This week, we farewelled our Year 12 cohort, who finished their education journey at Sacred Heart College Geelong. It has been a fun and, at times, emotional few days for them as they reflected on their time and looked excitedly to their future outside the walls of Sacred Heart.
Activities included a fun Colour Run, a hard-fought game of Dodgeball against some brave staff members, and a dress-up day, during which the Year 12s displayed some imaginative costumes. The Year 12s certainly showed their playful and imaginative side and thoroughly enjoyed themselves and their time together.
Their final day consisted of an Alumni breakfast, as the students were officially welcomed into one of Australia's largest female alumni associations. Then, it was onto the Transfer of Leadership assembly, which featured a video that fittingly encapsulated the class of 2024's journey from Year 7 students to the mature young women they are today. After the assembly, we, as a school community, formed a Guard of Honour for the Year 12s, who left through the Retreat Road gates as a student cohort for the last time. We hope they know these gates will always be open to welcome them and that they keep their connection to Sacred Heart alive for many years to come.
We wish the best of luck to our Year 12 students who will be undergoing exams in the following weeks. Farewell, Class of 2024 – we will miss you!
On Wednesday 23 October we celebrated Year 7 Faith Day. The students completed activities that looked to deepen their understanding of Mary in the Catholic tradition. They explored the story of Mary and the different ways the story of Mary gives meaning to people today.
Some of the craft activities the students undertook included:
We are sure the students came away from the day with a renewed affinity with Mary and the importance she holds in the Catholic faith.
Thank you to all those involved. We truly appreciate all that you did to make the day so memorable for our students.
On Tuesday 15 October, some of our students were lucky enough to attend the final Be Bold Be Heard forum with other participating schools at GMHBA Stadium. Our students heard from inspiring guest speakers Justine Martin, Jen Robertson and Ali Waight. They were also able to share students’ actions and achievements throughout this year’s program.
Be Bold Be Heard has gone from strength to strength this year, with 120 participants in 2024. Through the program, teenage girls are invited to find their voice and imagine and enact change in their own class, college, and community, with the support of school staff.
Year 11 student Lucy Grapsas, one of the SHC leadership students who was lucky enough to attend the forum, gave the following reflection of the program:
Be Bold be Heard was an amazing opportunity where we attended 4 forums and we got to listen to many guest speakers and learn about leadership skills while doing fun activities and meeting new people. The skills we learnt helped guide us to work on our own initiative which we implemented at school; we then presented that initiative to the other schools at the final forum. I found so much inspiration from the guest speakers and found the overall experience so beneficial and fun.
Congratulations to our two SHC teams who competed at the FISAF National Championships Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 1 September in Queensland. Both teams put in an amazing effort, competing against the best in Australia.
SHC It Girls – Silver medal
SHC Stars – 7th
SHC IT GIRLS | SHC STARS |
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Alice Papaix | Leah James |
Tess McKeague | Chloe Long |
Isla Whitelaw | Mienna O’Donnell |
Sophie Young | Lillia Casement |
Eden Cummings | Inaaya Popat |
Xanthe Essing |
A big thank you to Justine Brantanavicius and Tahnee Brantanavicius for all their time coaching the teams over the year, and Bianca Holt for coordinating during the year.
On Friday 6 September, the SHC Badminton team drove to Melbourne to participate in the Badminton Victoria All Secondary Schools Championships at MSAC.
Congratulations to the team members - Isla Hanna-Phillips, Ally Croft, Ruby Dokos, Freyja Phyland and Midori Kawashiri (Japanese exchange student) - who all played with enthusiasm and showed great sportsmanship. It was a fun day and our game play was competitive over the day. There were 3 team pools, with our pool consisting of MLC and Wesley.
In the first match against Wesley we played three singles matches and two doubles matches. Midori won her game 7-15, Isla lost by 4 points and Ally by 1pt. In our doubles we narrowly lost both games by 4 and 2 points. MLC was a tough opponent; they took out each match against SHC. In the Semi-Final SHC took on Westall Secondary School, only narrowly losing by 1 point to advance to the next final.
Well done to all students, and a big thank you to Trish Morgan (Coach) and Mia Carroll (Assistant) for a great day.
