Year 12 students at St Mary MacKillop College ended Refugee Week in Australia on Friday 23 June by participating in a Circle of Silence to highlight and raise awareness of the difficulties faced by refugees.
Standing shoulder to shoulder in solidarity and leadership, many wore placards they had handwritten in response to the ‘voiceless-ness’ of many people seeking asylum and being displaced from their homelands around the world.
Ms Barnard’s Year 5 class began their assembly this week by describing Genius Hour, where the students have been devoting an hour each week to researching topics that they felt passionate about, before presenting the information using their chrome books.
Last Friday 16 June, Years 3-6 competed in cross country races, while students from Kindy to Year 2 participated in a Fun Run to raise money for the College P&F.
The Year 6 House Leaders took the whole campus through a warm-up, and a little ‘YMCA’ got the children moving and in the mood to run.
When the weather turns cold and wet, sometimes you just want somewhere warm and dry… and quiet.
Mindful Mondays in the library has been operating since August last year, providing a space for primary students to sit and read or do mindful colouring in - with no talking.
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.