{"id":2185,"date":"2021-11-11T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/?post_type=article&#038;p=2185"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:12:22","slug":"from-the-principal-19","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/article\/from-the-principal-19\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><b>Remembrance Day, 11 November<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, the College community paused to remember those who have died defending our great nation with a special Remembrance Day Ceremony streamed to all classes. As a country, we paused at the 11<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hour on the 11<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> day of the 11<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> month to recall the end of World War I in 1918. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let us remember all those in our community who have lost a loved one through war. We also remember those who currently have loved ones serving in areas of conflict around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the poem titled, <\/span><em><b>For The Fallen<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, written by 20-year-old Laurence Binyon to honour his fallen comrades, we find <\/span><b><em>The Ode<\/em>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In<\/span><b><em> The Ode<\/em>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the last few lines of the poem have been recited every year on Remembrance Day and Anzac Day since 1921, to commemorate Australian servicemen and servicewomen who never returned home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2211\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-08-at-12.33.17-pm-e1636336551603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"84\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"highlight\">\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote\">\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They grow not old, as we that are left grow old<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the going down of the sun and in the morning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We will remember them&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lest we forget.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h4><b>Year 6 Orientation<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next Tuesday, we welcome through the College gates our graduating Class of 2027 &#8211; yes 2027! They are about to begin their journey at Marist Sisters\u2019 College Woolwich. Their orientation afternoon is a chance for them to engage their imagination and curiosity. What a buzz across the campus this will be!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I liken this excitement to Lewis Carrol\u2019s story <strong><em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em><\/strong>. Each year at orientation, I use this book as a metaphor for the grand array of opportunities and adventures the College has ready for graduates. Some opportunities begin from their first day. As the new Year 7 embrace the College, I challenge them to write about this adventure &#8211; creating their own book or journal, chapter by chapter. One chapter for each year of their six years at Marist Sisters&#8217; College. By responding to the opportunities we offer, they become the masters of their own destiny. They <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">can choose to make it a short one-line paragraph &#8211; what a wasted opportunity that would be &#8211; or they can choose to make it a journal brimming full of their adventures at Woolwich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We look forward to them creating their stories!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>HSC Exams\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2214 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-08-at-1.00.08-pm-e1636337450694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"191\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please continue to pray for our Year 12 students as they undertake their HSC Examinations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exams conclude on 3 December.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"highlight\" style=\"text-align: left\"><i style=\"font-size: 1.4rem\"><em>Dr Anne Ireland, Principal<\/em><\/i><\/div>\n<div data-block-enewsletter=\"text\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"row enewsletter-text-block\" data-block-enewsletter=\"text\">This article on College life meets The Archbishop&#8217;s Charter for Catholic Schools &#8211; Charter #1, #2, #8\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"row enewsletter-text-block\" data-block-enewsletter=\"text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row enewsletter-text-block\" data-block-enewsletter=\"text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the College community paused to remember those who have died defending our great nation with a special Remembrance Day Ceremony streamed to all classes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2185","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}