Merici College What's On Newsletter Term 1 Weeks 4 and 5
Submitted by mericiadmin on February 18, 2021 - 1:31pmPlease click here to find all upcoming news and events.
Please click here to find all upcoming news and events.
For our parents and friends who were not able to view our Opening School Mass, here is our recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFHid81AyEw
Thank you to all our guests, students and staff for making this Mass and Principal's Commissioning Ceremony so special.
Today the Merici College community gathered together to celebrate the 2021 Opening School Mass. . We welcomed special guests from Catholic Education, our fellow Colleges and Primary Schools, Principals and Executive Staff, School Leaders and Sisters of the Orders Sr Angela Jordan and Sr Frances Fitzpatrick of the Mercy Sisters and Sr Genny Ryan of the Ursuline Order who were instrumental as the founding Orders of the College. We were honoured to welcome our Celebrating parish priest: Fr Emil Milat, from the Central Canberra parish.
The terms biodegradable, compostable and degradable all create the impression that they offer better environmental outcomes to conventional plastics and that they disappear harmlessly into the environment, right?
No, this is not the case.
As the world moves to ban single-use plastics, biodegradable plastics are increasingly in focus as an environmentally friendly alternative. However, some plastics degrade into microplastics, others take a very long time to disappear from the environment, and in certain conditions they produce powerful greenhouse gases.
Please click here to find the 2021 Assessment Calendars for all Year groups.
As a committed sustainability practitioner, I will always promote plant-based eating most of the time for its lower environmental impact. However, I am also a realist and understand the diversity of food people may select.
In continuing our waste reduction theme in Term 1, I refer to the great book which was the focus of last week's Green Tip.
The family in A Family Guide to Waste Free Living use one roast chicken to serve five people over three meals with zero waste.
During Term 1 at Merici we focus on reducing waste and hope that this translates into action here at school, at home and wherever you may go.
I was recently introduced to a lovely and inspiring book, A Family Guide to Waste-Free Living, which can assist us all to do better with reducing our waste. It is about a family of five living near Hobart who have produced no waste or recycling since 2015. They remind us that even through recycling, we are using energy and resources.
Costa Georgiadis provides the foreword and states that:
Welcome to the 2021 school year. "We encourage every single one of you to dream big this year. Whether that be handing in all of your homework and assignments on time, or setting goals for your grades this semester, or figuring out what you want to do after high school, we implore you, not only dream, but work towards making those dreams a reality."
Heather Bravo and Caitlyn Crick, College Captains
Welcome all to the commencement of the 2021 school year. I hope that you had a wonderful summer, full of rest, rejuvenation, family time and, possibly, adventure. I also trust that all are ready for:
What are beginnings?
One of my favourite poets, TS Eliot once wrote, “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”