Secondary

ASX Sharemarket Game

Over the past ten weeks, 90 students from Years 7 to 12 have been participating in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Schools Sharemarket Game. Players were given a virtual $50,000, buying and selling shares with company prices mirroring real live market prices. The game is a fantastic way to expose students to all the trials and tribulations of the market, fluctuations in share prices, market volatility as well as educating them in how to read financial news, share prices and what to look for in a company when investing. 

A huge congratulations to Jackson Tout who ended the competition 6th in Australia and 1st in Western Australia earning himself a $400 cash prize! Jackson attributes his success to a strategy of investing in volatile mining and gold companies, as well as being incredibly lucky. 

Congratulations to the following students who ended the game with the highest valued portfolios:

1st – Jackson Tout (Year 9) - $57,592

2nd - Felix Frichot & Xavier Jeffrey (Year 9) - $53,077

3rd – George Griffiths (Year 8) - $52,111

The ASX Sharemarket Game runs twice a year with the next round of the game beginning in August.

Tom Hooker

Teacher   HASS

STEM Classroom Cash Competition

The Technologies Department at John XXIII will be collecting Classroom Cash Competition entries collected from The West Australian on 29 May, 5 June, 12 June, and 19 June. Please complete the entry with the school information and return them to your Homeroom Teacher until 30 June.  The winning school will receive $5,000.00 to spend on STEM resources. 

Anna Davila

Head of Learning   Technologies

Year 8 Retreat – Exploring human dignity and healthy relationships

At our recent Year 8 Retreat, students explored the concept of human dignity and how it impacts the way they treat themselves and others. Through a combination of guest speakers Scott Darlow, Taryn Wren, and teachers, students looked at developing healthy relationships through the lens of Catholic social teaching.

HASS Week - 18-22 May

The Secondary College celebrated the individual disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences department during HASS Week. 

A variety of activities were promoted throughout the week - with Years 7-12 involved in Homeroom quizzes, learning fun facts such as ‘on this day in history…’, and on Wednesday at lunchtime there was an epic puzzle challenge on the Chapel lawn – where teams fiercely competed to be the fastest to complete the jigsaw puzzle Map of Australia. Who knew jigsaws could lead to such intense competition!

With the sun shining brightly, the HASS festivities came to a conclusion on Friday. Two talented student bands, Contraband and Golden Table, entertained staff and students on the Chapel lawn - whilst the HASS department staff cooked a sausage sizzle.

I recently read an interview with Martin Scorsese who said: “Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world”.  And this is exactly what the study of humanities brings. HASS provides students with the ability to reflect and examine the world in which we live - to look beyond our boundaries – and be ‘men and women for others’. 

A big thank you to the committed and passionate Humanities’ staff.

Daisy Farley

Head of Learning Area, Humanities and Social Sciences

Japanese classes experience the culinary delights of Japan

Last week our Year 7 Japanese classes used their creative, linguistic, and culinary skills to engage with Japanese. The students made and decorated lovely ‘onigiri’ rice balls before saying ‘itadakimasu’ and tasting their creations.

In addition, our Year 9 Japanese class practiced their cooking skills by making a delicious, traditional ‘obento’ or Japanese style lunch box with miso chicken and crunchy salad. All the student really enjoyed this experience and are to be commended on their excellent behaviour. 

Arigatoo gozaimashita (many thanks) to Aghdasi Sensei and Mann Sensei for organising and showing them these lovely dishes.

Shane Glass

Head of Learning Area - Languages

New parents information afternoon: How to use SEQTA and understanding Family Zone 

How to Use SEQTA Engage/Learn and understanding Family Zone information afternoon will be next Tuesday 1 June from 3:45-4:50pm in the Gonzaga Barry Lecture Theatre.  College Map.

Mrs Jessica Bouwman (Deputy Principal - Teaching & Learning) will be presenting SEQTA Engage, Mr Bill Quartermaine (Director, Inquiry & Innovation) will be explaining Family Zone and Mr Haines (Assistant Deputy Principal- Year 7) will be focusing on homework and revision practices for early secondary students.

Information from the session will be made available in SEQTA Documents afterward for parents who are unable to attend and for future reference. 

Cameron Haines

Assistant Deputy Principal - Year 7

Research project undertaken by Dr Greg Hine of Notre Dame

The John XXIII Mathematics department have been asked to participate in a research project carried out by Dr Gregory Hine of Notre Dame. 

The research project investigates why capable Year 11 and Year 12 students do not enroll in higher-level mathematics courses. The significance of this study rests upon the belief that higher-level mathematics course are valuable courses for students to enroll in. 

The project involves a survey for Year 11 and 12 students to complete in week 17, when they return from examinations. Please note that student participation in this survey is voluntary.

All parents of Year 11 and 12 students received an email from Mrs Jo Friel this week, regarding the details of this project. 

Thank you in anticipation for your support of this project, which should provide valuable results. It will also allow students to benefit from seeing practical uses of Statistics. 

Joanne Friel

Head of Learning Area   Mathematics

SPORT

ACC Cross Country

We did it… For the first time since 1993 John XXIII College are the overall champions of the ACC Cross-Country Carnival. Congratulations to all our wonderful athletes, you all displayed passion, grit and determination and left nothing out on the course. We could not be more proud of you all!

School Sport WA Cross-Country

Last week on Friday 21 May John XXIII College students competed in the 2021 School Sport Cross-Country Carnival. This carnival is open to all government and non-government school students. 

The competition is the platform for selection into the School Sport WA Interstate Cross-Country team which competes in the School Sport Australia Cross-Country Championships in Term 3 of the year.

Our team performed extremely well this year to finish yet again as the Overall Champion School. We also brought home the Overall Boys, Girls and Boys 15 Year Champion Shields.  These results are indicative of all the training and commitment from our amazing students. An enormous thank you must also go to our cross-country coaches for this year, Alumni Sophie Gillman and Hamish Ryan.

Outstanding individual results from the day included:

Age 12 Girls – 3km

Sasha Pallis                       1st          10:44.71

Age 12 Boys – 3km        

Austin Trend                    23rd       11:05.31

Tighe O’Toole                  24th        11:10.36

Sebastian Rawson           26th        11:15.13

Age 13 Girls – 3km

Lyla Stewart                     3rd          10:55.65

Poppy Thorpe                  21st        11:59.01

Emily Hutchinson            29th        12:17.52

Age 13 Boys – 3km

Ciaran Doyle                    8th         10:08.28

Noah Boruff                     19th        10:49.79

Archie Ryan                      20th        10:54.94

Age 14 Boys – 4km

Nicholas Silva                   13th        15:23.88

Age 15 Boys – 4km

Harrison Upton                10th        14:19.95

Owen Simpson                18th        14:57.21

Jake Soutar                       19th             15:01.34

Age 16&17 Girls – 4km

Elizabeth Edwards          4th          15:55.32

Ella Naismith                    11th        17:44.57

Chloe Anning                   22nd       19:28.12

Lucy Taylor                       24th        19:32.99

Age 16&17 Boys – 6km

Timothy Gardner            7th         21:12.13

Will Everett                      20th        22:35.87

Joshua Howard               27th        23:35.87

Northern Associated Schools (NAS)

This week all teams had a Bye and trained on their usual NAS day. At the end of the training sessions all teams were treated to a sausage sizzle to show the College’s appreciation to all staff and students for their commitment to the NAS Program.

Next week our Years 7-10 NAS teams will compete against Servite College. Fixtures, results and ladders can be accessed through the link below:

NAS Fixtures, Results & Ladders | Associated & Catholic Colleges of WA (accsport.asn.au)

Champions League Basketball

On Tuesday 25 May, our Champions League Senior Boys Basketball team competed in the ACC semi-final game against John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School. It was a tough game against some incredible state players which our boys played a strong four quarters against. We are so proud that our team made the semi-final yet again this year and look forward to preparing to come back even stronger in 2022.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Conor Bradley, Year 7, who has made the 2021 WA 12s Basketball State Team.  

Sara Kononen

Head of Sport