College News 2013

Success at the Easter Show!

Congratulations to Siobhan Kenna (Year 12 2012 HSC), who submitted her Textiles and Design Major Project into the Arts and Craft Competition (Class 82 section: Mixed Media Garment or Article), at the Royal Easter Show 2013, and was awarded 2nd place. The garments or articles submitted for this section of the competition are created using various techniques including knitting, crochet, tatting, felting, embroidery, beading, screen printing etc to achieve an artistic result.

Blood Ambassador Conference

On 14 March, four Year 12 students and a staff member represented the College at the Youth Blood Ambassador Conference in Alexandria. The conference featured a variety of guest speakers who presented information about current blood donation shortages in Australia and spoke about strategies that could advocate blood donation within our community. The day consisted of a variety of fun and challenging collaborative activities as well as a special appearance of the Red Cross Mascot “Billy the Blood drop”. Overall, the day was both highly entertaining and informative for all involved and the girls look forward to working with the College to promote Blood Donation in the future.

Sporting Achievement

For all sporting results and achievements please go to our Sports Report link via the Home page.

Design and Technology success

Recent graduate of the College, Anastasia Attia (HSC 2012) has just had her major project for Design and Technology, an IPhone Game App to promote recycling mobile phones to aid a cancer charity, published as a free App in the Apple App Store. Anastasia worked very closely with the charity during the design process. The app, called Youcan Support was also nominated for inclusion in the 2013 DesignTech display at the Powerhouse Museum. Anastasia received a very good ATAR and received a Bachelor of Information Technology scholarship at UTS. WE congratulate her on her continuing success.

Project Compassion

We are now in the fourth week of Lent and as in previous years the Social Justice Captain, Madeleine Smith, and the Social Justice Committee have been busy promoting fund raising for Project Compassion. Twice a week during Morning Rollcall every PC class passes around the Project Compassion for individual donations. In addition to this each year group has been involved in organizing different activities for the whole College community to raise additional funds. Last week Year 9 held a ‘Stylish Sock Day’ where staff and students could wear an alternative pair of socks during the school day for a gold coin donation. This week Year 12 have held a Zumba lesson during lunch and on Wednesday Year 7 are holding a ‘Pigtail and Purple Ribbon Day’ on Thursday. Next week the lolly guessing competition organised by Year 8 and the Raffle organised by Year 11 will be finalised, and the following week will see the popular ‘Bling It Up’ day make a return, organised by Year 10. All these creative initiatives help to inspire aand educate the school community about the work of Caritas in communities in dire need of our financial support.

College Swimming Carnival “Cheer Off”

Thursday 21 February saw the “Cheer Off” take place under a surprisingly sunny sky. Teachers and students dressed up and put on a real performance under the watchful eye of our three independent judges. Amaroo (Gold), Dulkara (Green), Girralong (Blue) and Mirrabooka (Red) displayed creativity and a very entertaining show and our judges had a tough decision on their hands. Our deserved winners, Dulkara, were awarded the trophy, very closely followed by a stunning performance by Mirrabooka!

Swimming Carnival

After the doom and gloom forecast earlier in the week, the College Swimming Carnival went ahead with the weather supporting our event with dry skies! Always a hotly contested event, all four houses were supported well throughout the day, both in and out of the pool. In the pool a special congratulations must go to our Year 7, 8, 11 and 12 students who showed great team spirit by having an extremely high rate of participation in most events at the Carnival. Our Age champions are awarded to swimmers who are extremely successful both in the place they achieve during the day and also the times they swim in the race they take part in.

The 2013 Age Champions are as follows:

Final Standings for the Carnival were as follows:

Clean Up Australia Day at St Ursula’s

On Wednesday 6 March, St Ursula’s participated in the School’s Clean Up Australia Day during the second half of lunch. The Environment Committee and Ms Lemon would like to extend a special thank you to all the 177 volunteers for getting their hands dirty for a worthy cause. Clean Up Australia Day is a simple way we can take action in promoting a cleaner and more beautiful environment. Even though we had a few setbacks with rescheduling the event from Friday 1 to Wednesday 6 March, because of poor weather, the amazing enthusiasm of all the girls was astonishing, collecting rubbish amongst the bushes, under tables, and even in the drains. The secret to this success was the competitive spirit between the house colours, with the colours competing against each other to see which colour could gather the most number of environmentally-friendly volunteers. We would like to congratulate Dulkara with 56 volunteers, not far behind Amaroo with 51 volunteers, Girralong with 37 volunteers and Mirrabooka with 33 volunteers. Well done to everyone for their fantastic participation on the day!

Open Day 2013 - All welcome!!

Visual Arts News

Congratulations to Jessica Ticchio Year 12 (2012), for being selected to exhibit her HSC Body of Work in the ART RULES exhibition held at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. This exhibit showcases a selection of 2012 Higher School Certificate artworks by students from the St George and Sutherland Shire districts. Jessica’s artwork titled “Proceed with Caution” portrays a Postmodern approach towards technology her work has generated much interest.

Sporting Achievement

Year 9 student, Xenia Spanicek, flies out to Europe this month to compete in Ice Skating championships. An ice skater for the last seven years, Xenia will be flying to Finland to compete in the International Skating Union Synchronised Skating Championships and will then make her way to Croatia to compete for the Snow Flake Trophy. We congratulate Xenia on all her success thus far as well as commend her for the dedication and motivation she has shown in her seven years of training at Canterbury and Penrith. We wish Xenia and her team safe travels and every possible success whilst in Europe. We look forward to hearing about her journey and experiences when she returns in March.

Celebrating another year of HSC success!

The HSC Class of 2012 has achieved outstanding results in the Higher School Certificate and we are delighted to congratulate and celebrate their successes:

• Top performing Catholic systemic school in the Sydney Archdiocese in 2010, 2011 and 2012
• Ranked 60th on the Sydney Morning Herald’s list of top 100 schools in the state
• 94% of courses above the examination mean, with twenty courses achieving exam results of five or more marks about the State
• Highest ATAR 99.1
• Five students named on the All Rounders Merit List for scoring 90% or above in 10 or more units
• Two students ranked in the top ten in the State in Studies of Religion I
• A total of sixty-seven girls (44%) appeared 167 times in the HSC Distinguished Achievers List of students who scored 90 or more marks in a course
• The College has received advice that 43 students (28%) have gained an ATAR of 90 or above, with 17 students (14%) gaining an ATAR score of 95 or above.
  

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