Success Stories

Erin Smith Awarded UNE GRASS Industry Placement Scholarship 2016/17

O’Connor Catholic College Year 12 student Erin Smith has been awarded the UNE GRASS Industry Placement Scholarship for 2016/17.  Erin anticipates that the experience will help her learn more about science and agricultural careers available in the workplace.   Through the Scholarship, Erin attended an Industry Placement Camp at UNE, participating in practical activities and informative presentations.  The participants were orientated to the facilities of Campus and enjoyed presentations from the undergraduate Rural Science students.  A visit to Costa Tomato Farm was part of the program as well as the UNE SMART Farm. The final part of the Scholarship was Erin’s Industry Placement where Erin was hosted by Steph Cameron and the team at East West EnvioAg Tamworth. At placement she learnt about and experienced all the aspects of soil testing. Erin also undertook her own soil investigation, following it through to completion. Well done to Erin for making being awarded this beneficial Scholarship and making the most of the benefits it offered her.

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Student Representative Council 2017

The SRC would first like to take the opportunity to thank each and every O’Connor student for their participation with this year’s Student Representative Council election. A special thank you to those students who took the chance to be a voice for your fellow classmates.

This year saw a higher number of nominations submitted and also one of the closest voting finishes meaning that we have so many students who would have achieved greatly on the Council.

However, as we know, we unfortunately could not take everyone so please welcome the 2017 SRC.

Yr 7

Riley Stewart

Angus Scrivener

Bridie Giles

Abby Jackson

Yr 8

Alex MacMahon

Felix Martin

Cyan McLauchlin

Lara Maloney

Yr 9

Ricky Nutt

Hunter Simpson

Ellen Hawthorne

Anna Jackson

Yr 10

Simon Di Luzio

Harry Simpson

Maria Alkhouri

Imogen Dagg

Yr 11

Sam Frazier

Micah Scholes-Robertson

Sam Archer

Brydie Hawthorne

Yr 12

Honey Zahoor

Georgia Mackson

As a Council we cannot wait to start hearing your voices about how we can further improve our great school.

Waterpolo Sucess

Congratulations to Year 11 student Tahlia Stuart who has been named in the NSW 16's Waterpolo squad after her efforts at state championships in Canberra earlier this month