Community Engagement

Engagement

By Sharyn Hanly Director of Community Engagement

After the isolation of 2020, how wonderful it is to be together again in 2021!

We welcomed in the new year on a high with Parent Cocktail evenings in the first weeks of school, attended by more than 800 excited parents and staff. We held Morning Teas and provided Information Stations for the 100 families new to Korowa and we were filled with the promise of a new ‘normal’. Our many ‘Friends’ groups could finally meet face-to-face, making plans for the year ahead, and we are delighted to reintroduce Friends of Netball in recognition of the hundreds of students currently playing Netball at Korowa. While we still face the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have remained in close contact online when unable to do so in person. Attendance at events and parent engagement has never been higher. The amazing Korowa community remains strong and connected.

Save the Date

Gala K-Ball Saturday 6 November 2021 at 7.00pm Centrepiece, Melbourne Park

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1. Welcome Cocktail Parties supported by our Class Reps. 2. Autumn Jazz with special guest Steve Sedergreen and his band, supported by Friends of the Arts who supplied warm woodfired pizzas to the 170 staff, students, performers and parents. 3. Unable to all be together last year, we celebrated Homecoming

Evening for the Class of 2020 and their parents, recognising the efforts of all students including the Top Achievers Awards. 4. Our first Junior School Father/Daughter Games Night was an outstanding success, with more than 160 attending. The Korowa spirit was alive and well as they competed against each other in sack races, netball and cricket matches and giant Jenga and chess.

5. The Korowa Friendship Group met over Morning Tea at the start of the year and parents returned the hospitality by making delicious dumplings in celebration of Lunar New Year then sharing their recipes online. 6. Mother’s Day Years 5 and 6 High Tea with help from our dads. 7. The Annual International Women’s Day Breakfast was hosted by current parent, member of School Council and Korovian, Karrie

Long (Class of 1989). Four outstanding Korovians, Anna Young (Class of 1987), Mary Drost OAM (Class of 1949), Prof Jenny

Firman AM (Class of 1975) and Dr Lisa Hindson (Class of 1979) discussed Leadership and Achieving Gender Equity in a post

COVID-19 world.

8. A very special Years 5 and 6 Mother’s Day High Tea. 9. A highlight of the Games Night was the ice cream van located onsite.

10. Mother’s Day activities in the classroom. 11. And the fun continued at the Games Night.