Laudato Si’ Week – Care for Our Common Home Year 9 students celebrate God’s abundant gift of creation with colour and creativity In Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis asks us to hear the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. In Religious Education, Year 9 students engage […]
The Middle School ‘Blankets of Love’ Initiative The Middle School ‘Blankets of Love’ initiative is back and in full swing this term! All skill levels have been welcomed and our keen students are enjoying working together on their knitting techniques alongside the many teachers involved! 🧶💜 This year, completed beanies are welcome as donations from […]
Canberra: A Meeting Place for Learning and Exploration Mercy Light: Learning Did you know that the first Australian-made currency was crafted by a convict of Spanish coins? Or that the name ‘Canberra’ means ‘meeting place’ in Ngunnawal language? These are just two interesting facts that some of our Year 7 students have enjoyed discovering during […]
From the SAC Uniform Shop Our full range is available on the SAC Online Shop for you to purchase anytime. To make an appointment please click here. Secondhand Uniforms We currently have a huge range of secondhand uniforms available instore. Get in quick before it disappears! St Aloysius College is proud to only work with […]
Practical work in Year 11 Chemistry! The past weeks were full of practical work in Year 11 Chemistry! The students are investigating the Periodic Table of Elements in great depth. There was even a fiery episode with some sodium. These photos show metal reactivity experiments and bench demonstrations. It’s great to see our secondary students […]
SAC ‘Wear It Yellow’ Day – Friday 2 June 2 As part of our National Reconciliation Week this year, on Friday 2 June, we are encouraging all students and teachers to take part in a yellow-themed accessory day to raise funds for a First Nations organisation, Children’s Ground. The National Reconciliation Week theme for 2023 […]
From the Secondary Sport Coordinator Knockout Sport It was an absolutely relentless effort from our senior knockout Australian rules football team last Tuesday, winning both games to progress through to the next round of the SA statewide school’s competition. The girls battled through some slippery conditions with patches of downpour throughout the day but were […]
Poetry Presentation by John Kelly A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W. H. Auden John Kelly is such a person. My Year 11 English class was fortunate to hear Adelaide-born poet, John, read from his most recent poetry collection, A Schoolbag Full. In his discussion […]
HASS History Week! Year 12 Business Innovation – students love the opportunity this subject provides for creativity, decision-making and connections with the real world. In the above photos, they are working on their business plans. May is traditionally History Month, and while our students are constantly immersed in History within the HASS framework, it is […]
Every Brilliant Thing BY DUNCAN MACMILLAN Recently the Year 10 Drama classes visited the Space theatre to see a production of Every Brilliant Thing. In the play a young boy attempts to help relieve his mother’s depression by making her a list of every brilliant thing in the world. Decades pass, the list grows and […]
