From the Executive Principal Dear St George’s community WELCOME! Whether you are a new student or member of staff, parent or carer, or you have returned for another year, it is good to have you as part of our St George’s family. Meeting many new parents and carers at the Sundowner earlier this week, it is clear that we share the same desire for your children – that their time at St George’s is full of joy and curiosity; full of academic challenge and nurturing support; filled with opportunities to experience success and failure, to fall and to rise up. I know our dedicated and caring teachers and support staff will do their best to ensure these experiences form part of your child’s education at St George’s. Our staff won’t get it right every time; but their commitment to you is to try their very best, placing student wellbeing (both individual and collective) at the fore of their decision-making. We end Week Four in our academic calendar, yet it seems like the first week of school again! What a start it has been. From start-up to lockdown, masks to breathing freely – and its only mid-February. We are in for a year of challenge and opportunity. ‘Flexibility’, ‘adaptability’ and ‘resilience’ will be the key words of 2021. Be assured that we will do our best to achieve steady, uninterrupted learning for students, no matter what the external factors imposed beyond our control are. St George’s opens the year with record enrolments. We welcome some 50 students 1
over and above the December close. This affirms the decision of the Anglican Schools Commission (ASC) some seven years ago to acquire Murdoch College, rebrand as St George’s Anglican Grammar School and relocate to the CBD. Further, the ASC took the decision at the time to bring the teaching and support staff with us, as they are the great asset that underpins our culture and standards, bridging the past with today and taking the School forward. Faculty Speaking of our people, let me welcome to our community new members of our faculty, both academic and support: Mr Anthony Bochrinis - Head of Mathematics Mr Paul Smith - Mathematics Mr Tom Hatton - Science Ms Taryn Sephton - Humanities and English Ms Courtney Fraser - Humanities and English Mrs Jenny Vong - Education Assistant Mr Shaun Morton - Assistant Business Manager Mr Jeri James - Maintenance Officer Thank you to our staff who enabled the School to move to online teaching and learning for the Year 11 and 12 students during the lockdown. In a matter of hours, teaching staff and students were ready to enter remote learning once again. It is easy to maintain equilibrium in a school when the routine is established. On the other hand, it is when that routine is
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