MACKILLOP NEWS TERM 1 WEEK 4 19TH FEBRUARY 2020 - MACKILLOP CATHOLIC COLLEGE
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www.mackillopnt.catholic.edu.au
MacKillop News TERM 1 WEEK 4 19th February 2020
In This Issue:
Page 2: Arts News
Saints News
Page 3: Catholic Identity
NT Board of Studies
Finance News
Page 4: Eagle Group
International News
Year 7 News
Library News
Page 5: Modern History News
Page 7: Upcoming Events
P&F Assoc. News
Canteen News
Page 8: Community News
“Never see a need without trying
to do something about it”
St. Mary MacKillop
May your journey always be filled with blessings and may the life of Saint Mary MacKillop ignite in you the flames of faith and service
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MacKillop News
Arts News Saints News
Dance News McDonald's Johnston Supporting the Saints
We are very grateful to our neighbours at Maccas Johnston for
coming on board to be a jersey sponsor for 2020. Maccas has also
supplied vouchers to be given as prizes for player of the match for
games throughout the season.
Grade of Origin
Year 10 steamed home to seal a come from behind victory in the
inaugural Grade of Origin clash at MacKillop Field on Tuesday.
MacKillop Dance Company rehearsals
have started and we are underway with Down 16 - 10 at the halftime break, Liam Kennedy delivered a
rehearsals for Nightcliff Foreshore Seabreeze spirited halftime speech - described by some as a spray - that
Festival. motivated the men in the Senior’s strip to score a further 20 points
and take the victory.
Rehearsals for Junior and Senior Companies
are every Wednesday 3.15-4.30pm. Year 9, with Year Co-ordinator Mr. Simon watching from the
bleachers, opened the account with 12 unanswered points thanks
All contracts were due to be returned to largely to corner tries from fullback Zac Morgan, centre Toby Roberts
Mrs Mattison by Monday 17th Feb. If your and winger Lachlan Lewis. Unfortunately for the younger team, all
Mandy Mattison contract is overdue, return it now. sideline conversions were missed, leaving a further 12 points not
Dance & Drama taken. Captain Beau Ryan got over the line again later in the match
Coordinator with the conversion going astray as well.
Dylan Mugadza led the Year 10 comeback with a two try effort and
Upcoming Dance and Drama Events was supported by Jett Wilson, DJ Brown and Liam Kennedy who
also bagged tries at key moments in the match. Captain Kennedy
Thursday 12th March was a sharp shooter out there with the boot today knocking over 5
Year 07 Welcome Dinner – Year 07 Hip-Hop elective performance conversions from 5 attempts. Year 9s in the crowd were reported as
saying that they wished Kennedy shared a few goals with them.
Monday 16th March
Stage 1 and 2 Creative Arts Excursion to Browns Mart Theatre. Coach and referee Mr. Matthew Sharp when asked after the match
to highlight some players who really impressed mentioned Harry
Wednesday 25th March Fulton who had a strong game for 9s along with Talan Krout who also
Assembly performance for Year 08 and 09 Hip-Hop Electives had a strong debut for the club. Kosi Sibanda chipped in with a nice
cameo performance towards the end of the game and was directly
Saturday 08th May involved in the delivery of a 2020 falcon of the year on one of his
Nightcliff Foreshore Seabreeze Festival – MDC performing. unsuspecting teammates.
June 11-13 Big congratulations to winning Year Coordinator, Ms. Slingerland,
Wicked the Musical who was simply chuffed to lift the Cox Commemorative Plate in what
was her first ever Rugby League match as well.
31st July – 03rd August
Evolution Dance competition – MDC competing (actual date TBC) Big commiserations to former Year 9 captain, Konnar Black, who
broke his collarbone leading up to the match in a game of ‘run it
Wicked Chorus Rehearsals straight”.
Every Monday 3-5pm
Kent Brockman - Investigative Sports Journalist.
Any queries about dance or drama please contact Mrs Mandy Photos by Blake Dutton, Year 9
Mattison
mandy.mattison@nt.catholic.edu.au
Mandy Mattison
Dance and Drama Coordinator
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MacKillop News
Catholic Identity you. A Payment Arrangement form and Direct Debit Request Form is
enclosed at the end of this newsletter.
