As your son’s school career draws to a close, the time has come to look at what’s ahead. This includes starting to clear out what lies behind you, such as your Waverley uniforms.
We hope that many of you have benefitted from the Waverley College Secondhand Clothing Pool over your years at the College, and would love for you to consider gifting back to the College community by donating your son’s current uniforms, (academic and sports as well as bags), to the Secondhand Clothing Pool. Donations of all current uniform items, in clean and wearable condition for resale, are greatly appreciated.
This will provide someone else with the opportunity to purchase a secondhand uniform at reduced cost, whilst at the same time raising funds for the College through the Parents’ Association. A $30 ‘buy back scheme’ is on offer for the donation of Blazers and All Weather Jackets in excellent condition. Contact the Parent Volunteers at the Secondhand Clothing Pool via email to arrange the ‘Buy Back’: clothingpool@waverley.nsw.edu.
At the Senior School campus reception in the special BLUE Secondhand Clothing Pool donation box, (courtesy of our fabulous Campus Maintenance Team).
Many thanks for your continued support of the Parents’ Association who are driving initiatives to support our students and community.
We wish you and your boys all the very best for their post-school adventures, and hope that they will remember their time at Waverley, fondly.
Donate today!
Kirsten and Camille
Secondhand Clothing Pool Volunteers
E: clothingpool@waverley.nsw.edu.
Read more: Year 6 Graduation, Presentation Day, holiday sports programs, 2022 co-curricular preferences for current Year 5 students, Walk the World Walkathon extended to Friday, 26 November.
The countdown is truly on for the end of the year! We are so excited that we are able to hold some very important events to finish the year. We are delighted to announce that we will be taking our Year 6 students to Randwick Ritz Cinema and Senior School pool next Friday, 26 November. You should have received a permission form and Trybooking link from the College today.
A reminder that our Year 6 Graduation will be held at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church on Wednesday, 1 December at 11am. Due to restrictions in the church, we are only allowed one parent to attend. We will be live-streaming this event, so no one will miss out. A link will be sent out before the event.
An invitation and an RSVP link has already been sent. Can I please ask, that if you haven’t yet sent an RSVP, that you do it as soon as possible.
Parents who attend, will be allowed to take students home after the event, otherwise students will return to the Junior School for the afternoon and be dismissed at 3pm.
Parents attending will need to be double vaccinated, wearing a mask and checking in using the QR code upon entry.
You will have received communication from our Deputy Principal – Student and Staff Wellbeing, about Presentation Day. This will be a live-streamed event and the link is on the letter you received. Unfortunately, due to restrictions, only parents who have students receiving a Major Award can attend. You will receive an email from Mr Steve Ghattas next week if your son is a Major Award winner.
Year 5 students are allowed to leave after the Presentation if their parents are in attendance. If you are not attending, and would like your son to leave after the event, you may pick him up from the Junior School after 10:30am. Permission is required, and you will need to let your son’s teacher know in writing, if this will be the case.
Ms Gabrielle Bransby
Acting Director of Junior School
E: gbransby@waverley.nsw.edu.au
The Representative basketball association, the Marrickville PCYC Spirit, have begun running trials for 2022 Under 12 basketball teams. These will take place on Tuesday, 16 November. The next trial takes place on Tuesday, 23 November.
If you know your son would be interested in playing basketball outside of Waverley Co-Curricular commitments, please click the link below for further information.
If your son is interested in developing his Cricket skills over the summer holiday period, Pro Performance Cricket camps are a great option.
The school holiday AFL camps are designed for boys and girls aged 6-13 years, covering fundamental and advanced Australian Rules Football techniques and skills. Whether your child is a beginner or an advanced player, our AFL camps will guide them toward their individual playing potential, whilst building their teamwork abilities and understanding of fair play and good sportsmanship.
Eastern Suburbs Football Association are partnering with Sydney FC once again, to offer kids three days of fun-packed football action in the summer holidays.
Your great value package includes a Sydney FC training kit and hat, plus a three-day Sydney FC Membership for next season – all for $295.00.
