Archives for 2021

READERS CUP TEAM:  Thank you so much to our wonderful Year 7 and 8 Readers Cup team who competed in the Regional Final held at Cairns State High School on Wednesday, 9 June 2021. It was a very successful day, and it was great to see the enjoyment and enthusiasm on our students’ faces. We […]

NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORYTIME – NSS is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, childcare centres,family home and many other places around Australia The aims of NSS are to: promote the value of […]

IT’S ALL ABOUT RESPECT AND KINDNESS –  The Secondary students took time to understand the impact of both bullying and respect and kindness when they dressed in blue for Do It For Dolly Day on Friday. Key messages learned included how to reduce the risk of being bullied online, what to do if online bullying […]

Congratulations to all our students for the success that was the opening Academic Assembly for the 2021 school year. We welcomed our newest members to the Sacred Heart Community, and commissioned our Year 8 Ambassadors. We also recognised the outstanding achievements of our Year 8 students from Semester 2, 2020. Student Ambassadors A Student Ambassador […]

MacKillop is an Innovative Teaching & Learning Environment. MacKillop is an Agile and Flexible Learning Environment. MacKillop is a purpose built school for these reasons; large shared spaces, shared teachers, large class groupings of students who can be smaller group targeted, and learning to live and collaborate in 21st Century inspired working environment. Students in […]

Wonderful opportunities are on offer in the Performing Arts at MacKillop Catholic College! There are two main areas to be involved in: Group Lessons: This opportunity provides weekly small group lessons for brass, woodwind, percussion, strings, piano and vocal lessons. Extra Curricular Opportunities: Here, students can join many of our college bands, choirs, dance troupes or our […]

As we approach the mid-way mark of the term it is appropriate to take time to reflect on the start to the 2021 school year. This year we welcome 642 students to MacKillop Catholic College as we expand to Year 8. We also welcome new families and staff to the College. The start of every […]

With our new school year off to a great start, it has been exciting to see how well our MacKillop students have settled into their new classrooms, with their new teachers and classmates. While we started the year under strict COVID restrictions, already with the first four weeks of Term 1 completed, we can carefully […]