Student Stories & Community Updates
Academic Achievement Awards
Congratulations to the following students on their excellent academic performance across all subjects in Semester 1. These students received certificates for Academic Achievement at our whole school assembly on Tuesday 15 August.
Year 7 Fabio Barrocas George Batzaxis Thomas Bree Hamish Child Alexander Koriev Lachlan Meeham Sebastian Trouw Harvey Wintle
| Year 8 Joseph Anderson Roman Atkins Xander Chilianis Ramy Khodr Aaron Schoenmakers Oliver Smith Simon Szabo Joseph Whelan
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Year 9 William Aufner Max Calvez Hayden Edel Lachlan Hodgkins Michael Monaghan Thomas Rossi Nicholas Shipham Alexander Tsaousidis
| Year 10 Oliver Bradley Alexander Calvi Jacob Gosling Harrison McCawley Piero Palleschi Tomas Polintan Ronny Seoud Braxon Vella Marcus Winter |
Brenden Mair
Deputy Principal - Learning and Teaching
Gifted & Talented Program
Naming Competition Winner
We're thrilled to announce the winning submission to name our Gifted and Talented Program. Congratulations to our Year 11 student, Tom Gregory on his winning entry: BEAM Beda Enrichment and Academic Mentorship
Tom has received an Achievement Award for Creative Excellence, will be a collaborator in the logo design for BEAM, and will get a personal reference from Principal Deb Frizza and myself, not to mention an enduring legacy for our College. Very well deserved Tom!
Brenda McCullagh
Gifted & Talented Program Director
Celebrating Student Excellence
Congratulations to Luke Callander (Year 8) and Harry Edwards (Year 7), who have both been selected to play hockey for Victoria in the U13 team for a tournament in September.
Talented rugby player Lenex Barth-Tauai (Year 9) has been selected into the Under 16s State Melbourne Rebels State Team 2023 to compete in the tournament, being played across the country, from September.
A great honour indeed!
Netball 'Not So Friendly'
REMATCH FOR REDEMPTION - In a stunning upset, Beda's Year 12 Leaders Netball "Friendly" (now known as "The Netball Wars of 2023") versus the stellar team at Mentone Girls Grammar School has been described in devastating detail by Captain Dylan Collins, who says Team Beda is taking time to recover from the heartbreaking loss.
"I'll focus on the good, rather than the way we’ve been cheated by dodgy rules:
- The stadium was absolutely packed with a fierce (quite terrifying actually) crowd.
- Our knowledge of the rules (particularly obstruction) really let us down and highlighted our lack of experience in comparison to the elite skills and structures of MGG. Rule 14 of the Federation of International Netball rules ‘footwork’ also was problematic.
- Our camaraderie remained strong, despite finding ourselves on the end of losing margin at the end of every quarter (well there were only 3 quarters in the end…corrupt).
- On several accounts, Mentone Girls being referred to as ‘Mentone’ proved to be highly confusing for us, the visiting Mentone school.
- Our athleticism simply wasn’t enough as the harassing defense of MGGS prevented us from using our ‘Hail Mary’ passing strategy.
- It was a face paced, intense game with the crowd roaring at every fumble or missed shot
- We are very eager for a redemption game."
Salt was rubbed further into the Beda battle wounds the following day, on delivery of an important document from the winning team, as evidenced in the last image. At the time of publishing, team Beda is anxiously awaiting a rematch confirmation from Mentone Girls Grammar School. Stay tuned!
ACC Sport Term 3
WEEK 5 RESULTS
TEAM | SCORES | GOALS/POINTS | BEST PLAYERS |
Year 7 Basketball (Bentleigh East)
| Cs: St Bede’s 26 defeated by St Bernard’s Blue 40
Ds: St Bede’s 11 defeated by St Bernard’s Blue 48 | Cs Pavlos Dimitriu Ds Henry Gleeson | |
| Year 7 Basketball | As: St Bede’s 60 defeated Parade 44
Bs: St Bede’s 14 defeated by Parade 30 | As: Will Clancy 20 Bs: Heath Lee Kim 6 | |
| Year 7 Hockey | St Bede’s 11 defeated St Joseph’s FTG 0 | Campbell Evans 3 Max Dyett 2 Harry Edwards 2 Ardy Hanlon Kane Lawrence Luke Watkins Vanson Harwood | Beau Decker Luke Watkins Zac Noble Zac Davies
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Year 7 Table Tennis (Bentleigh East)
| St Bede’s 7 Matches (32 sets) defeated by St Bernard’s College 8 Matches (43 sets) | Oscar Arvanitakis Thomas Regos Leo Calabro | |
| Year 7 Table Tennis | St Bede’s 14 matches (68 sets) defeated St Joseph’s FTG 1 matches (7 sets) | Wazir Saigal Jonas Michelsson Jake Meyers | |
| Year 8 Basketball | As: St Bede’s 54 defeated by Whitefriars 65
Bs: St Bede’s 43 defeated by Whitefriars 70 | As: Oscar Luxmoore 18 Josh Lewis 9
Bs: Callum Tregoning 8 Max Meredith 8 | |
| Year 8 Hockey | St Bede’s 7 defeated Whitefriars 0 | Luke Callander 2 Jack Forbes Matt Nicolin Zeke Barnett Jude Leighton Will McKean | Matt Nicolin Charles Meunier Stephen O’Brien Jack Forbes |
| Year 8 Table Tennis | St Bede’s 15 matches (74 sets) defeated Whitefriars 0 matches (1 set) | ||
