Student Achievement

To the graduating class of 2017, on behalf of your teachers, staff and students of Merici College..congratulations. As you embark on the next stage of your journey, remember the 800+ days you have spent here at Merici with fondness. You've listened and learnt, represented the College at various functions, completed assessments, played in sporting teams, sat exams, participated in events, fundraised for charities, celebrated successes, performed at school and community events, given hours and hours in Christian Service to others, cried together and prayed as a community.

The annual Merici College Sports Awards presentation night was held on Thursday 2 November. Throughout 2017 many of our students have taken up sporting opportunities offered at Merici.  Merici competes in up to 50 interschool events throughout the year with students displaying their talents in several of these of sports. We also have several co-curricular sporting teams, Netball, Basketball, Volleyball, Hockey, Futsal and Snow Sports that compete in ACT and NSW weekend competitions.

On Friday 27 October, Merici Sustainability Captain Julia Heather was named as the winner of the ACT Senior School Student Sustainability Award. The award was part of the Conservation Council’s annual Environment Awards, and recognises ‘an individual who is an ACT high school or college student living in Canberra or our region who has made an outstanding contribution to sustainability initiatives and protecting our environment in the past 12 months’. Year 10 student Caitlin Treble was also a finalist for the award.

It is with absolute pleasure and delight that we announce that our Year 10 debating team of Rosemary Zielinski, Ella Carmichael and Caitlin Bilton WON their grand final against Gold Creek last night.

They successfully argued 'that we will require a licence for parents to have children'.

Merici has never won this competition before, so the girls have achieved a huge result for themselves and the school.

We congratulate our two Year 10 Debating teams (Kaitlin McClory, Issy Mahon Matisse Van, Rosie Zielinski, Ella Carmichael, Caitlin Bilton) who debated against each other in the ACT Debating Competition semi-finals. They argued the topic 'That there should be a quota of low SES students attending private schools'.

We are proud to announce that the team comprising Rosie Zielinksi, Ella Carmichael and Caitlin Bilton are through to the grand final next Wednesday, 25 October where they will debate against Gold Creek.

Good luck girls!

Congratulations Shabnam Mohamad Shafiq on being selected for an award in the  2017 Pens Against Poverty writing competition.  Merici College was also the overall school winner and teacher Mrs Louise Martingale and her Year 10 class are being recognised as the standout class. The awards ceremony will be held on Friday 20 October at the Canberra College Performing Arts Centre.

Monique Lawrence, Year 10 student, competed at the ACT State Ice Skating Championships on Saturday, 14 October and attained a Personal Best score and 1st place!  Monique has been selected into the ACT Representative team to go to Brisbane in December 2017. Also then competing on Sunday, 25 October in Liverpool NSW taking out another 1st place. We congratulate Monique on these wonderful achievements and look forward to hearing more news.