Dear Parents/Carers,

I would once again like to thank those parents who were able to attend our Listening Assembly, held on the evening of the first day back at school.  I met with members of the P&F Executive last week to go through a process of listing the 10 key recommendations for “Things to hold onto” and “New ideas to consider”.  The list is outlined below and will form a significant part of our work as a community over the next three - five years.  Some will require you, the parents, to take care of the work, others the staff will need to take responsibility for.  Many we will do together.

A leading education writer, Starratt, imagined the dynamics of school life like an onion (Starratt, 1995:pp 47-60), with layer after layer of onion skin, level after level of school life.  The outer layer of school life represents surface happening, then each layer is peeled away to reveal organisational matters, programs, goals, beliefs and finally the inside layer reflects the culture of the school. The core of the school “onion” holds what is considered to be sacred fundamental values.  The Listening Assembly enabled our community to peel away the layers in a way that reflects our culture and values and from the list below are many activities that will help our community to live those values.  From time to time I will report on our progress in responding to our key focus points, both new ideas and those aspects we need to continue with.

Listening Assembly 2023

Go gently,

Michael Reardon
Principal

Principal Awards

Congratulations to the following students who have recently received a Principal Award. 

Samuel Porter, William Porter, Samuel Kmet, Oliver Lynch, William Robinson, Josephine Luck, William Bellamy, Sofia Sartor, Harrison Brookes, Dean Georgevski, Carmelo Galea, Willow Thompson, Zavier Trajkovski, Zara Canal.