We were blessed with beautiful weather for the recent Milo T20 Cricket carnival at Hay Park, Bunbury. St Mary MacKillop College was represented by four teams, who all performed with commendable skill and enthusiasm, and displayed great sportsmanship throughout the day.
Experienced Catholic educator Frank Norton has been appointed Principal of St Mary MacKillop College, Busselton.
Catholic Education Western Australia Executive Director Dr Tim McDonald today announced Mr Norton would lead the College from the beginning of Term 1, 2017.
Mr Norton is currently Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning at Lumen Christi College, in Perth’s south-east, a position he has held for three years.
On Thursday during lunch, the College hosted its first Hunger Banquet – a fun and interactive way for students to learn about food security and the issue of global hunger.
In 2016, 1 in 9 people still go hungry every day, and it’s not because the world doesn’t produce enough for everyone to eat.
Friday 4th November was the opening night of our annual Art Exhibition in the College gymnasium. It was also the inaugural St Mary MacKillop College Art Exhibition, which showcased works from Years 1-12.
We were very fortunate to have renowned local Artist Ian Mutch open the exhibition, along with special guest Genevie Baker from the Catholic Education Office.
On Thursday 17 November the Secondary campus held their official Awards Presentation Night in the College gymnasium. This night not only recognized those students who have performed at the highest level in each subject this year, but also took the opportunity to showcase our Performing Arts students, with some quality vocal, music and dance performances throughout the evening.
How can you find out what it’s really like in Antarctica?
If you’re in Miss Kerry’s Year 7 English class, you can ask Ray Bouche, who’s just headed off on a working trip to Antarctica.
The class have been studying ‘fact-ion’ writing, a blend of fact and fiction writing, where students research an Australian historical figure and write from their perspective.
Our final Assembly for 2016 was hosted by Mrs Christie’s Year 1 class, who have been learning all about space and our solar system this term, as well as exploring the topics ‘Our Beautiful World’ followed by ’Just Imagine…’ in RE classes this semester. They began with a xylophone rendition of ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ by ‘Miss Universe’ Georgia Hunt, followed by a delightful ballet performance. This was ‘rudely’ interrupted by the boys rapping to LMFAO’s ‘Party Rock Anthem’, which led to the class performing ‘The Solar System Rap’, to huge applause.
On Friday 11 November, the Primary campus gathered together to commemorate Remembrance Day. Our Primary Leaders and House Captains led us in prayer as we took the opportunity to remember those who served Australia through the many conflicts that have occurred around the world.
For all those students who competed in the Anaconda Adventure Race at Augusta over the weekend, it's time to pull out your results and set them against our SMMC staff team results.
Twenty-three St Mary MacKillop College staff members (including one former and one currently on long service leave) formed a total of four teams in the Mini Anaconda on Saturday and another three teams in Sunday's big race, with some impressive results.
The following article was written by Year 10 student Gabriella Ward on work experience at the Busselton Dunsborough Times, and was published on 28 October:
Busselton residents may have noticed teenagers popping up in businesses all over town this week.