Principal's Report 

This year our theme has been ‘Courage’. This has been a very significant and relevant theme for us and our community, as we have been courageous enough to embark on a new campus and our parents and carers have been courageous enough to journey with us and send their child or children to a new facility. Our community has shown courage to open themselves to new opportunities, courage to make new friends, forge new relationships, courage to choose new pathways. And who can forget young Harley Reid and the courage he has shown to follow his dreams, while completing his VCE and dealing with the intense media attention. The entire St Joseph's College community is incredibly proud of the way Harley has conducted himself as a young man and we wish him all the best as that dream now becomes a reality and as he finds the courage again to be the best he can be as an AFL player and in his move to Western Australia.

Our theme has also been highlighted again this week as our Year 10 and 11 students move into their Step Up Program and VCE or VCE VM preparation for 2024. It takes courage to step into a new experience; a challenging experience. I invite all students to look to this challenge with courage, and to lean into this challenge with openness, determination and a willingness to study and engage in their learning. Learning is an adventure and a challenge, but it is incredibly rewarding.

Our Year 7 to 9 students will be involved in a number of different activities over the next few weeks, this can be both exciting and unsettling. So we ask that families remind our young people about the importance of being respectful and cooperative.

Currently in our world there is much destruction, dispossession, violence and war. As people of faith we commit ourselves to a world of peace, love, compassion and welcome.

St. Brigid Psalm

Brigid, you were a woman of peace,

You brought harmony where there was conflict.

You brought light to the darkness.

You brought hope to the downcast.

May the mantle of your peace cover those who are troubled and anxious,

And may peace be firmly rooted in our hearts and in our world.

Anne Marie Cairns

Principal