The Brother Liguori Resources Centre is integral to teaching and learning at �鶹��. It is a welcoming, vibrant learning environment designed to encourage and enrich students by developing lifelong learning skills and a love of reading. The Resources Centre aims to empower and transform learners by providing activities and resources that will assist both students and staff to become effective and discriminating users of information. The Resources Centre is open to all students and staff 8am - 9pm Monday to Thursday, and 8am - 5pm on Friday.

The Resources Centre aims to support student learning��by working collaboratively with subject faculties, teaching information and research skills to the students, and assisting them to explore our extensive collection of print and digital resources. Easy access to high quality resources is available anytime, anywhere with our online catalogue and research tool,��. Further learning help is available from our library website,��, which provides subject-specific resources tailored to class topics and assessments.

The Resources Centre also collaborates with subject faculties to organise and host numerous activities designed to extend student learning and subject knowledge in a fun and interactive environment. These activities include��Synapse (an academic challenge for gifted and talented students), Body in the Library murder mystery (for forensic fiction), Japanese Manga Festival, French Cafe, Science Week, History Week, Geography Week, and the Write a Book in a Day competition.��

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supporting and encouraging student reading��

Working closely with the English Department, the Resources Centre conducts class book discussions, developing related text lists, and hosting author talks. Our ever-changing library displays provide reading inspiration across numerous topics and themes. We also organise many events and activities that support and encourage student reading such as:

• Books and Blokes Breakfast: These popular breakfast events feature male guest authors from all walks of life, who talk about the importance of books and reading in their own lives, reinforcing the message that ‘it’s OK for blokes to read’. Invitation is open to all students and the important men in their lives – fathers, grandfathers, uncles, carers. Past speakers include Tom Keneally, Dr Munjed al Muderis, David Pocock, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Glenn McGrath, Richard Glover and Michael Robotham.

• Guys Read Book Group: boys from Year 7 to 12 meet regularly to discuss books and listen to guest speakers. We enjoy the company of between 30 to 50 boys at each meeting.

• The Hub: Our specialist group of keen readers who write book reviews with the motto Recommended by �鶹�� boys for �鶹�� boys.

• Readers Cup: Three boys x four books x five weeks = Readers Cup Challenge! Teams of three boys battle other teams after reading four set texts to be crowned Readers Cup Champions.

• Excursions: Annual group excursions��to the Sydney Writers Festival and the Youth Review Forum.

TAS Precinct

With 20 courses under its umbrella, from Food and Agriculture to Software Design and Development, the Technological and Applied Studies (TAS) faculty is a lively and diverse area of St Joseph’s College.

Many of its hands-on courses are taught in specialist, open-plan spaces purpose-built in the College’s most recent major development.

The technology-rich learning environment for design and manufacturing is among the best in the state, allowing boys to develop the skills to use future-focused equipment.

In Industrial Technology, a computer numeric control (CNC) router allows for automated manufacturing, in which boys working with wood produce a file that tells the computer precisely what they want it to do. In Year 11, for instance, this is their own flat-pack furniture design. In the metal workshop, where many boys make equipment for their family properties such as silos, firepits, cattle runs and feeders, a CNC plasma cutter allows for the same computer-based manufacturing but using metal.

Students of graphics technology subjects have access to 3D printers, sublimation printers for T-shirt designs, vinyl cutters to produce stickers, and CNC laser cutters for projects using materials such as paper, card, plywood and plastic.

The wood and metal workshops are also well equipped with manual and electrical hand tools, and machinery such as table routers, disc sanders and welders. A sophisticated extraction system keeps the air clean, and theory is taught in newly upgraded seminar rooms that also act as breakout spaces for the boys.

Visual Art Precinct

The College’s Visual Arts building, completed in 2013, was conceptualised as a space of transformation. Boys entering the state-of-the-art facility know immediately that they are in a different thinking and learning space to other areas of the school. Flooded with light from enormous windows looking across the school’s Back Ovals and beyond, the building is a series of dynamic studio spaces connected to each other in a design that fosters creativity and collaboration.

