LIFE Summer Term Week Five
| Mon | 4 March | Labour Day Public Holiday – College Closed | |||
| Tue | 5 March | Home Study Day – College and Uniform Shop Closed | |||
| NEAS to be rescheduled | |||||
| Shrove Tuesday | |||||
| Wed | 6 March | Ash Wednesday | |||
| NEAS Yr 10 to Yr 12 vs La Salle | |||||
| OLNA Writing - First Round | |||||
| Thu | 7 March | NEAS Swim Meet at La Salle | 2:00pm to 5:00pm | ||
| OLNA Writing - First Round |
Parents please use Parent Coneqt for SEQTA Engage via this link for current letters and excursion information. SEQTA Engage
Careers Opportunity at Crown
Kitchen hand placements for 2018
Workplace Learning /Work Experience
Who should apply?
Students doing work experience, vocational educationprograms or Workplace Learning in 2018 with a real interest in cooking and would like to work in large kitchens of high quality.
How to Apply:
Students need to fill in an application form which includes student details, medical details, the proposed dates, a passport photo and parental permission.
Application Process
• Applications need to be filled out and returned to the contact person on the form. A passport photo must be stapled to the application form for Crown Perth’s records.
• All applications will be consideredand every effort made to accommodate students as much as possible. Dates preferredby students and dates finally allocated to students may differ due to the numbers applying.
• Work experience students are usually placed during school holiday periods, however other dates will be considered.
• Students will be advised through the school whether their application has
been successful.
• If successful, students and their school coordinator must attend an induction held by Crown Perth. The induction held in February 2018, providesall the necessary information prior to commencement.
Additional Information
• Bus and rail transport is available.
• Uniforms such as apron, jacket, hat and neckerchief will be supplied.
• Students must supply their own black pants and steel capped boots. You should be able to purchase basic boots for around $50.
All enquiries to Sharon Callcott (sharon.callcott@careerlink.net.au or 0407 086 753) Pleasedonot contact Crown Perth.
Students can come to the Careers Office in Huasai Huasi for application forms.
Pre Apprenticeship and Training News
We are delighted to announce that three of our students were selected for the Construction Training Fund’s new Scholarship Programme.
These students were selected from hundreds of applicants to secure a place in :
• Certificate II Building and Construction -
Trades Pathway (52824WA)
• Certificate II Plumbing (52700WA)
The Scholarship includes the following:
• Tuition, RTO enrolment and resources costs • Safety equipment and clothing
• Work experience
• Regular mentoring by industry personnel
• Specialist workshops about building and construction • Advice about career pathways
• Meetings with industry employers
• Regular reports to parents and schools
The Schools2Skills Scholarship is supported by industry and will provide participants with the skills, experience and knowledge that employers look for in a new apprentice or trainee. In addition to the the Scholarship students, we have successfully secured places in the following TAFE courses for our Senior school students.
North Metro Tafe
- Cert II Auto Vocational Prep
- Cert III in Information, Digital Media and Technology
- Cert II Engineering
- Cert II Retail Cosmetics
- Cert III Population Health
- Cert III Events
- Cert II Kitchen Operations
South Metro Tafe
- Cert II Auto Vocational Prep
ONSITE with TAFE
- Cert II Automotive
- Cert II Auto Electrical Technology year
- Cert II Data and Communications
- Cert II Furniture
We are looking forward to watching their skills and confidence grow
Coles Sports for Schools Promotion
Holy Cross College is part of the Coles Sports for Schools promotion this year. Please hand in your vouchers to the boxes located in Tui DaVinci and Administration. The more vouchers you collect, the more sports equipment we will receive. The race is on!
Mrs Jo Borg
Coles Sports for Schools Promotion Co-ordinator
Friends of Holy Cross Executive Committee and Council Coordinators 2018
Parent participation in the life of the College is essential to enhance students' learning and wellbeing. There are numerous opportunities for parents to contribute from helping in the classroom to attending school events and information evenings.
Parents can also contribute to the College through the Friends of Holy Cross. The Friends of Holy Cross is the parent body that oversees and organises many activities that build a strong sense of community and raise much-needed funds.
The Friends of Holy Cross operate at the direction the College Principal under the guidelines and parameters of the Friends of Holy Cross Commission. A copy of the
The following people have graciously taken on coordinating roles for 2018:
| Position | Name |
| President | Louise Breadsell |
| Vice President | Sarah Love |
| Treasurer | Tarquin Allen |
| Secretary | Nicki Thomas |
| Learning Council | Jo Frendo |
| Inter-relationship Council | Liz Wiseman |
| Faith Council | Carol Wincott-Whyte, Susan Sorensen |
| Enrichment Council | Michelle Francis, Sarah Dye |
The Friends of Holy Cross Council is the coordinating arm of the parent body and will seek assistance from the wider College community at various times throughout the year.
