Contact Details
Phone: (02) 9369 0709
Email: waverley@noone.com.au
Location
Level 3, Centenary Building,
Senior School Campus
(Enter via reception and take the lift to the 3rd Floor)
131 Birrell Street,
Waverley NSW, 2024
Last week, our Student Representative Council (SRC) gathered for lunch to farewell and thank our Year 12 leaders. In what has been a very different year, our leaders have been outstanding in their resilience and ability to bring our Waverley community together during change.
Each of the Year 11 representatives paid tribute to the work of their Year 12 House Prefects and highlighted the wonderful contributions they’ve made to the spirit of the student body over the past year. Our four Captains – Ben Elder, Liam Andrews, Will Baker and Jim Waterhouse – have promoted service as the basis of their leadership. Their theme, ‘Small Actions, Big Impact’, has been evident in everything they’ve done.
Waverley College Year 12 Captains and Prefects 2020
These young men have helped to bring the four Touchstones that we see in the quad every day come to life. They have been role models through their actions. The introduction of the Wave Crew and their involvement in multiple immersions, Kairos retreats and Social Justice programs has enabled them to live out the Gospel values just as Jesus and Edmund Rice encourage us to do.
Year 12 leaders Ben Elder, Liam Andrews, Will Baker and Jim Waterhouse
These students have led with humility and dignity. As such, they are to be congratulated for their wonderful achievements. Some people come into our lives and leave quickly. Some stay for longer and leave footprints on our hearts. All of our 2020 Year 12 leaders have left indelible footprints on our hearts and the traditions of Waverley College. We wish them every success in the HSC, so we say goodbye, good luck and God bless!
Members of the Waverley College Cadet Unit paraded onto the Centenary Quad for the annual Passing Out Parade and Presentation of Awards Ceremony with great pride on Sunday 20 September. We welcomed the Year 11 Squad, the Old Flag Party and the VC Guard. For the very last time, we also welcomed the senior ranks of 2020.
Our Principal, Mr Leddie, attended, along with the headmistress of St Catherine’s School, Dr Julie Townsend. They experienced the wonderful beat of the Drum Corps, led by Drum Major Dante Bryan, and our award winners were congratulated for their significant contributions to an extraordinary Cadet year.
This year, we welcomed our very first graduate from St Catherine’s School, Willamina Burke. Confidently commanded by Senior Cadet Under Officer Christopher Salem, the senior ranks displayed an exemplary standard of drill before the traditional exchanging of the flags from the Old Guard to the new.
Later in the evening, we celebrated the senior ranks’ five years of service in the gym, where traditions had to be adapted due to COVID-19 restrictions. We were fortunate to be sent a warm and heartfelt thank you video from Mr and Mrs Salem, the SUO’s parents, in a beautiful conclusion to the evening.
We wish our senior ranks all the very best for their HSC exams and their future endeavours.
At Waverley, upstanders are celebrated. This year’s examples of upstanders include boys standing up against bullies, doing good deeds on public transport, calling out poor behaviour and maintaining the College’s good name in the community by making commendable decisions in public. The annual wellbeing survey also gives us an indication of the increasing number of boys who are being identified as upstanders by their peers.
We want our boys to have the courage and integrity to act when they encounter challenging situations or see poor decisions being made. It’s about being an upstander and not being a bystander.
This week I received an email from a manager at McDonald’s Randwick, congratulating Aungier student Zac Wilde. Zac assisted a gentleman who fell to the ground and split his head. He demonstrated care by providing reassurance and performing First Aid until a doctor arrived. Zac then continued to help control the bleeding until an ambulance arrived.
According to the manager, Zac didn’t think twice about helping and stayed cool, calm and collected throughout the whole situation. They also noted that there aren’t many out there who would be as brave, selfless and caring.
The manager offered Zac a free meal as well as a job. Well done, Zac!
Dear Parents and Carers,
At the end of Term 3, the College will email a supplementary fee account to a number of families.
The new charges you will see in your Term 4 account are for events/activities that were previously in doubt due to NSW Health Restrictions at the time. These events/activities have now gone ahead or will go ahead in Term 4 with the charges reflected in your account.
Please note, this was previously shared in the Principal’s end of Term 1 update.
The due date for payment is Friday 16 October 2020.
Please note that the fourth payment for the COVID catch-up is due on:
16 October 2020
First Payment
Prompt payment date: 22 January 2021
Due date: 29 January 2021
Second Payment
Prompt payment date: 23 April 2021
Due date: 7 May 2021
Third Payment
Prompt payment date: 16 July 2021
Due date: 30 July 2021
Fees paid before 4pm on the prompt payment date attract a $25 discount. Any payment received after the due date will attract an administrative fee of $110. Please be advised that some financial institutions need more than 48 hours to process their payments (eg internet/BPay) and see the last page of your account for payment method and contact details.
