NEW UNIFORM

At Tuesday’s P & F Meeting photographs of various items of the College’s New Uniform were shared.

Some of these items still need slight modifications, crests added or the like, but on the whole, it is coming along very well. Everyone I have spoken to – parents, students and staff who have seen the new uniform have been very impressed.

As I have shared in previous Newsletters the new uniform will be coming in from next year for Year 7 2021, Year 10 2021 (our current Year 9s), Year 11 2021 (our current Year 10s). Students in other Year groups will still wear the current uniform but will have the option of purchasing the new uniform if they so wish. Our current Year 8s will move over to a new uniform in 2022 and our current Year 7s will move over to a new uniform in 2023.

The only caveat (apart from the new College cap) is that there will be no mixing of old and new uniform items.

Highlights of the new uniform include:

• Optional shorts for boys or girls in Years 7-9
• Optional pants for girls in Years 7-12
• Improved, breathable fabrics
• A new logo for our College Cap and various Sports items
• A new summer dress (effectively Terms 1 and 4) for the girls
• A new Junior boys tie (Years 7-9) and a new Senior (Years 10-12) boys tie
• New blazers for both boys and girls (a girls’ cut and a boys’ cut)
• Clear acknowledgement of the College’s colours: navy blue, red and gold

In the coming weeks, especially when items have been modified and finalised, the new uniform will go on display to the whole College and shared through various forms of communication.

NEW HALL

It was exciting to have core holes drilled this week in preparation for the building of our new Hall.

More details will follow but here is an artist’s sketch of the new structure:

MUFTI-DAY FUNDRAISER

The College has raised well over $100,000 dollars in the past decade to support the children at Westmead Hospital. Unfortunately, the nature of our COVID-19 restricted year has meant that our main fundraiser for this worthy cause, the College Trivia Night, has been cancelled.

On Wednesday, however, please encourage your children to be generous with a gold coin donation (hopefully the $2 variety) to raise money for Bandaged Bear House, as well as our Year 12s for their end of year events, when the College celebrates a mufti-day (Theme: favourite sports team or favourite super hero).

PRAYER

I share here a prayer from the Catholic Weekly which is very relevant to the times in which we live:

In this challenging time

Lord Jesus Christ, our true physician and healer, be merciful to us and bring us Your aid in these troubled times. Heal all our sickness and every affliction of Your people.

Drive out our infirmities of soul and body; free us from all disease and especially from this pestilence.

We place in Your gentle Heart the elderly, the frail, people with disability, children, young people and families, our indigenous peoples, those who are poor, lonely and isolated. As You walk with us, free them from fear, and give them patience and hope together with our loving care.

In Your mercy deal also with the causes of our pitiful condition, that in curing our lack of faith and spiritual weakness, You may also remedy our bodily ills.

We place our trust in You, the risen Lord, who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Amen.