2017 School Magazine

DON’T JUST FLY, SOAR

Mackay has had an exceptional year in 2017. Our Mackay Angels have personified our mottos this year, ‘Have courage and be kind’ and for sports, ‘Don’t just fly, soar’. Ms Jans has been the most supportive and wonderful Head of House and we feel so happy to have her leading us. She is always available with creative and original ideas on how to motivate the house for each of the events. We started the year with our ‘fairy tale’ themed house party. All the girls embraced this theme and dressed appropriately. It was amazing to see all the girls dressed up as different characters and in their white clothes. Being seen as the spirit house, we are exceptionally proud of our brilliant achievement of reaching and maintaining fourth position in each interhouse event — swimming, athletics and cross country. We also had excellent attendance at each event, receiving a ‘shout out’ from Mrs Harvey-Short and being acknowledged as the house with the least absences at the swimming carnival. This shows the spirit and energy of each Mackay girl and her love of her house. Our success has only been possible by the hard work the House Sports Captains have put in and we’d really like to congratulate them for all they’ve done. Our House Service Captains chose to support the Ovarian Cancer Foundation this year. Through the amazing fundraising efforts of the grade 11s at Open Day with our traditional cupcake stall, we managed to raise donations to support research into ovarian cancer. It has been a true honour for the two of us to be House Captains. We have loved every minute of leading the Mackay Angels. We tried to keep our Thursday morning House Assemblies interesting and entertaining, doing different activities such as Kahoot, ‘Just Dance’ and even some Bollywood. The amazing successes we have achieved this year would not have been possible without the fabulous support of Ms Jans, the house group teachers and of course all the girls in Mackay. MALWINE SCHUETZ AND ABIRAMI SOMASUNDARAM HOUSE CAPTAINS

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