Merici College students were blessed to have Georgia Houston from GH Nutrition to share her expertise around building a healthy relationship with food and body image. Georgia spoke about how we could change what we see on social media. Some examples are below.
• Post a mix of photos on social media:
• Show your personality
• Post artistic shots
• Post images of you having fun or visiting cool places
Mrs Kate Calley, HPE Coordinator
Call out to the Merici Community...
Our Terracycle collection is now ready to take your donations in the entry to Student Services.
For oral care products:
Please only toothpaste tubes and caps, manual toothbrushes, electric toothbrush heads, and floss containers.
Not accepted are electronic toothbrush handles and bases. Terracycle offers a separate programme for these items if you are keen to follow up.
For beauty product packages:
As a Catholic school and an IB World School, Merici College has a very strong focus on social justice. Our “Walking in the Shoes of the Other” art installation is an attempt to raise the awareness of the marginalized in our community. It coincides with World Social Justice Day. When we walk in the shoes of another, we empathise with those in need. In doing so we move from focusing on ourselves to look beyond - into the hearts of others.
At Merici, the motto 'Dare to Dream' really stuck with me. It pushed me to dream big and pursue those dreams. Merici was where I discovered my passion for creative media/tv/film (a heavily male-dominated industry). Looking back on those media classes when I was 17/18years old, I wouldn't have guessed that I would become one of the youngest Television Directors for one of the major networks in the country.
Every year thousands of tonnes of batteries are used in Australia, many of which dangerously end up in landfills.
The metals found in alkaline and rechargeable batteries include cadmium, mercury and lead.
If left exposed, these metals can leak and contaminate the soil and groundwater, causing significant health and environmental risks.
Rechargeable batteries are considered hazardous waste and should never be thrown away as general waste.
Over the last two weeks, we focused on the IB Learner Profile Attribute of CARING. To illustrate how our community has demonstrated this attribute, please click https://youtu.be/I-sj8QyYGoU to watch a video.
If you have wondered if your individual efforts to compost can make a difference, read on.....
Australian group, Compost Revolution, tested the idea across 41,000 Australian homes.
The result was 10 million kgs of food waste diverted from landfill and 19 million kgs of greenhouse gases avoided.
Just how much is 10 million kgs?
That's the equivalent of over 83,000 full-size wheelie bins of perfectly good resources U-turned out of landfill and sent back to the Earth to replenish the soil, grow veggies and plants, and sequester carbon or:
Catalyst in practice
Merici College has been participating in Catalyst in 2021 as part of the System’s 56 Schools.
Renee Taylor, Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning says the College was excited by Catalyst’s “Strong focus on teacher pedagogy to improve literacy and numeracy in our students, particularly around the bold goals,” and its system-wide approach which opens the door to increased collaboration between schools as well as primary and secondary teachers.
The word I have selected is GROWTH.
This word resonates most with my experiences at Merici because they helped shape me from the child I was when I was in primary school to the woman I became when I chose my degree and path in life to pursue. My experiences in Year 10, 11 and 12 in particular were pivotal in getting me ready for life outside school, including the friendships I built and still hold to this day."
