The BridgeThe magazine of Brigidine College Indooroopilly

Semester Two 2018

Hope for us this year has meant highl ight ing our inclus ive community where all people are valued, where creation is recognised as sacred and where hope, justice and courage are hallmarks.

Our students and their families, our teachers and support staff, all are agents of Hope. With drive to engage, connect, learn and reflect, our College has certainly been a symbol of Hope in 2018.

Let me introduce you to a young woman named Lisa. She has just finished school and is waiting for her results. Lisa wonders whether she will be acceptd into university.

Over the holidays, she decides to take a job at a well-known department store, to keep busy and earn some money. Lisa is awakened to a world of creative possibilities. Who could have imagined that working in the Fashion Department would raise issues of migration, gender politics and women’s rights? Her experiences with the other women who work in the store sees Lisa grow from a school girl into a mature young woman.

Whi le her father doesn’t understand why his daughter hopes to go to university, Lisa knows that her future dream is fuelled by Hope.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

“strength is when people (and particularly women) take up the opportunities when they arise, work hard to engage in choices and be active in looking towards the future by taking care of the present”

In 2018, Brigidine College joined Kildare Ministries to embrace the theme Hope: Bringing a Sense of Purpose. According to Hebrew scripture, “Hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for the soul. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.” Hebrews 6:19

And like other women, Lisa is inspired to go forward with purpose.

While this scenario is the story behind the film “Ladies in Black” - a lighthearted comedy set in 1959 Sydney - the messages remain poignant to this day. Like Lisa, the young women of Brigidine are able to discover possibilities and engage with the opportunities life brings. They too begin a journey of growth.

For Brigidine College, our images of Hope in 2018 are the girls, inspired by their teachers and families. They are the beacon for the future.

Education 2018

As it has been for decades, the goal of schooling is to ‘educate’. This is more than reading, writing and doing maths, but, rather, the education of the whole person. Just like parents and their children, Brigidine educates its students in the

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spiritual, emotional, personal, social wellbeing and cognitive elements of life. Our teachers inspire girls to engage their spiritual being, their personal wellbeing and their cognitive development to be young women who care. They open the doors of possibility.

For our students, there has been much to celebrate as they have accepted the challenges identified earlier this year:

• To be bold and creative• To change and improve ways

of thinking, study hard and form relationships

• To collaborate and work with class mates, friends, teachers and families to realise their potential.

In other words, ‘to act with Hope and purpose and be authentic towards themselves and others.’

Whether it be our Year 9 Middle School Leaders; Year 7 and 8 Debaters and creative citizens; Year 10 and 11 girls who accelerate their learning in Year 11 and 12 units; Year 10 students leading recycling initiatives; Year 11 and 12 Spirit Squad members or the Year 12 role models, 2018 has highlighted the inclusive community where challenges are embraced and valued.

The ongoing focus on learning challenges through classwork, assessment and extensive activities in Brain Bee, Tech Girls, QUT Young Leaders and UQ Scholars have seen many prizes and acknowledgements of success being celebrated across the College.

Earlier in the year, we were able to congratulate our Year 7 and 9 students for their wonderful NAPLAN results; they are well

above the State averages and continue to rise.I also acknowledge our Year 12 students who led the way by displaying improvements across their academic studies. Each student not only improved the result in at least one subject, but over a quarter of the students received an Academic Improvement Award following Semester One results.

A t o u r A w a r d s a n d Acknowledgement Evening in October, we heard from guest speaker, Dr Amanda Rojek, that learning is a life long journey and, as she talked about her work both here in Australia and overseas, she inspired our young Brigidine women. Amanda clearly identified strength being when people (and particularly women) take up opportunities, work hard to engage in choices and be active in looking towards the future by taking care of the present.

Learning in the 21st century

We know that technology, artificial intelligence and social media continue to challenge us. Therefore, schools now

“the goal of schooling is to ‘educate’. This is more than read-ing, writing and doing maths, but rather, the education of the whole person.”

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must promote skills for our 21st century, where shared learning between teachers and students is developed in teams, creative thinking and problem solving. At Brigidine, our learning is

i n t e r a c t i v e , i n t e g r a t e d , collaborative and creative. A Brigidine Learning Culture is one where goal setting, reflective praxis, collaboration and regular online feedback are seamlessly embedded through technologies in our Br ig id ine Learning Paradigm.

