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SENIORS SHARE SUCCESSSeniors Share SuccessEllyse Dahl - School Captain,Ashleigh Meers - Vice CaptainMaddison Mcdonald - Expressive Arts, Angelica Windsor - SRC, Leigh Kalsbeek - Sport,Monique Pasfield - Spirituality, Rachel Porter - Social Justice, Hayley Waring - SustainabilityYear 12 Tertiary Students preparing for their final AST exam on Wednesday 5th September. Students shared breakfast and ashort liturgy prior to the sitting of tests on each of the two daysStudents at the Accredited Conference on Tuesday 4th September14
LIBRARY SERVICES POWERFUL LEARNINGStudents Strive for SuccessFashion ParadeBest dressed‘Champion’Best dressed‘Daffodil’Best DressedBook CharacterAdelaide Degainand CapucineSenguineBridgetHodge-MeliLaura Goodwin(Mad Hatter)The theme for Book Week this yearwas ‘Champions Read’. The MericiCollege staff and students recentlycame together to celebrate thelongest running children’s festivalin Australia, the 67th Annual BookWeek event which was held on the20th – 24th August.This year the Senior LibraryInformation Services class was incharge of organising Book Week, as itwas a part of our assessment for thisterm. We decided to organise activitiesevery day for the duration of BookWeek and from these activities wechose to raise money to support twocharities. The two charities that wechose to support were the ‘IndigenousLiteracy Foundation’ and the ‘CancerCouncil’. Our class found that theBook Week celebration this year wasa very successful event, as we raiseda large amount of money from theactivities that were held and alsobecause we got the participation ofmany students, and staff membersfrom the college.We raised $185 dollars for thebook swap and $986 dollars forthe fashion parade and the rafflescombined together. It was fantasticto see the whole Merici communityget involved. We would like to saya big thank you to all the staff andstudents for participating in the BookWeek activities. We couldn’t havehad an excellent week without you.Congratulations to the followingstudents on their success in winningprizes:Raffle Winners1st Samara Carrol2nd Catherine Hade3rd Bethany TaylorGuess the number of the lollies inthe jar:There were 70 lollies in the jar, andCatherine Hade, Se 2 guessed thatnumber exactly.Overall the preparations of BookWeek has given us a very worthwhileexperience, it has taught us many newskills about organising, delegating andteamwork.Mikaela Dingley, Ashley Raab,Christina TruongInformation Services StudentsPowerful Learning acrossthe CollegeIf you walk the corridors of Mericiyou will soon come across one of theposters outlining the Principles ofPowerful Learning which underpinteaching and learning at Merici. Toassist staff and students ‘digest’ themultiple facets ofthe Principles,each termthere isa focuswhich ishighlightedin theteachingand learningprogram. ThePowerful Learning foci for 2012 are:Term 1 Critical and appropriate useof technologyTerm 2 Valuing and Caring forGod’s CreationTerm 3 Independent andcollaborative workTerm 4 Utilising diverse learningopportunitiesCopies of the Principles and termfoci are found in student planners,staff handbooks, the daily notices andbulletins. In 2011 students rewrotethe Principles in ‘kidspeak’ to makethem more accessible.Each yearthe teacherlibrarians holda workshopwith eachjunior yeargroup toexplore thefoci for theyear. This year students created QAcodes – the quick read codes that younow see in magazines, newspapersand many other places. The tasktouched on aspects of the four fociand engaged the students who createdsome inspiring promotional QR codeson an aspect of life at Merici.Jill WisbeyPowerful Learning Coordinator15
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