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This week on assembly, we presented the Semester 1 academic awards to Middle and Senior College students. We congratulate those who received awards and encourage all students to continue to strive to lift their learning to the next level. Thank you to Mrs Rae Hall and Mrs Anne-Marie Gerlach for their organisation and leadership of these awards.

Over the past four weeks, Year 8-10 students have been involved in online subject selection processes where they have heard information from our Head of Career Development Mrs Wanda Hayes, the Heads of Middle and Senior College Learning Mrs Rae Hall and Mrs Anne-Marie Gerlach and the Heads of Department. Recording these sessions has enabled families to revisit or engage with presentations at a time that suits them. We thank our presenters for their time and enthusiasm in supporting young people to explore their pathways. We also express our deep appreciation to our ICT Manager Mr Steve Rattey and IT and Communications Assistant Mr Tim Ambrose for their technical support.

I had the pleasure of listening to Year 9 STEM students present a pitch for the construction of their innovative ROV devices. Each student designed a device to solve a real life problem. Students had to justify the benefits of their device, their design and present the costings within a budget of $300 for materials to be supplied by the College. All students can be very proud of their ideas, designs and presentations. The students, along with Mrs Claire Richards, Mr Wes Warner and myself, will select three of the projects for students to build collaboratively over the next three months.

Our Year 11 debaters are enjoying a local online competition that involves Pacific, Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Siena Catholic College, St Andrew’s Anglican College, Matthew Flinders Anglican College and Sunshine Coast Grammar School. Teams are connecting via Zoom with topics provided an hour before the debate begins. We congratulate Noah Beasley, Lachlan Buchanan and Alex Jose who won their first debate last week and thank Mrs Ceilidh King and Mr Alex O’Connor for their leadership and guidance of our team. We wish them well for the remainder of the season.

We thank our families for the way you have continued to support the College’s COVID safety plans. The College and its activities remain a student and staff zone only. Parents are reminded when they need to purchase uniforms to make an appointment or purchase online and to phone the relevant administration office when picking up children early and remain with their vehicle for students to be escorted out. By each playing our part, we protect the health and wellbeing of the people of our community from both a health and economic perspective.

May we all grow through walking gently with each other and with God.

Dr Bronwyn Dolling, Principal 

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