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Youth Ministry Shine Conference

On Friday 6 August, 30 students gathered to participate in an Online Stream CSYMA Shine Gathering in place of the planned gathering of 600 plus students at John Paul 11 College in Gungahlin.

Students who participated included Year 10 who have just completed the Youth Ministry Course in Semester 1, Year 10 students who have shown an interest in Youth Ministry plus current members Year 9 – 12 of the College Youth Ministry team.

The theme for the 2-hour session was based around the Woman at the Well scripture passage:

John 4: 13 “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.”

Under the guidance of our Faith and Community captain, Ceinwen Velasco the students worked through the CPR model of Youth Ministry.

The day started with some connection activities including Ice Breakers and a multimedia presentation. It was followed by the Proclamation component including a testimony by our own Chiara Strmota Year 12, a drama based on the Salvation message and performed by the CSYMA team, further interactive activities, and a keynote speaker. Josh Angrisano spoke, sang and rapped about our desire to find our reason for living it,

he acknowledged our brokenness and our need to seek a relationship with God especially in times of crisis. He challenged us to think about the need to be hopeful considering all that is happening in our lives.

Finally, we concluded the afternoon with a liturgy focussing on the theme Living Water, during which we prayed, received a blessing and a bottle of Holy Water all while listening to the CSYMA Cana musicians.

Many thanks to all who participated especially our Senior Youth Ministers who actively engaged our students in this experience.

Marie Manning

Mission and Ministry

Ceinwen Velasco

Faith and Community Captain

Youth Ministry Meeting with MGL Sisters

In our lunchtime Youth Ministry Meeting on Thursday 5 August, we welcomed the MGL Sisters back to our school! They have been in lockdown for quite some time, so it was truly a blessing to have them with us!

They spoke to us about the importance of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sister Angela spoke about the end of Mary’s life when she was taken body and soul into heaven to live with Jesus Christ forever. Sister Therese followed the talk with an activity, in which we wrote the names of those people we care about the most and those we wish to pray for. Sister Angela and Therese took these written prayers with them to bring forward in their next Mass and to pray over them.

To close our meeting, as a Youth Ministry team, we read and prayed the ACBC Pandemic Prayer and were asked to reflect on its meaning and significance.

Each Youth Ministry girl left the meeting with a Bible verse and an open mind to set them off for the rest of the week.

Ceinwen Velasco

Faith and Community Captain

Accelerated World Religion

On Monday 2 August, the Year 11 and the Year 10 Accelerated World Religions classes attended an excursion to the National Gallery of Arts and Reconciliation.

This excursion leads into their first

task looking at how Religion was utilised through colonisation and the missionary experience within Australia. The girls were engaged throughout the sessions and got a great insight into the Aboriginal perspectives of colonisation and the work that continues today. The girls were an asset to the school and the tour guides spoke highly of them.

A big thank you to Nicola Edghill for the behind the scene organisation of the excursion and to the staff who attended - Mr Tyler, Ms De Ambrosis, Mrs O’Brien, Mr Eggler and Rev Barclay.

April Flannery

Acting Leader of Learning- Religious Education

Seeker Program

The Year 9 Seeker class conducted an experiment on thermal conductivity. The results of the experiment will help our students to design a more energy efficient

and sustainable innovation lab. A special thanks to Rebecca Harper for sharing her expertise with us and for helping to put the S in STEM!

Renee Jones

Leader of Learning Learning Commons

Le Tres Bon Excursion

Year 9 and Year 11 Italian Students participated in a Calabria, (Flavours of Calabria) at Le Tres Bon restaurant in Bungendore.

Students prepared from scratch arancini filled with mozzarella and

a tomato/vegetable sauce. To top it off they enjoyed a typical Calabrian dessert of liquorice ice cream.

They explored the history of Calabrian cuisine and unique nature of this region’s culture. Thank you to Le Tres Bon for this wonderful day and to Josie Gregoire for sharing her personal story as the daughter of Calabrian migrants.

