From the Management Team

In the Innovation Zone this week Mr Booker, our new Innovation Zone Coordinator, has been offering Marble run with a difference. Students are given a series of small poly pipes and have to get a marble to roll through the pipes along an obstacle course. The critical thing is that where the pipes join, the connection needs to be secure. If the pipes are not connected the marble will obviously fall out and the team needs to start again. It is lots of fun and allows students to problem solve on how to protect the connection points.

This week has seen many other types of connections being made in our community. All of these connections need to be fostered and supported in order for them to work well just like the connections between the poly pipes.  The College hosted the Leaders in Lutheran Learning Communities group on Thursday.  This collection of leaders in other Lutheran Secondary schools meet together each term. This keeps us connected to other Lutheran education communities. When these connections are strong we all benefit from the collective wisdom, prayer and support as a collective of Lutheran schools. 

Our Connected Schools also had representatives meet to forge new connections, as we continue to develop a Connected Schools Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). We are a better place from having these connections.

The Year 10 students engaged in a workshop presented by the Abraham Institute aimed at making connections between the key Abrahamic religions. To have students consider what is similar, they are better able to respect difference. This is an important focus of our Vision for Learners as well as being an example of another piece of poly pipe that we intentionally hold together, to  keep the connection. Year 11s have continued this week in building connections with the Year 7s within Peer Support. Outside of classrooms, students are constantly connected with each other sometimes as friends and at other times as classmates. These relationships need to be treated with as much grace and respect as any other connection. By holding these relationships in high regard, we help them to grow positively and allow the whole to work well.  When these relationships become disjointed as with all other broken connections, the marbles fall out and the whole community suffers. When they work well the whole community benefits. 

As a College we connect with other groups in many ways and it is the way we connect and who we connect with, that defines the type of community we are. 

At Endeavour, we are intentional in keeping the "poly pipes" of our College connected. This is what helps to define us as a place of nurture and learning. A place where we can make mistakes and then work to restore. The important thing is that we value the connections.  God made us for community, for connection with others.  Something indeed to celebrate, value and also respect. 

Sandra Barry

Director of Learning

"For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12: 4-5