Principal Message

Principal Address 

This week our College community honoured the Year 12 class of 2025. Their final day of formal schooling on Wednesday marked a significant milestone in each of their lives. As a community, we celebrated the major achievement of the completion of thirteen years of schooling. There have been many memories created over the last six years, and these will be cherished forever. Many young people in this group have overcome major challenges and obstacles to make it to graduation, and many have shown resilience and determination. We couldn’t be more proud of all of them!

I would like to thank the Year 12 parents, carers and families. Thank you for entrusting your children with us. It has been a privilege working with you to help support the growth and development of these fine Year 12 graduates. It is a partnership where we need to work together, celebrating the successes, and navigating the challenges your young people face, together. Our farewell ceremonies are an important opportunity for parents and staff, as we can look at the Year 12 students with pride, knowing that we have played a part in the formation of these young people.

We wish Year 12 all the best with their graduation tonight and upcoming HSC examinations. What we want for all of Year 12 is for them to be the best version of themselves, and we hope they take the lessons they have learned at Kildare into the future to thrive and make the world a better place. 

Mrs Kelly Shaw, mother of Finn Shaw and past students Ned and Ava, led the final prayer at our Farewell Assembly on Wednesday, the Irish Blessing: A Valette Blessing for Graduates.  See the prayer below.

We pray for Graduating Class…

May the stars always remind you that you have friends, 

that, however apart, you are together. 

May you remember that on the blackest nights

the stars are at their brightest.

May you recall always with gratitude that you are blessed with the best of friends - your family.

May you treasure always the friends you have made at school

And remember that friendship is a gift to be treasured, not squandered.

May you be good to them and may you be there for them;

may you bring all the blessings, challenges, truth and light

that you need for your journey.

May you learn to be a good friend to yourself. 

May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love, warmth, feeling and forgiveness. 

May this continue to change you. 

May you never forget that,

Wherever you journey in life, 

Whether you advert to it or not,

You are most richly blessed with the friendship of God. 

May the road rise to meet you, 

May the wind be always at your back, 

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

The rain fall gently in your fields, 

And, until we meet again, 

May God hold you in the hollow of his hands. 

AMEN