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Year 7 STEM, smart cities, the power of interconnectivity
Our TAS Department and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) provided Year 7 with a STEM day in November. Guests from Transport NSW and Dell focused the students’ thinking on smart cities and the power of interconnectivity. The students enjoyed working with prosthetic limbs, programming robots, creating floating houses and
27 November 2017
Years 3-5 Soirée Concert
Years 3-5 entertained us with a delightful soirée which included this lovely orchestral rendition of The Little Drummer Boy.
23 November 2017
Hoisting the puck in Poland
Anna Badaoui of Year 11 has just learned of her selection in the Australian Under 18s women’s ice hockey team. She will spend her summer holiday in January competing in the Women’s World Championships in Poland. Anna has been skating since preschool and has played ice hockey on and off
23 November 2017
National underage cricket captain
Olivia Porter, a Year 10 Santa Sabina student, has been named captain of the Underage Female Cricket Australia XI playing in the November 2017 National Championships U18 in Canberra. She has also been marked on the program as a “talent to watch”. “I was a bit overwhelmed when
22 November 2017
Engaging original scripts!
Junior Drama Ensemble performance on 9 November in our Black Box Theatre. Nicole Ellis-Windsor, Head of Drama and Visual Arts, would like to congratulate the actors and Ms Cartwright for all their creative devising and their performances of original scripts exploring a variety of themes from escaping book
21 November 2017
Honouring our academic achievers each year since 1894
With our 123rd Speech Night fast approaching it is timely to think of the very first “Annual Exhibition” as it was then called. It was held on the afternoon of Wednesday 17 October 1894 in the “spacious hall” of the original building. The College Principal has presided over such
16 November 2017
Actions speak louder than words
A young Year 2 student came to me this week with a small bag of coins and some five and 10 dollar notes. Very quietly, he asked me to send his money to the Sisters in the Solomon Islands. When I asked him about the money, he told me
16 November 2017
Music on the move
Well done to the hundreds of student musicians who performed on 14 November at our annual Music Awards under the inspirational baton of our Artistic Director, Mrs Karen Carey.
15 November 2017
Strings for spring
Well done to the String Beans! At their 2017 Spring Soirée Celebration Concert the musical prowess of our youngest string players was again on display. Their average age is 10 years old. Here they are performing the Renaissance Dance Suite arranged by Audrey Akerman. The String Beans is a string ensemble that is
9 November 2017
Thoroughly entertaining comic melodrama
Senior Drama Ensemble performance on 6 November 2017 in our Black Box Theatre The comic melodrama The Bold, The Young, and The Murdered by Don Zolidis came to life on stage because of the dedicated acting of the Senior Drama Ensemble. Sincere thanks to the actors for their collaborative passion and enthusiasm to create
9 November 2017
Thank you Winsome!
Australia’s foremost early music specialist, Winsome Evans OAM BEM, has donated her French Double Harpsichord made by Mars McMillan to the College. In addition, she has given us many medieval and renaissance woodwind and percussion instruments and a wealth of music scores, books and period costumes. Amongst this collection is
9 November 2017