YearIt would be true to say that a lot can happen in a month….Our Year 12’s have finished their exams, our Years 9-11 have had their semester 2 exams, we are now in Step-Up for 2025, and we have had much to celebrate.

Awards Assembly

As previously mentioned in our last Marian News, our Awards Assembly was held this Monday 25th November. We celebrated the achievements of over 140 students who demonstrate one of the following core values of our school.

These are: Strength and Kindness,
Living with Hope,
Joy and Wonder
Welcoming and Including All
Practicing Justice and Service
Love of Learning

Year 7

Strength and Kindness	Practicing Justice and Service	Living with Joy, Hope and Wonder	Welcoming and Including All	Love of Learning
Dhanvi Sharma	Adut Majok	Audrey Sandles	Maya Nelson	Sophia Dao
Amelia Taikakara	Liana Mammoliti	Peace Bagu	Alannah Nguyen-Tran	Mikalya Ismail
Olivia Monteleone	Zoe Terzieviski	Gabriella Zarkos	Madelline Puccio	Ann Vu
Adelaide Norman	Zoe Dinami	Aliye Cabuk	Regina Ling	Audrey Andreevska
Kheitu Chi Sui Mai	Rebecca Sibia	Denise Nguyen	Nicola Jason	Rose Vella
Daisy Mitchell	Venetia Suzanne D ‘Costa	Dior Speights	Latasha Kakavoulis	Aria Worlley

Year 8

Strength and Kindness	Practising Justice and Service	Living with Joy, Hope and Wonder	Welcoming and Including All	Love of Learning
Sophia Dizon	Stamina Van Par Iang	Parida Chindarattanavorakul	Abigail Bingai Chho	Sofia Micallef
Manha Seid	Angella Mansok	Malaetele Vaega	Hurrain Abbas	Tania Jayapal
Veronica Moscosa	Alexis Tremoulis	Tanisha Wickramasinghe	Anna Inmang	Abigail Cresp
Niyumi Samarsinghe	Sharlotte Patrice	Phuong Lavender Do		Vera Wood
Iris Lawngtlia	Elly Pikoulas	Georgia Tangi	Grace Davis	Chloe Macasero

Year 9

Strength and Kindness

Practising Justice and Service

Living with Joy, Hope and Wonder

Welcoming and Including All

Love of Learning

Jassmeen Kaur Brar

Seanna Goulding

Mercy

Bawi Hrin

Lola

Boljevic

Evelyn Barker

Holli

Keith

Jacinta

Tauhalaiku

Kamakshi

Kansal

Amelia

Dimovska

Kiranjit Dhillon

Bailey

Mai

Camryn

Thomson

Belicia

Quainoo

Reese

Messina

Olivia

Dinami

Jessica

Newell

Ruby

Tran

Jessie

Tenaglia

Sarah

Lia SI

Nicole Martinus

Dawt Hlei Par Tlak Ling

Vivian

Tran

Jessica

Tran

Rabet

Zaathang

Mia

Preddy

Year 10

Strength and Kindness	Practising Justice and Service	Living with Joy, Hope and Wonder	Welcoming and Including All	Love of Learning
Charlotte Farley	Thanksgiving Brown	Isabelle Cresp	Nicole Kihumba	Vanessa Di Pietro
Skye Koutsofta	Abigail Douglas	Maram Jirjees	Kiara Mammoliti	Livinia Jason
Charlotte Paterson	Isabella Nguyen	Ruby Pearce	Charlotte McDonald-Brown	Achigor (Leah) Majak
Viniana Passi	Emily Vo	Caitlyn Podolczak	Eunice Terepo	Sienna Origlia
Alyssa Stephenson			Gauri Vasishat	Ava Terzievski

Year 11

Worship (Angel) Brown	Benice Dy	Summer D’Alessandro	Liana Abreu	Katie Do
Jorja Coote	Jhaea Elciario Risshaye	Jenna Kwok	Emily Ciantar	Swedal Gonsalves
Angelina Nguyen	Fiona Luc	Binudy Paliage	Sarah Ellis	Christmas Lian
Mary-Jane Pham	Leah Pikoulas	Amy Putrino	Lucija Krolo	Monica Nguyen
Sung Chin Tial (Merrylin) Thang Eng	Tara-Leigh Phung	Lisini Rajapaska Mudiyanselange	Alina Nguyen	Sandali Patabendi
Ting Tling	Jolyne Tran	Genevieve Ruberto	Angelina Nguyen	Tia Tran

We also recognised those students one from each level that received the Delany awards for:

Achievement and Endeavour
Sporting Achievement and Endeavour
Performing Arts Achievement and Endeavour

We had over 150 parents who attended the assembly and shared in the achievements of their children. This was such a pleasing part of the process to see many of our families share the morning with us.

In this edition of the Marian News, we will acknowledge all of our recipients. Any opportunity to recognise and celebrate achievements a good morning.

Student Leadership Process Since our last newsletter, we have carried out the election of our student leaders for 2025 in the following areas from Years 8 to 11.These roles are: Student Representative Council – two representatives at the level. House Captains – two representatives of each house at each level. We will elect our Student Participation representatives at the beginning of 2025.

We have also carried out the election process for our Social Justice Leaders. It is so very pleasing to see so many of our students willing to put their hand up for student leadership knowing that they have the ability to make a difference in our community. We look forward to sharing their work in 2025.

Risk Assessment for Big Day Out

We have carried out the risk assessment of Adventure Park Geelong in anticipation of our visit there on Wednesday 4th December for our 2025 students from Years 8-10. We acknowledge the work of Mrs Stafford and Ms Piccione who carried out the assessment to ensure that we have identified all of the possible risks on the day and how

we can reduce the impact of these risks on our community. We know that this will be a great day for all who attend.

Work of our Parent Child Safety Sub-Committee

Given that we have reached the end of the school year, it is appropriate at this time to thank those parents who have joined the committee and contributed to making our community a safer place all children at Marian. At our final meeting, we identified ways that we can share with our parent community what the school is doing in the child safety space to keep all students safe. We look forward to sharing this with the community in 2025.

Wellbeing Framework

Our wellbeing staff in the second half of the year have been working on developing a Wellbeing Framework for our community. This framework has clear goals and principles around how we build positive build authentic relationships that engage our students as learners, how we provide a safe environment for them to learn and how we empower them to have a say in the decision-making processes of the school. It also links to our pastoral program from Years 7-12 around resilience, rights and responsibilities, relationships and reaching out. This will work to develop our young people from a wellbeing and learning perspective and give them the opportunity to make a difference in the world that they will enter when they leave our community. We look forward to launching this with our community in 2025.

Step Up Program

With the start of our Step Up program, we continue to monitor those students from a wellbeing perspective that struggle with this change to ensure that this transition is as smooth as it could be. We know from our experience last year, that if we address these issues now that when our students return in 2025 they will be ready to begin learning from day 1, given that they have had work to do over the holidays in preparation of day 1.

With the arrival of Advent this week, may we remember the very small child that will be born in a manger that offers us hope and light of what our world can be. May we remember that light over Christmas and have a safe and happy festive season.

Kerrie Williams – Assistant to the Principal – Student Wellbeing

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