Dear Community,
Yesterday we held a wonderful Back to School Service. I would like to share with you an extract from the speech that I offered to our students to welcome them to the event.
“Students, one of the great things about being in a school is that each year you are delivered a fresh start. Some of you have experienced a change in school, others a change in campus, some have new classmates and new teachers.
This gives us the opportunity to think carefully about the new year and what we want to change.
I thought I’d share something with you today about an experience I had when I was a student. This was a time where I made an active decision to make a change. In all honesty, I think that this moment helped me become the person I am today. I have shared this with colleagues before, but hope that there is something useful in it for you, our students.
When I was in Year 9, there was a time when my Geography classmates decided in an unspoken agreement to punish a teacher who we felt had not adequately taught us before an exam. This was in relation to a unit on volcanoes - a topic the teacher had not spent any class time on.
Yesterday we held a wonderful Back to School Service. I would like to share with you an extract from the speech that I offered to our students to welcome them to the event.
“Students, one of the great things about being in a school is that each year you are delivered a fresh start. Some of you have experienced a change in school, others a change in campus, some have new classmates and new teachers.
This gives us the opportunity to think carefully about the new year and what we want to change.
I thought I’d share something with you today about an experience I had when I was a student. This was a time where I made an active decision to make a change. In all honesty, I think that this moment helped me become the person I am today. I have shared this with colleagues before, but hope that there is something useful in it for you, our students.
When I was in Year 9, there was a time when my Geography classmates decided in an unspoken agreement to punish a teacher who we felt had not adequately taught us before an exam. This was in relation to a unit on volcanoes - a topic the teacher had not spent any class time on.
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