Marian Catholic College
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Marian Catholic College is a Catholic, co-educational secondary school
for students in Years 7 to 12. It is situated in Griffith, New South Wales
, in the diocese of Wagga Wagga, in Australia and is a member college of the diocesan school system. It is called "Marian" in honour of Mary, the Mother of God, patron of the Sisters of Mercy
and Marist Brothers
who founded the college.
Years Seven and Eight are part of the Middle School years, Years Nine and Ten the School Certificate years and Years Eleven and Twelve the Senior School when Preliminary and Higher School Certificate Courses are completed. Students with satisfactory attendance and progress receive their School Certificate
at the end of Year Ten and their HSC at the end of Year Twelve.
The School also annually enters teams into:
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
for students in Years 7 to 12. It is situated in Griffith, New South Wales
Griffith, New South Wales
Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area. Like the Australian capital, Canberra and the nearby town of Leeton, Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin. Griffith was named after Sir Arthur Griffith the...
, in the diocese of Wagga Wagga, in Australia and is a member college of the diocesan school system. It is called "Marian" in honour of Mary, the Mother of God, patron of the Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of Mercy
The Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy is an order of Catholic women founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831. , the order has about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations....
and Marist Brothers
Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...
who founded the college.
Years Seven and Eight are part of the Middle School years, Years Nine and Ten the School Certificate years and Years Eleven and Twelve the Senior School when Preliminary and Higher School Certificate Courses are completed. Students with satisfactory attendance and progress receive their School Certificate
School Certificate
The School Certificate was a qualification issued by the Board of Studies, New South Wales, typically at the end of Year 10. The successful completion of the School Certificate is a requirement for completion of the Higher School Certificate...
at the end of Year Ten and their HSC at the end of Year Twelve.
Facilities
The school features two fully renovated kitchens for food technology and hospitality, a large enclosed hall used for indoor sports and gatherings and two computer rooms, and further computers in the school's library and classrooms. The school's outdoor sporting facilities include an oval, a netball court, a basketball court (within the same enclosure), two cricket nets and a cricket pitch.Music
Marian Catholic College's school band "PowerSauce" was created in late 2008. They formed to participate in the Ashton Music's "Best School Band" competition. The competition ran until June 12 and PowerSauce finished 3rd out of 22. They were placed in the top 5 for Sony Music to have a look at, where the final winner will be judged. On the 17th of June, 2009, it was announced that PowerSauce had won the nation-wide competition.Sporting
Marian Catholic College hosts annual swimming, cross country and athletics carnivals. The swimming carnival is held early in term 1 at the Griffith Aquatic Centre and the athletics carnival is held later in the term at the West End Oval. The school's students are divided into four houses for these carnivals and points are given to each house based on student participation and placement in each event. The four sporting houses of McAuley, Patrick, Marcellin and Brendan are named after the founders of the school. High performing students can progress to regional, zone and state carnivals after the school carnivals (BISSA).The School also annually enters teams into:
- Cudmore Shield (CricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
) - Berg and Downie Shield (Cricket)
- Bill Turner Cup (Soccer)
- Cochrane and Riverina Cup (Rugby LeagueRugby leagueRugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
) - Combined Catholic Colleges Competitions [CCC] (Athletics, SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, Cross-Country, BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, NetballNetballNetball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
, Touch FootballTouch football (rugby league)Touch is a field sport also known as Touch Football, or in some countries as Touch Rugby. Touch is overseen worldwide by the Federation of International Touch . Touch has traditionally been played in Australia and New Zealand but the sport has expanded internationally and features many regional and...
, Football, GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, HockeyHockeyHockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
, Australian Rules FootballAustralian rules footballAustralian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
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