Opening Mass and 2019 Dux Presentation Sibling Discount forms: We would like to remind all families who
have more than one child attending Catholic education in the NT to
Congratulations To Caitlin Burt, the Year 12 Dux for 2019. please provide us with their Sibling Discount form. Reminder: Sibling
Discount need to be provided each year. The form can be downloaded
from our website here, at the bottom of the page: mackillopnt.
catholic.edu.au/fees
Back To School Voucher: All families are also eligible for a Back To
School Voucher of $150 from the NT government to cater for costs
such as uniforms, excursions and textbooks. If you have not forwarded
the form yet, please fill in the attached form and forward it to us for
processing.
Payments of school fees can be made via BPay, credit card, direct debit
or cash payment at our front office reception and direct bank transfer
to the below College bank account.
National Australia Bank
BSB: 085933
Account: 396042505
These payment options are provided for on your statement. Please
include your family reference when making payment so we can
allocate monies to correct account.
For all queries pertaining to school fees, please call 89305716 or email
finance.mackillop@nt.catholic.edu.au
Amos Wachira
Business Manager
NT Board of Studies
Awards
Upcoming Commissioning Mass
Monday 2nd March - 12pm start Congratulations Mackayla!
This is a mass to celebrate and recognise our College student
leadership. Parents are most welcome to attend. Mackayla McGowan was recognised at the recent NT Board of Studies
Awards for her achievements in Vocational Education, at a ceremony
held last week at Government House.
From the Finance Dept.
A very warm welcome to all new families
and welcome back to all existing families.
Thank you for all your support in 2019;
I look forward to fostering a strong and
positive partnership in 2020.
School Fees: The first fees statements for
2020 will be issued during Week 5. It will
include tuition fees, student levies, family
Amos Wachira levy, IT resources levy and electives for
Business Manager Term 1. All families are reminded that
unless a formal arrangement for payment
of fees in instalments has been made with
and confirmed by us, these fees and levies will be payable in full
within 21 days of having been invoiced. An option to pay fees in
instalments is available. However, you are required to kindly please
contact us to make arrangements in that regard. To all families who
have already submitted a Direct Debit, or who have already made
payment arrangements, there is no action required from you – thank
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MacKillop News
Eagle Group News International News
Solar Challenge Anime Club
Anime Club has started on Fridays at lunchtimes. The will be showing
a new anime every month, with the current one being Laputa Castle
Eagle group has launched for 2020, and their major project this
in the Sky.
semester will be designing and constructing solar powered vehicles.
Nongkrong
Nongkrong has also begun for 2020. It happens every 2nd week (odd
numbered weeks this term) in the Indonesian room in C Block.
Host Families Wanted!
In Week 1 Term 3 we will have 20 students from our sister school in
Japan, Hakata, visiting us, and we are looking for families willing to
offer them a room. We also have four students coming from Italy for
the whole of Term 3, who also need somewhere to stay. Please get in
touch if you can help out.
Indonesian Study Tour
To fundraise for the Indonesian study tour happening at the end
of September, the families involved have organised a quiz night at
Cazalys, 6:30pm on the 4th of April. $20 entry.
Year 7 News
Welcome to MacKillop!
This has been our biggest cohort of year 7s ever, with almost 200
students! Mrs Kate McMaster has taken on the job of being Year
Coordinator, and is rising to the challenge and loving every minute of
it. She has started a Year 7 blog where you can follow the adventures
of this wonderful cohort through 2020 and beyond: https://
mackillopontrack.blogspot.com/
Mrs McMaster
Library News
New Books
Recent arrivals in the
library include 6 new books
in the "Issues in Society"
series. Mrs Donnelly has
also created an amazing
new display of dystopian
and post-apocalyptic fiction
for students to enjoy.
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MacKillop News
Taylor and Isolde The City - F
used to be best mankind’s MUR
friends - but it’s last refuge in
been radio February a drowned
silence ever since world, where
- until Taylor Whale Lords
contacts Isolde reign and the
F to sympathise Inquisition keeps the peace. The
EGL with her breakup: Enemy - a dark power, seeking to take
the breakup that possession of a human body and cause
she never saw Olivia is just out of high school when she untold chaos. The Inventor - a girl living
coming; that decides to defer her law degree and apply in the heart of the City in a ramshackle
destroyed her confidence and ended her for a job as a private investigator instead. F
workshop overflowing with curiosities.
dreams of joining the National Ballet Her childhood ‘friend’ Rosco runs the WAL
School. fledging agency on the Gold Coast, and When a whale washes up on the City
Olivia is determined to prove to him that roofs and a mysterious boy emerges
Taylor’s had his own share of challenges,
she has what it takes to make it as a from its belly, the superstitious citizens
including an accident that has brought his
hopes of competing at the Winter Olympics private investigator. assume the Enemy has come again.
to a halt. Isolde responds to Taylor, to be Only Ellie - a fearless inventor striving
Sent off to Byron Bay, Olivia is thrust into to live up to her mother’s legacy -
polite. But what starts out as heartbreak-
the world of surfing, yoga and sushi in her believes the boy is innocent. Thrown
themed Spotify playlists and shared stories
quest to expose the truth in her mysterious first case. But there are together and now on the run from the
of exes quickly becomes something more.
