General News
Denise Tan
Mathematics - Cranbourne Campus
Year 12 VCAL - Frankston Beach Patrol
On Monday the 6th of June the Year 12 VCAL class headed to the beach to work with Frankston Beach Patrol to conduct a beach clean up, followed by sorting out the rubbish and reporting. This was organized by Tayani, as well as Tyler. The reason for running this is in PDS we have been focusing on Sustainable Development Goals. Our focus was on life below water and as a team we had to run a project, which for us was the beach clean up. This showed us really how much rubbish goes into the ocean from land, and how it is impacting on our sea. We each had a guess on how much of our rubbish ends up in the ocean, we were guessing around 40%-60% however we were surprised when we heard it was 92%. We sorted our rubbish into recycle and waste and in the end we had 11kg that we collected in just 1 hour. It was a great experience for our class as it made us more aware of what we do with our rubbish and how much it impacts on the sea animals. You can help by volunteering with the Frankston beach patrol, taking your rubbish with you when you leave the beach, reuse your plastics, always put your rubbish in the bin no matter how far away you are from a beach and spreading awareness. So remember to help out by doing these simple things.
Tayani and Tyler
"From the College Archives"
The Tarraville Building is the one of the two main St Peter’s College buildings on the Cranbourne campus not named after a prominent person.
The building was officially opened on April 17th, 2002. This year coincided with the one hundred and fiftieth year of Catholic Education in Gippsland. Bishop Coffey blessed the building, and the Federal Government was represented by Mr. Greg Hunt, MHR. Although the building was designed to accommodate senior students, it originally housed the Year 7 cohort.
2022 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Tarraville Building and the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of formal Catholic education in Gippsland.
Terry Synan, a former Director of Catholic Education for the Diocese of Sale gives some detail relating to Tarraville in his book, A Journey in Faith. He says that the Tarraville school was under the patronage of St. Patrick, not surprisingly, given the influence of the Irish clergy in Gippsland in that era. According to Synan, Fr. Joseph Martin established the school, and a Mr. Maurice Moore was a teacher. There were twenty-two boys and seventeen girls enrolled at the school in 1853.
With Catholic education in the Diocese of Sale, owing so much to the initial Catholic school that opened in Tarraville in 1852, Former principal, Terry Feely and the Board of Management of St. Peter’s College felt that a building opened in 2002 should in some way relate to such an auspicious anniversary. Hence, the name Tarraville was bestowed upon the new building.
Greg Nelson
College Archivist
Bookings are now OPEN for the Casey Teenage School Holiday Program - Winter 2022.
Dates: Monday, 27 June to Friday 8 July.
With Winter school holidays fast approaching, it's time to get excited about our fun-filled School Holiday Program! We've lined up an awesome array of activities including a cooking challenge, bounce, parkour, rollerama and LIVE online workshops in art and dance!
- Prices from FREE to as little as $25.
- Fully supervised and transport included.
- Places are limited and fill up fast, so get in while you can!