Sonia Conte

Language Teacher

Language Speech Contest Opportunities

“Japan in a Minute” online video contest (http://jpf.org.au/ japaninaminute) is now live and running until September 8, 2021.

This contest follows on from the success of our online talent contest “What’s your J-Talent?” in 2020.

This year, we are asking entrants to submit a 1-3 minute video about what they love or miss about Japan for the chance to win a number of Japan-inspired experiences and prizes. Further information is available at https://jpf.org.au/ japaninaminute, including the entry guidelines as well as tips and hints on how to create a winning entry.

Video Matsuri contest https:// jpf.org.au/language/for-learners/ contests/video-matsuri/

Video Matsuri is an annual short film contest for students.

Entries must be: • from students enrolled in primary, secondary, or tertiary education in Australia or New

Zealand • no longer than 3 minutes • include the Japanese language • include a featured item of the year There are no restrictions on style or theme, as long as it is age appropriate.

You can produce a comedy, a drama, or a documentary!

So why not enter and combine your Japanese ability with your creativity and acting skills?

***2021 Contest*** • Featured item: (butterfly) • Entry Deadline: September 1, 2021 (11:59pm AEST)

ITALIAN competition

The Friendship Group in memory of Enrica Ingelse” Students are to write in Italian on the topic:

Years 7-9 are to address the following topic: “In March 2021 in all Australian cities, many women protested violence in the workplace, in the family and in society in general. Do you think we can live in a world without genderbased violence? (max 300 words)

Years 10-12 are to address the following topic: “Covid 19 has imposed new ways to working, studying and living such as remote work, remote study, webinars, etc. • Do you think that these new practices will remain in effect even after the pandemic? • What are the advantages and disadvantages of these changes? • How do you envision daily life after the pandemic? • Will humanity become better or worse? (max 700 words)

The top three winners in each category will be awarded with $500, $300 and $200. In addition encouragement prizes will be awarded for each category.

Lisa Bourne

Leader of Learning Languages

Market Day - Stalls

DriedFlowers6$

Vanilla Lavender

-Candles-

By Cassidy & Lauren

Crystals8$

Vanilla Rose St Clare’s College Business Students have been busy preparing for the annual Market Stall Day. Pictured are student posters and designs for their various stores. Look-out for further details of our Market Day event in the next coming weeks.

Co-Curricular Sport

The last couple of weeks have moved from the highs of watching our Olympic champions to the lows of a complete shutdown of sport in the ACT due to COVID. Sadly, our sports calendar has been severely disrupted (see below for further information).

On a brighter note, our representative football (soccer) teams dominated both the year 7/8 and the year 9/10 Southside schools competitions at the beginning of August. Both teams claimed the title of Southside champions and were due to compete at the ACT finals this

week. We are hopeful that the finals day will be rescheduled to

a later date and we can stake our claim as the best footballing school in Canberra!

Well done to our year 11 and 12 Oztag teams who braved absolutely freezing conditions to compete at the recent Oztag College Gala Day – you did us proud!

We congratulate our ACT rugby union representatives who were selected to compete at the end of July for ACT Brumbies Junior Rugby Union teams – Sam Nealon and Imojean Vea (Under 16s); and Adelaide Norris and Moala Taione (Under 14s). Congratulations, girls!

At this stage, most events planned for term 3 will no longer be taking place on the original date scheduled. Some events may be postponed to a date later in the year and others may be cancelled altogether. This is currently unknown, as all schools and sporting organisations deal with the challenges faced. Future planning will of course be dependent on the COVID situation over the coming weeks. Please contact me if you have any questions via louise.patton@stcc. act.edu.au

Louise Patton

Sports Facilitator and Attendance Officer

OZTAG

Well done to our year 11 and 12 teams who braved freezing cold conditions to take on the challenge of the ACT Oztag College Gala Day on 30 July. Many thanks to teachers Renee Macdonald and Erinn Elliott for guiding the teams on the day.

