Year 12

A busy week for Year 12 parent-teacher interviews, presentations, chapel and Big Sister Little Sister with Year 8.

As always the girls step up to the plate and work together to make the most of the opportunities available at MLC School. It was great to see you all at the Information Evening on Wednesday night – the presentations are available in the link below for those who couldn’t attend.

Year 12 Parent Information Evening Presentation Slides

For those of you who could not make it to the parent interviews, teachers have been asked to reach out to you to have those important conversations. The face-to-face mode is very helpful for us and there is nothing quite like having a discussion in person, so thank you for your participation and I hope you learned some new strategies and context to support your daughter in her journey this year. We are also here to support you, so the staff and I are here to help you navigate the path also.

Year 12 Chapel took place this week in Potts Hall, with Year 11. Wade House worked together, lead by their luminary, Vicky Zinopoulos and House Captains Amelia McNamara (Year 12) and Lara Bazzi (Year 12) lead the service with beautiful readings and hymns. Rev Vinnie Ravetali conducted the service with Pastor Caitlin Scott on reflection. The Chapel service offers an oasis of calm in a busy week and I have included an excerpt from Pastor Caitlin’s sermon, including a new version of the Beatitudes:

Blessed are the agnostics.

Blessed are they who doubt. Those who aren’t sure, who can still be surprised.

Blessed are those who have nothing to offer. Blessed are the preschoolers who cut in line at communion. Blessed are the poor in spirit. You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

Blessed are they for whom death is not an abstraction.

Blessed are they who have buried their loved ones, for whom tears could fill an ocean. Blessed are they who have loved enough to know what loss feels like.

Blessed are they who don’t have the luxury of taking things for granted anymore.

Blessed are they who can’t fall apart because they have to keep it together for everyone else.

Blessed are those who “still aren’t over it yet.”

Blessed are those who mourn. You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

Blessed are those who no one else notices. The kids who sit alone at school lunch tables. The laundry guys at the hospital. The dishwashers at restaurants.

Blessed are the forgotten. Blessed are the closeted.

Blessed are the unemployed, the unimpressive, the underrepresented.

Blessed are the teens who feel like they have to hide who they are. Blessed are the meek.

You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

Blessed are the wrongly accused, the ones who never catch a break, the ones for whom life is hard, for Jesus chose to surround himself with people like them.

Blessed are those without documentation. Blessed are the ones without lobbyists.

Blessed are foster kids and special-ed kids and every other kid who just wants to feel safe and loved.

Blessed are those who make terrible business decisions for the sake of people.

Blessed are the burned-out social workers and the overworked teachers and the pro bono case takers.

Blessed are the kids who step between the bullies and the weak. Blessed are they who hear that they are forgiven.

Blessed is everyone who has ever forgiven me when I didn’t deserve it.

Blessed are the merciful, for they totally get it.”

Our image this week is of Year 12 Wade, who led the service.

Wishing you a peaceful weekend of some down time after a busy week.

– Sharon Connolly
Head of Year 12