9 February - Waverley College

We are well and truly into the swing of things. Last week it washeard “hurry-up mum, we’re going to be late as he was leaving thecar however, it was only 8.15am and the bell wasn’t due to go till8.50am a good 20 minutes early!!”Some parents have asked how could it be? Such different attitudes toschool in such a short time - maybe it is something in the water ormaybe they are just very happy to be a Waverley College student.Waverley is about making a difference, producing a young man whowill make a difference. Not merely as high achievers, but young menwho will be good in every thing they do. Soon, very soon there willbe a parent information evening (Feb 20), where you’ll get to sit inyour son’s size chair with the teachers instructing you on all sorts ofinformation. We will give you all sorts of policies from homework tothe who’s who at Waverley. I’m sure your son has already told youwhat an exciting vibrant school Waverley is.It is inspirational to see how our Year 5 boys have gone from beinglittle chaps to confident young men and the Year 6 gentlemen havegone from strength to strength in such a short time, responsible andchallenged.Unfortunately on hold are the listless days of surf, sand and sun andcarefree hairstyles!! Need I say more? A number of young men havebeen reminded about appropriate hairstyles (College Diary p.23).The past week has been extremely busy, new school, new rules, newteachers, and new sports. Hopefully your young man will develop acuriosity for the wider world and a thirst for knowledge, a zeal forunderstanding and in the years to come a secure love of God. LastThursday we had a prayerful, meaningful liturgy asking God’sblessing on our year. Our first Mass will be our Commencement Massfor the whole College on February 16.This week we’ve continued with Summer Sports selections for ourfirst games this Saturday.Friday (Feb 17) is the Junior School Swimming Carnival –½ day carnival – the boys will be dismissed early on this Friday the17 th . Please check Junior School sports news in Nurrunga.Over the years I’ve tried as I might to get school notices home so ifyou haven’t received a note please check the diary or your son’sschool bag.A thought to mull over during the next week – “God’s gift to me ismy life, how I use my life is my gift to God.”Cheers and God BlessSr Ann & Junior School Staff.BABY NEWS:Sean McGreevy – Year 6 Green, welcomed a new baby brother on 27 thJanuary – James Anthony – congratulations to the McGreevy family.Secondary CafeteriaAll students in Year 9 will be participating in Ballroom Dancinglessons. This is done in association with St Clare’s College. The JoanCarmody School of Dancing will conduct the programme.Dates: Two lessons;Monday February 27 th and Tuesday February 28 th , during periods 1 and 2.These lessons will be in preparation for an evening of BallroomDancing on Tuesday February 28 th 2006. The venue will again be theCollege Gymnasium. The Dance will run from 6.15 – 9.00 pm.Supervisors from both schools will be present.A cost of $14.00 will be billed to your son’s Term 2 account.This is a terrific opportunity for students to learn the skills ofBallroom Dancing and to enjoy a social evening with their peers.Matt Barr , YearmasterFirst and Seconds Team:Ballroom DancingDear Parents, A big thank you to all the mums and dads who have volunteered their services this term in the cafeteria, your contribution isappreciated by the boys. Having lots of volunteers makes for faster service and it’s also a great place to meet other parents. There are still afew spaces available, if you are able to help please give myself or Nina a call at the canteen on 9396 0637. Could parents who are rostered onplease arrive around 9.30am and finishing time is at the end of lunch at 1.30pmWeek 3 13/02/2006 14/02/2006 15/02/2006 16/02/2006 17/02/2006Maureen Yum Margaret McCoy Anne Moffroid Margaret Dobbie Jo HicksJackie Weir Tracey Samuel Catherine Tate Mena LaFace Joanne SmytheJulie Veron Vicki Crosby-Viegas Barbara Tesoriero Frances Williams Linda GraudinsBelinda Dunbar Frances McDonald Marie McCarthyWeek 4 20/02/2006 21/02/2006 22/02/2006 23/02/2006 24/02/2006Monica Monk Wendy Hyams Alice Henry Suellen Hodge Judy DuffyVicki Weetman Margaret McCoy Julie Lord Anna Mellfont Tina RobyJan Rich Frances Kalagurevic Mark Higgins