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Back to all Newsletters 9 December ERC Newsletter – Week 9 Term 4 2022
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Wishing the Edmund Rice College Community a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - Please also see attachments sent with the Newsletter

Contents

  • From The Principal
  • From the Deputy Principal
  • From the Deputy Principal
  • Identity
  • From the Director of Identity
  • Some home recycling tips from the EcoERC Team!!!! Happy Holidays
  • Pastoral Care
  • From the Director of Pastoral Care & Wellbeing
  • Learning & Teaching
  • From the Director of Learning & Teaching
  • Philosophy Forum
  • Masters of History
  • ArtExpress
  • YEAR 7 BAND
  • Year 8 Band
  • Year 9 Band
  • Year 10 Music
  • 100 Hour Music Work Samples
  • Year 11 Music
  • Sport
  • NSWCCC Blue Awards
  • Wollongong Wolves Edmund Rice College Football Program 2023
  • Community Announcements
  • Community News
  • Uniform Shop

Contents

  • From The Principal
  • From the Deputy Principal
  • From the Deputy Principal
  • Identity
  • From the Director of Identity
  • Some home recycling tips from the EcoERC Team!!!! Happy Holidays
  • Pastoral Care
  • From the Director of Pastoral Care & Wellbeing
  • Learning & Teaching
  • From the Director of Learning & Teaching
  • Philosophy Forum
  • Masters of History
  • ArtExpress
  • YEAR 7 BAND
  • Year 8 Band
  • Year 9 Band
  • Year 10 Music
  • 100 Hour Music Work Samples
  • Year 11 Music
  • Sport
  • NSWCCC Blue Awards
  • Wollongong Wolves Edmund Rice College Football Program 2023
  • Community Announcements
  • Community News
  • Uniform Shop

Downloads

  • College Calendar 2023

From The Principal

Dear Parents and Carers,

In the final newsletter for the school year, I would like to thank each of you for your wholehearted support of the College throughout 2022. This year, after a COVID-19 impacted 2020 and 2021, we had what is considered a “normal” school year. Sporting competitions, camps, excursions and daily face-to-face classes were all back. Parents were back on site and engaging with teachers and support staff. While there were times throughout the year when our lack of ‘match fitness’ required us to be resilient in overcoming the challenges presented within a new normal, we each found a renewed appreciation for the human need for social interaction within this vibrant learning community that is ERC. We have much to be grateful for as a College community as we remain faithful to the charism of Blessed Edmund Rice himself.

Congratulations to all students on their efforts and individual progression on their learning journeys. Well done to those students in Years 7-10 who, earlier this week, were formally recognised at the College Thanksgiving and Advent Assembly. Students who were recognised with Individual Awards are as follows:

  • Paul Scully Community Leadership Award – Youssef Achaechi (Year 8)
  • Allison Byrne Community Leadership Award – Oliver Campbell (Year 10)
  • Kathleen McGuiness Public Speaking Award – Isaac Mitrevski (Year 7) & Daniel Morozov (Year 7)
  • Ansto Science & Engineering Award – Harrison Macdonald (Year 8) & Matthew Carolan (Year 10)
  • Fr Chris Riley Award for Leadership through Social Justice & CSL – Henry Jones (Year 9)
  • Fr Hugh Leonard Award for Catholic Studies – Joel Suciadi (Year 10)
  • Fr Hugh Leonard Award for Accelerated Studies of Religion 2 – Matthew Carolan (Year 10)
  • Reuben F Scarf Award – Isaac Kari (Year 10)
  • ADF Long Tan Leadership Award – Patrick Sirianni (Year 10)

The  award recipients for Pastoral Care and Christian Service Learning are included further in this newsletter.

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In preparation for 2023, the following updates are for your reference within the area of Pastoral Care for individual year groups. As mentioned earlier in the year, Mr Mark Jackson and Mr Trent Mitchell have decided to step down from their leadership positions after 40 and 22 years in the Pastoral Year Coordinator role. While we are very fortunate they will remain at ERC, this is an impressive stint of leading, supporting and guiding ERC students over such an extended length of time and should be rightly celebrated. I also wish to congratulate Mr Luke Fields who has been promoted to the College Leadership Team for 2023 in the role of Director of Operations. Well done and thank you to all.

The Pastoral Coordinators and their Assistants for 2023 are as follows:

  • Year 7: Mr Russell Bates, Mr Marco Panozzo
  • Year 8: Mrs Carmen Russell, Mr Ryan Griffiths
  • Year 9 Mr Pat Preeo, Mr Brendan Belsito
  • Year 10: Mr Jeremy Forshaw, Mrs Jade Roper
  • Year 11: Mr Ben Bourke, Mrs Diane Schodde (Semester 1) Mrs Rosanna Stella (from Semester 2)
  • Year 12: Mr Andrew Marsh, Mr Daniel Breeze

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Thank you to the members of the College Advisory Council who once again shared their skills and wisdom in contributing to the College’s strategic direction throughout 2022. On behalf of the Chair of the Council, Mr Chris Lyon, l would like to publicly acknowledge and thank those members who will be concluding in their roles at the end of this school year after many years of service. Thank you to Mr Brendan Pearce, Mr Matthew Hennessy and Mr Barry Formosa for your generous counsel and strategic input over such a significant period of growth for the College. We have been blessed to have people with their experience and commitment supporting the College in this way. At the same time, we warmly welcome two new members joining the Advisory Council in 2023. Welcome to Mrs Sally Jones and Mrs Natasha Hewlett, who will bring their national safety and child-related law respective backgrounds to the Council.

