From the Principal

Going swimmingly

It continues to be a very smooth start to the year for students, staff and families as part of our Baimbridge Community. The values of Courage, Pride and Respect are evident daily in the yard and the classroom and none more so than at the recent swimming carnivals. The students were supportive of each other throughout our house sports and the senior students led by example making every effort to demonstrate the type of embracing culture they wish to see into the future at BC. The courage and pride in their school was then further displayed with qualifying students representing the school at the Glenelg and District Swimming Sports where we had a swimmer participate in every event and some incredible individual success. Overall as a school we could not be more impressed by our students and the way they gave it their all.

Grade 6 Transition Day & Parent Information Sessions

This week we have hosted the Grade 6 Information night, Transition day and today we began tours to offer a window into our learning for the year 7 students of tomorrow. Thank you to the parents who took the time to come along and see the shool in action and thank you to Ksenija for your support and input, you did a great job.

Staff News

At an academic level and with new staff finding their feet we have set up a range of supportive programs including Math Club, Catch up Club, Chinese Club with more to come. James and Gabby Tan have taken the responsibility of Wednesday Breakfast Club and we had over 50 students attending this morning. Dumplings were not on the menu this time but stay tuned. Lunch time activities are being organised by Mr. Hong and the VCAL students have plans to extend this further. Thankfully, we now have many teachers who can take our school forward in learning areas we have found difficult to staff. The areas of Methods and Specialist Math, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Science, Legal Studies, Food Tech, Business Management, Media, the Arts, STEAM, Graphics, Game Design not to mention the huge array of vocational studies such as Materials, Engineering and other trade based pursuits now have passionate high quality staffing. Couple this with our outstanding Education Support staff who manage Compass, the Library, the front office, our Data collection, and integration and you can see the team it takes to support our students.

Term 1 is busy

This week has also seen the beginning of the Athletics carnival, an Outdoor Education excursion - with the images coming through from this trip to Queenscliffe I am eager to hear all about it, stories of swimming with dolphins have been coming through today, and the appointment of our new buildings project manager, hopefully with the pledge from both parties last year this will see our Stage One beginning after the budget announcement.

At School Council we heard about burgeoning overseas school connections with China and preliminary discussions are now under way for student trips to become a reality into the future. Students presented changes to the school uniform and presentation policy and this is great to see that our leaders of tomorrow are courageous enough to seek change. The SRC will now be asked to work with a wider student base to make proposed changes that will perhaps make our school student appearance more contemporary whilst valuing the appearance of a Baimbridge College student of whom we can all be proud.  

School Council Elections

Parents and students are reminded that Nominations for School Council positions close at 4PM tomorrow, Friday 1st March.  Nomination forms are available at the General Office.  Parents were emailed the details earlier this month.

We encourage all parents to consider a role on School Council as it is a wonderful time to be part of the great changes happening here at baimbridge College as we move forward.

Call for shade

With our Athletics Carnival fast approaching next Thursday and a forecast temperature of 30 degrees, we are putting the call out to our community for shade - if you have a gazebo that we could utilise we would be very grateful.  Please contact the school for more details if you can assist.