Marielle Pizanis - Senior Prefect Students at St Spyridon College feel a sense of community and embrace the school as a second home. Due to the fact we are a small school it works to our advantage as we really feel like a family. One of the school’s aspects that we focus on is building relationships with our teachers and peers. This is how we essentially build this community spirit. Also, by working together we can achieve a school community whose distinguishing characteristics are those of friendship, compassion, and decency. A mutual respect between teachers and students is developed and students feel more comfortable to approach their teachers. Relationships between students are valued deeply in the school and because our school is not as big as others we can really get to know our school community. This involves building long lasting friendships or even just acknowledging students by their first names. The Student Representative Council and Peer Support program help us form relationships with students and give us the opportunity to interact with different year groups. At the College, academics, sport and the arts are all important focuses in which the teacher-student relationship is
evident. We consider our studies to be our main goal and undertake to be active participants in our own learning. In sport, academic and the arts, we set goals for our lives and strive to achieve them with a positive state of mind. The thing that I will personally miss is how St Spyridon College has taught me to respond to the difficulties of life with patience, dignity and faith, and never fearing to start again, and this is embodied in our school’s motto “Forever Excelling”.
Prefects 2012
We congratulate the following students who have were selected to lead the Student Body K-12 and the whole school community in 2012. Kostandino Baratsas - College Captain & Sports Captain
Sarah Hatzon - Prefect
Demi Flokis - Vice Captain
Nicolette Kontakos - Prefect
Marielle Pizanis - Senior Prefect
Irene Koukounaris - Prefect
Erin Criticos - Sports Captain
George Mantzavrakos- Prefect
Sofija Belajcic - Prefect
Stephanie Satouris - Prefect
Brannon Bergmann - Prefect
Kathy Thimakis - Prefect
Despina Carpis - Prefect
Yanni Vlahopoulos - Prefect
Prefects 2012
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