Red Shield Appeal

Thank you to our community for their contributions to the Red Shield Appeal this week at such short notice. The amount of food items collected over a few days was phenomenal. The Salvation Army were once again blown away by the generosity of the Pacific community and the much-needed donations will support those in need in our local area. We collected more than 1800 individual non-perishable food items, with many families contributing loaded bags of groceries for the cause. Thank you to Year 11 student Holly Ubrihien who was a great driving force in getting this up and running. Holly advertised the event and also put together a community-based promotional video to raise awareness for the cause. It is great to see student initiative and action. In conjunction to the food collection, we also held a red themed casual clothes day on Tuesday. The donations from this totalled $1900 which was also gratefully accepted by the Salvation Army and will be put to good use in the community. Thank you to everyone for your contributions.

It has been a busy term but I appreciate the effort that Senior College students have put into their learning and the way that they have embraced change around the school yard. We have seen lots of changes to normal routines, including the way we structure our Pastoral Care Groups. It has been great to see staff and students adapt to the change and continue maintaining care for each other through an unusual time. There is plenty to look forward to in Term 3 for our Senior College. I hope that you all have a great holiday break, manage to get some rest and I look forward to seeing everyone back at the start of Term 3.

Mr Mark Hauser, Head of Senior College Students