College News – 4 April 2025

The 2025 Prefects and a group of Year 12 sporting leaders have embarked on a series of workshops with Bloom Leadership this week. Run by former Port Adelaide FC Captain and Old Collegian Tom Jonas (’08), the workshops will run throughout the year and aim to develop the students’ leadership and teamwork skills so they can better serve the school community. 

Two of the Year 8 Geography classes headed down to the beach to conduct fieldwork this week. The classes looked at the effect of longshore drift and the management of erosion on our beaches. Starting at Glenelg, the groups observed the new works on the Patawalonga weir and some of the attempts by the council to enable the popular tourist beach to remain useable. A brief history of the area, introducing Kaurna perspectives, gave some background to the local area and the coast as a whole. Heading north, further stops at North Glenelg, West Beach and Henley enabled the boys to survey the impact of erosion and the engineering being put in place. Finishing at the near pristine Tennyson dunes after a long day in the field gave the students an idea of what our coast would have looked like pre-colonisation. This fieldwork will support their work on assignments relating to human intervention in the physical environment. 

The Year 10 Business studies classes have been covering the concept of marketing in class over the past few weeks. Marketing is more than just advertising, it is looking at the four Ps: Product, Price, Promotion and Place. 

To expand on the theory taught in class, the students visited Rundle Mall to see how a range of businesses apply the four Ps of marketing in real life. They will now collate and summarise the data they collected in the field to show their understanding of Marketing in the real world. 

Yesterday, the Year 11 students participated in an excursion to the Wandana Mosque, the Himeji Garden and St Francis Xavier Cathedral. This experience allowed students to explore a variety of sacred spaces, deepening their understanding of different religious and cultural practices. 

Thank you to the mothers and mother figures who came along to the Year 7 Mother & Son evening on Tuesday. It was a beautiful evening of sharing memories, connection and giving thanks.  

Save the Date for the inaugural Rostrevor College Friends of Foundation Quiz Night on Saturday 24 May at the College. Keep an eye out for more information in next week’s College News!  

The gloomy weather couldn’t dampen the electric atmosphere at Waterworld on Monday as Rostrevor’s Middle and Senior Years students gave it their all at the annual Swimming Carnival.   

Congratulations to Barron for taking out the Middle Years trophy, Gurr for winning the Senior Years trophy and Egan for earning the coveted Spirit Shield. This year, it was Barron who took out the Br Bourke Trophy for the overall champion House! Well done to Year 11 Ben Maher who claimed the 100m Invitational Freestyle Champion trophy. The staff are pleased to report that their swim team were able to fend off a strong Prefect relay team in the Prefects vs Teachers race, claiming the title back after a tough loss last year!  

Congratulations to the First XI Cricket team who were able to outrun the strong Sacred Heart College team to win the 2025 Cricket Intercol! With only 20 minutes left of play on day 2, Year 12 Will Fanning hit a 4 to get Rostrevor over the line, ending the game on 10/133 & 8/98 to Sacred Heart’s 10/42 & 10/186. Well done to Year 11 boarder Jarrah Reidy whose impressive seven wickets earned him the Intercol medal for Rostrevor.  

Congratulations also to all those students who represented the Red and Black at their matches against Sacred Heart over the course of last week!  

The Year 5 and 6 classes were treated to a special lesson on Wednesday, with two players and a coach from the Adelaide 36ers Basketball team coming to the school to run some Junior Years clinics. Students participated in a range of fun activities, learned some new skills and even had the chance to score a basket against a professional basketball player!