Principal's Comment

Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,

Well, we very much know it's the end of the year, we have a lot of tired but happy faces returning from Year 10 Camp, our Year 9's have had a very good last week of mixing fun and formal classes and our teachers all look a bit shell shocked after what has been an interesting year to say the least!

In my prize giving speeches I extended my thanks to the wonderful team here at SKC who make our College what it is and to those of you in the community who work tirelessly with and for us in order to ensure that the College is a well appointed community with plenty of resources which benefit our students. I thank you again today for the incredible year we have had and I invite anyone who is thinking about joining the College community, through one of our groups, to please not hesitate.

Thanks Santa for visiting our hostel this week! 

I will be sending out a form for caregivers to fill out in order to feed into the College any ideas you have with regards to our Strategic Planning for the next three years. Please feel free to contribute your ideas and comments. Remember that the Strategic Plan is a document which captures our big ideas rather than specifics, and should set a set of priorities against which we measure the value of the multitude of initiatives that come into the purvu of a school to think about which ones to focus on.

Thank you for all of your support this year from both the wider College community and myself personally. It has been a delight working with your beautiful young people.

God Bless and have a very merry, peaceful and joyful Christmas season.

Jo Walshe

 

Principal's Comment

 Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,

I feel as if I always begin this blog by talking about what a busy time we have had lately, but it is actually always true!

I was very lucky to be able to catch up with some of our Alumni in Auckland recently along with my husband Jimmy, Russell Dixon and my daughter. We took the opportunity to speak with our Alumni about our plans for the College and our desire to reconnect our College community, especially after the last few years. What I learned from those meetings is that we have an amazing community of past students with incredible stories out there. These connections are vital not only for preserving our heritage but also for our current students in order for them to understand what areas life's journey can take our Kevinians to. We met with business people, members of the armed forces and pilots to name a few. Unfortunately our trip to Canterbury to play the "Willows' tournament was postponed due to our fickle NZ weather so we will have to catch up with our Canterbury friends at a later date.

I posted earlier in the week about our Covid numbers, at the moment we are seeing the odd case, so summer holidays will be a welcome break.

Yesterday Mr Devereaux held our transition day for our new Year 8 students. This was very well run and received by the students. The feedback I have had from caregivers was that they had very tired young people at home last night which is exactly what I want to hear! Again this year numbers have been very tight, our advice is to please enrol early to avoid disappointment. St Kevin's has a capped roll which means it can only accept a limited number of students at any one time.

I would like to thank all of our staff as we move towards our final week and thank them for their tireless work in what has been a demanding year.

Have a great weekend - let's hope there's some sun!

God Bless

Jo