Principal's Notes

Hello everyone

I hope you enjoy today’s edition (the St. Patrick’s Day edition!) of ‘Healesville High Connections’. It seems to be getting bigger and better each publication. Congratulations to this week’s stars – Chloee, Lyndsay, Taya, Pat, Reece and Sienna.

Thank you to each of the contributors to this edition. I very much enjoyed learning a little about our house captains for this year and I also enjoyed reading the newest article – ‘What’s Cooking?’

It was pleasing to see Mr Shane Coady recognised in the article ‘Then and Now’. Mr. Coady is a popular member of staff, both with his colleagues and with our students. His classes are invariably engaging and lively, hubs of learning and entertainment. We are fortunate to have a person such as Shane as a colleague and teacher for he is talented in so many areas, passionate about his teaching role and about life, generous with his time and his emotions, intelligent and knowledgeable.

Thank you also to the students and staff who so kindly answered the ‘Five Questions’. It’s always interesting to learn a little more about teachers and students through this process. To support my assertion earlier that Mr Coady is popular with staff AND students I note that Lily says the best thing about HHS is ‘My English teacher, Mr. Coady. Our whole class loves him’, Jad Gardner in giving ‘a shout-out to one teacher whose class she loves to be a part of’ named Mr Coady, and so did Nat! Alternately, maybe Mr Coady paid these staff members and Lily to say nice things about him?

I expect that, like me, you have enjoyed the progressive easing of COVID restrictions. At a school level it is pleasing to see such experiences as camps, excursions and sports returning and for remote learning to be a thing of the past.

Regardless of whether we are enduring COVID restrictions or not however, I’d like to suggest that as individuals and as a school community we continue to focus on the factors within our control - hard work, flexibility, care and support for each other!

Best wishes everyone – stay safe.

Allan Rennick