Principal's Message

Dear Friends,

It is wonderful to have so many of our students back on campus, but we so miss our Year 8s and 9s who continue to do remote learning from home. We look forward to all our students being back at school doing face-to-face learning this week!

Learning is best done when it is relational. Although we try and replicate that as much as possible online, it is never the same as face-to-face learning. 

God made us for community and learning together in a shalom community that is Christ-centred, Bible-focused, God-fearing and Spirit-led, builds students as responsive disciples who get involved in Christ's mission and who try to make a difference in all areas of life.

We are so blessed that we can operate as a Christian school!

We have the opportunity every day to not only tell God's story to our students and each other, but to live it.

Love, hope and grace should flow through every facet of our College. Every encounter, every lesson, every program and event that occurs at St Andrews should reflect Jesus and echo the heart of God.

In our sin we fail, and we easily get discouraged. But in God's strength, we get up again and with the help of the Holy Spirit we keep on learning and growing more like Christ in the way we act, think and speak.

This season of COVID-19 has been extraordinarily hard on everyone. But as Christians and as a community of believers we are able to be a conduit of hope to all those around us and be a light for Jesus. Whatever happens, we know God is with us and will never leave us or forsake us.

As we trust in Him, we are able to know this hope that transcends fear and anxiety. It brings peace and a freedom that enables us to be courageous. In Him, we can keep on stepping out and face difficult situations and cope with unplanned events we have never experienced before.

Every challenge, every difficulty in life helps us to grow more resilient and more like Christ as we depend upon Him and look to Him.

"The Lord foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from His dwelling place he watches all who live on earth.....

We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In Him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you."

Psalm 33: 10-14, 20 -22

Blessings on your week!

Catriona Wansbrough