Junior School News & Sport

Year 6 students who participated in the 2018 Maths Olympiad.

Junior School News
Learning Enrichment Notices
Highlights from the Junior Resource Centre
Opal Cards for 2019
Junior School Sport

PRAYER/REFLECTION: All Hallows Eve - the eve before All Saints Day

It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain & Brythonic festival Calan Gaeaf: that such festivals may have had pagan roots; and that Samhain & Calan Gaeaf were themselves Christianised as Halloween by the early Church. It is now All Hallows Eve - the eve before All Saints Day, and All Souls Day occurs on 2 November.

Let us pray for our friends and relatives who have died.

May God lead them to the joy of heaven and send us his comfort and peace.

We pray to the Lord … Lord hear our prayer.

Let us pray for ourselves.

That we might treasure our Baptism, which has made us one in Christ:

a communion of saints.

We pray to the Lord … Lord hear our prayer.

Let us pray that God will open our eyes and hearts to serving Jesus in each other.

May our care for one another be a sign of the oneness we share in Christ with all the saints.

We pray to the Lord … Lord hear our prayer.

God our Father, by our Baptism, you made us your holy people

and called us to share in the joy of your saints.

By their help and example you guide us to live for others as Jesus taught us.

May their prayers strengthen and comfort us as we follow Jesus to his promise of everlasting life.

We make this prayer to you in His name.

Amen

Just a reminder that if your son is trick or treating to remember stranger danger. Speaking of danger it looked very dangerous in the Junior School Library today!

YEAR 7, 2019 - ORIENTATION

Year 7 Orientation Day is on Tuesday 13 November. The current Year 6 boys and the new Year 7, 2019 boys will be involved in some assessments and familiarisation with Year 7.

There is also a Year 7 Parent Information Night at the beginning of next year on Monday 4 February 2019 at 7.00 pm.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CLASS CAPTAINS

UPCOMING EVENTS/ACTIVITIES IN THE NEXT WEEK

Performing Arts Festival Week continues this week
TODAY Wednesday 31 October: Staff Meeting – no After School Study (Homework Help)
TOMORROW Thursday 1 November:
- New Year 6 students – Transition Day. During Pers 1 and 2 current Year 5 boys will be involved
in meeting the new Year 6 students for 2019.
- Sport at Oxford Falls as normal.
This Friday 2 November: Author John Larkin incursion continues for three Year 6 classes.
This Saturday 3 November: Orientation Morning for all the new Year 5 and 6 students in 2019.
Thursday 8 November: Surf/Swim Programs commence - rash vests recommended.

P&F NEWS & EVENTS: Please see the P&F page of this newsletter for all news and events, including those for Years 5 and 6. Don't miss the Junior School end of year activities!!

Founder's Day: Friday 23 November at Oxford Falls - Helpers please!

It's that time of year again where the P&F needs around 15 to 18 helpers to cut the sausages, cook the sausages, bag the bread and generally help make lunch happen for the boys and the staff on Founder's Day. We'd love to see the 2016 or 2017 helpers return and some new volunteers too! Please let the P&F know if you can assist, even just for an hour or so, between 8:30am and 12:30pm via robson.nadine@gmail.com.

TERM 4 CALENDAR

The Term 4 Calendar is attached below and activities with a significant number of Junior School participants are highlighted in Red. I have left many other activities in the calendar as you may have an older son, or occasionally a Junior Boy is involved in a Senior activity. It also demonstrates the busy nature of the college.

JUNIOR SCHOOL CALENDAR.pdf

A THOUGHT TO PONDER

Thanking you for your support.

Mr T Long - Head of Junior School

Learning Enrichment Notices

AUSTRALASIAN PROBLEM SOLVING MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD 2018: Congratulations to the Year 5 and Year 6 students who participated in the 2018 Olympiad. The team produced some fantastic individual results.

Year 5

Sam Cooper and Sid Rana for Highest Individual Score and Top 25%
Jimmy Furini: Top 30%
Aiden Seifert: Top 30%
Sebastian Blane: Special Achievement Award

Year 6

Samuel Hollinger for Highest Individual Score and Top 10%
Patrick Felice: Top 10%
Maxwell Forbes: Top 10%
Fergus Fung: Top 10%
Cameron Masters: Top 10%
Harry Freehan: Top 20%
Christopher Harris: Top 20%
Eliot Sanders: Top 20%
Spencer Anderson: Top 20%
Liam Boswell: Top 20%
Liam Carroll: Top 20%
Jonathan Hartry: Top 20%
Lucas Spinetti: Top 20%
Cooper Anderson: Top 25%
James Higgins: Top 30%
Luke Mooney: Special Achievement Award

A special mention and congratulations to the entire Year 6 Maths Class 1 on being awarded an Overall Class Certificate of High Achievement for achieving a score in the top 25% in Division J of Australian Schools. Well done to all the boys who participated in the Competition - you can certainly be proud of your mathematical abilities.

JUNIOR DEBATING NEWS

We ended the season with our final debates at the Gala Day at Abbotsleigh Junior School last Monday 29 October. The boys were well prepared and presented very clever and well formulated arguments. Both topics were very challenging: 'That students should be paid to attend school ' and 'That we must lower the voting age'.

Well done to both teams on their debates and in training, working together and developing their caselines and clever rebuttal skills. Congratulations to the entire debating squad on their commitment to attending lunchtime training sessions throughout Terms 2-4. The boys should proud of their efforts in a very successful season.

