Stella Maris College, Manly

SPANISH LESSON // 🇪🇸 Gastronomy is a significant aspect of Spanish-speaking countries, where flavours, history, colours, and love are shared on a plate. Today, Year 9 students had the opportunity to sample authentic Mexican street food, experiencing the vibrant culinary culture firsthand. We engaged in a Spanish conversation about various foods, discussing likes and dislikes. This "food lesson" was a great success, with the students showing high levels of enthusiasm and engagement.

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BUSINESS STUDIES // 👩‍💼🍪 There were sweet treats aplenty last Thursday when our Year 11 Business Studies students conducted their own small business stalls.

With offerings like Heavenly Bites, Brookie Bliss, and Mars Bar Munchies, it's no surprise the basketball court was packed with students!

Through engaging in market research, product development, manufacturing, and marketing and sales, our students gained valuable insights into the life of a small business owner.

All proceeds were donated to the Good Samaritan Foundation.

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2025 COLLEGE CAPTAINS ANNOUNCED // 📣🌟

Stella Maris College is delighted to introduce our 2025 Student Leaders.

After a rigorous selection process involving a written application, nomination, speech, staff and student voting and interviews, the College Captain for 2025 is…......🥁 ….........Róisín T.

Róisín is particularly humbled to be selected as College Captain and her goal is to ensure that “every girl feels safe and loved, and is supported in taking on new opportunities.”

Our sincere congratulations also to Violette R and Destiny J who will support Róisín in their roles as Vice Captains. Violette and Destiny are integral members of the Stella community, being involved in many facets of college life and they both have big ambitions for their year in leadership at Stella.

Stella Maris College is thrilled to have Róisín, Violette and Destiny lead the College in 2025, inspiring our entire community through their outstanding example.

Congratulate the girls below 👇

STUDENT LEADERSHIP // 🌟🌟
Today Sami and Annika of Year 12, represented Stella at a Parliament Youth Leadership program.
This civics and citizenship program offers Year 12 student leaders the opportunity to develop their knowledge of our system of government and parliamentary proceedings, and the role of the Governor of NSW which in turn, helps them to become stronger leaders both within their school environment and as they navigate the broader world beyond. Well done girls!
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That’s a wrap for Stella Day 2024. It’s safe to say a LOT of fun was had. Amid the amazing costumes, lip sync battles, food trucks, games and activities, Stella Day holds great significance and purpose for the Stella community. It is a day to celebrate our Good Samaritan identity and it is an important fundraising day to support the work of the Sisters in the indigenous community of Santa Teresa and in Kiribati.

Many thanks to the Student Representative Council and staff for their organisation, and to our own Stella families for your generous support.

More photos and lip sync videos to come once we download them all!
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DA VINCI DECATHLON // 🌟👩‍🔬
The results are in and wow, are they impressive!
Last week 40 Stella students from Years 7-11 competed at the NSW Da Vinci Decathlon. The Decathlon is designed to celebrate the academic gifts of Australian youth by providing a stimulating and challenging competition run in the spirit of an Olympic Decathlon. With over 300 teams competing across the different year groups and across ten disciplines: Engineering, Mathematics, Code Breaking, Art and Poetry, Science, English, Ideation, Creative Producers, Cartography and Legacy, the Stella students had their work cut out for them but they rose to the challenge and finished with some fantastic results.
🌟 Year 7: 5th in Cartography
🌟 Year 9: 14th overall
🌟 Year 10: 7th in Art and Poetry
🌟 Year 11: 11th in Engineering

Well done to all participating students within the five teams. This competition is incredibly challenging and mentally tough and they were competing against some of the brightest students in NSW. Well done Stella ✨✨✨✨
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This photo was shared by our Assistant Principal Amy Smith today at the school assembly. It captures the same tree, but they are 140 years apart! Can you see how much she has grown?!

Ms Smith raised the importance of acknowledging the land we stand on by evoking us with a question “think about what if the two Morten Bay trees were gone when you come in tomorrow morning?” We are truly lucky to be protected by these two trees every single day, and we can’t imagine to live without them.

At the end of the school assembly, students wrote words of reconciliation on a piece of gum leaf to express their understanding.

SCHOOL PHOTOS // 📸

WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE - less than 2 weeks away.

ONLINE ORDERS - Due now: Photo packages can be purchased at www.advancedlife.com.au.
Enter the online order code: KY8 HAC 97W.
* Late orders (on or after the day) will incur an additional cost.

* Sibling photos (18 June) need to be ordered 24 hours prior to Sibling photo day

ENVELOPE ORDERS: If using an envelope (cash only), ask your daughter to visit Student Services to collect an order envelope and hand your envelope and cash payment to the photographer on school photo day.

STAFF ACHIEVEMENT 🏅🌟// Congratulations to Ms Kalinic on being awarded the Geoff Conolly Memorial Award today for her contributions to the Geography Bulletin, Journal of the Geography Teachers Association NSW & ACT (GTANSW & ACT).
It was a full house during Day 1 at the GTANSW & ACT conference during Ms Kalinic's presentation on Innovative Teaching Strategies and Resourcing in 7-10 Geography. Congratulations Ms Kalinic, we are incredibly proud and so pleased you have been recognised for your hard work and dedication.
Ms Metcalfe, Ms Slik and Ms Stojanovski also attended the event and thoroughly enjoyed the collaborative discussions during the conference and will all be returning with the best Geography content for their Stella students.

CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE SOD TURNING AND BLESSING // 🌟🌟
Yesterday we were delighted to welcome Fr Chima Ofar from St Mary's Manly, Stella Board representatives, Company Members, guests from Good Samaritan Education, some Stella staff and students, ex-Stella students, and construction partners along with project stakeholders to the College for the official sod turning and blessing of the site that is soon to be the new Creative Arts Centre.

This marks a significant milestone in the project with demolition now completed and the site handed over to the construction company to begin the new build and we can't wait to see it emerge over the course of the year.

The staff and students are so excited about the new build - none more so than those from our D&T, Food Tech and Textiles, and Visual Arts departments who will take up residence in the Centre on completion.

It was wonderful to host our "most experienced" past student, Margaret Duffy, whose great-niece Greta in Year 9 also joined us for the occasion and Kane's State Manager, Brett Moore, Site Manager, Dennis Farina and their daughters who are all Stella students.

Let the new build begin!

WINNERS ARE GRINNERS // Stella has taken out both divisions (Under 15’s last week and Opens today) at the Broken Bay soccer tournaments and both will be playing in the NSWCCC knockout tournaments in the coming weeks! Congrats girls and best of luck at the next level!

2024 STELLA PRODUCTION IS HERE!! 🎭

Tickets to SHREK the Musical will fly out the door, so grab your tickets today.

Fall in love all OGRE again!

Show runs from Wednesday 5 June to Saturday 8 June, with a special community preview show on Monday 3 June.

Link to Trybooking in bio.

We hope everyone had a lovely restful break and we look forward to welcoming the students back to school tomorrow for the beginning of Term 2.
🏃🏽‍♀️ NOTE: Students, please check your emails for communication from Ms Wickham regarding changes to the Athletics Carnival tomorrow due to forecast ☔️🌧️

To the courageous men and women who served, and continue to serve our nation, thank you for your selflessness and bravery.

We remember all those who died, and those who carry physical or invisible wounds as a consequence of their service.

Lest we forget.
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More fantastic news for our Visual Art students - this time from Class of 2023 alumni, Josie Fowler, whose artwork, 'The Sum of Us' has won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Out Front exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum! The Exhibition showcases a selection of artworks by HSC Visual Art students from schools across the Northern Beaches. Congratulations Josie!

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Congratulations to Year 11 student, Millie H whose artwork 'Cutting Ties' has been Highly Commended in the senior division of the Mosman Youth Art Prize. This is a phenomenal achievement given the number of entries the exhibition attracts each year.
Millie was a finalist in the Young Archie competition in 2023.

The Mosman Youth Art Prize runs until Sunday 5 May at the Mosman Art Gallery. Further details 👇
https://mosmanartgallery.org.au/exhibitions/mosman-youth-art-prize-2024

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VISUAL ARTS TALENT // 🎨🖼️
Six of our talented Visual Arts students have entered their art works into the Mosman Youth Art Prize this month. Organised by Mosman Council, the Youth Art Prize aims to encourage the creative talents of young, aspiring and emerging artists whilst providing a showcase for their works.
Our talented crew consists of Amelia H, Sara T, Georgette M, Amy H, Ava W, Charli M.
Be sure to visit the exhibition to peruse the many amazing artworks and see if you can spot these ones fromo our budding Stella artists.
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Our new App is live! Current parents and carers are reminded to download it via the App Store or Google Play and subscribe to communication based on your daughter's year level and extra-curricular activities (via the gears icon at the bottom right).

DUKE OF EDINBURGH MILESTONE 🏅🌟 //
Hannah M (college Duke of Edinburgh 2023 captain) was presented her gold Duke of Edinburgh award today from Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO KC, Governor of New South Wales at Accor stadium 🙌Completing the gold award takes commitment, resilience, perseverance and a certain amount of ‘pushing yourself out of your comfort zone’ and it can play an important role in helping young people find their purpose, passion and place in the world!
Congratulations to Hannah for making it to the highest level of this award, we are so proud!

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Best wishes to 2023 graduate Shay Hollman and her Young Matildas team who take on Chinese Taipei tonight (livestreamed from 7.00pm on 10Play) in the Under 20 Women’s Asian Cup in Uzbekistan. Shay starred in the Young Matildas 2-0 victory over Uzbekistan on Thursday where she was awarded Player of the Match. 💪🏻🥇

The team has almost secured their entry into the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup to be held later this year. We are so proud of Shay who has overcome a serious injury last year to rejoin the Australian team.


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Thank you to everyone who supported our inaugural International Women's Day Breakfast at the Manly Golf Club this morning. We were delighted to host almost 150 guests, including inspirational alumni Alana Ellis, Emily Bobis and Roxy Rogan who reflected on their own success and learnings along their career journeys to date. Happy International Women's Day!