Today is National Simultaneous Storytime, an event organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) where many libraries and schools across Australia and New Zealand read a story together as part of the Library and Information Week celebrations.
On 7 March 2018, twelve senior students participated in our very first Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzClo). OzClo is contest for high school students that combines computational thinking and linguistics, challenging them to develop their own strategies for solving problems in fascinating real languages. We are very pleased that Merici was able to field three teams of Year 11 and 12 students in this year’s competition.
On Monday the 7th and 14th of May Merici hosted groups of Deputy Principals from South Korea. The visit was part of their university training to qualify as a school principal. The training requires them to visit schools in another country. Their specific purpose in visiting Merici was to look at the Kitchen Garden. Fiona Buining (Sustainability Teacher) and Bec De Courcy (Sustainability Officer) talked to the group about the garden via the competent translator, Jae, who had organised the tour schedule. They loved our garden and spent significant time looking at the plants growing.
Sister-school Relationship with Tieyi School in Xi’an, China
Exciting news for Mandarin! We have successfully establishing a sister-school relationship with Tieyi School in Xi’an, China. Xi’an is an ancient Chinese city and had been the capital city of various Chinese dynasties and, of course, the home to the famous terra-cotta warriors. The main objective of this relationship is to develop friendship and cooperation between Tieyi School and Merici College and, most importantly, to promote cross-cultural understanding and awareness between Australia and China.
We congratulate Caylee McCosker, Year 11 Brescia 5, who will be attending the Australian Gymnastics Championships for Level 8 Womens Artistic Gymnastics next week. Caylee will be representing ACT for the 3rd year!
All the best Caylee!
For upcoming events and news, please follow the link http://merici.college/go/whats-on-wk4and5.
This Sunday (May 20th) is the first ever World Bee Day!
In Canberra, there’ll be activities on all day (and some on Saturday too!).The official opening of World Bee Day kicks off at the Slovenian Embassy on Sunday morning. Parliament House will serve afternoon tea using honey from the Parliamentary bees, and later on the Swiss Embassy and the ANU are partnering to host a free screening of “More than Honey” at Coombs Theatre on ANU campus.
Find out about all these events and more by clicking here.
Congratulations to Freya McKenzie-McHarg (Year 7) who has been selected to attend the Australian National Gymnastics Championships representing the ACT for Rhythmic Gymnastics in Melbourne.
We wish Freya lots of success at the Championships.
We would like to acknowledge the wonderful contribution made by students which, in no small part, contributed to the success of our Open Day. Over 200 students participated in Open Day activities during the day and into the night. The students were all wonderful ambassadors for our school and we have received excellent feedback from all our visitors on your exceptional skills in conducting school tours, participating in classroom activities, and presenting dance and drama performances.
Did you know that Australian consumers throw away around 3.1 million tonnes of edible food a year (DEE 2017) ?
If you hate food waste:
If you’re interested in reducing your food waste but don’t have the time or space for your own compost, head to ShareWaste to link up with your neighbours who can take your food scraps!
If you’re interested in starting a compost:
