College Community Goals & Intended Outcomes Mazenod envisions itself as being 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
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Cultivate a friendly and caring atmosphere
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Cultivate community by maximising personal communication between staff and students and among staff, students, and parents
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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
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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
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Cultivate the loyalty and solidarity of students towards the College.
College Community Achievements: Mazenod College works in conjunction with our Old Boy Associations 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. This occurs in the Old Boy network on the sport's area and through sporting clubs such as the Old Collegians Football, Soccer, Volleyball and Cricket clubs, as well as providing the opportunity for the physical and intellectually disadvantaged sports person through the Mazenod Panthers a member of the FIDA. Through the Mazenod Old Collegians Association (MOCA) which assists the Mazenod Community through: •
Pastoral care and mentoring to current and past students
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Funding various Old Collegians' sporting club initiatives
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The provision of sponsorship to current and past students
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Assistance with employment opportunities
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Donations & awards to various Mazenod College events
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In assisting with work experience & careers
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Establishing a benevolent fund & assisting those Mazenod Community members who are in need with financial and emotional support
Through our Parent bodies and their involvement with social events such as Father/Son Fishing Days, Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day Breakfasts, Mothers' Day Dinner, assistance with Social Justice activities (The Vinnies Winter Sleep Out) Through the provision of Parent Education evenings that assist parents with strategies in raising boys in a hypersexualised society. Through the College's involvement in the Visible Wellbeing program and the Building Bridges Interfaith Dialogue program.
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