Identity and Mission

Crazy Sock Day – November 1st

What is Socktober?

Life is about change, transformation and growth. It is about birth, new beginnings and hope. Life is what happens when God’s love stirs and disturbs. Awakening this life is what Catholic Mission is called to do.

Socktober aims to engage Catholic school students’ heads, hearts, and hands in key issues of mission and social justice.  Socktober cultivates the passion of students to rise up, engage their local community and take action against poverty through the world. 

It provides young people in Australia with the opportunity to lead in mission, encouraging them to think not only of what they will do to help, but why they will do it.

Socktober in 2022, students will learn about Ethiopia and support children and their families in need. Although it is a beautiful and deeply historic place, Ethiopia's challenges, including conflict, poverty and famine, have troubled its people for centuries. The growing influence of climate change will only serve to exacerbate these issues, and we are called to act now to work with local communities to support children and families in need, to preserve their dignity and to safeguard their future. It’s important for our students to understand why children overseas need our support, and to expose some of the root causes of poverty. In doing this, we are preparing our students to be responsible leaders of change in the future.

Mount Carmel students are encouraged to support this initiative on Tuesday, 1st November by wearing a pair of crazy or comfortable socks. We encourage students to bring a gold coin donation to help with the 2022 goal.

Vinnies Christmas Surprise Appeal

The Joy of Christmas is Giving

Families in our College have the opportunity to contribute to someone else’s Christmas by ‘packing a shoebox’ for someone struggling in our local Tasmanian community.  Please help to bring joy to a child this Christmas. The Vinnies Christmas Box Appeal is to provide a young person begin the ages of 2 -14, a shoebox filled with new small toys, books, personal hygiene items, and school supplies as a means of reaching out to children. These gifts of love are sent to children affected by poverty or natural disaster within our Tasmanian community. These gifts are given without condition and without regard to the race, creed, gender, religion, or ethnicity of the beneficiaries. 

If you would like to contribute to this cause, please respond to the upcoming EdSmart and the College will provide your child with one of the shoeboxes to take home to decorate and fill. An information sheet which suggests some appropriate gifts will accompany your box.  We are encouraging all families to please be mindful of the amount of single-use or disposable plastic being put into the boxes and its severe environmental consequences. This is a wonderful time to be mindful of the way we manage our impact on creation while helping those in need. 

More information on the impact of plastic in our world can be found at https://www.unep.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/

All boxes must be returned to the College by the end of November, to allow St Vincent de Paul to deliver them in time for Christmas.