Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia | Education
Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg
Locality: Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9459 2511
Address: 52 Cape Street 3084 Heidelberg, VIC, Australia
Website: http://www.olmc.vic.edu.au
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23.01.2022 Prioritising your mental health and wellbeing is more important than ever. Today, our wonderful Wellbeing Team decided to provide all of our staff with a 'Good Mental Health' bag of treats to recognise the importance of looking after yourself. The bag included an array of yummy comfort foods and pampering treatments, as well as an important checklist for those routine health checks we may have forgotten about during lockdown. The surprise, joy, laughter and conversation the bags created really helped to put a skip in the step of our amazing staff!
19.01.2022 Our Year 10 Coaching and Event Management class recently had the opportunity to meet with Athlete and Sports Events Management Professional, Natalie Arnold. Natalie Arnold has worked across many world-class events including the Vancouver 2012 Winter Olympics, London 2012 Olympics, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Rugby World Cup 2015, Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and World Expo 2020. In 2018, Natalie was also the youngest Australian to run a marathon on all 7 continents unassisted. Students heard how Natalie has achieved her career goals and what a day in the life of a Sports Events Manager looks like. Natalie did not shy away from answering the tough questions posed by the Year 10 students and spoke very candidly about learning from her failures and making opportunities when met with adversity.
19.01.2022 Mercy Day is here. What a wonderful day so far! This morning, we began our Mercy Day celebrations with a whole-school Liturgy. The beautiful Liturgy was pre-recorded when our VCE students and staff were still on campus. Thank you to everyone involved, including our Student Leaders, Ms Weir, Ms Garrone, Mr Hocking, our choir and musicians.
19.01.2022 A Message from our House Captains : Even though we haven’t been together, there have been many initiatives to foster a sense of house spirit in Term 3. All four Houses have been smashing it in the House Exercise Challenge, and we would love to thank Mr Robertson for his dedication to this competition! Thank you to all of the students and staff who have been participating and we look forward to seeing how the last few weeks will play out. ... In collaboration with our Communications Captains, Amy Gillies and Amy Shaw, we launched a new initiative: The House Photo Competition. This requires students to use their creativity and imagination to take a photo of remote learning to gain House points. Thank you Amy, Amy and Ms Conroy for your support, we can’t wait to see everyone’s photos! Our Year 9 House Vice Captains have created the House Bake Off! Each week, there will be a new theme to inspire and challenge your creativity. This week's theme is 'Cupcakes'. We are so excited to see everyone’s baking skills and may the best House win! Phoebe, Jade, Eleanor, Emily, Lauren, Sarah, Cara and Sonia - 2020 House Captains
18.01.2022 Our Year 7 Japanese students have been learning about Yurukyara. Yurukyara are mascots created to represent communities from all over the country at events and local festivals, to promote their products in Japan. Tasked with creating their own, the students had a lot of fun coming up with a character and a background story. ... Here are some of the cute characters our Year 7s came up with!
17.01.2022 Yesterday during Pastoral, our Year 9 students were fortunate to attend a virtual presentation from Bianca and Kritz from The Big Sister Experience. 'Making Your Wellbeing a Priority' covered Bianca and Kritz’s top 10 tips for teen girls to implement into their daily lives to create a greater sense of wellbeing and mental health in times of crisis and beyond. Their tips included managing anxiety, grounding, gratitude, being aware of our thoughts and feelings and how these imp...act our day to day productivity. Our students were given some great ideas to reduce anxiety and ‘fill their cup’, some useful apps and an extensive list of support services/networks. A wonderful 'experience' for our Year 9s!
16.01.2022 As this year draws towards a close, students are making Christmas cards to be blessed in our end of year liturgy. Thank you to local Heidelberg resident, Glenda, who made a large donation of fantastic Christmas craft through the good karma network. She donated enough craft for over 1000 students to make cards! We can't wait to share the Christmas joy with our community.