Next week (Week 8), current Year 5 students will be sent a Google Form that will allow them to choose their sporting preferences for 2022. I have already had a large number of students wanting to change their previous preferences for next year, so this is the best opportunity for all returning students to select their sports for 2022.
Can I please ask you to have a discussion with your son about what sports he would like to select, prior to him completing the form. He will need to select a first and second preference for both the 2022 Summer and Winter Co-Curricular season.
The sports he can choose from for Summer Co-Curricular sports (Terms 1 and 4) include:
The sports he can choose from for Winter Co-Curricular sports (Terms 2 and 3) include:
The Walk The World Walkathon has been a great chance for students, families and staff to stay active and fundraise for worthwhile charities that have been an integral part of the annual Walkathon in the Junior School.
We have now extended the conclusion date of the event to the end of Week 8, Friday, 26 November. This allows further opportunity to get others involved and to raise more money for such great causes. Please encourage your son, and other families in the Waverley community, to get involved to help the history of this event continue for many years to come.
The finance department has now made it easier to separately donate to the various charities through bank transfer. The bank ACC details are listed below:
BSB 062124
A/C 00903139
Bank: Commonwealth
Reference: Walk the World
We have already had some amazing achievements from students for their distances traveled and for the money raised. Let’s keep this going, and finish the event with an increase in participants and fundraising.
Many thanks for your efforts thus far, it is significantly appreciated and doesn’t go unnoticed.
Mr Jack Wachtel
Assistant Director of Co-Curricular (Years 5-8)
E: jwachtel@waverley.nsw.edu.au
We are pleased to share with you the Orientation Webpage which is your source of truth for any important information you may need relating to your son’s enrolment in Year 7 at Waverley College. The Orientation webpage covers a plethora of topics including:
A member of our IT team will be in contact with you via email in mid-December regarding the iLearn laptop program and what date you can expect to collect your son’s laptop.
Please note that there is no need to purchase additional stationary or textbooks for your son.
Tasks for you to do after reading the Orientation webpage:
Please note, for future reference, you can find the Orientation web page via the College website under ‘Life at Waverley’ / Orientation.
We warmly invite you to attend a Welcome Morning Tea after dropping your son at the College on his first day of school. Further information will be provided to you early in January.
We look forward to welcoming you and your son to Waverley College on Thursday, 27 January 2022.
Kind regards,
Ms Kylie Anderson
Waverley Registrar
E: registrar@waverley.nsw.edu.au
It has certainly been a challenging year for everyone and with less than two weeks to go, the boys are looking forward to their respective summer holidays. Please encourage your son to enjoy his last days of schooling for 2021 and finish in good spirits. There is value and important lessons learnt in finishing a job well, and hanging in there until the very end.
I am certainly grateful for the way our community has supported each other throughout the year. I am also grateful to frontline workers who have kept our society as safe as possible, and able to operate as best it can during these difficult circumstances, including putting their own health at greater risk. Thank you to all of our police, first responders, health workers, nurses, doctors, and hospital workers.
When you further unpack what roles are important to keep our society operational and safe, you realise that so many industries play an integral part — education, food and agriculture, manufacturing, corrections workers, postal service workers, public transit workers, grocery store workers, transportation and logistics, food service, shelter and housing, finance, information technology and communication, energy, media, legal, engineers, water and wastewater workers etc.
In a large community where social distancing is nigh impossible, a multi-layered approach is our best option in reducing risks, which is why we continue to strongly encourage vaccination, for all staff and students who are eligible, against COVID-19. The staff at Waverley College are all proudly vaccinated. Vaccination is one of the most effective ways in minimising the spread of COVID-19. These vaccines will protect you from getting severely ill if you get COVID-19.
If your son has been vaccinated against COVID-19, could you please send us their COVID-19 Certificate or Immunisation History Statement in the form of a PDF to email address healthcentre@waverley.nsw.edu.au
This will be stored confidentially on your son’s medical records. Thank you to all of those parents, carers and students who have already sent these through to us. It is fantastic to see the continually rising numbers of fully vaccinated students across the College.
