A letter from the Co-Captains of the School Essentially, this is our thank you letter. First, thank you to all the students who engaged in remote learning for the longest period – Years 8 to 10. We missed your four-square games and Coleman Walk noise. Thank you for your tenacity and for tuning into all our strange COVID content – from student assemblies to informational videos to question forum initiatives. To Year 7 and 11, thank you for providing some normality at school and for backing the initiatives that you believed in, like Pride and Inclusion Day, the Sacred Heart Mission Drive-Through Donation Day, or the AIME fundraiser events. Upon your return onsite you were grateful, enthusiastic and relaxed – you just got on with it in style. To all the members of the SRC, a special thanks to you. For this new mechanism to be used so authentically and purposefully, with so many people showing up to each meeting with things to say, ideas to action and a willingness to listen to each other and represent the people around them was beyond epic. We were in awe of how effective this tool was used by all of you.
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The Crest Issue 4 2020
To the Class of 2020, we may have nearly become the Class of 2021 for a second there, but thank you for your communal strength, grit, innovation, jokes, authenticity and resilience. We may have wobbled and occasionally felt like we were drowning – but we stayed afloat. We made it – we did not sink – and we couldn’t be prouder. To St Michaels’ as a whole, the staff and particularly Mrs Jones – thank you for having us, persisting with our silent and faceless online existences and treating us with respect and care as we all confronted a particularly vulnerable period. We really felt like you had our backs this year. Thank you for trusting us with these whacky roles and for reading our thank you letter. And just to reiterate – thank you. With love and warm regards,
Tom and Lucy Thomas Hill and Lucy Grant, Co-Captains of the School, 2020
