St Columba's School, Bayswater

A wonderful celebration of 90 years of St Columba's School, Bayswater. 🎉

It was great to catch up with Principal Gina Burns and former Principals Greg Martin and Art Lombardi as the school marked this significant milestone.

Congratulations to the students, staff, families and alumni who have helped make St Cols such an important part of our community over the past 90 years.

On Wednesday our student leaders, along with Mrs Burns and Mrs McLeod, joined other schools for the Archbishop's 2026 LifeLink Day launch for Primary Schools.
Through our support of LifeLink, we are reaching out with love and compassion to help our brothers and sisters in need, and in doing so, walking in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd.

Our 90th Birthday celebrations continued yesterday.
Students came to school dressed in fashions from decades gone by.
The Vintage glamour of the 1950's, the Boho style of the 1960's, the disco glamour of the 1970's (I even saw Agnetha from Abba) and of course the pop style of the 1980's (Even Kylie Minogue's song 'Locomotion' was played as the students entered the classroom in the morning).
Students enjoyed a cup cake at recess and a bit of dancing the YMCA could be seen after lunch.

St Columba’s Feast Day Celebrations Schedule

Yesterday saw the commencement of our 90th Birthday celebration week.
We started the week with a beautiful mass celebrated by Fr Mark.
Our special guests included Executive Director of Catholic Education, Annette Morey, Ex-Principals and staff; Dan Bull MLA; Sisters of Mercy who have worked here over the years; Parents; friends and of course our staff and students in Years 3-6.
All students at St Columba's received a commemorative lapel pin that were blessed by Fr at mass.
A lovely morning tea was enjoyed by staff and guests after mass and the students had an extended recess break. Winners all round.

Faction Cross Country results:

1st - Columbanus 1118pts
2nd - McAuley 1074pts
3rd - Pascal 931pts
4th - Russell 784pts.

Congratulations Columbanus.

Another successful cross country held yesterday. The rain held off for most of the day. Even Mr Banks made an appearance.
Congratulations to all students, you are all winners.

Watch this space for faction results early next week.......

Hi St Cols families!

Next week, we will be starting our Jump Rope for Heart program. This is a fantastic fundraising and physical activity program by the Heart Foundation.

Information regarding the program and how to register has already been posted to seesaw by Mr Banks, but just in case you missed it, register your child/ren via this link: www.jumprope.org.au/parents and get access to additional skipping resources to help give your child a great reason to get away from the screens and get outdoors!

Donations can also be made directly to the school as well! Just follow the link below.
https://www.jumprope.org.au/fundraisers/stcolumbasschool-bayswater-2026

We look forward to getting involved in this wonderful and fun program.

www.jumprope.org.au

A few more photos of our beautiful St Cols mums and kids from yesterday’s ‘Muffin with Mum’ morning .

A big Thank You to the Pastoral Care team for organising the raffle, to the dads that helped serve and clean up, to our students that entertained us and to the P&F for a very enjoyable morning.