Principals Report

Welcome back for the final term of school for 2023!  I hope everyone had a wonderfully restful term break and has settled back into routine with ease.

Term 4 is a busy one. Our Year 12 students finish up their final classes this week before a period of study leave and undertaking final examinations.  We look forward to celebrating our Year 12 cohort at the whole-school graduation assembly on Monday with invited family and friends in attendance to wish them well.

Monday is set to be a busy day for the whole school as our Year 10 cohort will also be running their Marketplace stalls that they’ve been planning for some time now.  Marketplace is a wonderful day bringing the whole school together to purchase food and/or take-home items and have some fun with various games and carnival competitions.  If your child would like to purchase things at Marketplace day please pre-purchase tokens via Xuno by 5pm today – further details are included later in this edition.

Later this term we welcome our incoming Years 7s for their formal transition day and all other year levels will have their Step-up program before finishing school for the year. This is after they finish all learning and final assessments for the year.  As I said earlier, a busy term for the school indeed.

Last week I had the pleasure in attending the State-wide Numeracy Symposium run by the Academy of Teaching and Leadership held in Bendigo.  Ashley Bishop, Lauren Anglin and I gave a presentation on the numeracy journey we have been on as a college – in particular the development and implementation of the STEPS program and the Numeracy Improvement Plan that we are rolling out at the college.  Bringing our work together in this way was one of those moments that highlighted to me just some of the important and vital work being done at GSC to support students learning in innovative and truly impactful ways.

While we have experienced delays with the building works occurring at the college, we are presently on track to move into the refurbished I-Block, which will be the new senior school centre, on the 9th November.  Around this time, we will decant out of the current Admin building and into various spaces around the school.  Our College Reception will relocate to one of new portables at the front of the school in the staff/visitor carpark.  We will provide further details as we get closer to the move date.

Sarah Rose, Principal