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Merici School Vinnies Sleepout – Years 10-12 (Thursday 27 June)
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A final reminder that the Year 12 Retreat dates were revised due to a clash with the 2019 ACT-Southern NSW Interschools Snow...
Year 10 Transitions Forum and Subject Selections for Year 11
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Having won the Riverina regional competition, the Merici College Year 10 Da Vinci Decathlon team yesterday competed at the NSW State event at Knox Grammar in Sydney. It was a high-energy day as always, and in a sterling effort, the Merici girls won the Ideation task against more than 60 other Yr 10 teams from across Sydney and NSW.
Yes you read that correctly!
We congratulate Mariah Brody who is in Melbourne this week competing at the Australian Gymnastics Championships. Mariah has placed 6th in her division (15 years and over national level 8). We look forward to receiving more news!
Merici College provides many opportunities to our senior students. With our guidance and support we are committed to assisting Year 11 and Year12 students to successfully complete courses that inspire and challenge them and hold them in an excellent position for the future. Whether that future holds a position in the workforce, an apprenticeship, in further training at an Institute of Technology or further studies at University level.
If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind the U.S. and China.
I was astounded to hear this last week at the Q&A session with the Director of the film 2040. In Australia up to 40% of the waste in an average household bin is food (Foodwise). Rotting food emits methane, a gas that is twenty-five times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
After a complex process of erecting scaffolding necessary to safely remove approximately 10,000 terracotta roof tiles followed by straightening and re-tying roof trusses, installation of new roof sheeting has begun in the first of 6 sections of the 50m long roof. Not only will the roof stronger and more durable, the roof sheets chosen are a sandwich design containing fire retarding insulating wool with bonded sarking. In addition, R3.5 rated ceiling batts will be installed later in the project.
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On Monday 13 May, 12 of our students were invited to Daramalan College to attend a Q & A with Damon Gameau about his new film 2040.
2040 is an innovative feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW. Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream.
