Around the College
Education Support Personnel (ESP) Day
Today is Education Support Personnel (ESP) Day, a special occasion to honour and recognize the remarkable contributions made by our education support staff to our students and college community. A huge thank you to the Mary MacKillop Catholic Regional College Learning Support Team for your dedication and hard work!
VCE Theatre Studies Play
The VCE Theatre Studies class presented their play, 'Murder Among the Manuscripts,' on Tuesday, May 14th, at Coal Creek Community Park and Museum in the Pig and Whistle building. The performing students took the audience on a tension-fueled journey with their classic murder mystery play. The seven Year 11 and 12 students portrayed traditional 'Whodunit' style characters, including an 'innocent' butler, a scorned ex-wife, a nosy journalist, a resentful neighbour, a disgruntled influencer, and a mad scientist. Throughout the play, audiences were enticed to solve the murder of Leonardo Craven, the rich millionaire recluse. The dark comedy, written and directed by Laura Muranty, paid homage to Film Noir music techniques and was filled with red herrings, motives, and accusations.
The students were very grateful to have packed audiences supporting their efforts, laughing, and participating in solving the murder.
Big Science Competition
The Big Science Competition took place this week. It consisted of a 50-minute multiple-choice online competition testing science knowledge, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Questions were set in real-life, contemporary contexts, making them relatable... and interesting! Well done to all the students who participated in this competition.
Learning Resource Centre
Term one in the Learning Resource Centre was a busy time with library staff learning to use the new cataloguing system. There have been many teething problems with the change-over from the old system including emails about overdue items that have already been returned. If you have received such an email, check if it was sent from Concord Infiniti. If so, then it can be ignored. Please read your emails regularly to see if the new system, Oliver v5, has sent you an overdue notice as this will be accurate.
The Resource Centre has altered the arrangement of the fiction section by putting books together in genre groups. We have also been buying more novels and graphic novels to boost the collection. Students are allowed to borrow up to two items at a time for up to two weeks. Renewing items is easy. It can be done online, through the new catalogue or the staff can help students and staff to renew items.
Laptop charging is available in the Resource Centre. There is also space for quiet socialising, reading, private study and computer use. Games are also available such as chess, Connect Four and card games. The Resource Centre is open before and after school, at recess and lunchtime. It is available for quiet study, library lessons and borrowing during class time.
Recently Liz and Alanah have been made Library Monitors. They have been assisting with shelving and keeping the collection in a tidy state.
