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Refugee Week - Fare Go Food Truck 

Get your orders in by 15 June for our Fare Go Food Truck coming to the College on Tuesday 22 June as part of Refugee Week. Fare Go is a  social enterprise food truck operated by people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds in Perth. Serving up delicious cultural comfort food, Fare Go brings the opportunity to eat, share and connect while empowering refugees and asylum seekers through employment.

The Fare Go Menu is attached.  We will be operating a preorder system and all orders must be prepaid. There is a supply of lunch bags at student reception. Please put your name and order on the front, money in the bag and leave with Mrs Reith.

Janeen Murphy

Director - Faith & Mission 

Technologies in the Real World

The technologies courses at John XXIII incorporate project-based learning to teach students skills they will use throughout life both in their careers and at home.

Year 7 Digital Technology, Mrs. Anna Davila

Year 7 students put a creative spin on the vintage Tomogatchi and worked through the design process to create an interactive game using the BBC Micro:bit. They researched what made the original toy fun and engaging and thought about how they can make improvements to bring it back to market for the next generation. The team of Jenny Biddle, Brooke Tome, and Jana Schlaich created a game called 'Hatcho' to teach children about the responsibility of caring for an animal.  The team of Ruby Rose Johnstone, Hazel Delaney, and Imogen Thompson created a game called 'Travel Buddy' to virtually travel to different places during a time when airplane travel is not possible. 

Year 8 Engineering Design, Mr. Nathan Munns

The Year 8’s competed against each other in the CO2 Rocket Car Challenge. Students spent several weeks researching aerodynamic design, 3D modelling, and carving their ideas into a working balsawood prototype. Some students were surprised at the cars which performed best and reflected on how they would do better next time. Congratulations to Jackson Bosnich for winning the competition with the best performing car on the day.

Year 9 Food Technology, Miss Melinda Toleman

Year 9 students are exploring sustainability in Food Technology investigating food sources, food miles, food waste, carbon footprint and responsible use of food.  They made a basic biscuit and flavoured them with items that are in stock in our storeroom, rather than buying in more produce.  This activity promotes using ingredients in season, buying local produce, growing your own produce, and using what you have on hand to reduce food wastage. 

Year 11/12 Materials and Design Technology - Wood, Mr. Jordan Sell

Year 11 and 12 MDT students are currently working through the design and construction of a hall table. They are encouraged to research unique treatments and explore new skills like the use of resin and laser cutting to enhance the artistic design and quality of the piece. With the table design individual to each student, some are getting creative and have chosen to make the popular river table. The two-part resin is mixed along with a pigment of their choice and left to cure for three days, resulting in a unique and very impressive tabletop. Lucas Russell chose a navy and pearlescent teal to make the water more realistic. 

Anna Davila

Head of Learning - Technologies

CARAD foodbank appeal

In the lead-up to Refugee Week we will be supporting CARAD with a foodbank appeal.

CARAD is the Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees (CARAD). ​It is a not-for-profit, unaffiliated organisation committed to advocating for asylum seekers, refugees and detainees in Western Australia.  ​CARAD provides essential services and support that ​people are unable to obtain elsewhere. Many of ​their clients do not have the right to work and are ineligible for government financial support. ​Their Foodbank is a valuable lifeline for these people.

Things needed:

• oil (vegetable or olive)
• basmati rice
• instant coffee
• tinned tuna tinned tomatoes
• tinned chick peas
• tinned peas and corn
• jam
• tinned fruit

All items to be collected via homerooms.

Janeen Murphy

Director - Faith & Mission 

STEM Classroom Cash Competition

The Technologies Department at John XXIII will be collecting Classroom Cash Competition entries collected from The West Australian on 29 May, 5 June, 12 June, and 19 June. Please complete the entry with the school information and return them to your Homeroom Teacher until 30 June.  The winning school will receive $5,000.00 to spend on STEM resources. 

Anna Davila

Head of Learning - Technologies

SPORT

Northern Associated Sports (NAS)

Congratulations to all our NAS teams and coaches on a successful third round against Servite College this week. Next week we will play against Chisholm College.

A reminder to all students to let their coaches know if they are unable to make a game.

Fixtures, results and ladders can be accessed through the link below:

NAS Fixtures, Results & Ladders | Associated & Catholic Colleges of WA (accsport.asn.au) 

ACC Cross-Country

On Thursday 27 May, John XXIII took a team of over 70 athletes to the Associated Catholic Colleges Cross-Country carnival. Each race had up to 450 students competing from 76 schools. 

Our students brought so much passion, determination, and spirit to the day. As a result of this, coupled with their hard training since Week 2, Term 1, our team were victorious on the day taking out the Overall School’s Champion shield for the first time since 1993. We also took home the Overall Girls Champion, U/13 Girls and U/16 Girls shields. A special acknowledgement must be made to the Year 11 and 12 students for competing during their exam period, without their dedication our historical win would not have happened.

There were several outstanding performances throughout the day with a number of students finishing in the top 20. 

U13 Girls 

Sasha Pallis 1st 

Lyla Stewart 6th 

Emily Hutchinson 16th 

U13 Boys

Noah Boruff 13th 

Tighe O’Toole 15th 

Austin Trend 19th 

U14 Girls

Poppy Thorpe 14th 

Ruby Verleg 17th 

U14 Boys

Ciaran Doyle 9th 

David Gardner 13th 

U15 Girls

Ruby Kerwin 13th 

Karri Buchanan 14th 

U15 Boys

Owen Simpson 10th 

U16 Girls

Elizabeth Edwards 2nd 

Victoria Hyde 6th 

U16 Boys

Harrison Upton 14th 

Jake Soutar 16th 

U19 Girls

Ella Naismith 14th 

Thank you to Miss Pillera and Ms Fortune for their encouragement, support and organisation throughout the day. 

Congratulations to all our wonderful students it was one to remember, a fantastic day and something to be extremely proud of!

ACC Team Celebration

To acknowledge our students and their recent success in all three ACC Carnivals, a celebratory lunch will be held on Monday 14 June for all students involved in the following ACC teams:

• 2020 ‘Stay in A’ Athletics Champions
• 2021 ACC Swimming Champions
• 2021 ACC Cross Country Champions

Sara Kononen

Head of Sport