Farewell to our staff

BY IAN ROBERTSON ALUMNI MANAGER

Liana Gooch

Liana Gooch accepted her appointment as Deputy Principal at the commencement of 2018 and brought with her a genuine interest and passion for innovation and learning. She always wanted to explore how best students can learn and research new ways of achieving motivation and engagement. Liana realised the best way to achieve this goal was to read widely and encourage and provide professional learning opportunities for the staff.

Over the years we admired her passion for her ‘projects’ that included, among many, the introduction of a STEAM Futurist, the K Service program, Project Empathy and Social Action, the Mental Health Strategy and the student led podcast, Beyond the Gates, profiling Korovians and their career journeys. All schools need someone to challenge accepted thinking, and this is what Liana brought to Korowa. Her love of analytics led her to study our VCE and NAPLAN data, and help devise teaching strategies to enable student improvement in literacy and numeracy. This resulted in Korowa being placed consistently as one of the top schools in the State in both VCE and NAPLAN testing.

Liana also taught in the classroom, and her students admired her professionalism, sense of humour and responded to her genuine intellectual curiosity. She encouraged them to be lifelong learners. Liana loved her time at Korowa, and we wish her every success in her new appointment at The Knox School.

Tracey Rogers

Tracey Rodgers joined the staff of Korowa in 2004 in the Finance Department as the Accounts Receivable Officer and worked more recently in payroll. Tracey has always performed these important business functions with a high degree of professionalism and customer focus and her years of service as part of the finance team have been invaluable. Over the years, she has had many interactions with generations of Korowa parents who appreciated her friendly and cooperative approach and the efficient way in which she always dealt with matters that had arisen.

Her 19 years of service at Korowa meant that Tracey had developed a great corporate knowledge that she was always willing to share with others. She has also provided invaluable assistance to the Foundation, particularly during the Annual Giving program. In recognition of her years of loyal service, Tracey was made an Honorary Korovian by the Korovian Club Committee in 2019.

We shall miss Tracey’s lively sense of humour and collegial friendship and we wish to record with gratitude her years of dedicated service to the School and its community.