Introducing Our Special Character Student Leaders

We both are very excited and grateful to be your special character leaders for 2023; we have some events and committees planned for this year. ​

Mercy Crew

Mercy crew is a group/ committee where we give back to the community outside of the school through acts of compassion in our school. We also complete these actions by getting to know each other and making new friends. It usually takes place in break two on Thursdays in A14. ​

Last year we did various actions, such as knitting peggy squares to create beautiful quilts for Wellington Hospital Neonatal Unit. We also made cards with encouraging messages to give to the kids in the hospital. ​

Additionally, we held a sausage sizzle lunch and a coin trail competition that enabled us to raise money for the people of Tonga, which suffered from natural disasters last year.​

We also have an Instagram page: @scc.specialcharacter

Upcoming: Term 1

• Mercy Crew starting next week on Thursday​

• Academic liturgy on the 15th of February ​

• Ash Wednesday liturgy on the 22nd of February​

• Easter egg and can food drive at the start of Lent - this will be an inter-house competition where house points will be up for grabs!​

• The first YAFA of the year in week 9 on the 29th of March at St Mary’s College (YAFA Young Alive Faith Alive is an opportunity for students from Catholic Schools to get together

Other initiatives throughout the year

• Mini liturgies for different spirit and language weeks - introducing mother tongue liturgies​

• Having a small group attending Sunday mass around once a month​

• More fundraisers like movie nights, bake sales, and food/sanitary drives​

• Hopefully, by Term 2, the ‘upper room’ in the student services will be the new sacred space​

• Caritas Challenge