This week we have had many prospective families come to the school for enrolment interviews for 2025. It has been an absolute pleasure visiting classrooms and interacting with current students and teachers. Our students are our best advertisers and supporters. Their welcoming nature helps assist prospective students feel confident about coming to the school and they always leave our classroom visits smiling or laughing at something that’s been said. It was nice to spend time on Saturday watching some of our co-curricular sports, including rugby matches between Marist and St Edmund’s. I was able to view the First XV match with counterparts from Marist and there was an appropriate amount of banter between the two supporter groups. It was also enjoyable to watch some of the Brumbies with Father Chris, our school chaplain. Thank you to all our students and parents who continue to behave appropriately at sporting fixtures. It can be a terrific advertisement for our school.
This week we will celebrate students achieving well in the classroom and our Individual sports age champions at our assembly. We will also enjoy some of the brilliant poetry coming from Year 6 and celebrate our recent participation in the Matt Giteau Cup. Two of our teams, one from Year 4 and one from Year 6, have now advanced to the Brumbies 10’s Finals to be held at University of Canberra this Friday. Parents/carers of students involved have been emailed details and hard copy draws and information will come home today.
School Sport ACT Representative 12/U Opportunities – School Sport ACT has changed the process for applying and participating in Sporting Trials.
Anyone interested in trialling for the various regional sports, now need to log onto the ACT Sports Website and register for the sport that your child wishes to trial. It is the responsibility of parents/carers to monitor the website for any upcoming sporting events, if your child is interested in competing in the regional competitions.
Please also note if your child is successful in being selected for an ACT team to participate in a national or regional tournament, a formal written letter is required, addressed to the College Principal to seek permission for absence from school during this period. Once the College has received such a request it can then be formally approved for your son’s participation in this activity with School Sport ACT. Secondly, we will also be able to acknowledge his achievement here at school.
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 and sign up in 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).
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 of uniform length and no shorter than a number ‘two’.
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