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Best ever results by 2021 IB Diploma cohort

Best ever results by 2021 IB Diploma cohort

Another exceptional year for IB Diploma graduates We are delighted to announce the outstanding results of our International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) 2021 cohort. They are the best IB Diploma results in the school’s history. An outstanding 14 per cent (out of a cohort of 44 students) achieved an ATAR…

Staff feature in Australian Education Awards 2021

Staff feature in Australian Education Awards 2021

Three St Andrew’s Cathedral School staff members were shortlisted for the Australian Education Awards held in early December, with Rhonda Robson winning the prized Primary School Principal of the Year award. Rhonda Robson – Winner of Primary School Principal of the Year (non-Government schools) Rhonda is a Deputy Head of St…

Prefects prepare to support First Nations students

Prefects prepare to support First Nations students

Meet our “Bridging Schools” prefects! The newest role within our Student Leadership Team is dedicated to using our school programs to benefit First Nations students in rural Australia. Here, we chat with Oscar and Jeremy to find out more about the project. What is the Bridging Schools Project? The Bridging Schools Project aims to close the education…

Music students receive early offer to attend the ‘Con’

Music students receive early offer to attend the ‘Con’

All of our Year 12 students who applied for early entry to attend Sydney University’s Conservatorium of Music in 2022 have been offered a place! Maddie Olney at Showcase There are eight students completing Music 2 as part of the HSC this year. Five of the eight have been offered early entry into the…

Pastor Minniecon attends UN’s COP26 climate conference

Pastor Minniecon attends UN’s COP26 climate conference

Pastor Ray Minniecon, co-founder of Gawura School and a St Andrew’s Cathedral School Council member, has travelled to Glasgow to attend the United Nation’s 26th Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 26) on behalf of Australia’s First Nations’ community.   Pastor Ray Minniecon at Showcase 2021…

Violet’s ‘Hope’ recognised with literary award

Violet’s ‘Hope’ recognised with literary award

Year 4 student Violet Bloxsom has been awarded second place in the Year K-6 Prose Category of the Mosman Youth Awards in Literature. This highly esteemed competition is for primary and secondary students across the state. We caught up with Violet to hear about what she wrote. The Mosman Youth Awards in Literature…

StartUp Finale: winners announced

StartUp Finale: winners announced

The StartUp Finale last night was a fabulous celebration of entrepreneurship by all involved. Just as many ideas and products of participating teams were reimagined along this year’s StartUp journey, so too, the Finale organisers needed to pivot and adjust to accommodate the various COVID restrictions. The resulting online Finale…

Students opt for rough night over soft beds

Students opt for rough night over soft beds

A group of Year 11 students have decided to spend a night outside, forsaking the comforts of a warm bed and shelter. It’s all part of ‘Roughtober’, a community sleepout event raising money for people experiencing homelessness and marginalisation. Students experience ‘sleeping rough’ for Roughtober. On Friday 15 October, a group of Year 11…

Meet our 2021-22 school captains

Meet our 2021-22 school captains

Our incoming school captains for 2021-22 were announced at the end of Term 2. An official induction ceremony of the Senior Leadership Team will now take place in Term 4. In the meantime, we thought it was time our community met school captains Saffron Little and Joshua Ralph (pictured below in the…

Watts taking SACS from strength to strength

Watts taking SACS from strength to strength

Athlete Development Manager Chris Watts is combining insights from his time at SACS with his experience working with senior rugby league players in order to create programs that develop physically strong and mature athletes. In this interview, Chris speaks about his passion for physical development and what SACS is doing to develop students’ physical abilities.

From SACS to Cambridge and back again

From SACS to Cambridge and back again

Year 10 student Anais Williamson has been honing her creative writing skills with the help of tutors from Cambridge University. Thanks to Immerse Education, she’s done it all from the comfort of her own home. In this article, Anais shares her experience. Anais Williamson The last thing Anais Williamson was thinking about at…

Year 12 IB Visual Arts Virtual Exhibition

Year 12 IB Visual Arts Virtual Exhibition

The IBDP Visual Arts Virtual Exhibition 2021 is the culmination of two years of studio practice and theoretical investigations by students who have undertaken the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme course in Visual Arts at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in 2020 – 2021.

What I’ve learnt as Head of an Indigenous school

What I’ve learnt as Head of an Indigenous school

In this piece, Dr John Collier reflects on his past 12 years as Head of Gawura School and shares 10 of his key learnings in light of his departure from St Andrew’s Cathedral School and Gawura at the end of 2021. This talk was delivered at the National Indigenous Education Summit in October…

Price finds his place in University mathematics

Price finds his place in University mathematics

Year 12 student Samuel Price attended Macquarie University earlier this year to complete a university level mathematics subject. He achieved a high distinction and received an early offer to study at the University next year. In this interview, Samuel reflects on his experience and his plans for future study. Firstly, how…