From the Principal 

This week the flags at College have stood at half-mast in a mark of silent respect and grief on the passing of a much-loved Old Collegian who was the son of a much-loved member of staff, and was killed in a car accident last weekend. Staff have remembered a vivacious, cheeky and kind young man, who was a natural leader of others and who enjoyed life. Senior students who knew him remembered him likewise, as a light to those who looked up to him, of whom there were many. The College’s deepest sympathies are with his family. 

Tragic events like these remind us all of the paramount importance of our relationships with others. Any partnership is actually a changing and fluid relationship, just as a family, or a school is a complex set of relationships. It is easy to forget in the busyness of our lives that those things that make us most happy usually revolve around our relationships with others, and in this forgetting, we can all too easily fall into self-centredness or inconsideration. If there is anything worthwhile to be taken from the tragedy of a good life cut short, it might be that reminder to focus on our relationships – with our loved ones at home and at school, and to find the humility to realise that we are all flawed and make mistakes and to move ahead together with an understanding of this, and with the forgiveness it invites.  

Schools continue in their activity and bustle, but for a moment this week we pause to remember an Old Collegian who was on every report, a good and fun person, and to remind ourselves to care for those relationships that really matter.