Wellbeing 

Mr John Ryan - Deputy Principal

Punctuality

 

Arriving at school on time, shows your respect for others and their time, it shows that you are organised and ready to make the best of the academic day ahead. Teachers, students and parents all have a role to play in ensuring that the young people get the best possible start to the day.

 

Students who are regularly late can never recover the time lost. The College maintains accurate records of students who don’t get to school on time. If this is ongoing feel free to ring the College to see if someone from the Wellbeing Team can assist by getting people to class by 8.55am every day.

 

Resilience after Remote Learning

 

Clinical Psychologist, Andrew Fuller refers to the virtues of compassion and love as the oldest medicines we can employ in tough times. Add to this hope and connectedness and we have the four most powerful ingredients of healing.

 

What creates resilience varies at different stages of our lives. The clear indication is that people thrive when they: 

 

Connect with one another 

Protect one another 

Respect one another

 

 Respect for each other is clearly defined by Pope Francis in his apostolic exhortation refers to the lyrical passage of Saint Paul, we see some of the features of true love: 

 

“Love is patient, love is kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Cor 13:4-7). 

 

Love is experienced and nurtured in the daily life of families and in the life of a school. It is helpful to think more deeply about the meaning of this Pauline text and its relevance for the manner in which we deal with each other in tough times.

 

Let’s all look out for each other.