Secondary

Dear Families

As a core principle of an Ignatian education, Magis, meaning 'more; to a greater extent' guides us to provide students with opportunities to use their God-given talents in the pursuit of academic excellence. Under the leadership of Ms Daisy Farley, Head of Magis and Jennifer Ong, 2025 Magis Captain, our Magis students participate in an extensive range of opportunities for personal challenge and to represent the College. Competing against students from other schools, the annual Francis Burt Mock Trial and WA Debating League competitions have commenced, with teams performing strongly in each of the rounds to date. A hotly contested Interhouse competition, the College Chess Tournament has also commenced at lunchtimes in the St Ignatius Centre Library, and we congratulations all players who have progressed to the next round. To complement HASS Week, students this week have participated in the next round of Magis Challenges during Homeroom, testing their knowledge of the Humanities, Arts, Languages and Literature. The College Public Speaking Competition heats will take place over the coming weeks, with the Grand Final scheduled for next term. We wish our World Scholars best of luck as they compete at the Perth Round of the World Scholars Cup today and tomorrow.  

Also striving for the Magis are members of the Academic Leadership Team, who this week completed training with Growth Coaching International to strengthen their skills as instructional coaches on ‘The ‘Impact Cycle’. A strategic objective in our pursuit of inspiring educational excellence, all teaching staff have set themselves a professional goal for the year and are being supported by their Head of Learning Area as coach. The work of Jim Knight, The Impact Cycle is a process coaches use to partner with teachers to help them have a positive impact on student learning and wellbeing. To do this, Heads of Learning Areas collaborate with teachers to get a clear picture of current reality, identify goals, select teaching strategies to meet the goals, monitor progress through the collation of evidence and problem-solve until the goals are met. All professional goals are informed by our current College learning goal: to respond to the needs of students through effective student identification, tracking of student data and differentiated learning strategies to ensure learning growth. Thank you to Mr Joel Wynn, Director of Teacher Professional Growth for his coordination of this informative and valuable professional learning for our middle leaders and his ongoing work with teachers to strengthen their practice and positive impact on students.  

Thank you to the wonderful Parents' Association for organising a delicious morning tea for staff to take a break from classes, exam marking and report writing to enjoy this morning. It was greatly appreciated. 

Term 2 Key Dates

Shani Andrews

Vice Principal - Head of Secondary

Year 11 Design and Technologies - Wood

After completing the technical drawings using Autodesk Fusion, Year 11 students are well underway into the construction of their solid timber furniture designs. A variety of different complex joinery techniques have been included in their work. A great display of student stepping out of their comfort zone and developing their own craftsmanship as designers. 

Year 12 Design and Technologies - Wood

Year 12 students have been researching, testing and trialing an exploratory technique to be included in their final design. It is wonderful and exciting to see a variety of different techniques being explored. Some of the techniques included are end-lamination, mortise and tenon joint with removal peg, silicon molds, resin casting and curved lamination techniques. A brilliant display of curiosity and creativity. 

SPORT

SSWA Cross-Country 

We had a fantastic day at the School Sport WA Cross-Country Carnival. Congratulations to all students who represented John XXIII College. A team of Years 7 to10 students attended the day at Yokine Regional Open Space; a new venue for the competition this year. We had fantastic individual efforts by all team members as they worked to secure their spot in the ACC team competing next Thursday.  

Well done to the Boys 13 age group who took out the shield for the age group.

Congratulations to the following students who finished in the top 25 for their races:

Girls 12 Years

• Frankie Julian - 14th 

Boys 12 Years

• Oscar Bilkey - 12th 

Girls 13 years

• Vivienne Barley - 2nd 

Boys 13 years

• Hugo Smith - 7th 
• Donovan Allen - 8th 

Boys 15 Years

• Bailey Vincent - 25th 

Girls 16 

• Claudia Gnech - 4th 

Boys 17+

• Joshua Standen - 11th 

Girls 17+ 

• Lyla Stewart - 7th

ACC Cross-Country 

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected into the ACC Squad. 

All successful team squad members have been emailed. Please check your emails for the important information. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask myself, Mr Kowal or Mr Tremayne. 

Carnival Date: Thursday 5 June 

Race Day

• Thursday 5 June - Alderbury Reserve, Perry Lakes.
• We will all meet in the St Louis Sports Centre at 7:30am SHARP.
• Must have yellow interschool singlet for racing - no sport t-shirts are allowed. We have very limited spares, so all athletes are encouraged to purchase their own singlet.
• Must wear JTC College Shorts (no black shorts of any kind allowed)
  • Girls have the option to wear the new performance shorts.
• Cannot run with headphones or phones - this can result in disqualification.
• If you have any queries, concerns or injuries please contact us ASAP!!!

 Important Information

• All team members must attend the compulsory final team training Tuesday 3 June, 3:30 - 4:30pm on the College ovals, followed by the team dinner in TMEC, 5:00 - 6:00pm
• RSVP here: Dinner RSVP
• All members have permission to now purchase an interschool team jumper from the uniform shop.
• All team members have permission to wear their interschool jumper for the week of the carnival: Tuesday 3 June - Friday 6 June.
• ALL runners/reserves MUST attend the day to ensure eligibility for their interschool team jumper embroidery.

We are so excited and can't wait to see you all in action, next week. It is one of the highlights on the College Sporting Calendar. 

Year 8 Winter NAS

All Year 8 NAS teams and Lightning Carnival teams have now been posted in the College notices. Well done to all students who trialed and brought great enthusiasm to Year 8 NAS. The training schedule is attached below. All students in a NAS Team must attend both training sessions in the lead up to the carnival Wednesday 18 June. If students are unable to attend, they must email their team teacher know via email. Students who are listed in the Lightning Carnival teams can train if they wish to on the listed training afternoons. 

NAS Training Schedule 

Year 8/9 Boys Eagles Cup 

Well done to the Eagles Cup team who were in action against Newman College this week. They did not take the win, but they will be back in action next week against John Forrest away. The team will be back at school around 5:30pm.

Congratulations 

Congratulations to student Zoe Tonkin (Year 9), who recently represented Western Australia at the National Wall Climbing Titles in New South Wales. Competing against Australia's top young climbers, Zoe performed exceptionally well and gained valuable experience at this prestigious event.

Jessica Pillera

Head of Sport