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2024 House Athletics Carnival

Kevin Rudd was the Prime Minister, Google Street View images of Australian city streets were added to Google Maps and Hawthorn were the AFL Premiers. The Year was 2008 and Chisholm House had won their first ever Athletics Championship. Fast forward 16 years and the 2008 victory was still their sole Athletics Championship.

Heading into the House Athletics there was plenty of anticipation leading up to the day in regard to whether Chisholm could break their drought, Anthony could defend their title or whether Gerard could regain the title after winning six of the last nine carnivals as well as who would take out of the title of the Fastest Nodder in the Mazenod Gift and which records would be broken on the day.

The day was filled with plenty of colour, house spirit and enthusiasm amongst the participants.

There were many outstanding performances of the day, and all students should be congratulated on their attitude and participation on the day.

Competition was fierce and it was tight between all the Houses for most of the day. In the end it was close, but Chisholm broke through to win from Grandin and Gerard.

There were many outstanding individual performances on the day and congratulations to the following Year level Champions:

The sixth instalment of the Mazenod Gift, which included each of the year level winners of the 100m event, was a close affair with Year 10 student Aaron David taking home the honours. 

Mr Montoya and Mr Berry used the day to finalise the ACC Athletics team, for the ACC Athletics carnival which will be held later during Term 1.

The Mazenod Sports department would like to thank both students and staff for their efforts on the day, which lead to the running of a successful carnival.

St Kilda Mums

Tuesday saw our VET Christian Ministry students join the generous folks at St Kilda Mums to assist them in repairing and rehoming kids’ essential goods given to families in need.St Kilda Mums recycle nursery equipment including cots, prams, and car seats, as well as clothes and other baby essentials. They also sort, quality check, and safety check them to ensure they meet current Australian Safety Standards.

Students were also educated about the need for safe prams and warm clothing, some of the causes of disadvantage of the people in need, while hearing some feedback they received from social workers and families on the importance of the organisation's mission.We thank them for the opportunity to be involved with such an amazing cause and for their impressive support of our community!