Principal's Log

Last Friday morning’s Celebrating Dads’ breakfast was an amazing opportunity for community connection, with more than 550 people coming together. People enjoyed the tasty, high quality breakfast provided by our Hospitality Department, the talented performances of our musicians and connecting with each other. In celebrating breakfast together, we were able to say thank you to the men of our community for the strong way in which they support families and this community. Thank you to staff, students and parents for coming along and making the morning such a success. A special thank you to our Music students and staff, Year 9 and 12 student leaders, Hospitality students and staff and Mrs Leanne Bevis for their leadership of the morning. 

We congratulate our Middle Years Future Problem Solving team of Jasmin Groves, Sebastian Box, Piper Reid and Trixie Willett and individual participant Charles Box who have been selected to participate in the national finals of this competition. We wish them all the best and thank our coaches of Mrs Jo Belchamber, Ms Petta Scheiwe, Mrs Rae Hall and Noah Beasley for their support of the students.

We wish our Year 9 students all the best for their two-week outdoor education white water canoeing and bushwalking expedition that they will embark on next week. This experience provides tremendous opportunity for young people to connect with each other and to nature. As they encounter new experiences, they will have a unique opportunity to grow greater self-awareness, confidence and a broad range of social emotional skills including teamwork, persistence and problem solving as they support each other and discover new things about themselves, others and the natural environment. We thank Mr Nick Tait for his organisation and leadership of this experience and staff Mr Duncan McNee, Mr Ben Ryan, Mr Alex O’Connor, Mrs Angela Hill, Mrs Emma Lendrum and Pastor Tim who will accompany the students on the first week of the expedition.

Over the weekend, it was a delight to watch three of our PLC Netball Club teams compete in the first week of finals at Caloundra Netball Association. It was particularly pleasing to see the strong growth in the girls’ skill level and game play. All girls are to be congratulated on the determination and tenacity that was evident in all three games. We thank and congratulate our coaches, Club committee and particularly our Netball Coordinator Mrs Michelle Dufty on the growth that has occurred over the year and wish our PLC Arabians and PLC Fillies well as they compete in the finals over the next two weekends.

The College is currently reviewing its weekly Compass Newsletter as well as other forms of communication. This afternoon, you will have received an email, inviting you to participate in a short communications survey, which will take approximately 3-5 minutes to complete. We thank you in advance for taking the time to participate and look forward to receiving your feedback.

May God equip us with the minds, hearts, hands and feet to support each other to grow stronger individually and as community.

Dr Bronwyn Dolling, Principal