From the Principal

You're officially off the staff roster as 'learning from home facilitators', with students returning to school this week. Thanks for the strong partnership that allowed the situation to work. With good practices continued, let's hope we won't need to return to a lockdown situation again. 

It has been lovely welcoming our children and young people back to school. Each day the drop-off and pick-up challenges have eased and hopefully, by the end of the week, we will have it perfected. Of course, the most essential aspect is safety. If that means you can't get a spot at the curb, take a deep breath and do a lap. The lockdown has taught us to be patient. Mostly, parents and carers seem to have realised the bus zone is now further forward and the pick-up and drop-off zone closer to St Peter’s Hall. This has been a good improvement. 

Here are some key reminders to ensure the safety of your child/ren in school zones: 

• Do not pull up in a driveway (including the College's or a neighbour's) to drop off a child. This is dangerous and illegal.
• If your child needs to cross the road to meet you at your car, please insist they use the traffic lights.
• If your child is between the ages of 10 and 13 years, they may be starting to manage crossing at traffic lights on their own, a few blocks away from school. The older your child is, the further away you could drop them off.

For detailed instructions on Junior School pick-up and drop-off, please visit our website here.

Next year we will be having our first-ever all-girls Kinder class! We are excited about this and the early years team has been actively working to make sure our girls are given every opportunity to learn and grow. Thanks to the Parents and Friends' Association, we have recently bought two class sets of wet weather gear for our little people so they can get out and get muddy. Play-based learning is such a natural way to learn and the thinking that goes into our Kinder and Prep learning is amazing! It all looks like fun and games, but everything has a learning intention behind it and is tied to the National Early Years Framework. If you know a family with a girl going to Kinder next year, let them know they are welcome to get in touch with us. 

I think our children and young people will be tired by the end of the week. Jesus provides us with help in the Gospel of Matthew: 

Helen Spencer

Principal