The last couple of weeks we have thoroughly enjoyed both the Junior School swimming carnival and the Junior School athletics carnival. All students should be very proud of their efforts and the House pride on show was terrific. It was also wonderful to see so many parents and family members at both carnivals, adding to the atmosphere. Congratulations to the age champions and winning houses.
Swimming (1st – Haydon, 2nd – Rice, 3rd – Mulrooney, 4th – O’Brien, 5th – Clancy, 6th – Treacy)
Athletics (1st – Mulrooney, 2nd – O’Brien, 3rd – Rice, 4th – Haydon, 5th – Treacy, 6th – Clancy)
Age Champions for Swimming
9 Years – 1st Hunter Cheney, R/U Arthur Gordon-Douglas
10 Years – 1st Talon Dalton, R/U Harrison Haskins
11 Years – 1st Laith McPhan, R/U Luca Di Maio/Jenson Gagliardi
12 Years – 1st Damon Rose, R/U Owen Evans
Age Champions for Athletics
9 Years – 1st Arthur Gordon-Douglas, R/U Macsen Kenyon
10 Years – 1st Blake Erwin, R/U Harrison Haskins
11 Years – 1st Hugh Thompson, R/U Jack Erwin
12 Years – 1st Tom Gibson, R/U Oscar Wightman
Australian Mountain Biking Interschools Championships in Thredbo – Two of our Junior School students have had a wonderful week in Thredbo recently. Representing St Edmund’s College was Will O’Sullivan (Yr 6) and Nash de Graaf (Yr 4) who both did extremely well in their respective divisions. Will, having never raced before, was at the business end of Division 4 (Yrs 5 & 6) for the Fox Flow race. While Nash landed 8th overall in Division 5 (Yrs 3 & 4), competing in all events – Maxxis All-Mountain, Fox Flow, Deity Pump Track, and the Rockshox Downhill on the famous Cannonball track.
The boys had an excellent few days riding together and representing St Edmund’s College. They are looking forward to generating some interest to bring back a bigger Eddies squad for next year’s event.
Staffing Update
We would like to thank Mrs Kristyl de Leon for taking 5 Gold during Mrs Ellem’s leave. Mrs Ellem resumes as teacher of 5 Gold this week.
Co-Curricular Contacts
Basketball – Joel Richardson jrichardson@sec.act.edu.au
Football – Ian Garrity igarrity@sec.act.edu.au
Rugby – Various.
- Registration/Uniforms Lee Boswell lboswell@sec.act.edu.au
- Under 10’s: David Kelly dkelly@sec.act.edu.au
- Under 11’s Joe Sidorko jsidorko@sec.act.edu.au
- Under 12’s: Sally Darmody sdarmody@sec.act.edu.au
- Under 13’s: Emma Gibson egibson@sec.act.edu.au
Tuesday – Cultural Club (Yuko Leffers yleffers@sec.act.edu.au), Debating (Julia Roche jroche@sec.act.edu.au) , Homework Club (Holly Ellem Hellem@sec.act.edu.au)
Wednesday – Sports trainings (training times/match days will be visible on clipboard), Homework Club (Holly Ellem Hellem@stedmunds.act.edu.au)
Thursday – Steam Club (Margie Maher Mmaher@sec.act.edu.au)
Friday – Chess Club (John Bell jbell@sec.act.edu.au)
NAPLAN Testing Week 6/7 – Please note students in Year 5 will be undertaking Naplan Testing this week and next week. Feel free to reach out to your son’s teacher if you have any questions relating to Naplan.
Harmony Day – Friday 21 March. More information has been emailed in relation to this day. Students will be able to dress in cultural clothes or the universal colour of orange on this day. Details for pre-ordering food for this day are contained in the email sent on Tuesday this week and hard copy order forms for Junior School students were sent home with students on Tuesday. Any questions about food orders can be directed to Ms Bridget Cusack (bcusack@sec.act.edu.au)
Experience Eddies Day – Monday 31 March. If you know of prospective families considering St Edmund’s for their son/s, please let them know about this day to come and see what it’s like at our fantastic school. Details on how to book can be found on our social media posts.
St Edmund’s College Open Evening – Wednesday 2 April from 4.30pm – 7.30pm. If you know of prospective families considering St Edmund’s for their son/s, please let them know about our open evening.
Year 4-6 After School Homework Club
Tuesday & Wednesday after school
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Junior School Library lab
Boys are to bring work with them that they may need assistance with. This could be homework, assignments, extension work or additional work set by their classroom teacher.
Email hellem@sec.act.edu.au or book through Clipboard should you wish your son to attend.
Year 6 Runners Program – As a part of our Year 6 into High School transition program, we will be enlisting the assistance of Year 6 students to help as runners. As runners, the students will get to know the school layout very well ahead of Year 7. The students will work in pairs for a full day (learning remotely between jobs). The students will rotate through on a daily basis.
Hair Policy – Thank you to all parents/carers for keeping your son/s haircuts in line with the school’s uniform and hair policy. At times barbers may make mistakes. If they are informed of their mistake, many will fix the haircut (in line with our policy) at no extra charge. Could I please ask that all parents/carers familiarise themselves with the hair policy so that students can get about their daily work without teacher’s asking them about their haircuts. Thank you for your assistance with this.
– Hair should be kept neat, tidy and clean at all times and not grown or styled into an extreme or exaggerated fashion.
-Hair should be uniform in length (or blended gradually) and no shorter than a number ‘two’. Longer hair (below the collar) needs to be tied back during the school day.
-Students are not allowed to have lines or designs shaved into their hair nor grow long sections of hair that can be fashioned into ‘top buns’, plaits, undercuts, braids, ‘rats tails’, ‘mohawks’ or ‘mullets’ etc.
Student Drop Off and Pick Up – Please do not use the staff carpark (off Canberra Avenue) to drop or collect students before and after school. This is a dangerous place for our students to be moving through and we would like to keep this area for staff only. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe.
David Kelly
Assistant Principal – Junior School