What's On newsletter Term 3 Week 10 and Term 4 Week 1
Submitted by mericiadmin on September 20, 2018 - 10:01amLots happening at Merici College in Week 10 and Term 4 Week 1, http://merici.college/go/whats-on-newsletter
Lots happening at Merici College in Week 10 and Term 4 Week 1, http://merici.college/go/whats-on-newsletter
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:
On behalf of all the Merici College community, we commend the Year 11 Hospitality students, Trish Young and Tookie Capezio on their wonderful endeavours, and congratulate them for the first-class, degustation menu that they prepared on Saturday night.
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.
What & How?
Merici has partnered with WV Technologies to begin a community e-waste recycling program on campus. The e-waste collection cage is outside the IT staffroom towards the Wise Street staff carpark. Merici staff, students and parents can drop off:
Please note the program doesn’t include appliances (like toasters) or consumer electronics (like DVD players). Keep your drop-offs limited to the list above please!
Why?
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.