Welcome back to St Edward’s for the 2021 school year. Social Justice is a central focus at the College where staff and students participate in a wide variety of programs which emphasise awareness, advocacy and action. We are guided by the Edmund Rice Schools’ Touchstones: Justice and Solidarity Liberating Education Gospel Spirituality Inclusive Community A key part of our long and ongoing commitment to Social Justice is the Waterford Project, which is a condition of enrolment and requires every student in Years 8 to 11 (optional for Year 12) to complete a minimum of 15 hours of service for others by the end of Term 3. Some opportunities are listed below. Parents too play a crucial role in ensuring that our boys complete their service for others, by encouraging and thinking of meaningful ways for their son to be involved. As Catholics/Christians, we try to follow our heritage, found in the values of Jesus and Blessed Edmund Rice (founder of the Christian Brothers) in love, compassion, forgiveness and peace, in a humble manner. Our Social Justice programs at the College aim to enact and enable our boys in this way. I can be contacted throughout the year, by telephoning 4321 6439 or via email pdell@stedwards.nsw.edu.au. Waterford-Project-Opportunities   COVID-19:  Due to ongoing and changing restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,  some school-based and/or community activities which are listed may be postponed and/or cancelled. The College will be informed and make changes as the year progresses, if necessary. Mr Patrick Dell Leader of Learning Social Justice

It was so exciting to watch the St Edward's Class of 2026 arriving for their first day.  They looked terrific in their new uniforms and sharp haircuts. A big thank you to parents for embracing our COVID safe protocols and saying goodbye to their sons at the school gate. Everyone was very brave and I only noticed a few tears – from the parents not the boys! After a few words of welcome from our Principal, Mr Mark Bonnici, the boys received their book packs, met their Home Room teacher and headed off to join the world of high school. A busy day lay ahead, with tours of the school led by senior students and a full day of orientation activities with their Core class. Meeting new friends was a highpoint for many, although lunch time exploring the new canteen, the well-resourced library, the basketball courts and the ovals came a close second. A big welcome to our latest crop of Eddies boys! Heidi Englund Pastoral Leader - Year 7 Home Rooms [foogallery id="29527"]   First Week [smallgallery fooid="29616"]

Welcome to all the Year 7 students and families as well as all our other year groups and their families. We look forward to another great year of competition for St Edward's teams and individuals in both school-based and external-based events/competitions. Fingers crossed that 2021 will give our students more opportunities this year. Currently, our various platforms for sport are confident that inter-school sport will return to some sort of normal. This however will be guided by individual sporting associations and sports around any restrictions that might be in place at the time of a sporting competition/event. We will aim to keep you updated via our permission notes and the College App. Students have been reminded at year meetings and assemblies to listen out for notices for teams and when they need to attend meetings/training/selection trials. Depending on the sport, age group and number of players trying out – selection trials will be run during lunchtime or after school to try and give all students an opportunity to be selected in the team. However, it is a representative team, and, in some sports/events, we are limited in the number of players we can select. In certain instances if students are away, sick, injured, forget appropriate playing gear, or do not turn up to meetings/trials or training – they may miss out on their opportunity to represent the College. All information regarding team meetings will be conveyed via the ‘Daily Notices’ read out in morning Roll Call or can be accessed by students via the College Google Chrome Homepage. Please contact me at the College via email  jcarpenter@stedwards.nsw.edu.au or phone 4321 6400 if you have any concerns or questions related to Sport at the College. Mr Jason Carpenter Leader of Learning - Sport  

