P & F and School Matters
Kokoda Trek - Crossing the Brown River
YOUR P & F IN ACTION
YEAR 6 BALL & PLATE HOLIDAY CATCHUP
Monday 10th October - Bring a ball & a plate and catch up with your Year 6 mates on Monday 10 Oct 2016 from 10:30am - 12:30pm. Click here for the details and RSVP to your class parent.
YEAR 11 PARENTS - TAPAS
Friday 21st October - Join other Year 11 parents to celebrate Year 12 2017 and the start of the HSC year for our boys. Where? Infuzions in Cammeray. Click here to see the invite and RSVP via Trybooking before 14th October. Contact Isabella or Glenda with any questions.
Happy Holidays!
Nadine Robson
0412 272 056
ACCOUNTS
FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER
Fee Statements for Term 4 of 2016 will be emailed to all families at the end of this week. If you do not receive your statement, please contact the Finance Office at fees@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au. Unless you have a payment arrangement in place with the College, payment is due at the start of Term 4.
Mr Nick Carson - Business Manager
Kokoda Track Expedition Reunion and Photo Night
A thoroughly enjoyable evening last Friday saw our Expedition Party gather around 5 LCD Projectors set up by Liam Cahill (ICT Dept) in the Junior Resource Centre, to share fond memories and photos from what was a momentous Expedition experience over a few pizzas, highway beef “bigpela” biscuits and gastrolyte flavoured waters. Thank you to all who were able to attend including our Trekking guide and Army Reserve history expert from On Track Expeditions: Rob Trodden, Mr Jason Pfeiffer and Mr Long who led our Advance Party Immersion Experience to Callan Services Disability School in Gerehu, Port Moresby, and to the expedition members in attendance: Liam Hunt, Leonie McCarthy, Euan Mendoza, Harry Pfeiffer, Paul Newman, Greg Spencer, Angus Growden, James Spencer, Macsen Rodrigues, Karl Rodrigues, Gerhardt Langreiter, Stephen Butler, Daniel Butler, Nick Cowie and Andrew Cowie and Jack Moran.
A huge thank you and apology also to Mr Paul DeSilva, Expedition Leader and Outdoor Education Coordinator of the College, who I inadvertently left off the certificates list. Corrected certificates are in the mail!
We look forward now to revisiting Callan Services and the Kokoda Track in 2018, with current students from Year 7 to 9 and their significant others warmly invited. Any takers to lead the early training should see Mr De Silva and get involved with the College’s Social Justice and Duke of Edinburgh Awards programs.
Edmund Rice Beyond Borders
Our Year 5 and 7 students have this year been in email contact with eight Edmund Rice partner schools around the globe to share their ideas on what it means to be a student in a school which upholds the values of Edmund Rice.
The Schools with which we are in email and immersion contact include St Mary’s Grammar, Belfast (with whom we have a great skype clip of Mr Raymond Herron, Deputy and head teacher of Irish languages, wearing our SPX Indigenous Art Jersey presented at the 2015 South African EREBB Conference), St Kevin’s Redcastle NZ, Stella Maris College, Montevideo, Uruguay, Cardinal Newman College, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Callan Services Gerehu, Papau New Guinea, CBC Mt Edmund Pretoria, South Africa, St Anslem’s Birkenhead, England, Fe y Alegria, Lima Peru and St Thomas More, Vancouver, Canada.
Building on the good work of our students, our Principal Mr John Couani will attend the EREBB Conference in India these holidays and present our partner schools with a school pennant celebrating our links through the Edmund Rice Network. In the future we may be able to extend these links through exchanges, sports and cultural tours and even expeditions and immersion stays. Is anyone excited enough to trek Machu Picchu in 2018?
Mr Sean Brannan - Head of Student Services