Welcome back for Term 3 and a special welcome to the new families who have started with us. As I visited classes and wandered through the playground I have sensed the students and staff have returned recharged and ready for the learning ahead.

We celebrate Green and Gold day on Friday in light of the Opening of the 2024 Olympic Games. The students will experience the buzz of this worldwide event twice in their journey through the Junior School and it is exciting to create these life-long memories at the College together.

Today during Morning Muster, Miss Beikoff spoke about her experiences at the London 2012 Paralympic Games where she came home with a bronze medal in Javelin! She also participated in the final 100m relay and spoke about persisting through challenges and focusing on positive growth when the outcome is unexpected or disappointing. Thank you to Miss Beikoff for sharing her experiences with us – what a privilege it is to have a positive Christian role model as our Junior School Chaplain. We also reflected on God’s purpose for our lives and how we can always rely on Jesus and His love for us. As Romans 8:38-39 says: “For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rules, things present or things to come, hostile powers, height or dept, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!”

I am looking forward to an excellent term of learning ahead and we especially wish our Year 4 cohort the very best as they experience their first Thomas Hassall Camp at Wedderburn next week.