From the Principal

Benvenuto - Welcome

We continue to bounce like ping pong balls between lockdowns and restrictions, but as ever, I am in awe of the resilience and perseverance of our community. Merci, Gracias, Grazie, Arigato, Thank you. Across many cultures and languages there is a word for this concept of expressing gratitude – this has always been part of human interaction, human connection. We express our gratitude and say thank you.

To you our parents, guardians and carers of our students - for your ability to adapt to the rapidly changing situation, keeping up with communications and organisational requirements, whilst also trying to juggle work commitments, family pressures and life in general during a pandemic, we say thank you. To you our students - for your persistence, patience and grit in such difficult circumstances as you try to make sense of this world from your perspective as a young adult or a young child, we say thank you. To our entire staff group - for your flexibility, resilience and professionalism during an unprecedented time, a time when we are asked to stretch far beyond what we ever thought we were capable of stretching, we say thank you.

As a Catholic community in the hardest of times, we turn to our faith to strengthen and support us through the challenges and trials we face. I share with you a prayer from Xavier University, a Jesuit organisation: