Principal 

Speech Day and Year 12 Celebrations 

Year 12 farewell celebrations concluded well and appropriately last week, culminating in Speech Day on Friday. Year 12s have turned their minds now to written exams, which started on Tuesday this week. They have prepared well and commence this busy period with our best wishes.  

In assembly yesterday, which some of our Year 12s attended, I spoke about the importance of traditions like Speech Day in the life of our school. I showed students the Speech Day program from 1985 which was (despite the giveaway purple text of the old lithograph copying…) virtually exactly the same as the program we ran on Friday last week. I was very pleased to see this and don’t mind at all that Speech Day is such a recognisably-repeated tradition. These traditions carry the memories the College. My key message to students was that, even though the people on stage change, we each have an opportunity and an obligation to contribute to the preservation and improvement of our traditions and by extension to the school overall during our time here. 

Class Allocations 2026

We are currently right in the middle of communicating class allocations for next year – including subject allocations for senior students, and teaching allocations across the College. This can sometimes be a challenging time, with some students missing elective preferences, or being placed in a core class that is not their preference, or with a teacher in the Junior School class whom they don’t know well. The decisions behind these allocations are complex ones, but are always based in the best outcomes for students and the College as a whole. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please raise them with the College. In a community of our size and complexity, differences of opinion are inevitable; one of our great strengths is that we discuss concerns openly and with consideration.