Year 10 Pastoral Guardian

News from Year 10

As we near the end of the year, the girls will be soon ending their time in Clare School and will return in the new year as Senior students in the Elizabeth Hayes School. The girls have successfully navigated the notoriously challenging Years 9 and 10 and this is in itself is a reason to celebrate. We celebrated academic and cultural success of the students last night at the College Awards night and we will celebrate the success of our sporting achievements at the Sports Awards night. Many girls have already been, or soon will be, recognised for their individual achievements across these areas. They are most deserving of this recognition.

There are many other successful students within Year 10, however, who have also faced different challenges in a variety of aspects of their life both at school and home. While these successes are not recognised publicly, they too are important for the girls to identify and acknowledge. I heartily encourage you to talk with your daughters and help them identify what successes they have had this year. It could be lifting a grade from a C to a B, it could be joining an extra-curricular activity, or perhaps not leaving their work until the last minute. Identifying and celebrating these little successes and building on these is the ultimate goal for all. Feeling and celebrating these successes can then drive further success.

It is most fitting then that we should be celebrating all of our girls and their time spent together in Clare School. The Social will be held on 29 November and you will receive a letter early next week with more detailed information. In collaboration with the girls we have decided to begin this event straight after school with an opportunity for the girls to simply relax and celebrate the year together, share a meal, have a swim, and engage in some fun activities organised by the girls. The goal is to enable them to simply enjoy being fifteen, laugh, have fun, and farewell their time as Clare School students; after all, there is plenty of time for them to be ‘grown up.’

The girls can then invite a guest each who can join the event for the disco from 6.00pm. This is simply an opportunity to share their celebration of the end of the year with other friends from other schools. There is absolutely no pressure for girls to invite anyone but those who wish to can do so. Thus, the event will provide the girls with the ‘best of both worlds,’ a fun celebration with their cohort and also a social event with an invited guest.

I am really looking forward ending the year with a positive, fun, and new celebration as it will be certainly very hard to let them go as a Pastoral Guardian.  They truly are a remarkable group of girls, all successful in their own ways. They will of course be in the very capable hands of Karen Farrow as their Years 11 and 12 Pastoral Guardian.

Therese Dooley