Chev Need to Knows
29 August 2025
Reminder: this Monday 1 September is Term Break.
Upcoming Year 8 Retreats
Permission notes for the Year 8 Retreats have been sent home to parents via the Parent Lounge. Please note the following details:
- Monday 8 Sept (Week 8) – 8.2, 8.4 and 8.6
- Monday 15 Sept (Week 9) – 8.5 and 8.7
Where to Meet: Students are to meet in front of the main Chapel on their allocated day.
Dress: Neat casuals clothing with comfortable shoes for walking.
What to bring: Hat, sunscreen, water bottle.
Morning tea (muffin and fruit) and lunch (sandwich) will be provided. Students may wish to bring additional food.
Heartworks Movie Night – Friday 12 September
Film: Shrek
When: Friday 12 September
Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Where: Sacre Coeur Lawn (weather permitting)
Cost: Gold coin donation
Popcorn, drinks and other snacks will be for sale.
All students who wish to attend must pre-register using the form in Student Notices.
Please bring a rug, picnic blanket, chair.
All proceeds to support Catholic Mission.
Central Australia Immersion – Year 11 2026
Chevalier College is offering an immersion to Central Australia with Red Earth for interested Year 11 2026 students. This tour offers enriching educational and cultural experiences to students. An online Parent Information Evening will take place at 7.00pm on Tuesday 16 September to provide families with the opportunity to learn more about the immersion and ask questions. Please register here.
Sandy Abbey
Assistant Principal - Faith Formation and Mission
Flexible Monday Parent Webinar
The next parent webinar for parents and carers of students who have recently completed their microcredential will take place at 7.00pm on Monday 15 September.
If your child would like to be approved to learn from home on Flexible Mondays, you will need to attend this webinar as the next step in providing permission.
Parent / carers of Year 9 students - next year, when your child commences Year 10, they will be eligible to learn from home on Flexible Mondays if every step of the approval process has been completed. If you would like to get on the front foot, please encourage your child to complete their microcredential soon, to help us manage the volume of requests at the end of the academic year. Once they complete their credential, you will receive an invitation to attend the next scheduled webinar in preparation for the start of next year.
Year 11 Preliminary Exam Timetable
Year 8-11 Parent Teacher Interviews - Rescheduled
Bookings are now open for you to rebook Parent Teacher Interviews for Years 8-11. Interviews will be held via Teams on Monday 8 September.
Year 9 (2026) Subject Selections
Parents of Year 9 (2026) Students: the recording of the Subject Selection evening has been loaded onto Canvas, Student Central, for those who missed the evening or wish to watch again.
Due to the Back-up Athletics Carnival being held today, Friday 29 August, Year 8 students will now receive their logins for the Year 9, 2026 subject selections on Wednesday, 3 September.
We appreciate your understanding of this adjustment.
Rebecca Graham
Senior Assistant Principal - Learning & Teaching
Diverse Learning
Please find below an upcoming event for parents of neurodiverse students:
Positive Partnerships Autism Workshop: 23 September in Goulburn
Positive Partnerships is a government-funded program that offers free neuro-affirming workshops to parents/carers of autistic young people, including those on the pathway to identification.
This is a one day workshop in Goulburn on 23 September:
Visit the Positive Partnerships website for more details and to register:
More information about workshop content:
https://www.positivepartnerships.com.au/workshops-online-learning/workshops
Eager to Help? Be a Reader/Writer Volunteer for HSC exams!
The College would be most grateful for adult volunteers to perform Reader/Writer duties during the upcoming examinations. If you cannot commit but wish to help, please pass on our request to suitable adults.
Who?
Adults who act as readers and writers must:
- do so on a voluntary basis
- have a volunteer Working with Children Check (free for volunteers, online application)
- not be a relative or friend of the student or have a close relative sitting the same examination.
Readers may be approved for students whose diagnosed disability prevents them from independently reading and/or comprehending written questions. Writers may be approved for students with a diagnosed disability preventing them from independently communicating their responses in a handwritten format.
When?
The examination periods are listed below. Specific dates and times will be advised closer to the time.
- Year 11 Preliminary examinations – 15 to 24 September
- Year 12 HSC examinations – 16 October to 7 November
How?
If you are interested in volunteering your time, please click here to complete a short form, and our Diverse Learning Team will be in touch to discuss the duties further.
You are welcome to direct any questions to diverselearning@chevalier.nsw.edu.au.
Disability Inclusion Action Plan Survey
Wingecarribee Shire Council is developing a new Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP). The new DIAP will set out actions for Council to undertake to help build an inclusive and accessible community.
They are currently seeking online feedback via Participate Wingecarribee.
Your feedback will help them understand the barriers people face in the Shire. Your input will help identify real, actionable ways to make the community more inclusive.
The online survey will run until 29 August.
