News Blog

End of term and another very busy week.

Year 11 students,  Naomi Jose, Emily McFadden, Abby Ouwendyk and Nui Panich have been selected to attend the Medical Science Encounter at Murdoch University during the first week of the holidays.

Our students were invited to enter a competition organised by MercyCare where they were required to submit a photograph highlighting one of the Mercy values. Six students; Ella Douglas, Iysha [...]

Congratulations to Tracy Webster who will be joining St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls as the Dean of Students Wellbeing commencing in 2018.  Tracy is currently our Dean of Students, Year 7 [...]

Each month, a group of Old Girls and students prepare meals and head to the city to work with Homeless We Care (an organisation created by Jane Armstrong Class of 1993) to feed 60 – 80 homeless [...]

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported the Year 12s in the Just One Thing campaign by donating goods. We are so thankful for the amazing generosity shown by our community! The campaign is [...]

Why do we celebrate Mercy Day? We interviewed Helen Chaffer, Deputy Principal, Mission and asked her about Mercy Day and what it means to her.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) Long Tan Youth Leadership and Teamwork Awards encourage the development of behaviours and attributes considered critical in Australia’s leaders of tomorrow. The [...]

The Year 12 boarders were farewelled by their Year 11 boarding sisters on Sunday.

In a huge effort, six of our eight boarding netball teams made it through into the Grand Final. The Junior C4 Team  and the under 17 team were both victorious taking the premiership medal in each [...]

Five minutes with Jan Withers, Head of Visual Arts

Creativity is the way we move forward personally and as a society. It is the way we show our souls and it is how we solve our tricky problems. What most people don’t realise is that creativity [...]

During Spark6 this term, students have been building catapults. The girls have designed their own catapults, improved on them, tested them, modified and improved on them again until the final [...]

Year 12 student, Olivia Clifford will be competing in the 2017 World Championship Karate Tournament in Tenerife Spain in October.  This is a prelude for athletes who are intending on competing [...]

Encouraging children to read gives them skills to be academically successful as well as providing a tool for good mental health and an independent form of pleasure that will last a lifetime. Here [...]

Last Friday marked one year since Linda Bulloch died. She has been sadly missed and is fondly remembered. Linda gave seven years of great service as Head of Boarding and as we reflect on our [...]

Another busy week at SMC, culminating in Mercy Day.

We asked students what they loved about Mercy Day. This is what they said.

Congratulations to  Genevieve Reid (Year 10), Elizabeth Mckenzie (Year 11), Jemima Reid (Year 11), Talia O’Brien (Year 10), Gabriela Larsen (Year 10) and Isi Ogwu (Year 10) who competed in the [...]

Eva Cocks (Year 11) was awarded a Highly Commended at this year's very competitive, Tim Winton Short Story Awards. We hope you enjoy Eva's story.