Bob Meakin, Deputy Headmaster & Head of Senior School

Dear Parents and Carers,

It is wonderful to have our Year 12s back in class and enjoying their final few weeks of school. Many of them are under enormous pressure, especially time pressure as Major Works are completed for marking. Our Visual Arts, TAS, and Drama students have been especially hard at work, attending assessments or submitting their work. I commend them on their efforts, some of whom have spent hours well into the night preparing and completing their submissions.

Our Year 11s commenced their exams this week, which for HSC students will assist in making up their preliminary HSC mark and for our IB students these are preliminary mock exams.

Our HSC and DP Body of Works exhibition opens this evening for Visual Arts, and we look forward to the TAS exhibition evening in the final week of Term 3.

Year 7 CITF: the news from our Year 7s at Tharwa has been extremely positive with a modified camp due to it occurring in Winter (even though it has been the warmest week on record for many years). They are certainly enjoying the challenge of hiking, cooking, navigation, and teamwork.

Yesterday, we received the exciting news that Marcus Da Silva  (Year 12) brought home the 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay in the Pan Pacific Games in tremendous style. For the swimming enthusiasts, his split time was 48.29 seconds and to put this into perspective, he was faster than the members of the men’s team who won Silver at the Paris Olympics.

We look forward next week to:

Monday 2 September – HSC/IB Performance Showcase at 6:30pm in the Orchestra Room.

Tuesday 3 September – Year 11 & 12 Networking Event from 5pm in the Packer Theatre & Vicars Centenary Hall.

Have a great week!

Best wishes,

Bob Meakin
Deputy Headmaster & Head of Senior School