Sarah Joordens - Year 12
Congratulations to Sarah who competed at the South West Zone School Clay Target Championships on Thursday 22 August at Noorat. Sarah came 6th out of 20 students competing. Sarah was lucky enough to meet Olympian Penny Smith at the competition as well.
Sarah has also been selected in the U/19 Victorian Underwater Hockey team who will be competing later in the year. Good luck!
Maggie Clatworthy - Year 11
Congratulations to Maggie who represented Victoria at the National Cross Country Championships at the end of August in Tasmania. Maggie competed in the U/18 age group finishing 57th in a time of 18.05. Well done Maggie!
Clementine Wall - Year 9
Congratulations to Clementine who competed in the Snowboard Slopestyle event at the “Subaru Australian Interschools Snowsport Championships” - 3 - 8 September in Perisher, NSW. Clementine won a Silver medal against the best in Australia. Well done!
Congratulations to the following students who recently competed 2024 Mogul Ski World Victorian Interschools Championships from Monday 19 August – Sunday 25 August at Mt. Buller.
Clementine Wall - Year 9
Snowboard Slope Style – 3rd
Chloe Rees - Year 10 Clairvaux
GS Alpine – 80th out of 100 (Run 1 - 32.35, Run 2 – 30.86)
Ski Cross – 97th out of 167 (Run 1 – 40.33)
Well done to you both!
Chloe Leen - Year 12
Congratulations to Chloe who competed in three Tetrathlon event over in the United Kingdom during July and August. Chloe competed in the UK Tetrathlan Championships, UK Senior International Tetrathlon Competition and the UK Tetratholan Championships. Well done Chloe!
Harriett O'Dwyer - Year 7
Congratulations to Harriett and the Victorian 12 Girls and under football team who competed against the best in Australia in Geelong in August. The Victorian team went undefeated to take out the title to win the Gold Medal against Queensland. Well done Harriett!
Ally Croft - Year 9
Congratulations to Ally who has been selected in the Victorian Country U/16 Emerging Players Squad for Cricket.
Mac Allen - Year 9 and Lottie Grimsey-Cook - Year 8
Congratulations to Mac and Lottie who are competing in the Sports Travel Australia Cross Country tour in America this September. They both will compete in four Cross Country events against American high school athletes in the Las Vegas area. Good luck to them both.
Imogen Hall - Year 10
Congratulations to Imogen Hall who competed at the U/20 World Junior Women’s Box Lacrosse competition in the USA. Imogen’s Australian team came away with a silver medal and Imogen was selected in the All World Team for attack. Well done Imogen for this amazing achievement.
Congratulations to the following students who have been selected in the Herald Sun Shield Team of the Year for their respective age groups for football:
Intermediate Division 1:
Evie Albones - Half Back
Jayde Morrissy - Centre
Eleanor Walsh - Interchange
Senior Division 1:
Lila Burns - Back
Tara Trethowan - Half Back
Meg Lappin - Following
Congratulations to all the students who travelled up to MSAC to compete in the CGSAV Table Tennis against Catholic Girls schools from around Victoria.
All schools were very competitive across the day, and all our teams made it to the Grand Final. The Juniors and Seniors came runner-up in competitive matches, and the Intermediates took out the grand final to win overall. Congratulations to Isla Hanna-Phillips who was award best player for the grand final. Well done to all competitors on a fantastic effort.
Thank you to staff Kylie Lane and Tyler Reid our trainee for coaching the students on the day.
JUNIORS | INTERMEDIATES | SENIORS |
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Ruby Smith | Lucia Stephens | Sasha Young |
Leah Rawlins | Cassie Deng | Lucy Grapsas |
Audrey Howard | Zara Massey | Emily Bagge |
Ivy McElroy | Isla Hanna-Phillips | Sarah Joordens |
Tilly McNaughton | Abigail Hamilton | Alicia McDonald |
Isobel Heer | Eden Dakovic | Emily Issell |
Lyola Hill | Grace Mecanovic | Grace Milne |
Piper Mazaraki | Lily Anderson | |
Annabelle O’Neill | ||
Grace Cutropia |