ALLIANCE FRANCAISE COMPETITION

This year, our students at St Aloysius had the opportunity to participate in a modified version of the Alliance Française competition. The Alliance Francaise itself is a world-wide organisation which aims to represent and promote French culture and language throughout the world. 

In Tasmania, each year, this organisation holds both a poster and a poetry competition in Hobart. Schools take part in the competition, which usually occurs in June. In the past, St Aloysius have only previously entered in the poetry competition (Grades 6-10).  This year, due to restrictions imposed by COVID-19, the poetry section of the competition was unfortunately cancelled. In its place, I gave students from Grades 3-6 the opportunity to create a poster to be entered in the poster section.

This year the themes were:
Grades 3-4: Un banquet à la française (A French Banquet) and Grades 5-6 : Un restaurant français (A French restaurant).  The College entered 11 posters into the competition, and I would like to congratulate the following students whose posters were selected as entrants:

Grades 3-4:
Mitchell Norris, Denni Vakrinos, Elly Royce, James Crayford, Annie Knott
Grade 5 - 6:
Katelyn Johnson-Glading, Jessy Hayes, Annabel Jones, Charlie Carmichael, Freya Clark, Brydie Cordwell

 
It was with great pleasure that we were informed at the end of Term 2 that the following four students received the award of “Mention Honorable” (Honorable Mention) in recognition of their efforts. These students are as follows:
Grade 3: Denni Vakrinos
Grade 4: Elly Royce
Grade 5: Annabel Jones
Grade 6: Jessy Hayes

 
We are awaiting receipt of the certificates acknowledging this wonderful achievement, and these will in turn be presented to the students. The other entrants will also receive certificates of participation for their wonderful posters. Fèicitations, les enfants!

Jill Britton

French Teacher

COMPASS

With the move to Compass for student reports, we considered it timely to remind parents of the need to access Compass (either through desktop or via the Compass app) with the log in details sent home earlier in the year.

Should you have any difficulty with accessing or using Compass, please email compasshelp@staloysius.tas.edu.au 

CRICKET NETS

The College is excited to announce that the new cricket nets at our Huntingfield Campus, that commenced construction in Term 2, have now been completed.

 
With participation in cricket growing across both genders, these cricket nets will be utilised by our students from both campuses for team training and skill development.

 
The College would like to acknowledge the assistance of the Australian Government, who through the Local Schools Community Fund program, provided $11,254.00 to the College towards the overall cost of the project.

 
The College would also like to thank Federal Member for Franklin, Julie Collins MP for her support in our application to the Local Schools Community Fund and Haydn Dodge and his team at Synthetic Grass Solutions Tasmania who undertook the construction.