Student Achievement

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.

We are very pleased to announce that Malia Harrison (Year 11) have been selected in Netball Australia’s National 17 And Under National Squad. We congratulate Malia on this wonderful achievement.

Well deserved Malia!

For more info, https://act.netball.com.au/news/national-17-u-19-u-and-talls-program-squ...

Image Source: @NetballACT

Congratulations to Freya McKenzie-McHarg (Year 7) who has been selected to attend the Australian National Gymnastics Championships representing the ACT for Rhythmic Gymnastics in Melbourne.

We wish Freya lots of success at the Championships.

Our Year 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, Annalise Lennon writes about the Kepler mission to identify exoplanets.

We congratulate Anna Connolly who received the Silver Medal for Basketball at the Nationals Special Olympics in Adelaide during the holidays. Fantastic achievement Anna!

Monique competed at Penrith Valley Artistic Figure Skating Competition on Saturday 10th March representing the ACT and placing 1st in her division.

She also competed at Ice Zoo Artistic Mascot NSW on Sunday 8th April also representing the ACT and placed 1st.

We congratulate Monique on her achievements and wish her continued success in future competitions.

It’s Time to Think about Safety. Get Rail Ready Canberra!

Canberra's Light Rail is fast approaching and it's time to think about safety. In a special event held at Gungahlin College, Minister for Transport and City Services Meegan Fitzharris launched the "Rail Ready" Light Rail Safety Program.