Colin Week

This week we, the Colin Co-Captains and Liturgy Captain had the opportunity to celebrate our House Patron: Jean Claude Colin through running a variety of fun activities that promoted our House motto of unity within diversity! On Tuesday, we hosted a delicious bake sale where Colin students baked some amazing treats to sell to the rest of the school. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed and parents who helped out with the baking process! It was a very successful day, raising over $400 for Mary’s House and bringing the community together to enjoy some homemade goods.

Throughout the week we hid small pictures of Jean Claude Colin around the school and if students found a picture, it meant they had a ticket to join a massive game of pass the parcel on Wednesday! There were many fantastic prizes to be won and a huge shout out to our winner Louise (Year 9). In each layer of the parcel there was not only a prize, but also a fun fact about Colin. Did you know he founded the Marist Fathers priests and brothers of the Society of Mary? That night we concluded our celebrations with a Colin House Mass held in the Chapel. Father Aliki held a beautiful service that encouraged us to always look out for each other no matter what and to celebrate the things that make us diversely unique!

The night ended with a supper that allowed parents, Colin students and teachers to spend time with one another and strengthen the bonds within our House. In all, it was a very fun and successful week celebrating the unity within diversity throughout our school and incredible Colin community!