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Mount Carmel High School (Varroville)
Encyclopedia
Mount Carmel High School is a Roman Catholic (formerly Marist
), coeducational, comprehensive high school in Varroville
, New South Wales
, Australia
.
The current leadership team (as of 2011), is as follows:
School Captains: Celeste Raack and Kurt Mangan.
Vice Captains: Emily Sund and Ryan Maloney.
Counsellors: Emily Goncalves, Cassandra Stephenson, Felipe Pinero and Julian Brunero
Students in Year 10 are elected to become the School House Captains.
A submission was put to Bishop Murray (Bishop of Wollongong) who approved the development of the school.
Negotiations with the Carmelite Fathers resulted in the present site (bordering St Andrews Road and Spitfire Drive at Varroville) being chosen and, following a number of submissions to the Commonwealth Government, a capital grant was allocated and work on Stage 1 began in September, 1985. The first group of students (145) had already commenced their secondary studies at John Therry Catholic High School at Rosemeadow, so the first group of students to actually begin at Mount Carmel were Years 7 and 8 in 1986 (a total of 292 students).
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...
), coeducational, comprehensive high school in Varroville
Varroville, New South Wales
Varroville is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Varroville is located 46 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown and is part of the Macarthur region...
, New South Wales
New South Wales
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, Australia
Australia
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School Leaders
Students in Year 12 are elected to become the School Captains and the Council.The current leadership team (as of 2011), is as follows:
School Captains: Celeste Raack and Kurt Mangan.
Vice Captains: Emily Sund and Ryan Maloney.
Counsellors: Emily Goncalves, Cassandra Stephenson, Felipe Pinero and Julian Brunero
Students in Year 10 are elected to become the School House Captains.
Mission statement
'Mount Carmel High School, guided by prayer and through spiritual formation, aspires to be a Catholic community reflecting gospel values. The students receive a holistic Catholic education in the Marist tradition, with the aim of attaining moral, academic and personal excellence'.History
In 1983/84, a committee of parishioners from Ingleburn and Macquarie Fields held a series of meetings aimed at establishing a Catholic secondary school which would be accessible to students living in the northern part of the Macarthur region. The committee then invited a representative from the Catholic Education Office and Brother Clarence Cunningham to meet with them to explore the possibilities of implementing this process.A submission was put to Bishop Murray (Bishop of Wollongong) who approved the development of the school.
Negotiations with the Carmelite Fathers resulted in the present site (bordering St Andrews Road and Spitfire Drive at Varroville) being chosen and, following a number of submissions to the Commonwealth Government, a capital grant was allocated and work on Stage 1 began in September, 1985. The first group of students (145) had already commenced their secondary studies at John Therry Catholic High School at Rosemeadow, so the first group of students to actually begin at Mount Carmel were Years 7 and 8 in 1986 (a total of 292 students).