If you wish to withdraw your son from Waverley College, you are required to give one term’s notice in writing to the Principal to confirm that your son’s enrolment will cease. The last day you can give notice of your son’s enrolment finishing at the end of a school term is the first day of that same term. If not received by that date, a penalty equivalent to one term’s tuition fees is payable. Dates are as follows:
Term 3, 2020: 22 July 2020
Term 4, 2020: 12 October 2020
Term 1, 2021: 29 January 2021
Term 2, 2021: 20 April 2021
Term 3, 2021: 13 July 2021
Term 4, 2021: 6 October 2021
When I was nine and overseas in Serbia, I witnessed Water Polo for the first time. Serbia is number one in the world for Water Polo, so this was amazing. When I got home from the holiday, I started a development program and I’ve been obsessed ever since.
I started playing Water Polo for Waverley in Year 6 and have played 1sts Water Polo since Year 7. I learnt a lot in my first few years playing with Charlie Negus (big role model!), and I started to lead the team in Year 9. We won the CAS premiership when I was in Year 8 – a memorable moment for me at Waverley.
My plan after Waverley is to attend University at UTS and study a double degree as part of the Elite Athlete Scheme: Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.
I would love my Water Polo career to take me overseas, playing for different clubs across Europe while continuing to represent Australia.
Professional actor and teacher Rachael Beck is running a school holidays workshop at St Clare’s College, covering acting, singing, dancing and performing.
Spaces are limited to 20 and the workshop is suitable for ages 8 to 15. No experience is necessary.
Rachael has years of stage experience and has starred in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Les Mis and Home and Away.
Please click here to find out more.
Waverley College is launching a mentoring program in October 2020 – and we’re looking for volunteers who can engage and inspire our young men. If you have an area of expertise that you’d like to share with Academic Enrichment students in Years 7 to 12, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re hoping to connect Academic Enrichment students with experienced professionals from the academic, corporate and sporting worlds.
Our vision for the mentoring program is to:
We’ll match mentors with one to three students according to their preferences and interests. Mentors will meet with their mentee/s for around one hour per week.
A member of College staff will be present during each mentoring session and volunteers will require a NSW Working With Children Check (WWCC) prior to joining the program.
If you’d like to participate, please let us know by Saturday 10 October. Please click here to submit an expression of interest.
To find out more about the program or tell us about someone who would make a good mentor, please email me at bbuchan@waverley.nsw.edu.au.
Let’s engage the next generation of bright minds!
This year, three Waverley teams participated in Write a Book in a Day, The Kids’ Cancer Project’s national story writing competition. Students work together to craft a story in one school day and each team receives a set of parameters that they have to incorporate into their writing.
We thank the following boys for their efforts and commitment on this special day:
Archie Godby, Kayden Baker, Thomas Jackson-Whitlock, Axl Igra, Nick Zanapalis, Dominic Schofield, Oscar Danta, Oscar Wilson, Fox Stapleton, Kobe Jones, Dexter Craddock, Jay Briggs, Max Court, Jonty Booy, Chris Snelling, Luka Zonich, Max Van Buuren, Michael Richmond, Noah Mather, Eddie Beswick, Logan Mcauliffe, James Kort, Malo Morrisey, Matis Jos-Rolland, Rocco Moustacas, Jay Palm and James Peate.
Here are three reflections on the day from Year 7 students James Peate, Kayden Baker and Oscar Danta.
It was a challenging day this Tuesday for the student authors and illustrators participating in Write a Book in a Day. We had one day to write a book under the following criteria.
Characters
Special words
It also had to have distinctive Australian elements, so we set the story at a Bunnings. This was both a blessing and a curse. It’s much easier to write a narrative with criteria rather than someone giving you a pen and saying, “Please write 3,500 words in just under six hours.” However, when you have a great idea for two of the characters but you need a way to incorporate the third, it can be difficult.
You can read the blurb for our story below.
The clock is ticking for Reggy the retired rugby player and a squad of workers trapped in a vault. A clumsy move from Reggy caused the construction site around him to collapse. It is up to Mary Sue, an 80-year-old, bubbly librarian, and Super Shawn, an incompetent hero, to save the day.
Will they be able to overcome challenges and arguments that tear them apart? Will Reggy be able to redeem himself? Or will the day end in disaster?
Once we came up with the idea of the story, we had to divide the work evenly across the team. We decided to write a chapter each.
We faced one major problem. Most of the people in our team were illustrators. While this did lead to a great variety of artistic input and a greater variety of pictures to accompany our book (as shown by the two depictions of the vault the characters are trapped in), it did mean that the authors had a lot more to do.
To make sure that they didn’t have to do everything, everyone wrote a chapter and the two authors then expanded on the ideas. One person then went over it to edit out inconsistencies.
