Catholic Regional College St Albans eNewsletter

LEARNING MATTERS

S.H.A.P.E CORNER

SHAPE Word of the Week - Olympism

Definition; A spirit or ideals of the Olympic Games, and the advocacy or promotion of the Olympic values (Excellence, Friendship and Respect).

Example; the athletes congratulated each other after the close race.

Synonyms; Olympics, Olympiad, athletic

The Olympic Movement

The Olympic Movement is a philosophy created and promoted by the International Olympic Committee. This philosophy advocates using sport not just as a physical activity but also as a means of educating people.

According to this philosophy, the good sportsmanship, sense of fair play, and respect for fellow athletes that is developed through participation in sports teaches men and women of different races, religions, and nationalities to work peacefully together in competition toward common goals. The Olympic Movement works to expand such lessons beyond the sports arena in the hope of promoting peace and a sense of community throughout the world.

Over the last couple of weeks we have seen our own Olympic Movement taking place in our yard during lunchtimes. Where our students and staff have participated in our CRC Mini Olympic Games, demonstrating excellence, friendship and respect.

Thank you to all the students and staff who supported our Olympic Movement and a special mention to Mr. Damien Marshall for his work and vision in coordinating this experience for our school community.

We encourage our families to continue to enjoy the next few days of the Tokyo Olympic Games and please share your favourite moment of the Olympics by emailing me at: dmarshall@crcstalbans.com.au

Year 9 Premier League

Year 9 Premier League started this week and staff and students were so excited to be out of the school and back playing interschool sport. This week we played against Marymede Catholic College. Well done to the students on the way that they conducted themselves on the court. Congratulations to the boys volleyball team on winning their first game 3-0. Below are the coach's award recipients and BOG for this round. Well done to these students.

ROUND 1: CRC STA V MARYMEDE COLLEGE

	NETBALL	GIRLS' BASKETBALL	BOYS' BASKETBALL	GIRLS' SOCCER
BEST ON GROUND:	Macdalene Jessica Kaiser	My Nguyen	Thom Thom	Liora
COACHES AWARD:	Nyariak Neyol	Ana Markic	Wesley Saena	Veolen Habash

BOYS' SOCCER

GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL

BOYS' VOLLEYBALL

EXTRA ACTIVITY

BEST ON GROUND:

Rowaid Shieto

TBC

Hoang-Quan

Ricky Le

John Nguyen

COACHES AWARD:

Masil Yalda

TBC

Sammy Z

Jonathan Dang

Andy Bui

Justin Paraz

Our next game is on Tuesday against Kolbe Catholic College. Good luck to the Year 9 Students.

Mini Olympic Games

To celebrate the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, CRC St Albans has been taking part in our own Mini Olympic Games at lunchtime to embrace the Olympic Spirit and to channel the Aussie motto of “having a go”.

On Wednesday the 28th of July, students were welcomed back to school with Day 1 of the ‘Mini Olympic Games’. Each individual/team has been competing for a podium finish (and for bragging rights!) against competitors from their own year level. However, the ultimate reward has been for students to “Have a Go” and get as many of their peers (in their own year level) to participate in as many games/activities as possible. Events included: Table Tennis, 3 on 3 Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball, Sprints & High Jump. In doing so, they not only earnt House colour points but also secured more participants than the other Year levels. The year level with the most competitors will be awarded the overall ‘Mini Olympic Games’ winner on the last day of competition, TBC when back at school.

Coming out of Victoria’s snap lockdown the ‘Mini Olympic Games’ has been an amazing way for our students to re-engage with their physical and mental health, along with students' social connectivity and sense of community. We are so proud that students have been embracing the Olympic Spirit and #HaveAGo

New passions, friendships and Olympians all start by playing Olympic sports at the grassroots level or at school. So let’s all “have a go”, because great things happen when you do - just ask former CRC Student, now the captain of the Olyroo Olympic Team, Thomas Deng!

CREATING CASTLES - YEAR 8 HUMANITIES

In History, students from 8 Attard and 8 Edison were asked to design and create their own Medieval Castle. Students chose a medium of their choice; paper construction, drawing or a digitial application. Scroll through the gallery to view their amazing work.

Ms Emily Lowe

PIZZA ANYONE?

During the winter school holidays a brave and adventurous group of students spent some time in the school garden welcoming the new chickens to our school flock and rebuilding the pizza oven. A massive thanks to the following students for their energy, time and hard work. Jenny Pham, Tommy Pham, Emma Lean, Peter Lean, Danilyn Gangur, Steven Nguyen,Theodore Gatt and Roger Louis.

We look forward to more eggs and wood fired pizzas!