Community Engagement

Goals & Intended Outcomes

Mazenod College envisions itself as a community cooperating, witnessing Gospel values and responding to a call to service and responsibility to others. We aim to:

• Provide pastoral care to the individual student

• Cultivate a friendly and caring atmosphere

• Cultivate community by maximising personal communication between staff and students and among staff, students, and parents

• Develop an attitude of cooperation with, and a sense of belonging, not only to the school community but also to related community groups. This includes involvement with wider and different community groups, e.g., Parish, local social organisations, and organisations with different concerns such as the St. Vincent de Paul Society, cancer organisations and RSL Anzac Day and Remembrance Day Appeals

• Promote within Mazenod's Community an appreciation of the family as the basic unit of society, as the source of its being, and that in responding to each student, we respond to the basic community

• Cultivate the loyalty and solidarity of students towards the College.

Achievements

Mazenod College works in conjunction with our Old Collegian Association and parent bodies to ensure that the values and teachings of Christ and St Eugene de Mazenod are experienced throughout the wider community. This ensures that our students can become witnesses to these teachings and can be living examples of Christ's love.

The Old Collegians network coordinates the many Old Collegian sporting teams, such as the Old Collegians Football, Soccer, Volleyball and Cricket clubs, as well as providing the opportunity for the physically and intellectually disadvantaged sports person through the Mazenod Panthers, a member of the FIDA.

Value Added

The Mazenod Old Collegians Association (MOCA) assisted the Mazenod Community through:

• Pastoral care and mentoring to current and past students

• Funding various Old Collegians' sporting club initiatives

• The provision of sponsorship to current and past students

• Assistance with employment opportunities

• Donations & awards to various Mazenod College events

• In assisting with work experience & careers

• Establishing a benevolent fund & assisting those Mazenod Community members who are in need with financial and emotional support

• The Parent bodies organised social events such as Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day Breakfasts, Mothers' Day Dinner, assistance with Social Justice activities (The Vinnies Winter Sleep Out)

• The College provided Parent Education evenings that assisted parents with strategies in raising boys in a hyper-sexualised society.

• The College's Visible Wellbeing program

• Involvement in the Building Bridges Interfaith Dialogue program.

• The College organised welcoming activities with new families such as the Welcoming Dinner for parents and children who will join the College in the future year.

Parent Satisfaction

Our parents continue to show great trust in the College, as borne out by the fact that in the 2022 MACSSIS survey our parents’ expressed positivity above the MACS average in almost every category including:

• School Fit

• School Climate

• Student Safety

• Communication

• Catholic Identity

It is important to note that the two years of COVID-19 interruptions and the continuing restrictions on mass gatherings into 2022 reflected on the family engagement rating, and this should be a focus in 2023.