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The Year 11 Cohort of 2015 has created success in a variety of domains. From the classroom through to debating; from the sporting field through to music and drama productions; the year level has achieved some extraordinary results. A standout for the year was their involvement in Activities Week. The year level had the opportunity to participate in community service at locations such as: Scope, Willowite, Shannon Park, Aged care facilities, ANGAIR, Dogrocks boneseed removal, Vinnies as well as maintenance work at SJC. Through these experiences the students served and represented St Joseph’s extremely well.

ACTIVITY WEEK STUDENT ACCOUNTS:

A group of Year 11s were assigned to visit SCOPE during our Activities Week. SCOPE is a centre where many disabled people from our community spend their days. They’re there for rehabilitation, as well as for social activities and gatherings. The experience itself was eyeopening. We don’t often think about how the disabled spend their days, or the painful activities they have to go through in order to exercise. Some participants couldn’t speak; others have lost control of parts of their bodies. This was quite confronting to a lot of students because of the challenge of holding a conversation with someone who can’t speak. Throughout the day, we gained a great appreciation for those who chose to spend their days helping those much less fortunate than us. We also developed a confidence that the disabled are being looked after and aren’t simply being ignored; however, it was evident that these centres need more funding, because the participants only deserve the best after what they’ve been through.

Daniel Rabbat - 11F

Activities week was a bundle of fun, but a highlight for me - and I’m sure many other students - was the aged care facilities we visited throughout Geelong. Bupa Barrabool was a very rewarding place to be in and felt it was our way to give back to the community as we engaged in conversation and games with the residents. It not only gave me a big smile on my face, but it also gave the residents a big smile as well. Our Year 11 boys loved it, and the elderly members of Geelong loved it just as much.

Nathan Clark -11D

Whilst on community service during activities week in Term 2, my fellow classmates and I spent a day at Northern Bay Primary School (Hendy Street campus) in Corio. This experience not only gave the primary school students much enjoyment, but it gave us an insight into how primary schools in troubled communities function. The children’s sheer excitement at spending time with some older kids and showing off their colouring skills was an aspect of the day that overwhelmed most of us. Most of the kids were sorry to see us leave and would have gone home with happy memories and been excited for the next day.

Oli Darcy - 11B

We went to Willowite farm in Anglesea, a sanctuary and rescue shelter for wildlife. Here we learnt about the importance of protecting animals. Pete and Jeannette, the owners, gained valuable help as the boys helped build fences, weeded and fed some of the animals. In all it was a rewarding experience and a highlight of my community service week.

Adam Karpinski - 11F

During the 2015 activities week, the Year 11 student cohort embarked on community service. This involved a range of activities that benefited the community. One of these activities was to become exposed and educated in disability awareness. During this session, Year 11’s were given certain sports to play under circumstances that would be deemed disabled. This included playing sports blindfolded or limb restrained through rope, to demonstrate the physical challenges that active disabled people endure. Besides learning what people with disabilities had to overcome in activities such as sport, we found in these sessions that they are no less competitive, determined or different to people without a disability. Our guest speaker Richard Colman gave us an insight into what people with a disability can achieve and do, just as well for people without a disability. His story on making the Paraolympics for wheelchair racing and winning gold was a truly inspirational triumph in this seminar.

Chad Suphamongkol

The students also participated in a Pornography education day and Disability Awareness activities. These activities were somewhat challenging and confronting for some students

but enabled them to gain a greater understanding of the complexities involved in these areas. To all the boys who have completed community service outside of school, well done. Your dedication and compassion to the local community is a credit to you.

MOVEMBER

During November a number of Year 11 boys participated in

Movember, raising money and awareness for men’s health issues. The commitment to the cause was impressive with many boys raising large amounts of money that will help support, promote and assist men’s health issues. Well done to all boys involved!

VISUAL COMMUNICATION & DESIGN

This year in year 11 Visual communication Design, we gained new skills in perspective, observational, typography and technical drawing. Mr Cahir and Mrs Kean have demonstrated in class this year, what we are expected to know and practise in order to become successful in our designing future; folio development, research and annotation have all been major components that move us towards next year’s final goal. An added benefit this year was the ability to exhibit in the 2015 Top Designs Exhibition that showcased all of the top students’ work from last year’s course. All of the detail, hard work and planning reflected in some of these folios seen, were a big heads up for what we are expected to accomplish next year. This year’s class has been without doubt the most beneficial and enjoyable.

Chad Suphamongkol 2016 LEADERS

A very special congratulations to Rhys Hegyesi, Gurbeny Mangar and Ben Kenworthy who were voted in by their peers and staff as the College Captain and Deputies for 2015. Personally, I’d like to congratulate these three boys and all the other Year 11 students who have taken on leadership roles next year. The contribution and efforts of all the leaders next year will further support and enable the College to continue to move forward in the 21st century. A number of boys have worked diligently throughout 2015 in creating positive professional relationships outside of school in the workforce. From this, a number of boys will be leaving the College and we farewell these boys in their future endeavours. We thank them for their contribution to the College and we wish them all the very best for the next chapter of their lives – you will always be welcome back to St Joseph’s and we hope to see you at future school reunions. To the rest of the year level that is returning in 2016 to complete Year 12, we hope that you have a safe, restful summer period, combined with study in preparation for the challenge of Year 12. Upon your return you will be challenged and pushed to new limits in what will be a fun, exciting and memorable year.

