St John’s College Hastings Rugby 2023 Australia tour

04/11/2023

Morena everyone
Saturday 11th November and Sunday 12th
Approx 12-6pm & Anderson Park
Directing the traffic to park correctly so there is not chaos at the end of the night
Most of you have done this before
We are looking for 8 people for Saturday and 8 people for sunday

Parents - I am looking for 2 parents to supervise the lads both days
Ritchie and I will show you what you need to do on Saturday for the 1st 2 hours and then we are unavailable for the rest of the weekend unfortunately.
Please let me know if this is possible
Spread the word to all levels of rugby at the school :)

09/07/2023

Just a few random photos from my phone 🙂

06/07/2023

DEV TEAM SCORE: 19-0 to Waverley at half time.

06/07/2023

Happy Birthday Kane!

05/07/2023

After rain yesterday, the sun came out and put on a great show for our visit to the famous Bondi beach.
The boys said the water was warm !!

04/07/2023

INFO ABOUT TOMORROWS GAMES!

FINAL GAMES IN AUSTRALIA 💙❤️🦅

Tomorrow, the team hit the fields at Waverley College in Sydney to play their development team and 1st XV. These are their last games in Aus.

DEVELOPMENT TEAM KICK OFF: 1PM (3PM NZST)

1ST XV KICK OFF: 2:30PM (4:30PM NZST)

The atmosphere was amazing at our first games on Saturday in Canberra and we are hoping it’s even better tomorrow!

All the best to them, we hope they go well!

03/07/2023

Many hands make light work 🙂
Awesome effort lads - now just to figure out who owns what 😂

01/07/2023

AMAZING WIN!

29-24 to SJC, great win for the team. More photos coming tonight.

01/07/2023

Half time chat is on fire today 🔥

01/07/2023

Big game just gone, another to come!

30/06/2023

What a beautiful day it was today!

This morning we went into the city and walked around exploring around the Sydney Opera House! Some students chose to try out the E-Bikes in the area! We also met a lot of Ibis birds or ‘bin chickens’ as they are nicknamed here is Aus.

Once we arrived back at St Ignatius, the boys had a bit of free time before they jumped right into training to prepare for our first two games tomorrow in Canberra.

We also had our first served dinners at the school tonight and it was delicious! Hopefully the boys aren’t camera shy during the games tomorrow like they were at dinner!

Can’t wait to keep everyone updated with our adventures and excitement tomorrow with the train trip and games.

Situated in the school buildings are hundreds of beautiful historic photos which display the great age of this school. Included is a photo of the school rowing team from 1884 and their 1st XV from 1905. Such a beautiful school and school grounds, we are so lucky to be here.

Onto the next day full of fun! 💙❤️🦅

29/06/2023

Morena families

Day 1 done!

What a massive , massive day.
The young mean were fabulous and great to travel with, no complaints with any flight delays, waits for customs etc

Highlights so far -
Boys behaviour
Customs ( 3 pat downs 🙂 )
Seeing Sydney from the air at night
Our hostel
Emma and Brendon’s very late night pizza dash for the boys - save us $200 on delivery! delivery was per pizza -

We have arrived at St Ignatius.
A beautiful school of 110 acres set along the river
The student roll here is 2000 students .

Off to Sydney Harbour for some sight seeing today

We will post another update tonight