Brigidine College in 2019 will continue to look forward and embrace the educative focus for young women in Australia. This will be helped through our new Science and Technologies building due for completion in December 2019; our Compass

Programs for Excellence; our ongoing engagement with our partners in Japan and Noumea; our ongoing commitment to indigenous immersions to Northern Australia and our connections with the local community.

Of course, the Brigidine Sisters at Indooroopilly have continued to be life giving for our young women for nearly 90 years. Their experience and shared faith provide guidance, wisdom and hope in life’s journey.

Faith continues to be the basis of our Brigidine Community. It assists in creating opportunities for leadership where the ‘stranger’ is welcomed and all are working for the common good.

Infrastructure

Each year, with the support of the College Board, we have worked hard to provide buildings and infrastructure that allows our community to be a centre of learning.

This journey continues as our expanding student demographic a n d e n r o l m e n t d e m a n d improvements to fur ther resources and engage learning in the 21st century.

In 2019, the next stage of our Master Plan continues with the development of a new Technology building. Through the explicit engagement in design technologies and STEM areas of learning, our staff and students will continue to expand their engagement in coding, sustainable science, e n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p a n d technologies that Australia needs this century.

These developments provide insight into the future focused approach by our College Board and College.

Brigidine College has, for nearly 90 years, provided opportunities for generations of young women to embrace their faith and learning.

Acknowledgements

I would particularly like to acknowledge and thank the Brigidine Sisters and Kildare Ministries for their support of our College, as well as the College Board chaired by Mrs Robyn Killoran.

We are blessed by a tremendously generous and supportive parent body, who entrust us to care

for their daughters, so that we build on the foundations they have provided. It is a privilege to witness the impact of education on a young person, sharing the opportunity to ‘walk with the girls’ through their time at the College.

I also acknowledge the work and encouragement of the College Parents and Friends’ (P&F) Association over the past year. Through the leadership of Katrina Kupke and the Executive, they are wonderful ambassadors for the College community and certainly provide Hope for our students.

Thank you to the Year 12 students and the student leaders who have been overtly positive and supportive this year. Their growth has been life giving to the whole student body.

This wonderful and particularly generous leadership group saw them once again, in October, raise over $20,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the Australian Ovarian Research

Foundation and the Australian Mitochondrial Foundation through their Endure for a Cure fundraising event.

“As we continue to prepare for our 90th Anniversary next year, let us continue to strengthen through the gift of faith and gentleness of purpose.”

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This was the culmination of a year of taking up the challenge to be hope-filled while focusing on their learning. Of course, all Year 12s have worked hard to achieve their best and consequently hope to have a wide range of choices for ongoing learning in 2019.

The College is blessed with t e a c h e r s a n d s t a f f w h o continually go beyond the call of duty and provide unending support to the girls.

I would particularly like to thank the College Leadership team for their willingness to share, grow and work together to achieve outstanding results. I also acknowledge all members of staff, the school officers, the maintenance crews and a myriad of others who work,

volunteer and share the call to be members of the Brigidine family. I offer my heartfelt thanks for a tremendous year. Their gift of service to all is gratefully recognised.

As we continue to prepare for our 90th Anniversary next year, let us continue to strengthen through the gift of faith and gentleness of purpose.

Brendan CahillPrincipal

“Thank you to the Year 12 students and the student leaders who have been overtly positive and supportive this year. Their growth has been life giving to the whole student body”

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In Semester 2, the College cel-ebrated Brigidine Environment Day, engaging with Year 3 stu-dents from Holy Family Primary School. This included a stilt walking butterfly, the Solar and Water unit from the Science department and a Wild Animals display with native lizards and a huge white python. The day focussed on embracing respon-sible environmental practices.

The College also celebrated Cultural Diversity Day with African drummers, Adama and Sunday, leading the welcome to the day with Polynesian

performances from Jasmin and Katelyn Sa, Nia Tauelangi and Hannah Loli with Irish Dancers Molly Donaghy and Alice Keys bringing the Celtic flavour.

Mission Captain, Amy Den-man gathered the community together to raise funds and awareness for the plight of drought-stricken farmers in Queensland as we secured bales of hay for the initiative.

A deeply moving Polynesian dance of spiritual welcome, led by Year 12 Jasmin Sa with Katelyn Sa, Leonia Tauelangi, Sii Puafisi, Hannah Loli, Zaria Fetineiai, Tallulah Kerr, Rozeeta Nekakhtar, Jessica O’Donoghue and Hannah Kennelly, closed our prayer for the Awards and Acknowledgement Evening Mass.

