Merici College What's On newsletter Term 1 Weeks 4 and 5
Submitted by mericiadmin on February 16, 2023 - 1:16pmFor news and information on upcoming events, please click here.
For news and information on upcoming events, please click here.
The photo displayed is from the Fowles Street park in Weston which is the inspiration for our project here at Merici.
This was begun only five years ago by Alice Hathorn from ACT Urban Woodland Rescue who is guiding our project.
Valuable ecosystem services have been restored and 12 species of butterfly have returned to the area.
We are looking forward to seeing our hard work translate into the same beautiful outcome!
Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer
Students, we would love to meet you!
Do you want to join an award-winning team and take part in sustainable actions at school to make a difference?
Come by our stall at the Activities Expo next Thursday to say hello, have a cookie and sign up for the year with SAM.
Bring a friend!
Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer
Please click here to find our What's On newsletter for Weeks 2 and 3.
The beginning of the year is always busy, preparing and distributing over 1,700 textbooks within the first few weeks. With an unexpected change in staff, it is with thanks to Mrs. Kim Hekimian who kept all staff and students happy, meeting their textbook needs. Term 1 also saw us engaged and celebrating being back at school, displays were created. We set up the WIDE reading program and began the database and research lessons.
Congratulations to Merici College who today received Winner Awards in the ACT Government Climate Choices Schools Awards 2022 – Winner Sustainable Leadership Award for the SAM Team, Winner Sustainable Project Award for the Biodiversity Restoration and Re-wilding Project, Sustainable Leadership Award Secondary Student - Colette Paterson, Sustainable Leadership Award Staff - Felicity Maher.
Instrumental and Vocal Opportunities
At Merici College, students have the opportunity to participate in private instrumental lessons to learn a musical instrument or sing with one of our vocal tutors, during school hours on campus. Individual tutor rates are $41 per half hour lessons. Lesson times are rotated to allow for flexibility with school timetabling.
Instrumental Tutors
Something to think about in the context of sustainability...
You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer
Please see below attached newsletter for Weeks 8 and 9.
Your dentist would ideally like to see you change your toothbrush every three to four months.
That's a lot of plastic waste.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, around 3.5 billion disposable plastic toothbrushes – usually made from polypropylene and nylon which can take up to 500 years to break down in landfill – are purchased each year around the world.
The vast majority will end up as plastic pollution.