Within the one senior and three junior multi-purpose studios are the resources for teaching and learning, from Year 7 to the HSC, the practice and theory of Visual Arts including printmaking, painting, sculpture and drawing. There is also a digital studio, a lighting studio and a dark room, with photography a popular component of the Visual Arts program.

The versatility of the studio spaces also allows for the hosting of an artist in residence each year, and the work of boys from Years 7 to 12 is celebrated annually through the Student Art Exhibition held in the College’s Farrell Auditorium.

Music and Drama

Music has a central place in the cultural, spiritual and educational life of St Joseph’s College, not least through its 25 music ensembles, three choirs and a deeply held liturgical singing tradition that involves every boy throughout his school years.

Learning an instrument is compulsory for Year 7s. Each boy is allocated one of the 25 instruments in which tuition is offered across strings, woodwind, brass, keyboard, percussion and voice, and can hire an instrument from the school.

There are more than 20 highly qualified part-time tutors and four full-time teachers working out of the Br Louis Music Centre, which is open and supervised from 7am to 10pm each evening.

The Centre comprises more than 40 practice studios, two large rehearsal/teaching rooms, an Apple Mac computer lab, a music library and a mobile recording facility. The rehearsal spaces double as teaching spaces and each is equipped with Prometheum Smartboards, data projector, iMac control computer and 16 channel sound system for playback and recording.

Students who choose Drama, an elective subject from Year 9 onwards, become well acquainted with the Drama Studio, where several productions are staged each year. The Studio seats 100 and is equipped with a lighting rig, sound system, AV, a set and costume store, dressing room and green room.

Every two years the College stages a school musical, bringing together the dramatic, musical and technical talents of the students in spectacular fashion.

The food service is the primary source of nutrition for boarders and is designed to meet the dietary requirements of 12 to 18-year-old boys who are at a crucial stage in their physical and mental development. Menus provide adequate energy and nutrients to encourage growth, promote concentration and learning, and fuel participation in daily physical activity and competitive sport without contributing to unhealthy weight gain.

Menus are reviewed each term according to criteria developed in conjunction with Nutrition Australia and Accredited Practising Dietitians to meet the Australian Dietary Guidelines as specified by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Menus change each term and cycle through four weekly menus, ensuring a diversity of foods and cuisines. Students with special dietary needs can be catered for at the College.

There is one vegetarian and one non-vegetarian selection at lunch and dinner. Mealtime beverages include 100 per cent fruit juices and a range of milk types including full-fat and light, soy, rice and almond. Fruit and chilled water is available throughout the day.

Sustaining boys for the day

Breakfast

A full continental breakfast of poached and fresh fruit, toast, cereals, yoghurt and boiled eggs is available every morning, accompanied by 100 per cent fruit juices, tea and coffee. A range of breads available for toasting include multigrain and muffins. Hot options are also served five mornings a week, including on the weekends. These cooked breakfasts can include hash browns, baked beans, scrambled eggs, omelettes, Belgian waffles or pancakes.

Recess

Morning tea typically involves a grab and go snack such as sushi, fried rice, yum cha or housemade banana muffins. Nutritious and filling, it is designed to keep hungry, growing boys focused during the gap between breakfast and lunch, so they can maintain concentration in the classroom.

Lunch

Served in the dining rooms and shared with day boys, lunch is a hot meal that might be tacos, burgers, pizza or pasta, bangers and mash or beef stroganoff. There is one vegetarian and one non-vegetarian selection at lunch time. Examples of vegetarian options are vegetable rissoles, curry pies, mushroom stroganoff and Thai salad with pineapple. An open salad bar includes sliced cheese and cold cuts, and boys can make their own sandwiches or rolls to further sate their growing appetites. Beverages include orange and apple juices, milk, chilled water and cordials. St Joseph’s Saturday Pie or vegetarian spinach rolls are the Saturday mainstays, and Sunday is a barbecue by the pool, with vegetable and bean patties for vegetarians.

Dinner

�鶹��’ Crispy Chicken Schnitzel, served with steamed peas and corn and mashed potato, is the College’s favourite dish. Other dishes on four rotating weekly menus range from lasagne and beef ravioli; Moroccan or butter chicken; T-bone steak and beef rogan josh; lamb ragout with gnocchi; and roast pork with crackling. There is also a diverse range of vegetarian options, from mushroom carbonara and eggplant lasagne to hoisin tofu and vegetarian pizza. Salad and a variety of vegetables including potatoes are served each dinner time. Desserts can be as simple as jelly and custard or icecream in a cone, or as decadent as sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce.

Service of food

All menus for student meals at St Joseph’s College are assessed by Food and Nutrition Australia (FNA) to ensure they provide the recommended serves of the core food groups as defined in The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (Smith & Kellett, 1998).

The term menu is the primary source of nutrition for boarders at the College.

For more information about meals at St Joseph’s College and catering for special dietary requirement, or if you would like to make any comments or ask any questions about meals at the College, you are welcome to email the Head of Boarding, Mr John Reading: jreading@joeys.org.

Students with special dietary needs can be catered for at the College.

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DINING ROOM MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

PAST

The opening in 1957 of �鶹��’ 55-yard swimming pool, a memorial to the Old Boys who died in World War I and II, marked the first new construction at the College since 1894, when the main stone building was completed.

The 1960s was an era of major development at St Joseph’s as the number of students attending secondary school surged across Australia, including at �鶹��, and a sixth year of High School (the Higher School Certificate) was introduced.

In 1959, buildings that since the 1880s had served as laboratories, wool-classing and music rooms, a shelter shed, assembly hall, picture theatre and gym  were demolished in preparation for a new classroom and laboratory block, the Pius X wing, its 1961 opening attended by then Prime Minister Robert Menzies. The school’s original two-storey wooden building, in which the first students lived and studied, had been demolished in 1895.

By 1967, the first HSC students were housed in a new Year 12 accommodation block of individual bed-study rooms for 172 boys, making �鶹�� a national leader in facilities for boarders. New dormitory accommodation for Year 11s had also been built, as well as common rooms for both senior years, a 182-seat lecture theatre, further new classrooms and laboratories, and specialised rooms for Art and Music.

The Br Liguori Resources Centre, designed and built according to the best and latest ideas internationally in modern school libraries, opened in 1976. Marking the College’s centenary year in 1981, the Br Emilian assembly hall, incorporating a basketball court and gymnasium, followed five years later.

PRESENT

From state-of-the-art centres for Music, Drama and Visual Arts to classrooms configured for interactive learning and sporting grounds that are world class, facilities at St Joseph’s College provide boundless opportunities for every boy to discover and develop his skills and passions while achieving his best academically.

At the Technology and Arts precinct, students can explore and develop their creative talents in spacious, flexible and dynamic learning areas. The Br Louis Music Centre has specially designed practice and rehearsal rooms and a Mac computer lab for digital producing.

The Science wing is purpose-built while the well-equipped Resources Centre is integral to teaching and learning at �鶹��, developing in students lifelong learning skills and a love of reading. 

The College’s acclaimed sporting facilities include eight rugby fields, two football fields, five tennis courts, indoor and outdoor basketball courts and cricket nets, five turf and six artificial cricket wickets, a swimming pool, a 400-metre running track, weights and cardio gymnasiums and a rowing shed located on Tarban Creek.

The College Health Centre provides a professional, on-site health service for students that operates 24 hours, 7 days a week during term times.

And the College has its own beautiful, newly restored Chapel, where regular masses are held for students and the wider �鶹�� community, and many an Old Boy is married.

Grounds and locations

The �鶹�� sporting facilities are all located within walking distance of the main school campus in Hunters Hill. Via the Mark Street gates, visitors will access the College pool, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, College A, B and C rugby fields, music and drama performance and rehearsal space, along with the Br Emilian Hall, Farrell Audtorium, and Br Michael Naughtin theatre. 