In Term 4, the Year 11 Leader-ship Mass was held in Brigidine

College Chapel, celebrated by Fr Pan, in preparation for leadership duties as Year 12s in 2019.

Year 10 Vinnies Formal was another key event for Term 4. Students from Brigidine and Ambrose Treacy Colleges came together to speed date, share in the Vinnies story, play trivial pursuit games and make some new friendships.

Liturgy Captain, Clare Bennett, worked with the Liturgy team and Year 12 cohort to develop a beautiful Farewell Mass for the Graduation ceremony as the Year 12’s left the community with their light to illuminate their paths into the future.

Parents, friends and students celebrated the annual Kup-murri dinner at Ngutana-Lui (meaning to teach) Aborigi-nal and Torres Strait Islander

CATHOLIC IDENTITY & MISSION

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World Environment Day, July

Hello Africa Drummers provided the beat at our CulturalDiversity Day in September

Brigidine Hoedown!

Polynesian dancing at

Awards & AcknowledgementEvening, October

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Cultural Studies Centre at Inala. The girls enjoyed a beautiful, traditional meal, along with cul-tural performances from Brian Whap from the Torres Strait with new ideas being proposed by Taliah Saylor and Vaikarna McLennan.

2018 Justice & Democracy Captain, Amber-Marie Beaty, introduced some powerful questions for the Justice and Democracy team to discuss and debate and explore potential directions forward. The clos-ing event was the Domestic Violence Awareness campaign, creating a theme around Hal-loween and the monsters in our cupboards. Girls participat-ed in positive DV messages and participated in a dance off.

The St Vincent de Paul Society student chapter, ably led by Captain Jessica White, with the assistance of Miss Helen Paviotti and Mrs Helen Jef-fcoat, worked with the College community to collect boxes of food, decorations, and toys for disadvantaged families to brighten their Christmas story as we closed our year.

The Ministry of Music, Sound and Lighting girls, working with Ms Jane Massingham, also as-sisted with the P&F Carols by the Convent event making this a fun filled evening with the College community.

In our last week of school, three Year 8 students, Sophie Bryan, Meg Carroll and Lean-nah Corliss, embarked on the RCIA journey to receive sacra-ments and become a part of the Catholic community.We celebrated this through the Rite of Christian Initiation for adults nestled in the centre of the Eucharist with family and friends present to witness and welcome the young women

into our church community.The beautiful expression of this welcoming essence is at the heart of the Mass. The Real Presence of Jesus is not just through the elements of Bread and Wine, but through the gathering of all of us here present with Fr Pan. We bring Jesus alive in the Eucharist, the centre of Catholic Prayer and wherever two or more are gath-ered, Jesus is present.

Andrew BeiersDeputy Principal Mission

Year 8 RCIA students with their sponsors and Fr Pan in our beautiful College Chapel

Vinnies ‘De-formal’ at Ambrose Treacy College

(left-right) Leeanah Corliss, Meg Carroll and Sophie Bryan celebrating becoming part of the Catholic community

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SOLAS BHRIDE REPORTS: SEMESTER TWO

Year 8In July the Year 8 students par-ticipated enthusiastically in their annual Solas Bhride program of learning outside the classroom.

The first two days we travelled off-campus to the Terrace Playing Fields at Tennyson. The High Re-solves team presented four mod-ules of their Global Citizens pro-gram in which students engaged with important issues in their own lives and the world in general. Simulation activities involving a series of optical illusions warned students about the need to think independently and seek validation of information presented by so-called ‘experts’. The Social Justice module reinforced the students’ learning here at College about the unjust distribution of the world’s resources and emphasised the opportunities we all have to make the world a more just place.

On the last day they were back at College participating in workshops presented by Enlighten Education,

designed to enhance personal

development and positive self-esteem. The students were challenged to critically evaluate the messages that bombard them every day and to develop strate-gies that help them to respond intelligently and objectively. The Chill Out workshop was about managing stress through activities such as meditation and visualisa-tion. Making beautifully decorated journals to take home and use for the rest of the year enabled the girls to practise art as therapy while they talked about what re-ally matters to them. The positive response of the students to the various activities indicated their appreciation of the opportunities offered through the Solas Bhride Program. Many thanks to all the teachers who accompanied and supported the girls during the three days.

Rosa SerniaYear 8 Wellbeing Program Leader

Year 10In October Year 10 took part in their Solas Bhride program - Broadening Minds. We travelled to the picturesque Bundaleer Rainforest Gardens and the In-dooroopilly Uniting Church to put into practice their knowledge from

wellbeing lessons on community service and social action.On the first day, the students participated in a First Aid course facilitated by Australian Health and Safety Training. The girls came away with the confidence to manage sick and injured casuali-ties using the principles of basic First Aid.

