St Mary MacKillop College entered two inaugural teams in the Robo Cup Junior Dance competition at Curtin University in Perth on Friday 4 August.
The two teams of four students from Years 5 and 6 began by first learning how to program the Lego EV3 Mindstorm robots, before preparing for the competition during a series of after-school sessions.
This year’s Canberra trip was thoroughly enjoyed by the thirty lucky students and three staff. The group experienced most of Canberra’s major tourist icons including the National Art Gallery, CSIRO, Questacon, the Australian Institute of Sport, the High Court of Australia, Parliament House, Old Parliament House, the Royal Australian Mint and the National Arboretum.
Two Year 12 students from St Mary MacKillop College have once again won awards at the annual Secondary Angelico Art Exhibition, which opened in Perth last Monday.
The exhibition at the Forrest Centre in St Georges Terrace displays impressive artwork from Catholic schools across the state each year as part of the WA Catholic Arts Festival.
Students at St Mary MacKillop College have raised more than $9000 for World Vision during their 40hr Famine Backpack Challenge held over the weekend, topping the list of participating WA schools this year.
Seventy-five students from the College signed up online to participate in the challenge, and set to work on their initial $5000 fundraising target.
On August 1 three Netball teams left MacKillop at 5:30am, grateful for a warm bus, and were soon singing along to a great playlist provided by the Year 12s. Three hours later, a bus of soon-to-be Australian Diamonds were ready to take on their opponents in the state elimination finals of the High Schools Netball Cup.
This year, for the first time, the Secondary campus invited Year 6 students to join in their MacKillop Day celebrations following the College Mass.
After recess Mr Norton came over and collected the two Year 6 classes, who joined in with the Year 9 students manning rides on the oval: the bungy run, gladiators and mechanical bull.
A team of 24 Year 7 boys travelled up to Hay Park in Bunbury last Tuesday to represent the College in the ACC Freo Dockers Cup. Their first game against Mandurah Baptist College was a convincing start to the carnival, with the boys achieving a four goal win.
Year 12 Hospitality students conducted a full Mexican Fiesta themed function for family members on Tuesday evening that included great food, live music and table service.
The evening began with welcome mocktails and an entrée of Chicken Fajitas with Mexican style Grilled Corn.
Our Primary students have the opportunity to explore the world of gymnastics this term, thanks to two grants from Sporting Schools.
Students in Pre Primary to Year 3 have spent the last four weeks learning a number of skills during sessions run by Joanne Hill from Horizon Gymnastics.
On Thursday 27 July Ms Clews, Miss Evans and Mrs Farmer took our top 49 cross country runners from Years 3-6 to the SWPSA Interschool Cross Country event in Bunbury to represent the College. The event was held at Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, where our students competed against 11 other Catholic and Independent schools in the South West and Great Southern region.