Mrs B Spanyik - Learning Enrichment Teacher

Highlights from the Junior Resource Centre

Halloween arrived today in the JRC . The boys read, watched and listened to chilling stories from the book, Things That Go Bump in the Night by Patrick Carman. This collection of stand-alone spooky, short stories boasts urban legends, creature features, and campfire ghost stories!

John Larkin drops in again for another week of creativity with our Year 6 young aspiring writers. Looking forward to reading their manuscripts!

Mrs Martin’s Book Trail

Horror calls you! Yes YOU! Hunter and Collector - by S. Carey

Are you looking for something a little scary to read? Look no further! In the Junior Library you will find some of the creepiest thrillers. As your wander further into each terrible tale, fear will grip you, fright will freeze your brain and you will not want to turn the page. But you must! Because the horror will call irresistibly to you. It will say, 'Come, see how petrifying I am! Imagine the ghastliness of what is about to happen! Turn the page! Turn the page! '

Happy Reading! There are words to be spelled, nerves to be overcome and a champion to be found!

Mrs E Martin - Junior Librarian

Opal Cards for 2019

Students progressing to Year 7 do not need to re-apply if they:

are continuing at the same school
are residing at the same address
have not been sent an expiry notification from Transport for NSW.

Where a student meets the new distance eligibility for high school, the system will automatically update their entitlement. If they do not meet the new eligibility, they will receive an expiry notification. Students who have an entitlement approved under a medical condition which is due to expire will receive a notification advising them to re-apply. Term Bus Pass holders will receive a notification to re-apply.

If students need to update their information or re-apply, they should go online to https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/updateDetails

Applications need to be submitted before 31 December 2018 to ensure student entitlements are updated and their current entitlement/card is not cancelled. If their application is submitted after 31 December 2018, the system will automatically cancel a card and a new one will need to be issued.

Students in the Opal network applying for a SSTS or Term Bus Pass entitlement for the first time will receive their card at their nominated postal address. Cards will be mailed out during December 2018 and January 2019. For further information visit https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts

Junior School Sport

THURSDAY SPORT: at Oxford Falls. Our final week of Thursday training for Basketball, Cricket, Softball and Tennis.

BASKETBALL:

Jnr Basketball.pdf

TERM 4 SWIM PROGRAM: All students will take part in this program. It runs as per the schedule above in lieu of regular Thursday 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. Students are required to return the respective form issued last term – Macquarie Uni Grading Form (Year 5) and SEA Australia Waiver (Year 6 boys). All details, including a detailed information letter, can be found under Junior Swimming on the College App.

Swim Squad: Good luck to the Squad who will attend the Trinity Invitational this Friday.

Mr G Virgona - Junior School Sportsmaster

RUGBY: FROM THE RUGBY CLUB

Inaugural SPX Rugby Supporters' Club Fundraising Golf Day at Roseville Golf Club from 1pm on Wednesday, 12 December - ‘Ambrose Shotgun Start’ – Tickets now on sale through TryBooking via this direct link https://www.trybooking.com/414231

$150 a ticket - includes lunch and drinks on arrival; golf fees; drinks cart circulating the course with complimentary drinks; BBQ dinner with complimentary drinks; discussion panel with Australian representative sporting personalities who will be playing on the day (including George Gregan, Rod Kafer, Royce Simmons, hopefully Michael Hooper, and others yet to be confirmed); and a chance to win a $65,000 Volvo XC60 in the 'hole in one' competition, - as well as lucky door, silent, and live auction prizes.

A limited number of golf carts will be available at an additional cost of $45 per cart. Lady golfers most welcome and encouraged to play. We are limited to 100 players on the day - so book now or you might miss out!

If you would like to advertise your business we have a great opportunity through our Golf Day with extremely cost effective hole co-sponsorship advertising opportunities.

If you are interested please contact Paul O'Neill (Tel: 0418-634750 or pmoneill@optusnet.com.au) for further details and costings.

Paul O’Neill - President SPX Rugby Supporters’ Club

Tel: 0418-634750

SOFTBALL - ROUND 8 REPORT: It was fantastic to be on our home ground last Saturday ready for another fun morning of softball. The coach checked with the players that they had eaten breakfast and noted that they had energy to burn and were prepared for the game. Our opponents were Trinity Juniors and they were also ready for a contest. St Pius was sent into bat first and began well with Jordan Moore making a homerun in the first part of play. Following on from that great effort were Aiden Tubman, Ben Bromby, Xavier Dwyer and Oliver Johnston who also added runs to the scoresheet. After the first innings the score was 5-2 with St Pius ahead.

St Pius fielded next and were great at keeping the ball under control. Max Lenton who played short stop kept his eye on the play, communicating to Dominic Mitchell and Jakob Lohtaja where the ball needed to be thrown. Our players on the bases, Ben Shoudra, Jack Harrison and Matthew Yee also kept a keen eye and were able to keep Trinity’s run rate to a minimum in all three innings, making St Pius the victors this week.

Mr Couani had heard about our softball team and was up early to come and watch, as well as learn some tips for his grandchildren. It was a terrific morning and we're all looking forward to next Saturday's game at Oxford Falls.

Players: please eat breakfast before the game, it helps!

Parents: please remember to bring a chair as there is no seating at Oxford Falls.