From the Leadership Team

A time for everything

So that is it. Their assignments are done, their examinations have been taken, and the Class of 2025 have been celebrated. 

What a journey! 

As 108 students walked across the stage in week 6 at the Valedictory the sense of accomplishment was real. It was real for every parent who had invested in their child for the last 17 years and been there for every joy and every challenge. It was real for every staff member who remember them as Year 7s who were taught to gather all of their books for two lessons, where to find the bathrooms, how to light a Bunsen burner and how to hold a paintbrush. And it was very real for every student who had braved the first day of Secondary School, challenged themselves at Voyage Camp and put almost everything into being their very best in and out the classroom.

Last week saw the Year 10 and 11 students complete their final tasks, sit examinations, attend move-up lessons and celebrate at their achievements at the Senior Years Final Service. Next week will be the turn of students in Years 7-9. They too have completed their subject work, have spent today preparing for their Discovery Exhibition on Monday, or attended the Languages Big Day Out. 

Year 7 to 9 students will finish the year with a Middle Years Final Service and Activity Day.

As 2025 comes to a close, we all have the opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved and perhaps even what might have been. Noone is the same person they were on day one of the year. At school, on day 195 we are more knowledgeable, more skilled, more practiced. We have seen relationships form and relationships break. We have had expectations met and plans change.

The author of Ecclesiastes 3:1 writes 

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens"

and says it well, "for everything there is a time".

That means that as the year is ending, the next journey is beginning. 

We can look forward to 2026. 

For the Class of 2025, that will mean a range of hope filled opportunities. 

For students in Year 7-11 that will mean goals set for the new school year. But let us not get ahead of ourselves or dwell in the past. Let's sit for a while in the now. The time to rest, to celebrate what has been achieved, to be grateful for the opportunities afforded us, to reflect and to enjoy the ending before we prepare for our next beginning.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses. He sets the time for birth and the time for death, the time for planting and the time for pulling up, the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building. He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for dancing, the time for making love and the time for not making love, the time for kissing and the time for not kissing. He sets the time for finding and the time for losing, the time for saving and the time for throwing away,

7 the time for tearing and the time for mending, the time for silence and the time for talk. He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.

Sandra Barry

Director of Learning