From the Deputy Principal/Head of Senior School

As we finish the first full week of online learning, I wish to thank all the staff for their tremendous efforts to ensure that our movement to this different mode of learning went as seamlessly as possible. I also wish to thank parents and the students for adapting to this changing environment, understanding that there have been some challenges, but also many successes.

Prior to the end of the term, we will be collating feedback that has been received from parents, students and staff to identify the successes and challenges of the online mode of teaching and learning. Realistically, we need to be thinking about a likely continuation of the current arrangements, following the announcement on Thursday that the coronavirus lockdown laws in NSW will expire in 90 days, at the end of June.

Whilst no official statement has been made by the NSW Government about the arrangements for schools in Term 2, at this stage it will be assumed that there will be a continuation of current arrangements. Of course, the situation is very fluid and changing daily, if not more frequently, so there will be further communication from the College in the coming weeks about the start of Term 2 on Monday 27 April.

We know that the upcoming school holiday period will be vastly different to the usual breaks and we continue to pray for all those millions and billions of people in our local, national and global communities who are suffering in a whole range of ways as a result of the current pandemic.

I take this opportunity to wish every family the blessings of the Easter season.

Mr Paul Brooks

College Deputy Principal / Head of Senior School