Mount Carmel High School (Varroville)

For other schools with the same name, see Mount Carmel High School (disambiguation).

Mount Carmel Catholic High School
The School Emblem Ite In Veritate (Latin for Walk in Truth)
Location
Varroville NSW Australia
Coordinates	34°00′31″S 150°49′16″E / 34.0086°S 150.8212°E / -34.0086; 150.8212Coordinates: 34°00′31″S 150°49′16″E / 34.0086°S 150.8212°E / -34.0086; 150.8212
Information
Type	Private
Established	1985/1986
School district	Roman Catholic Diocese of Wollongong
Staff	84
Grades	Years 7 - 12
Enrolment	1040 (As of 31st January 2011)
Color(s)	Blue, White, Red
Affiliation	Roman Catholic, Marist Brothers
Website	www.mcchsdow.catholic.edu.au

Mount Carmel High School is a Roman Catholic (formerly Marist), coeducational, comprehensive high school in Varroville, New South Wales, Australia.

School Leaders

Students in Year 12 are elected to become the School Captains and the Council.

The current leadership team (as of 2011), is as follows:

School Captains: Celeste Raack and Kurt Mangan.

Vice Captains: Emily Sund and Ryan Maloney.

Counsellors: Emily Goncalves, Cassandra Stephenson, Felipe Pinero and Julian Brunero

Students in Year 10 are elected to become the School House Captains.

Mission statement

'Mount Carmel High School, guided by prayer and through spiritual formation, aspires to be a Catholic community reflecting gospel values. The students receive a holistic Catholic education in the Marist tradition, with the aim of attaining moral, academic and personal excellence'.^[1]

History

In 1983/84, a committee of parishioners from Ingleburn and Macquarie Fields held a series of meetings aimed at establishing a Catholic secondary school which would be accessible to students living in the northern part of the Macarthur region. The committee then invited a representative from the Catholic Education Office and Brother Clarence Cunningham to meet with them to explore the possibilities of implementing this process.

A submission was put to Bishop Murray (Bishop of Wollongong) who approved the development of the school.

Negotiations with the Carmelite Fathers resulted in the present site (bordering St Andrews Road and Spitfire Drive at Varroville) being chosen and, following a number of submissions to the Commonwealth Government, a capital grant was allocated and work on Stage 1 began in September, 1985. The first group of students (145) had already commenced their secondary studies at John Therry Catholic High School at Rosemeadow, so the first group of students to actually begin at Mount Carmel were Years 7 and 8 in 1986 (a total of 292 students).^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.mcchsdow.catholic.edu.au/principal_message.htm
2. ^ http://www.mcchsdow.catholic.edu.au/history.htm

External links

• Mount Carmel High School