We recently travelled to the Mornington Campus to attend the Year 12 Awards assembly. This gathering was a wonderful opportunity to not only celebrate the accomplishments of our Year 12 cohort but also to inspire our Junior Campus students to be the best they can be.

We wish to acknowledge the wonderful work and initiative shown by several of our Year 7 students who have been coordinating and conducting a full campus assembly every second Monday. This time enables us to meet together to pray and acknowledge and celebrate student achievement.

As we move towards the midpoint of the term, we are now collecting items for our Christmas hampers. Thank you to the students and families who have already generously donated to this important cause.

Thank you staff and students for your involvement in the many co-curricular activities that take place each week and for taking the time to contribute to this edition of the Paduan.

Tough Padder

Teresa Year 7 students went to the Padua Mornington Campus to experience the Tough Padder mud course. We started the challenge doing some land obstacles including, jumping metal fences, carrying a wooden plank board with sandbags on the top, and pulling Mrs Goldsmid on a tyre across the tennis court. The whole class got involved and it was great fun! We then got muddy by commando crawling under nets, jumping over laser beam strings, and crawling in the soggy wet bark through old tyres. Everyone had such a great time and enjoyed the whole experience! It was loads of fun.

Izzy Thomson, Year 7 Teresa

Book in a Day Competition

Congratulations to Ms Cheers and her team for receiving third place in the SIS Book In A Day Competition.

The following is the adjudicator’s feedback.

3rd Place: Moonlight Bite – Padua Rosebud

I loved how every chapter of Moonlight Bite was pervaded by a deliciously creepy atmosphere, reminiscent of Hitchcock classics like The Birds and Psycho.

I enjoyed the clues and red herrings that kept me guessing as to whether the nanny or the butler was the werewolf.

This book was the best designed of the four. I really appreciated the front and back covers, the table of contents, the well-chosen font and neat typesetting, as well as the choice to have small, beautifully detailed drawings at the start of each chapter. Design tends to be an underrated aspect of publishing, compared to the writing and illustrations, but a well-designed book really helps the reader immerse themselves in the world of the story.

The chase was well-paced with moments of quiet tension balanced with intense action.

Rosebud RSL Commemorative Poetry Competition

Congratulations to Maisie Brown, Year 7 Goold, and Leni Roumeliotis, Year 8 Anthony, who have been selected as finalists in the Rosebud RSL Commemorative Poetry Competition. We wish Maisie and Leni all the best as they attend the presentation evening on Monday 4 November.

"When we saw the poster for the RSL poetry competition we knew it was a great opportunity for us to display and put our skills towards a lovely remembrance day poem, about what remembrance day means to us. The process of planning and bringing our poems to life was filled with care and devotion. Although it took some time, we are really proud of the outcome and will be for-ever grateful of this opportunity."

Maisie Brown and Leni Roumeliotis

Leni Roumeliotis' Poem

Maisie Brown's Poem

News from Our Science Lab

Ms Galbraith recently spoke to Year 8 students, Chloe Obbes, Sam Gee, and Angus Munn, about their experiences as budding scientists.

What have we been doing in Science?
Chloe: We have been learning to use a Light Microscope to view preprepared slides in Science.
Sam & Angus: W e have been learning to identify cells using a microscope.

What did you learn from this process?
Chloe: The microscope enlarges the image, even small enough to see individual cells, and details that the naked eye cannot see.
Sam & Angus: How to use the features of a microscope, how to adjust the focus knobs and use different lenses.

How did you use technology in your class as a tool for learning?
Chloe: We used Smart Phones to take a picture of the slide through the eyepiece of the Microscope, to capture an accurate picture of the specimen. This is different to sketching the slide, as it captures all the details in the slide, this is hard to do sketching by hand.
Sam & Angus: We used a Smart phone to take photos of each specimen through the eye piece.

What did you enjoy most about using a Microscope?
Chloe: I enjoyed the fact that you can see the detail in each slide and look at the features and functions of the specimen.
Sam & Angus: You got to see what things look like really close up. This can be really different to what it looks like with your eyes, there is a lot more detail.

Academic Challenge Day

On 17 October 10 Year 7 Rosebud students travelled to the Tyabb Campus to compete in the Grade 6/Year 7 Academic Challenge Day. The teams consisted of representatives from our Catholic partnership schools and all Padua Campuses. Congratulations to St Thomas More Primary School for winning the event!