| Year 9 Basketball (Bentleigh East) | Cs: St Bede’s 51 defeated Whitefriars 38
Ds: St Bedes 44 defeated by Whitefriars 74 | Cs: Oscar Balsilie Ds: Angus Bloomfield | |
| Year 9 Basketball | As: St Bede’s 36 defeated by Salesian 43
Bs: St Bede’s 24 defeated by Salesian 39 | As: Max Matthews Logan Brown Jack Lannan
Bs: Brad Sloane Sam Scott Josh O’Brien | |
| Year 9 Hockey | St Bede’s 1 defeated by Salesian 5 | Eli Schellebeck | Ryan Stoppa Eli Schellebeck Finn Lalor Kai Nicolaci Zack Shaw |
Year 9 Table Tennis (Bentleigh East)
| St Joseph’s FTG 4 Matches (22 sets) vs St Bede’s 11 Matches (53 sets) | Alessio Di Fabrizzio Blake Schiffner Jordan Gatica | |
| Year 9 Table Tennis | St Bede’s 8 matches (40 sets) defeated De La Salle 7 matches (35 sets) | Oliver Clifton Tom Vella
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| Year 10 Basketball | As: St Bede’s 60 defeated Salesian 40
Bs: St Bede’s 60 defeated Salesian 26 | As: Xavier Hobkirk 13 Josh White 12 Jake Milligan 10
Bs: Ollie Smythe 12 Pat O’Connor 11 Cooper Gleeson 10 | As: Xavier Hobkirk Zach Kovac Jake Milligan
Bs: Ollie Smythe Pat O'Connor Cooper Gleeson |
| Year 10 Hockey | St Bede’s 2 defeated Parade 1 | Cooper Crane 2 | Matthew Katrantzis Joshua MacKenzie James Thomas |
| Year 10 Table Tennis | St Bede’s 13 matches (59 sets) defeated De la Salle 2 matches (16 sets) | The whole team!!! | |
| Senior Basketball | As: St Bede’s 56 defeated De La Salle 35 Bs: St Bede’s 60 defeated De La Salle 40 | As: Heath Williamson 11 Jacob Savic 10 Bs: Brodie Findlay 16 Jack Ferraro 12 Miles Madsen 11 Cooper Donnellan 10 | As: Jacob Savic Bs: Jack Ferraro Brodie Findlay |
| Senior Hockey | St Bede’s 4 defeated St Bernard’s 0 | Dante Quenette 2 Dorian Quenette James Loffel | Lachie Morgan-Banks Luke Rogalsky James Loffel |
Guy Martyn Steve Laska
Director of Sport Learning Area Leader and Sports Coordinator
Environment Update
Campus Composting
In our mission to reduce our footprint and become more sustainable, our Mentone Campus now has a compost bin for staff food waste.
This compost can be used to enrich the nutrient content of the soil in our Vocational Major vegetable gardens, where students grow produce that's donated to food kitchens. With a clew of worms (yes - the collective noun for worms!) in the garden bed under the compost, we'll be feeding our subterranean friends with what would have ended up in landfill.
Community Recycling Bins
We'll soon be welcoming new bins for families to recycle batteries and other household items. These items can be sent to school with students to streamline our recycling processes. It’s a great way to involve your children in the process of recycling and helping them become aware that some things don’t just ‘disappear’ in the bin.
"Batteries contain harmful substances including mercury, cadmium and lead. These chemicals and materials can be dangerous if mixed with other waste streams and cause damage to the environment if placed in landfill." Close the Loop
Eco-Product to Ponder
Feeling chilly? We tried a sustainable down puffy blanket by Nakie. Made from 54% post-consumer plastic bottles, these blankets are made 100% from recycled material. Stain, tear and water resistant, they're perfect for adventures. Camping, drive-in, on your lap at the footy or even as a spare blanket at home. 4 trees are planted for each purchase.
Nakie is a certified B corporation. Find out more here.
Kylie Paterson-Zigouras & Ross Hunter
Integral Ecological Leaders
Parents and Friends
Father’s Day Stalls
Gifts will be available for Year 7 and 8 students to purchase from Bentleigh East and Mentone Campuses at our Father's Day stalls.
Items range from $3 to $10 and include sport towels, bio cups, tool kits, funky socks, cooler bags, stationery, soap and more. Card and cash welcome. All money raised goes to the MAD fundraiser.
Mentone Campus
Wednesday 30 August & Friday 1 September
Location & Time: next to Mr De Souza’s office, at lunchtime until sold out.
Bentleigh East Campus
Thursday 31 August
Location & Time: VPAC foyer, at lunchtime until sold out.
Thank you to our incredible volunteers who make these days possible!
Community Relations Officer
Finian Foundation Charity Golf Day
6 Event Sponsorships Remain!
Friday 20 October
Don't miss a great day of golfing, gathering and feel-good fun at our annual fundraising event! The Finian Foundation Charity Golf Day is the premier event that brings essential funds for St Bede’s students whose families are experiencing great financial hardship.
These funds are raised thanks to the sponsors of this event - from our College and Old Collegians. As well as reaching 21,000 people in our local community, event sponsorship offers great exposure to promote your business, give back to the community - and is 100% tax deductible.
This year, we need 6 more sponsors to achieve our fundraising goal. If you're a business owner, please explore our sponsorship packagesto see how your business can support St Bede's College families in need.
Community Relations Officer