Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,
I had planned on starting my blogging year with a gorgeous picture of my wee granddaughter being baptized, but today's adventure on the bucket truck knocked that one off poll position because it lends itself to too many metaphors to be ignored!
The staff and I are fully aware that this year will be in equal parts trying, exciting, challenging, exhausting and in all measures fairly unpredictable.... With a change of government we are beginning to see a new paradigm emerge which has started already with the 'phones in school' debate and the signals around curriculum which are being sent. On top of the changes this will bring, we also have the introduction to the Cambridge system at IGCSE level, our ongoing strategic planning work with St Joseph's School and we are continuing with building our Alumni programme.
I am looking forward to the year, but as I signaled at the end of last year, I do expect we will run into a few hiccups along the way and I ask for our community to support us as we work through these. We appreciate your feedback and to that end I have sent out two surveys this week which I would appreciate if you would take some time to answer.
So back to the bucket. This week I heard Adrienne Spillane from St Joseph's School share a wise piece of advice about being at the bottom of something and not being able to see the top, but climb to the top and you can see it all. I thought of that today in the bucket truck, and noticed that 1, we need to paint the roof of the gym and 2, how many people were moving around the grounds setting up for the year ahead and 3 , How accessing a different perspective on things really helps us to appreciate what is going on in a wider sense than our own.
'Team SKC' past and present is a great team. I extend an invitation to all of you to join by engaging with us. Join the Alumni, come to social functions, coach and manage teams, volunteer for Te Ngakau Nui, join the Foundation, stand for the Board, come to Mass, or just pop in for a chat. In this way we can look at our community from different perspectives and we can build amazing young people who have the ability to do that same thing.
Keep an eye out for Mr Devereaux's fb post regarding start up procedures and as always please check the website for all of our start of year details.
God Bless
Jo
