Magis report
Best wishes to the John XXIII Year 8 Creative Edge Society & Environment team which competes in the grand final of this prestigious program at Curtin University on Saturday. The team of Amelia Watts, Luisa Parish, Elsie Samson, Jennifer Ong, Zoe McIlree and Poppy Hartfield will compete against teams from Iona and Chisholm Colleges. Team members are reminded to check the instructions and information carefully.
Our Year 9 team of Asha Paton and Meg Derbyshire represented the College with distinction at the British Parliamentary debating competition at Shenton College last Saturday, coming first or second (out of 4 school teams) in each of their three debates. This Sunday Joy Cho, Imogen Thompson, Tom Syminton and Jacob Davila will compete at Bob Hawke College.
Congratulations to Loreto House which won the John XXIII Chess Championship from St Louis and Koolyangarra. Winners at each year level were:
| 1st Place | 2nd Place | |
| Year 12 | Manesha Nguyen | Cohen Rafiq |
| Year 11 | Charlie Griffiths | Jordan Smith |
| Year 10 | Daniel Doran | |
| Year 9 | Tom Syminton | Massimo Torre |
| Year 8 | Hunter Bovell | Matthew Gardner |
| Year 7 | Ewan Fisher | Jovi Gibson |
Congratulations to all players who participated – there was keen rivalry and some great games.
There has been a terrific response for the Magis Awards Breakfast this Thursday, with about 150 people nominating to attend. The event will be held in the Thomas More Exhibition Centre starting at 7:30am sharp. Awards for all major interschool gifted student competitions, the House Challenge Series, John XXIII Creative Writing, Public Speaking and Chess plus major awards will be presented. Full results will be published in next Friday’s newsletter. You may still nominate by email to attend if you forgot to do so.
Attached with this Magis report is a flyer showing details of three major Gifted & Talented Competitions we will nominated teams for next term – Ethics Olympiad (teams from Years 7, 8 or 9), the Commonwealth Society Speech and Leadership Competition (Years 9 or 10 only), and International Debating open to all years from Years 7 to 11. Nominations for these wonderful events need to be in before the holidays. Students may nominate as a team of four for International Debating, a team of five for Ethics Olympiad, or individually and teams will be created. The Commonwealth Public Speaking is of course an individual event. Further details of these events are on the flyer attached, or the full versions can be obtained from the Magis office.
Jim Miller
Magis Gifted and Talented Program Coordinator
