Dear Parents and Guardians,

At assembly this week we recognised the talented students at Newington with a special Creative Arts Assembly.  We enjoyed musical performances by the Big Band and Stanmore Strings and welcomed Jack Moffitt (ON 2007) as our guest speaker.  Jack is the lead guitarist in The Preatures, an award winning band he formed with schoolmate bass guitarist Thomas Champion (ON 2007).  Jack spoke to the boys about creativity, and how he was able to transfer his learning into his career.  He spoke about the responsibility of the creative to draw attention to issues in the community.

Drama Captain Daniel Steel (12/LE) showed us a photo collage of all the Drama events year to date, and Colours were awarded to Fin Casey (12/KL), Nicholas Fitzsimmons (11/FL), Simon James (11/PR) and Lachlan McIntyre (11/JN).

The P&F Inaugural Visual Arts Acquisition Prize 2017 was presented by Mrs Burkitt-Doyle to the following boys:

• First prize Jack Walker (10/KL) – “Tokens of Reminiscence”, Graphite on Stonehenge.
• Second prize Darcy Collins (10/JN) – “Footlocker”, Monoprint on Paper.
• Third prize Anton Fichtenmaier (11/MO) – “Untitled”, Charcoal on Paper.

We were also privileged to watch Elmore Alexander’s (12/FL) HSC short film titled “Reciprocity”, an exploration of ideas about connection, emotion, time and relationships.

Music Captain Fin Casey gave a rousing speech and Colours were awarded to Daniel Baykitch (11/MA), Matthew Bramich (12/JN), Miles Bullock (12/JN), Fin Casey (12/KL), David Charlton (12/MA), Jack Crawford (12/KL), Evan Favos (12/ME), Alexander Humphreys (11/JN), Jacob Lawler (11/ME), Jarrah Lindhout (12/KL), Andrew Liu (11/PR), Eric Liu (11/JN), Alexander Lorquet (12/MO), Angus Mackie-Williams (11/PR), Geordie Maclean (11/KL), Nico Maclean (11/KL), Darcy McDonald (11/MO), Aidan O’Donnell (12/FL), James Rosse (12/PR), Dale Schlaphoff (11/FL), Oliver Smith (11/MA) and Rohan Wong (11/LE).

This weekend, the boys will play the last round of Winter sport.  To all the boys, parents, guardians, coaches and staff I thank you for a great sports season and for all your hard work.  Best of luck for those still participating and aiming to secure premierships in either 1st or 2nd Comps.

To all the boys and staff running for Team Newington in this Sunday’s City-2-Surf, we applaud you.

Finally, a reminder that Monday 14 August is a student free day for all boys in Years 7-12.