The following day, students undertook two modules run by High Resolves called Personal Impact and Collective Action. These workshops enabled Year 10 to investigate their own impact in everyday choices and actions and helped them work on how they can mobilise other people to help them to create change.

On the final day, students took part in activities run by Character Builders, an organisation which has a strong focus on personal development and teamwork. Ac-tivities included building a channel of pipes that held a rolling ball in motion, sell ‘Brigidine College’ in a team shark tank challenge and speak about the importance of community service with trained counsellors from Character Build-ers. Here is some of the feedback from Year 10:

The First Aid course was an excel-lent opportunity to challenge ourselves and receive insight into some different career paths such as paramedicine. (Skye Nugent)

I particularly enjoyed Day 2 as we realised that everyone’s actions can impact the earth and our living today and in the future. (Chantal Peucker)

We had an awesome time at Bund-aleer Park with Character Builders. I loved finding out from my friends what community means to them. (Georgia Nelson)

Ben WilsonYear 10 Wellbeing Program Leader

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An excited Year 7 collects her laptop on Day 1

SPIRIT SQUAD - A LOOK BACK AT 2018

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AWARDS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT EVENING

College Captain Emilia Spry gave an entertaining speech

Guest SpeakerDr Amanda Rojek

Middle SchoolAcademic Awards

Sophie Peters, recipient of the Julian Simmonds Middle School Leadership Award

Left-right:Jessica O’Donoghue, Principal’s Sports AwardMadison Ellice, Jnr Sportswoman of the YearSaibh Rennie, Snr Sportswoman of the Year

Academic Ambassador

JessicaCsincsi

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GRADUATION

Congratulations to (left to right) Sr Patricia Whitby Awardee Caitlin Ng and College Dux Emilia Spry

A beautiful Graduation Mass led by Fr Pan and attended by our Senior students and their families.

Following the Year 12 Final Assembly, the Year 7-11 students formed a guard of honour on the Curragh to farewell the Seniors on this memorable and emotional day!

Accepting a request to write an article seemed easy enough, until the deadline drew closer. And by then it was all frantic stations! I had vivid flashbacks of cramming for exams and my sweaty palms and fast heart-beat could be felt from afar. So much so that my two young sons were wondering what had happened to their usu-ally happy-go-lucky Mummy. I ferociously started my research by reading the two beautifully written Alumni articles written for The Brigidine Link alumni newsletter by Lyma Nguyen and Devini Ameratunga which stressed me even more as I knew I had to live up to the reputation to put something forth that was both memorable and inspiring.

Where to start? Well, in the words of Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music, let’s start at the very beginning. My journey with Brigidine College began in Year 10, having previously done Years 8 and 9 at a local state high school near where I lived. Starting at Brigidine midway through the high school years seemed daunting but truth-

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Walking through the hallways of Brigidine College for the last time felt like a life-time ago, however the memory is still as clear to me as that day in the summer of 1994 (cue Brian Adam’s cult classic albeit a different year).

A SENSE OF BELONGING

“...what it is to be Brigidine...strength and gentlness in everything we do. A sense of community, humility, the feeling of accomplishment for just trying. The pride in wearing our uniform and doing so proudly and with grace.”

fully I shouldn’t have had any reservations. The girls and the teaching staff (including the leadership team) made me feel welcomed and comfortable from the outset. What I gauged early on and what I still feel strongly to this day is the sense of belonging at Brigidine. Our identity is clear, represented by the founders of this esteemed establishment. Though I was not the brightest or the sporti-est, or even the most artsy, it did NOT matter. I always felt that if I was striving at my best, then Brigidine would be happy with my efforts. This rang particularly true when (surpris-ingly) I was voted in as College Captain. It gave me the confi-dence that if I could be College Captain, then any girl could too. Besides feeling honoured, I grew a whole lot as a person during my senior year. As a stu-dent leader, I threw myself into anything and everything. From sports (I have limited skills), so-cial justice groups to debating and everything in between. To this day, I’m not sure whether my power walking skills have come in handy (perhaps chasing my two boys) or if ice

skating was to be a long fulfilled dream of mine. Nevertheless, I gave it a go, and along the way I learnt many a skill and made many lasting memories and friendships. More importantly, what I learnt during that year is still ingrained in me today. And in the words of John F Kennedy, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other”.

