Mary MacKillop Newsletter

Around the College

The opportunity of a lifetime! Ms. Nicole Dudman

An exciting day for Brodie and Jesse Gollop on Saturday 22nd July at the Carlton V West Coast match. Both boys got to be on the ground in the guard of honour before the game as the players ran out. Then Brodie got the amazing experience of doing the coin toss before the game.  A day they will both never forget! 

 

Youth Ministry Yard Clean-up - Mrs. Sarah Roscoe

Dirtiest places in the school:

  • S14 plant area
  • Basketball court
  • Bushes by the cross–front of the school
  • Year 7 and 8 Playground
  • Steps up to Pioneer Hall near Year 7 building
  • Soccer goal/Leongatha Knights building
  • Behind the senior building 
  • Year 9-10 open grass area
  • Year 10 building

Bins filled and emptied: 6

 

Story - Kira Waldron

Our Year 11 Youth Ministry team doing the dirty work, cleaning up our wonderful school and making it a cleaner and safer place. In the short time of a period and a half, we managed to clean over seven areas of our school. We found it shocking and disappointing truth of some people in our school actively chose to leave their rubbish on the ground, even going as far to hide them under buildings and bushes. 

 

Maths Games Day! Year 9 Students - Audrey Vernon, Rosie Witteveen, Henri Bott, Remi Gange, William Dourley, Kohen Mandemaker, Olivia Aulich and Neon Jijo Cherian.

 

We were lucky enough to be invited to Hill Crest Christian College to participate in a competitive but wonderful maths day with other accelerating math students. We started our day by separating into teams of four and got straight to work on our first challenge, which was a variety of sudoku puzzles. We then moved on to a booklet filled with 18 mind-boggling math problems. Both teams from Mary MacKillop College worked extremely hard, and after a well-deserved break for lunch, the girls were 6th out of 22! This was amongst top schools like Scotch College and Wesley College.

 

Thanks, Ms. Hogan, for organising the day, and thanks to Mrs. Herbert and Mr. Stein for taking us and supporting us throughout the day. 

 

Year 8 Humanities - Ms . Joanna Jacobs

Students in Year 8 Humanities are learning geographic acronyms such as BOLTSS by making letters into shapes. 

 

SurfAid - Rhylee Duell 9A

https://makeawave.co/rhylee-duell

This September I am surfing every day for the month to raise funds for SurfAid. When you support my fundraising you give people in remote communities connected to us through surfing a hand-up, rather than a handout. SurfAid's geographical focus is on the heartlands of surfing where few visitors but surfers go, making their work unique. They specialise in working in very isolated villages where the maternal and child mortality rates are some of the highest in the world. With your support, we can give families the best chance of getting ahead by providing access to healthcare, clean water and sanitation and improved nutrition. Anything you can donate to support my efforts is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help.

https://makeawave.co/t/phillipislandboardridersclub 

 

Year 11 Retreat - Ms. Nicole Dudman

Our Year 11 students have spent the last three days at Don Bosco Camp at Safety Beach. The Passionist Youth Team facilitated the camp with students engaging in a range of activities around self-reflection, building community and deepening faith. 

 

Year 10 Agriculture - Jersey Calves - Mr. Scott Blencowe

Introducing our new Jersey Calves, #54 (Blen-cow) and #22 (Phillys).

 

Supplied by Ben Vagg for the Cows Create Careers program delivered by Dairy Australia.

 

We had a visit from industry advocate Veronica McLeod who spoke to the students about careers within the industry and helped with our first feed of these cows.

 

Thank you to all who supported the Ag program!