The main playing fields (1,2,3, and 4), Lower Park football field and the College Tennis centre are located within a five minute walk from the Mark Street gates, on Augustine Street Hunters Hill. 

Throughout the summer sport season, cricket is played on College A and B, which is located on the main campus, through the Gladesville Road gates.
The �鶹�� Boat Shed is home to our rowing teams, and is located at Joly Parade Hunters Hill.

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Boarding facilities

YEARS 7 - 9

Year 7 to 9 dormitories are located on the upper floors of the College’s historic sandstone building, where boarders have been sleeping since the 1890s.

The facilities, however, are greatly enhanced compared to years gone by, including in the larger space assigned to each boy.

In modern, comfortable, attractive dormitories fully refurbished in 2013, each year group has its own shower block and each boy has a bed, small desk and a locker in his press area, which is where he keeps all his possessions.

During down time in the dormitories, the boys can play ping-pong or pool, or watch a movie in dedicated TV areas with plenty of space to lounge.

The open, inclusive nature of the dormitory design in these junior years contributes to the formation of strong, family-like bonds between boys in the same year group, and boys who are themselves engaged and happy, supported by friends and compassionate boarding staff who live on-site or close to the College.

YEAR 10

Accommodation for Year 10 boarders is dormitory style but gives special regard to privacy and study facilities. Press areas are roomier than those of the younger boys and comprise a bed, large desk, shelving and locker, with a high partition separating each of them. 

The accommodation for 220 boys is in a modern, well-equipped, purpose-built building opened in 2000, opposite the playing fields known as the Back Ovals and next to the College’s outdoor basketball courts.

The boys have their own large common room with kitchen and lounges, where in their down time they can play billiards and table tennis and watch TV.

YEAR 11

Year 11 boarders have similar living arrangements to the Year 10s with their emphasis on privacy and study facilities. The spacious press areas in the dormitory-style accommodation are separated by high partitions and each has a bed, large desk, shelving and locker.

The purpose-built, well-equipped Year 11 block is a stone’s throw from the main building and home to more than 150 boys who have access to a large common room with kitchen, lounges and TV, and games including billiards and table tennis.

YEAR 12

The modern, purpose-built Year 12 boarding block has more than 170 spacious individual bed-study rooms with expansive desks and shelving that reflect the academic needs of young men studying for their HSC.

They have access to shared relaxation and recreation areas, including an undercover al fresco dining area with barbecues adjacent to the common room, where there are billiard and table tennis tables, a kitchen, lounges and television.

Breakout communal study spaces in the dormitories are equipped with round tables, whiteboards and screens, enabling the boys to work collaboratively to assist and support each other through the crucial HSC year.

Your son’s comfort

The typical school week for a �鶹�� boy is a busy one, scheduled with classes and before- and after-school activities including music, debating and sports practice. Boarders eat three meals a day together in dining rooms allocated to each year group; day boys join them for lunch and, if they are staying until 8pm, for dinner too.

Saturdays are also busy with the boys’ commitments across the summer and winter sports competitions.

That’s why Sundays are dedicated to rest and recreation for boarders who have stayed on campus.

Sunday lunch is a barbecue around the College pool. Afterwards, boarders in Years 7 to 9 have the opportunity to head out with senior boarding staff for a range of activities through the year including movies, rock climbing, fishing and bikeriding, as well as visits to the beach, Homebush Aquatic Centre and Paddy’s Market.

Boys in Years 10 to 12 are given more independence, in line with the life skills they need to be developing at that age. With permission from parents and supervisors, they can take themselves to the beach, movies or shopping, and be back at �鶹�� for dinner.

Boarders also take full advantage of the College’s extensive sporting facilities. The Back Ovals, the gym and the pool are all popular, supervised spots on weekends.

