HSC highlights
18 December 2017
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Our first Rhodes Scholar
Ashleigh Barnes, Class of 2011, has just received a Rhodes Scholarship, with the outstanding achievement of being one of only 10 female recipients in NSW history. Ashleigh said it is an incredible honour. “It will be an enormous opportunity and a huge platform which I can develop professionally and personally
11 December 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
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
ARTEXPRESS, Shape and Texstyle 2018
Twelve exceptional works created by Santa Sabina students have been nominated for HSC showcases! Congratulations to our students of Visual Art, Design and Technology and especially Textiles and Design whose major projects have caught the eye of the NSW Education Standards Authority. Emma Jacob’s kimono selected for Texstyle Emma Jacobs’
8 November 2017
The promise of every hill being the last
Nine Santa Sabina College students completed their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Silver Adventurous Journey hike during the school holidays. This journey involved hiking along the Six Foot Track from Katoomba to Jenolan Caves and was completed over three days and two nights. The rugged terrain of the track tested the
26 October 2017
Play it again, Catherine
Violin virtuoso Catherine Zhang of Year 9 took her violin to the USA for the spring term break. She had been invited to private masterclasses with Simon James at Seattle’s Coleman Violin Studio. Despite eschewing the formal examination structure of the AMEB (Australian Music Examination Board), Catherine easily performs the
24 October 2017
New Beginnings at the Texstyle exhibition
Congratulations Lidwina Lu of Year 10 who came third in the Textiles Art Piece Challenge 2017. The state-wide competition is organised by Technology Educators Association NSW. The theme of the competition this year was New Beginnings. Lidwina embroidered and created a stunning dreamcatcher symbolising how dreams and endless and that
18 October 2017
International Day of the Girl
On International Day of the Girl our students have given thanks for being here today in this place of learning. They acknowledged the gift of their education, a gift that millions of girls like them, elsewhere in the world, will never receive. Our students are committed to advocating for girls’
11 October 2017
Another Maths win!
Our MANSW winning team from Year 5 has won the Year 5 Class section of the National Mathematics Talent Quest – Investigating with Mathematics. Their winning entry, “Out of this world”, was an extensive mathematical investigation into the solar system. The girls investigated the history of space exploration and researched
9 October 2017