Our International Baccalaureate Journey Continues
Submitted by mericiadmin on August 6, 2018 - 8:10amWe are pleased to announce that Merici College has been accepted as a candidate school* for the Middle Years Programme (MYP). This means that we will be trialling implementation of the MYP in Years 7 and 8, January 2019, while we pursue authorization as an IB World School. IB World Schools share a common philosophy- a commitment to high-quality, challenging, international education- that we believe is important for our students. This compliments our candidacy for the IB Diploma Programme which we began in March this year and are now into the authorisation process.
What's On newsletter Term 3 Weeks 2 and 3
Submitted by mericiadmin on July 26, 2018 - 11:27amFind out what's happening at Merici College in the next few weeks by clicking on the link below.
Year 10 Creative Voices - Aislinn McArdle's 'The Path to My Voice'
Submitted by mericiadmin on July 25, 2018 - 9:23amLast semester, Year 10 Creative Voices students were asked to write a sustained piece of prose fiction. This is the only class that offers students the opportunity to write extended pieces of creative writing. Over the next few weeks, we will be providing you with the opportunity to read these beautiful pieces of writing and see just how talented our girls are in English!
This week, Aislinn McArdle’s piece titled The Path to My Voice presents a dystopian world where humans are unable to speak.
2017 Merici College Annual Report
Submitted by mericiadmin on June 29, 2018 - 2:53pmPlease follow the link https://www.merici.act.edu.au/building-futures/about-merici/annual-reports to find the 2017 Annual Report to our community.
What's On newsletter Term 2 Week 10 and Term 3 Week 1
Submitted by mericiadmin on June 28, 2018 - 2:05pmPlease follow the link http://merici.college/go/whatson-t2wk10-t3wk1 to find information on upcoming events at Merici College.
World of Maths @ Merici
Submitted by mericiadmin on June 27, 2018 - 12:56pmNumeracy is a compulsory component of our curriculum, and to make numeracy fun and relevant to our students, today the World of Maths roadshow visited our school. This was an ideal opportunity for students to see how maths is applied to some real life situations. More importantly, students were engaged in hands-on activities that catered for all ability levels and probed their problem solving skills. The students found World of Maths highly engaging and demonstrated that Maths can be fun!
Year 9 Entrepreneurs 'It's Your Move'
Submitted by mericiadmin on June 26, 2018 - 11:08am‘Entrepreneurs: It’s your Move’ is an innovative curriculum program created through ACT Health and the Education Department for Year 9 students to study a semester program developing and implementing a real-life health project at Merici College. As part of the Global Studies program, students learn problem solving through design thinking, an approach highly regarding in industry occupations particularly within STEM and entrepreneurial industries.
ANU Maths Day
Submitted by mericiadmin on June 21, 2018 - 9:12amOn Friday May 25th, a team of five of our top senior mathematicians (Lauren Paterson, Bronte Alexander, Ravneet Dillon, Nicole Clough and Rosemary Zielinski) took part in the annual ANU Maths Day among more than 30 other College teams from Canberra and the region.
Ongoing research relating to the presence of methane on the Red Planet
Submitted by mericiadmin on June 19, 2018 - 11:03amYou may have seen the news a few weeks ago about recent data published by NASA providing further evidence of the presence of methane on Mars (https://lib-cosmos.merici.act.edu.au/space/mars-rover-finds-organics-changing-methane-levels).