All in all, it was a fun experience. Working with so many other people really gives you a new perspective on writing. The teamwork skills we developed will help us to be better collaborators and creators going forward. I definitely recommend participating in Write a Book in a Day if you get the chance.
As we were told the parameters of the 2020 Write A Book in a Day Competition, we were jumping out of our skin! Ideas came flowing into our minds like streams. We all explained and expressed our ideas and knowledge as a group, and worked cooperatively. As the day went on, we wrote and our teamwork flourished. Not only was this experience extremely informative and enjoyable, however, it also allowed us to develop new relationships and strengthen ones we already had. This day was absolutely incredible and I will clearly remember it as one of the best days of my schooling life!
I found that the day was an enjoyable learning experience. It was a perfect way to practise cooperation and writing skills. An issue that we faced that would inevitably happen was the problem of cooperation. But it still was one of my favourite events of the year and is something to look forward to next year!
Exciting news… we’re running a flash fiction competition for Years 7 to 10!
Carry on reading to find out more about the rules of the competition, what entries need to include and the prizes that are up for grabs.
Entries must incorporate the photo stimulus at the top of this article and be:
Competition closing date: Friday 30 October – Week 3, Term 4.
Flash fiction is a very short story with five important elements (below).
Flash fiction is always a complete story.
You don’t have a lot of space to describe your characters, but readers should still be able to tell them apart.
Grab the reader’s attention so they want to continue reading.
Always read over and edit your work before you hit submit.
First prize will receive a Gold Award. Everyone who enters will be awarded a Bronze Award 3.
Three winners from each year will receive Westfield vouchers up to the value of $20-40. Winners from each year will be published in Nurrunga.
Students can read this exemplary story from Year 7 student Huon Groves as inspiration:
Flash Fiction – The Wallet by Huon Groves
For more information, please see:
Good luck, everybody!
The Ethics Olympiad provides schools with an unique opportunity to develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration and communication. The students (‘Eth-letes’) are trained by a coach (usually a teacher at the school) to prepare for an Olympiad.
Students work as a team to respond to questions and critique their own and others’ arguments while judges award points on the basis of clear, concise, critical and collaborative thinking. Students and teachers report that they enjoy the opportunity to engage with each other in a framework that encourages careful, respectful, considered responses to important ethical issues.
Teams will be made up of five students. Each school can enter up to two teams. ‘Eth-letes’ can be from Years 7-9. Schools do not have to be registered members of the Olympiad, but there is a lower cost to member schools. Any school can participate. Schools must pre-register for the event and students must be accompanied by a supervising teacher.
The winning school students will each receive a gold medal. Second placed students will each receive a silver medal and third place students will win a bronze medal. Certificates will be provided to all participants as a way of rewarding students for having represented their school.
Ten students will be selected to participate. If you would like to be involved, please get in touch with me at bbuchan@waverley.nsw.edu.au.
HSC Design and Technology is a challenging subject. It involves hands-on practical activities which develop knowledge and skills in designing and producing. The course involves the development, realisation and documentation of design projects. The Major Design Project and supporting folio requires students to select and apply appropriate design, production and evaluation skills to a product, system or environment that satisfies an identified need or opportunity.
In 2020, we saw an exceptional group of fine young men take up the usual challenge, with the additional stress of COVID and the ever-changing circumstances faced around them. These students below should be congratulated on the additional time they have put in during the school holidays, study periods, after school sessions and more. They have successfully solved a need in society, to create a product that displays the positive and enthusiastic approach they had throughout the year. They wholeheartedly completed each and every project to the best of their abilities. I wish them the very best for their futures and know that they have all shown fortitude this year that will help them for the rest of their lives.
Massimo Bucci
Artwork title: Viking Tackle Box
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: The Viking Tackle Box is an innovative addition that ensures practicality and safety for all users. The Viking Tackle Box is unique as it has a system that has been built into the tackle box. This allows users not only a safe waterproof compartment for their phones, but also a system that senses the light within the phone compartment from a message or call, which is turned into a LED strobe and alarm to go off that has been incorporated to notify fishermen and other users whilst our fishing. Features such as; solar energy have also been used to power LED lights within, duel wireless charging pads for phones that are able to be charged wirelessly, alongside two 5V usb outlets for additional charging. As well as additional storage within the box, and a medical kit in the left hand side storage compartment.
Viking Tackle Box
Viking Tackle Box
Will Cooley
Artwork title: SailGP Wing Controller
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: SailGP is an international sailing competition using high-performance one-design F50 catamarans. My Major Design Project was to redesign the wing controller on the F50 to make the F50 easier to trim allowing the user (wing trimmer) to have more time to give the skipper tactical and observational inputs while increasing the overall performance of the boat and bringing racing closer together.
