Pastoral Care and Old Boys' News
- Fire Drill and Evacuation
- Mercy College and St Pius X College rotating Chapel Masses
- Boxercise
- Eddie Rice Hours opportunity
- Singing Up Country
- 2024 NSW Youth Advisory Council
- Red Dirt Immersion
- Bingara Gwidyr Council and Willoughby Council Exchange
Fire Drill and Evacuation
The college successfully conducted a Fire Evacuation Safety Drill on Monday morning. Students and staff enacted and performed their responsibilities in a safe, mature, and responsible manner in the interests of safety and learning.
Mercy and St Pius X College rotating Chapel Masses
Well done and thank you to Year 11 students Riley Seeto and Zeke Reynolds who represented us at the Mercy College Chapel Mass on Monday. Next week, at our own Chapel Mass we celebrate the return of Mr Ronchetti from the Edmund Rice Beyond Borders Congress visiting the Irish Edmund rice Schools in Dublin.
Please see Mr Brannan to organise permission if you would like to represent the college at the upcoming Mercy Masses and a reminder that all members of our community are invited to attend our Christian Brothers Chapel Masses each fortnight.
Boxercise
Thank you to Mr Naidoo, as well as leading students: Nick Pelle (Year 9) and Tom Haymen (Year 12) who continue to fly the flag at Boxercise every Thursday and Friday morning from 7:30 am in the Junior Yard. All are welcome to attend and gloves and mitts are provided. Just wear your sports uniform as there is plenty of time to change afterwards for those not heading off to sport!
Eddie Rice Hours
There is an opportunity for students to add to their Eddie Rice Hours this Friday evening, 19 May, featuring the Laudato Si Documentary below and a Soup Dinner at Terrey Hills St Anthony in the Fields Church from 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm.
The Trybooking Link is www.trybooking.com/CHQTA. See the attached flyer!
The program will begin at 6:30pm and the amazing guest MCs will be Annabella Teale (Monte) and Kate Ryder (Brigidine College). The film goes for about 80 minutes, after which there will be some reflection time for 15 minutes, then the yummy warming soup, wth the evening finishing at 9:00 pm. A great Friday evening!!!
Please call Ann Lanyon on 0408 279 871 if you need more information
Singing Up Country
Call for students to represent St Pius X College RAP as an audience for 'Singing Up Country'.
There is also opportunity within our Reconciliation Action Plan to attend the Gai Mariagal Festival Singing Up Country Indigenous Music Concert at St Anthony's on Sunday evening 4 June. Contact Mr Brannan for more details.
2024 NSW Youth Advisory Council
Applications close this Sunday for membership of the 2024 NSW Youth Advisory Council. (YAC). The 12 member YAC meets regularly and provides a direct avenue of communication between young people and the NSW Government.
For more information and the application form please use the buttons below:
Red Dirt Immersion
The 40 students who have been accepted into our Red Dirt Immersion have been notified via email and need to return their food, tent group and zoo options form this week. Parents have until next week to return the permission, consent and payment Trybooking form. Please see Mr Brannan if you have any concerns as planning and logistical organisation will be finalised over the coming weeks.
Bingara Gwydir Council and Willoughby Council Exchange
We will be proudly represented by Year 10 students Jack Fairbanks and Isaac Donlevy who will visit Myall Creek and Bingara for the Orange Festival 29 June – 3 July and host a return visit around the Willoughby Spring Festival 31 August – 4 September. This is a rich cultural and learning opportunity for which we are grateful to the Willoughby Council Youth Development Team, led by Renee Simpson.
Fide et Labore
Mr Sean Brannan - Acting Deputy Principal