Announcements

Year 10 student, Ashlyn Radford, has been selected to attend the Aboriginal Summer School for Excellence in Technology and Science (ASSETS) for their outstanding achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Ashlyn is one of only 105 students from across Australia to be selected to attend one of the three summer schools which will take place during December 2018/January 2019.

Mental Health Month is held in October each year in the ACT. This annual event celebrated in Australia and over 100 countries across the world is an effort to raise awareness of mental health illness and promote positive mental health wellbeing.

The theme for Mental Health Month ACT 2018 is Identity & Growth.

We wish our students a very safe and relaxing school holiday break. We will see you back for Term 4 on Monday 15 October. Don't forget .... summer uniform.

Please ensure that dresses and skirts are the appropriate length and shoes are in good condition.  To view the full school uniform policy, please follow the link http://merici.college/go/uniform.

Following on from our excellent experience last year, Merici was again offered the opportunity to take three students to the 2018 Women in Aviation/Aerospace Australia summit at the National Convention Centre. Emma Howse and Sarah Carstens (Year 10) and Natasha Silver (Year 12) were sponsored by Lockheed Martin and attended with me.  Emma and Sarah are part of Merici’s engineering elective and are looking ahead to aerospace-related careers.  Natasha aspires to be a pilot and is planning a career in aviation.

We congratulate our 2019 House Captains, Vice Captains and Specialist Captains.

Specialist Captains

Sustainability - Gabrielle Cox

Narragunnawali - Zali Marshall

Arts and Culture - Theresa Carlton

Sport - Ellie Haseler

Transition - Charlotte Schroeder-Juratowitch

SRC - Grace Aboud

Social Justice  - Kaitlin McClory

Spirituality Captain -  Madisson Doyle

House Captains 2019

Balgo

Captain – Xanthe Longhurst

We congratulate Rosemary Zielinski (Year 11), who this year sat all four of the Australian Science Olympiad exams: Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth/Environmental Science (EES). 

Rosemary placed in the top 50 students in Australia for Physics, Chemistry and EES, and has been invited to the Olympiad Summer School for both Physics and EES.  Rosemary has chosen to undertake Physics.

We would like to congratulations Brianna Farrell (Year 10) who received the Hockey ACT U21 Women Significant Contribution to Hockey Award.

We wish you well in your future sporting endeavours Brianna!