Message from our 

Campus Principal

Principal’s Update

So that was 2022!  

This year has been jam packed with so many great activities.  We have had more camps than ever before.  Our students have enjoyed getting out on excursions and having organisations and activities visit us at the school.  They have focused back on learning in the classroom and are reporting a greater satisfaction with schooling than in the many years prior. 

While classes from 2022 have been wrapping up, we have been lucky enough to welcome in some of 2023 already with new staff starting on board this week and last week.

Alanah Andrews has been with us since last week and is already starting to work hard as a member of our leadership, providing direction to our Middle Years Literacy and Numeracy Program.  Patrick McGrath is a familiar face to many of our students, having previously been at Morwell Central Primary School.  We are lucky to have Patrick on our 2023 staff teaching PE and Outdoor Education.  Shawna Miller has joined us for one day this week and comes on board in 2023 as an English and Humanities teacher.  Rose Van Rooy, a Kurnai alumnist, returns to Kurnai in 2023 as a Maths and Science teacher.  Shannon Heiberg, who has supported us as a relief teacher in recent weeks, also joins our staff in 2023 as a Maths and Science teacher.  TJ Otieno has been working with our College in a variety of support roles throughout the year, and will stay on with us as a PE teacher next year.  We are so excited about what this fabulous group will bring to our Campus and their start during Headstart has been exceptionally promising.  We are continuing to hire more staff to support our growing student cohort!

It was great to get away to Gumbuya World on Friday again, and we’re looking forward to repeating this event in our calendar next year.  We took a record number of students this year across the College.  It is a fantastic way to wrap up the year and celebrate together and everybody had a great time.

I was also thrilled to see our new Year 7s join us for two days of Orientation this week.  This is the largest cohort of students that Morwell Campus has welcomed in a decade and they settled in fantastically over the last two days.  We are absolutely positive that they will add personality and enthusiasm to our learning community and look forward to all they offer us in 2023.

With that, I’d like to thank our community for a great and successful 2022.  I look forward to our partnership in 2023 when we aim to outdo our successes of this year.  Onward and upward!

I wish all of our Learning Community a safe and happy Christmas and New Year.