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Congratulations to OLSH students Mila (Y7), Fernanda (Y12) and Cecilia (Y7) who have been selected for the CGSAV representative athletics team, competing in October at the 2026 Victorian School Associations Competition Athletics. Mila will compete in relays and triple jump, Fernanda will compete in shot put and Cecilia will compete in long jump. We wish them well!

An enthusiastic group of OLSH students and staff tackled the Brighton Beach 5km, and 10km run events on Sunday. It was perfect running weather and the event provided a fabulous atmosphere for three students to achieve their goal of running 5km!! Congratulations to Sami E, Amelie S and Sophie H from Year 7! Mr La Fauci also completed the 5km, while Mrs Verrell and Ms Francis competed in the 10km!

We were joined by the Leadership Teams from OLSH Enfield (SA) and OLSH Kensington (NSW), along with Sr Philippa Murphy (OLSH Provincial Leader), Sr Lorraine, Sr Liz and Sr Elaine for the annual OLSH Colleges Leadership Conference. Over two days, the teams heard from speaker and psychologist Andrew Fuller on the topics of Pathways to Learning, School Culture, Personal Resilience and Creating Wiser People in the age of AI. The teams also enjoyed sessions on the OLSH story and finished the conference with a liturgy.

We celebrated English Week at OLSH with a book quiz, a writing competition and a celebration of authors. Author Amy Doak, author of books including the Eleanor Jones series and 'What Have They Done to Liza McLean?', gave a presentation to students telling her story of how she became an author, her creative process and why she enjoys writing crime novels. We also recognised two of OLSH’s own published authors – Year 10 student Amelia who has had her verse novel published in the Australian Young Artists and Writer’s program magazine and Year 7 student Chloe who has self-published a novel called Shipwreck Cove.

To wrap up English Week, the winners of the CBCA Reading competition were announced – Seraphina R, Abigail C and Maggie B – and we also announced the winner of the English Week Gothic Writing Competition, Kara S.

These activities have certainly given us the encouragement to write more and read more, so thank you to our English and Library staff for creating these opportunities.

All the best to our students performing in the opening night of Puffs tonight, our senior production presented in partnership with De La Salle College. We are sure it will be a fabulous production and a wonderful reflection of the many months of hard work and rehearsals that have gone into bringing it to the stage. We wish everyone involved a fantastic opening night!

Today we remember Mother Marie Louise Hartzer on her birthday. Marie Louise was our first Superior General who faithfully passed on Jules Chevalier's charism and spirituality to the sisters. She saw the congregation expand from Europe to the Pacific, becoming a truly international congregation. May we be inspired by her life of dedication and remember her words ‘Above all be very kind and considerate to each other…Have a great spirit of gratitude.’

It's just over a week until our Father's Day breakfast, to be held on Thursday 3 September from 7.15am in the OLSH Centre. We're looking forward to celebrating this special morning you OLSH fathers, grandfathers and caregivers.

Join us for a stand-up breakfast and the opportunity to connect with other families and our school community. Tickets are $20 per person, available via Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/DOBEP.

Congratulations to our Aerobics teams who completed in the CGSAV Aerobics competition at OLMC in Heidelberg. The newly formed "A Team" in the Senior division continued to dominate, winning the A division. In Senior B, the team performed a solid routine to take out 2nd place, and in a very large Junior B division, our 'trio' came 3rd. Our aerobics athletes did a fabulous job of supporting each other on stage, particularly when synchronising the O-L-S-H chant to the beat of the music! Well done to all involved!

Congratulations to our two Teen Chef teams who competed in the SEGAP Teen Chef competition, hosted in the OLSH Food Tech kitchen this week. Both teams were awarded gold medals, scoring 90 to 100 points and Team A (Abigail, Asha, Sara and Teegan) were the overall winners for their two courses of Mo Mo chicken dumplings in tomato chutney and chilli oil and Eclairs with raspberry gel and pistachio filling. Team B (Anika, Allie, Matilda and Alisha) presented a menu of Duck breast with sweet potato mash, mushrooms and asparagus and Meringues with raspberry gel, salted granola and raspberry sorbet to win their gold medal. Well done to all students and thank you to Mrs Smith and Mrs Burgess for preparing these students for the competition.

Teams from the Junior, Intermediate and Senior divisions represented OLSH at the CGSAV Division One soccer tournament this week in glorious late-winter sunshine. The Inter team fought hard all day and managed a draw and three very close losses in a strong competition. Congratulations to the Junior and Senior Girls who both won their divisions in dramatic penalty shootouts in their respective finals. Remy (juniors) and Ava (seniors) both collected medals for best player in each grand final. The Senior team have progressed to the Premier Schools Soccer Tournament, run by Football Victoria.