Pastoral Bulletin

Best of luck to the students competing in the Rugby 7s Gala Day on Monday. We look forward to hearing all about it when you return.
Students are currently finalising assessments across all subjects. Please ensure you are up to date with the assessment calendars to meet all deadlines. A reminder if you are absent from school due to illness during this time to please contact the College and follow assessment policy requirements pertinent to junior and senior school.
We are seeing a large number of students continuing to ride their scooters and bikes in the school grounds. Please ensure you walk your bike inside the school grounds and at the front of St Gerard Majella Primary School.
We are experiencing high levels of absenteeism in the College due to illness at the moment. Please let the College know through the portal or phone for this to be recorded.

Regards,

Leah McBryde

Assistant Principal, Junior Years (7 - 9) | lmcbryde@cns.catholic.edu.au

Justin Brennan

Acting Assistant Principal, Senior Years (10 -12) | jbrennan2@cns.catholic.edu.au

Year 7

Students are well underway in completing their assessments. Please ensure students check over the assessment calendar to meet required deadlines.
Next week students will complete the final Kahoot for the overall house champion for the term. We look forward to celebrating the winning house in Week 10.
Students are reminded to follow the uniform and personal grooming expectations in the College, in particular to jewellery.

Regards,

Leah McBryde

Head of Year 7

Congratulations to PG 8.8 who have once again claimed their title as champions of this week’s interhouse challenge. Your prizes will be delivered during community PG on Wednesday. Murray House extends their lead but Cahill House is in hot pursuit.

Regards,

Andy Winter

Head of Year 8

Congratulations to Mr Shirvington’s 9.1 and Ms Marton’s 9.7 for making it into the last round of our basketball shootout! Stay tuned for overall winners to be announced!
During Community PG, I spoke to students about stress and strategies to overcome it during assessment time. Some of the strategies include chunking information, asking teachers for help during lunch or work as a group and teaching each other concepts they have learnt. For further support, students are encouraged to approach me or one of our Guidance Counsellors here at the College.

Regards,

Saripha Curro

Head of Year 9

Our Year 10 Spirit Cup Challenge continued last week with a tied result for first place between Cahill and Heavey. Cahill has slightly extended their overall lead with 1 round to go this term. I’m keen to see what happens next term…

A final reminder that Year 11 Mentor applications close on Thursday 7th September at 2pm.

Regards,

John Cahill

Head of Year 10

Congratulations to our 2024 Prefects and House Captains! We look forward to working with such a dynamic group of students and expect the whole cohort to give their full support.

We have SEL next Tuesday; we have been focusing on kindness and the concept of "sonder" this term. Students have been performing Random Acts of Kindness for the last few weeks and on Tuesday they will go through an affirmation exercise towards their peers.

Sophie McQueen

Head of Year 11

With less than two school weeks to go until holidays, students are encouraged to ensure they are using their class time effectively in preparation for external exams.
A reminder that an email went out a few weeks ago regarding Term 4 expectations for Year 12s. All students will attend normal school lessons for the first two weeks. VET students who have completed all of their certificate work can then stay home unless exams are on. Non-VET students are required at school for lessons on Monday of week 3 - following that there is some flexibility around attending additional classes of a subject if they are on the same line.
Community PG this week on Monday in the Lecture theatre.
Tuesday - SEL lesson period 2 - letters need to be finalised. Sport - continue dance practice, look at final table arrangements.
Please click the link below for a map detailing arrivals drop off for the Year 12 Celebration Dinner. Students have organised drop off times so that arrivals move through smoothly. Please ensure you are adhering to those times.

Regards

Lucy Fitzpatrick

Head of Year 12

lfitzpatri@cns.catholic.edu.au