Principal's Comment

Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,

Yesterday I officially added the first new meetings for the year into my calendar and turned the 6:30am alarm back up on my phone, going through the rituals, as we do, for the beginning of a new year. I have included one of Lorena's amazing shots of the College today as it is a symbol of new beginnings taken, as it is, at dawn. For those of us living in North Otago over this Christmas period, it might also serve as a reminder that the sun actually does shine sometimes!

Our students may be getting a little anxious this week as we wait for examination results. The results for NCEA are available on Wednesday 15th via the NCEA portal. Cambridge results will be available on Friday morning as, although Cambridge releases on the 16th, Cambridge results are released based on Greenwich Mean Time (see quote below) so will not be available until the 17th NZ Time. Students have been given instructions for accessing the portals.

We will release results for Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge O Level on 16 January 2025 at 06.00 UTC/GMT. Schools can issue these results to candidates immediately.

We wish everyone the best of luck! I would also like to remind students and families that IGCSE is a new initiative for us and as such there is plenty of flexibility around how students may wish to approach the 2025 year.  The key to creating a suitable course for your student in 2025 is to ensure that you contact the Deans early to discuss any changes you may feel you need to make from that which you planned during course counselling in 2024. 

Our new strategic plan has been released for the 2025 - 2027 year. It will be attached to our website shortly along with the annual plan. Our foci for the next three years are to continue to improve our pastoral systems responses, to focus on citizenship, to develop targeted transition courses for our senior students and to further develop our Cambridge offerings to AS and A levels.  

Thank you to those of you who fed into the planning.  From feedback from families and local community and business leaders, the focus on ensuring that our students see themselves as part of our wider community with the responsibilities that go along with that was a very strong focus and one that fits with our Catholic special character very well. 

Thank you in advance to you, our SKC family for the support you will give us over the course of this year.  We are very lucky to have such a supportive and hard working parent community.

Have a great week.

God Bless

Jo