Our fortnight started with the Townsville Careers Expo where we had many very well behaved students from Years 10-12 attend. This even extended to a Boeing Defence Apprenticeship information session. We hope this event has helped these students find out more about their career. All this fortnight Kathryn Tebble has been conducting all the Year 12 Post School Pathway Interviews with parents and students. This is to ensure we have the right plans set up for the next step. 

There have been so many events our students have had the opportunity to partake in. From the Arts there was the Scene Project Outcome Day at St Patrick’s College. Our Drama students loved this day and were even lucky enough to catch up with some of their friends from other schools. Last night quite a few students and staff went to the ‘& Juliet’ Excursion at the Civic Theatre. Academically we had our maths minded students participate in the Australian Mathematics Competition. We hope they enjoyed this challenge and we wait to see their results later this year. We had a group of our Year 12 Japanese students attend the Young Language Ambassador Conference. We also congratulate Jasmine Jackson for her participation in the QATSIF Graduation Ceremony. She was able to be recognised by QATSIF with a range of other students on this scholarship from the region. 

On a sporting front it has been very busy with our Dragons Volleyballers competing at the Senior School Volleyball Cup down on the Gold Coast. The Boys team played very well all carnival to finish with second place in Division 2. While the girls battled away to finish third in their division. Last weekend our 13 Boys and Open Mixed Dragons Touch players competed in the NQ All Schools Touch Football Carnival. Our Open mixed team narrowly missed out on going through to the semi finals and the 13 Boys learnt a great deal and improved so much over the weekend. Yesterday and today we had a Year 7-9 team of boys and girls compete in the Secondary Schools Cricket Carnival. The boys had a win and a loss with a young team. We hope to have them in the competition again next year. No news back from the girls yet. 

Yesterday we also had the prospective 2026 College Captain speeches. The staff were really impressed with the standard of all of the speeches. They did really well and we will be able to find out on Monday who our captains will be. 

Until next Newsletter or I see you, take care.

Nick Antoniazzi

Deputy Principal - Assisi Campus