On Friday 12th August, twenty students from Year 10 and Year 11 participated in the P.A.R.T.Y Programme.
Held at St John of God Hospital in Bunbury, the PARTY Programme (Preventing Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth), engages students in a number of presentations that educate young people about the life changing consequences of certain risk taking behaviours, particularly when travelling in vehicles, and in the company of drugs.
A Year 12 student from St Mary MacKillop College has once again received the top award at the 23rd Angelico Art Exhibition in Perth’s Forrest Centre. Emma Craig was presented with the 2016 Fra Angelico Award on Tuesday night at the opening of the annual exhibition of artwork selected from Catholic high schools across the state.
Our Week 2 Assembly was co-ordinated by Miss Meagher’s Year 2 class, who showcased the Investigatory learning that they participate in each morning through a sightseeing tour. The children explore at a station of their interest and practice current learning goals.
Primary Campus celebrations for MacKillop Day on 5 August included a ‘Mission Mart’ day, which has been a primary campus tradition for over twenty years. Funds raised from the event go to the Sisters of St Joseph missions in Peru, and Friday’s Mission Mart was hosted by Year 2 and Year 5.
Year 2 parents provided delicious treats to be sold at the recess cake stall, including homemade cakes, slices, popcorn and more.
During our MacKillop Day celebrations the College took time to announce the new Head Boy and Head Girl for 2017. These students will take up their post at the beginning of Term Four this year, when our current Year 12 students graduate.
Congratulations to Delaney Wilson and Riordan O’Shea, who were appointed by the Principal Mr Chris Wallace after an application and interview process.
On Friday night we had a celebration of the young sporting talent from around the south west with the Rising Sports Star Awards. Each month a local young sporting star is selected and then receives a monthly prize with an article in the Times.
Students went all out with their creativity in this year’s Environment Sculpture Competition, which was judged on MacKillop Day. With many thought-provoking and clever entries, judging proved difficult, but in the end Robbie Wackerbarth once again came through with an impressive metal shark sculpture labelled ‘don’t cull Bruce’. Second prize went to Lindsay Ward for a colourful ‘Toy World’, which urged us to consider the destructive impact of this multi-trillion dollar plastics business. Lanah Burge picked up third with another piece of clever furniture design, this time from recycled bicycle wheels.
The College sent over seventy Year 7 students to Hay Park in Bunbury on 2 August to compete in the South West Division of the ACC Freo Dockers Shield, including a boys team and, for the first time, two teams of girls.
Year 10 student Riley Culnane has recently returned from Adelaide, where she represented WA in the School Sport Australia 15 & Under Netball grand final against NSW. At the end of the six day tournament, WA was crowned national champions and Riley was one of four WA players named in the All Australian Team, who will be touring to Fiji in 2017.
The Olympic Spirit has been a key motivator this week on the Primary campus, inspiring students to learn not just in sports, but also in History, Geography, Art, Literacy and Maths classes.