Word of the Week

Graduation

[GRA-joo-AY-shun]

The realisation that all of a sudden, you’re not a Year 7 kid running late to period 4 Cornerstone but a Year 12 who is sitting practice papers for their HSC in their last week of school. But more importantly, it’s the process of togetherness, community and reflection that brings our Oxley Year 12s together for their last week of school. Week 9 has been full of fun for our Year 12s, from Hawaiian shirts, to pink on Wednesdays (of course) and funny socks to brighten up the week. In some dictionaries (obviously less reliable than the Oxley College Pin Oak) ‘graduation’ means to receive an academic degree, but at Oxley that experience is so much more. It’s Mission Day, and the farewell arch, and mucking up and your very last school assembly. 

Violet F., Year 10