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Saturday Sport

The IPSHA component of Saturday sport concluded last week.  Best wishes to the tennis players on their finals and to the cricketers who will soon reach the halfway mark of their season. 

Year 6- PLD Returns

Year 6 will be handing back their PLDs next Tuesday 28th November. Please ensure your son has their : 

       PLD

       Charger

       Case

       Stylus

First Lego League

Best wishes to the following boys who will be going on a Robotics excursion on 29th November:  Franklin Clayton, Hudson Lomas, Aaron Lau, Jack Lonergan, Joel Santelli and Justin Boustani.   I hope you enjoy the event and share your experience when you return.

Year 6 Disability Presentation – Guide Dogs

This week Year 6 had an inspirational presentation by Margaret Booth, a lady who is blind and requires the use of a guide dog.  Margaret’s speech was fantastic because the boys saw how a person could overcome adversity.  Margaret told the boys that she can do almost everything they can do - she just has to work out another way to do it.  It was a wonderful lesson in life and certainly puts our problems into perspective.

Margaret very generously took time off from her office job to talk to us.  Desiree, her trusty guide dog, sat beside her and behaved herself as expected.  This is worthy of a conversation at home.

Year 5 Parents' End of Year Gathering - Saturday 2nd December

There will be a catchup/end of year social gathering for Year 5 parents at Match Smokehouse in Roseville at 7pm on Saturday 2nd December.   

Please confirm attendance with Anja Lineen (Billy 5G)  on anjalineen@yahoo.com.au

YEAR 6 GRADUATION PICNIC

Junior Science Academy - School Holiday Programs at Macquarie University

I received the flyer below regarding a Junior Science holiday program being held at Macquarie University.  Please look up the website to confirm dates. If you do use this program I would appreciate some feedback so I can ascertain whether it is worth advertising in future.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Friday 24th November:  Founder’s Day – lunch supplied, no school bags, boys wear Colour House sports uniform
• Friday 1st December:  Twilight Concert
• Saturday 2nd December:  Year 5 Parents' End of Year Social,  7.00pm at Match Smokehouse in Roseville.  Please confirm attendance with Anja Lineen (Billy 5G) on anjalineen@yahoo.com.au
• Sunday 3rd December:   Year 6 Picnic – details in the flyer above
• Wednesday 6th December:  

•      -  10.00am Closing Mass for Years 5 to 10 at Our Lady of Dolours Church 

•      -  12 noon to 2.00pm: Junior School Prizegiving in the Gym at Chatswood

Mr T Long - Head of Junior School

Author in Residence / Year 6 Writer Workshops

Author John Larkin returned to St Pius X College for creative writing workshops, thanks to the generous support of the P&F.  Students in Years 5 and 6 had the opportunity to discuss creative writing ideas and develop techniques that capture the reader’s imagination. This was of great value for our students as the boys were able to commence their own narratives.

Mrs E Martin - Junior Teacher Librarian

Junior School Sport

Thursday Sport:  We continue our swim program in lieu of regular sport. Year 5 attend Macquarie Uni Aquatic Centre for a pool based program and Year 6 attend Dee Why Beach for a surf skills program. Parents can collect boys directly from each venue by 2.15pm.

Basketball: Please return singlets ASAP this week so that I can prepare them for the 2018 season.

Mr G Virgona - Junior School Sportsmaster

Softball

Report Round 12:  We played our final game last Saturday against Grammar at St Ives. It was a slow and evenly matched game similar to the previous week, which caused many nail biting moments for the coach.

Thomas Wilkins won the ‘bat toss’ and sent the opposition in to bat. Jhon Evans was our first pitcher. He was consistent with his pitching, only allowing three runners to touch home base. SPX unfortunately had our first three batters dismissed so we were back in fielding very quickly. Both teams in the second innings were unable to score a run and we were up to the third innings in record time.

Will Mathie, Andrew Bradford and Michael Whitehead scored the first runs. At this stage the game was even 3-3. Marcus Steen came in to pitch and had Grammar out with no runs scored. Eliot Sanders caught a fly ball again and threw it swiftly to the bases to dismiss two runners. Jose Monk came into bat and belted a ball hard and low to help Luca Van Vuuren and himself home. Max Lenton, Joshua Connors and Patrick Hall were once again fantastic in the outfield. They were able to run on to the ball and send it flying back to have Grammar’s run rate kept to a minimum.

We have had a fabulous softball season. I wish the Year 6 players well in their future sporting endeavours and I hope to have my Year 5 softball stars return next year. The St Pius A team showed sportsmanship and never gave up whether fielding or batting.

I would like to thank the parents for their support during each game and always having my players on time.   Thank you to Mr Evans for keeping score.

Ms J Williams - Convenor

NSTA Tennis:  Please see the Senior School Sports page.

Mrs S Iwatani - NSTA Convenor