Wishing our Families a Happy, Holy Christmas: Jennifer Oaten
Today we celebrate the end of the 2020 academic year with Mass celebrated by Monsignor Keating and followed by our final assembly.
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Christmas: Mary’s Story
This year at the final College Mass, senior students unpacked the Gospel story, inviting us to consider the Christmas story from Mary’s perspective.
Weekly Wrap Up: Week 8, Term 4, 2020
The academic year finishes off with a very busy week. We hope you enjoy our final Weekly Wrap Up for 2020.
Reason For Being: Year 9 Transition Program
As part of the Year 9 program over the past two weeks, students have attended their Year 9 camp, a pilgrimage as well as a transition program.
STEngineers Handsfree COVID Stations
Year 7 STEngineers students have been working on an engineering task to design, build and test a hands-free hand sanitising station.
Boarders Without Borders
Boarders without Borders is about our incoming boarding students connecting with each other, no matter the distance and before they arrive at the College.
The Future Looks Bright for our Year 10s
Year 10 students have been participating in Future10 this week, it is the Year 10 component of our Enhanced Learning program.
Camp Adventures for our Year 9s
The Year 9 Adventure Learning Camp held at the beautiful premises of OEG Explorus in Karridale, Margaret River has been one great big fun adventure
Year 7 Religious Education Advent and Christmas Preparations
Year 7 RE students have been learning about, and creating the symbols used by Catholics during Advent to help them spiritually prepare for Christmas.
Year 9s Follow Ursula
Year 9 students reflected on the steps taken by Ursula Frayne and the Sisters of Mercy as they retraced their journey this week.
Top 5 Reads of 2020
Thanks for sharing time with us this year. Here are the five most popular Knowing Girls blog posts of 2020. Merry Christmas!
Shark Tank: 2020 Sustainable Entrepreneur of the Year
In Year 7 HASS, students have been learning about entrepreneurial skills and harnessing their creative thinking to come up with sustainable products in the Shark Tank competition.
Year 5s Genius Hour
Students in Year 5 participated in Genius Hour during their Library lessons this week. The girls worked on projects they were passionate about.
Around the World Christmas Markets
Class 5.5 held an Around The World Christmas Market this week. Each group was given a country to research how they celebrated Christmas. They set up market stalls to educate their classmates.
Andrea’s Mercy Gift
This term, Andrea Dopson created an altar cloth for a fellow Mercy school in Victoria. A nice act of compassion at a difficult time for that state.
Year 8s Innovate in Explore8
Year 8 students’ involvement in Explore8 means they have been off the traditional timetable and working on their own design-thinking project.
The World is their Oyster.
Year 8 student, Lee-Elle Cooper has ranked in the top 5% of students in Australia for her age group in the 2020 Australian Geography Competition.
What are your family’s Christmas rituals?
Christmas rituals are important. They tether us to something greater than ourselves. They help instill in us a sense of connection and belonging.
Meet our 2021 Visual Arts Captain: Lucy Kilroe
In her role as Visual Arts Captain, Lucy would like to uphold the supportive atmosphere in the Art department and encourage girls to embrace their creativity.
We Are All Creative! – Jennifer Oaten
Many us would not describe ourselves as creative, yet we are all creative! It is a skill valued throughout the world in workplaces and in society. It is not limited to just creativity in art but encompasses creativity in many different contexts.
Weekly Wrap Up: Week 7, Term 4
Our Weekly Wrap Up is jam packed this week with the Year 9 program, Explore8, Music wind up, cricket, airing of the quilts and lots more.
Congratulations Jayde
Congratulations to Year 5 student Jayde who competed at the WA Little Athletics Combined Event over the weekend, where she came first for her age.
Howzat! Year 6 Cricket Clinic
As a culmination to the unit of cricket Year 6s have been involved in this term, the girls participated in a fixture and grand final in their House teams.
Year 9 Religious Education: A Self Portrait
Year 9 Religious Education students traced the outline of a photo of their face and using the positive words have created self-portraits.
Meet Our Sports Captain, Georgia
Georgia applied for Sports Captain to make a positive contribution to the Santa Maria sporting community and celebrate everyone’s individual talents.
Music with a Message
The Year 10 Music class put on a concert this week, performing compositions that raise awareness of issues the girls were passionate about.
Rest In Peace Sister Marg
This week, our beloved Sister of Mercy, Sister Marg Lipsett passed into the hands of God after 17 years of service to our College.
Native Arc Visit the Eco Sisters
The Eco Sisters co-curricular group enjoyed a talk by Rachael from Native Arc Wildlife Rescue Centre, yesterday. She also brought in a few friends.
Meet our Wellbeing Captain Evie
Introducing our 2021 Wellbeing Captain Evie. Evie believes that being healthy, happy and building on your strengths is important and hopes to share this message with the College community.
Year 11 Biology Camp: Working in the Field
The Biology fieldwork camp to the Beelu National Park last week, gave students the opportunity to experience working as biologists in the field.