Subject: australasia #402

Date: Friday, 11 August 2000 4:58 PM

MURDERERS, DRUGGIES, THIEVES AND THUGS: NO MATCH FOR ST JOHN BOSCO IN

OLYMPIC CITY

Chris Ford

SYDNEY:  10th August -- The St John Bosco (College, Engadine) Mock Trial

Team has been competing throughout the year in the state competition and

have just successfully advanced to the final sixteen schools in New South

Wales.  The talented Year 11 students are working under the tutelage of

their Legal Studies teacher, Mrs Rhonda Thompson and parent, Mr John Hart.

The team has prosecuted and defended murderers, drug cultivators, thieves

and thugs.  They now lead all of Eastern Sydney as the only remaining team

from the area.

That's not all that St. John Bosco's has been achieving. Staff and students

from St John Bosco College are celebrating an Olympic victory even before

the Games have begun.  A song sung by the students has been selected to be

included in the Opening Ceremony of the Games.  Early last year a combined

Bosco College and Bosco Primary choir recorded a demonstration tape of a

song called Under Southern Skies.  The song was written and composed by

Mrs Maria Millward, a former Bosco teacher, and her brother, Mr Damien

Halloran, a former Bosco student.  It was one of thousands of songs

submitted in a competition for inclusion in the Olympic celebrations.  The

song has been chosen as one of four songs to be included in the Opening

Ceremony.