From the Principal – 19 May 2025

Dear parents and friends

In the first week of term College staff and students gathered in candlelight in our gymnasium to commemorate ANZAC Day, the theme of which this year was Gallipoli. I am very keen for our students to understand the role they will play as future citizens of their communities and our nation through engagement and participation in civic and cultural activities. Our ceremony was designed to follow the protocols of both the ADF and RSL and was facilitated by student leaders, Mia Cowley, Tobias Johnson, Alexander Flinders, Violet Nichols, Pranav Kumar and An Hue Pindral.

I wish to express my grateful thanks to our student leaders and Assistant Principal Teaching and Learning Jonathan Moyle who prepared the historical component of was a most moving and dignified ceremony.

Momentum is continuing to build around the 2026 Enrolment Period and I was delighted with our College Try-A-Day at which we welcomed over 355 Year 6 students from over 30 feeder schools for a day of classes, activities and hospitality led by College staff and students. Following that on Friday 9 May we held our Open Day where we welcomed over 200 visitors to the school for tours of our facilities and to meet staff and students. This too was a very successful day and gave our prospective parents and their children the opportunity to view our facilities and to meet our staff and students. Many of our visitors spoke with great admiration about our facilities, our learning environment and how impressive your girls and boys are.

Applications for enrolments for Year 7, 2026 close on Friday 30 May.

Our Year 11 Information Evening and Careers Expo at which we had over 800 in attendance was a great success again this year. Our Year 10, 11 and 12 students had the opportunity to view and have conversations with our Faculty teams and community partners about senior studies and their post school learning and employment pathways. I was very impressed by the accessibility and generosity of the many community partners who joined us for the Careers Expo and very grateful to those parents and students who attended.

Our Term 1 Parent Teacher evening were very successful again this year. I am very appreciative of your presence at these events, your feedback to me and to your children's teachers about the College, and the confidence you have in our learning environment. I wish our Parent Teacher evenings to continue to be a valuable feed forward opportunity for you about the learning progress of your girls and boys while providing you with information to direct their future learning goals. Please don’t hesitate to make contact with their teachers to meet with them outside of these events if you have questions or concerns about the learning progress of your sons or daughters.

Our students have made an exceptional start to the term and I am absolutely delighted with their positivity, their engagement with learning, their care for each other and their teachers and their pride in the College. Thank you for the many ways in which you support them to succeed in their academic and extra curricular endeavours.

With best wishes, 

Yours sincerely

Sandra Darley

College Principal