Director of the Junior School, Ms Alanna James
Diary Dates
Please find below some reminders about upcoming events. For all of Term 1 events, please refer to the College calendar.
- 15 Feb – Summer Sport – Round 1
- 18 Feb – Elephant Ed, Puberty and Embracing Change – 6:00pm
- 22 Feb – Summer Sport – Round 2
- 27 Feb – Brennan House Mass & Supper, Chapel, 6pm
- 1 March – Summer Sport – Round 3
- 6 March – Aungier House Mass & Supper, Chapel, 6pm
- 8 March – Summer Sport – Round 4
- 12 March – Quinn House Mass
- 15 March – Summer Sport – Round 5
- 17 March – NAPLAN Testing window
- 19 March – Lacey House Mass
- 20 March – Class and Summer Sports photos
- 22 March – Summer Sport – Round 6
- 24 March – Winter Sport Trials
- 10 April – Classes Conclude
Parent Information Booklets
The Junior School Parent Information Booklet is intended to inform you of the more detailed aspects of life at Waverley College Junior School. The first section deals with overall aspects of the College and the second section is more class specific. I hope that you get involved in the many facets of life at Waverley College and enjoy being part of our great community.
Click here to view the Yr 5 2025 Parent Information Booklet
Click here to view the Yr 6 2025 Parent Information Booklet
Parent Webinar for Year 6 Parents – Elephant Education
Please see below for an invitation to a webinar presented by Elephant Ed on Puberty and Embracing Change.
When: 6pm – 7pm, Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Topic: Puberty and Embracing Change
Elephant Ed is a leading sexuality education provider to hundreds of schools around Australia. Elephant Ed’s workshops are evidence-based, age-appropriate and mapped to State and National curriculum guidelines. Elephant Ed is endorsed by the eSafety Commissioner as a Trusted eSafety Provider and is endorsed as a quality-assured program in the NSW Department of Education’s Student Wellbeing external programs catalogue.
In advance of Elephant Ed’s workshops with Waverley College students, this webinar will include discussion around the physical, social and emotional changes associated with puberty, as well as strategies for starting open and effective conversations at home.
The first in-class workshop for the boys will be Thursday 27th February.
Co-curricular Update from Ms Sparks
What a fantastic start to 2025 it has been in the co-curricular life of the Junior School! We have had sports and swim trials, been placed into our Summer Teams, begun Summer training and met our coaches, started extra-curricular clubs, competed and shown House Spirit at the Junior School Swimming Carnival, and now we are set to play our first Saturday fixture tomorrow. Best of luck to the boys out there – I look forward to seeing a few matches and hearing how everyone goes.
I am proud of the resilience and excitement I have seen amongst our boys as they navigate this new aspect of Year 5 life or are returning to achieve their sporting goals in Year 6.
We have a few celebrations to share, starting with Joshua Satya who was selected to represent Waverley at the IPSHA Tennis trials on Monday, 10th February. Despite getting rained out after the first round, Joshua did enough to wow selectors and has made the IPSHA Tennis Team. They will compete at the CIS Trials on Monday, 24th February and we wish Joshua the best of luck!
Secondly, we congratulate Walker Leondis (5 Orange) on winning the Oztag State Cup as the captain of his U10s Souths team. His team have managed to go back to back, winning two years in a row and also went undefeated. We are so proud of his achievement!
Also at the Oztag State Championships, the below Year 5 Waverley Boys represented Easts and did very well.
Will Collins, Tommy Walker, Freddie Hughes, Sonny Millis.
Andrei Szabo (5 Indigo), among other Waverley boys, competed in Sydney branch nippers carnival on the weekend competing against all the beaches from Bondi to Royal National Park. He did really well, coming 3rd in the 1km sand run; winning two gold medals as part of the all ages board relay and another as part of the U11 board relay; coming 3rd in the Ironman and 3rd in board rescue team; as well as 2nd in individual board race and 3rd in team swim. Well done Andrei!
Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this term and I look forward to Round 1 of Saturday Sport tomorrow. Go Waves!
