Senior School News
Parent/Student/Teacher Interviews
Parent-Student-Teacher interviews for students in Years 7-12 will be held in the Brother Luke Hall. These interviews provide an invaluable opportunity to discuss your son’s progress with his teachers.
Interviews will be held between:
- 9.00am - 7.00pm on Friday 14 May and
- 9.00am - 12.30pm on Sunday 16 May
The online School Interview Booking system that has been successfully used for several years will again be used. The booking system will open at 10am on Tuesday 4 May and close at 2pm on Thursday 13 May.
A letter was sent to all Years 7-12 parents. The letter sent is available to download below.
Mr Barry Graham
Director of Administration
St Greg's Careers Expo
The College will be hosting a Careers Expo on Thursday 6 May from 3 – 6pm in the Brother Luke Hall, where light refreshments will also be provided. All Years 10, 11 and 12 students and parents are encouraged and invited to attend.
The Careers Expo will have two distinct areas. The first will include over 35 different career and pathway providers. These include all the Universities in Sydney, and some rural ones, as well as TAFE NSW and Universities Admission Centre (UAC). Along with these tertiary educational providers, there will be a host of other varied providers such as:
- Microsoft
- Crown Resorts
- Essential Services providers (Defence, Police and Paramedics)
- Career website providers (The Careers Department and High School to Hireable)
- Professional Bodies (Engineers Australia & Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors)
- Apprenticeship providers (TAFE NSW, MWLP, Just Careers, My Gateway and Make Your Move)
- Interactive displays (Microsoft, Yamaha Drone, Robotic displays and 3D printing)
The second area will be specifically designed breakout sessions. These sessions have been developed to provide both practical and tailored opportunities for students and parents to gain valuable information and skills regarding careers, work and industries.
If you haven’t already registered your interest, please do so via this link.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Mr Michael Ivancic
Leader of Learning – Transitions and Pathways/Vet Coordinator
Agriculture
Term 1 was very busy for the Agriculture department. Year 9 raised meat birds from day olds through to processing. The boys enjoyed working with the meat birds and then consuming them. A real paddock to plate experience.
Year 9 have also been breaking and working with two Murray Grey steers. These steers are part of the South Coast Steer Competition. We have partnered with Cadfor Murray Greys, owned by Mr Rod Hoare, an old boy of the College. The steers will be judged on 5 May 2021.
Year 9 have been practising their leading and junior judging skills as part of the whole competition. We wish the team luck at the event in Nowra.
Year 10 harvested and processed their grapes. A small amount of wine was produced. Another paddock to plate experience, just with no taste testing. Year 10 also planted Chrysanthemums, in hope we could produce flowers for Mother’s Day. Unfortunately, the significant rain we had, meant the flowers have not grown and now plan B will be implemented. That is farming for you!
The Senior classes, Year 11 went on a farm case study to a dairy at Camden. They enjoyed learning all about the property and their business. Year 12 attended a local turkey farm to have a look at growth rates, technology and animal welfare. They also used the meat birds to look at growth rates and feed conversion rates. They have planted their crop trial and attended an HSC day at Barker College. They are in full HSC preparation!
We have also seen the arrival of our new teaching and learning tractor. A Kobata, with rotary and slasher. The students have been learning to operate it. The tractor has already come in handy for sowing preparation.
Miss Hayley Mahoney
Leader of Learning Agriculture
Show Team
The peak show season is almost at the end for the boys. It has been highly successful. We have received many ribbons for both cattle, sheep and the students.
Hawkesbury Show - Cattle:
- Cattle: Senior Champion “Flemington Allspice”
- Reserve Senior Champion “Flemington Nice Surprise”
- 1st place St Greg’s ”Rodger That”
- 2nd place St Greg’s “Reign Supreme”
- First place and Champion Junior Judge under 16 yrs – Jayden Susunjara
Parader events
- Cooper Wray – 1st place
- Massimo Picsiuneri – 2nd place
- Marc Vaccaro- 3rd place
- Justin Susunjara- 4th place
- Vincent Picsiuneri- 2nd place
- Vine Vaccaro – 4th place
- Thomas Anderson- 2nd place
- Toby Drinnan- 3rd place
- Joel Offord- 4th place
- Thomas Ferro- 2nd place
- Riley Keogh- 3rd place
- Most Successful Cattle Exhibitor
The Junior School students also participated as paraders and did very well. They also had a go at sheep handling and Emily Jones won first place and Champion under 12 handler. Ava Jakos achieved third place.