But there is recreation built in through the week. For Years 7 to 10, downtime in the dormitories before lights out is a time for relaxing, reading, sleeping and other quiet forms of recreation. There is no loud music or rowdy behaviour and games, especially ball games; there are plenty of other times for the latter on �鶹��’ playing fields and courts, including after school before study sessions begin as well as on the weekends. On Friday evenings, Years 7 to 9 head to the Park in Augustine Street for a barbecue dinner and game of touch footy, while the older boys can head up the street for pizza.   

Back inside the dormitories, each boarding area has a TV, DVD player and Foxtel for use by the boys, with permission of supervisors, during evening recreation or on weekends at allotted times. Boys can also pit their skills against each other at table tennis and billiards.

Learning facilities

ART PRECINCT

The College’s Visual Arts building, completed in 2013, was conceptualised as a space of transformation. Boys entering the state-of-the-art facility know immediately that they are in a different thinking and learning space to other areas of the school. Flooded with light from enormous windows looking across the school’s Back Ovals and beyond, the building is a series of dynamic studio spaces connected to each other in a design that fosters creativity and collaboration.

Within the one senior and three junior multi-purpose studios are the resources for teaching and learning, from Year 7 to the HSC, the practice and theory of Visual Arts including printmaking, painting, sculpture and drawing. There is also a digital studio, a lighting studio and a dark room, with photography a popular component of the Visual Arts program.

The versatility of the studio spaces also allows for the hosting of an artist in residence each year, and the work of boys from Years 7 to 12 is celebrated annually through the Student Art Exhibition held in the College’s Farrell Auditorium.

TAS PRECINCT

With 20 courses under its umbrella, from Food and Agriculture to Software Design and Development, the Technological and Applied Studies (TAS) faculty is a lively and diverse area of St Joseph’s College.

Many of its hands-on courses are taught in specialist, open-plan spaces purpose-built in the College’s most recent major development.

The technology-rich learning environment for design and manufacturing is among the best in the state, allowing boys to develop the skills to use future-focused equipment.

In Industrial Technology, a computer numeric control (CNC) router allows for automated manufacturing, in which boys working with wood produce a file that tells the computer precisely what they want it to do. In Year 11, for instance, this is their own flat-pack furniture design. In the metal workshop, where many boys make equipment for their family properties such as silos, firepits, cattle runs and feeders, a CNC plasma cutter allows for the same computer-based manufacturing but using metal.

Students of graphics technology subjects have access to 3D printers, sublimation printers for T-shirt designs, vinyl cutters to produce stickers, and CNC laser cutters for projects using materials such as paper, card, plywood and plastic.

The wood and metal workshops are also well equipped with manual and electrical hand tools, and machinery such as table routers, disc sanders and welders. A sophisticated extraction system keeps the air clean, and theory is taught in newly upgraded seminar rooms that also act as breakout spaces for the boys.

RESOURCE CENTRE

From book clubs and breakfasts to Body in the Library murder mysteries and Japanese Manga festivals, the Br Ligouri Resources Centre is dedicated to supporting the boys’ learning in fun and interactive ways, and to fostering a life-long love of reading. Its busy schedule of activities and events takes place within a light-filled, book-lined, state-of-the-art facility with soaring ceilings and a variety of settings for boys to study, collaborate quietly or simply read a book.

It is a dynamic and welcoming space where Library staff teach information and research skills to the students and assist them in exploring the Centre’s extensive collection of print and digital resources. The Centre’s website is a rich resource containing links to its catalogue, general research databases and study guides, as well as a Books and Reading section aimed at encouraging and supporting the boys in their reading.

MUSIC & PERFROMING ARTS

Performing Arts at �鶹�� brings a tremendous richness and energy to the College community. The music and drama facilities in turn reflect a passionate commitment to not only engaging the boys in a range of experiences and developing their talents, but also instilling in them a life-long appreciation for the arts.

Music has a central place in the cultural, spiritual and educational life of St Joseph’s College, not least through its 25 music ensembles, three choirs and a deeply held liturgical singing tradition that involves every boy throughout his school years.

