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Tuesday, 02 Mar 2021

Secondary Swimming Carnival
What a great day we had for our Swimming Carnival! The day dawned a bit overcast and drizzly, but ended with brilliance. The teachers won the relay against the seniors. How good is that?! The House Captains were kept busy organising swimmers into races and rewarding them with MERS (Motivational Energy Replacement Supplements)....
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Friday, 26 Feb 2021

Dance Moves
It was I994, the Channel Tunnel had been opened, Forrest Gump was on at the cinemas, and I was standing in front of 100 plus people ready to bust-out my dance moves. It was not quite “run Forrest, run!”, but rather “dance Stuart, dance!” Many options presented themselves in the...
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Friday, 19 Feb 2021

Go High
It’s easy to respect people that we admire, that we see as worthy of respect. Respect, after all, is earned. But what if respect was simply our default position? What if we showed respect to others, not because of their behaviour, their skills or their personality, but simply because they...
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Friday, 12 Feb 2021

Strength Through Diversity
My 13-year old daughter was about to embark on writing an essay showing empathy and giving a voice to an untold story. We sat together, brainstormed and contemplated where she would begin and whose story she would share. In the end she wanted to learn more about her great grandfather,...
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Friday, 05 Feb 2021

Belonging to a Family
When my youngest son was a pre-schooler he felt a bit left out. His brothers belonged to sports teams, went out with friends and got to go to school but he was stuck at home with his parents. To help him feel special I began a tradition of taking him...
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Friday, 29 Jan 2021

You Belong Here
All humans are wired with the desire to belong. We were created for community and we seek to connect with others.  Belonging is sometimes thought to be the same as fitting in; that is, we belong if we share characteristics or have things in common. But if we seek to belong...
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Friday, 11 Dec 2020

Taking Challenges Head On
As I drove to school a few weeks ago along a rural road, a car driving in the opposite direction suddenly moved onto my side of the road. In a 100kph zone there is a very small margin of error. My first reaction was disbelief. Is this really happening? My...
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Friday, 04 Dec 2020

Press Forward
In Britain’s darkest hour during World War Two, as British pilots came under devastating assault from Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe, trusted and tried methods of the past were failing. They were suddenly asked to embrace something altogether un-British in the face of imminent invasion, the unorthodox arts of subterfuge. Championing this...
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Friday, 27 Nov 2020

The Joy of Learning
The year is quickly coming to a close – and what a year it has been. Who would have ever thought we would have had restrictions on weddings and funerals? Had to wear masks in public? Had to sit 1.5m away from another in a restaurant or would be restricted...
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