Carmel College

Carmel continues to celebrate by Just Adapting the How

Here at Carmel, we are not letting Covid restrictions stop us from finding creative and safe ways to still gather (remotely) and celebrate not only our Catholic faith liturgies but the communitybuilding activities.

Our calendar planning just takes on the added step of ‘how can we still do this in the Red setting?’ And, we are making the ‘how’ happen.

We’re perfecting the art of live-streaming our significant gatherings and holding virtual Meet the Teacher introductions, Māori hui and Pasifika fono and House assemblies via Zoom and Google Meet. We’re still a learning community that gathers!!

Sacramental Mass

We were delighted to be able to celebrate our Sacramental Mass on Tuesday, 1st March for our Year 8 students. Fr Marchellino and Bishop Michael celebrated Mass for the girls to receive First Holy Communion and Confirmation. It was lovely to have parents and sponsors with us to celebrate this very important stage in our shared Catholic faith and also those who joined us in the livestream.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 days of preparation leading to Easter. Each year at Carmel we have a school liturgy to distribute the ashes which come from the burned palms of last year's Palm Sunday.

Our liturgy was live-streamed out to the 24 buddy Atawhai groups around the school and senior students took the blessed ashes out to each of the 24 groups, where girls were waiting to receive them.

Maori and Pasifika Lunch

A welcome lunch for our Māori and Pasifika students was held recently, hosted by our Tū Wahine, Emjay Dickson and Pasifika representative, Moira Macdonald.

Our annual Athletics Day was held on 17th February at Onewa Domain

Congratulations to our overall champions: Year 7 – Alayna Wright-Rawle • Year 8 – Rebecca Robertson • Junior – Nadja McGoon Intermediate – Imogen O’Rourke • Senior – Ava Fitzgerald