Hawkesbury Show - Sheep
- 1st place, Grand Champion and Supreme exhibit ewe
Junior judging
- Cooper Wray- 3rd place
- Alex Gorey- 2nd place
Handler
- Thomas Anderson- 1st place and champion handler – 16 yrs and over
- Zane Weston- 1st place and champion handler- under 16 yrs
- Patrick Cleary- 3rd place
- Elliot Power- 1st place
- Alex Gorey- 4th place
- Will Hackett- 3rd place
- Cooper Wray- 1st place
- Marcus McGuinness- 1st place
- Travis Martin- 3rd place
- Liam Dumsney- 3rd place
I would like to thank Mr Colin Davies and Mr John Redman for transporting the cattle, Mr Nic Hreszczuk and Mr Kory Graham for clipping, Miss Skye Baxtor for assisting, Mr David Crocker for the use of his black and red Angus and Miss Emily James and Mr Edward Stefanski for their time, commitment, and dedication.
Miss Hayley Mahoney
Leader of Learning - Agriculture
Sydney Royal Sheep and Fleece Show 2021
The Sydney Royal Sheep and Fleece Show is the most prestigious show in the State. I am pleased to announce that our students and our sheep excelled! Please see the results below:
Meat and Dual-Purpose Breed Sheep Handlers Competition
- 2nd Thomas Andersen 15 – 20 years
- 5th Adam Fordham 15 – 20 years
- 3rd Alex Gorey 10 – 14 years
- 6th Cooper Wray 10 – 14 years
Corriedale Judging – Out of 7 Exhibitors
- 3rd Corriedale Ram, under 1 year of age
- 2nd Corriedale Ram, under 1 year of age, shorn
- 2nd Pair of rams, under 2 years
- 5th Corriedale Ewe, under 1 year of age
- 2nd Corriedale Ewe, under 1 year of age
- 1st Corriedale Ewe, over 1 year of age, under 2 years of age
- 2nd Corriedale Ewe, over 1 year of age, under 2 years of age, shorn
- 1st, 3rd Corriedale Ewe, 2 years and over
- 2nd Pair of Ewes, under 2 years
- 2nd Peter Taylor Memorial Group – 1 ram, 2 ewes, under 1 year of age
- Most Successful Corriedale Exhibitor!
Schools Interbreed Sheep Judging – Out of 7 schools
- 1st, 2nd Longwool ram, showing milk teeth only
- 1st, 2nd Longwool ewe, showing milk teeth only
- 4th, 5th Longwool ewe, displaying 2 teeth and over
- 2nd Pair of rams
- Reserve Champion Schools Ram
- Most Successful School of the Show!
Fleece Judging
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd Skirted fleece, Corriedale ewe or wether
- Champion Corriedale Fleece of Show!
Most importantly our men were excellent ambassadors of the College and the Corriedale breed. I had so many people from the Show approach me to say how well our students conducted themselves and helped others at the Show! The students who represented the College were:
- Adam Fordham
- Alex Gorey
- Cooper Wray
- Thomas Andersen
- Ryan Saggers
- Lachlan Bush
- Elliot Power
- Henry Rathbone
- Blair MacDonald
- Owen Jones
- Tobias Power
- Patrick Cleary
- Liam Dumesny
Many thanks go to Domenic Petrovski (Year 8), Jayden Susnjara (Year 10), Cooper Wray (Year 8) and Ryan Saggers (Year 12) for assisting me with the sheep ‘bump-in’ late on Thursday.
Many thanks must also go to Miss Hayley Mahoney and Miss Emily James for their support at the Show, and Mr Rick Nieuwenhuis and Mr John Redmond for their ongoing help with managing the sheep stud.
Mr Edward Stefanski
Agriculture/Science Teacher