The theme for Mrs Moon’s Year 4 class assembly last Friday 16 June was 'World Explorers'. The Year 4 students have been ‘exploring’ this theme across History, English and Technology & Enterprise during this term.
The assembly began with a brief introduction to the 'Age of Exploration', during the fifteenth to seventeenth century, and the influences that these journeys had on the world.
The Year 5 and 6 students represented our College at the South West Primary Schools Association (SWPSA) Winter Sports Carnival on Thursday 8 June, at Hay Park in Bunbury. Students chose to participate in hockey, netball, football or soccer in teams against other schools, on what turned out to be a gorgeous winter’s day with sunny blue skies.
There was beautiful sushi, flavourful curry and decadent pancakes, but it was chocolate and berries that won over our judges and their tastebuds in the Year 9 Junior MasterChef cook-off last week.
Our Year 9 Food and Nutrition students have been learning an array of cooking techniques and methods this term, which culminated in a ‘Junior Master Chef’ competition last week to put their new skills to the test.
On Monday and Tuesday the Scitech Roadshow visited the Secondary campus, engaging Year 7-9 students in a number of colourful and energetic presentations designed to stimulate interest in science. They explored some of the innovations that are opening up science career prospects across a range of industries.
The ‘High Tea for Timor’ has become one of the highlights of the College’s social calendar, not only as a great celebration of community, but also as a significant fundraising event for the communities and schools we support each year in East Timor.
St Mary MacKillop College students competed well in the 2017 ACC Cross Country event, held on Thursday 1 June at Alderbury Reserve in Perry Lakes, Perth. With a total of 67 schools competing across ten categories, seven of our teams finished in the top 20 for their category, with an impressive sixth place for the U/13 Boys’ team, as well as seventh place for both the U/15 Girls’ and U/16 Boys’ teams.
Occasional showers did not dampen student spirits at the Primary campus Inter-House Athletics Carnival on the College oval Thursday 18 May. Parents were kept warm and fed with the Yahava coffee van and an endless supply of delicious treats from the P&F cake stall.
It was a busy Week Five for a group of Year 10 students who elected to participate in Try-a-Trade Week: completing a number of building and construction activities at our off site facilities in the Busselton Trade Training Centre.
Students spent the week working towards their White Card certification and learning how to set out and lay bricks and brick pavers while constructing a courtyard.
Students from Year 8 & 9 attended the Sorry Day event held at Wellington Square in East Perth on Friday 26 May. The event was a fantastic opportunity for our students to join in the discussion on Reconciliation, to recognise the resilience and strength of Australia’s first people, and to celebrate their history and the breadth of Indigenous culture.
“It’s a story about perseverance. It’s a story about training. It’s a story about cows smacking into meteorites and hot air balloons, and sand dunes.”
All of our Primary classes enjoyed reading The Cow Tripped over the Moon last Wednesday for the National Simultaneous Story-time.