As I stood on stage of the MPC (Kildare Hall) delivering my final speech as College Captain to the whole school community, I

Brigidine College Board member, Hanh Luu, wrote about what Brigidine means to her. Enjoy her story (recently published in our Alumni newsletter, The Brigidine Link).

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felt a great sense of sadness. It was like leaving a family that I had become so close to over the three short years that I was there. So much had been achieved yet there was a part of me that was lost.

Upon leaving school, I too did not know what I wanted to do. University was expected, how-ever I was undecided whether to go along the Science/Maths route or follow in the humani-ties vein. I had hedged my bets by undertaking subjects which covered both paths. Law was an area which interested me and so I enrolled into a double degree of Bachelor Business (Commerce)/Law at QUT. After one year, there was a niggling pressure from family for me to

switch over to a health based domain, citing job prospects as the key motivator. I succumbed and the next three years saw me attend the University of Queensland doing a Bach-elor of Pharmacy. Though not convinced when I enrolled that pharmacy was ‘my thing’, it did however, grow on me. I was still able to help people but from a different angle. It was also here, at pharmacy school, where I met my husband and our entrepreneurial journey started. After our intern year and unlike a lot of our friends who travelled abroad to work and explore the world, we stayed in Brisbane and decided to buy our first pharmacy. One store became two and, as the story goes, the rest is history. We started the Good Price

Pharmacy Warehouse brand 17 years ago and currently we are sitting at 50 stores nation-ally with staff numbers close to 900. This is a mixture of corporate owned and fran-chised stores. What we didn’t learn at university we learnt on the job. It has been nothing short of a crazy rollercoaster ride, filled with late nights and a steep learning curve, but one which I wouldn’t swap for the world. During this time, we got engaged, married and had two children too. Our upcoming Christmas party this year cel-ebrates 22 staff entering the 10 year milestone with us. This is a great achievement for us and one that I’m most proud of.

I can honestly say, hand on my heart, that those years spent at Brigidine are ones that I have never, ever forgotten. Even now, when asked in my profes-sional career as a business owner and Pharmacist where I went to school, my response each and every time is how proud I was and am to be a

“What I gauged early on and what I still feel strongly to this day is the sense of belonging at Brigi-dine. Our identity is clear, represented by the founders of this esteemed establish-ment. Though I was not the brightest or the sportiest, or even the most artsy, it did NOT matter”

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Brigidine girl. As I fondly look back on my time here, it is ap-parent that a lot has changed. Notwithstanding the obvious ones, namely the makeover of buildings and creation of green spaces and not forgetting the amazing structure that is the Brigid Centre. Then there’s the introduction of Year 7, and what about the exciting new building project we’re about to embark on as a commu-nity next year! Besides all the physical changes, there’s the technological ones too. Teach-ing has taken on a whole new realm, with pen and paper being replaced with laptops and virtual classrooms. New and exciting times ahead, albeit different challenges that come with change.

But, through all this, what has remained static is the essence of what it is to be Brigidine. With ‘Fortiter et Suaviter, strength and gentleness in everything we do. A sense of community, humility, the feeling of accomplishment for just trying. The pride in wear-ing our uniforms and doing so proudly and with grace. When strolling around the grounds of the College, it is evident all of it remains. My only regret, if I had one, is that I wish I had realised its full potential while I was here. I think I took it for granted and can only hope that the existing and future students take advantage of everything this school has to offer.

I’m coming into my eighth year

as a Brigidine College Board member, and this privilege and responsibility has not been overlooked by me. I feel that this journey has come full cir-cle. I see it as a real chance to give back to the college which gave me so much – a balanced education, social conscience to do better and help those less fortunate. Friendships forged during my years at Brigidine are still paramount in my life today. Amongst my best girl-friends are four that I met on my first day at Brigidine. Our friendship bond is strong, and it is so because of the similar values we shared going through school. We regularly catch up and reminisce about the good old days. There is much to be thankful for. And though there are many things that define me – mother, wife, Pharmacist, Director and Business owner (to name a few) - what I feel is most true is that each of those roles has somehow come from my experience here at Brigidine College.

Hanh Luu

Hanh (second left) with the 1994 College Captains andPrincipal Mr Hannon-Burt

Delany Building in the 1990s

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SPIRITUS AWARDSThis year’s Spiritus Awards Evening on 2 November once again enabled the Brigidine community to celebrate the achievements of many cultural performers and sporting teams as listed below.

