in Week 6 this term and the theme this year is ‘Dreaming with Eyes Open’.

There will be lots of fun activities and creative competitions with plenty of prizes to be won! 

Get ready for the ‘Book Week Bake Off’ cake decorating competition on Tuesday 23 August. Get creative and decorate a cake to a theme, object or character from your favourite book. Cakes to be brought to the library by 9am, please label with your name and homeroom. Cakes need to be collected by 3:30pm. Please see flyer attached for further details.

Students will be able to meet alumni author in residence Michael Burrows who will be talking about his latest book Where The Line Breaks on Wednesday 24 August in the library.

You won’t want to miss the ‘Book Week Fashion Parade’ on Friday 26 August at lunchtime in the library courtyard. Dress up in a costume inspired by a book character or book. You may like to grab some friends and all dress up together as characters from a book. Students who would like to be part of the Fashion Parade need to fill out an entry form here https://forms.office.com/r/RDbsL4spWH

SPORT

NAS Athletics 

Congratulations to all our Years 7-10 students who have been selected to represent the College in the 2022 NAS Athletics Carnival.

Our NAS Carnival will take place on Tuesday 23 August. Selected students will attend Period 1 on the day and then travel by bus to the HBF Athletics Stadium. Important things to note for the day:

• Students attending may wear their PE uniform to school
• Attend period 1 as normal
• At the end of period 1 meet in the St Louis Sports Centre  to have your name ticked off ready to depart at 10:00am
• All athletes are asked to wear the College athletics top (these can be purchased from the uniform shop)
• If you are in track and field events.
• Make sure you are at your track events as they will run strictly to time. You can go to your field event after completing your track events

WA Volleyball Schools Cup 

Congratulations to our Senior Volleyball teams who competed in the 2022 WA Volleyball Schools Cup today. It is the largest school competition held in Perth. Our senior teams are to be commended for their passion and dedication to volleyball this year. They have mastered there skills and this was evident today in their performances. 

• The girls had four close matches in their pool just missing out on a spot in the semi-final on points. Thank you to Coach Grace Marinelli and Mrs Kolka for supporting the girls all the way through. 
   
• The boys finished second in their pool and played an absolute nail bitter of a semi-final to earn their spot in the grand final. The boys just went down in the final to take home the silver medals. Thank you to Coaches Tom Rear and Jarron Vander Vinne for all their passion and continuous support.

SunSmart School Surfing Titles

A huge congratulations to all the boys who competed in the Surfing Titles on Wednesday. The boys were faced with all sorts of weather from crazy wind, rain and hail but that didn’t get in their way. The boys did a fantastic job making the best of the waves. We had several teams progress through to the semi-finals in their divisions narrowly missing out on spots in the finals. Thank you to coach Miss Jade Mickle for the time and effort with all the boys on the day. 

Well done to the following partnerships who won their finals and made it through to the State Final next week: 

• Tom Stokes (Year 12) and Tom Begley (Year 11) – Senior Boys Surfing 
• Jake Scott (Year 7) and Ben Scott (Year 7) – Junior Boys Surfing

A big thank you to all the parents for the early morning drop-offs and support along the way, we can’t do it without you. 

ACC Championship Soccer Grand Final – Postponed 

The ACC Soccer Championship Final against Mercy College has been postponed to next Wednesday August 24. The game is set to be a big one, come on down to support the boys in the last game of the Championship

Venue – Litis Stadium 

Kick off – 4:00pm

Year 8/9 Boys Eagles Cup 

Today our Year 8/9 Boys Eagles Cup team took on Kennedy Baptist College in the Grand Final match at Mineral Resource Park. An incredible opportunity for the boys. Throughout the competition they have showed great sportsmanship, determination and support for one another. 

The boys fought hard but unfortunately did not get the win today. Well done to Alex Tang who received JTC coaches award. We are so proud of the team for making it this far. Thanks to coaches Mr Quartermaine and Mr Sell for their support and encouragement.

SSWA Water Polo - Year 9/10 Trials 

Any students interested in the School Sport WA Water Polo competition later this term are encouraged to attend the trial in week 7. 

• Date: Thursday September 1
• Location: HBF Stadium Indoor Water Polo Pool 
• Time: 7:00-8:00 (Students to be dropped at HBF Stadium)
• A bus will be booked to return students to the College after the trial

Our Year 7/8 water polo trials will be held in Term 4.

Jess Pillera

Head of Sport