From the Principal

We warmly welcome back our students and their families for the start of Term 2. We look forward to another busy term of learning and activity. I hope many of you will be able to join us for one of our events next week.

Primary Parent/Teacher Interviews (Tuesday) – please see the Primary page for booking details.
Cross Country (Wednesday) – Parents and Carers are welcome to come and watch.
Mothers and Carers’ Breakfast (Thursday) – We especially hope that many of our College mums and carers will be able to join us for a special breakfast in the Auditorium. We would also be grateful if there were some dads available to help with food prep and service. Please RSVP to anita.wilson@scc.tas.edu.au by Tuesday 7 May, if you can help or if you will be attending.

Monday was a staff professional learning day. One of the themes we addressed was continuity and change. In an age where there are such a rapid technological advances and we hear about the potential impacts on daily life, we need to ask how schools need to adapt to prepare young people for the future but also what we need to hold onto.

I spoke to staff about an interview with another school principal in which he was asked how schools were likely to change in the next decade. His response was that he was more interested in what would remain the same and to ensure the school was investing in those areas.

A strength of SCC is our commitment to the holistic development of young people. We want to ensure they have every opportunity to grow academically, emotionally, socially, physically and spiritually. No matter how the trends in technological development impact the world of work, leisure and community engagement, we will still be needing to raise our children to be a member of a family and a community, to have values and principles to guide their choices and to be able to care for their physical and mental health. We want them to know what they should expect from a good relationship and what to do if they find themselves in those that are not.

One of the things we have tried to emphasise last year and again this year is how each of our College values can be expressed in all parts of our lives. This year, we are focusing on love, with specific emphasis on the question, ‘What does love require?’ This week, there has been justifiable concern across the nation about gender-based violence in the community. Never has there been a more important time for all schools to be talking about what it really means to love others and to love ourselves and how love translates into action.

I Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Jodie Bennett

Principal