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Welcome To All Hallows' School
This inner city sanctuary is situated on three hectares overlooking the Brisbane River. The school, with its historic buildings and landscaped gardens, offers young women a quality Catholic education, in the tradition of the Sisters of Mercy.
All Hallows' is a large centrally located school, which caters for students from a wide variety of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. It offers an extensive range of excellent academic, cultural and sporting opportunities. In its spiritual, pastoral and academic life, the school seeks to promote personal growth, the development of an informed conscience and commitment to work for social justice in the wider community.
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All Hallows' Announcement
Making Connections with the Mercy Tradition.
It was great to have some special guests from St Mary’s Ipswich at our Inaugural Mass last Monday. Principal, Ms Deidre Anderson and student leaders, were welcomed by Dr Perry highlighting the historical connection that the two schools have. Within days of the arrival in1861 of Mother Vincent Whitty and the five other founding sisters in Brisbane, they were asked to come to the newly built Catholic School in Ipswich. Due to insufficient numbers, this was not possible at the time but two years later in 1863, Jane Gorry from Ipswich, by then a Sisters of Mercy postulant, Mother Vincent Whitty and two other sisters began Mercy education in Ipswich. While St Mary’s is now part of Brisbane Catholic Education, the links with the Sisters of Mercy remain strong and the ethos and values of the Sisters of Mercy continue to be a vital part of the College. This year we hope to have the opportunity to have some further exchanges between our two schools.
Project Yarapossible Launch
At the School Assembly last Thursday, the Social Justice captains officially launched the 2010 Whole School project – Project Yarapossible. The launch centred around a powerpoint presentation which sought to raise awareness of the massive imbalance of the distribution of resources in our world. The following is an extract from the script that the girls prepared to go with the presentation:“2010 is the Year of Sustainability. Our world is sustainable for some but not for all. The lyrics of the song say, ‘Control yourself. Take only what you need’. Why have so many taken so much with the result that others are condemned to live lives of suffering and poverty and starvation. This year we have been contacted by Sister Maura O’Shaunessy from the Mercy Secondary College in Yarapos P.N.G. At this all girls school, they have 600 boarders from many of the poor and isolated regions of the Highlands in Papua New Guinea. The students and staff at Yarapos would be most grateful if we could raise funds to build or help build a Health Clinic on site at the school because it is such a time consuming trip to go to the hospital with the sick students. Students from that school have already visited All Hallows’ during World Youth Day and we were all impressed by their positive attitudes knowing that in traditional cultures it is never easy to be a woman. Tue Nguyen, the Coolock Social Justice Captain has designed the logo which captures the ideal, that we have in the power of our hands the ability as All Hallows’ students to act in a way that will allow students at another Mercy school to have a better opportunity to access health care. We would now like to officially launch the Whole School Project for 2010 – Project Yarapossible!”
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