The day was full of a range of challenges all involving teamwork, logic and puzzle solving. The day was extremely fun whilst challenging at the same
time. The best part of our day was when we united and came together as a group to plan our performance about missing cats and dogs, which was
comedic and humorous while still discussing a serious topic. From Poetry and English all the way to Maths and Codebreaking we came out with four second places, Engineering, our performance, Art and Poetry, and Science. Overall, the day was extremely fun.

Lachy Henke

The Academic Challenge Day was such an enjoyable experience. It included various activities in which we worked together as a team to complete. It was a
great opportunity to challenge ourselves and learn from our peers. It was so good to see everyone’s enthusiasm and determination all throughout the day,
not just from our team, but from everyone else too. We all had so much fun - full of laughs, perseverance and teamwork.

Raphaela Lieberman

On Thursday the 17th of October, 10 lucky students were chosen to go to the Tyabb Campus for a day to compete and participate in lots of different activities
based on school subjects. The day was divided into sections and overall we covered Maths, Design, Engineering, English, and Humanities. We also did a
fun Code-Breaking activity, a Science activity, and an Art and Poetry activity. In the afternoon, we worked on a group performance which had to be inspired
by a community argument with very stereotypical characters and that was by far the best part of the day because we got to be creative and bounce off each
other's ideas. Throughout the day, we worked in small groups (2-3) and I felt that really helped with getting the activities done. At the end of the day all the
awards were announced and we ended up placing 2nd in the Science competition, the Art and Poetry competition, the Engineering competition, and
the performance. We are all very proud of how well we all did at the Padua Academic Day and are so grateful for the opportunity to work together to show our skills and compete against other teams.

Maisie Brown

An up-and-coming Golfer!

Over the school holidays, Jude Farrelly, Year 7 Goold, played in the Victorian Junior Open, a four-day golf tournament at Barwon Heads and 13th Beach Golf Clubs. He achieved new personal bests each day with rounds of 76, 74, 74 and 70 to take out the Under 14 Championship by 10 shots, and was the overall net champion.

Jude first started playing golf when he was about two years old. His equipment consisted of a plastic set of clubs and a plastic ball that he whacked around his garden.

When he was six Jude got his first set of real golf clubs, and he remembers the brand was Powerbuilt. He played with his dad every month and really enjoyed the experience.

At the age of nine, Jude started having beginner lessons and became a member of the Rosebud Country Club, where he competed regularly.

For the past two years Jude has been a member of the Victorian team and has competed in Canberra and Perth. This December, Jude is looking forward to playing as an amateur in a professional tournament at the Sandbelt Invitational. This will be played at the Commonwealth Golf Club, Woodlands Golf Club, Yarra Yarra Golf Club and the West Course at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club

Jude’s favourite course is Lake Karrinyup in Western Australia

Jude has recently been sponsored by Titleist and with a current handicap of 1.7 it comes as no surprise that Jude is hoping to become a professional golfer.

We wish Jude all the best as he continues to pursue his passions!

Term 4

We welcomed our Year 9 students back from their Aspire9 Camps this week and hope they all had a wonderful time in the City or out in Country Victoria. As we enter a very busy time of the school year we encourage everyone to support each other to make the most of all of the opportunities that Padua College provides.

God Bless,
Phillip Helisma and Lisa Modd

Holiday Reading Competition

The Library is excited to announce that students can borrow books over the upcoming holiday period!

To make it even more fun, we’re launching a competition, open to students across all campuses. Students simply take a photo of a book they’ve borrowed while on holiday—whether it’s a biography beach read, a murder mystery whilst on a mountain escape, or a sci-fi short story on the sofa —students simply share their happy snap via library@padua.vicedu.au. The most creative photos will win amazing prizes.

As always, students can borrow up to 10 books at a time.

Student Photo Permissions

At times, photographs or videos of our students will be published in newsletters, on the school intranet or website, or in our social media. Copies of our Standard Collection Notice and Privacy Policy are available on the College website in the Enrolments section of our Policies page. Please note that consent to use these images in this way, if provided at enrolment, may be withdrawn at any time by contacting our marketing team via email: marketing@padua.vic.edu.au .