Welcome back to HouseNews! Our first edition since the end of Term 2.
Our communications with you since this time have, of course, been many, and I trust our wondrous full return to face to face learning this past week has been appreciated by all. It certainly has been marvellous to hear and see the joy from all the students as they reconnected with their friends and classmates, and their teachers. The return has been seamless and for that I must acknowledge our parents, our staff, and our students, for each has played a significant role through these challenging times. At our first online Assembly last Monday, I did remind the students to give their parents a particular acknowledgement when they got home… so I hope they remembered to do so!
Too often society views situations merely from a negative stance. For me, I try to see the positive in all that challenges us, just as I see the best in each member of the Pittwater House family. Consequently, I do not wish to dwell on all the activities that were cancelled or curtailed in the past Term. I seek, rather, to focus on what lies ahead and the opportunity for each of us to shape this time. For it is not what happens to you that determines who you are or who you will become. Rather, it is the way you respond to the events that impact you that will shape you now and in the future. This is where our Resilience Project, a key part of the wellbeing program, comes to the fore; the three elements central to the program known by the acronym GEM: gratitude, empathy, and mindfulness, will allow you to reflect on what you have done and what lies ahead.
It is with this in mind that I am delighted to share with our community the leadership team for the Class of 2022. At our Assembly on Friday, we announced the fine group of young men and women who will lead our School for the coming four terms. I asked our leaders to consider how they were going to make their voices resonate in a crowd of 950 students and 120 teaching staff in 2022? How will each of our leaders allow their personality, their uniqueness to shine? I asked too that each member of the Class of 2022 sacrificed time to listen and raise the voices of the whole school, to amplify their voice and to remember that every student leadership role has a real expectation of selfless service to the school in general, and everyone associated with our School.
Please join me in acknowledging, and wishing well, our Student Leaders from the Class of 2022: Girls College - Olivia B (Head Prefect), Mikayla (Deputy Head Prefect), Olivia S (SRC), Lauren (House Captain Butterworth), Lara (House Captain Morgan), Milla (House Captain Orrock), Makaya (Prefect), Sascha (Prefect), Olivia R (Prefect) and Luisa (Prefect); Grammar School - Jared (Head Prefect & SUO), Ewan (Deputy Head Prefect), William (SRC), Joseph (House Captain Butterworth), Zane (House Captain Orrock), Anderson (Prefect) and Aaron (Prefect).
