Students on the Primary campus enjoyed a musical treat last Wednesday when WASO’s Education Chamber Orchestra (EChO) came to the College to present EChO: the first Gecko in Space!
Designed to introduce students to the instruments of the orchestra through famous repertoire and popular favourites, this fun, interactive and engaging performance took students into space and back through their responses to classical music.
To encourage students to get outside over the holidays in between the rain, and to create a fun College community event, the Student Council set up a rock painting emporium in the Primary Campus undercover area at the end of last term, to create rock treasures to be hidden, found and enjoyed by other families over the break.
Year 3 students in Room 10 have been exploring change across all learning areas during Term Two. They have been researching how change impacts our interests, life cycles, the environment and where they live.
The Room 10 assembly started with a PowerPoint display of open-ended projects where students had researched a person, event or invention that has changed our history.
Term 2 is very busy for Year 10 students with many activities jostling for time in amongst the usual Year 10 curriculum. The Explorus camp, Work Experience and Keys for Life program are all invaluable and important extensions of our pastoral care and education of students at this crucial age.
Three students from St Mary MacKillop College will be representing WA in the South East Asia Youth Cup competitions in Phuket and Singapore later this year.
A number of our students were selected during 2016 Country Week for a Football West Country Camp in April this year, where they completed three days of training and played games against A-grade Perth teams such as Glory and Subiaco.
On Wednesday 14 June a team comprising of Year 9 and Year 10 boys competed in the ACC Schoolboys Cup at Hay Park in Bunbury. The annual football carnival saw our boys compete against teams from Bunbury Catholic College, Mandurah Baptist College, Mandurah Catholic College, and Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School.
Year 12 Human Biology students from St Mary MacKillop College visited the Lotterywest Biodiscovery Centre this week at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Perth.
Research scientists at the new QEII Medical Centre in Nedlands provided the students with opportunities to work with real DNA in a Level 2 Laboratory and to better understand methods of identifying DNA mutations.
On Thursday, 22nd June the St Mary MacKillop College girls and boys hockey teams travelled to Bunbury to play against three other schools in the ACC Hockey competition for the South West.
Our boys’ team knew they would be facing a challenging day, with half the team made up of Year 7 and Year 8 students.
The Timor 2017 fundraising total is now $52,000. The difference this money will make to the lives of the children we support in Timor is immeasurable. This year's fundraising equates to:
3 Kindergarten classrooms
6 classrooms accessing electricity for the first time
7 students accessing tertiary education
13 computers for schools in two areas
61 families being given a clutch of three chickens to ensure protein in children's diets
Shelving for the local library in a Baguia
Repairs to a school chapel and a kindergarten in Haekoni
Many more school children accessing education who could otherwise not afford it.
When the salmon were biting around Busselton during April, little Ember Jensz was in amongst it, breaking a national game fishing record in her wake.
Confirmation has recently come in that the Pre Primary student at St Mary MacKillop College now holds both the state and national Australian Small Fry Female Record for Salmon caught off a 3kg line.