I would like to start by thanking you, for the most beautiful messages we have been receiving, daily. I have been sharing parts of your emails and will continue to do so, with the staff. Your prayers, support and kind words have been a great source of inspiration and have lifted our spirits.
We have been working hard to keep your daughters engaged in their learning and preparing for a remote learning world.
This PowerPoint outlines where we are at right now, and how we are preparing for Term 2 in the case of closure (this has not been confirmed and we could be coming back in Term 2 stronger and wiser, we will keep following the advice of the Federal Government).
If you have any questions please seek the best person via email –
Subject question? Ask the Teacher or Studies Coordinator
Pastoral care concern? Ask the PC Teacher or the House Coordinator
Fees question? Ask the Finance Office
Big question? Ask the Principal
I leave you with a beautiful poem/prayer that was written last just two weeks ago by Lynn Ungar.
Pandemic
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath - the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Centre down.
And when your body has become still, reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils of compassion that move, invisibly, where we cannot touch.
Promise this world your love -- for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, so long as we all shall live.
With kind regards,
Loretta Wholley
Principal
