Deputy Principal Operations

Santa Sabina is place of many moving parts. In my role at the College, I get to see an overview of how these parts work together to provide many opportunities to our children. Tutors, coaches, parent volunteers, community members, teaching staff, administration staff and services staff all work together with the common purpose of providing an excellent education for the students at the College. The Christmas period gives all these wonderful people the opportunity to have a well-earned rest before returning invigorated for 2023. 

The College will still be a hive of activity with many important projects being conducted that cannot occur while students are on site. Over the holiday period, the College will change its Student Information System to TASS. This will have minimal impact on parents, however, it will mean that approving student excursions, updating medical details and updating student information will be easier using the new Parent Lounge. 

To ensure that the necessary technical work can be done, Veritas Online, the College App and the Community Portal will be shut down on 16 January 2023 to enable our IT team to conduct important work on ensuring that these are ready to go without any glitches. The system will return to normal service on 24 January.  Parents will receive an email prior to this date on how to connect to Veritas Online, the College App and the new Parent Lounge.

The College Calendar is being constantly updated with new events and dates for 2023. The calendar can be accessed by clicking the Calendar tab on Veritas Online and for Google users, we will make the link for the Santa Sabina Google Calendar available to Parents in the College Information section of Veritas Online.

The start of the year is always busy at schools, particularly for the students who have a new Apple device that they have purchased for their studies. This usually involves a trip to the IT department at school in the first week to onboard the device. In 2023, students will be able to onboard their device from the comfort of their homes, meaning that they will be not missing out on classes in the first days while they wait to be onboarded. Students and parents will be emailed a how-to sheet on how to onboard their new computer to the Santa Sabina IT network.

At the start of each year, I am always asked the question on when timetables will be released so students can check their classes. The timetables will go live to students on the 27 January, which will enable students to bring the correct equipment to the first day of school.  All students with new electives in 2023 have already received emails confirming the classes that they have chosen to enable the purchase of the correct textbooks.

I would like to wish all families a very merry Christmas and hope that all families travelling during the holiday period stay safe.

John Gilmore
Deputy Principal Operations