Leadership's Letter

Rosies Oblate Youth Mission

This year, students in Year 12 have had the opportunity to participate in a street outreach run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate called Rosies Oblate Youth Mission.

There are seven more Friday nights this term, seven more opportunities to be involved. Has your son been involved this year?

Rosies Oblate Youth Mission is a not-for-profit organization that provides friendship to society’s most vulnerable. Rosies has had a physical presence on Flinders Street since 1990. 

Rosies has a ministry of being "Friends On The Street." Each Friday night a team of students and regular volunteers operate a coffee van offering friendship and hospitality through the simple gesture of a free hot or cold drink. 

Rosies volunteers develop friendships by having a listening ear. One of the many frustrations for the homeless is not only finding food and shelter, but also finding someone to listen to their story and to be their "Friend On The Street".

It has been great to see that year 12 students have been able to participate in Rosies again after a few years away due to covid. With only a few weeks left to volunteer this year, I encourage you to ask your son if he has taken up the opportunity to volunteer. Participating in Rosies just once continues to strengthen our engagement with the school motto, Leave Nothing Undared (for the Kingdom of God), and the Year 12 theme, Enter to Learn - Leave to Serve.

Subject Selection - Scaling and the VCE

August is the month for subject selections and half of all the students who will be making subject selections will be going into Year 11 or Year 12. Many of these students will be choosing a VCE pathway that could lead to an ATAR or university application.

Scaling of VCE subjects is often misunderstood, so to assist families in making confident selections with their students the video below tries to explain scaling in a friendly way - without unnecessary mathematical detail.

If this video is of assistance to you and your family, please let us know here at Mazenod College. It might be the encouragement we need to create more short resources explaining these otherwise complicated systems.

God bless,

Mr Kyle Hoad

Dean of Data, Systems and Analysis