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.
The College and Parish community came together on Sunday morning, 28 May, as 47 Year 4 students celebrated their First Eucharist at Our Lady of the Bay Church.
It was a wonderful mass with Father Gerome as our celebrant. The primary choir sang beautifully, and we thank Mrs Milicich and Mr Grace for their musical leadership.
AARGH! Me Mateys – the 2017 Book Fair was a Grrreat success. Students, staff and parents alike all arrived dressed as pirates, with a parrot, a few mermaids and even a treasure chest thrown in, to enjoy the activities and food in the Primary campus’ undercover area.
St Mary MacKillop College Year 7/8 teams took out third and fifth places in the inaugural WA Inter School Mountain Bike Challenge on Sunday 21 May.
Tom Meyer, Kelly Harding and Corey Bottica from Year 8, along with Denham Stewart, Ethan Lauro and Toby East from Year 7, represented the College in the 3 hour event in wet conditions on the Kambarang bike track east of Donnybrook.
The cold, wet weather on Friday 19 May might have postponed the Primary Athletics Carnival, but it created perfect conditions for Year 10 student Lucinda Palmer’s campaign as part of the College’s Casual Dress for a Cause day.
Casual Dress for a Cause is an initiative where the College invites students to propose and then champion a chosen charity with a fundraising campaign within the student and staff community.
Imagine returning from a soccer game one afternoon to find that war had broken out and your neighbourhood was devastated by bombing. Then to find yourself separated from family at the age of thirteen, travelling for months on foot to escape the war, on a journey that took you the distance of here to Carnarvon and saw most of your travelling companions killed.