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May 9, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #12 – International Compost Week
Sunday 4 May to Saturday 10 May is International Compost Week.  Approximately 50% of the rubbish Australians put in the red landfill bin could be put to better use in the garden as compost and mulch.

May 2, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #11 – Check the heat!
As it gets cooler, there is a precedent for heaters at school being turned up as high as they can go, and even left on overnight as high as 27 degrees.

April 9, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #10 – Happy Easter! Please recycle your foil!
At the ACT Schools Climate Conference last week we learned that Canberrans generate ONE MILLION TONNES OF WASTE PER YEAR.

April 4, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #9 – Recycling and our Global Worming wormfarm
Please remember to recycle at school and put your food scraps in the containers in the canteen to go out to our Global Worming wormfarm.

April 1, 2025

Language is forever changing!
Recently, I read a fascinating article on the ABC News app in relation to the development of language. Essentially, the article posited that language is forever changing and that currently, the greatest single driver of this change is in fact young women and girls.

March 28, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #8 – What is a carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions.

March 20, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #7 – International Day of Forests and Earth Hour this week
SAM students (Sustainability at Merici) will be "switching off" for Earth Hour at recess and planting 40 understorey flowering plants from the local ecosystem (Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland) at lunchtime on Friday 21 March to honour these two events. 

March 7, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #5 – It is Seaweek
March 2nd-10th is Seaweek: Australia’s major national public awareness campaign to increase ocean literacy.

February 28, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #4 – Always a good time to grow!
Sometimes we can feel despair about the state of our environment... however the best cure is to take sustainable action.

February 27, 2025

A Guide to Submitting Your Assessment
Here is a guide for our new high schoolers on uploading your document via Turnitin on SEQTA.

February 27, 2025

Captains’ Newsletter Issue #1
The 2025 Leadership Team is so excited to share with you all the first issue of the brand new Captains’ Newsletter! We hope you enjoy getting to know us and reading about our collective and individual visions for Merici College in 2025.

February 21, 2025

Merici College Green Tip #3 – Merici photographers…
This is your chance to shine! The Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens 25th annual photographic competition is now open for school and college students to encourage young people to express their appreciation of Australian native plants through artistic creativity.

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