On Friday 12th August, twenty students from Year 10 and Year 11 participated in the P.A.R.T.Y Programme.
Held at St John of God Hospital in Bunbury, the PARTY Programme (Preventing Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth), engages students in a number of presentations that educate young people about the life changing consequences of certain risk taking behaviours, particularly when travelling in vehicles, and in the company of drugs.
A Year 12 student from St Mary MacKillop College has once again received the top award at the 23rd Angelico Art Exhibition in Perth’s Forrest Centre. Emma Craig was presented with the 2016 Fra Angelico Award on Tuesday night at the opening of the annual exhibition of artwork selected from Catholic high schools across the state.
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.
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.
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.
At the end of last term the College welcomed five students from Italy, who are staying with Year 11 host families until the end of August as part of an exchange program with the WA Association of Teachers of Italian (WAATI). Their aim is to live an ‘in-home experience’ and get a feel for Australian life at the very heart of it.
Congratulations to the following Senior School students who were presented with Academic Excellence Awards today for their efforts this semester. All of these students achieved A grades in over half of their courses, with no less than a C grade across all courses.
Well done to all the boys who represented our College with pride, sportsmanship and endeavour in the ACC Hockey Challenge in Bunbury on Thursday 23 June. Our team comprised of boys from Year 7 through to Year 12, and unfortunately on the day we came up against stronger and more balanced opposition teams on the day, with our opposition mainly being Year 11 and 12 students.