Senior School News

Badgally Corriedale Stud News – Joining has Begun! 

Photo: (left to right): Ryan Saggers, Benjamin Elworthy and Alec McDonnell (Year 11) with the College’s new ram, purchased in November 2020 from Milton Savage at Gambier View Corriedale Stud in Victoria. 

The ram is very true to the breed with a bold and stylish fleece, terrific wool coverage and density, good muscle yield and is structurally sound. 

In Week 7 he was introduced to the College stud ewes, which had received melatonin implants (to advance seasonal oestrous activity) and had undergone an oestrus synchronisation program (to ensure they were all on oestrus at the same time). Four days later he was introduced to the flock ewes.

After a cycle with the Gambier View ram, our back-up ram from Ballyvaughan Corriedale Stud (Narrandera) will spend a cycle with the ewes. 

We look forward to 5 months in the future when we can see the fruits of their labour!

Edward Stefanski

Agriculture Faculty

Show Team News

Cattle Show Team 

Currently, there are 47 students in the Show Team. The students have been working hard preparing both cattle and sheep for the show season. We have been to two cattle events so far this year. 

The first show we attended was Canberra Cattle Show in late February. We had some great results from this show. Some highlights were:

• Patrick Bird - 1st place Junior Judging
• Toby Drinnan- 4th place Junior Judging
• Massimo Pisciuneri- 1st place 12 year Parader
• Cooper Wray 3rd place 13/14 year old Parader
• Will Hackett- 1st place 14/15-year-old Parader
• Vince Pisciuneri- 1st place 14/15 year old Parader
• Charlie Fuller- 4th place 14/15 year old Parader
• Joel Offord – 1st place 15/16 year old Parader
• Patrick Bird- 1st place 15/16 year old Parader
• Macs Rubain- 2nd place 15/16 year old Parader
• Adam Fordham - 2nd place 15/16 year old Parader
• Toby Drinnan- 3rd place 15/16 year old Parader
• Thomas Anderson – 4th place 15/16 year old Parader
• Riley Keogh – 2nd place 17 year old Parader
• Ryan Saggers – 3rd place 15/16 year old Parader
• Thomas Ferro- 4th place 17 year old Parader

The cattle also performed well. The most outstanding result was STG Ripple winning the Supreme Short Horn exhibit!

Moss Vale Show

Early March, the team made their way to the annual Moss Vale Show. Some new students on the team came to this Show and they did a fantastic job for their first event. We also had four students from the Junior School join us for the parading event.  Overall, we had some exceptional results; 

• 17/19 Paraders placed in their classes
• Riley Keogh was Reserve Champion Parader overall
• Senior Champion Cow- “Flemington Allspice”
• Reserve Champion Cow- "Flemington Fleur”
• First place Heifer in a very tough line up “Nice Surprise”
• Second place Heifer “STG Ripple”
• First, second and third place with R5, R8 and R10
• Reserve Champion Heifer R10

We would like to thank Mr Lee and Mrs Sue MacMaster and Mr Paul Brooks for coming down to Canberra, Mr Barry Graham and Mr and Mrs Ivancic for supporting us at Moss Vale Show and Mr John Redman for transporting the cattle to both events. 

Miss Hayley Mahoney

Agriculture Faculty

Casual  Clothing Day

A reminder that on Monday 22 March, the College(both the Senior and Junior School) will be holding a Casual Clothing Day as a Lenten money-raising initiative.

For the privilege of wearing casual clothes on the day, students will be asked to donate a gold coin. Appropriate casual clothing is to be clean and have no offensive or inappropriate words or images; no singlet tops are to be worn. Students must wear closed in shoes and boys who are in the workshop that day will need to ensure that they have leather-topped shoes. 

The College hair, grooming and jewellery guidelines remain in place for the day, and the College bag must be used. This is still a normal College attendance day and all scheduled lessons will take place as normal.

The College sees this as an outstanding opportunity for students to raise money and think about those less fortunate than themselves. 

Mrs Polly Quirk

English Teacher

Try Boarding @ Greg's for FREE!

A FREE 1-week trial is available for all Years 7 12 students of the College, to try Boarding.

Options include:

• Casual Boarding – Boarding is available at your convenience. Is there a night where you have to work late and can’t ensure your son is doing his homework or assessments? Have you thought about boarding
• Extended Day Boarding – utilise Boarding Resources by joining the evening routine. Afternoon activities, Dinner, Study and access to all tutors.

To book your Son in or for further information about this opportunity, please contact Mr Luke Morrissey, director of Boarding, at lmorrissey@stgregs.nsw.ed.au.

2021 NSW Law Society Mock Trial Competition

On Wednesday, the College Mock Trial team 

began their 2021 NSW Law Society Mock Trial Competition with a trial against William Carey Christian College.

We were tasked with prosecuting an alleged thief, who had stolen a number of luxury items from our first witness’ residence (Kian Boyne - including his favourite Gucci purse!) committing the crime in company with our second witness (Joshua Logozzo). 

Barrister Tom Graham was excellent on debut, giving a terrific opening address, then putting the defendant under immediate pressure and continuing that throughout his cross-examination. This was followed by second Barrister Lucas Braithwaite who was also impressive in his first trial and continued the momentum pressing the second defence witness. 

Lucas’ closing address was thorough and he spoke very fluently and confidently, it put an exclamation mark on the prosecution's case. 

The boys were instructed by Solicitor Manoj Weerasingham and order in the court was maintained under the control of Finn O’Connor.

Whilst the defendant managed to escape a criminal conviction, the boys won where it counted on the score sheet, (179-171) with the Magistrate paying particular compliments to Josh Logozzo and his performance under cross-examination. 

A great start to the season so please congratulate the boys if you see them.

Mr Stephen Bullock

Academic Care Leader Stage 6 (Year 11 & Year 12)