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Events
Parent Engagement Mrs Ally Buckley - Parent Engagement Coordinator
Marcellin Champagnat valued a sense of ‘Family Spirit’, and we work hard to ensure that it is experienced by all families at St Gregory’s College. Lockdown mummies
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eeping our parents connected and informed is critical as our Parent Forums allow face to face communication to be shared by our teaching staff along with parent engagement with opportunities for questions and feedback to the College. Listening to our parent community brings with it growth and strategic thought, witnessed, even more, this year as we embraced technology and moved our Parent Forums into a mix of face to face and online capacities. The Q&A features online allowed parents to still participate
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with questions and allowed us to record the forums and share them via YouTube for parents to view at a convenient time. This online capacity allowed for a larger number of parents to participate along with more connections from our Boarding families. A focus for our forums is to share with parents relevant and topical insights. Some highlights for 2021 included a detailed exploration of the PYP Programme in the Junior School and a presentation on Drug Use relating to e-Cigarettes and Vaping in Australian
teenagers by Mr Vetrano and Mr O’Brien for the Senior School. We are so lucky to have such a huge parent volunteer army at St Gregory’s which directly benefits our students. Parent volunteers were welcomed into the College at the start of the year for the College Open Day, Swimming Carnival, Cross Country, classroom helping and banking all of which would not have been possible without the help from our parents. Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions volunteers were greatly missed at the College in Terms 3 and 4.
St Gregory’s College places enormous value on our parents being part of our community, especially sharing in events with their sons and daughters. We commenced our year off with the ever-popular Mother’s Day Breakfast for K-6, Years 7 and Year 8. We hosted our inaugural Family Trivia Night with the evening bringing together family teams in a night of fun, laugher, games and woodfired pizza. We loved having families join us during the day to share a picnic for Lunch on the Lawn. We also invited Year 10 boys and their parents to their first family evening that included art and sporting activities. Families participated
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