Marist Musings – Term 3

Please find below the link for this term’s Marist Musings:

Prayer Families 2025

26 September 2025

Dear Parents/Carers

Prayer Families 2025

One of the great traditions we have at the College is the Prayer Families initiative. Families volunteer to pray for an individual member of the Year 12 Class leading up to and including the HSC exams. It is a time when it is important for our Year 12 students to know that they are supported by their community, as they complete their schooling and step out into the world.

This prayer can be as simple as keeping the Year 12 student in your thoughts, or as part of some form of prayer ritual your family might undertake, perhaps a simple prayer at meal times or the Rosary. In doing so, you are taking part in our Marist charism of Family Spirit, where all in the community look out for and support one another, especially in their time of need.

If your family is willing to take part in this great Marist Eastwood tradition, kindly fill in this form.

A Prayer Family Envelope will then be given to your son with some prayer cards and the name of your Year 12 student.  It would be great to see as many families as possible lending spiritual support to our Year 12 Class of 2025.

Yours sincerely

Mr Colm McCaughan

Religious Education Coordinator

Sport Report

AFL and Rugby 7s

AFL 

Congratulations to Junior and Intermediate boys for their outstanding efforts and overall results receiving third place this season. Thank you to Ms Dreon, Mr Malafeij and Ms Stern for coaching the teams. 

Rugby 7s 

Congratulations to our Intermediate and Senior Rugby 7s team and their coaches for crowning Conference Champions and receiving Gold this season. Thank you coaches Mr Brancatisano and Mr Chasney for guiding the students to victory. 

All Schools

All the very best to our students competing this weekend at the NSW All Schools Athletics competition at Sydney Olympic Park. We hope you achieve your personal bests and we look forward to hearing from you and your results. 

Jerseys

We thank the students who returned their Term 2/3 representative sport jerseys promptly. This is a reminder that a significant number of representative sports jerseys remain outstanding. The Sports Department will begin to communicate to Term 4 coaches students who have yet returned their jerseys which will determine their participation during the next representative season. 

If you are competing in your individual or team sports throughout the break we’d like to hear from you. Please email your highlights to monica.khattar@syd.catholic.edu.au

The Sports Department wishes our students and their family a safe break!

Year 7 – Vaccinations

26 September 2025

Dear Parents/Carers

NSW Health will offer the following vaccinations to Year 7 students at our College:

–         Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (dTpa) on 7 November 2025

–         Human Papillomavirus (HPV) on 21 November 2025 

If your child is in Year 7 you can provide online consent for their routine school vaccinations. Vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received. 

How to provide consent:

1. To complete online consent for your child’s school vaccinations, visit: https://engage.health.nsw.gov.au/engage and login using your ServiceNSW details. This is the same account you may already use to renew your driver’s licence. Refer to Service NSW to create an account if you don’t already have one.

2. Update or confirm your personal details in ServiceNSW as required.

3. Complete the School Vaccination Consent Form for your child.

Read a step-by-step guide on how to provide consent online. Translated guides are available in Arabic, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese.

If you or your child do not have a Medicare card or access, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper-based consent form. Please contact the office if you require a paper form.

The benefits of providing consent online:

• Easily update your child’s details

• Receive SMS and/or email notifications when vaccinations are given

• Faster upload of vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).

For more information on routine school vaccinations, please visit www.health.nsw.gov.au/schoolvaccination .

If you require information in your language, please visit www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/school_vaccination_language.aspx

Kind regards

Mr Daniel Fallico
Assistant Principal

Granny Smith Festival – Volunteers Needed

Granny Smith Festival Flyer

MCE PCG – Request for Donations

Marist Sisters’ College, Woolwich – Enrolling Now Flyer

Breakthru You, Empowered

Breakthru Ryde Programs of Support

Reminder – Letter from the Acting Assistant Principal

12 September 2025

Dear Parents/Carers 

With the end of Term fast approaching, we wish all the best to our Year 12 Students who will graduate on Tuesday 23 September. This will be the last day of formal classes for Year 12. 

A reminder, as per the College Calendar, the last formal day of lessons for all students in Years 7-10 will be Thursday 25 September.   

Should your son require supervision on Friday 26 September, please complete this Google form by no later than Wednesday 24 September.

On Friday 26 September Year 11 will have a HSC Planning Day. All Year 11 students are expected to attend school on Friday. On this day, Year 11 students will continue their transition into their final year of academic high school studies and is a continuation of information that has been shared in pastoral lessons and the debunking HSC myths/HSC Information Night. During this day students will listen to a number of different speakers outlining the year ahead, engage in their first mentor meeting and may have meetings with teachers regarding major works, VET competencies, as well as Extension subject requirements and change of subject/change of pattern meetings.