Learning an instrument is compulsory for Year 7s. Each boy is allocated one of the 25 instruments in which tuition is offered across strings, woodwind, brass, keyboard, percussion and voice, and can hire an instrument from the school.

There are more than 20 highly qualified part-time tutors and four full-time teachers working out of the Br Louis Music Centre, which is open and supervised from 7am to 10pm each evening.

The Centre comprises more than 40 practice studios, two large rehearsal/teaching rooms, an Apple Mac computer lab, a music library and a mobile recording facility. The rehearsal spaces double as teaching spaces and each is equipped with Prometheum Smartboards, data projector, iMac control computer and 16 channel sound system for playback and recording.

Students who choose Drama, an elective subject from Year 9 onwards, become well acquainted with the Drama Studio, where several productions are staged each year. The Studio seats 100 and is equipped with a lighting rig, sound system, AV, a set and costume store, dressing room and green room.

Every two years the College stages a school musical, bringing together the dramatic, musical and technical talents of the students in spectacular fashion.

LEARNING SPACES

In newly refurbished laboratories in the Br Angelus Science Wing, walls and desks have become whiteboards on which boys brandishing markers instead of biros plan experiments and present research data to the class. The ergonomic and adaptable space allows for collaborative small-group learning as well as individual learning. Students take pride in creating beautiful and detailed work, and take photographs of it for future reference.

The state-of-the-art labs represent the College’s commitment to interactive and engaging learning facilities that reflect best practice in education, enabling all the different ways that boys learn in a contemporary world. The traditional ‘chalk and talk’ teaching method maintains a key place, but �鶹��’ classrooms are also increasingly equipped for other teaching and learning styles that best suit the needs of individual boys.

The modern, air-conditioned classrooms are also equipped with AV and other technology to enable digital-rich learning. Every boy has a Macbook laptop as part of the 1:1 Learning Program, which is supported by wireless internet access throughout the campus and highly trained staff, allowing digital technology to be integrated across the curriculum in a multitude of exciting and engaging ways.

Colo - outdoor learning

On 30 hectares of land on the Colo River adjoining the World Heritage-listed Wollemi National Park, �鶹�� boys step beyond their comfort zones into what Head of Outdoor Education Paul Bryant describes as “a rich and frankly magnificent classroom”.

Amid a landscape of eucalypt and rain forests and Hawkesbury sandstone cliffs, boys take part in activities including rock-climbing, bushwalking, orienteering, canoeing and mountain-biking. There is an adventure ropes course to tackle and bushcraft to learn, all the while fostering team-building skills, personal and interpersonal growth, and a greater connection to the country.

About 45 kilometres north-west of Windsor, the Colo Outdoor Education Centre has been owned and operated by the College since 1986. It is staffed by highly trained and experienced outdoor education teachers who play their own defining part in helping boys on their journey to becoming resilient, competent, caring and confident young men. The staff also maintain an outstanding safety record.

Boys in Years 7, 8 and 9 head in small groups for Colo through the school year for three- or four-night camps designed to incorporate a sense of adventure and challenge. They sleep in cabins that have their own showers, toilets and relaxation areas, and prepare their own meals in the well-equipped kitchen and dining hall.

General bushwalking equipment on site, such as rucksacks, sleeping bags, raincoats and tents, allow for overnight camping expeditions on the property. Canadian canoes and mountain bikes are also on Colo’s extensive outdoor equipment inventory.

Facility hire

St Joseph’s College offers a variety of venues and facilities available for hire for corporate events, conferences, sports camps and a range of other functions. 

The College is located an easy 15-minute drive from Sydney CBD and is easily accessible by public transport. Its extensive grounds, first-class sports fields, character-filled sandstone buildings, flexible meeting spaces and technology-rich facilities make it an excellent venue for a wide range of events.

The College also offers on-site accommodation, dining rooms and a full catering service (provided by Alliance Catering), making organisation of your event simple and cost effective. 

Facilities are available for hire during school holidays, subject to availability.

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