Margaret Hampton
Leader of Learning - Diverse Learning
How to Manage your Teen's Expectations after Exams
We encourage parents and carers of Year 12 students to read the article below from REACHOUT, as their Year 12 students prepare for examination feedback.
Year 10 Student Incursion
All Year 10 Students are required to attend school on Monday 8 September to attend an important incursion which includes sessions on:
- Respectful relationships - presented by Sr Constable Rachel Kennedy (Youth Command Officer)
- All My Own Work - Mrs Graham
- Emersion & Formation/ Year 10 Retreat - Mr Abbey
AI Introduction - Mr Noonan
No Flipped Learning will be set for Year 10 on this day.
Kelly Walker
Assistant Principal - Wellbeing and Growth
ISA Rugby Finals - Saturday 30 August
Please note the Rugby 2nd's Final has been rescheduled for Saturday 30 August.
Team fixtures and bus information can be found in Parent Lounge and the Orbit app under School Links / Extra Curricular.
Venue information, including campus maps for Final fixtures, can be found here https://isa.nsw.edu.au/events/isa-winter-finals/
Summer Sport Trials
- Summer sport trials began this week on Tuesday 26 August.
- Students who were on Wilderness and Work Placements during Week 6 will be accommodated in Week 7.
- Teams will be announced via Student Café in Week 8.
- Parent permission forms will be sent via Parent Orbit once teams have been announced.
Athletics Carnival Rescheduled Events
- Long Jump, Triple Jump and 3000m will now be held on the new rescheduled date Tuesday 2 September
- Students on the Wilderness excursion or work placement in Week 6 will be provided the opportunity to nominate for selection for the ISA Carnival. Further details will be provided in the Student Daily Notices.
- Any students in Years 9 or 11 who were absent from the Carnival on Friday and wish to be considered for the ISA Carnival will need to complete the nomination form in the Student Daily Notices on Monday. Nominations will close Monday 1 September at 3.30pm
Coach Phillips
Extra Curriculum Coordinator
Winter Warmers – Only While Stock Lasts!
Come and get your winter warmers while stock lasts, limited stock available on both items.
CHEVALIER COLLEGE BEANIE - $25
WOOL CHEVALIER COLLEGE SCARF - $38
Chev Shop Senior Sale
HSC Showcase
You are warmly invited to the Chevalier College HSC Showcase. This event is a wonderful celebration of the outstanding achievements of our Design and Technology, Timber, Drama, Music, Visual Arts, Ceramics, English Extension, History Extension and Society and Culture students of 2025.
Come and admire stunning major works, captivating performances, and impressive projects from our talented Chevalier students.
With canapes on arrival, prepared and served by our Hospitality students, we invite you to join us in toasting the talent and hard work of these inventive young people.
Thursday 11 September
5.00pm - 7.15pm
McGrath Hall
Registrations are essential https://events.humanitix.com/chev-hsc-showcase-2025
Father’s Day Breakfast – Last chance to book!
All fathers, grandfathers and father figures and students are invited to join us for a morning of reflection and gratitude whilst sharing a hearty BBQ breakfast with a café quality tea or coffee on Thursday 4 September.
Tickets for the BBQ breakfast are available for $10 per person + BF (adults and students). Don’t miss out, bookings close this weekend!
- Term Break - 1 September
- Opens Rugby Waratah Shield Event - 3 September
- Father's Day Breakfast - 4 September
- Year 7 2026 Transition Day 1 - 5 September
- Flexible Monday - 8 September
- Parent Teacher Interviews - 8 September
- Year 10 Healthy Relationship Presentation - 8 September
- Year 8 Retreat for 8.2, 8.4 and 8.6 - 8 September
- WSC Earthflix Film Screening - 8 September
- Red Earth Student Talk - 9 September
- HSC Showcase - 11 September
- Common Ground Anti-Discrimination Program - 11 September
- GSSCC Awards Ceremony 2025 - 12 September
- Flexible Monday - 15 September
- Year 11 Exams - 15 to 24 September
- Year 10/12 Construction Excursion - 15 September
- Year 9 Wilderness Excursion - 15 to 17 September
- Year 8 Retreat for 8.5 and 8.7 - 15 September
- ISA Athletics Carnival - 16 September
- Red Earth Parent Information Evening - 16 September
- Extra Curriculum Awards Night - 17 September
- CAPALoT Concert - 18 September
- Camden Agricultural Expo - 20 September
- Flexible Monday - 22 September
- Year 9 iSTEM Excursion - 22 September
- Year 8 Retreat Mass - 22 September
- NSWCIS Athletics Championships - 23 September
- Year 12 Graduation - Ceremony, Mass and Dinner - 25 September
- Last day of Term 3 - 26 September
- School Holidays - 27 September to 13 October
- Students return for Term 4 - Tuesday 14 October