Year 12 Pastoral Guardian
News from Year 12
As graduation nears, it is a time for your daughter to reflect on her personal success milestones, whether that be academic achievement, cultural, or sporting participation, liturgy and outreach service, or participation in the spirit life of her house and college life. It is also, importantly, a time for you to celebrate your success as parents and carers in your accompanying school journey, supporting and encouraging your daughter. Congratulations to you and your family!
You know only too well how excited the girls are as they count the days left, while also being tentative about the future. I remind them of the great wave of adventure, discovery, and growth that is ahead.
This week we celebrated success at the College Awards evening and many proud parents and family members celebrated your daughters’ hard work, dedication, love of learning, and outstanding commitment to college life. Congratulations, girls! The end of year certainly highlights successes. I particularly enjoyed celebrating the success and skill of the Year 12 Art and Fashion students at the Art Show recently. As a cohort and College, we celebrated Odette Jonelynas’s prestigious well-earned ADF Academy and Education Award on both assembly and Awards night. The whole assembly on Thursday congratulated the thirty four students in Year 12 who have completed Diploma or Certificate courses off campus in a range of courses. This required excellent time management and commitment to maintaining their school subjects.
Next week, we will have the pleasure of celebrating further successes at the Sports Awards Evening and FCIP Showcase evenings in which so many Year 12s are actively involved. Additionally, throughout Years 11 and 12, at our own year level assemblies in our Inspiring Young Women Program, we have celebrated many successes of our senior girls who continue to manage their studies excellently while representing at a state, national, and international level in their pursuits.
In the past few weeks of Year 12, the girls have maintained their focus, completing their final assignments and preparations for exams. They have also been engaged in a Transitions Program with guest speakers such as Caitlin Mitchell, a successful young Brisbane businesswoman, Edmund Rice Camps trainers, RACQ and RYDA Road Safety excursion, and Red Frogs. These presentations give opportunities for the girls to enjoy connecting as a cohort to support one another in our final weeks, to be guided by hints for future success and safety, and to be aware of opportunities to give to others in a Franciscan way in the future.
As I reflect on our two-year senior journey together, I recall the Year 11 acknowledgement at their Retreat that their unique year level identity was one of creativity, positivity, supportiveness, brightness, and fun. This identity has carried through the Year 12 year with our delightful cohort. Every girl - or 'young woman' - would be more appropriate, will have a special opportunity to reflect on her own individual journey and growth in her high school years as well as their growth as a cohort at Evolution Day on 14 November before graduation. I look forward to meeting you at the forthcoming Graduation Mass and Graduation on Thursday 15 November or the final graduation ceremony on Friday 16 November to celebrate the closure of one journey and the embarking on the next.
It has been such a pleasure being your daughter’s Pastoral Guardian over Years 11 and 12, and I wish your very special daughter a happy, fulfilled future as she progresses to adulthood.
Karen Farrow
