With more students choosing to complete Year 12 at St Mary MacKillop in Tuggeranong, the College celebrated the blessing and opening of two new buildings.

The sustainable design of cutting edge learning spaces provide students with six modern science laboratories and six new classrooms, as well as collaborative learning areas, flexible study spaces, and a new senior courtyard.

Principal Michael Lee (pictured) said it was fitting, during the College’s 20 year anniversary celebrations this year, to name the buildings in honour of Mary MacKillop’s Sisters of St Joseph and the co-founder - Fr Julian Tenison Woods.

“Catholic schools all over this archdiocese and indeed around the country were built by our ancestors, often with their own bare hands. Communities built them so
their children could go to a Catholic school, for their grandchildren, and for the children of generations beyond the reach of their imagination,” Mr Lee explained.

“This school acknowledges the life’s work of each of the Sisters of St Joseph who educated generations of Australian children for 150 years. What we want to do
here is to continue their work, and to flavour the lives of our students with a story of faith, courage, hope, and of trusting in God’s providence.”