Secondary

Secondary Presentation Day

The Secondary Presentation Day was held on Thursday this week, with hundreds of academic, sporting and citizenship awards handed out. Congratulations to all our award recipients. A special mention to Jocelyn Goodfellow who received the Golden Frog award for her time and effort over many years through the P & F. Reverend Stephen Price received the Purple Thistle award for his dedication to the students and School. There are more photos on The Hub and here is the link for the Presentation Day Program .

Carols

Thank you to our Calrossy community for joining us at our Annual Carols Service. It was wonderful to see so many families join us for this annual Calrossy Tradition. A huge thank you also must go to Naomi Turner, Director of Music at Calrossy for coordinating this event and ensuring everyone was pitch perfect, plus the talented music staff members for accompanying our students.

2019 House Public Speaking

Over the last few weeks of Term 4 Years 7-10 prepared and delivered speeches on topics ranging from Christmas to Equality and Innovation, in order to represent not only their House but also their year groups. In the end the Nangara and Simpson were our victorious houses for 2019 and Lexi Cutler and Sathimath Balasuriya were name as respective champions for boys and girls. A huge thank you needs to be extended to the English Staff for preparing and encouraging all speaker and to our Judges Mrs Cameron, Mr Sanger and the Year 11 boys.

Girls

Year 10: Nicole Martin (Nangara)
Year 9: Tahlia Barwick (Karrawarra)
Year 8: Lexi Cutler (Nangara) Champion of Champions Girl
Year 7: Ella Fitler (Ellaroo)

Winning House Nangara

Boys

Year 10: Sathimath Balasuriya (Flynn) Champion of Champion Boys
Year 9: Johnte Boughton (Simpson)
Year 8: Jack McDonald (Flynn)
Year 7: Fergus O’Callaghan (Simpson)

Winning House Simpson

Tamworthian & Calendar

The 2019 Centenary Year Souvenir edition of the Tamworthian and 2020 Calrossy Calendar arrived this week. These publications were distributed to the youngest student in each family from Preschool to Year 12, with one copy of each to go to every Calrossy family. If you missed your copy in what has been an extremely busy few days, please go to the Brisbane Street Reception where limited spares are available.

Centenary Magazine - A Walk Through Time

One of the highlights of the year has been the production of the Centenary Magazine – "A Walk Through Time". This 165 page booklet is full of wonderful pictures of current and past students, is great reading and a wonderful memento of our 100 years of schooling.

The booklet contains a fabulous account of our history and the many personalities who have shaped Calrossy over time (including the William Cowper Schools up to their amalgamation) and should not be missed.

"A Walk Through Time" is $25 plus postage. To purchase your copy, please phone reception on 5776 5100.

Congratulations

A big congratulations to Sam Ison in Year 8 who submitted a story in English to the Storyathon competition. Sam's story on the "Haunted" theme was voted in the Top 10 for his age division. There will be more details on this great achievement early next year.

ACER Exam Registration

Calrossy awards Academic Scholarships on the basis of the ACER co-operative examination, to be held on 29 February 2020. Academic scholarships are part remission of tuition fees and they are available to existing and new students entering into Years 7, 9, 10 and 11 in 2021.

Please find link here for further information and how to register.

University Tour

Universities Tour Sunday 2nd to Wednesday 5th of February 2020

Just a friendly reminder that all permission notes and payment through Qkr for the Southern Universities Tour were due last Friday, 13th of December, however due to a couple of changes in student registration from other schools for the tour, there are now 5 spots still available for Calrossy Students.

Thank you to those students and parents who have already booked a seat on the tour of universities in Wollongong, Sydney and Newcastle.

University of Wollongong (Day 2 of the Trip, Monday the 3rd of February) registrations to choose sessions of your interest is still open, extended to Tuesday 17th of December. Details below ...... (we attend the Monday and you will be a HSC student) You don't need to make any bookings or registrations for the other days of the tour.

https://www.uow.edu.au/study/high-school/discovery-day/

Student password is finance610

Any questions at all, please call Mr Impey on 0428 000 021