Co-Curricular Sport

Term 3 sport events that are no longer taking place on the scheduled date:

• 30 July – ASC Hockey Championships • 17 August – ASC Netball Championships • 17 August – Canberra Goulburn Archdiocese

Netball Championships • 19 August – School Sport ACT Football (Soccer) Finals • 18 August – Volleyball ACT Schools Cup • 25 August – Basketball ACT High Schools 3 on 3 Competition • 2 September – ASC Basketball Championships • 3 September – St Clare’s College Athletics

Carnival • 7 September – School Sport ACT Track and

Field Championships 12&Under • 8 September – School Sport ACT Netball Finals • 10 September – Cricket ACT Schools Cup • 14 September – School Sport ACT Track and

Field Championships 13&Over • 15 September – ACT Brumbies Rugby Union 10s • 16 September – ACT Oztag Gala Day (Years 7-10)

Our weekend netball season has also been disrupted. Final round matches were to finish

on 21 August, followed by a finals series (for

qualifying teams) from 28 August to 11 September. We await further advice from Netball ACT and South Canberra Netball Association.

Year 7/8 South Canberra Football Championships

On Tuesday 3 August the College fielded a side in the Secondary South

Girls Football (soccer) Competition at Mawson Playing Fields.

In cold, wet and boggy conditions they played 5 games throughout the day. The girls were outstanding representatives of the College both on and off the pitch and are to be commended for this.

Drawn in Pool A with Telopea, Trinity and Mackillop, the girls knew they were in for a tough day.

Game 1 saw STCC face off against Mackillop College where we drew 0-0. Our midfield combination of Georgia

Maguire, Freya Moss and Kaulista Haureliuk provided a constant threat pushing forward and we found ourselves with the majority of attacking ball, however, the quagmire that was the goal square left our strikers, Belle Reinstaddler and Darcy Williams without reward.

Game 2 against a rampant Telopea, who had just given their previous opponent a thrashing, was always going to be a challenge. While we did spend a lot of time in attack coming from the right wing through a dominant Olivia Hicks, we were eventually overrun in the last couple of minutes of the match with two late goals going against us and the run of play.

Game 3 against Trinity is where we began to hit our straps with the development of some neat combinations. Goals to Belle Reinstaddler, Freya Moss and Kaulista Haureliuk saw us squeeze our way into second place in the Pool to secure a semi-final berth with a 3-0

victory.

The first semi-final against the

winners of Pool B, Mt Stromlo, was an end to end affair that highlighted a strong defensive effort led by Hannah Hill. Our midfield was again dominant

through constant attacking runs from Olivia Hicks on the right wing and the tireless Georgia Maguire in the centre, culminating in a 1-0 victory sealed by the boot of Belle Reinstaddler. Off to the final.

The final game provided us with an

opportunity to square the ledger against Telopea. Our girls were committed to winning from the onset and dominated from the start. An early goal to Annie Wilkie opened the flood gates that saw an attacking onslaught by the Maroon and Sky Blue, completed with a brace to Georgia Maguire. SCC 3-0 for the win and the South Side Championship!!! The two best South Side teams will now play the two best North Side teams later this term in a round robin competition. Anna Wilkie, Annabel Stoove, Freya Moss, Gabriella Novak, Georgia Maguire, Hannah Hill, Kalista Haureliuk, Megan Snell, Olivia Doyle, Olivia Hicks (C), Olivia Seselja, Ruby Ashton, Belle Reinstadler, Charlise Webb, Darcy Williams, Gabriella Nash, Georgia Reilly, Iva Spelic, Madeleine Higgins, Sage Haling.

