Though some rain delayed our celebrations, spirits were high on Friday morning when our community gathered to prayer for the Easter season and the acknowledgement of Christ’s resurrection. A season of 50 days, Easter will officially conclude on Pentecost Sunday.
Tomorrow, Friday 12 April, our students, teachers, and staff will celebrate Caritas Day, marking the end of Term 1 and the conclusion of our fundraising for Project Compassion.
Students are invited to wear neat, casual clothes, shoes, and hats in return for a gold coin donation, and our extended lunch break will be filled with class-led stalls and activities that will be the final flourish of donations to be forwarded to Caritas Australia.
Please remember to bring cash when visiting all our stalls, and have a fantastic Caritas day!
The Alliance Française French Film Festival returned to Adelaide this year, showing 41 French films across 27 days in select cinemas.
Students from Year 5, Year 8, Year 11 and Year 12 had the opportunity to listen to the spoken French language and use the subtitles to make connections to their knowledge of French words. An 80-minute immersion in the French language also supports our students’ cultural awareness.
Year 5s and Year 8s saw Zodi et Téhu, Frères du Désert (Princes of the Desert), whilst our Senior Students saw Complétement Cramè! (Mr. Blake at Your Service!). The Festival ends on 16 April.
The Oliphant Science Awards, long-believed synonymous with celebrating young scientists, is this year being offered as a Curriculum Extension Activity (CEA) for our Middle School students.
Participation in the Awards will inspire and empower students to showcase their talents across scientific disciplines including Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Environmental Science. Student registration fees will be covered by grant money issued by the Oliphant Science Awards in acknowledgement of our College’s commitment to nurturing scientific exploration.
As part of our 70-year celebrations, we are holding a Caramel Camel Cupcake Bake-Off!
All Mercedes College baking enthusiasts are invited to use the coming holiday break to perfect their best cupcake recipe to present to a panel of students, teachers, staff, and families in Term 2 – the winning recipe will become our official sideline treat, offered at winter sports competitions and Intercol 2024!
Entries will be presented anonymously to the tasting panel, and can be any flavour or presentation, with the only mandatory requirement being an element of caramel. Gluten Free options are welcomed, and camel decorations are purely optional!
Pull out the family recipe book or come up with your own unique creation – happy baking!
Stage 2 Design students recently took the opportunity to be inspired by the best of 2023 SACE students’ work, including that of Mercedes College graduates Violet Pye, Yoo Jung Choi, and Liv Pike (display pictured, middle).
Students later visited the Museum of Discovery’s interactive exhibition, Broken, where they explored alternate worlds and ways of shaping a better future. We look forward to seeing how this inspiration helps shape their final works this year.
Year 11 students were sent on an eggsploration last week, using written clues to locate the information about part of a cell (an “organelle”) that they needed to complete their IB Biology workbooks.
With each group working from different clues, students were never in the same place, making the run to the finish an eggcellent surprise!
Catholic School Parents South Australia, in collaboration with Mercedes College, presents their second Parent Engagement Event for 2024:
Presented by Paul Dillon of Drug and Alcohol Research Training Australia (DARTA), this session will arm parents with knowledge to help them navigate challenges of adolescence.
With in-person places strictly limited, please book your place early to attend.
Livestreaming will also be available on the evening, with the recording available for 48 hours.
This term, our Year 6 students have been creating their own playlists designed to target different moods, looking into the way music can elevate or even change the way we feel.
Featuring artists like Taylor Swift, Hans Zimmer, Adele, and Pharrell Williams, students identified that the music we enjoy is very much a matter of individual taste!
There were smiles all round recently with two Mercedes College summer sport teams taking out the top spot of their competitions!
Our Division 4 Boys Tennis team clinched the SDTA’s Championship for the 2023-24 season, edging out McLaren Vale by a single game (27-26). Congratulations Thomas, Johann, Luigi, Kieran, and Monty on a remarkable season!
It was also a narrow win in the Grand Final for our Year 6 netballers, the Mercedes Pink Camels, who defeated Concordia 10 goals to 7. Congratulations Lucy, Sophia, Eve, Olivia, Lottie, Eliza, Mary, and Isabelle on your fantastic result!
This week, our Year 3 students turned to science as part of their unit of inquiry into How the World Works. Studying heat energy, students monitored the effects of temperature on the brightness of glow sticks… hot stuff!
Don’t miss out on your child’s favourite holiday activities – check out our autumn Vacation Care programme and book today.
We have been blown away by the positive response to our 2024 Mother’s Day Lunch, on Friday 10 May, with more than two-thirds of tickets already snapped up! If you’d like to join us, book your ticket today!
There are a handful of student placements still available for Term 2’s portraiture workshops with artist Mel Brown – and families are now welcome to join the experience! Book your place for a Week 1 start.
Term 2 means a change of uniform. Over these holidays make sure you check winter uniform items for size and condition in case you need to pick up some new items from The Uniform Shop. Winter socks are currently out of stock and in transit. Until their arrival, students are allowed to wear black or navy socks, or their summer socks, if necessary.
Now that we’re a quarter through the school year, we’re putting out a reminder to families that you can opt in to share contact details with your friendly Year Level Representatives and get information about social events that will help you strengthen and build new connections with other parents in your Year Level.
