Principal

This week our Year 9 students have been enjoying the Melbourne Week component of the Year 9 Experience. They have been learning how to navigate the city, including how to use public transport, and have engaged each day in a rich program of seminars and workshops ranging from working with Fare Share, to learning about homelessness and gambling addiction. While being in and navigating Melbourne is all too familiar to many of us as adults, for lots of our Year 9s this is a new and steep learning curve. The goals of the trip are to continue to develop independence and to learn that the way that they live is not necessarily the same for others. These skills are part of the lead up to the Vietnam experience in late Term Three and I know it will have been a worthwhile week. 

Giving students opportunities beyond the classroom is central to our vision of a good and worthwhile education, and the Melbourne experience is one example of this. In the past week we have had students sailing in Portland, singing and playing at Generations in Jazz in Mount Gambier, running in the Glenelg District cross country, engaging in Orchestra Victoria workshops, and visiting a shearing shed in Penshurst. We offer a lot at College and will continue to do so, because we believe that to lead in the world, students need to be out in the world.