FOR the students of Marian College in Sunshine West, this year’s Brigidine Celebration Day on 18 May will be an extra special event – not your average school day, a mixture of faith and fun.
Staff and students at the Catholic girls college are celebrating the school’s 50th Anniversary, which means this year’s annual celebration day holds even more significance.
Started by the Brigidine Sisters, the school has grown from a small beginnings in Sunshine West with just 24 students in 1957, to a school that today teaches around 800 girls.
The theme of this year’s Brigidine Celebration Day will be diversity and heritage, with students able to learn about their faith and enjoy themselves at the same time, according to Sharron Hunter, the school’s student development co-rdinator.
“Instead of classes there will be all of these other learning activities,” she said.
Activities planned for the day include dancing, singing, a mass, and maybe even a fashion parade.
“The students are developing the idea of having a fashion parade, again is this idea of celebrating diversity and heritage,” Ms Hunter said.
“We have a lot of students from various ethnicities and we’d like to promote their traditional dress at the school,” she said.
And it’s all been left up to the students, who are planning and organising the day’s events (hence the fashion parade).
Ms Hunter said the day will be a chance for the students to embrace the Brigidine values, including welcoming the most vulnerable, a love of learning, hope and a sense of purpose.
