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.

5 tips to running a successful event

1. Put it in the calendar well in advance. Recruit colleagues to help and invite parents to join on the day.

2. Make use of our resources to plan activities for the day, including a Mass or Liturgy.

3. Use our templates to promote Socktober in your school and beyond! Don’t forget to take photos (with permission) of your Socktober Shootout and share it using the hashtag #Socktober.

4. Introduce the focus country, Mongolia, during lessons leading up to your Event Day. Use our Mission Packs to help guide the conversation.

5. Run the Socktober Shootout on your Event Day with guest goalkeepers and using your sockballs.

How to Socktober

Want to know how to put on a fun Socktober Event Day? Download our checklist leading up to the event day below and learn how to play the Socktober Shootout! It is a great way to engage community-wide to celebrate World Mission Month and Socktober.

LEARN HOW TO SOCKTOBER

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 Timor-Leste and around the world play with a ball just like this - even Pope Francis did as a boy in Argentina. Ready to make yours?