I also wish to publicly thank and farewell the NSW Director of Schools for EREA, Mr Peter Leuenberger. As he concludes in this role at the end of this year, I sincerely thank Mr Leuenberger for his steadfast support of the College over many years. We wish him all the best for the future and the next stage of his life.

I take this opportunity to wish all families a healthy, safe and blessed Christmas and may each family experience the joy, the hope and the deep love that the birth of Jesus heralds.

Stephen Gough
Principal

From the Deputy Principal

College Announcement 9 Dec 2022

From the Deputy Principal

College modifications for 2023 Stage 5 Sport remains on alternate Wednesdays – Year 9 Week A (not Week 1) & …
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Identity

Identity 9 Dec 2022

From the Director of Identity

Thanksgiving and Advent We gathered on Wednesday in the midst of this busy time in order to celebrate the year …
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Identity 9 Dec 2022

Some home recycling tips from the EcoERC Team!!!! Happy Holidays

Game On & Tread Lightly Campaigns In the coming school year EcoERC, will be running an initiative involving old sport …
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Pastoral Care

Student Wellbeing 9 Dec 2022

From the Director of Pastoral Care & Wellbeing

As we enter into the holiday period I just wanted to thank all our families for their support over the …
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Learning & Teaching

Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

From the Director of Learning & Teaching

With the majority of students having received their assessment task results, this presents an excellent opportunity for students to reflect …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

Philosophy Forum

Last week Edmund Rice invited students from St Mary’s to join us in the inaugural Philosophy Forum. This was a …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

Masters of History

Friday 25th November saw a group of Year 7 and 8 budding Historians compete in the HTA History Mastermind competition …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

ArtExpress

Congratulations to Julian Hall and Mark Souffy who have had their HSC Visual Arts Bodies of Work selected for inclusion …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

YEAR 7 BAND

The YEAR 7 BAND have been diligently practicing every week this year, learning how to create music as an ensemble. …
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Uncategorised 9 Dec 2022

Year 8 Band

Jamming each Monday during lunch, the recently formed Year 8 band worked on a selection of pieces throughout the Semester. …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

Year 9 Band

The Year 9 band has been rehearsing every week, developing their performance skills and learning new repertoire. Members of the …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

Year 10 Music

In one of their final lessons of the course, the Year 10 200 hour Music students again proved themselves diligent …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

100 Hour Music Work Samples

Throughout the term, the 100 Hour music classes have been working on composition and arrangement techniques. One of the activities …
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Learning & Teaching 9 Dec 2022

Year 11 Music

This Semester, Year 11 were given a composition task to complete. The brief was to compose and arrange an original …
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Sport

Sport 9 Dec 2022

NSWCCC Blue Awards

The sporting excellence of outstanding student athletes from secondary schools throughout the Catholic Schools of NSW were recognised at the …
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Sport 9 Dec 2022

Wollongong Wolves Edmund Rice College Football Program 2023

The College is excited to announce that after a successful year of the Wollongong Wolves and Edmund Rice College development …
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Community Announcements

Community News

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Aquathon is back

Wollongong Harbour – Thursday January 26 2023 Public Holiday.

Illawarra’s favourite all age community fitness event, MMJ Aquathon is back for 2023 and open for entries.

MMJ Aquathon is a fun, family-friendly, inclusive, community fitness event all ages can take part and support Lifeline Southcoast.

Held in and around the beautiful Wollongong Harbour there is a fun mix of Aquathons (swim and run) with distances suitable for kids, beginner’s to those out for a longer
challenge. You can do both parts or tag team and split the swim and run.

For those that prefer dry land, the new Blue Mile 5 Funrun or walk is perfect.

Finisher medals, safety and professional services, stalls, a fun vibe and awesome community spirit are just some of what makes Aquathon so special.

Check out all you need to know and join in aquathon.com.au
Stay connected
FB: https://www.facebook.com/AustraliaDayAquathon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aquathon_australia/

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Change in Student/Family Circumstances/Contact Information/Medical Conditions

If any change has occurred/occurs in your family – separation, divorce, serious illness, the College should be notified as soon as possible. The College seeks to be supportive of families in such circumstances and such events always have a bearing on a child’s education. Likewise, a change of address, email or phone number (work, home or mobile) or emergency contact should be advised immediately.

If your son suffers from a medical condition it is vital that you inform the office of his condition and what treatment is required in an emergency. An emergency management plan must be developed for any students with serious conditions.

Please verify all information via the TASS Parent Lounge.

 

 

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