From our Principal
Relationships
Our school pastoral theme this year is relationships. Good, strong and positive relationships. It is these that build and enrich our community and our lives. How will you go about building and enriching relationships with each other, your teachers, your kids, your parents, your friends, your enemies, those you don’t know and those you don’t care to know?
Relationships are the key to success in all aspects of our lives and we should actively work on them, every day.
What does that mean then – everyday? It means actions, such as
- Encourage and initiate real conversations as this builds higher level of trusts and engagement – grow your social skills
- Be open, be honest with feelings, express differences of opinion in a way in which everyone can feel supported and true to themselves - grow your social intelligence
- Connect with others, make friends, colleagues, partners, acquaintances - grow your social capital
- Make others and yourself happier and healthier by supporting others in what they do, being first place or last – grow your social support
- Be selfless not selfish, look outwards and not inwards and look to have relationships that are equal and balanced where give and take matches – grow your social conscience
Every story you've ever connected with, every person you've ever admired, every little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be passive in your life and let circumstance happen to you or you can be the active hero of your own life.
Don’t accept anything less than honor and excellence in your relationships.
This week we held our Commencement Assembly and we recognized and congratulated our 2016 Dux, recipients of Sports Star awards, 2017 School captains, 2017 Year 12 cohort, Year 7 and Primary Leaders and wished them all the best in their role for 2017.
2016 Sports Star of the Year
Primary: Lila McMinn, Riley Williams, Poppy Palmer and Patrick Kennedy
Secondary: Dakota Lucic and Jayda Richardson
K-6 Student Leaders
Jake Clancy, Charlie Granger, Brodie Jardine and Alysha Toohill.
K-6 Music Captains
Marli McKenna and Genevieve McLindon
K-6 House Captains
Chanter: Oscar Burns and Scott Park
Martin: Olivia Davy and Ella Furness
Meninya: Isabella Jachim and Hetti Jones
Perricoota: Sienna Quinlan and Reve Torney
Year 7 SRC Representatives
Aedan Lias and Cleo Oberin
We also welcome to our community the following new staff: Annie Pinson (Food Technology Teacher), Deb Duncan (Science), Lisa Clancy (Food Technology Assistant), Meryn Chalmers (Mathematics and Science Teacher) Renee Aquino (Mathematics Teacher) Brooke Barber (Year 3 Teacher), Gareth Leach (Music and IT Teacher), Megan McMaster (English and Drama Teacher) and Jackson Henderson-Smith (Education Assistant).
With great excitement we kicked off our first Parents and Friends Association Meeting (PFA) on Monday 20 February with a passionate group of parents including:
Vanessa Bush, Deb Jardine, Ged Brandrick, Sarah Hemmings, Maria Hall, Clare Egglestone, Claire Gibson, Bronwyn Vine, Suzan Dalziel, Dixie Donovan, Rachael Edgar, Celeste Douglas, Vicky McGillivray, Georgie Kennedy and Inger Amos.
We had a fantastic discussion and look forward to further development of this group and projects in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Honoris et Excellentia
Teresa Deshon