Pastoral Care

• Wellbeing Quote from the Diary
• Student Leadership Team Investiture
• Year 9 Activities Days
• House Cup
• Wellbeing Wednesdays
• Year 8 PDHPE Adventurous Activities

Wellbeing Quote from the Diary

“Let he who would move the world first move himself”

Socrates

Student Leadership Team Investiture

In another 2020 first, our Student Leaders Investiture held online via a YouTube broadcast was extremely well received by the students and wider school community. The 2021 Student Leadership Team was seamlessly led by College Captain 2021 Liam Chang whose inaugural address to the College was inspirational. Liam was supported by Vice Captains Alec Ramsbottom and Nick Ward (whose great grandfather John Supple is a renowned Old Boy of the College) who introduced each of the portfolio Prefect Teams who then articulated their hopes for their tenure of leadership of the College: 

Mission and Identity; Doug Daniels, Matthew Felice, Lachlan Onslow; 

Academic: Aidan Lorking, Charlie Jackson and Angelo Fernando; 

Cultural: James Baldock, Charlie Hamill, Ashley Johnson and Liam Kinna;

Wellbeing: Ben Giles, Jacob Glass and Matthew Brannan;  

along with House Captains for Barron: Pat Moore; Purton: Fred Braddock; Rice: Ben Ferguson and Treacy: Dominic Panozzo.

Indeed the whole of the HSC class of 2021 took on the mantle of leadership of the College with appropriately composed determination in support of the Student Leaders portfolios teams, as they received their leadership badges and Year 12 ties which mark their responsibility as leaders over the next 12 months.

In celebration of these students I thank the SPX Old Boys Association who once again sponsored the Student Leaders' Speechcraft Course over the past three months. In doing so we thank also Valerie Close who has coached our leaders in their presentation and public speaking skills. It definitely had a positive effect on both their speaking last Thursday and development of skills which they can develop and use for life. 

Year 9 Activities Days

After their initial postponement due to dangerous winds in Week 1, Ms Riet and Mr Steinman’s Year 9 Homeroom 4 completed their Activities Day last Friday circumnavigating Cammeraygal sites Gumbooya Reserve Allambie Hts, Dee Why Lagoon and Narrabeen Lake after listening to the story of Elder Professor Dennis Foley. The theme of “Listening to story on Cammeraygal land” was consolidated by listening and learning from the stories of Manly Surf School Instructor Roy and former ADF Infantryman and Fitness Instructor Stu who led the Kayak adventure.

House Cup

We celebrate again the positive contribution of our younger leaders in our Year 10 Student Empowerment Team who presented the House Cup Table Tennis Champions from their 7 week competition at last Monday’s Assembly. Will Staber and Ben Cullen represented Mr Mendez's team with aplomb. 

Wellbeing Wednesdays

Our focus on our wellbeing underpinning the effectiveness of our daily learning continues under the leadership of our students with the Wellbeing Prefects following the examples of Mr Lynch and Ms Casamento’s Year 8 Homeroom in running the ABC Smiling Mind Mindfulness App in Year 5 classrooms last week and Year 6 this week. While Year 10 are on exams this week, there are a range of wellbeing activities occurring in Homerooms throughout the school today including a Wellbeing Kahoot in Ms Bamber’s Year 11 Homeroom 1. 

PDHPE Adventurous Activities

Year 8 commenced their rotation of Adventurous Activities including Bushwalking from Ferguson St to Davidson Park for a fishing session over lunch, Rockclimbing at the Rockhouse Brookvale, and Kayaking with Pittwater Kayaking Tours on Narrabeen Lake, on Tuesday. They continue these formative activities over the next three sessions. Under favourable weather conditions the students were well organised and rose to the various challenges of each activity. Blake Markulin was selected as best team player at Kayaking, going above and beyond to organise the group in deploying and returning the kayaks for the session.

St Pius X College acknowledges our First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and particularly the Cammeraygal people, 

whose interconnection with this land sustained and 

fulfilled them mentally, physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, 

over thousands of years. 

May we learn from their wisdom.

Fide et Labore

Mr Sean Brannan - Assistant Principal, Pastoral Care and Wellbeing