Deborah Frans Lynne HughesDebra Wulff Julie Cubbin Marilyn McLeodA promising start to the second half of the summer season with thefirsts. It was a close call in the first’s doubles sets, with MariousZelba and Robert Mellor clawing their way to a 7-6 victory in thefirst set but gaining a comfortable 6-2 in the second set. Bothplayers were much more confident in the singles sets, both stridingto 6-1 leads.The other doubles pairing of Blade Fong and William Veron made aconfident start with a 6-4 win, but succumbed to Cranbrook in thesecond doubles set. Both players regained their confidence in thesingles sets with a 6-4 win to Blade Fong and a close 7-6 victory toWilliam Veron.Overall, the first team is looking strong with a 7-1 victory overCranbrook.The seconds team started strong, winning three out of the fourdoubles sets. Salvador Huetos and James Goodman put up a bravefight in the singles sets but didn’t manage to regain the confidenceof their doubles set victory, losing 6-4 and 6-3 to Cranbrook. AdamWright remained a strong contender in the singles set with a close 7-6 victory and Matthew just lost out to a 5-7 result in his singles set.Overall, the match couldn’t have been any closer with a 4-4 draw insets, with a games tally of 39-39.Seven As and Bs:Saturday saw a strong performance by our A1 and A2 players, RyanAzzopardi and Peter Lee, with them winning both their singles anddoubles rubbers convincingly. Unfortunately the A’s went downoverall 19-22. In the B’s Alexander Galego performed well despitegoing down 4-6 in his game. Boys in 7’s tennis will have to workhard at training over the coming weeks to capitalize on the strongplatform laid down by our A1 and A2 players.Junior School CanteenMon 13/2Claudia Gonzales & Aysel NamiTues 14/2Mary Mc.Greevy & Barbara LuigiWed 15/2Lorraine Paino & Tanya BrabrookThurs 16/2Margie Morton & Jane RyanFri 17/2Swimming CarnivalLast Saturday we welcomed the new Year 7’s to Basketball in coldand trying conditions. We also tested the new facilities within theBrother Lacey Gymnasium. During the holidays, the maintenancedepartment has been extremely busy installing new backboards andscoreboards, and also painting the gym – and it looked mostspectacular on the weekend!The 1 st V, were up against Cranbrook (who currently sit in 2 nd placeon the CAS table), in a re-match of the Trinity Basketball ChallengeFinal played in January. Waverley won the game in January, andthere is a match report about Saturday’s game from the Captain ofthe 1 st V Adam Skibsted below.The Annual Presentation Dinner will be held in the Lacey Gymnasiumon Saturday 18 th March from 7.30 pm. Please mark your diaries NOW,as this will again be a night for the basketballers not to miss. We willpresent awards and memories of a fantastic season. If you would likefurther details, please contact Ms Rebecca Cassidy or myself at theCollege.This weekend we play games against Trinity Grammar, with theOpens, Nines and Sevens playing at Trinity. If you would like to seeanother exciting game of basketball, come and support the 1sts whoare undefeated. Tip off is at 1.15pm. Best of luck to all teams thisweekend.Mr R Chen, MIC BasketballWaverley v’s CranbrookThe biggest game of the year, was met with the biggest crowd of theyear, at Cranbrook Gym on Saturday as the Waverley 1st V looked toincrease their lead at the top of the CAS table and all but secure thetitle, against their arch rivals and main contenders.The clash of the titans on the court was also played out in the standsas the “Brookie Boosters” came up against one of the loudestWaverley cheer squads assembled in years, made up predominantlyof the Weights and Fitness Squad and a large cohort of old boys,keen to see a broken drought of Waverly Basketball success.The first half was a tight one, as both teams struggled to get into aflow, but when the Waverley voices began to drown out the “BrookieBoosters”, the blue and gold began the second half with a flurry andthe Brooks soon found themselves fifteen points down.In a fine display of school spirit, the hundreds of Waverley boys inattendance, flooded the court as the final siren sounded. Waverleydefeated Cranbrook 80-69, and all supporters declared victory, andcame to congratulate the team, particularly Anatoily Bose whoseemed to have more rebounds than every other player on the