Principal Reflections
Parent Opportunities
As a part of our strategic priorities for 2025, we are looking forward to re-engaging our parent community into the life of the college through a range of initiatives designed to inform, connect and empower families.
- Welcome Parent Evening - We celebrated the commencement of the new school year with our first ever Welcome Parent Evening. It was an amazing opportunity for parents and staffs to connect socially in a relax setting before setting out on another year of learning for their children.
- Parent Advisory Group - This year the College is establishing a Parent Advisory Group. The role of this group is to provide supportive feedback, advice and to make suggestions to the College Leadership Team on matters relating to the day-to-day operations of the College. It also provides an avenue for information to be passed onto College Council.
Primary Update
Parental Connections
We have been blessed at the start of this year to have a number of touchstone connections between parents and staff. Our Welcome Parent Evening, Parent Information Evening, and Parent Teacher Interviews have been amazing opportunities to build positive relationships between home and school.
The Resilience Project
We are delighted to be working once again with The Resilience Project. TRP is committed to teaching positive mental health strategies to protect mental health and build young people’s
capacity to deal with adversity. Students will engage in weekly lessons to understand and strengthen their practice of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness, and Emotional Literacy.
You can visit The Resilience Project's Parent & Carer Hub website and learn more about the evidence-based strategies of the program, what your child will be learning, and activities that you can practice at home.
Secondary Update
Parental Engagement
Home Group Mentors are a student’s first port of call each day. As such, they are also your child’s first advocates at school. I invite you to contact your child’s Home Group Mentor and make yourself known to them at College events.
The recent Parent Information Evenings provided a time to meet the Home Group Mentors and Head of Year. Thank you to those families who attended. I hope you enjoyed learning about 2025.
Student Voice and Leadership
This year, we aim to empower our student leaders and enhance opportunities for student expression by having teachers serve as “guides on the side.”
- Members of the Student Representative Council (SRC) are tasked with organising events for grades P-12 and deciding which organisations will benefit from fundraising efforts. They also present a report to their cohort, allowing students to ask questions and share suggestions for ways to enhance the College experience.
- House Captains will lead the House Musters, where all Year 7-12 students from a specific House come together for sporting competitions and special events.
