Cultural Liaison/Pastoral Care
Study Club – Term 2023
It’s been a great term 2 with so many students being committed to completing their assessment, AFL task and homework during our afternoon study clubs. Homework gives students opportunity to review class material, and it gives parents a chance to see what is being learned in school, and study club teaches students how to take responsibility for their part in the educational process.
This is one of the comments from the students attending study club;
“A lot of us were isolated through language barriers and other things we didn’t want
to talk about it, but since attending study club, it has built my confidence to ask questions to teachers, and understand the teacher is available to respond to my homework needs.
I feel I have benefitted enormously from their personal assistance, and I have successfully achieved completion of my secondary education down to the support I have received from the study club and the potential I now have since attending the study cub.
Everyone is helpful as well as the students and teachers at study club, and I recommend it to all year 7 students and my friends”.
Next Tuesday 20 of June will be our last study club session for the term, and I would like to thank Miss Brooke Jarvis Dempsey for keeping the study club going when Mrs Lole had been unwell, and also for time and dedication in assisting the students with their school work afterhours. We would also like to thank our learning support office/ teacher’s aide Mr Ambrose Del Rosario for his commitment of coming to study club every Tuesday afternoon with a big smile and so much energy in helping the students with their studies, as we are all appreciate their help and guidance.
REFUGEE WEEK!
Refugee Week – Schools Screening 2023‘WATANDAR’ My Countryman
Each year Rural Australians for Refugees screen a film during and around Refugee Week, and this year they are screening WATANDAR My Countryman. There will be a community screening at (6 pm for $15) and a school screening at (11:30 am for $2) and both screenings will be held at the Griffith Regional Theatre on Tuesday 20 June. Marian Catholic College has been a great supporter of refugee film screenings since 2019, and Will Mead (Convenor Rural Australians for Refugees Griffith) invited our students this year to attend. In the film Former Afghan Refugee Muzafar Ali discovers that Afghans have been an integral part of Australia for over 160 years, he begins to photograph their descendants in search to define his own new Afghan-Australian Identity. The duration of the film is 68 minutes. This year the students had the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with the Director/producer Jolyon Hoff and the producer/lead actor Muzafar Ali who were both present at school screening and would also be present at the community screening. It's important for students to learn about the positive effect’s refugees can have on host communities. After the Screening, the director opened the floor to the audience/students to ask questions. Javier Torresan was our first MCC student who asked his question and it opened up the way majority of the MCC students to be involved. The students were involved, respectful, showed positive attitudes and were all inspired by Refugee Muzafar Ali’s story and the connections the Afghanistan community had with the Indigenous Australians. Each individual walked away gaining new knowledge about refugees and the importance of making connections with other cultures and what it means to become Australian from a refugee's perspective. After the Q&A the students and Mrs Lole were able to take a photo with the Director Jolyon Hoff and Muzafar Ali.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Leading up to the end of Term 2, Our Community Action Team got into action, put on their gloves went around the school grounds and the staff room to collect the whole schools recycling.
For 2023, we have students from years 7 to year 10 who have submitted their interest to become a member of the Community Action Team for MCC.
The Community Action Team is a group of passionate students and staff who strive to reduce social injustice issues, promote equality of life and support those less fortunate within our community.
The students are involved in College projects such as Project Compassion, I Care Kits, Needy Paws, and the St Vincent De Paul Christmas Hampers. It was their goal as an Action Team to ensure we are living a life of compassion through gratitude, presence and love of work.
Our actions are guided by the teachings Jesus and the community support organisation St Vincent de Paul.
Our College vision and mission, we see the word Stewardship. At MCC, Stewardship refers to valuing our relationship with creation with a sense of wonder and awe. Acting with gratitude and promoting sustainable use of resources.
This is why around MCC we have the silver cage-bins. They have been placed around our college so that we can collect recyclable items and donate the funds from them being recycled to our local community support services. Not only are we demonstrating care and love for our environment, we are demonstrating love and care for our local community.
Mrs Lole
Cultural Liaison Officer