As you may be aware, on Thursday of this past week we held our High Achievers Assembly which recognised the outstanding success that was attained by members of our HSC graduating class of 2021. In a year that was characterised by challenges, these students overcame significant adversity to produce outstanding results that have set each of them off on their intended career path. While this would have been a whole school celebration in a normal year, COVID restrictions required us to limit the ‘in person’ attendance to just our Year 11 and 12 students, whilst we streamed the event live into other classrooms in the hope of inspiring our younger students.

The first event of the day was the formal awards ceremony, and this was followed by a chance for our current Year 12s to engage in a Q&A session with our High Achievers, again in the hope that the study routines, determination and resilience that these students demonstrated throughout 2021, would motivate our current cohort to do likewise. I sincerely thank our High Achievers and their very proud parents who joined us at the College on Thursday for their attendance and wish them well as their respective university courses commence over the coming weeks. 

You may be aware that media reports in recent days have flagged a number of relaxations in terms of COVID directives in the broader society, and a few that relate to schools specifically. Please note that at this point in time, there has yet to be any formal changes to school directives so precautions such as mask wearing, cohorting and staggered class and departure times will continue. As we’ve tried to do throughout the pandemic, we will let our families know as soon as any of these directives change. 

Finally, as has been stated previously, I request that families inform the College immediately should any student test positive to COVID-19 and again stress that should this occur, the student must isolate for a minimum of 7 days, along with any sibling from the same household. Finally, I would also ask that students who are displaying any type of flu-like symptoms stay at home until such symptoms have ceased.

Kind regards,

David Cloran
Assistant Principal