COLLEGE NEWS
Apple for the Teacher
We are very excited that 17 of our amazing and dedicated teachers have been nominated for the 7HOFM Apple for the Teacher competition. Congratulations to -
Mrs Honner - Kinder White
Mrs Gardiner - Kinder Green
Mrs Callanan - Prep Blue
Miss Pollard - Prep White
Mrs Mahoney - Prep Green
Miss Nelson - 2 Blue
Mrs Travers - 3 White
Mrs Scharvi - 3 Blue
Miss Vague - 4 Green
Mr Clark - 4 White
Ms Fawcett - 5 Green
Ms Heyward - 5 Blue
Mrs Sullivan - 5 White
Mr Fasnacht - 5 Blue & 6 Green
Miss Castles - 6 Blue
Mr Harrington - 6 White
Mrs McCarthy - 6 Green
The teacher with the most votes receives an Apple Macbook Air and an Ipad for each of their students. You can vote as many times as you like, just follow the link -
Book Week
Book Week was held from 23rd to 27th August with the Children’s Book Council of Australia theme “Old worlds, new worlds, other worlds”. It was a busy week, celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators. It was also a week to promote the importance of reading.
The Middle Campus celebrated the week with a lunchtime Kahoot with questions based on general knowledge about books. There were also book craft activities, including making miniature books. A bookmark competition was held and was strongly supported by many creative entries.
A dress-up day for the Junior and Middle Campus and Explorers was held on Thursday 22nd August. Students had the opportunity to dress up as their favourite book characters. It was great to see so many original costumes and the time and thought spent on designing and constructing costumes.
A book fair was also held during book week at the Junior Campus. The fair was strongly supported by parents and students with a large selection of books to choose from. Every book sold earnt free books for the school.
Thank you to everyone who supported book week and the book fair.
Bunnings BBQ
We had another successful Bunnings BBQ fundraising day for the College and Parish with over $1000 raised. Thank you to Caterina and Grant Thompson for running the BBQ for another year.
Thank you to all the volunteers on the day -
The MacFarlane family
Izaak and Jack Brown
Connor Thompson
Inara Osborne
Father Mike Delaney
Employment Opportunities
Click on the link to view an advert for the position of System-wide Manager: People Services - Catholic Education Tasmania (CET)
Father's Day Breakfast
Thank you to all the dads and grandads who came along to the Father's Day Breakfast on Friday, 6th September. It was a great opportunity to come together and celebrate the important role that male figures play in our lives.
Grade 7 Enrolments 2023
Grade 7 2023 enrolments are due on Friday, 10th September 2021. If you are already enrolled in Grade 5, you do not need to do anything. If you know families who want to enrol or have a family member in another school who would like to enrol, contact our Enrolment Officer simone.skinner@catholic.tas.edu.au. Expressions of interest forms can be found on the College website
GYC 2022 Enrolments
Mannena & Laudato Si Official Opening
On Thursday, 16th September we are officially opening two very special outdoor learning spaces at the Junior Campus. Local Aboriginal Elder Uncle Rodney Dillon will be welcoming us to Country and opening Mannena (which means Earth in the southeast dialect).
Father Mike Delaney will be performing a blessing for the new Laudato Si vegetable garden. Laudato Si is the encyclical letter Pope Francis has written to all people asking them to care for our common home (Earth).
College Principal Mr Eamonn Pollard will also speak to students, families and special guests.
St Aloysius Catholic College is grateful to artist Allan Mansell from Bruny Island for providing us with stunning artwork for the invitation. Allan's artwork 'Stepping' is a story of travelling between one camp and another. Allan recently facilitated printmaking workshops with our Yr 9/10 Art students. More about Allan and his art can be found on his website
Parents and families wishing to attend should RSVP to annemarie.mcwatters@catholic.
Student Achievement
Congratulations to Sophia Foster-Appleby (Grade 7) who won the Beakley Under 13 Girls Best & Fairest in Aussie Rules. Sophia plays for the Kingborough Tigers.
