Principal's Report
Dear Families and Friends,
Our aim is to empower our young women and provide positive social and emotional resilience and rigorous educational challenges. Although not a big school we have a big heart, a strong sense of community and our focus is engaging with your daughter. Every student is known here, we are very relational, we know that our girls thrive on positive relationships with each other and our staff – this is what is important to us.
What a busy term it has been. In SCSA Swimming we placed fifth overall with the seniors winning their division. The Year 12 Formal held at San Remo Ballroom was a wonderful coming together after the mammoth effort of our amazing Music Festival. Open Day was a testament to the positive learning environment we have here at PCW and the vast array of learning and extra curricular opportunities we offer. Our Easter Liturgy showed that we are a contemporary faith community, inclusive, diverse, multi -cultural and welcoming of all faiths.
This edition of the Lantern is a bumper issue showcasing not only these events, but the many others happening at the college. All of the above is possible due to the hard work and dedication of the staff at PCW. I am grateful for the commitment they have to make this school the best it can be.
The refurbishment of the Nagle Building commences over the holidays, I am confident that on completion, this will be a stimulating and engaging learning space for our school community.
I would like to share with you a beautiful reflection by Sr Joan Chittister.
An Easter card
It’s Easter. There is new life beginning everywhere–in the earth around us and, if we will, in our souls. Both kinds of life, however, must be cultivated.
It is an exercise in “yes,” this slip-slide from winter to spring, from dark to light, from Lent to Resurrection. Yes to today; yes to tomorrow; yes to life again. We all come out of the tomb of winter new and bright with promise. It is “yes” to our life now, however old, however jaded we may be. It is the rediscovery of possibility again.
Easter is here. In the monastery, we fill the chapel with flowers and dance the alleluia down the aisle over and over again and end every community prayer period with alleluia so that it begins to dance in our hearts as well. We sing to Monday mornings, alleluia; to washing dishes, alleluia; to friends and work, alleluia; to dawn and dusk, alleluia; to old things and new, alleluia. We especially sing alleluia to you. Thank you for your friendship and support. Have a blessed Easter season.
Wishing you and your families a restful holiday and blessings for Easter
Filina Virgato
Principal