14.01.2022 The countdown is on - one week until Mercy Day! We have so many fun online activities planned. We can't wait to celebrate with our students and staff. Let's choose to be courageous, compassionate, joyous and just!... #mercyday2020 #olmcmercyday
14.01.2022 Following on from Women's Health Week last week, today during their Pastoral lesson, our Senior students participated in three health and wellbeing sessions. Year 10 - Safe Partying with Sonya Karras from https://wholenewworld.com.au/ Sonya Karras is an experienced presenter and advocate for safe partying amongst young people. Our Year 10 students took part in an online seminar aimed at staying safe around drugs and alcohol. They learnt the effects of these substances as well... as how to look after themselves or others who may be affected. Year 11 - The Big Sister Experience Our Year 11 students participated in an online seminar with The Big Sister Experience. They were given tools and strategies on how to live a happy and healthy life, making wellbeing a priority. It was an engaging and interactive seminar for our students, giving them essential skills to ensure they can live to their fullest potential. Year 12 - Dr Anna Kelly from Hurstbridge Medical Centre Each year, as our Year 12s begin to process the end of secondary school and the start of ‘adult life’, they request information about how to take on greater independence. Mrs Williams spoke with Dr Anna Kelly about the health system, the role of a GP and some of the key terms and ideas that students might need to know to make informed decisions about their health care.
14.01.2022 OLMC RAFFLE RESULTS We would like to thank all those in the OLMC Community who supported our Raffle for McAuley Community Services for Women. The response was amazing and it was a fantastic result, raising $6562. We really appreciate your support and look forward to hopefully welcoming you at our High Tea again next year. Congratulations to the winners:... 1st Prize: Kamilla Zwolak (Past Pupil) 2nd Prize: Jossie French (Past Pupil) 3rd Prize: Lauren Amsing (Current Student) 4th Prize: Mary Grant (Current Family)
12.01.2022 We are pleased to be able to offer our families an online parenting seminar from The Resilience Project. Date: Sep 2, 2020 Time: 6:30 PM Presenter: Martin Heppell... The Zoom link and more information about the seminar can be found on SIMON and PAM. https://theresilienceproject.com.au/
12.01.2022 Today is R U OK Day, our national day of action when we remind Australians that every day is the day to ask, Are you okay?. Now more than ever, we need to connect with one another, support our friends, family, classmates and colleagues, and continue the conversation. There is more to say after R U OK? A conversation could change a life. For more information about how to ask R U OK? visit https://www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask... #ruokday2020
10.01.2022 Term 3 has come to an end! We hope everyone has a safe, relaxing, and well-deserved break. We look forward to seeing you again in Term 4.
10.01.2022 Our Year 9 Geography class participated in a virtual incursion today with Simeon, an urban farmer, as part of their Food Security unit. The students have been investigating if Melbourne can ensure food security by 2050 and were able to hear and see first-hand ways that we can grow food sustainably within our local area. Simeon is based at Collingwood Children's Farm and maintains a backyard market garden in Ivanhoe. Simeon’s talk contrasted his ecological and regenerative a...pproaches to soil building with more aggressive industrial cultivation techniques. It was an engaging and informative session for our students!
09.01.2022 Our Year 9 Maths students recently studied a unit on Scientific Notation. Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or very small numbers. A number is written in scientific notation when a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10. As part of the unit, the students completed a project about a trip into space to demonstrate their familiarity with the concept.
09.01.2022 Our Junior Production, Super Happy Awesome News, debuts this Friday at 7.30pm via the link on SIMON/PAM! The story follows two siblings who launch rival 'good news' networks and find themselves competing for the title of the happiest news show. Soon, their correspondents are in a whirlwind of ecstatic musical reporting - from joyful weather forecasts to cheerful cooking segments and blissful political updates! But, when vulnerability starts peeking through the euphoric facade, they're left wondering: is there also room for honesty on a super happy broadcast? This virtual musical production is designed specifically to be rehearsed and performed remotely. Our wonderful cast of Year 7-9 students can't wait to share their hard work and talents!
08.01.2022 On Tuesday, our Year 7 and 8 students participated in a Wellbeing Day, designed to give them some off-screen time and to reconnect on a social level with their peers. This off-timetable day gave our Year 7 and 8 students the opportunity to complete over 30 different activities across the day in the following areas; Active, Relaxed, Creative, Thoughtful, and Helpful. Some of the wonderful activities included fitness workouts, meditation, baking, letter writing, photography, p...ampering, reading and gardening. Thank you to our Year 7 and 8 Coordinators, Ms Bridge and Ms Boemo, and all of the staff involved in making this day so successful for our students. We received so much positive feedback about the day, we couldn't help but share some of it with our community!
