Plan Your Mission Week!
Mission Week (20-24 October 2025) is the celebration of global mission in schools across Australia.
Starting after World Mission Sunday in your local parish, your Mission Week is a chance to have fun, learn more about important issues of mission and justice, and get active with a Socktober Shootout.
The centrepiece of any Mission Week, the Socktober Shootout is based on soccer's dramatic penalty shootout, which has famously decided some legendary matches, including World Cup finals!
The Socktober Shootout is a good way to make use of the sockballs students have made throughout the Socktober Challenge.
How to Socktober
1. Sign Up: Register online through your school year levels or contact us to arrange your page in a way that best suits your school.
2. Plan Your Fundraising: Set up an online donation page or run an offline fundraising event.
3. Create Sockballs: Gather recycled materials to create your sockballs.
4. Host Sockball Activities: Soccer Shootout, Staff vs. Students soccer match, Inter-house soccer games.
5. Explore In-Class Resources: Such as Mission Packs and other classroom materials.
6. Celebrate Your Impact: Share your success with a school liturgy or with the wider community using our social media resources.
How to make your own sockball
Watch Dorothy from Catholic Mission make a sockball alongside family in Zambia, and then have a go at making your own using recycled materials at home or in class. Many children in Zambia and around the world play with a ball just like this - even Pope Francis did as a boy in Argentina. Ready to make yours?
Note: Large pieces of cloth or clothing, such as a shirt, can be used as an alternative to plastic bags for wrapping items.
Looking for Prayer and Liturgy resources?
Head to our dedicated page to find everything you need to deliver a moving Mass or Liturgy at your school.
The Power of the Sockball
Learn and share about Socktober's symbol: the Sockball. Head to our soccer page and perfect your Socktober skills.
