Pastoral Care

• Upcoming Dates of Significance
• St Pius X College Students responding to change - Aidan Lonsdale
• 2020 House Cup

 Well-being Anecdotes from the Student Diary Planner

“ Others don’t care what you know unless they know you care” Jack Cranfield

Upcoming Dates of Significance

Tuesday 4 August - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day

Friday 11 September - RUOK Day

Term 3 renews our focus on student well being and our Year 12 Student Leaders, Wellbeing Prefects and Student Empowerment Teams are currently planning activities for RUOK Day which culminates in Week 8 Friday 11 September. We are excited by the prospect of many of the initiatives these student-centred groups have planned and encouraged by their emphasis that every day is a positive day for enhancing well-being amongst our students and community.

From the Year 10 SET planned table tennis tournament to House Cup and PDHPE sessions at Oxford Falls amidst our controlled return to Winter Sports there is much to enjoy and celebrate over the coming weeks as we continue to meet the challenges of a disrupted school year.

Our students continue to wear their uniform well and carry themselves with pride, and overwhelmingly demonstrate their respect and gratitude for others and their environment. There is always room for improvement in all these respects and we will ensure that we set the highest standards for all our endeavours and support our students and each other to rise to those standards and the occasion.

St Pius X College Students responding to change

On the topic of high standards of performance and achievement, it gives the College great pleasure to celebrate the humility and work of Year 11 student Aidan Londsdale, who won the recent Ku-ring-gai Council photography competition.  The image is shown as the banner this week, above.

Aidan’s photo needed to represent something about 'change'. It needed to have been inspired, had been noticed or had been adapted in the world as the participant once knew it. From the competition website....“Congratulations to all our entries. Aidan Lonsdale was the winner of our competition for his photo "Distant Dreams". Aidan captioned his photo "This photo, taken before COVID-19, shows the interaction missed throughout quarantine. The social distancing measures put in place made it harder to see family and friends, and starting the search for new ways to communicate and interact". The photos were judged by Brett Fairhurst from @Fairhurst Photography, who commented on: “Aidan's use of the sunset clouds as background and having the foreground as a silhouette definitely stood out, and his caption really worked with the image too”.

40 points to the very humble photographer Aidan Lonsdale and the Barron House and the 2020 House Cup which will be presented before Year 12 complete their final term of schooling before the HSC.

2020 HOUSE CUP

As noted above the uniquely 2020 House Cup will be presented by our College Vice Captains Michael Fakhoury and Tyson McCallum this term and points contributions and ideas are invited from all quarters of the College community to ensure we encompass as many representative components of the College life as possible.

Any ideas or proposals should be communicated to the College Vice Captains above, Student Wellbeing Leaders, or Mr Brannan. 

Fide et Labore

Mr Sean Brannan - Assistant Principal, Pastoral Care and Well being