Debating

Congratulations to all our debating students on their mighty efforts last week.

Our sparkling new Year 6 team

 

Year 7 Superstars (Beau, Sammy, Jared and Gabe)

Despite no wins in Round 1, it was great to see the level of commitment and confidence delivered by the boys, and fantastic to have those members of the team not speaking still there in supporting roles. Some wonderful feedback was received by the adjudicators, which has helped to guide preparation for the next round, which will occur in Week 5.

Thanks to Mr Nardecchia, Ms Sharma and Mr Garreffa for their coaching and support of these boys.

Chess

The competitive Chess season kicked off in Week 2 with our new Junior team participating for the first time, and an extra team added to the Division 3 draw.

The JC boys – Jonah, Kiaan and Nevin -  came away with 2 wins from their 3 games, and managed some great focus in a challenging environment. They also had the opportunity to enhance their experience with some practice games. Thanks to Ms Mercer for overseeing the training of the boys and supporting on match day.

The Div 3 gents have started their season a little shakily, but, as they play two games each round, the improvement demonstrated in the second session was very encouraging.

CBC Purple (Kaleb, Gabe, Eoghan and Eton)

CBC White (Sulayman, Edmund, Maxwell and William)

Congratulations to Eton Leonardo for his win, Gabe for running off the basketball court and into the Chess Centre in time to play, and to Edmund Deveney for playing to a classic cat and mouse stalemate that might never have ended!

Our Junior and Division Teams will be back in action in Week 4.

Meanwhile, best wishes to our Division 2 team who make their 2025 season debut this Friday evening, ably assisted and supported by CBC’s king of chess Mr Stenchlik.

Astronomy Club

Last Thursday night (8 May) CBC’s giant eye, driven by Dr Santini, was feasting on an object 1 billion times the mass of our Sun, pulsating its energy into a vacuum 458,845,000,000,000,000 km away, (for context the width of our home, planet Earth, is 12,756 km across).

In two weeks, Dr Santini is opening up a variety of such projects to students who might be interested in exploring the heavens and, in doing so, learn to use the wonderful research facilities we have on our rooftop (Year 7 to 12). As with all research telescopes, ours is not one that can be used to look through; you could never see the galaxy Centaurus A by looking through a telescope. The light needs to be captured and collected, photon by photon; not something our eyes can do. Students will learn how to do this. Interested boys should look out for notifications via DM and the notices.

Drama Club

This week, students commenced a deep dive into their characters, with the help of Mr Widdop’s presentation on World War I, as well as some parallels drawn between our play, Journey’s End, and Blackadder Goes Forth.

Next week, our actors will start working in smaller groups with Mr Carr, Mr Potito and Mr Widdop to further develop their characters as they incorporate nuances and mannerisms into the roles they have been assigned.

As always, questions can be sent through to me at any time.

Ms Alexandra Khafagi
Director of Performing Arts