Welcome back to what we all hope will be a much more normal looking Term 3 at the College. There are many exciting things on this term including our postponed school ball, sporting tournaments and our upcoming singing festival. While all of these things are flagship events for our school and our students do a lot of growing and learning in the preparation of them, they can also take a toll on our student leadership.
Our philosophy of service means that our students are called upon to organize, lead, create and support many events throughout the year. The fact that they work well as a team does help them in these endeavors and their ability to regularly meet with Senior Management means that we try our best to monitor students for burn out, but in this year, where things have been very disrupted through Covid 19, it is even more important that we as a team, along with whanau and friends, keep an eye on our school student leaders and support them in their endeavors.
Students sitting NCEA exams may also feel the stress of internals this term and despite the postponing of official examinations for two weeks, they could easily feel overwhelmed.
If you are worried about your student, please do not hesitate to contact the Deans or our Pastoral team. There are many occasions where students place unnecessary pressure on themselves and we would be failing in our duty to look after student mental health if we were not able to accommodate solutions.
I wish you all a successful, healthy and positive Term 3.
May God bless you.
Ngā mihi Nui
Paul Olsen
If you are worried about your student, please do not hesitate to contact the Deans or our Pastoral team. There are many occasions where students place unnecessary pressure on themselves and we would be failing in our duty to look after student mental health if we were not able to accommodate solutions.
I wish you all a successful, healthy and positive Term 3.
May God bless you.
Ngā mihi Nui
Paul Olsen
