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Term 2 2025
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE I would like to congratulate the students and the school on a wonderful Term 2. We continued to offer a wide range of programs, and the students continued to show high levels of attendance, participation and performance. The term ended with the announcement that, for the second time in 3 years the school had won the Public Education Foundation award for school achievement - this time for our programs in personalised learning, expansive learning, student agency and delivering learning journeys so each student has the "opportunity to do his or her best". Thank you to all the adults in the school and community who made this possible. Please see below my speech to the Years 7-12 Presentation Assembles recognising progress, commitment and achievement. As I start my comments today, I want to acknowledge we are on country and thank our elders. I want to acknowledge the life and community leadership of Uncle Greg who passed during the holidays and was remembered in the NAIDOC lesson this week.
Congratulations for Semester 1 I also want to acknowledge the support of our families as I recognise that Semester 1 2025 for Years 7-10 was one of our most successful. You will get to see this during the assembly with the large number of awards for participation, merit and significant achievement. You will see this in the videos for this term recording all the programs, activities, and events students have completed. And, you will see this in the grades you have earned, your progress towards your academic goals and your strengths comments. As principal, I get to see this every day as we commit to “giving every student the opportunity to do his or her best” and while school is a journey, like all journeys, it is important to stop and take stock of how well we are travelling.
So, what have we done well in 2025 – 4 moments of school pride? •
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Your attendance data semester 1 was 5% higher than last year based on the number of students who were at school at least 90% of the time and the overall attendance rate of 88.7% was above the rate for all the other local high schools. The school’s behaviour data, as measured in Sentral (above and below the line behaviours) was a record for positive behaviour. On measures of the “capabilities” you have shown progress in literacy and numeracy but also demonstrated strong skills in self-regulation, social and emotional managements and interpersonal skills, the skills that are key to