Student Achievement

Thank you to our community for supporting our Ukraine Appeal. We have been overwhelmed with the many generous donations received and today our students thoroughly enjoyed ‘planting’ their prayer cards and messages of hope to the Ukraine community. Prayer cards will be given to the officials at the Embassy of Ukraine to pass onto the Ukrainian community. All money raised will be donated to Caritas Ukraine to provide immediate and longer-term humanitarian assistance to communities affected by the conflict in Ukraine, and to displaced Ukrainians in neighbouring countries.

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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.

Congratulations to our School Leadership Team who were commissioned into their leadership roles today. We hope you have a great year! #mericipride

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This month we received the official results for the 2021 Year 10 Middle Years Programme Personal Project. This is a ‘passion project’ where students selected an area of interest to create a product or outcome and document their learning journey in achieving the outcome. We are pleased to announce that we had 6 students achieve the highest MYP Grade that can be awarded which is a ‘7’.

Congratulations to the following students:

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.

Congratulations to Year 12 students Elizabeth Ween and Freya Spring who have been accepted into the ACT Government’s Youth Advisory Council. Made up of 15 members, the Youth Advisory Council (YAC) provides young people aged between 12 and 25 years with an opportunity to take a leading role in participation and consultation activities on issues that affect their lives; raise awareness of the aspirations, needs and concerns of young people within government and the community; and facilitate interaction between young people, the ACT Government and the wider community.

On Thursday 27 January 2022, IB DP students, their families and staff attended a very special IB DP Award Ceremony in celebration of the academic achievements of our IB DP students.

Preashika Dhakal, Isabel Frugtniet. Jia Li Norris and Gabrielle Reynolds are Merici College’s first cohort to complete the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Merici.