Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 restrictions, we are unable to hold our Academic Awards ceremonies as normal this semester. We will be conducting the ceremonies via live stream through our Merici College YouTube channel.
Students from Years 7-12 have performed musical pieces, including ensemble and solo arrangements, as well as the Junior and Senior Dance classes, performing routines that showcase their diversity. Drama students have performed various pieces. As you entered the exhibition tonight you will have noticed the many truly fascinating and powerful Art, Photographic, graphics and Textiles and Design displays adorning the space.
What a range of means our students have found to express their creativity and individuality!
Congrulations to all our students and staff on an exceptional showcase! It is evident this evening that we have artists who enlighten, inspire and “lift” our community at Merici College. We are privileged to bear witness to this fact. I am constantly impressed by the innovative, individual and powerful talent of the media makers, artists, designers, actors, dancers, dramatists, photographers, graphic artists, instrumentalists and vocalists here at Merici.
Martin O/Malley said “A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds – music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts – can lift a community.”
It is evident this evening that we have artists who enlighten, inspire and “lift” our community at Merici College. We are so impressed by the innovative, individual and powerful talent of the media makers, artists, designers, actors, dancers, dramatists, photographers, graphic artists, instrumentalists and vocalists here at Merici.
Wonderful news has been received acknowledging the work for sustainability and the environment that is ongoing at Merici!
The ACT Environmental Grants Program which helps to strengthen community participation and engagement in environmental projects through community led initiatives, has awarded Merici College’s Biodiversity Restoration Project a grant of $23,800. The grant will expand the existing project which is aimed at rewilding a section of the oval along Wise Street with species from the Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland, one of Canberra's key ecosystems.
Principal's Address 2024
Good evening and welcome all. My name is Anna Masters and I am blessed to be Principal of Merici College, a dynamic learning environment that was established over 65 years ago.
Special thanks to all our House Coordinators, House Captains and Vice Captains for their extraordinary planning and facilitation of all the House events and activities.
We hope all our students and staff had a wonderful day celebrating the Feast Day of St Angela Merici.
On Friday 31 May, our College community celebrated the Feast Day of St Angela Merici. In 2024, our journey at Merici College is guided by the profound theme of "Spes," meaning hope - a beacon that shines brightly as we commemorate the feast Day of Saint Angela Merici and 65 years of Catholic education in Braddon. Anchored in the timeless wisdom of St. Angela, we embrace hope as our steadfast companion, echoing the biblical assurance, "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure" (Hebrews 6:19).