Congratulations to the students who entered the Woollahra Photographic and Short Film Prize for 2021. The competition calls all young photographers or film makers to submit work within a range of categories. This year, the competition introduced a new section showcasing ‘inclusivity.’ Special congratulations to Luke White in Year 10, who on Wednesday night, won First Prize in the Mayor’s choice awards for his entry ‘Street Mirror.’
Congratulations to the following Year 9 students who represented the College in the Ethics Olympiad today. They had a variety of tasks and decisions to grapple with, and performed very well — Lachlan Miranda, Campbell Porteus, Declan McAuliffe, James Medland, James Birbas and Oliver Malzard.
Congratulations to Old Boy Ned Wieland (2019), on his remarkable achievement last weekend in breaking the record for most number of laps swum of Bondi Beach. Ned completed 62 laps, some 48km, and was in the water for just under 12 hours. An amazing effort on the back of only seven weeks of training! Ned also raised over $24,000 for charity RU OK? which is close to his heart.
Inspirational Old Boy Ned Wieland (far right)
Old Boy Geordan Bates (2017), is approaching the end of his university studies in media and psychology at UNSW. With two friends from Cranbrook, they had the idea to make a short documentary on the Australian icon, Don Ritchie. Ritchie lived near The Gap at Watsons Bay, and was responsible for saving 160+ people from suicide. He made it his life’s mission to dissuade as many people as possible from suicide, by offering them his calm words and a warm cup of tea in his nearby home.
The documentary concept has received positive feedback on the script from Hugh Jackman and Emile Sherman (Academy-award winning producer), and Hugo Weaving has agreed to come onboard as the voice of Don. The group has partnered with mental health charity, Gotcha 4Life and are seeking to raise $50,000 over the next two months to complete the project. All donations are tax-deductible through the Australian Cultural Fund (ACF) website.
I commend the group as this project has the potential to impact lives far beyond our local community. The expected completion date is in September 2022. You may like to support this cause or know a corporate sponsor that would be interested.
Unfortunately, the rain caused us to postpone our Year 12 (2022 cohort) leadership assembly today, that was going to be live-streamed to parents. It will now be held on Monday, 22 November at 11:50am, and a link will be emailed by Ms Walsh.
The College would like to extend an invitation to our Presentation Day events on Wednesday, 1 December to help us celebrate our successes in 2021 as a College Community.
Presentation Day is a compulsory event for all students to attend and attendance rolls will be taken.
There will be two presentations:
Warm regards,
Mr Patrick Brennan
Deputy Principal – Staff & Student Wellbeing
E: pbrennan@waverley.nsw.edu.au
The Campus Team are currently looking to recruit a summer casual to work with the Team to help manage all aspects of school operations.
Ideally, you would be an Old Boy who knows the layout of the school site, and can commit to an immediate start. You would then remain on staff until the end of February, 2022. Working hours are 7:30am–3:30pm, Monday to Friday.
The types of tasks you would be involved in would be gardening and grounds maintenance, classroom and event setups, furniture moving and general maintenance of both the Senior and Junior Campuses.
You will need a current WWCC number to be eligible to work at the College.
If you are interested, and would like more information, please contact campus@waverley.nsw.edu.au
Mr Simon Potter
Director of ICT, Campus & Innovation
E: spotter@waverley.nsw.edu.au
From Sunday, 5 December 2021, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) will be making changes to the South East bus network. These changes will affect some bus routes that operate into the Inner West, southern and the Lower North Shore areas.
The changes include adjustments to routes 303, 320, 348, 370, 418 and 420, and a number of State Transit’s bus routes operating in the South East.
Additionally, there will be changes to bus stops in the CBD for routes currently operating along Castlereagh and King streets.
The TfNSW Trip Planner will be updated with the new changes by Sunday, 21 November.
We recommend all students plan ahead on Trip Planner before travelling.
To ensure dedicated school services appear as a travel option for students, click ‘refine’ and select the school bus option.
Students are also reminded to tap on and off with their Opal card on all trips.
The conclusion of the semester is fast approaching, and in order to prepare for 2022, it would be appreciated if parents could advise, before the end of Term 4, if your son will be discontinuing his private music tuition at Waverley College at the end of this year.