CSNSW  Representative Dates Term 1 Sport Closing Selections Softball 12 February (Week 3) 22 February (Week 5) Cricket Under 19's 15 February (Week 4) 23 and 24 February (Week 5) Cricket Under 15's 18 February (Week 4) 1 March (Week 6) Tennis 22 February (Week 5) 1 March (Week 6) Golf 25 February (Week 5) 8 March (Week 7) Baseball 26 February (Week 5) 3 March (Week 6) Volleyball 5 March (Week 6) 10 March (Week 7) Waterpolo 11 March (Week 7) 15 March (Week 8) Hockey 15 March (Week 8) 22 March (Week 9) Swimming (Long Distance) 19 March (Week 8) 29 March (Week 10) Diving 19 March (Week 8) 29 March (Week 10) Triathlon (Individual) 15 March (Week 8) 30 March - Individual (Week 10) AFL (Under 14's) 1 April (Week 10) 21 April (Week 1/Term 2)   Term 2 Sport Closing Selections AFL (Under 14's) 1 April (Week 10/Term 1) 21 April (Week 1) Rugby Union 23 April (Week 1) 4 May - Under 18's (Week 3) 4 and 5 May - Under 16's Basketball 29 April (Week 2) 3 May (Week 3) Soccer (Under 16's) 29 April (Week 2) 5 May (Week 5)   The remaining sports – Swimming, Touch Football (Opens and Under 15’s), Rugby League (Opens and Under 15’s), Cross Country, Opens Soccer/Football and Athletics involve selection via College teams that compete in BBSSSA Gala Days. 2021 Sport selections registrations for CSNSW open on 1 February 2021 for individual selections. All registrations are through the parent dashboard on your login. Swimming, Cross Country, Touch, Football and Athletics registrations will be on notification from your Diocese/Association Please check csnsw.sport home page - Sports - CSNSW for your sport details. If you are receiving this email - do not create a new account. If you cannot login then RESET your password (Forgot My Password) If you are stuck - try our new GET HELP! buttons for video directions. Students CANNOT attend selections without an online registration, parent consent, levy payment or school consent. You can check your child's status on our new portal   Individual Registrations As you might or might not be aware, CSNSW have launched their new portal – www.csnsw.sport. Student registrations are now open for the above sports. An email will go out to parents who were in the old website with instructions on how to login to the new portal. See below:- Existing parents in old system:  Click on LOGIN, Click on Forgot Password.  An email with a link will be sent to them.  They must use the email address that they used in the old website. New Parents:   Click on REGISTER and follow the prompts to set up a new account.  

Due to the unknown restrictions for sporting events late last year, the College decided to cancel our normal College swimming carnival at Woy Woy PLC and run a ‘Competitive Swimmers Only’ carnival on Tuesday 23 February (Week 5) at Gosford Pool. A ‘Competitive Swimmers Only’ carnival will allow us to select our representative swimmers for the BBSSSA carnival in Week 7 (Thursday 11 March). Students will be asked to register for the carnival events during Week 3 (information for this will be provided in that week’s Daily Notices). Events include: 200 m Freestyle (Jun [12-14 years], Intermediate [15-16 years] and Senior [17+ years]) 50 m Freestyle (12-17+ years) 50 m Backstroke (12-17+ years) 50 m Breaststroke (12-17+ years) 50 m Butterfly (12-17+ years) 100 m Freestyle (12-17+ years) All registered students (only) will walk down to Gosford Pool, under staff supervision, to run this selection carnival. Information for this will be passed on to students closer to the date of the event. We ask that only serious/competitive swimmers register. All remaining students and staff will attend school as per a normal school day. In 2022 our College Swimming Carnival will return to its normal all school format. NSWCCC and NSW All Schools Information regarding long distance swimming events at NSWCCC and NSW All Schools carnivals can be found on the following link: https://www.brokenbaysport.org.au/secondary/swimming/event-information To nominate, students must submit times that were swum at recognised events that can be verified on the Swimming NSW Website. These nominations must be registered online by following the information from the link.   Please contact me at the College via email  jcarpenter@stedwards.nsw.edu.au or phone 4321 6400 if you have any concerns or questions related to Sport at the College. Mr Jason Carpenter Leader of Learning - Sport  

The NSW Government has designed a new traineeship program for 2020 school leavers in the infrastructure industry, with more than 100 places available across NSW. See the link below for more information.   ACA Infrastructure Fact Sheet   Fee free courses for Year 12, Class of 2020  

Please see the link below for the updated Canteen page on our website, including Term 1 Menus. All students who order lunch, should ensure they change their Flexischools account information to reflect their new Year group to enable lunch orders to be placed in the correct basket.   [embed]https://www.stedwards.nsw.edu.au/parent-community/parent-canteen/[/embed]

The St Edward’s College mobile app is available for download from the Apple App Store and via Google Play for Android devices. St Edward’s College has a mobile app for both iPhone and Android devices.  The app is free and available for download from the Apple App Store or via Google Play for Android devices.  See below for more information [embed]https://www.stedwards.nsw.edu.au/parent-community/parent-st-edwards-college-mobile-app-available-for-download/[/embed] St Edward's College also has Facebook and Instagram accounts that are used for information and news items. Click here for the link to the Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/StEdwardsCollege/    Click here for the link to the Instagram Page - https://www.instagram.com/stedwardscollege/  

As part of the College's membership with Parenting Ideas, all parents and carers in our community can attend webinars at no cost.  See details to the webiniar Communicating with Teenage Boys, presented by Maggie Dent.