Hey everyone and once again welcome back to the 2024 Leadership teams leaders lounge, this week brought to you by the actual best house leaders Camden and Dieter representing Nagle.

With only 3 weeks left of term Hennessy students are doing their best with one last push as reports come out and end of year tasks are due.

This week our school has been small as we have all been missing year 10 whilst they’re on work experience. Year 10 have been exploring the world and all careers that wait for them from adventures at Taronga Zoo to hospitals, teaching and trades. We wish them the best of luck this week and hope they all enjoy a week full of great observing and learning.

To celebrate the end of year, this Friday the 1st of December Year 9 have an early start to the day as they go to Jamberoo for a day of fun and relaxation. Year 9, have fun, don’t forget to wear sunscreen and make sure to go on all the scary rides!

Additionally this Monday the 27th recipients of the William Rubensohn Scholarship were lucky enough to meet with 2 representatives of the foundation and talk about how they use their scholarships to better their schooling. Students were able to learn about the foundation, other recipients and schools of the scholarship as well as ways to use this to their advantage, progressing their schooling and always striving for their best. A huge thankyou to both Cherry and Jack who came to visit, the students were very appreciative of your visit and your knowledge.

Next week on Tuesday the 5th Hennessy students will have a whole school assembly where we celebrate the end of year as well as many achievements from hard working students throughout the year. Mrs Holding, Mrs Wright and Mrs McInerney are all extremely impressed with students as this assembly we will be giving out more silver awards than ever before! Congrats Hennessy keep pushing for the goods, proud of you all!

Finally, this weekend Hennessy is combining again with St Marys to maintain their winning float trophy in the Cherry Festival. Thank you in advance to students who are helping decorate the bus this Friday afternoon as well as everyone who is coming on the float this weekend. Our theme this year is ‘Everything Stonefruit’ so get prepared for an amazing, creative float filled with many loud singing voices.

On the PC side of school last week on the 21st of November, Nagle house (the best house) had their feast day to commemorate venerable Nano Nagle, the person our house bases their ideologies and mission off. To celebrate her, during SWS time the house had a brief meeting, talking about Nano Nagle and her achievements, endeavours and virtues before embarking on a Nagle themed scavenger hunt. It was great to see all the PCs working together, finding clues and objects which eventually led them to their final challenge of finding Dieter (spoiler - he was in the cardboard bin).

This same day all year 9s and 10s combined with students of St Marys to celebrate with a joint Mass also commemorating Nano Nagle and the presentation sisters. Thank you to Father Jiss for running the Mass, as always it was a beautiful service enjoyed by all.

Finally we would like to congratulate all of Hennessy as outstanding amounts of points have been given out lately, keep up the amazing work and strive to get as many as you can in the last few weeks! Congratulations to the leading PCs G1, N4 and N5 (good to see 2 Nagles!) you guys have all been working incredibly hard this year and it has not gone unnoticed!

Thank you for reading this week's edition of “The Leaders Lounge!”

Looking forward to Christmas and we will talk again soon!

Camden Cummins
Dieter Dickinson
Nagle House Leaders