08.01.2022 Our Junior Production with Marcellin College - Super Happy Awesome News - is on tonight at 7.30pm. Good luck to everyone involved with the virtual production. We can't wait to see it!
07.01.2022 Good luck to our Year 10 and 11 students beginning their exams today. May you be calm, focused and confident in your skills. We're with you all the way!
05.01.2022 We hope everyone enjoyed Mercy Day 2020. There were so many wonderful activities on offer, it was great to see everybody get involved. Take a look at some of the amazing things created and presented by our OLMC students and staff today. #mercyday2020 #olmcmercyday
03.01.2022 Tomorrow is Mercy Day! We can't wait to celebrate with our OLMC Community. The day will begin with a Liturgy at 10am, followed by a fun afternoon spent connecting with peers. There are over 40 wonderful activities on offer. Thank you to all of the staff and students that put their hand up to run the activities. The day wouldn't be possible without you.... We hope everyone has an amazing online Mercy Day! #mercyday2020 #olmcmercyday
03.01.2022 Enrolment applications for Year 7 2022 (current Year 5) need to be submitted by Friday 9 October. Prospective OLMC parents and students who were hoping to participate in a College Tour this term will continue to have a Virtual Tour option. Our next Virtual Tour is on Thursday 10 September at 9.00am. Make a booking here: http://www.olmcheidelberg.catholic.edu.au/enr/college-tours
03.01.2022 A Message from our Communications Captains: Throughout this term, we have worked together to continue our initiatives, despite the difficulties of both being in Stage 4 lockdown, and at the pointy end of our Year 12 studies. We hope to bring joy to students through our work, which we have both loved doing throughout the year. We have recently been focusing on two main tasks; putting together the Yearbook and running a Photo Competition. In organising the Yearbook, we have be...en working on designing pages and collating images and text. We are so excited for the Yearbook to be given to students at the end of the school year, and we hope it will bring people joy in this difficult time. The Photo Competition, which we have recently launched alongside the House Captains, allows for students to submit photos from online learning. Prizes and House Points are on offer, as well as the opportunity for these images to be featured in the Yearbook. We hope everyone in the OLMC community is staying healthy and safe. Amy and Amy - 2020 Communications Captains
02.01.2022 A Message from our Arts Captains: This term has been a blast for the Arts department! We were able to successfully run a virtual House Arts day and enjoy the talented performances of our fellow peers from the comfort of our homes. Every year House Arts is an anticipated event that builds House spirit and showcases the very talented students that attend our school. It definitely takes a lot of organisation and hard work to put together, so, we would like to thank our fellow St...udent Leaders, and Mr Hocking and Ms De Rosa for their input and support. We would also like to thank Ms Conroy for putting all the videos together and allowing us to be able to enjoy House Arts this year in these unexpected circumstances. Finally, a big shout out to the girls who put themselves out there to perform, we are in awe of the talent you all possess and hope you will all continue to showcase your amazing talents! Unfortunately, our time as Captains is almost up, but we are now looking for the next Arts Captains to entrust with the Arts department in 2021. The selection process for this is now well underway. A big thank you and best of luck to the Year 11 students who have put themselves out there and tried out for this leadership role. We know you'll do us proud! Kat and Minami - 2020 Arts Captains
02.01.2022 Mrs Thomson, our Transition Coordinator, has been receiving lots of wonderful photos from our 2021 Year 7 students. The future students were sent some OLMC cake toppers over the past few weeks as part of our Grade 6 Transition to High School Program. All of these cupcakes and cookies look delicious. Great job girls!
02.01.2022 Today our Year 12 students ended the term with a virtual Retreat day. The theme of the day was Living Life to the Full and our Year 12s were given the opportunity to reflect, renew, refresh and reconnect with themselves, others and God. As part of their day, our Year 12s were extremely lucky to have Clare Bowditch as their guest speaker. Clare focused on her own story of finding herself, trusting herself and her talents and transitioning - just as our Year 12s embark on transitioning beyond the school gates. She spoke of normalising the feelings of self-doubt, anxiety and letting go of these to cultivate wholehearted living. It was an amazing session that included a mixture of Clare talking and singing, and allowed some time for the girls to reflect on their own lives.
