Seiwa House celebrated their inaugural ‘House Day’ on Monday 25 June. This was a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge, observe and explore the Order of the Good Samaritan Nuns on which Seiwa House is founded. Students gathered together in the PC lesson Period 4 for a special assembly to reflect on the history of Seiwa House, followed by a celebration cake in the Indigenous Garden. Seiwa students also wore blue accessories on the day.
On 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.
The Carbon Challenge!
The ACTSmart Carbon Challenge is just around the corner.
For the month of July, participants compete in a variety of challenges to reduce their carbon emissions.
You can register for the Challenge at https://www.actsmart.act.gov.au/resources/carbon-challenge and sign up to the Merici team by following the “Teams” link.
The schools with the most sign ups and the highest level of avoided emissions, wins some awesome prizes.
Thank you to all our students who contributed to our CanLine this morning in support of the Vinnies Winter Appeal and OzHarvest and the wonderful work they do for the vulnerable in our local community . We received over 3,400 cans!
We would like to thank Paul Ninnes from Real Talk for his ‘Love and Life: Getting Real on the Tough Topics’ presentation to our parents and carers last night. Some of the topics that Paul covered included:
• What we are up against: the stats
• Current trends in teenage sexual behaviours
• What the Catholic Church teaches about sex and the role of parents
• The Language of the Body –
• The deep significance of sex (psychologically, emotionally, spiritually and physically)
Our thanks are also extended to our community for attending the seminar.
On Saturday 2 June, the College community welcomed over 80 ex-students to an Alumni Soiree. School tours were conducted which presented ex-students with an opportunity to see first-hand how the College has changed since their graduation. As they walked down the school corridors, the ex-students reminisced about their classrooms, their teachers and their friends. All had one thing in common, they were all proud Merici students who have contributed to the growth of the College and its history.
At the conclusion of Mass, Merici’s school captains, Olivia Straker and Bronte Alexander, coordinated a whole school Trivia game with a twist! The students were challenged to learn more about the history of Merici College through the completion of quizzes and going to specific checkpoints to undertake team building activities in order to complete the challenge.
Today, here, at Merici College we gather to celebrate the life of a woman known to us as Angela Merici. Angela was born in 1470, in an insignificant farming village called Desenzarno. Later, after the death of her parents she moved to Brescia to live with an uncle.It was not until Angela was 65 years old that she and her friends formed the “Company of St Ursula”.
They were recognised as STRONG, INDEPENDENT, WISDOM women.
Together they promised to devote their lives to
St Angela Merici Day Mass, Friday 1 June. May we all continue to be inspired by the words and actions of St Angela Merici, to “challenge people to love life, have hope, be faithful and build futures more wondrous than you dare to dream”.
