March Munch Madness for Junior School Crunch & Sip

This month is March Munch Madness for Crunch & Sip. For this, students are encouraged to eat as many vegetables during Crunch & Sip time as possible. Each time a child has a vegetable, they will be able to record it on a sticker graph.  There are so many vegetables to choose from!  Snow peas, celery, cucumber, capsicum, cauliflower florets or carrots... the list goes on! 

By participating in March Munch Madness, classes will go in the draw to win some wonderful prizes. 

For more information, head over to the Crunch&Sip website:

http://www.crunchandsip.com.au/events/march-munch-2019/

Miss Hannah Sibbald

Crunch & Sip Co-ordinator

Hotel Sorrento Poster Reveal

We are pleased to reveal the stunning poster which will be used to promote the Senior Class Play this year. The design which beautifully captures the connection between the Moynihan sisters and the coastal surrounds of Sorrento has been designed by talented Year 12 student Mya Ubalde. Tickets will go on sale for the show at the end of May.

Mr Chris McRae
Learning Area Coordinator (The Arts)

OLNA Assessments - First Round 2019

1 March 2019


The OLNA is an online literacy and numeracy assessment. It is designed to enable students to successfully meet the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) requirement of demonstrating the minimum standard of literacy and numeracy. OLNA is available for students to sit twice a year from Year 10-12. Students who received Band 8 or above in Year 9 NAPLAN in the domains of Writing, Numeracy or Reading, pre-qualify for the OLNA assessment and do not need to sit OLNA for that particular domain.
OLNA Assessment Dates:
Writing - 6-7 March
Numeracy - 26 march
Reading - 28 March

Mr Paul Murphy
Deputy Principal

Photography Club

After School Photography Club is a new club open to students enrolled in Certificate II Visual Arts - Photography. Photography Club focuses on developing good photo composition practice and students’ processing and editing skills. 

Our very first session was held on Tuesday and it was a huge success! Students assisted in setting up studio style lighting in the Dublin da Vinci Space for their Magazine Front Cover project. They experimented with a variety of camera angles, lighting props and lighting settings. The students organised their own student “models” for the photoshoot and carefully planned and prepared their outfits, hair and makeup styles prior to the day. Well done girls!

Miss Jessica Vaini

Photography Teacher 

DigIT Residential Camp 2019

During the Christmas holidays Riley Keating (Current Year 9) attended a camp at the University of Western Australia. Students that performed well in the Australian Mathematics Competition were invited to apply for a place on the course. Only 50% of those that applied were accepted. We were very proud to have a representative from Holy Cross College.

Students broke the ice at this year’s summer camp with a circus workshop, building new friendships and then building towers with new friends.

While at camp students participated in practical tutorials that broadened their skills in coding, web-design, gaming and robotics. They also participated in seminars on algorithmic and computational thinking and received motivational talks delivered by ICT experts. Students were also introduced to  Programming (Python) and Introduction to HTML/CSS, with many students making tremendous progress and already completing some courses. The robotics workshop was a student favourite, with campers programming MakerBots (mBots) using mBlock software to control different components to achieve specific tasks.

Riley’s favourite was the website workshop and he chose to specialise in this area on his last day. This included designing web pages and some coding for styling. He also enjoyed designing robots to be entered for a competition by the university. The camp involved sixty students from across Western Australia and South Australia. Moving forward, students have been paired with an ICT mentor and they will work together over the coming months. The mentors will support students with their ICT learning and help encourage the students to complete a project. Riley will return back to The University of Western Australia in July for the second part of the program. Good luck Riley and Congratulations!

Mrs Sam Thompson

Learning Area Coordinator – Mathematics