Acting Principal

Dear Families,

Since I have been at MacKillop the words Excellence, Compassion and Service appear everywhere. I want to highlight how I have seen these words in action over the last few weeks in relation to College sport:

Excellence: We have seen some excellent performances from our sporting teams. These teams have trained together this term and worked cohesively to produce some strong performances. I was lucky enough to attend both the Year 8 and Year 10 Girls' basketball finals. The participants displayed fantastic skills and tenacity and also managed to bring home the pennant. These performances exemplified the strong sporting culture of the MacKillop community.

Compassion: Last week I received this email: 

Hi Brendan,

Hope all is well at MacKillop. I just wanted to send a shout out to your Year 7/8 Division 2 Soccer team who played our  Year 7/ 8 Soccer team yesterday afternoon. Yes the score was 24-0, but the boys came to College this morning with big smiles on their faces, saying that was their favourite game as the MacKillop boys were so nice to them. It sounds like it was an absolute comedy of errors for our team but they had great fun. Please pass on to your students and the coach of the team, our sincere thanks for a wonderful display of sportsmanship. Our boys even mentioned that should your team make the final they would love to go along and cheer them on. 

This email highlights the sportsmanship and compassion of our teams. This is the type of character that we want to highlight and develop at MacKillop Catholic College.

Service:

Just this last week, we have had netball, basketball, surfing, swimming, AFL and soccer. All of these teams rely on the service of both our staff, senior students and families. Together, we ensure these teams can train, play and enjoy the benefits of individual and team sports. Thank you to everyone who has served the College in sport so far this year.

I wish all members of the community every blessing during this term break.