GRATITUDEIt has been a wonderful week at Garnsey Campus this week as we have enjoyed much-needed rain and beautiful sunny winter days. A return to a few activities also gave students much needed excitement as they had the opportunity to participate in activities that...

I have noticed this week, the many and varied ways our students are making the most of their lunchtimes even without many organised activities. As a long time, mahjong fan, it has been great to see some of our senior students enthralled in Japanese mahjong games...

Welcome back to the Garnsey campus for Term 3. After a time of rest during the holidays, we welcomed four new students and their families to the campus this week and it was lovely to see that, as usual, students were scrambling to be a buddy to welcome the new...

As we look towards the last weeks of Term 2 it seems right that we are all back together. This week saw the Years 7-10 students and staff return to school on campus and it was a noisy reunion as students reconnected with friends and it felt like our entire campus was...

With our Year 7 – 10 students returning to the Garnsey campus next week, understandably many young people and their families are likely to be feeling ambivalent and even anxious about what this means for them. As I reflect on the past eight weeks, I am incredibly...

It’s wonderful to be finally writing about our return to School, which will be on Tuesday, May 26 for our VCE, VET and VCAL students. I am looking forward to seeing our Campus come alive again with movement, laughter and plenty of learning. To ensure this is a smooth...

This week we welcomed English and Drama teacher Mrs Sue Williams to the Garnsey Campus. Mrs Williams has taught at Gippsland Grammar previously and is a former parent but, more recently, comes to us from Bairnsdale’s Nagle College. Sue has taken over the classes of Ms...

PARENT TEACHER VIDEO CONFERENCES This week we had our first online Parent/Teacher interviews at the Garnsey campus. Commonly referred to as ‘speed dating’, the traditional Parent/Teacher interviews are usually a rather noisy gathering in the Laurie Payne Sport Centre...

I have always been impressed by the spirit of service and competition that our students demonstrate. While we are engaged in Learn@Home the capacity to run a bake sale or organise a Casual Clothes Day is limited however it’s lovely to see that some students have not...