Dan Hale - Year 11 Coordinator

11A

Adam Bernardo Alexander Buckwell Bailey Chandler Xavier Curtain Zachary Forssman Matthew Henkel Frazer Hoober

Max Hungerford Fletcher Ivermee Luke Jennings Joshua Kolotelo Patrick Lamont Adam Lubcke Sebastian McDougall

Logan McLennan Liam O’Callaghan Harrison Parker Daniel Pollard Hamish Ross-McGlynn Jake Saraci Kyle van Galen Caleb Whitley

ABSENT: Joshua Jaska, Dion Meyer Peter O’Connor

11B

Thomas Beckwith Lachlan Beekmans Trent Buckwell Hayden Clarke Keegan Cuolahan Oliver Darcy Daniel Defina Antony Del Giudice Chris Conroy

Gabriele Di Rubbo Thomas Diamond Lachlan Diaz Thomas Dickson Joseph Fopiani Ayrton Ganino Nathan Gillespie Lochie Graauwmans Christopher Gulle

Steve Catanzariti

11C

Johnathon Arcoraci Connor Blackwell Rhys Chambers Nicholas Coppe Noah Craven-Briggs Lewis Crichton James Demo Jake Donohue

Patrick Dowling Cooper Fraser William Goller Austin Humphrey Joshua Jokic Wade McSparron Dennis Mesoga Jared Muraca

Jamison Owen Benjamin Payne William Purdy Isaac Rupa Lachlan Sim Ben Tucak Jake Van Someren Kade Woodhouse

ABSENT: Julian Tekin

Margot Davies

11D

William Armstrong Cohen Blythe Jordan Bogioglou Jonathan Bond Rolf Caruso Nathan Clark Patrick Clifford

Sam Coles Alexander Csolle Jack Gaspari Joseph Giacomazzo Patrick Hanlon Emma Hobbs Codey Kampans Isaac McMahon Connor Meehan

11E

Thomas Auld Zachary Barr Timothy Bilogrevic Borna Bosnjak Lochlan Bourke Lachlan Collins Hamish Drake Tom Cashin

Lachlan Duff Jacob Franic Joshua Frichot Joshua Guy Dexter Hare-Zen Jack Henry Riley Keating Thomas Konidaris Spencer Luppino

Darby McEvoy Matthew Morter William Parrello Sebastian Pennefather Aadyn Sleep-Dalton Anthony Teale William Turnley Dillon Wickham David Zebic

ABSENT: Samuel Old

11F

Daniel Balta Kyle Bannister Phillip Bertucci Patrick Blain Michael Callahan Alexander Fama Riley Featherby Michael Davies

Hunter Griffiths Harry Hand Lachlan Heath Ethan Jolly Adam Karpinski Francesco Lecchino Thomas Lyons William McDonald Angus McMahon

Imogene Smith

11G

Adrian Baldasso Xavier Blackley Thomas Braniff Jack Brittain Jonathan Dulce Charles Francis Matthew Graham

Stjepan Gudasic Edward Gude Ned Harris Rhys Hegyesi Dineth Karunaratne Gurbeny Mangar Joseph O’Donnell Diarmuid O’Reilly William Paatsch

Jack Parrot Alexander Perdrisat Blake Robinson Ned Stephens Kurt Stevens Byron Sweetten Dennis Varju Austin Walker Jack Waterhouse

Michael Anderson

11H

Spiro Alesios Peter Attard Nicholas Beattie William Cann Finn Chappell Thomas Fitzgerald Joshua Gulli

Samuel Kelly Samuel Kidd Liam McManus David Motorniak Antonio Novta Patrick O’Connor Aidan Patterson Justin Patterson James Pundij

11I

Joshua Black Jack Blood Clancy Breen Patrick Carroll Quentin Connolly Eamon Dooley Darby Edwards Helen Kean

Nicholas Giblin Jacob Glatz Thomas Gough Liam Higgins Thomas Howe Jamieson Jervies Angus Kelly Benjamin Kenworthy Darcy Kiss Joseph McMahon

Kyle Meyer Benjamin Mullins Matthew Nolan Jack Quinn Jack Rice Jared Ross Antoine Saleh Samuel Searle Jared Svaljek Leyton Thulborn

Leyton Andrews James Britt Jack Bruce Michael Caldow Donald Conway Mitchell Diamond James Doherty

11J

Evan Farley Jason O’Connell

Thomas Foley Jack Francis Jack Hazelman Mackenzie Heard Peterson Kol Liam Maiden Matthew Oyang Jordan Partington Jake Peachey