Principal’s Log
Principal’s Log
We celebrate the achievements of our Year 5 and 7 Da Vinci teams who performed very well at the State competition. Our Year 5 team came second overall, being 1st place in English, and Art and Poetry, 2nd Place in Code Breaking and 3rd in Cartography and our Year 7 team came 1st in Art and Poetry and 3rd in Ideation. This is an outstanding achievement, and we congratulate Olive Wadey, Vivienne Padwick, Scarlett van den Hurk, Ashlan Hill, Luke Noovao, Eli Woolgrove, Liam Cronin, Kimika Conrad, Jessica Cronin, Fletcher Friend, Nicole Hodgett, Catherine Maclean, Sabine Michel-Power, Paris Pohlner and Asha Rudes.
Our Future Problem-Solving Team of Isla Lendrum, Amy Richards, Oliver Friend and Emily Studiman depart this week for their International Future Problem-Solving Competition which will take place at the University of Massachusetts in the USA. We wish the team all the best and thank Mrs Jo Belchamber for her leadership of the team and this experience and Mrs Emma Lendrum for also accompanying the team.
We are excited to announce a significant new event for the College, ‘Immersive Light’. This event which replaces the Student Art Exhibition now includes all of the Arts subjects – Art, Drama, Dance, Film and Media, and Music. As an innovative feature, the presentations, performances and displays provided by these subjects will be woven creatively together to form a light installation by Donna Maree Robinson MCA, artist, filmmaker and digital installation artist. A temporary outdoor theatre space, with ticketed seating, will be raised up to enable the audience to view the light projection under the stars. We look forward to celebrating our Arts in this new contemporary and innovative form at our Immersive Light evening which will be held on July 21st, 6.30 – 7.30 pm.
Our Year 7-12 students competed with good spirit and enthusiasm at their athletics carnival on Wednesday of this week. There were a number of very strong performances, and we congratulate all students on their participation and giving of their best throughout the day. We thank our Friends of Pacific volunteer team for the BBQ. We also thank our staff very capably led by Mr Cameran West-McInnes and Mrs Lisa Muir for their organisation and leadership of a highly successful day.
We congratulate our U14 rugby team who played with good skill and teamwork in their Division 1 semi-final against Siena. In a hard-fought match, the boys gave their best right to the final whistle and can be proud of their performance. We thank Mr Josh Cummins for his coaching of the team and leadership of rugby within the College and our parents for their support of the team throughout the season.
We pray that God would enable us to grow in our capacity to love our neighbour and live showing care, dignity and respect for all people and the planet.
Dr Bronwyn Dolling, Principal