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With many things happening throughout the year, the highlight of the 2014 for Year 11 students was Activities Week. The opportunity to go out into the community and serve proved a real winner amongst the boys, with many coming back to school discussing the people they met, the stories they heard and the work they did to make other people’s lives better.

ACTIVITIES WEEK – COMMUNITY SERVICE

During activities week, as part of community service, we went out to Batesford to the Dogrocks Sanctuary. We were on the bus in our dirtiest clothes not knowing what was going to happen that day. First we went on a tour around the beautiful lake then it was down to business. Over the week hundreds of Year 11 students pulled out thousands of boneseed plants that were suffocating the important native plants of the area. The barbeque was legendary!! There were sausages, lamingtons and drinks for all. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience and a hard day’s work. It was also amazing to see how much boneseed had been cleared by previous years of St Joseph’s students and to see how much of a positive effect on the environment we had. - Liam Dixon Throughout activities week, the Year 11 boys took part in a community service program which saw us complete a range of activities to help our local community. One of the activities was visiting local primary schools including; Northern Bay, St Francis Xavier, Newcomb, Christ the King and Whittington. During our time at the schools we were able to partake in a wide variety of tasks from being in the classroom, working with and mentoring individual students and giving them assistance in the areas they found difficult, and even gardening. Being at the schools highlighted just how well off us boys, here at St Joseph’s, are and gave a real sense of pride and achievement to many of us as we were able to help out young kids who really needed it. - Nathan Dillon In activities week we had a day of ‘Disability Awareness’ and we had the opportunity to do activities like volleyball, goalball, soccer and a time trial to find the most accessible way to get to different parts of the College whilst being ‘disabled’ in someway. Whether we were blindfolded or having impairments on different parts of our body, all activities had us being disabled in some way to authenticate the experience. Another aspect of this day included a guest speaker named Zane. He had cerebral palsy and he spoke about his life experiences and what it was like for him at a normal, everyday school like ours. He taught us a lot of life lessons and having a disability hasn’t impacted on his life like most of us thought it would. He has been a football coach, is married and is currently expecting his first child. Zane forced us to think about our own definition of ‘normal’ and how our stereotypes of disabled people can be very far from reality. -

Nicholas Lodge

ACHIEVEMENTS THROUGHOUT 2014:

We have many talented students in Year 11 who have represented SJC, Victoria and even Australia in a variety of sports and have even seen one talented student on the TV in a popular series. Some of the achievements include: Sam Atkins - winning the Element Skate comp held in Geelong and going on to represent Australia in a month of skate comps and tours around Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Will McCaskill – Triple Junior Club champion at 13th Beach Golf Club and being part of the Victorian U/18 Squad. Aiden Edwards – Junior Club Champion at Point Lonsdale Golf Club. Ben Cotter – was a vital member of the U/18 Victorian Lawn Bowls team who won Gold and Silver at the National Championships in Darwin. Jay Dalli – winning his first Victorian Amateur Boxing Association fight. Eamon Anderson – winning silver and bronze representing Victoria Country in Cross Country. Class of 11 H – who could forget their win in the Indoor Soccer competition... Congratulations!

Jack Scarlett, Jackson

McLachlan and Ben McNamara - representing the Geelong Falcons U/16 team.

Thomas Vlamis – for his appearance as Tony Mokbel’s son in the hit TV series “Underbelly”.

David McNeel and Angus Kramer – being an integral part of the Outreach Van which serves food to the needy on a regular basis.

Well done to the students who have completed many hours of community service throughout the year – your dedication and compassion to the local community is a real credit to you all!! A special congratulations to David McNeel, Tom Doedee and Jackson Gravett who were voted in by peers and staff as the College Captain and Deputies for 2015. I’d like to also congratulate all Year 11 students who have taken up leadership positions for next year – it’s great to see so many are willing to take charge and make change where necessary – Well Done!! We farewell those who are leaving at us the end of the 2014 to go into employment and thank them for their contributions in their time at the College and wish them all the best – you will always be welcome back at school reunions into the future. To those returning in 2015, your final year, we hope you have a safe, restful yet studious break, in preparation for a hectic, stressful-at-times, fun and memorable year ahead.

