We are pleased share that Freya McKenzie-McHarg came second at the Australian National Gymnastics Championships for her ball routine. A fantastic achievement for her first year in the Rhythmic Gymnastics Sub Junior international stream.
Well done Freya, we are very proud of you!
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”.
This morning, Friday 1 June, College staff and students celebrated the Feast Day of Saint Angela Merici. The celebratory activities commenced in Pastoral Care with students gifting a ‘bracelet of joy’ to another student in their PC group, which included a ‘JOY’ charm, embracing our #YearofYouth #SpredingJoy theme for the year. Students remembered St Angela as an educator of women from all classes of society.
Merici College fielded two teams in the ACT Titration Stakes on Tuesday evening. In a competition valuing technical skill and precision, teams must determine the concentration of a solution of sodium hydroxide and then use this to further determine the concentrations of three separate solutions of acetic acid.
Recently I had the opportunity to travel to the Western Front during the school holidays on a commemorative tour for World War 1. I was given this great privilege through my entering and winning of the Simpson Prize, a national competition for Year 9 and 10 students, designed to explore the significance of the first world war for Australia and Australians both past and present.
On 7 March 2018, twelve senior students participated in our very first Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzClo). OzClo is contest for high school students that combines computational thinking and linguistics, challenging them to develop their own strategies for solving problems in fascinating real languages. We are very pleased that Merici was able to field three teams of Year 11 and 12 students in this year’s competition.
We would like to congratulate all our students who performed at the National Eisteddod and their amazing achievements:
Jazz band- Silver Award
Combined Concert bands- Bronze Award
String Ensemble- Silver Award
Many thanks to Beth Way, Co-curricular Music Facilitator and Jack Quail, Jacqueline Smith, Zoe Heinrichs, Jason Henderson and Greg Baines for all their hardwork and dedication in preparing the students for this event.
This year, students at Merici have had their first chance to explore Human Biology as a subject for Senior study. Unit 1, ‘The Essentials of Human Life’ explores the nature of stem cells, in both embryonic and adult contexts, and challenges students to apply this knowledge to the emerging field of tissue engineering. Last week, our Merici girls were challenged by graduate students from the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science to transfer their knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of various tissue types to the field of prosthetics.
We congratulate Caylee McCosker, Year 11 Brescia 5, who will be attending the Australian Gymnastics Championships for Level 8 Womens Artistic Gymnastics next week. Caylee will be representing ACT for the 3rd year!
All the best Caylee!
Our Yr 10 Engineering students began their aerospace engineering course this year looking at the history of human space flight and exploration. As part of this topic each student undertook research on a space mission of their choice, and produced a popular science-style article about that mission.
This week, Imogene Blake writes about the Hubble Space Telescope.
