Mission and Outreach
Year 10 Pentecost Mass
Thank you to Fr Mike for celebrating a wonderful Pentecost Mass with our Yr 10s and to our band for lifting the celebrations.
Year 1 Baptism Godly Play
Our Year 1 students have been learning about Baptism in Godly Play, each taking on the role of Godparent in a fun yet gentle role play before hearing about the light of Christ in all of us and receiving their own light to hold safely.
St Aloysius Feast Mass
We celebrated the Feast of St Aloysius with a number of liturgies across the College but the highlight was our Preps, Ones and Twos hosting the Year 9s at the Junior Campus. The senior students soon got the hang of our Junior Campus Masses and joined in the hymn singing and actions with gusto!
We also celebrated some special members of our St Al's family with our Feast Day Awards that recognise students in Years 4, 8 and 12. Congratulations to our St Aloysius Scholars Mila Dance, James Rathjen and Emily Dale. And to our Kingston Channel Parish award recipients, Logan Brough and Rosalina Martinez.
Environmental Club Sisters of Charity Rose Garden
On Thursday, 24th June, senior students from our Environmental club, along with dedicated Parishioner Karen, assisted some enthusiastic green fingered Junior Campus students to help tidy up and fertilize the Sisters of Charity Memorial Garden ready for some new roses. This garden is important to us as it is a beautiful space commemorating the Sisters who founded our College in 1960 and continued to work and lead there until the early 2000s. We look forward to seeing the blooms of our labour in spring!
Father Mike visiting Yr 6
Fr Mike took time to visit our Yr 6s this week to chat and be quizzed about what life is like as a priest. He tackled some big questions such as:
- Have you always believed in God?
- What would you do if you weren’t a priest?
- What’s your biggest regret?
- What’s your average day like?
- How do you think the Cats will go this year…?!?
Leukaemia Foundation Thank You
Aaron Eckermann from the Leukaemia Foundation popped into the Senior Campus thank the College for the success of our Greatest Shave campaign in 2023 when we collectively raised $11 072. We were the top Tasmanian fundraisers! He shared some of the meaningful outcomes that have been achieved thanks to the generosity and support of our community.
With that in mind, your $11 072:
- could provide up to 20 weeks of accommodation for families facing blood cancer who live far away from life saving treatment
- can help 107 families who are struggling financially with expenses like hospital parking and groceries
- can help give 173 families wraparound care from a Blood Cancer Support Coordinator
- means that the ground breaking research of a PHD scholarship recipient could be supported for another 74 days.
- could fund 18 patients access a clinical trial, and provide hope standard treatment has failed.
He said: “We have so many supporters to be thankful for—and quite simply, we couldn’t do what we do without you. Having the opportunity to express our gratitude is so important. It helps connect students to the real impact they’ve made and inspires them to continue creating positive change in their communities.”
Container Deposit Environmental Excursion
Our Environmental Leaders' excursion to the container deposit scheme deposited $24 directly to the Vinnies Winter Appeal! The success of this trial will hopefully lead to more container deposit bins being placed around the school.
Vinnies Winter Appeal
Thank you to Jody from Vinnies for brining Louis Van to the Middle Campus and sharing with us in assembly about the great works that Vinnies does to help those in need in our community. $194 was raised for the Winter Appeal from the sale of milos and marshmallows. Classes also jumped in to help the sorting of food and clothing donations which will go to the warehouse for distribution where needed most.
