This week, the Year 12 students spent the week celebrating the end of their journey at OLMC by dressing up with a different theme each day. On Monday next week, we will hold our final Year 12 Assembly, where we will recognise a number of students for their outstanding formal and informal leadership in a range of different aspects of life at OLMC.
Mass will be celebrated on the evening of Tuesday 21 October and will be a wonderful opportunity to recognise our Year 12s and to share with them God’s blessings for their life journey. This will be followed by dinner at the Hyatt Event Centre in Essendon Fields, where we will joyfully share wonderful stories of their six years and a moment of thanks with parents and students.
The celebrations signify the end of formal classes here at OLMC and marks a new journey for our students. It does not, however, mark an end to our relationship. All of our students will remain ever linked to OLMC, and we will always hold them in our prayers.
We wish all our Year 12 students the very best for their coming exams and share this prayer for them:
Let us especially pray for our Year 12 students as they enter into exams.
God, we ask that they especially feel your closeness during this time.
Give them calm hearts and quiet confidence in the knowledge that you hold them in the palm of your hand.
Bless them with keen understanding and retentive memory.
Give them the ability to grasp things correctly.
Point out the beginning, direct their progress and help them in the completion of each of their responses.
Holy Spirit, send them your gifts of wisdom and knowledge.
We ask this through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
Author: Mr John O'Sullivan
OLMC Annual Art Show
This week, we held the annual Art Show, where we were able to showcase student art work and provide the chance to view the work for parents and students. Not only was it wonderful to see so many people come and support the work of our students; it is our privilege to be able to immerse ourselves in beautiful, creative and bold art works that are created by young people. To create art is a very personal thing, but to share it with the world is truly courageous. I would like to thank all of the students who have allowed us to view the world through their eyes.
World Teachers' Day – Friday 31 October
Australia is celebrating World Teachers’ Day on Friday 31 October. The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) is calling us to celebrate ‘Hats off to teachers’.
World Teachers' Day is a chance for us to celebrate, as a community, the enormous amount of work our teachers do to support not only the academic wellbeing of our students but all aspects of their growth.
We are encouraging students, their families and the community to celebrate not only our teachers but teachers around Australia.
Term 4 is well underway now and students are immersed in the last topics for the year. Students in Years 9-11 have made choices about their program and pathways for next year by choosing subjects and this, we hope, adds inspiration to be their best.