ASSORTED NEWS
VINNIES CHRISTMAS HAMPER APPEAL
A big thank you to Isons Nowra for supplying baskets for every class & staff to fill with Christmas 
goodies.
This year’s baskets 
will be donated to Vinnies Nowra & Vinnies Ulladulla to distribute to those in need in our local community.
will be donated to Vinnies Nowra & Vinnies Ulladulla to distribute to those in need in our local community.
We thank you in advance for your generosity. Vinnies have advised they are overwhelmed by phone calls requesting assistance & your donations will be very much appreciated to brighten Christmas for local families.
MC CLASS FOOD TECHNOLOGY
Some festive vibes were in our MC Food Technology lessons this week with students baking and decorating Christmas cookies!
SENIOR STUDENTS COOK FOR VINNIES
Our senior students are fantastic role models for the junior grades, demonstrating our school values of 'hope, justice, love, compassion, hospitality & spirituality' through involving themselves in a variety of activities to help both our school and the wider community.
Cody Ewen, Milla Watt, Michelle Su & Matthew Taufa along with Ms Arenas & Ms Kidson, donated their time after school last Wednesday to cook around 40 serves of spaghetti bolognaise to be distributed by Vinnies to the homeless and those in need in our local community. We are incredibly proud to see our students develop into such compassionate, selfless and grateful young people.
DEFENCE FAMILY MENTOR
Our Defence Family mentor, Mrs Wendy Gaudie regularly meets with students to ensure they are ok and provide additional support if needed.
NATIONAL CHAMPION KEIRA BUCKPITT
Recently crowned National Surfing Champion, Keira Buckpitt of Year 10 has been recognised for her accomplishment with a fabulous editorial in the Catholic Education Diocese of Wollongong newsletter, available to read by clicking here.
YEAR 12 2022
HSC DANCE
Our Year 12 2022 Dance class are making fabulous progress learning the choreography for their core performance next year!
CHEMISTRY
Year 12 2022 Chemistry students are enjoying their practical group work lessons, recently experimenting with the extracted compounds that give red cabbage it’s colour as a pH indicator. The structures of the anthocyanin pigments are subtly changed at varying pH with the different structures giving a range of colours providing colourful results!
GEOGRAPHY
As part of their urban dynamics study Year 12 2022 Geography recently engaged in a virtual excursion to Barangaroo.
NEW TECHNOLOGY IN TAS
Our students are really loving the new technology in HSIE, an augmented reality sandbox!
This 3D interactive, dynamic tool will assist students to understand mapping, landforms, topography, watersheds, natural hazards & more!
This fabulous idea has come to fruition with thanks to our wonderful staff. Special thanks to Mr Gibson (TAS) for building the box, Mr Warfield (I.T) for programming and Ms Blades & the HSIE faculty for coordinating and educating.
JAG CATHOLIC EARTHCARE YOUTH SUMMIT
During Week 6, JAG and Leadership students attended the Catholic Earthcare Youth Summit. This day was hosted by Mount St Benedict College via Zoom and the theme of the day was "From little things, big things grow". The day was focused on empowering students through opportunities for advocacy and action in ecological justice and sustainability.
There were a number of guest speakers including Ann Marie Brennan who is a COP26 representative, Alicja Borciuch from Australian Young Christian Workers, Katarina Kabiriera and Taabeia Ibouri from Sisters of Kiribati and Bishop Long from Parramatta who conducted a beautiful liturgy referring Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si'.
The students were asked to end the day with a pledge. Our St John's group came up with a fantastic pledge.
CARE OF CREATION COMPETITION WINNERS
Congratulations to Cameron Hertzberg, Belle Woelk, Will Hodgkins and Georgia Preston, winners of our recent ‘Care of Creation’ Competition of designing an artwork using single use plastics.
YEAR 9 BUSHCRAFT
Our Year 9 Bushcraft classes are studying canoeing and put their theory into practice developing their paddling, rescue & leadership skills on the Shoalhaven River last week.