Parents/guardians are encouraged to make themselves known to Council members and offer assistance when required.
The Friends of Holy Cross may be contacted via email at: fhc@holycross.wa.edu.au.
Senior Ball
Year 11 and 12 students had a most wonderful evening last Friday at the Senior School Ball held at Caversham House. A special tradition at the College is the pre-ball photo session held in the gardens at the venue, where family are invited to to take their photos. The students then danced the night away!
Mr Paul Murphy
Deputy Principal
Medicine and Dentistry Direct Pathway UMAT
Year 12 students intending to apply for Medicine and Dentistry Direct Pathways must register to sit UMAT. The UMAT test date is Wednesday 25 July 2018. Registrations are now open and will close on Friday 1 June 2018 at 5:00pm. Students may apply at the following website:”
UMAT website
I will let you know when we have a date for the Student Support Coordinator to come out and tell us more about their Support Program.
UMAT website
I will let you know when we have a date for the Student Support Coordinator to come out and tell us more about their Support Program.
The Season of Lent
This Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent in the Catholic Church. Lent is a season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving as we prepare for the Easter Triduum and recalling the death and resurrection of Christ.
So what does this really mean for us as a school community? The 46 days of Lent begins tomorrow with a special day known as ‘Ash Wednesday’. We will be celebrating our Opening School Year Mass as well as Ash Wednesday tomorrow. The community will be participating in one of the great traditions of the Catholic Church known as the distribution of ashes. All the members of our community will be marked on their forehead with a cross from the ashes of the palms from the 2017 Palm Sunday celebration. The Church performs this ritual to remind us that we are like ash, or dust, rather we are sinners, people who need God, and the cross we receive is a symbol of the fact that although we are sinners, we have a Saviour who loves us to the point of dying by the cross for all of humanity.
Lent then calls people to prepare their hearts over the next 46 days for Easter and we do that specifically through focussing on three main practices.. The first practice which is probably the most commonly known practice is ‘fasting’. Catholics are well known for the fact that they don’t eat meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and the Friday’s during Lent, the local fish and chips shops tend to make the most of this. But for Catholics fasting is beyond just ‘giving up’ something. It’s not about giving up Netflix, or Facebook for 46 days, but rather fasting is about finding God in our lives. By giving up something we are freeing ourselves up to do something, or to search for God. Perhaps the challenge for our community might be this year that if they give up Netflix for Lent, that they replace that time they normally spend on Netflix reading scripture, going to Mass, or praying a rosary.
The next practice we complete during Lent is known as almsgiving. The most prominent way we do this at Holy Cross is through participating in the Caritas Project Compassion Fundraising. Our students are challenged to give towards Project Compassion during Lent to support the great work of Caritas throughout the world.
The final practice, but arguably the most important practice during Lent is prayer. Catholics are called to actively spend more time in prayer and searching for God in their lives during this season. Perhaps in the busyness and noise of our current society that we could find some quiet space to sit and rest in solitude during this season and find God in the stillness.
Don’t forget that our parish, St Helena’s of the Holy Cross offers Mass on the weekends (Saturday 6pm, Sunday 8am, 9.30am, 5.45pm). Perhaps this Lent is the time we choose to commit to finding God at Mass.
Wishing everyone a blessed Season of Lent. May you find God during this season.
Mr Ryan Shelton
Director of Faith
So what does this really mean for us as a school community? The 46 days of Lent begins tomorrow with a special day known as ‘Ash Wednesday’. We will be celebrating our Opening School Year Mass as well as Ash Wednesday tomorrow. The community will be participating in one of the great traditions of the Catholic Church known as the distribution of ashes. All the members of our community will be marked on their forehead with a cross from the ashes of the palms from the 2017 Palm Sunday celebration. The Church performs this ritual to remind us that we are like ash, or dust, rather we are sinners, people who need God, and the cross we receive is a symbol of the fact that although we are sinners, we have a Saviour who loves us to the point of dying by the cross for all of humanity.