Term 4 will commence on Tuesday 14 October 2025 and all students are reminded to return to school with appropriate haircuts and grooming in full College summer uniform.

Kind regards

Mr Tim Aussel

Acting Assistant Principal 

Reminder – Letter from the Assistant Principal

19 September 2025

Dear Parents/Carers

Staff Development Day – 13 October 2025

As published on our College Calendar, Monday 13 October 2025 is a Staff Development Day.  This will be a Pupil Free Day and there will be no classes held for students on this day.  

Please note that there will be no after school Homework Club on this date. 

Students have been informed and they should use this time for assessment preparation, revision of key concepts and ensuring they are up to date with the learning outcomes being covered in classes.

Should you require supervision for your son, please complete this google form by Thursday 9 October 2025. 

Yours sincerely

Mr Daniel Fallico       

Assistant Principal 

Reminder – Year 11 – 2026 HSC Required Texts

8 September 2025

Dear Parents/Carers

2026 HSC Required Texts

For the English HSC course, students are required to purchase their prescribed texts, which

enables them to annotate their texts for revision and study. 

The texts required for the 2026 HSC are listed here. If ordering through Campion Education, orders placed by Friday 19 September will be delivered in time for the beginning of Term 4. The School Code for orders via Campion is 326R. 

Texts can be purchased from the retailer of your choice. Students will need their texts for the commencement of the HSC course at the beginning of Term 4, Tuesday 14 October 2025.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions about your son’s English texts:

rachel.deligiorgakis@syd.catholic.edu.au.

Kind regards

Mrs Rachel Deligiorgakis

Leader of Learning – English

Reminder – Year 12 Sign Out

All Year 12 students are to ensure they have returned all school resources (including text/library books, sporting uniform, etc) prior to the end of Term 3 and their sign out date.

Families and students are also reminded to download and save any reports and other documents before access to Compass and their student google account is terminated following sign out.

Reminder – Year 12 – Graduation Mass, Ceremony & Formal Photo Online Order Flyer

Reminder – Yr 12 – SCS HSC Specialist Classes

19 September 2025

Dear Year 12 Parents/Carers

Sydney Catholic Schools –  HSC Specialist – Term 3 Holiday Classes

Sydney Catholic Schools are providing revision workshops for a range of subjects delivered by HSC Specialists during the upcoming holiday break.  These sessions will be conducted online via Zoom.

This is a valuable opportunity for students to:

• Refresh their understanding of HSC content
• Develop their skills in applying knowledge through scaffolded activities
  Work through HSC-style questions that encourage active participation

Please see the schedule of upcoming holiday classes below:

Additional Information

• Students need to register for these classes via the registration link sent to them on Compass Newsfeed
• Students should log into the specific Zoom with their full name and SCS student email address.
• Cameras may be switched on if students feel comfortable; use of the chat function for questions is strongly encouraged.
• These lessons are the equivalent of a virtual classroom. Students are expected to maintain appropriate behaviour. Inappropriate behaviour will result in a warning and, if necessary, removal and reporting to their school.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at the College. 

Kind regards

Ms Monique Brame

Director of Curriculum and NESA Accreditation

Reminder – 2028 Enrolments Open

19 September 2025

Dear Parents/Carers

Year 7 2028 Enrolments Open

Applications are now open in Compass for Year 7 2028 enrolments (for current Year 4

students).

To apply, click the cog wheel on the top right-hand side of your existing parent Compass

account and then “Family and Enrolments” in the drop-down. 

If you are applying for your currently enrolled child in SCS please click on their name in

Student Profile, complete the profile to get to 100% and you will then be able to create an

application. 

For new students (outside SCS network), please create a new student profile before

submitting an application. 

You must select at least two school preferences to submit. Upon submission, you’ll receive

a confirmation email and your Compass account will display the status as “submitted.” 

Here is a step-by-step guide if you need assistance.

Open Day will be held on 4 March 2025 and final enrolment applications are due in late

March/early April. We will confirm our deadline during Open Day. Feel free to share this

information with friends, family and community members who may be interested in

enrolment. 

Kind Regards

Mrs Varteny Khoudesian

Enrolment Officer

Careers

MCE Careers Website Link mcecareers.com

Uniforms

New supplier Noone has started taking MCE orders from 3 September 2025.

2nd Hand Uniform Shop next open – Friday, 24 October from 1.00pm-3.00pm (Week 2, Term 4).

For more information, please refer to Compass > Community tab (2 heads) > School Documentation > Parent Information and Forms > Uniform Price List & Second Hand Uniform Shop Information