Year 10 Student Council member, Finlaey Hewlett, has been the driving force behind last week’s activities to mark Mental Health Week at the College.
She said she always admired how much the College community focuses on taking care of students as a whole, not just on an academic level. “The mental health of both students and staff is a key part of this,” she added.
Students across Years 5 and 6 participated in the first of our new leadership workshops aimed at Primary students on Friday, facilitated by Mark Clayden from ‘4 The Team’.
All Year 5 students attended a presentation given by Mark in the morning, where they explored personal skills and being the best YOU that you can be. Students then participated in a number of team building games that focused on ‘guts’, resilience, and having the attitude of “I Can”.
On Monday 11 September, educator and composer John Burland visited the Primary campus to present a celebration of catholic faith through the gifts of music and song.
The students enjoyed learning some beautiful new songs, with actions to go along with them, during this fun and interactive workshop with classes from Pre Primary to Year 6.
The Year 5 class of Room 14 put in an amazing effort to get their Assembly up and running on Friday, with Mr Cotterell away. They took the audience on a journey through time and space with Dr Who and his Tardis, beginning with a visit to the Australian goldfields during the gold rush of […]
The St Mary MacKillop College Athletics Squad boarded the bus at 5am to travel to Perth to compete in the ACC ‘D’ Division Athletics Carnival held at the State Athletics Centre, Challenge Stadium on Monday 11 September.
Congratulations to Year 12 Reuben Thew, whose individual achievements earned him second place competitor in the Open Male age category for the carnival, and to Year 7 Gabriel Doolan who placed fourth in the U13 Male age category.
Mrs Tilley’s Year 2 class shared the joys of grammar in their assembly at the end of Week 6 – and it was MUCH more exciting than it sounds!
The class began by demonstrating, very colourfully, examples of nouns and adjectives. Each student had drawn a picture of a different animal and came dressed as that animal, with some fantastic costumes thanks to the parents.
Mr Magee’s Year 4 class shared what they had been learning about in English this term all about Advertising. They looked at a number of techniques used by advertisers when writing advertisements to persuade people to buy their product. Students applied what they had learned to create posters advertising the assembly, which they displayed around the school.
Year 6 students received the Sacrament of Confirmation at Our Lady of the Bay Church, in Busselton on Sunday 20 August.
All students in Year 6 have focused on learning about the sacrament and their own spiritual growth over the past term. The 44 candidates were very well prepared, with plenty of support from classmates during their journey.
On Friday 25th of August, the Year 11 students enjoyed a night of dancing and socialising at their annual Spring Fling. There was plenty of excitement and enthusiasm for this highly anticipated event, as the students arrived in their finest attire and entered the Arabian themed night.
Year 7 students celebrated Book Week recently with a ‘fantasy hat tea party’ in the library at recess.
Staff decorated the Library entrance as a wardrobe portal into Narnia, complete with coat rack, snow covered trees and lamppost.
The library invited students to create a hat or mask based on a fantasy creature or imaginative creation of their own.