Principal's Report

Dear Families and Friends,

Last Friday to Sunday, Brenden Mair and I attended an IB Asia Pacific Regional Workshop to enhance our learnings of the Middle Years Program (MYP). As leaders of schools offering the MYP we spent time exploring the IB Standards, different types of assessment, Inquiry Learning, differentiation and what we needed to do to be ready to become an authorised IBO MYP school.

Whilst an intense program, the days were richly rewarding as we worked collaboratively with leaders from other schools in the Asia Pacific region sharing ideas about practice and pedagogy. In developing an understanding of the requirements of the program and all the different subject groups, in exploring the importance of the intercultural dimensions of the program through the global contexts we further developed how to ensure meaningful, relevant and engaging learning experiences for our students. I feel confident that our commitment to the MYP best supports our students’ learning and the College’s mission of promoting balanced, lifelong learners that are responsible citizens of local, national and global communities.

This week we also had our first Parents’ Association get together, well attended by over 30 parents. As a community we are very blessed to have an active Parents’ Association that still takes a genuine interest in our school. On the evening we spoke about how we could maintain this engagement with parents and also enhance parent communication with other parents whose daughters may be in the same year level or sharing similar interests.   We decided that a positive way to enhance relationships and communication between parents was to establish year level Facebook groups. We also discussed the importance of parents continuing to have the opportunity to meet informally with myself and other members of the Leadership team to be kept abreast of what’s going on in the College and to give feedback to us as well. It was a positive evening and I would encourage as many parents to attend these get-togethers; dates are published in the Lantern.

We also celebrated the Welcome Ceremony VCE Cross Campus Studies with our PCW girls and our CBC boys. It is certainly a valuable partnership that allows the schools to maintain their individual identities, whilst providing a very wide range of studies to allow all students to achieve their goals and realise their future ambitions.

Music Festival rehearsals are well underway; the College and front gardens are ablaze with the girls practising for their performances, I look forward to this important night next week.

Filina Virgato

Principal