Foundation Day 2022

THE KRISTIN EXPERIENCE

Foundation Day

On Friday 18 March, Kristin celebrated our Foundation Day, honouring the stories of our beginnings; recognising the vision, leadership and commitment of Kristin’s founders to create and build the school we love and appreciate today.

Kristin’s founding story is unique – a school created in 1973 by families, for families, by a group of pioneering North Shore parents, guided by the Christian values that are still at the heart of our school today: progress, vision, integrity and love.

This diverse group of families came together to imagine, build and grow a school for both their own children and for future generations. This unified team of parents collaborated, and personally invested their time and resources to create a school. These families were unified by high aspirations and desire for the very best educational experience and opportunities for their children.

This pioneering spirit of our founders is still evident in our innovative and progressive approach, including our holistic offerings, a student-centred focus and the IB curriculum. This year, we were not able to gather together for our traditional Foundation Day Assemblies and Summer Carnival, so we recorded our traditional candle-lighting ceremony and shared this with our community. This ceremony included two of our youngest Kindergarten students, Lauren Duck and Leo Ingram, together with Head Prefects Cece Jenkins and Jamie Richardson, lighting a candle to symbolise the light of our founding Christian values, with us from the school’s foundation in 1973.

Knowing our origins and foundations is critical in helping us understand ourselves and our community. Foundation Day provides Kristin with an opportunity to honour our past and understand where we have come from, to ensure we are future ready for our pathways ahead.

We are delighted to see an increasing number of past Alumni enrolling their own children here at Kristin – helping to create a tangible link of past pupils with our new generations of students.

Tash Bartlett

EVENTS MANAGER

“As we look back to the day of our foundation, 49 years ago, it is clear that the Christian values on which this school was founded remain as strong today as ever. The lighting of this candle represents the light of those values, with us from our beginning.”