From the Deputy Principal

Arts Festival - Wednesday 4 September

Our annual MCC Arts Festival will be held on Wednesday 4th September between 3.30pm and 7.00pm. 

There will be Music, Dance and Drama performances across several stages, an Art Trail featuring work by students from Kinder up to Year 10, food options, wine and nibbles, cakes, multimedia presentations, 'street performances’, flash mobs, perhaps even a staff band performance, all occurring at various locations on the College grounds.

All students will be participating either as performer, artist, designer, or at the very least, audience member supporting their peers! MCC Arts Festival is a chance to celebrate the artistic endeavours of all students, not just those who excel in a particular area.  With this in mind, all parents and friends are warmly invited to come and support the students.

An updated draft performance schedule for Music, Dance and Drama items is attached below and updates will be published on the Mount Carmel Facebook page to assist in planning your afternoon.

Students who are performing need to ensure they are neatly presented in their full College winter uniform, with correct hair accessories for musical items and in appropriate performance costumes for drama items.

Year 9 Common Testing

We wish all our Year 9 students well as they prepare for their Common Tests, which commence on 16 September. The testing programme includes: English, History, Theology & Spirituality and Mathematics.  A timetable will be published to students next week and subject specific study overviews will be provided to your daughter from the relevant subject teachers.

The main purpose in conducting these tests is to provide our students with an opportunity to learn to manage a programme of testing scheduled over a week, including the preparation required, test protocols and time and stress management. The assessments these tests provide contribute to our ongoing assessment of students’ learning and do not alone determine students’ results.  When not involved in tests, students will attend normal lessons.

Mount Carmel Celebration Evening

As you would be aware by now, our 2019 College Celebration Evening will take place on the evening of Tuesday 10 December at Wrest Point Convention Centre.  Students will shortly be commencing choir and dance rehearsals and the night promises to be a wonderful celebration of our College year and a fitting way to farewell our Year 10 students onto their senior secondary education. 

Attendance at the Mount Carmel Celebration Evening is compulsory for all students in Years 4 – 10.  If there are exceptional circumstances that will prevent a student from attending Celebration Evening, please indicate this in writing to Mrs Fiona Nolan.

Students Leaving School Due to Illness

As is to be expected as the year unfolds, in recent weeks the number of students reporting to the College sick-bay during the day has increased and it seems timely to remind parents and students of the procedures to be followed in the event of students needing to leave the College during the day because they are unwell.

Students must let a teacher know if they are unwell and they will be given permission via a note in their Communication Log, to report the College Office.  From there, if parents need to be contacted to collect students from school, Administration staff will make contact with parents/carers and arrange for students to be supervised in the College sick bay until they arrive.

Students are not to use their mobile phone to contact parents to collect them from school and we would very much appreciate it if parents could insist that students follow the correct procedure. Circumventing communication with teachers and Administration Staff by contacting parents directly can leave College staff unaware that a student is unwell and cause confusion when parents arrive to collect a student who is still in class. 

Mrs Lyndal Tewes

Deputy Principal