As Taylor and Isolde start to lean on each many twists in this tale. Can Olivia stop the evil ‘McSushi’ empire ruthless Inquisition, Ellie must discover
other, the distance between them begins to (who may well even use whale and dolphin meat in their products) who this boy really is - and what that
feel not so distant after all… from opening in Byron Bay? means for her own terrible secret . . .
Modern History News
USA 20th Century Weapons Display
Two of the members of the Arms Collectors' Association of the NT,
Craig Wharton and Jared Archibald, are pictured at the College,
educating members of Dr Tom Lewis’s Modern History Year 12 class.
The students are studying the “USA in the 20th Century” so the
topic for the workshop was “Weapons of the Great War”. Around 50
items were brought in for a 1.5 hour session of handling items, and
learning something real about war and conflict. MacKillop College
says thanks!
(l/r) James Healy, Clare Forsyth Allanah Leslie and Daniel Neuman
Bombing of Darwin Commemoration
Our College Captains recently represented us with distinction at
the Bombing of Darwin Commemoration. On 19 February, they laid
book tributes during the ceremony, which commemorate the attack
on Australia by enemy forces on that day in 1942, when 235 people
died. 188 aircraft from four carriers devastated the town, sinking
11 ships, and destroying 30 aircraft.
They are pictured joining former Administrator of the NT - and RAAF
veteran from WWII - The Honourable Austin Asche AC QC, before
the ceremony, with our staff member and military historian Dr Tom
Lewis OAM.
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Upcoming Events P&F Assoc. News
Dear Families,
19-21 Feb Year 12 Retreat
Thank you to everyone who made it to our first P&F meeting for the
Thu 20 Feb SACE Info Evening year. Please feel welcome to attend our meetings as we value your
voice. New ideas, fresh enthusiasm and a genuine desire to support
our College family will make a marked difference to the effectiveness
Fri 21 Feb Basketball Confalonieri vs Hurley of the P&F.
Mon 24 Feb House Leaders Elections Thank you to Stella Wallis for organising the Wellbeing Meet & Greet
Evening last week. Stella has an exciting program planned for this
year so please keep an eye open for these dates.
3pm Musical Rehearsal
It has been wonderful seeing all our students wearing their
Tue 25 Feb Pancake Tuesday MacKillop uniforms with pride. Thank you to all our families for
taking the time and effort to ensure the College Uniform Policy is
being followed. Remember, If you need help with anything uniform
Defence Welcome BBQ related our very approachable Uniform Shop Co-ordinator, Michele
Gordon, is the person to contact.
Wed 26 Feb Ash Wednesday Mass
We wish our Year 12 cohort a successful and prayerful Retreat
this week. Thank you to everyone involved with organising this
School Photo Day 1 (Senior Years) wonderful opportunity.
Musical Rehearsal after school Just a reminder that the P&F AGM will no longer be held in March. A
new date will be advised shortly.
Nongkrong After School I will keep you updated on all our P&F news through this column
each fortnight.
Thu 27 Feb School Photo Day 2 (Middle Years)
Enjoy your families,
Mon 2 Mar 12pm Student Leaders
Commissioning Ceremony
Elizabeth Laughton
President, MacKillop Catholic College P&F Association
- parents welcome
Musical Rehearsal after school Canteen News
There is a lot going on in the Olive Grove Café these days! We've
Wed 4 Mar Musical Rehearsal after school updated our menu, including a new pizza menu, and have started
a facebook page for easier communication with families. Like it to
stay up to date with daily specials and new menu items! We are also
Fri 6 Mar Basketball McCormack vs Hurley starting to cater beyond student lunches, with our coffees becoming
increasingly popular among staff and parents, and plans to expand
Sun 8 Mar Enrolment interviews for 2021 begin our pizza production to include take-home orders. Stay tuned for
more information!
Mon 9 Mar P&F Assoc. AGM 7pm
Wed 11 Mar Nongkrong
Fri 13 Mar Basketball Confalonieri vs Hurley
Mon 16 Mar Board Meeting 6pm
Musical Rehearsal After School
Tue 17 Mar St Patrick's Day
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