With 2025 now in full swing, our new Wellbeing Model Learning Well has been launched to staff and is being explored across the College. The main focus of this model is exploring how to attain an equilibrium point between the challenges we face and the resources we can call upon and develop to manage or overcome them. This important work is leading to careful reviews of our programs as we search for ways to directly and indirectly provide opportunities for our young people to develop their intellectual, social, physical, spiritual and psychological resources, and to provide them with good levels of challenge in a safe environment, such that they can draw on and build these resources.

We know that challenges are a normal part of life for all of us – adults and young people alike – and so it is clear that removing challenges is not a panacea for positive wellbeing. Developing resilience comes from knowing what resources you need to draw on in the face of challenging moments. Whether it be responding to academic stress through going for a run, facing a fear on camp with the encouragement of peers or developing leadership capacity through having a clear sense of the purpose of service, testing out which resources help us to face our challenges is a work in progress for our students and our staff.

With the halfway point of the term now behind us, we are excited to continue to create opportunities for our large community to persist through challenge, in the knowledge that their toolbox of resources is ever-growing, including through the partnership between school and home.

Warmest blessings

Clay Watkins
Middle School Leader

Daniel Wood
Senior School Leader

Emily Borowicki
Middle School Learning Leader

Fiona Greig
Senior School Learning Leader