This week we have very excited children performing their class dances for our annual MacKillop Muster. Ms Tish Ford has done an outstanding job preparing all our primary students to perform their dance in front of their peers, with the Year 7 students as our special guests! We will certainly be sharing the video with […]

On Friday 23rd October, we would dearly love your support in turning MacKillop RED for our “Day for Daniel”. In Term 4, we implement our “Keeping Ourselves Safe” Health Unit. “Day for Daniel” helps us promote greater awareness of safe practices for our children by sharing his story. All students and staff will be wearing RED this Friday to add our support […]

As we look back over Term 3, there was not one week out of the ten that at MacKillop Catholic College we could say we had “just another week”. As a foundational school, five and a half years into our pioneering journey, our MacKillop community is constantly staging new events, trying new initiatives and celebrating […]

The sun shined as brightly as our athletes did last Thursday at the MacKillop Games. A huge congratulations to all participants, young and old. For the first time at MacKillop our Prep to Year 4 students were able to compete in age group sprints on the Secondary Oval. Following from this, our teachers also got […]

Here at MacKillop we are really missing the face-to face involvement of our parents in the classrooms, at drop-off and pick-up, support at weekly assemblies and special days, like Fathers’ Day and Mothers’ Day. Even our long anticipated MacKillop Muster, Colour Run and Sports days will be so alien without our families’ direct involvement. We […]

Just the week before last, I had the pleasure of spending three days with our Year 6 group on camp at Emerald Creek’s Camp Patterson, just outside Mareeba. Students and staff alike agreed it was a marvellous experience where all of us were able to appreciate one another and our school community in a different […]

“I am the one who stumbled across him, but everyone found him”These are the words of rescuer Ben Gibbs when speaking of his part in finding lost 14yo boy, William Callaghan. It is a remarkable story of community coming together in seeking out a lost and vulnerable boy. The search strategy was differentiated to best […]

It almost 50 years since Carol King launched her signature album, ‘Tapestry’. Those of us who had our formative years in that part of the last century will remember this album well. The music of Carol King has enjoyed a popular revival amongst younger generations with the recent stage musical ‘Beautiful’ showcasing much of the […]

As our MacKillop students in Prep and Year 1 head back to school, we need to acknowledge the super human effort of our MacKillop parents, teachers and especially the students themselves. Children usually experience a mix of emotions when it comes to going back to school after a long break (think Summer holidays ….). Our […]

When we commenced this school year soon after Australia Day, I doubt if any of us could have imagined the health, social and economic landscape we are traversing just now. The effects of these massive changes that have befallen us, turning much of life upside down, have yet to be fully comprehended, especially for our […]