College News

BOOK WEEK AT MCC

CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK was celebrated at Marian Catholic College in several ways.  The week saw many staff and students bring  in old, used and preloved books  for donation to charities such as St Vincent De Paul,  Carevan to name a few. The Community Action team was instrumental in activating this drive.

The Accelerated Reader classes were given  a talk on the Book Council and its chosen books for Younger Readers and Older Readers.  The classes were then shown fun  videos using a parody from a recent song  with the words changed to suit books and libraries.  Students were then asked to spot and name the books in the clips.

To celebrate the end of Book Week, only staff came to school in fancy dress using the theme “Escape to Everywhere”.  Students enjoyed seeing the staff in their costumes.  Staff  gathered in the staff room at lunchtime for a  Team Book Week Photo, followed by indulging in a delicious Party Cake to celebrate Book Week.

During the week English teacher, Miss Nicole Commins initiated a “Literature Club” encouraging students to appreciate and discuss a topical book.  The first meeting was held in the library with over 20  students attending.

Gisella Barber Librarian

Jenny Sartor School Assistant

Betsy Farrugia School Assistant/ Librarian

CHESS COMP: ROUND 5 v Narrandera High School

Marian’s year 9 chess quartet managed last week to place top 3 in the Riverina section of the statewide chess comp and our congratulations go out to Muntaqim Chowdhury, Piriyarathan Karunapalan, Matthew Salvestro, Zachary Scoble and Aditha Jayasuriya. This is Marian’s second best showing ever. They often played year 11 and 12 students and only missed out, at the last step, on a trip to Sydney. However, they did score an entry into the ‘Second Place Competition’ for the 6 highest ranking schools after this year’s regional champs, Kooringal High. This means a knockout, 3-round tournament. We played host to Narrandera High today and the boys were very happy to post a 3-1 win to progress through to the semis.

With Aditha a last minute scratching, Karanbir Sidhu stepped in and marched headlong straight into his opponent's army. The confident approach seemed to unsettle the young Narranderian and table 4 saw the first congratulatory handshake of the day - well done Karanbir. Piri, on table 2, played the slow and steady game and Matthew, on table 3, as always, played the even slower and even steadier game. Muntaqim, on table 1, was determined this time not to be caught short on time and played at triple time compared to his last match. Piri, after leaving his rook dormant for 50 minutes, finally moved it and lost it. The momentary slip was to prove fatal. Muntaqim, after playing most of the match a queen down, was the beneficiary of a self-confessed choke as Narrandera’s number 1 lost his queen with a brainsnap and Munty had checkmate a few moves later - couldn’t believe his luck. Yet his relentless attention, confidence and focus on the checkmate was a key part of the ‘unforced’ error. The star of the day however was Matthew who posted his 5th straight victory - undefeated in 2017!!

Thanks, as always, to the support from the office staff, Mrs Panarello and well done boys!

Mr Munro