Our Year 7 students participated in an activity organised by Heritage Malta at the Domus Rumana named Pax Rumana. The students visited the museum and participated in several activities. They had a treasure hunt, they created an artistic piece of mosaic to take with them, and they had a role play about the story of Kajjus Verres. Our students had also time for recreation at Howard Gardens and enjoyed the picturesque view of Mdina.
We thank Mr Nathan Buttigieg, our history teacher who organised this outing and the LSEs who accompanied him.
On Wednesday, 26th April, 2023 a group of students from our school took part in a chess tournament for schools organised by the Maltese Chess Federation. This tournament was held at St Ignatius College in Ħandaq. Every school had eight teams of three students each. A total of sixty teams from public schools, church schools and private schools participated in this tournament. This means that more 200 students were present. Our school took part with ten teams.
The atmosphere was full of tension and excitment for the students who gave their utmost during the games played. Unfortunately, due to the complicated logistics of having a large number of teams participating not all planned games were played. In fact the Federation decided that the first five teams shall continue the competition another time. Out of sixty teams and after four rounds, two teams from our school qualified with the best five and made it to the final.
The team ‘St Michael Tal’ was composed by Luke Xerri, Jake Cascun, Eric Zahra and Julian Zammit and the other team ‘St Michael Magnus’ was made up of Kyle Cassar, Isaac Sacco and Kieran Paul Abela. We congratulate them for their success.
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On Monday, 1st May the Chess final was held for the first five teams who qualified from the sixty teams who took part in the first phase of this tournament. Our school was represented by the two qualifying teams ‘St Michael Tal’ and ‘St Michael Magnus’ made up of Julian Zammit, Jake Cascun and Luke Xerri.
The final was played on the round robin basis, meaning, everyone plays against each other. The team ‘St Michael Tal’ managed to place second after St Theresa College, Mrieħel Secondary who placed first. ‘St Michael Magnus’ placed fourth.
Kieran Paul Abela won the title of the second best player on Board 2, while Luke Xerri won the Best Player on Board 3.
We congratulate all the participants. A big well done to the Maltese Chess Federation especially Mr Duncan Vella, Mr Robert Novak, Mr Ron Sammut and Ms Jamie Farrugia for organising this tournament. We thank Mr Alex Farrugia for his dedication to teach Chess to our students.
Members of the Eco School Committee who are in Year 8 were invited at the HSBC National Centre. Our students had the opportunity to visit their offices and other places accessible to the bank employees. They were asked to point out what could be improved in the premises for the benefit of the employees and the environment itself. Our Year 8 students then discussed with Ms Lorraine Zammit these opinions.
We would like to thank HSBC Malta, especially Mr Glenn Bugeja and Ms Lorraine Zammit for giving this opportunity to our students.
On the 23rd April, we celebrate the World Book Day. During this week at school, we celebrated this event by inviting two famous Maltese authors Rita Camilleri and Clare Azzopardi. Ms Camilleri met our Year 8 and 9 students and shared her experience as an authoress with them. Ms Clare Azzopardi had a reading session with Year 7 students and met our Year 10 students. During this week we also organised a book sale with reduced prices in the school foyer.
We believe in reading and urge our students to read. Reading helps learning new things, improves writing skills and increases vocabulary. Books increase the knowledge about cultures and past eras. Besides this, reading opens your mind when it comes to discussing certain matters. We are pleased that a good number of students in our school visit the library regularly to borrow books.
We would like to thank Mr Falzon, our librarian for his work in the library and our Maltese teachers for co-ordinating the meetings with the Maltese authors Ms Camilleri and Ms Azzopardi.
As part of the Book Week we had a special reading session at school organised by the Minister of Education and the Minister of Inclusion. Our Year 7 students gathered in the school hall for this reading session from the book entitled “Jien u Beppe, Beppe u jien”, a book which Beppe Caruana a Year 7 student wrote together with the authoress of various Maltese books Clare Azzopardi.
This session was co-ordinated by our Maltese teachers and involved Gabriel and Miguel Casha, two Year 7 students who acted as comperes during this reading session. The Hon Minister Dr Clifton Grima, Education Minister and Hon Julia Farrugia Portelli, Inclusion Minister read the book “Jien u Beppe, Beppe u jien” together with Clare Azzopardi.
During this session Clare Azzopardi explained to those present the idea behind this book.
After Beppe presented his new book “Jien Fekruna tal Baħar” to the Ministers. We then invited Francesco Mangion and Stephen Edwards, Beppe’s friends to read this book.
To conclude this session, the Headmaster addressed the students by mentioning the project launched by the President of Malta, : “L-ilsien Malti għal qalbi” and emphasised the need for students to appreciate the Maltese language and urged them to read Maltese books. Mr D’Amato thanked the Education and Inclusion Ministers for joining us during this reading session and thanked the LSEs for their excellent work with the students.
It is always our pleasure to welcome parents at school.
Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 26th April we invited parents of our students for a meeting at school. During the first meeting Dr David Aloisio spoke about the importance of the Maltese language and how it should be used. The second part of the meeting was addressed by the Headmaster who shared experiences and advice to help the parents understand more their children now that they are growing into adolescents. During these meetings, Mr Oliver Aquilina, our Chaplain explained the school Ethos.
We thank those parents for welcoming our invitation and attended for these meetings.
Monday, 24th April and Tuesday, 25th April, our Year 8 students had a fieldwork outing in Buskett. During this fieldwork they observed different types of plants and insects. They learnt how these plants adapt themselves to the Maltese climate and learnt about indigenous and endemic animals. This fieldwork forms part of the Science syllabus.
We would like to thank Ms Maria Caruana and Ms Alison Bahmuller, our science teachers for co-ordinating this fieldwork and for their work with our students at school. Thanks also to the LSEs who accompanied the students.
On Friday, 21st April group of Year 10 Biology students had a visit to the National Blood Donation Centre in Gwardamangia. During this visit they had the opportunity to note the procedure one goes through when blood is donated. The students also visited the laboratories which are used to process the blood. The need for blood donation is always a necessity and donating blood is always a good deed of solidarity to save lives. We would like to thank Ms Maria Caruana, our Biology teacher who organised this outing and Dr Melissa Debono for accompanying her.