courtcombined. Joshua Murray nailed his defensive assignment andLinden Smith-Hyde had no problem coming up with the big playswhen they were most needed all day long.On behalf of the team, a huge thank you to all who supported us onthe most memorable day.Adam Skibsted, 1 st V CaptainWeek 2, 2006The Waverley Cycling Team won the first meet of Term 1 2006 atHeffron Park on Saturday, 286 points to 336 points (lowest totalwins). This was the first chance to welcome and see the newmembers of the team perform, and they did very well consideringtheir experience. The racing was tight during the Long Races untilwe got down to Division 6, the youngest members, when Waverleywon handsomely setting up the win later.In the Sprint races Division 4 came through to confirm the result.Congratulations to both teams on good teamwork and great spiritand sportsmanship.I should mention that the Waverley Cycling Teamnow has a track pump thanks to the fundraising efforts of last term,so many thanks to those who contributed in this regard. Orders areopen for cycling jerseys, so if you are interested see Mr. Auer.Peter Auer, MIC CyclingRound 6 v CranbrookWaverley won the toss and elected to bat. The team was in troubleearly with both openers Ben Wakim & Nolan Matthews out and only4 runs on the board. The outfield was wet and very slow but TomWallace & Luke Towers began to get on top. When the total was 37Tom Wallace played a rash shot and was bowled. Daniel Mitchelljoined Luke Towers and the score was 57 when Daniel Mitchellchased one and nicked to the keeper. The very aggressive innings ofLuke Towers (38) ended with the total on 62. Michael Pulella battedwell for 27, while Louis Talay, Oscar Zerbst and Nathan Rowe allplayed well to see Waverley all out on the last ball of the 50 th over for133. Cranbrook began the chase after the lunch break and wasrestricted by some excellent bowling from Nathan Rowe (3 for 19)and Oscar Zerbst.The first wicket fell with the total on 18. The next to fall was with thetotal on 47 in the 20 th over. The spin twins of Nolan Matthews (3 for24) and Louis Talay (3 for 18) restricted the scoring and some goodbowling changes saw the wickets begin to tumble. Adam Fitzpatrickpicked up a wicket in his first game in the 1 st ’s and then DanielMitchell pulled off a great stumping which turned the game back toWaverley. It was down to 15 balls left to play with Cranbrook 9wickets down requiring 10 runs to win. Louis Talay tempted the bigshot and the miss timed slog ballooned to Luke Towers at squarepoint to give Waverley a very good win. This week sees us take onthe leaders Trinity at Trinity in a vital game for the side.Blue & Gold BallOur next meeting date is Wednesday February 15th 2006 at FroebelHouse in the Junior School at 7.45p.m, this meeting will replace themeeting scheduled for Tuesday 21 st of February 2006.Donations for the raffle that is being held early this year are stillmuch needed. Along with this we require donations for the auctionsuch as Vouchers for Dinner’s, Services, Holiday Stay’s etc. These willbe auctioned at the main fundraising event, “The Blue and GoldBall”, to be held on the 8th April 2006. Please note this date on yourcalendar.The Mother’s Day Stall will be up and running in May for the JuniorSchool and any donations for this would be appreciated - anythingyou would like to receive yourself.Also in May we are will be havinga Devonshire Tea Shop and a Mothers Day Stall at the May DayParade - helpers will be needed.We would like to make the Blue and Gold Ball as profitable as wecan for the school so anyone willing to donate goods or servicesplease contact me, and I will be able to give you an outline of whatwe need. No donation is too big or too small.Thank you for your supportCharmaine O’Sullivan, President - Mothers Club9387 61260414 637 667cgosull@bigpond.net.auWAVERLEY COLLEGESTUDENT PHOTOGRAPH DAYWEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2006Details / Envelopes will be sent home onThursday 9 th February 2006.Three packages available:1. Individual portraits & Year Photograph(7 photographs of different sizes inc one mounted) andYear photo $30.002. Year Photograph $25.003. Individual portraits(7 photographs of different sizes) $15.00Envelope with money to be returned on Wednesday 15 February,Thursday 16 February or Friday 17 February, 2006.