SPORTINGTEAM

BEST & FAIREST

RISING STARAWARD

Tennis Isabel McWhirter Ella Donaldson

Water Polo 2017/2018 Isabelle Pattison Isabel Scott

Rowing Jemma Thomson Jessie Cowin

Cricket No team in 2018 Ella Donaldson

AFL No team in 2018 No team in 2018

Volleyball Maeve McKenzie Charlotte Smith

Touch Football Imogen Agnew CharlotteO’Sullivan

Swimming Bronwyn Scheepers Isabel Scott

Hockey Lucy Rogers Sophie Edwards

Netball Chloe Bingham Madison Ellice

Soccer BronnieLeadbetter Jessica Curran

Cross Country Saibh Rennie Gabrielle Spence

Athletics Erica Sitcheff Marissa Hanlon

Basketball April Earley Lili Schmitt

Futsal ZoePercy

GabrielleSpence

Equestrian Alicia Withers No team in 2018

Rugby 7s Erica Sitcheff No team in 2018

SPORTINGCULTURALCULTURAL

GROUPDIRECTOR’S

AWARDRISING STAR

AWARD

Bridgettes GabrielleWoolcock Angela Huang

Sapphires Dance Troupe Isabella Jones Olivia Durheim

Emeralds DanceTroupe Elly Rowbotham Ruby Beesley

Diamonds Dance Troupe

No troupe in 2018

No troupe in 2018

Dance Now Emma-LeeFinlay Abbey Addams

String Ensemble Piper Snell Anna Nguyen

Percussion Ensemble Lily McMonagle Coco Nguyen

Concert Band Vivienne Young Jade Griffiths

Woodwind Ensemble Eliza Hansen Perrinne

Hamilton

College Choir Elizabeth Rutch Alice Keys

Junior Choir Ella Swalwell Chloe Hogg

Cantare Meeka Sher Lucinda Johnston

Senior Drama Club

AngeliqueMewett Georgia Nelson

Junior Drama Club Cate Brown Trista Barclay

Yr 12 Debating Hannah Kennelly Emilia Spry

Yr 10 Debating Lily Conole Jacinta Cowin

Yr 9 Debating Anna Hosegood Jade Griffiths

Yr 8 Debating Ameya Jaurigue Trista Barclay

Yr 7 Debating Darcey Cooper Bronte Collins

SPECIAL AWARDS

AWARD RECIPIENTSports Coordinator’s Award Lara KennyCultural Coordinator’s Award Madeleine Graham

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SPORTING COCURRICULAR

Alicia Withers at the Gatton Agricultural Show

November: Our talented Rugby 7s team had a visit by

former Qld Reds player Josh Afu, now working for Qld Rugby Union as a Developmnent Officer.

Trimester 2 Junior B Volleyball PremiersThe Jnr A Soccer team - ISSA Cup Premiers!

Open A Hockey team following their premiership win

Netball Qld announced that our own Chloe Bingham will be in U17 Stateteam!

Congratulations to 2017 graduate,Natalie Grider, on her selection into the AFLWomen’sdraft for theBrisbaneLions.

A double-header for our Netball and Soccer teams this year, winning both trophies against St Ives

Year 8 Rhythmic Gymnast, Mikayla Howard, recently travelled to Tokyo with the Australian Institute of Sport to compete in the SANIX Cup Tour-nament. Well done to Mikayla for coming away with a Bronze medal!

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CULTURAL COCURRICULARSPORTING COCURRICULAR

The Emeralds at the Beenleigh Esteddford, August

Silver for the Bridgettes at Silkstone in October

Dance NOW, Brigidine Day

Pitch perfect Cantare at One Night Only

Woodwind Ensemble

One Night Only Drama performers

One Night Only percussionists AAE performance by Emeralds & Sapphires Dance Troupes

Bridgettes

College Choir

String Ensemble and Choir

BRIGIDINE DAY

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AROUND THE COLLEGE

The ‘Old and the New’: Our 2019 Leaders pictured with the 2018

Target practice at the Year 8 Social Science Medieval Day

Year 7 Science students visited Kenmore South State Primary prep classes in November

Wonderful creations on display during the Arts Week Artisan Market

Setting up for Book Week ,August

Year 10 Home Ec students showing off

the results of their Shibori fabric dying

Peer Mentors Workshop Nov.

Orientation Day: Just a few students from the 33 primary schools who spent the day at Brigidine on 29 November.

The P&F’s Carols by the Convent is getting more and more popular by the year. It helps everyone get into the Christmas spirit!

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