On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank our parents, students and staff for participating in our Satisfaction Survey. We had a high number of respondents to the 2019 Satisfaction Survey Results with 346 students, 347 parents, and 70 staff responding. Click here to find results.
Some of the parent’s comments were:
Today our school community farewelled Year 12 students in respective House groups. Always wishing our Year 12 graduates a wonderful life ahead!
In my six years as a Principal, I have been troubled by the rise in the number of students diagnosed with mental health issues. Only yesterday, an article in our local paper highlighted that 1 in 4 students were struggling with a mental health issue and 1 in 7 students has had an episode in the past 12 months.
Anxiety, stress, relationship conflict, body image, grief, addiction and suicidal ideation – all are on the rise.
Congratulations to our 2020 College Leaders who were commissioned into their new roles by all members of the College at a special liturgy held today. The College Captain and Vice Captain, House Captain and Vice Captains and Specialist Captains were officially recognised in their leadership roles for 2020.
At our recent Father Daughter dinner, guest speaker, Patricia Falcetta (https://sociallivingsolutions.com.au/) shared the following with dads – on the evening a few fathers asked for this and I thought it would be excellent to share with you all.
“Fathers are pivotal in their daughter’s lives. Fathers are very powerful at establishing values for their girls. Values such as trust, respect, honesty, integrity, racism and generosity. Modelling is the best way to demonstrate these values. Remember she is watching you!
We would like to thank everyone who attended our 60th Dinner at the Canberra Rex on Saturday 7 September.
Please follow the link http://merici.college/go/-60-dinner-speeches to find the formal speech presented by Mrs Loretta Wholley, Principal. Loretta also presented a speech on behalf of Ross Fox, Director of Catholic Education Canberra.
Our sincere thanks and appreciation to the 60th Organising Committee members:
Helen Beasley, Helen Campbell, Christine Collins, Amy Connellan,
This year marks 60 years since the beginning of Merici College. Our community celebrated this milestone at a very special Mass where we reflected on our past, present and future journey from Canberra Catholic Girls’ High School in 1959, to Merici College in 2019 and beyond.
We were very honoured to welcome our Principal Celebrant for the celebration; His Grace, Archbishop Christopher Prowse, and Concelebrating were Bishop Pat Power, Monsignor John Woods and Fr Bernie Patterson together with Fr Emil Milat, Fr Kieran Adams & Fr Paul Nulley from the Central Canberra parishes.
