CEO's Welcome

Through the first month of Term 2 we’ve had the opportunity to celebrate the Everyday Excellence of so many of our MITS students.  It’s this Everyday Excellence – quiet, determined, self-assured – that is becoming the hallmark of our MITS students as they progress through their secondary years in Melbourne.

Early in the term, at our All Student Dinner (always such a brilliant night of community and connection on Richmond Hill – this time over Vietnamese food from Victoria Street!) we celebrated the excellence of Year 12s Pauline Managaygay and Sam Warrior, who have been made our inaugural MITS Captains.  Pauline and Sam live our MITS values, and provide natural and considered role modelling and mentoring to younger students.  Acknowledging them as MITS Captains simply formalises the outstanding leadership that they’ve already been demonstrating through their Everyday Excellence.

A couple of weeks later, Brad, Lia and I hosted a very special dinner for our incredible cohort of thirteen Year 12s students at restaurant Cityfields.  Over delicious, shared food, it was an opportunity to celebrate them, the journeys they have shared in Melbourne over the past six years and to chat about the exciting futures that they are planning post-school.  Their Everyday Excellence is a source of inspiration for all of the students who look up to them from our other year levels.

And this week, Year 8 student Harmony received the Yiooken Award at our annual Dreamtime Lunch with players and staff at the Richmond Football Club.  Through her 18 months with MITS Harmony has lived the concept of Everyday Excellence, and we were thrilled to see her commitment to her studies and to MITS values acknowledged in front of our RFC family.

As always, I hope you enjoy the stories and pictures of our students, their many experiences and their Everyday Excellence in this MITS Newsletter.

Ed Tudor

Chief Executive Officer