PARISH COMMUNITY AND OUTREACH
FOOTY COLOURS DAY
For Footy Colours Day on the last day of Term 3, the College got dressed up and displayed their team colours with pride. At HC, the Year 10 House Captains led activities such as bin ball, longest kick, and handball and goal scoring competitions. Then at lunch, an excellent game of football was held on the oval between Grades 9 and 10. The game was fun, fast and fierce with some excellent umpiring from Mr Hickey. Please see below a totally unbiased (ahem) account from Grade 9. Grade 10s were sadly unavailable for comment, too busy celebrating!
In simple terms, the Grade 9 vs Grade 10 football match was not fair and it was impossible for the Grade 9’s to win. There are various reasons as to why this was the case, first of all, grade 10's had double the number of people that Grade 9’s had. This made it almost impossible for the Grade 9’s to move the ball with being intercepted or cleaned up by the year 10’s unfair gameplay. The Grade 9’s were also faced up against the umpires with Mr Hickey clearly showing signs of fixing the match and after the match students have reported having seen Mr Hickey receiving money from the Grade 10’s. A rematch has been agreed upon by the Grade 9's to make the match fair. Clearly, the Grade 9’s were too skilful and strong for Grade 10’s which result in the Grade 10’s need to cheat to win.
Riley Monaghan, Grade 9 White
Best of luck to all the Tigers and Cats fans for this weekend. May the best team win!
SOCK IT TO POVERTY
On Thursday, 29th October the College is holding a Crazy Sock Day as part of Catholic Missions Campaign to ‘sock it to poverty’ this Socktober. Students can wear any combination of mismatched or favourite socks with their sports uniform for a gold coin donation to this very worthy cause. The focus country this year is Cambodia, where the Church seeks to provide shelter, food, education, and life fulfilling opportunities for children in need, especially those with disabilities.
At the Kingston Campus a ‘socker’ challenge will be held at recess for an additional gold coin donation giving the students a chance to try a penalty shootout against staff and special guest, our very own community cop, Constable Stephen Bomford.
At Huntingfield prizes will be given out at assembly for the best dressed (creative use of socks welcomed).
SACRAMENTAL PROGRAM
Sacramental preparation is well underway in the Parish with 37 students from Grades 2 to 8 preparing to make their First Reconciliation. A family information night has been held and the next family preparation session will be held on Saturday 7th November at 4:00 pm followed by Mass and then a sausage sizzle. In the meantime, all Sacramental students are welcome to wear their purple stoles at weekend Masses and join Fr Chris on the altar at the beginning of Mass for the Penitential Rite.
