A Word from the Principal

If one thinks the term couldn’t get any busier - it has.  

What a celebration of achievement and activity. From Tournament of Minds, the Arts Festival, SSATIS Athletics, ICAS and PISA testing. From Year 10 Community Service and Year 9 Leadership camp to the cleaning up of Clifton Beach by the Year 7 students and the learning to skip by our Primaries,  our students have been VERY busy learning. Students at Mount Carmel are not just learning the Australian curriculum but they are learning about life - how to work as a team, how to interact and build relationships when providing a service; how to think and problem solve; how to perform a musical piece to an audience, how to harness the butterflies and use them to generate energy to perform.

These activities take courage and resilience. The students have been learning how to continue to practise when the task itself is not easy, when the outcome is unknown and when the context is challenging (test situation, unknown environment, unknown task).  All of the students will experience these opportunities uniquely, some will love them, others will find them tiresome. Our responsibility is to allow the students to experience it, not to try and predict what will happen but to allow it to happen. Our responsibility is to shine a light on the opportunities, to celebrate the journeys and to welcome the learning.

Enjoy the images of these activities - the obvious delight and concentration on the faces of the students.

Thought of the Week

Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.