On Wednesday the 3rd of August, six Year 9 students were selected from extension science classes to attend Aurecon’s annual Bridge-Building competition at Scitech in Perth. Schools from regional and metropolitan areas all gathered to battle it out in the name of prize money and bragging rights.
On Friday 22 July at 5:30am Mr Horrocks and Ms Stark took the Senior boys and the Year 8 netball teams up to Perth to compete in a fun filled day. The whole day I was impressed with the amazing efforts from the Year 8 girls, who kept their chins up while versing some talented schools. They showed determination and strength to head back out on the court and give it another go after losing three games in a row.
Members of our Student Council were invited to ‘Have a Say’ about the future growth of the Busselton community at a workshop facilitated by the City of Busselton’s VISION 2030 team at the College on Monday afternoon.
Year 12 MacKillop student Marcus Lazic-Dawes played in a strong representative team from the South West Football League who returned as Colts champions from the Landmark Country Football carnival during the holiday break.
Competing over three days, the SWFL Colts defeated Regional Districts and Northern Suns on Friday before losing to Great Southern on Sturday.
Last Friday’s Assembly was co-ordinated by Mr Thomson’s Year 3 class, who have been looking at our College value of Inclusion. They have been listening to ‘dreamtime’ stories as they learn about Aboriginal culture in their recent History lessons. Students showed some of their own versions of traditional dot paintings by various Indigenous artists.
For more than ten years, MacKillop has offered its Year 11 students a unique four-session unit developed by the College and especially targeted for this age group, as part of our structured Pastoral Care Program. The College counsellor and male and female teachers facilitate separate gender group sessions for students across four PCP timeslots during term 3.
Sixteen Pre Primary students have graduated from the ELK Room’s MiniLit Program for Semester One. The students have thoroughly enjoyed fun based daily literacy sessions to enhance their knowledge, and have taken the time to share their experiences with their class peers.
On Thursday our Primary Cross Country stars travelled to Bunbury to compete in the SWSPA Cross Country Carnival at Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School. The students had been attending before school training sessions for five weeks leading up to the day, with many continuing through the holiday break.
Our primary students will be taking part in a 'Read to Rio' Book Challenge, to coincide with the Olympic Games.
The challenge is to read as many books as you can from the school library over the two weeks beginning Monday 8 August (weeks 4 and 5). The library is open before and after school (8:00am – 3:45pm) and during lunchtimes for students to swap books, and a tally will be kept of the number of books that each student reads.
Soa Palelei, a Mixed Martial Arts expert, visited the College on Friday, 22 July, to talk with the Year 10 boys about his life. Soa has just released a book entitled Face Your Fears. The presentation included a talk about his life and the challenges Soa has faced, and more importantly, overcome. He also held a Q&A session with the boys.