From the Careers Department Ingenuity Adelaide Recently, all Year 9 students visited the Ingenuity exhibition held at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Ingenuity features a range of interactive, STEM-focused activities. It provides an insight into the variety of career opportunities available across architecture and built environment, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). SAC students attended an engaging […]
Reading Mentor Program sharing the joy of literature with young readers Three years ago, as part of Communities of Practice, a mentor program was developed with an aim to offer more reading practise for young readers in Year 5, and some eager Year 10 students were eager to take on the role as mentors. Year […]
The Writers’ Group Poetry Workshop The Writers’ Group team enthusiastically put together a poetry workshop for interested students from Years 4 and 5 to participate in at lunchtime. It was a wonderful opportunity for our older students to support the primary writers as they shared and developed their ideas. Students showed creativity as they constructed […]
Year 11 Drama Night During Week 3, our talented Year 11 Drama class performed The Bold, the Young and the Murdered – a comic soap opera parodying the typical style of TV soap operas from the 1980s. A blend of mystery and beautifully bold, the class took on this challenging script and performed with energy […]
From the Principal Year 12 students are now fully focussed on their final assessments and exams and families are looking forward to the Year 12 Graduation Dinner later this month. It has been great to see our Year 11 students stepping up to be the senior leaders of the school. I would like to congratulate […]
World Teachers’ Day – 28 October 2022 Australia celebrates World Teachers’ Day today! Hats off to teachers this World Teachers’ Day! Our teachers have shown great resilience during challenging times, all so they can give Australian students the best future possible.
The Silver & Gold level Duke of Edinburgh Award Paddling their way ALONG THE RIVER! Our Silver and Gold level Duke of Edinburgh Award participants weren’t at school on Friday for Pink Day – but that didn’t stop them from displaying their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They certainly stood out in their pink […]
SAC Pink Day 🎀 A cause close to the heartS of many in our SCHOOL community Did you know that October is Australia’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month? Each year, the St Aloysius College community hosts a Pink Day to raise awareness, funds, and show support for people living with Breast Cancer, people who have survived, […]
Celebrating our Students’ Faith Journey Last Monday night 21 of our Year 3 students received the sacrament of Reconciliation for the very first time at St Francis Xavier Cathedral. This sacrament enables people to experience the fullness of God’s mercy and it is an important step in faith formation for our Catholic students. We congratulate […]
An Exceptional Opportunity Last week, the Year 12 Modern History class visited the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Steiner Education Centre as part of their study about Germany and the Holocaust. In addition to a wide range of historical artefacts and firsthand accounts, the Museum encourages critical thinking and the importance of being an ‘upstander’ to […]
