Year 11 MacKillop student Riley Culnane was named Runner-Up in the Busselton Rising Sports Star for 2017, in an evening where six of the twelve finalists were students from the College once again.

On Tuesday August 15, our Senior Girls and Senior Boys Football teams competed against Georgiana Molloy. The wet and windy conditions at the GMAS football oval set the scene for an enthralling afternoon of football.

Last week we said goodbye to four students from Italy who had been staying with Year 11 host families during their summer break, as part of an exchange program with the WA Association of Teachers of Italian (WAATI). The aim was to live an ‘in-home experience’ and get a feel for Australian life at the very heart of it.

Mrs Dumbrell’s class assembly was presented on Friday 18th August. It opened with a series of group tableaux depicting the different types of courage we have been learning about in Health. The students then sang along to the song ‘Brave’ by Sara Bareilles.

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.