Welcome to the half way mark of Term 2. As winter settles in, assessments are falling due. Please check SIMON with your child, or PAM as a parent or carer to ensure that submissions are timely. Communicate with your child and the subject teacher about any issues that impact your child.

Encounter Day

On Wednesday 20 May, we celebrated Encounter Day, in which students participated in a range of activities from listening to guest speakers to reflecting upon their own faith journey, including discussions around The Good Samaritan parable. This culminated in a liturgy conducted by the wonderful Father Junray, whose homily encouraged students to consider those less fortunate. The theme of the day was ‘Respect for Self, Respect for Others’. We hope the lessons learned and connections made translate into a hugely successful rest of the year. We encourage you to speak to your child about the day and enjoy the photos below.

Student Reflection

I thought Encounter Day was very informative about a lot of things. I feel that Luke Kennedy really talked to us on a deep level and he wanted to help us to make the right choices in life and I know that I got a lot out of that session. Then we split up by gender and had the Victoria Police talk to us about three topics. It was good to hear some of the experiences they have gone through while working in the police force and also what inspired them to be a police officer.

For the girls we had a presentation about our Inner Voice and how we should all support each other because everyone has an inner voice telling them something negative about themselves and we shouldn’t listen to that because we are all special in some way. So, a shoutout to Ms Snyman for making that presentation.

Then we went back to our Mercy Homegroups and did a good Samaritan activity about who is your neighbour. Finally, we had a liturgy led by Fr Junray and some of our Year 8 leaders and we had some time to reflect on all the information we had learnt.

Big shout out to all the teachers and helpers that make this day possible. 

Congratulations are in order for participants in a variety of sporting activities.

Junior Girls Soccer

The Junior Girls Soccer was on Wednesday 6 May. This included two games with outstanding play. The captains of the team were Olivia Parker and Katija Gallagher.

Game 1: CMC played Crusoe College and won 7-0

Game 2: CMC played Castlemaine and lost 1-2

Overall, the Junior girls had great games with outstanding sportsmanship.

Year 8 players: Katija Gallagher, Imogen Keller, Jayde Young, Sofia Angrove, Ella Brown, Charlie Chambers, Zoe Goudge & Olivia Parker

Thank you to Suzanna Hay for doing the flags.

Boys Junior Soccer

On Wednesday 6 March the Year 8 Boys and Junior Girls Soccer Sandhurst Division Competitions were held.

Game 1: Played Castlemaine (winning 9-0),

Game 2: Played Crusoe (drawing 1-1)

Game 3: Weeroona (winning 1-0)

Grand Final: BSE won in penalty shoot out.

Highlights were Will Smith defending; and Kyran Rowlands and Jonah Say with clutch goals.