Players player award for the day – Olivia Hicks (closely followed by Georgia Maguire and Hannah Hill)

Nathan Tyler Football Team Manager Leader of Learning - Humanities and Social Science Faculty (HaSS)

Nathan Tyler

Leader of Learning Humanities and Social Science

Year 9/10 South Canberra Football Championships

After the triumph of the Year 7/8 team the previous week at the South Canberra Championships the St Clare’s Year 9/10 Football team were determined to complete the double (or is this now the Doubler post Tokyo 2020?) on August 9 at Mawson Ovals. They duly delivered.

The football Gods were smiling and they dished up a still and perfect 15 degree day as the team steeled themselves for 5 pool matches with the top two teams earning another day off school (which seemed to be a big motivator!) at the ACT Championships the following week.

Round 1 vs St Mary McKillop College – St Clares 0 drew with MacKillop 0

Having had the better of the chances through the match SCC were a tad unlucky not to get the three points in this one. McaKillop were keen to play on the through ball but some hard-nosed and gritty defence from the back four of Matilda Mercer, Katrina Brown, Caitlin Isbel and Sienna Scarano bestowed the values of persisting and kept the opposition at bay.

Round 2 vs Alfred Deakin High School – St Clares 2 defeated with ADHS 0

Another shut out by the team in a game they really controlled from the get go. The win was set up by outstanding ‘keeping from Megan Snell whose great reading of the play and positional savvy thwarted Deakin each time they looked a threat.

Alyssa di Campli opened the scoring early in the first half picking the ball

up just inside half way and slicing through the heart of the ADHS defence to slot home a left footed effort from close range. Elly Francis then scored the sealer half way through the second half with a brilliant piece of midfield tracking

that saw her in perfect position to slot home great lead up work from Maddie Ghasemi. Changing the point of attack from previous forays Maddie beat a couple of defenders before pumping the cross in from the right in a great example of thinking flexibly.

Round 3 vs Trinity Christian School – St Clares 4 defeated with TCS 0

This was all about the second half after the scores were locked at zero apiece at the break. Enter Imogen Johnston who, after picking up a loose ball near half way, pinned the ears back before letting fly with a shot from the top of the penalty box that gave the ‘keeper no chance. Imogen soon doubled up with a speculator that the ‘keeper would rather forget. The flood gates then opened with Alyssa chiming in for a double of her own, the second a top drawer finish through tight space into

the bottom right hand corner of the net. Great second half collaboration and thinking interdependently a match highlight.

Round 4 vs Mt Stromlo High School – St Clares 1 drew with MSHS 1

This was a top quality match with both teams questioning and posing problems throughout the duration. SCC were one up at the break after Alyssa made it goals in three consecutive matches in the fifth minute. Stromlo then threw

everything at St Clare’s as they searched for the equaliser and finally

breached the SCC goal with a sweet strike midway through the second half. A well-deserved point for both teams.

Round 5 vs Telopea Park High School – St Clares 3 defeated TPHS 0

The equation was simple, win and be crowned tournament Champions, draw and most likely qualify for the ACT Championships as a top 2 finisher, lose

and rely on other results.

No pressure, no worries, simply apply past knowledge to this new situation the key in pre match discussion. In the most dominant performance of the day SCC torched TPHS in a near perfect all around display.

The stage was set early after Ainsley Fisher scored arguably the goal of the day early doors to cap off a brilliant tournament, chipping the opposition ‘keeper after spotting her off her line. With one hand on the title the team then powered home with two second half strikes from Alyssa (move over Sam Kerr) for a convincing 3-0 victory.

At the conclusion of the day Ava Williams was the recipient of the Player’s Player Award.

Now the ACT Championships await. All in all it was a great team effort. Elite skills, fabulous teamwork and serious learning getting the team to disposition (couldn’t resist)

Squad:

Ella Asplund-Meinnecke, Katrina Brown, Zoe Brown, Alyssa di Campli, Ainsley Fisher, Elly Francis, Maddison Ghasemi, Caitlin Isbel, Imogen Johnston, Matilda Mercer, Jemma Poyser, Sienna Scarano, Megan Snell and Ava Williams.

David Garrity Team Manager