Principal's Report

The new moral imperative in education is not just “college ready” but rather becoming good at learning and good at life.  Michael Fullan

Welcome back to Term 3.  At College, our firm priority remains to be the best school for parents seeking academic success for their child. We acknowledge the traditional importance of high expectations for all students in academic performance and the need to provide boys and girls with ‘connectedness in life’.  In his recent May blog, leading Canadian educationalist Michael Fullan argues that ‘we know that the world is becoming increasingly troubled because of climate change, unclear and diminished job markets, growing inequity, increased anxiety and stress, wild and unpredictable technology, deterioration of trust, and crumbling social cohesion. This has had an incredible impact on education because in many ways this all plays out in our schools. It also provides a great opportunity to transform schooling so that it simultaneously serves students and society’. At College we recognise the close relationship between learning and wellbeing.  We choose to provide breadth of experience and depth of curriculum in our final school years.  If you would like to read  more follow Michael on https://michaelfullan.ca/our-increasingly-troubled-world-creates-an-engaging-opportunity-for-students/ 

At Senior School Assembly this week, we celebrated the premiership Basketball success of the Under 12 B Girls Snowy Owls; the Under 14 B Girls Wise Owls and the Division 4 Tawny Owls; while simultaneously recognizing that our 1st Hockey team defended their 5th consecutive ICCES title in Shepperton. We also paid tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the ‘Moon landing’ and reflected on the enormity of the task launching three astronauts into space after eight years of planning.   I wish everyone the same rich success this term.  As JFK stated in 1962: “We choose to go to the moon and do other things … not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

Dr Andrew Hirst