Andrew Scaddan - Year 11 Coordinator

11A

Mateo Begonja James Byron Alexander Cochrane Samuel Coppe Jay Dalli Cooper Grech Taeanu Henry

Joseph Imbrogno Christian Kanellos Nicholas Lodge Mitchell Loughnan Callum McDonald Frank Modica

Veejesh Mooniapah Liam Oates Daniel Perin Jackson Recourt Thomas Sesar Jamie Weisse

ABSENT: Kalin Chambers, Lachlan Grant

11B

Anthony Demetriou Nicholas Di Blasi Kieran Fennell John Fisher Lachlan Gangell Ashley Gillespie Samuel Haste

Nathan Hawkins Alex Javni Michael Javni Nikola Jurkovic Jay Kirwood Harrison Mitchell

Riley Nicholson Jasper Pelletier Andy Quach Adam Ryzner David Tran Luke Treloar Lauren Hall

Chris Conroy

Zoe Marshall

Ashlee Andreasen

11C

Samuel Atkins Daniel Ball Darcy Barling Michael Batson James Buckley Lucas Caciolo Adrian Coignet

Nathan Dillon Nicholas Eibl Patrick Kavenagh Harrison Kerr Mitchell Lindkvist James Little Michael McAuliffe

Casey McCrohan Christopher Mihicinac Samuel Murphy Nelson Perrott Michael Philp Lachlan Sharp Nathan Stones Luke Vlasnovic

ABSENT: Alex Love

11D

Gerasimos Alesios Matthew Beckwith Zachary Carter Liam Clancy Joshua Flanagan James Goldsworthy Tom Goldsworthy

Kristopher Goli Jackson Gravett

Liam McDonald Nikolas Mills Benjamin Harwood-van Wegen

Sean Mullahy Anthony Ilioski Robert Innis

Joshua Neri John O’Connell Levi Jones Matthew Kent Joshua Loveday

Adam O’Hara Jacob Richards Isaac Wilkins

11E

Renè Bisinella William Conway Joshua De Agrela Liam Dixon Aidan Edwards Michael Harding Sam Hoffman Riley Hollmer

Lachlyn Keiller Thomas Kidd Oliver Le Clerc Trae Lyons William McCaskill Joshua Newell Jackson Oeldrich Tristan Rabie

Gabriel Rule Jory Rupa Jack Scarlett Karl Senftleben Benjamin Sirolli Scott Woollard Jaydin Wray

ABSENT: Patrick Carnie

11F

Jack Buckley Samuel Bucovaz Liam Cogan Nicholas Connors Tom Doedee Guy Hardiman

Alex Hogan Patrick Kelleher Liam Littore Joseph Loughnan Raven Marika Xavier McKeegan Jackson McLachlan

Benjamin McNamara David McNeel Jobe Neal Samuel Plummer Keegan Robertson Samuel Threlfall Harry Walker Bryson Milverton

Michael Davies

Peter O’Connor

11G

Eamon Anderson Darcy Bennett James Boseley Thomas Brown Zachary Cole Bailey Dunn Samuel Fatone

Ned Fitzgerald Jordan Gasperic Samuel Hoare Jack Houlihan Nathan Keating Angus Kramer Brad McMaster Michael Pinjuh

Josip Sesar Nicholas Stahl Zachariah Stankiewicz James Teague Ryan Tracey Sebastian Vella Jake Williamson Matthew Zilavec

Michael Anderson

11H

Rhys Anderson Rylan Bird Lachlan Boseley Jack Brown Jay Christou Benjamin Cotter Brandon Di Pasquale Harrison Draper

Michael Fama Darren Fernandes Joshua Hames Jack HockleySamon Max Hurley Tom Lang Jackson Lockyer Billy McIntosh

Jacob Nurzinski Noah Piper William Sharp Kobi Stojanovski Xavier Thomson Jacob van Galen Thomas Walker Benjamin Wydro

Oscar Bongiorno Harrison Brown James Caldow Jordan Cockerill Ethan Crosbie Cameron Drake Ryan Fatone

David Heubner Joel Hogan Lachlan Hulme Samuel Kiebert Kester Leibhardt Jackson Lynch Conor Mckinnon

Evan Spoljaric James Stokes Michael Tolj Thomas Veale Patrick West Cheng Yu Janine McLean

Corran Belleville Samuel Bourke Darcy Brajkovic Justis Brayshaw Jordan Bushby

11J

William Dosen Jack Hamon

Benjamin Nichols Christopher Phelan Brandon Purcell Filip Sarcevic Brock Sellman Sheridan Stack Michael Thompson Wei Zhang