Welcome to Week 9. Today our Parent Student Teacher Conferences are being held online. It is wonderful to see so many families taking advantage of the opportunity to talk to teachers to check on their child’s progress and to discuss areas for further growth.

At last night’s Community Council Meeting a decision was made to hold a community movie night rather than a walkathon for 2022. The focus of this evening is more about community connections rather than fundraising. Watch this space for further details as they are finalised!

At our student assembly this week many awards for Australian academic competitions were given out for History, Geography and Science. It was pleasing to see so many Distinctions and High Distinctions. Of particular note was Charlie Tuckfield who was awarded First Place in Australia in Year 11 in the Science ICAS Competition. These competitions are voluntary but are a good guide for students, parents and teachers of the standards of achievement on a national scale.

Continuing this theme, I spoke to the students about my mantra that ‘Country Kids Can Do Anything’ and we watched a short slide show of past students and their achievements. It is quite impressive when you see the range of careers and businesses our students have moved into. This slide show will be shared on social media tomorrow afternoon and will be repeated with different students later in the year. Please contact the College if you know of any great stories about any of our past students.

As COVID guidelines change we are once again able to visit and help out at our various feeder schools. Students have been particularly busy helping out at St Mary’s Young, Trinity Murrumburrah, Young North and St Joseph’s Grenfell next week.