Issue 16 SJC News 2020

Families as Partners

As we prepare to farewell our Year 12 Cohort in the College’s 85th Year, we acknowledge with gratitude the role that each family has played as partners with us as a Catholic School in the Edmund Rice tradition in their son’s education.

Catholic Education Melbourne has recently released as part of their Horizons of Hope series a Foundation Statement, ‘Families as partners in Catholic school communities.’ It explores the important role of families in Catholic school Communities and how these partnerships are honoured. It states, “In choosing a Catholic school parents enter into a partnership with the school, in which there is shared privilege and responsibility for the child’s faith formation, learning and wellbeing. Families have chosen a partner to help them help their child achieve the highest outcomes possible-a partner to support them in their role as nurtures of their child’s formation into adulthood. It is a journey towards hope, undertaken in partnership.” P3. Horizons of Hope.

We thank all of the families who have their last son graduating from the College. We are blessed to have partnered with your family to build the relationships required to enable your son to have a hope-filled future. Let us look forward to celebrating their achievements, including academically and as young men who have developed a sense of compassion and integrity, who are able to reconcile differences, provide support in times of adversity and recognise the face of their creator God in the other. May they carry with them the desire to continue to strive for the highest in whatever career, employment or vocation they explore knowing they carry with them the enduring spirit of Blessed Edmund Rice to be strong in mind and gentle in heart and are always welcome back, as a member of the Young Joey's Connection Old Collegians group!

Investiture of 2021 Student Leaders and FIRE Carrier Commissioning Ceremony

We congratulate all of the 2021 Student Leaders who took part in our Investiture Ceremony last Thursday in a COVID safe setting that was Zoomed live and a recording link will be sent out to families for viewing. We look forward to working with these leaders who took up the challenge to apply for a role across the many year levels as Touchstone Prefects, House Leaders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Captains and Class Captains.

Congratulations to our College leaders, this morning our 2020 leadership team inducted our 2021 cohort at our...

Posted by St Joseph's College Geelong on Wednesday, October 21, 2020

A moving FIRE Carrier Commissioning Ceremony took place fittingly in our Reconciliation Garden. Flynn Kinsey our 2020 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Captain handed over the Possum Skin Cloak to Connor McCarthy-Grigg to do the Acknowledgement of Country. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Sue Collins our Koorie Education Worker recommissioned some of our 2020 FIRE Carrier students and teachers to continue in their role to enable them to participate in our Reconciliation Action Plans and FIRE Carrier opportunities as we journey forwards together, Friends Igniting Reconciliation Education.

Year 7 Annual ‘Time & Space @ Home’ Mother/ Carer / Female Mentors & Student Event

We are delighted to be able to offer our annual Time & Space, Mother Son event, ‘Time & Space @ Home.’ We think it will be lovely to have an opportunity to gather Year 7 students with their mums, carers or female mentors via a Zoom event, whilst the social isolation rules prevent us from gathering at school. Mums, Carers and Female Mentors of our Year 7 students please save the event date: Monday, 16 November at 6.30pm.

This will be a live, interactive, online event and will not be recorded for viewing at a later date. You need to register for this special event via this link: You can book your place now

You will receive a confirmation on screen. More details to come. Time & Space will send you a reminder email and a link to the zoom meeting closer to the date. We thought it would be good to give you this advance notice now, so you can secure the date. These evenings help to connect us socially and emotionally building the wellbeing of our newest members of our St Joseph’s community in their foundation year.