Curriculum

Earlier in Term 3, a number of students in Years 9-12 sat the Australian National Chemistry Quiz. Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded certificates of achievement.

Year 9:

Distinction: Ashley Frater

Credit: Hafsah Mughal

Year 10:

High Distinction: Annalise Lennon

Distinction: Ashlyn Radford, Kaheesha Rai, Jemma Richardson, Samantha Trafford

Credit: Lily Alexander, Shreya Bhatnagar, Bridget Darby, Emma Garratt, Areebah Murad, Angel Ravi

Year 11:

As part of Catholic Schools Week Discover New Horizons,  Belinda visited Merici College to conduct a Writer’s workshop with students from Years 7-9 and an Author talk for Year 7 students.

Merici was pleased to welcome Minister Mick Gentleman on Thursday morning for a tour of our Makerspace and to meet some of our engineering students. Among his other portfolio responsibilities, Minister Gentleman is the Minister assisting the Chief Minister on Advanced Technology and Space Industries.

To celebrate National Health and PE Day and National Child Safety Week, on Wednesday 5 September Merici College teamed with ​Jasiri Australia​ to become the first school in Australia to train all of the students in self-defence. 

In Week 3 of this term, the Year 10 Engineering class performed their first rocket launch as part of this semester’s unit: “It Is Rocket Science.”  With the assistance of members of the Canberra Rocketry Group (Nev Blyth, Dr Tony Buckmaster, John Davies and Mark Bottomley) and kind permission from Dr Buckmaster to use his Yass property, the engineers launched 14 model rockets. Each rocket carried a payload of a small altimeter that allowed us to collect flight telemetry.