Churchill Avenue News

Imagine Exhibition and Blessing of the new Art Wing

Our College recently formally blessed and opened our new art wing, while also opening our annual Imagine Exhibition.

As always, the students did an incredible job, and the caliber of work was exceptional. Thank you to all the students who were willing to contribute their work to the display, every piece was fantastic!

Year 7 and 8 Literacy Program

We were lucky enough to have the 100 Story Building Organisation attend our College and run a program with our Year 7 and 8 Literacy students. The program is designed to promote young writers and encourage them to develop their creativity and self-efficacy as they write. 

Below is a reflection from Harry Xuereb, who participated in the workshop.

"On Wednesday the 17 and Thursday the 18th we did a Comic Boom lesson with the 100-Story writers’ group, as a part of our Literacy classes. We got to plan our own comics and draw them out. It was really fun, and educational. I have always enjoyed writing, but this workshop changed the way I think about writing. It gave me more ideas on how I can develop my stories. I love reading comics and always wanted to learn how to make one, now I had the chance. It made me think that one day, maybe I could publish my own comic book for other children. I am thinking about one day joining their professional student writers’ group. I hope to enter the Literacy competition and have my work show-cased in the Literacy book. Thank you for giving us this wonderful opportunity to develop out literacy skills in a fun way. We hope to work with the 100 Stories people again. "

St Vincent de Paul Society Social College Conference

Our College recently welcomes the St Vincent de Paul Society as well as guest students from other local schools for a social justice focused College Conference. Students presented some highlights from the social justice work they've done at our College with Vinnies, as well as hearing what other schools have done. The day also involved activities designed to inspire conversations about the difficult choices people experiencing homelessness experience, as well as brainstorming new ideas to raise awareness and funds for the cause. 

Mental Health Week

This week was mental health week. Staff and students marked this significant week by wearing green ribbons, initiatives throughout the week, and visits from speical services, including Paw Pals. Paw Pals is an program run by MacKillop Family Services which uses therapy dogs to help teach students about emotions and behaviour, and we had some lucky students get to meet a wonderful therapy dog and learn about all she does in her day-to-day work!

Student sports recognitions

In our final assembly for Term 3, we recognised a number of sports teams who saw particular success in SACCSS. Congratulations to all the teams who won finals or grand finals - it's always amazing to see just how many of our students are actively engaged in Sports, and working in teams that are seeing so much success.

Those teams are:

Year 7 Boys Soccer

Year 7 Girls Volleyball

Year 8 Boys AFL

Year 9 Boys Soccer

Senior Boys Basketball

Congratulations again!