HSC 2022

It’s all over!!!

Congratulations to our Year 12 2022 cohort who have now successfully concluded their HSC Examinations.

Last Friday was the last day of formal examinations and so commences the nervous, yet quietly confident, wait until 15^th December when our students will receive their HSC and ATAR results. Year 12 2022 students are then invited back to a Morning Tea on this day (15/12/22) to celebrate one another’s successes and talk about possible career directions (tertiary or otherwise). We hope to see all Year 12 2022 students on this morning.

The College would especially like to thank Mrs Michelle Cornett our HSC Presiding Officer for her hard work throughout the HSC Examination Period. She has been highly professional and very pastorally caring for our students. We would also like to thank all other HSC Invigilators who worked alongside our students over the past four weeks.

In the meanwhile, we very much look forward to next week’s Formal at the Cube (Campbelltown Catholic Club). The night will be a fitting conclusion to the year for this cohort and we look forward to seeing all attending on the night.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP

There have been numerous examples in recent weeks of our new student leaders (Years 7-11) really stepping into their new roles. I would like to commend all of our new leaders on such a positive beginning. We look forward to hearing about their new initiatives in the weeks and months ahead. Well done!

NEW GYM EQUIPMENT

It has been a long wait, but I am absolutely delighted to note that our new gym equipment is almost fully installed.

In the coming weeks and months – details about how and when (and which year groups) will be able to access the gym will be provided. Very exciting!

COURTESY IN THE CARPARK AND TURNING CIRCLE

As you know, Magdalene Catholic College is continuing to grow. This is a credit to our staff, students, and our fine community. However, and as was raised at our College’s last P & F Meeting, it is absolutely essential that parents/carers and community members show courtesy to one another on their way to and from the College as they drop off and pick up their children.

Patience is critical and it is everyone’s responsibility to model the types of behaviour we want our young people to display in their own daily lives. Negative actions, beeping at one another, gesturing, turning right out of the College at the wrong times, not following signage and/or procedure, showing aggression to one another etc… are simply not acceptable and such behaviour can breach our Parent School Partnership Framework.

In extreme cases (in other schools) parents/carers have had to be refused entry on school grounds because their actions were deemed to be inappropriate or unsafe. In my time at the College, we have never had to follow through with this, but can I PLEASE request that we are very conscious of our behaviour. In saying this, I am very aware, as is the P & F, that the great majority of our parents/carers do comply with what is expected. Thank you.

PRAYER

The following prayer is in honour of Remembrance Day. On the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month (1918), an armistice was signed, ending the “war to end all wars” – World War I. Today, November 11 has therefore been set aside as a day in which to pray for those who have died serving their country in all conflicts and/or peace-keeping efforts. Accordingly, we keep all who have served Australia (whether it be in peace or war times) in our hearts and prayers

Prayer of Remembrance (Courtesy of Sydney Catholic Schools)

Let us pray for all who suffer because of conflict, and ask that God may give us peace:

For the service men and women who have died in the violence of war, each one remembered by and known to God; May God give peace, God give peace For those who love them in death as in life, offering the distress of our grief and the sadness of our loss; May God give peace.

For all members of the armed forces who are in danger this day, remembering family, friends and all who pray for their safe return; May God give peace, God give peace For civilian women, children and men whose lives are disfigured by war or terror, calling to mind in penitence the anger and hatreds of humanity; May God give peace.

For peace-makers and peace-keepers, who seek to keep this world secure and free; May God give peace, God give peace. For all who bear the burden and privilege of leadership, political, military and religious; asking for gifts of wisdom and resolve in the search for reconciliation and peace. May God give peace.

O God of truth and justice, we hold before you those whose memory we cherish, and those whose names we will never know. Help us to lift our eyes above the torment of this broken world and grant us the grace to pray for those who wish us harm. As we honour the past, may we put our faith in your future; for you are the source of life and hope, now and for ever.

­­–Amen.