Principal's Log

On Friday of this week, we conduct our Pacific As A Peace Place audit, where students across Years 3-12 are invited to reflect on pastoral care and support processes within the College. This audit also presents students with the opportunity to provide feedback about their feeling of safety for themselves and their peers and their general engagement with the community. This anonymous survey is an important means for us to provide the space for all students to be heard and to identify those things that are going well and where changes may need to be considered. We have valued the thoughtful feedback provided by students in the past and encourage our Year 3-12 students to take this opportunity to play their part in enhancing a culture of trust at the College where all people are free to flourish.

We will also be inducting our Prep-Year 12 parent connectors at next week's Prep-Year 5 Chapel and we celebrate their willingness to build community where the assumption of best intentions are at the forefront. We thank them for their willingness to build community that promotes strong trust filled connections where people can thrive.

This week our Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students have been engaging well with NAPLAN testing. It has been pleasing to see the way that students have engaged with the process and we thank our IT, Learning Enrichment and Heads of Learning Mrs Sue Zweck (K-5), and Mrs Jo Belchamber (Middle College) for the tremendous amount of work to organise and conduct these tests in a calm and well prepared way. We look forward to using the data generated as one additional piece of data to reflect on individual and cohort progress.

In the coming week, Prep-Year 5 parents, students and staff will have the opportunity to meet as the part of the student led conferences that celebrate the learning progress of young people and plan for next steps in their Pacific learning journey. It is exciting to see the potential for growth as students have the opportunity to use their agency to lead these discussions. I would encourage all Prep - Year 5 families to have read Mrs Sue Zweck’s article in this newsletter prior to the conferences.

May God equip each of us to assume the best intentions and to seek to put the best construction on everything, through our thoughts, words and actions.

Dr Bronwyn Dolling, Principal