Announcements

Year 7 Christmas Marketplace

Submitted by mericiadmin on December 5, 2023 - 1:59pm

Today our Year 7 RE classes are running stalls to raise funds for the St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal. Each class has made craft items to sell and baked lots of delicious cupcakes and cookies. Student craft items have included Christmas decorations and other small gifts suitable for Christmas. Your handmade items look amazing! #communitas

Full gallery here, https://merici.news/view-galleries/year-7-christmas-marketplace-0

Merici College Green Tip #49 - Congratulations to Matilda Ross and the Sw(op) Shop

Submitted by mericiadmin on December 5, 2023 - 1:08pm

Sustainability at Merici (SAM) has ended 2023 on a high with Sustainability Captain Matilda Ross announced as the Winner of the Sustainable Leadership Award and the Sw(op) Shop Highly Commended in the Sustainable Schools Program Climate Choices School Awards last Friday.

Congratulations to Matilda!

Thanks to all that have contributed to this great result!

Felicity Maher

Sustainability Officer

Merici College Green Tip #48 - The Seventh Generation Principle

Submitted by mericiadmin on December 1, 2023 - 9:42am

The 7th Generation Principle is an invaluable approach to sustainable resource management which states that:

“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”

The Seventh Generation principle is based on an ancient first American philosophy of the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee, the founding document of the Iroquois Confederacy, the oldest living participatory democracy on Earth.
"We have a duty of care not only to our own children, but to the land and sea that feeds us, and seven generations on."

Merici Mentor Program Celebration

Submitted by mericiadmin on November 28, 2023 - 7:59am

On Monday 27 November, our community acknowledged the achievements of our Mentors and Volunteers at a very special afternoon tea. The Mentoring Program continues to be an amazing partnership between the communities of Merici College and Black Mountain School (BMS). The relationship begins in Year 9, with volunteers giving up their time fortnightly for a semester to go over to BMS to work with students with disabilities on their communication skills.

Merici College Green Tip #47 - Laudate Deum

Submitted by mericiadmin on November 22, 2023 - 10:02am

On October 4, Pope Francis released his apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum, that completes his encyclical Laudato si’ published in May 2015, and is addressed “to all people of good will on the climate crisis”.

The Pope reiterates and further develops the themes from his second encyclical in which he expressed his “heartfelt concerns about the care of our common home”. 

 “I have realised that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.”

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