Principal Message

As the HSC exams continue, we continue to be proud and keep all of our Year 12 students in our thoughts and prayers.

Year Meetings

Last week, we met with Year 7, 8 and 9 to talk about their role in creating a postive learning culture and having a growth mindset. We shared the College's instructional framework with students and encouraged them to be active participants in each stage of the learning process. We also re-established our high expectations around behaviour that supports learning. See the Letter to Parents from our Leader of Teaching and Learning for more information: Click HERE

Kildare Student Leaders

This week we are training our newly elected Student Representative Council members. This training will cover elements of effective leadership and teamwork and will help the students identify their key leadership goals for 2026. Students will also be asked to nominate who they would like to lead them as well as the particular portfolio roles they would like to hold. We are looking forward to working with this dynamic team to lead improvements to the student experience here at the College.

Introducing the Student Representative Council: Year 12 2026

Please join us in congratulating the student leaders who will lead and positively influence our school during Term 4 and into 2026. During Week 4, these students will come together to undertake their leadership experience and work together to determine their individual roles and responsibilities. We look forward to sharing with our community the individual positions they will take up in coming Newsletters! 

Upcoming Social Media Ban for U16s

As you would have heard in the news, there is a significant upcoming change related to youth digital safety: the Australian Social Media Age Restriction. Effective from 10 December 2025, the Australian Government will require social media platforms—such as Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook—to take reasonable steps to prevent anyone under the age of 16 from creating or keeping an account. 

This change is considered an infrastructure upgrade, creating a necessary buffer and shifting the burden of accountability onto the platforms, not on parents or children. As parental consent cannot override this legal minimum age floor, we strongly encourage families to begin preparing now by having gentle conversations with their children and co-designing a plan for gradually winding back social media use. 

We recommend a strategy of tapering rather than sudden cuts to avoid emotional fallout, and advise families to help children export important photos and creative work before December 10, as accounts may be deactivated entirely. This delay presents a valuable opportunity to build new, safer routines and explore alternative digital spaces that respect privacy and development.

Please see Academic Care and Wellbeing page for more advice for parents: Click HERE