Student Achievement

This event is in its third year running and was initiated two years ago by two staff members, Trish Young and Tookie Capezio, as a way of broadening the experiences of Senior Hospitality students. It also gives the students with the opportunity of providing a service to those members in our community who need our help most.  On behalf of all the Merici College community, we commend Trish, Tookie and the students on their wonderful endeavours, and congratulate them for the first-class, degustation menu that they prepared on Saturday night.

Merici College's Fiona Buining (Sustainability/Science Teacher), Bec DeCourcy (Sustainability Officer) and Caitlin Treble (Year 10 Sustainability student) spoke to Genevieve Jacobs, Journalist at ABC Radio, about Merici College being selected as one of Australia's top Innovative Schools for 2017 in 'The Educator' magazine. 'The Educator' received a record number of entries this year so being selected as one of the final 40 nationwide is a fantastic achievement.  Our submission provided details of our Sustainability/Healthy Canteen/Kitchen Garden Program.

College Captain - Olivia Straker BR 6

College Vice Captain - Bronte Alexander PE 1

House Captains and Vice House Captains

Balgo:

House Captain - Caitlin Hanna BA 2

Vice Captain - Clare Molony BA 4

Brescia:

House Captain - Imogen McLean BR 5

Vice Captain - Caitlin Brady BR 2

Ningil:

House Captain - Andrea Forshaw NI 6

Vice Captain - Madeleine McDonald NI 5

Penola

House Captain - Maddison Green PE5

Congratulations to Kate Connolly (Year 11) who has been accepted into the Young Women Speak Out (YWSO) project. Young Women Speak Out (YWSO) is an advocacy and campaigning program for young women. The program consists of two practical workshops to assist a group of six young women to design a progressive advocacy project or campaign on an issue important to the group. The workshops are followed by resourcing, mentoring and support to drive a campaign for change!

The Bush Prac weekends are designed to extend the navigation and survival skills of the Duke of Edinburgh participants and act as the practice journey towards their Bronze Award. Two weekends were held this year out at Wee Jasper, NSW. A number of new Marist and Merici students participated in hiking, river crossings and survival scenarios. They were joined by a number of older students who helped to run the weekend. Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who make these adventures possible!

Merici’s Year 9 and 10 Netball team has finished as the ACT Netball Champions after playing a double-extra-time scorcher against reigning champions St.Clare’s yesterday. We congratulate our students on their achievements and thank them for being exemplary representatives of the College.

The Merici College school community congratulates the following students who have been elected in the positions of College Captain and Vice Captain:

Olivia Straker - College Captain 2018

Bronte Alexander - College Vice Captain 2018