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.
Congratulations to all the Year 7s who nominated for a position as Homeroom Representative for Term 2. It’s not easy to stand up in front of your peers and speak about yourself. Having taken this step, they have all shown courage that will serve them well in the future.
It has been 14 years now since the College community last had a representative equestrian team, so it was fantastic to see two of our students successfully represent St Mary MacKillop College at the WA InterSchools Championships during the April holidays.
Congratulations to Kirrane House on winning the St Mary MacKillop College Inter-house Athletics Carnival for 2017. The weather conditions were perfect on the day, enabling the students to produce their best efforts, and we were privileged to watch several new records created on the day.
A group of Year 9 students travelled to the South West Sports Centre in Bunbury on Friday 5 May to take part in the ‘Science and Engineering Challenge’.
Managed by the Rotary Club of Bunbury-Leschenault, this day of activity allows students to experience aspects of science and engineering they may not encounter in a school environment, and compete against other schools in problem-solving tasks using scientific and mathematical understanding in practical applications.
When the curtain came down after the final performance of ANNIE Jr in the gymnasium at St Mary MacKillop College on Saturday night, it became clear to many of us that we had just witnessed something amazing.
It wasn’t just the performance itself, which was so professionally executed you would swear these kids were seasoned professionals, instead of students having a go in their first theatre production – which was also a first for the College and for the venue itself.