From the Principal
Dr. Andrew Cousins
Clayfield College
This is the week that the whole of Clayfield College celebrates our boarding community. The wonderful staff, the caring parents and most importantly our fantastic boarders who come from around Queensland, Australia, and the world to make the Carolyn Hauff Boarding House a shared home. It is a big thing to move away from home to further your education and we salute our boarding students for their resilience, compassion and the care they show for each other.
National Boarding Week is an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the rich and vibrate contribution that boarding brings to the Clayfield family. Throughout the week students have had a range of celebrations and welcomed members of the Clayfield community into the Boarding House.
The week has provided an opportunity for the wider school community to find out more about where boarding students call home, celebrate their country of origin, and join in their weekly trivia night. The boarders have also had a week of sweet treats and special deserts to assist the celebrations.
It has also been wonderful that our Harmony Day Assembly this year has coincided with National Boarding Week. This has provided the opportunity to celebrate the 32 nationalities which make up the Clayfield College community. A number of these students are boarders who had the chance to share their cultural heritage with the entire student community.
During these celebrations, there was the opportunity for students to share their heritage through music-making, dance, language and traditional dress. Thank you to all the staff, students and parents who were involved on the day and to Angela Lockyer, Vivienne Corness, Stef Carrasco, Chelsey Holman, Ruby Chen, Tim Opstelten and David Churcher and the maintenance team for the organisation, planning and coordination on the day.
The week has been such a wonderful reminder and example of how this cultural diversity contributes to creating a College environment where students feel that they belong, are heard, and comfortable being themselves.