Principal’s Message
As Term 1 draws to a close I feel incredibly blessed and grateful. It has been an enormously busy term filled with so many special events that demonstrate school spirit and pride that this community has for our wonderful College.
‘Never cease to cultivate the vine that has been entrusted to you’ by Angela Merici
On Monday 8 April, the College Leadership Team had the privilege of being in the company of Sr Leone Pallisier osu, College Principal 1976 to 1982. Sr Leone provided the team with inspiration, wisdom and accompaniment as we reflected on the words of Angela Merici. Her writings gave us great insight about leadership within a Catholic school through an Ursuline lens. Angela Merici’s words, ‘never cease to cultivate the vine that has been entrusted to you’ will continue to inspire and challenge us in our discernment and decision making. We felt blessed and grateful to have Sr Leone with us and we thank her for leading us.
Fear less and say yes!
Last week at our College Assembly I congratulated the students who have embraced the many co-curricular and club offerings at the College. Each of these offerings provides our students with opportunities to nurture them holistically, and develop themselves spiritually, physically, emotionally and / or creatively. I also challenged students who have not yet signed up for an activity to ‘fear less and say yes’ to something new in Term 2.
I would like to pay tribute to our generous and incredibly talented staff who provide such a huge array of co-curricular activities. Here are a few photos:
Rhythm and Brews…hospitality and music
Ursula Voices
Knitting Club
Gardening Club
Ignite the News
Our students launched their first edition of the newspaper, “Ignite the News”, for this year. Congratulations to our editors, Stephanie and Sofia, and all the students who have contributed to this edition. Click on this link to view the newspaper and enjoy the efforts of these talented and budding journalists, designers and creatives.
Staffing Update
At the end of this term, we farewell Garry Lynch, HSIE teacher, who is taking leave until the end of 2024. We wish him all the best and look forward to hearing about his travels. We will welcome Ms Maeve O’Shea next term who will replace Mr Lynch whilst he is away. We also farewell Margo Byrnes, Bursar, who will be on leave until the end of 2024. Sally Screnci will be stepping into this role whilst Margo is away.
Have a safe and relaxing school holiday.
A reminder we have a Staff Professional Learning Day on Monday 29 April. All students return on Tuesday, 30 April in full College winter uniform.
