Beyond the Classroom

We begin the year by supporting Caritas' Project Compassion, raising funds to help support projects in developing countries.

Term Two sees us focusing on the annual St Vincent de Paul's Winter Appeal, with students donating winter clothing and raising funds to purchase backpack beds for the homeless.

In Term Three we support the Jesuit Refugee Service’s Arrupe House at Westmead by donating grocery items to stock the shelves of their Food Bank. We also raise money to support their refugee outreach team.

During Term Four we donate food items to make hampers for the St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal, as well as making cash donations. We also collect gifts and deliver hampers to three retirement villages in Dural, with students writing thoughtful Christmas cards to send with the hampers.

Our 'Sew a Smile' project is partnered with parish volunteers to sew colourful cotton dresses and shorts to send to African, Asian-Pacific and South American countries. In the past five years we have sent thousands of garments to children in need. In addition to this we run a beading club, sending beautiful hand-made bracelets along with the dresses.

Another feature of Social Justice at Marian is that we run annual Year Ten Social Justice Days where students interact with a host of speakers from organisations such as Orange Sky Laundry, OzHarvest and the Jesuit Refugee Service. Students are privileged to hear from recent arrivals to our shores who freely share their heartbreaking stories.

The college has a proud history of putting on established, polished productions. The college musical is produced every two years. The musical provides an opportunity for all performing arts areas to combine their gifts and talents for the community. Past Musicals have include:

• Disney’s High School Musical
• Peter Pan
• Fame
• The Wiz
• and more!

MCCK Amplify

MCCK Amplify focuses on small groups of singers performing a range of repertoire. The students are provided with a variety of vocal challenges that they engage in during the year to improve their performance skills. Amplify is for all year groups - both boys and girls - no audition is necessary. For students who just love to sing!

L.O.V.E. (Ladies of Vocal Excellence)

L.O.V.E. is a choir by invitation only for the serious singers. L.O.V.E. members perform challenging pieces in 4 part harmony.

Electrify

This ensemble caters for students who want to learn or develop their skills on an instrument playing in an ensemble. All instruments are welcome and it creates a fun environment to engage in a range of styles and performance opportunities. The ensemble also incorporates student mentors, who assist band members with developing their skills and learning new repertoire.

Intensify

This ensemble caters for students who are more experienced performers on their instrument. The band learns challenging repertoire and are provided with many performance opportunities to represent the college. The ensemble enables students to further develop their solo and ensemble skills.

Chamber Ensemble

The Chamber Ensemble comprises of a small group of students who play string or woodwind instruments. It caters for beginner and more advanced instrumentalists who learn both classical and popular repertoire and perform at college events.

This is a combination of singers and instrumentalists who perform at the college masses and liturgies during the year.

The drama ensemble is a group of students in Years 7 – 10 who provide an opportunity to enhance and develop their skills in a variety of performance opportunities.

Dance Company provides an opportunity for experienced dance students who have a passion for extending and developing their talents with an experienced dance teacher. Dance Company is split into a number of different groups, focusing on the areas of Lyrical, Contemporary, Jazz and hip hop. Over the past few years, our dance companies have done extremely well and have grown enormously! We have been able to add new groups each year in order to cater for the growing numbers of talented students auditioning. Our groups are divided into junior- (7 and 8) and senior (9-12) having hip hop and contemporary an all age troupe. The company competes in a selection of local Eisteddfods’ throughout the year as well as performing at our yearly MCAF showcase. The company also competes at the PDSSSC Dance Event held at the Joan Sutherland Centre in Penrith, competing against amazing talent from all Catholic schools in our diocese.

This annual event showcases all the wonderfully creative ideas our students create using a variety of materials and expressive forms from 7 to 12 in Visual Arts, Design & Technology, Agriculture and Industrial Technology (Timber). Many of the displays include HSC major works which often yield exceptional results.

The evening also features welcome drinks and canapés inside the venue, all prepared and served by the senior Hospitality and Food Technology classes.

An event not to be missed!

Marian Catholic College Creative Arts Festival (MCCAF) is a yearly event combining all performing art’s disciplines in a night of high energy and entertainment. It showcases the incredible talents of the Marian student and staff.

Held in July and August, these evenings give the opportunity for Year 12 students to display their HSC works for their parents and the community before their exams.

This program caters for students wishing to improve their skills on a particular instrument. Lessons occur during class time for half an hour once a week on a rotating schedule. Fees are paid to the instrumental tutor who will invoice you at the commencement of each term.