For cancellation of tuition, please email: kkossenberg@waverley.nsw.edu.
The remaining students will automatically rollover into Semester 1 2022, and the billing will appear on your Term 1, 2022 school fees account.
Your son may wish to take up another instrument or join one of the many Ensembles. If so, the Music Department uses an electronic form. Parents need to complete the following form for students wishing to commence private instrumental/vocal lessons. Full details of the terms and conditions are set out and must be accepted prior to completing the form.
Instruments that require repairs, or any student discontinuing or leaving Waverley College, should return their instrument to the Music Department before the conclusion of Term 4, 2022 by Friday, 26 November.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me on 02 9369 0623.
Ms Keiran Kossenberg
Performing Arts Centre Coordinator
E: kkossenberg@waverley.nsw.edu.au
Good luck and best wishes to the great men of Waverley College for this Saturday, as they compete against Cranbrook School in their first competitive trial match of the season. All cricketers have worked extremely hard in fine tuning their skills, in what has been a very short time frame since the easing of restrictions and a return to school sport.
The past two weeks have seen many notable performances, and highly competitive cricket played. Carter Steyn retired at 32 on Saturday with a well-timed shot over the bowler’s head to go one bounce for four. Moreover, some aggressive cricket was exemplified by Liam Wood, as he pushed the ball around between fielders to keep the opposition on their toes.
Connor Andrews’ in-swingers were also hard to pick by the batsmen, as the middle stump became his closest companion. Meanwhile, in the Year 10 internal trial match, many were quietly disappointed when Hunter Elridge’s hat trick ball was pushed over the fingertips of mid off.
Lastly, a noteworthy observation has been the return of the likes of Thomas Walker and Andrew Maloney, who have ‘seen the light’ and returned to cricket this season to take part in the College’s oldest sport.
A final congratulations to Eddie Regan who has been selected as the 1st XI Captain. The respect that Eddie receives from his peers, combined with his strong cricketing knowledge, will put the team in a competitive position this season. The team will be coached by Mr Kroll and Mr McNamara.
Mr Sean Picone
Convenor of Cricket
E: spicone@waverley.nsw.edu.au
It is difficult to remember a time when you couldn’t ‘Google’ anything you wanted to know. Students can’t remember a time without it, but in fact there were decades (even centuries), when it didn’t exist.
Below are some possible ‘treasure hunts’ for your sons to undertake over the holidays.
Look into the history of search engines (e.g. Lycos was a search engine that started in 1994 with 54,000 items available!!)
Check out:
Ms Sue Bognar
Teacher Librarian
E: sbognar@waverley.nsw.edu.au
In 2022, Visual Arts Club will be offered at Waverley as an extracurricular summer activity for students from Years 5–12. Visual Arts Club provides an opportunity for students to build skills in critical and creative thinking.
This summer, students will be introduced to ‘Still Life: Painting With Oils.’ Each student will be taught fundamentals of technically painting different surfaces, objects and textures, to build their knowledge and confidence in the oil painting medium.
In Visual Arts Club students will:
Resolved paintings will be entered into a community competition, giving students an opportunity to be exhibiting artists.
Select one session below:
Please do not hesitate to contact Ms Oates if you have further questions.
Ms Natalie Oates
Head of Visual Arts
E: noates@waverley.nsw.edu.au
The TYE program is a series of structured workshops for high school students, where students learn how to come up with a good business idea and build a plan around it. Participants are mentored in teams by TIE Charter Members, culminating in a formal presentation of their idea and plan, to a panel of experienced entrepreneurs. The winning team gets to pitch at the global TYE finale.
Four course sessions and one workshop of three to five hours, with four online mentoring sessions in between.
Session and Workshop Dates
There will be online mentoring sessions on subsequent Tuesdays/Wednesdays, with mentor and group to decide.
Pitching competition and presentation
Venue
Who Can Apply?
When Do Applications for the 2022 Program Close?
If you are interested in participating, please see Ms Stephanie Boyce.
Ms Stephanie Boyce
Academic Enrichment Coordinator
E: sboyce@waverley.nsw.edu.au
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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