Lent then calls people to prepare their hearts over the next 46 days for Easter and we do that specifically through focussing on three main practices.. The first practice which is probably the most commonly known practice is ‘fasting’. Catholics are well known for the fact that they don’t eat meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and the Friday’s during Lent, the local fish and chips shops tend to make the most of this. But for Catholics fasting is beyond just ‘giving up’ something. It’s not about giving up Netflix, or Facebook for 46 days, but rather fasting is about finding God in our lives. By giving up something we are freeing ourselves up to do something, or to search for God. Perhaps the challenge for our community might be this year that if they give up Netflix for Lent, that they replace that time they normally spend on Netflix reading scripture, going to Mass, or praying a rosary.
The next practice we complete during Lent is known as almsgiving. The most prominent way we do this at Holy Cross is through participating in the Caritas Project Compassion Fundraising. Our students are challenged to give towards Project Compassion during Lent to support the great work of Caritas throughout the world.
The final practice, but arguably the most important practice during Lent is prayer. Catholics are called to actively spend more time in prayer and searching for God in their lives during this season. Perhaps in the busyness and noise of our current society that we could find some quiet space to sit and rest in solitude during this season and find God in the stillness.
Don’t forget that our parish, St Helena’s of the Holy Cross offers Mass on the weekends (Saturday 6pm, Sunday 8am, 9.30am, 5.45pm). Perhaps this Lent is the time we choose to commit to finding God at Mass.
Wishing everyone a blessed Season of Lent. May you find God during this season.
Mr Ryan Shelton
Director of Faith
The HASS Learning Area Welcomes Year 7s!
This week, as part of their Transition schedule, Year 7 students participated in an interactive Humanities and Social Sciences immersion. Students were given some information about the learning area and tips for success, which can be accessed on the cover page of the Humanities and Social Sciences course on Student and Parent Coneqt. Students then participated in a whole year level card sorting game, competing in their House groups.
The object of the game was to be the first house to sort a series of images into the four Humanities and Social Sciences categories of Civics & Citizenship, Economics, History and Geography. In a second round, students then raced to place relevant facts on each card, with the objective to be the House whose colour was most represented.
The Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences teaching team - Mr Jamie Gotti, Miss Emilie Reynolds, Mrs Karen Dennett and myself welcome the Year 7 students to our learning area and we look forward to an exciting year in Humanities and Social Sciences!
Ms Karen Taylor
Learning Area Coordinator - Humanities and Social Sciences
9 February 2018
The object of the game was to be the first house to sort a series of images into the four Humanities and Social Sciences categories of Civics & Citizenship, Economics, History and Geography. In a second round, students then raced to place relevant facts on each card, with the objective to be the House whose colour was most represented.
The Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences teaching team - Mr Jamie Gotti, Miss Emilie Reynolds, Mrs Karen Dennett and myself welcome the Year 7 students to our learning area and we look forward to an exciting year in Humanities and Social Sciences!
Ms Karen Taylor
Learning Area Coordinator - Humanities and Social Sciences
9 February 2018
Year 9s Consider How to Bring Lunchtimes to LIFE...
In Week 2, Year 9s launched into their first Big Ideas project for 2018. They are exploring the big question: How can we bring lunchtimes to LIFE? This week, students began to consider their own experiences of a typical lunchtime at Holy Cross College, by producing a 'lunchbox' of their experiences and then undertaking a gallery walk of all of the students' lunch boxes to get an insight into the patterns and trends of Year 9 experiences.
Students then began to use some different types of data, including an interactive survey and interviews with students from other year groups, to develop their ideas about how lunchtimes are currently experienced by students and what some ideas might be to promote the LIFE pillars through lunchtime activities.
Over the coming weeks, students will deepen their awareness of the LIFE pillars and employ design thinking to develop and test a prototype for a business model to better engage students with one or more of the LIFE pillars through lunchtime activities.
Ms Karen Taylor
Year 9 Learning Innovator
9 February 2017
Year 7 Big Ideas: Parenting 101!
The Year Sevens began Big Ideas on Thursday of Week 2 and were surprised to learn that they were going to become parents! As an introduction to their learning around the 6C’s and a focus on Citizenship, the students made ‘Flour Babies’ and began the process of caring for the babies 24 hours a day, for 7 days!
The students will take the baby everywhere they go over the next week, only leaving the baby in the crèche to go to P.E or with a responsible babysitter if they have sport outside school.
They will record the baby’s activities in their Baby Book on Book Creator and keep up with daily Flour Baby Challenges on their Seesaw App.
We look forward to watching the adventures of the Flour Babies over the next week and are excited to see the Year Sevens explore all of the 6Cs over the course of the year.
Miss Emilie Reynolds
Year 7 Innovator