Celebrating Achievement
Congratulations to Paige Fisher (Year 12) who has commenced a School Based Traineeship with Kirratech Pool Services. Paige will be studying a Cert III in Business. All the best with your traineeship Paige.
Congratulations to Tate Godbee (Year 12) who has signed up as a School Based Apprentice with Cairns Specialized Cabinets. Tate will be studying a Cert III in Cabinet Making. All the best with your apprenticeship Tate.
Congratulations to Landon Reid (Year12) who has commenced an apprenticeship with Norweld. Landon will be completing a Certificate III in Engineering (Fabrication Trade). Well done Landon!
On Monday, St Mary’s had seven students represent TCS at the Peninsula netball trials. Well done to all involved and congratulations to Charlotte Jonsen (Year 10) and Cecily Okena (Year 9) who were selected in the 13-15yrs Peninsula team.
St Mary’s would like to congratulate the following Alumni (and staff member) who have received a Cairns Catholic Education Teaching Scholarship. Pictured here with Principal Wayne Wood after the Award Ceremony.Vittoria Rimington: 4th Year Scholarship - 2018 graduateJonathan Harrison: 1st Year Scholarship - 2021 graduateChristina Borzi: Final Year Scholarship, currently on staffZali Norsworthy: 1st Year Scholarship - 2021 graduateAnna Hitchings: 4th Year Scholarship - 2018 graduate
Such a tremendous achievement and St Mary’s is behind you!
Congratulations to our Junior Prefect Piper Devine (Year 10) who is a Silver State Champion! Piper ran the 1500m in an impressive 4:35 in the Under 16 girls’ section at the Qld State Titles. We’re so proud of you Piper!
Year 11 student, Braden Plath, has signed up as a school based apprentice with CJD Electrical. Braden will be studying a Cert III in Electrotechnology Electrician.
Congratulations Braden and all the best with your apprenticeship.
St Mary’s Year 9 students Tyreze Samuel & Orlando Geary played in the North Queensland Junior Basketball Competition (NQJBC) for U16's Boys, Round 3 in Townsville from 18th – 20th March, 2022. Orlando played in the U16's Cairns Marlins Div.1 team and Tyreze for the U16's Cairns Stingers Div.2 team with both teams winning Gold!
Congratulations boys we’re super proud of you! We wish you all the best in your next tournament, the 2022 Queensland U16's Boys State Championships Tournament in Coomera, Gold Coast 7th - 10th April!
Such an amazing effort by St Mary's Year 10 student Piper Devine. We're so proud of you!
Australian Championships Athlete Highlight - Piper Devine @piper.devine.19
Pipers debut Nationals couldn’t have got much better. Extremely proud of her preparation and her performances were proof of this. Another solid 4:37 1500 to place 10th (9th Australian) in a fast finishing race. Backing up with a 2 sec PB in the 800m in 2:15, narrowly missing the final by 0.5sec. To be mixing with the girls on debut gives us confidence moving forward. Great work on debut Piper!
Over the weekend two St Mary’s Year 7 students, Kadee Rooker and Imogen Bennett competed in the FQ Academy Regional Carnival in Townsville. The girls are a part of the U12 Girls Football Queensland Far North High-Performance team. The weekend demonstrated all the talent and skills the girls have over three games which resulted in their team being undefeated all weekend; also, both girls scored a goal.
St Mary’s is proud of you!
St Mary's Alumni Marita Cheng is a past St Mary's Catholic College student who continues to make us proud of her achievements. Story courtesy of @thecairnspost
A former Young Australian of the Year, an alumna of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for high achievers and the creator of a robot that allows people to “teleport” themselves anywhere in the world. Not bad for a girl who grew up in a housing commission home in Woree and graduated from St Mary’s Catholic College.
Marita Cheng is the CEO of Aubot, which makes a “telepresence robot” called Teleport that allows kids with cancer in hospital to attend school, people with a disability to attend work and to monitor and socialise with elderly people. She is also at the cutting edge of robotic arm research and development, virtual reality and autonomous mapping and navigation technology.
Her single-parent mum worked as a hotel room cleaner and, by all reports, she could not be prouder of her daughter. Ms Cheng said her passion for robotics was born from a four-day engineering camp at the University of Queensland while she was still at school.
Students were tasked with building a simple robot that could follow a line.
She was hooked. “I grew up in Woree and just thought it was so cool that even from so far away, we could use the internet and access information so quickly,” she said.
“It seemed magical. So I wondered if we could apply those same computer systems to the mechanical world.”
Luke Haines (Year 8), recently represented the Far North & Gulf U14 soccer team which competed in the Football Queensland Academy State Carnival in Brisbane. They performed well against several other Queensland teams over a four-day carnival.
Well done, Luke!
Congratulations to St Mary’s Students who last month competed at the National Athletics Championships in Sydney. Kiera Jackson (Year 11) – triple jump, Kaelan Callaghan (Year 9) – 100m and 200m, Sophie Jackson (Year 8) – 80m high jump and long jump, Aria Lavis (Year 9)– 200m and 400m and Piper Devine (Year 10) – 800m and 1500m. Such amazing talent, St Mary’s is proud of you!
Congratulations to Sid Gayler (Year 12) who recently signed up as a School Based Apprentice with O'Brien Electrical Cairns Central. Sid will be studying a Cert III in Electrotechnology Electrician.
All the best with your apprenticeship Sid.
We congratulate Maddie McAuley (Year 12) who has signed up today as a School Based Apprentice with Cairns Quality Homes. Maddie will be studying a Cert III in Carpentry. All the best with your apprenticeship Maddie.
Congratulations Joel Mundie (Year 12) for being named in the Australian Para-swimming team! St Mary's is proud of your amazing achievements.
Charlotte Jonsen (Year 10), Caitlin Jackson (Year 10), Erin Massingham (Year 11), Lila Hodge (Year 11), Grace Massingham (Year 11), Jessica Haines (Year 11) and Cecily Okena (Year 9) have recently represented Cairns at the State Age Championships on Gold Coast. The girls played so well in their teams and had great success. The Cairns Pythons U15 team came third in their division and the U16’s came away with the silver medal in 2nd. Charlotte (captain) and Cecily also played for Peninsula at the School State Championships in Toowoomba. Both girls played hard and the Peninsula team came 8th, up against the best in the state. Charlotte was extremely fortunate to be named as MVP for Peninsula and also in the Queensland team to travel to Canberra in July for Nationals.
Congratulations girls!!
Charlotte Jonsen (captain) and Cecily Okena competed at the School State Netball Championships in Toowoomba for the Peninsula team. The girls played so well and came 8th overall. Charlotte has also been selected to represent Queensland at the National School Netball Championships in July. Congratulations girls!
