Year 7 Black Out Poetry

This week Year 7 students have been busy diving into poetry. Black out poetry is a form of poetry that uses pages from books to create a poem. First, students tapped into their word skills to find just the right words. Then, the other words […]

Brigid’s Garden Program

Brigid’s Garden ProgramKiwi FruitsKiwi fruits are a fruit that we harvest in autumn. In the garden program we harvested 665 kiwi fruits, which weighed a total of 35kg. The kiwi fruit we picked filled up 10 buckets. While we were harvesting the kiwi fruit, Bobby […]

Clonard Music News Term 2

STRINGS TEACHERClonard Music Department would like to acknowledge the contribution made by Felicity McCowan our Strings Teacher who has taught Strings at Clonard for the past eight years. Felicity was warmly farewelled at the end of last term by students and staff. Felicity has done […]

Year 7 Maths Games

The Year 7 students this year are taking part in the APSMO Maths Games during Terms 2 and 3.  The Maths Games consists of four separate contests held approximately six weeks apart between May and September. The overall aim is to encourage students to develop […]

Principal’s Blog

Around the world this week there will be multiple gatherings and rituals as Christians commemorate Holy Week and the events of the Triduum, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. This is the most sacred time in the Church’s year. As a College we gathered […]

Road Safety

We seek family support in ensuring our students are safe when crossing roads travelling to and from school. We have identified that students are crossing Minerva Road to access the bus stop on the east side of the road without using the supervised crossing at […]

Women in Trade Day

On Friday 31 March, the Pre Voc VM class participated in a Women in Trade Day at the Gordon which included an introduction into 3 types of trades: Auto, Carpentry and Electrical with many other schools. We were also presented with a safety kit which […]

Student Leadership

We have elected the following students to the Student Leadership Team at Year 7. We would like to congratulate all the candidates who applied and showed tremendous courage in putting in an application. We look forward to the Year 7s joining the leadership team and […]

High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS)

At Clonard in 2023 the focus of our professional learning communities (PLC’s) has been the intentional focus on High Impact Teaching Strategies or (HITS). HITS are a bank of 10 instructional practices that are internationally recognised as some of the most reliable teaching strategies for […]