From the Principal

Dear Parents, Guardians, Students, Staff and Friends of St Norbert College,

“Celebrating our Norbertine tradition and the richness of our cultures, we honour the past and move forward with renewed vigour”.

For those unaware, this statement has been taken from our core College value of Heritage. We celebrated this value at our College assembly earlier this week with a vast array of presentations of recent and future events, recognition of student achievements and a celebration of accomplishments that are for the benefit of all.

In celebrating our heritage, we acknowledge the infinite contributions of those in the past but also recognise our role in building upon that heritage for the future of our College community and world beyond. Our Climate Canons spoke wonderfully of the sustainability changes within our campus to reduce the ecological footprint we impose, in an effort to manage the present for the preservation of a bright future.

We also witnessed a report and video collage of the 2019 Humanities Tour to Europe from a number of student participants. It was clear that the tour had a lasting impact on those who attended, with a host of memorable experiences, most notably the link with the spiritual origins of our College in the town of Magdeburg. I recommend further insight by reading from Dr Runco’s Tour report in our next newsletter (Week 2.6).

The richness of our culture was on display recently with the Drama production of “Around the World in 8 plays”, a very entertaining play performed by our talented students under the direction of Miss Hilton. We honoured mothers, grandmothers, aunties and motherly guardians with the Celebrating our Mum’s breakfast, a wonderfully well-attended event. Thanks must go to Dr Paul Costantino and the Parent Committee for their dedication and service.

In exciting news, we congratulate the Senior Girls Basketball team, under the outstanding tutelage of Mr  Ford, who competed in the final of the ACC Girls Basketball Championships at Bendat Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. In this knockout tournament, the girls proved clearly the best ACC Girls Basketball team of 2019, if not of all time, comprehensively taking out the final 81 to 39 over Sacred Heart College. Well done to Shenae Hartree, named the MVP of the final, and to all of her excellent teammates for their amazing efforts.

And in conclusion, as we embark on a period of examinations for our Year 10 – 12 students, I encourage them to show renewed or continued vigour towards their studies. I wish them well and hope their results are commensurate with their efforts.

God bless.

Mr S Harvey (Principal)

NAPLAN Assessments

Last week saw the commencement of the NAPLAN assessments for our Year 7 and 9 students and many would now be aware of the disruption that many students across our Country faced when completing the assessments due to technological and connectivity issues. The College, through the tireless work from a number of staff lead by Mr Dowling, our Dean of Studies, has endeavoured to ensure that no students were disadvantaged as a result of this disruption. I am very proud of our students for the manner in which they conducted themselves through a stressful time.

Br Pat Memorial Game

A reminder that the St Norbert Ex-Students Association (SNESA) football club are again acknowledging the much loved Br Patrick Doolan this weekend with their annual Br Pat Memorial Game and the presentation of the Br Pat Medal. 

And if you have time, come down to Queens Park Oval on Saturday afternoon to share in the spirit of the occasion.