Kings Park Campus 

Principal Message 

Kings Park Campus October 20, 2025

Welcome back everybody; in particular members of the Kings Park campus family. Term 4! Here we go, another (successful) year coming close to the end which means a combination of renewals and farewells. Soon we will be welcoming our new 2026 Year 7 students at both the Kings Park and Sydenham campuses while farewelling our current Year 12 students who started life at Delahey as students from Kings Park or Sydenham, but are now Delahey students.

Multi campuses can have challenges but one of the rewards or uplifting benefits is how we bring together two cohorts of students at the beginning of Year 11 and watch them grow as one cohort by the end of Year 12, and in all likelihood, earlier than that!

No doubt there will be more said and written about this over the course of the term. As far as the Kings Park campus is concerned, a summary of what’s been happening is below:

The campus came together on Wednesday September 17 for its end-of-term celebration assembly. The assembly was facilitated by our two Campus Student Leaders supporting our Campus Captain, Umu Jalloh. All three thrived on the opportunity to display their leadership skills to the entire campus. The theme for this assembly was, “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out and we used the occasion to reflect on the successes and challenges of the term, furthermore, we celebrated achievements and provided our student leaders with an opportunity to speak about events, programs and activities. The Performing Arts staff and students performed the National Anthem and a brilliant rendition of “Hotel California” We also congratulated our winners of the RRR (Respect, Responsibility & Relationships) Awards. These students exemplify the demonstration of College Expected Behaviours. Like all assemblies, it was certainly an awe-inspiring event and one that we should all be proud to have participated in.

The Kings Park campus celebrated RUOK Day on Wednesday September 17. R U OK? Day is a national day of action that encourages people to start meaningful conversations with those who may be struggling. The goal is to remind everyone that a simple conversation can make a positive difference in someone's life, and it's important to check in with others every day of the year, not just on the designated day. The campaign promotes checking in by asking "Are you OK?", listening without judgment, encouraging action, and then checking in again.

Our Wellbeing Team organised activities and a sausage sizzle during lunch time to raise awareness for this important cause. RUOK merchandise (symbolically yellow) was on offer with the central message being that “life happens every day”. It was an amazing team effort that brought us all together under the Open Space.

In the last fortnight of Term 3, our Copperfield Students in Years 7 and 8 were awarded 2nd place at the VCES Maths Games Days, 2025 for High Ability Students! This is a fantastic achievement that deserves celebration and acknowledgement! This outstanding result demonstrated our students’ strong mathematical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and excellent teamwork (Many thanks also to our maths teachers for their hard work as well) The competition was challenging, but our students’ demonstrated persistence, creativity, a passion for mathematical learning, and represented our school with enthusiasm and commitment. Teams of students compete for a variety of prizes including individual prizes for creativity, contribution to group work, and lucky door prizes. Lateral thinking wins the day! Congratulations to our participating students on this well-deserved success! A big thanks to Ms. Vo for her work in facilitating this initiative.

On Thursday, September 18, we welcomed the Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Mr. Ben Carroll to the Kings Park campus, along with Ms. Luba Grigorovitch and our Regional Director, Mr. Chris Thompson. Again, our College Student Leadership Team showed just why they were selected by not only welcoming our guests, but also acting as tour guides around the campus. Upon our return to the Conference Room, our Student Leaders sat down with our VIPs and engaged in cordial and inquisitive discussion about their experiences at Copperfield College, their hopes and dreams for the future and providing thought provoking ideas about how the Kings Park campus can be improved even more with state government funding. It was a joy to watch the dialogue unfold and it was just another classic example of student voice and agency in action.

In 2025, we forged links with 1000 Generations, an organisation dedicated to improving the lives of adolescents through the SHINE (girls) and STRENGTH (boys) program. The 8 week program for particular students in Years 7-9 covered, amongst other things, confidence building, decision making, the ability to have a positive influence in their world, resilience and emotional intelligence. Currently, we are running the STRENGTH program here at Kings Park for boys in Year 7 and 8. The program has been a resounding success with more sessions planned for 2026.

On Monday September 15, the Kings Park campus (as did other campuses) held a Professional Learning meeting which focused on the results of the 2025 Attitudes To School Survey data. This survey is completed every year and focuses on many dimensions including Teaching and Learning & Wellbeing. This year was a little different. While our staff facilitated the meeting, we had campus student leaders providing their thoughts and input when tables were asked to answer questions about the data. In particular, the focus centred around:

• students’ perspectives about the learning environment we create at this school.
• our impact on student’s engagement and wellbeing.
• school based success and challenges at this campus.

This was such a worthwhile and hopefully, continued process that allows students to explain form their perspectives, why survey responses were what they were. It also gave staff the opportunity to discuss with students their perspectives and come to a clearer understanding of how this clarity can help build a better school.

On Thursday October 16, our Year 7 students were engaged in the Digital Thumbprint sessions in the Old Drama Space. Digital Thumbprint is a very important learning tool for our students, but particularly with Year 7 students as they progress to adolescence. It focuses on such things as scams, social media, websites, online gaming, cyberbullying, online sharing and of course, the new world of AI. The sessions are very interactive and kinetic with students given opportunities to share their current understandings and then mesh that with their new learnings so that they are so much more informed in future.

We also held a celebration event in the library for all the winners of the 2025 Premier’s Reading Challenge. We traditionally have a pizza party which brings together our English/Literacy and library staff together to acknowledge those who’ve read the most number of books. The Challenge encourages students to read a set number of books over the year and record their efforts online.

Buildings and Grounds

Works continue on the Technology Roof and is expected to be complete by 24 October. They will move onto room T7 and the Science Building.

New Oval 

Turf has been rolled out and is currently being watered in

New Keying System 

We have finalised the new keying system. We had extra Teacher keys delivered on Friday.

Concrete

We had new concrete laid to replace uneven surfaces over the holidays. C Team is looking a lot better.

Administration Building 

We have our Blinds installed.

Painting 

The facia on buildings have been changed to Monument Grey in multiple areas. We will continue this work.

Well, that’s all for now. We wish all members of the Copperfield College community, but in particular, those from the Kings Park campus, a safe, healthy and happy end to the year (and beyond of course).

Mr. Renato Carinci and Mr. Lance Petherick

Campus Principals- Kings Park Campus