While there are a great many important events that occur within the life of a school community, there is none more consequential than students successfully completing Year 12.
Over these final eight weeks of the school experience, our Year 12 cohort will complete the last of their internal assessments, undergo trial exams during the holidays and complete portfolios and major projects. These students have made an indelible and undeniably positive mark on our school culture. In the coming weeks, there will be a great deal more to say about the depth in significance of this contribution. Suffice to say that those who have given so much to the school need the school community to rally around them, both materially and spiritually.
I am asking all members of our community to uplift in prayer the physical health, emotional wellbeing and productive efforts of these young men and women. While there is great importance to the examinations and assessments, we have worked with students and parents to reinforce the necessary idea that we are more than our marks and grades. Much of the work that needs to be completed between now and November is repetitive, mundane any in many ways ‘boring’. In these days, encouragement and prayer are powerful tools to make a decisive intervention into diligence and preparation.
I would ask also that our community uplifts the parents of these students who are in the final throws of their own experience of Year 12. The parents will also experience the pressures and vicissitudes of the final weeks of their children's schooling. Please uplift these parents, and indeed all adult supporters of our Year 12 students.
Finally, I commend the teachers to your prayers as well. There is a great deal of work to be completed within these final weeks. This does not include the marking of additional work, the extra hours spent tutoring outside normal class time and the pressure of turning marking around in very short timeframes to maximise the advantage to students. The teachers continue to provide their best efforts to support and sustain our most senior students.
We would all be most grateful if you would add prayers in your daily forum as families, and to remember these people in other prayer groups that you are involved with.
God bless you.