SailGP Wing Controller
Lachlan Cunningham
Artwork title: Ocean Core Surfboard
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: Ocean Core Surfboard has been created from PVC sheet plastic to be a more environmentally friendly towards the environment because it removes polyurethane foam from traditional surfboards that have a significant impact towards the environment and oceans.
Ocean Core Surfboard
Jacob Fadel
Artwork title: Fulcrum Arm Brace
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: The fulcrum arm brace is a product that is designed to tackle the issues with current methods of bracing arm injuries. Most notably muscle atrophy (or muscle degeneration) which occurs as a result of not moving the arm or limb, in turn, resulting in muscle stimulation. The fulcrum arm brace is 3D printed, environmentally friendly, biodegradable, adjustable, modular and has the ability to allow movement and restrict movement.
Fulcrum Arm Brace
Lachlan Foley
Artwork title: Luxury Briefcase (LX1)
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: This briefcase is designed to fit in a niche market where people desire a fully customisable storage solution tailored to their needs. whether they want a large storage chest or small portable briefcase designed for them, everything will be a consumer decided interior and exterior. But for this project, I was the consumer and designed storage device based on my personal storage requirements which was a rugged, durable and aesthetically-pleasing briefcase.
Luxury Briefcase (LX1)
Maksymilian Klimczak
Artwork title: Underwater Safety Device
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: This underwater safety device is a lifejacket for free-divers. The device provides an affordable option for casual divers. The device uses different nylon to create a vest and the inner bladder both to create an aesthetically appropriate design for both the overall function of the prototype.
Underwater Safety Device
Underwater Safety Device
Aidan Korpar
Artwork title: Public Housing Redesign: Malabar
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: The Public Housing Redesign is an architectural design to help resolve issues related to public housing such as bad aesthetics, high crime rates, structural issues, over crowding, low lighting and over all a lower safety standard when compared to other areas. The redesign is located in matraville along ANZAC parade and Beauchamp road. The redesign includes both public housing and residential housing as-well as improved lighting, aboriginal and community aspects with a large environmental focus by including solar power and rain water collection systems to reduce usage.
Public Housing Redesign: Malabar
Reid McNamara
Artwork title: Flexi Furniture
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: Flexi Furniture is a custom made solution for consumers wanting to fill their homes with traditionally made, durable pieces of furniture. The products such as the one that has been designed and manufactured has quality joinery methods and materials used to ensure that there is a reduction in products on the market that have a short life span and result in high levels of disposal and landfill.
Flexi Furniture
Flexi Furniture
Josh Preston
Artwork title: Eco Seating
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: Eco Seating is an environmentally friendly solution to providing electricity for different environments within cities. It allows people to charge a device of any kind when out of the house whilst using sustainable energy methods. Eco Seating models have been created out of plywood but in a full-scale model, councils could create them out of any other material such as concrete or different recycled materials.
Eco Seating
Eco Seating
Sebastian Rayk
Artwork title: Remote Housing (Rhome)
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: RHOME addresses the pressuring issue of increasing homelessness in order to provide a safe and secure housing alternative. It does not aim to replace housing, rather provide a temporary shelter for those sleeping rough in an ergonomic and aesthetic manner. This product establishes a new design market in which holds social responsibility at the forefront of my concerns with the intended function of design improving the quality of lives.
Remote Housing (Rhome)
Jasper Stern
Artwork title: Stern Agriculture Australia
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: Stern Agriculture Australia has produced a fully sustainable portable agricultural unit for schools with limited space and resources in NSW, as a result of the recent change in NESA’s Syllabus, providing all necessary tools and processes to successfully educate students.
Stern Agriculture Australia
Sebastian Watson
Artwork title: Zero Emission Housing
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: Zero Emission housing, designed and developed on Google Sketchup, this project was designed with the intention of shaping future generations of housing. The future will continue to develop and shape our housing styles. Here you can see my interpretation of how that future could look. Once the final design was completed, a hand made model was created using Foam Core and clever aesthetic styling.
Zero Emission Housing
Valentius Wirjana
Artwork title: Solar Desalination Device
Expressive form: Design Technology
Artist statement: The Solar Desalinator is to be mass produced and supplied to the families / communities in the pacific Islands to counter the water scarcity during particular seasons/periods of low rainfall. Following a large trial in the Pacific Islands, the prototype could be refined and be a “cookie cuter” for worldwide use. The Solar Desalinator works by heating saltwater using the parabolic reflector producing steam, which is then condensed into safe drinkable water.
Solar Desalination Device
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Phone: (02) 9369 0709
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Location
Level 3, Centenary Building,
Senior School Campus
(Enter via reception and take the lift to the 3rd Floor)
131 Birrell Street,
Waverley NSW, 2024
We would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation who are the traditional Custodians of the land on which Waverley College is located. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We are committed to honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual connections to the land, waters, seas and sky and their rich contribution to society.
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