Cranbourne Campus News

GOOD BYE 2020 - the pleasure was all yours..

It is difficult to think that December is here and Christmas, just around the corner. In many ways this has been a very difficult year and one that many of us would like to see the back of.  A year where parents have lost jobs and many businesses have closed. A year when our places of worship have been forced to close the door to the faithful. A year characterised by long periods of isolation, of masks that, while protecting the spread of a virus, also serve to muffle our dialogue and hide our smiles and where an awkward elbow bump replaces a handshake or a hug between friends. I can not imagine too many people revelled in 2020 or will look back on it fondly. And so we say "good bye 2020, the pleasure was all yours."

However to totally ignore 2020 would be to ignore the gifts that it has brought to each of us. There has been an acceleration in our learning and understanding of the benefits and capabilities of technology to enhance our learning. We have developed a new appreciation for each other and the enjoyment of visiting friends, the outdoors beyond 5 kilometres  and those monthly visits to the grandparents. Many of us will have come to appreciate the difficult task of a teacher, having to manage the emotions and the learning path of twenty five very different people, each with different gifts and needs. And some of us will have come to understand that wealth is measured in good health and in the freedoms you enjoy to go where you want to go, and be with who you want to be with. 

Christmas in the Christian calendar is a time of rejoicing and of hope. It is my prayer and hope this Christmas, that the world can get through this pandemic as quickly as possible and that a sense of normality is regained. But I also hope that the lessons of 2020 are not forgotten and that they develop in each of us a gratitude of the good fortune we have and a self-confidence born of  the resilience we have demonstrated. And I continue to pray that the year ahead is a year of readjusting to establish just what really is important ; where we learn the lesson to   "Do less, to BE more."

A final comment

At the end of my first year as Head of Campus I would just like to thank staff, students and families for the warm welcome afforded to me and to wish each and every one of you a safe and blessed Christmas.

Mr Jeremy Wright

Deputy Principal - Head of Cranbourne Campus