Welcome back to Term IV

Kia ora ki te whanau o te Cathedral Grammar.

I hope you all had a fantastic time over the past three weeks. From the conversations I have had it seems that we had people in all corners of the globe creating a lot of wonderful memories. The Thelning family had ten lovely days in Port Douglas.

Term IV in all schools, especially ours,  is a busy term and we have a lot squeezed into the next nine weeks. It is an exciting term, I believe, as we continue with and celebrate a wonderful year of learning and friendship building, and farewell another special group of Y8 pupils. 

Please ensure you keep a close eye on our school calendar and make sure you have all of the key dates and events locked into yours!

I regretfully inform you that over the holidays Miss Tattershaw, Mrs Eason and Mrs Berridge have resigned from their positions at Cathedral Grammar. There is 41 years of collective service, passion, energy, dedication, skill and expertise amongst these ladies and we will be sad to see them move on. We will, however, look forward to planning a suitable farewell that is fitting for all they have given to our school community.

Over the holidays we have continued with our work towards our strategic goals.

• Facilities - thank you to those of you who completed the survey regarding the new facilities. We are continuing to work on the analysis of this. 
• Marketing - a team of staff spent a morning with Plato Creative supporting them with the development of our marketing plan.
• Curriculum - as a part of our 'heart as well as head' focus our teaching staff spent an afternoon at Christ's College last week participating in a workshop with Dr Mathew White, the Director of Positive Education and Wellbeing at St Peter's College in Adelaide.
• Curriculum - we have scheduled an Cyber Safety & IT Parent information evening for Wednesday 1 November.
• Communication - the final testing of our communication app is underway.
• Communication - for the first time we will be holding a Transition to Senior School information evening for all parents of Y6 pupils. The date is to be confirmed but it will be in Week VI (20-24 November).

It was pleasing to be able to share our vision and strategic goals with you last term and we will continue to communicate our progress as we relentlessly set about achieving them.

See you at the Athletics on Thursday 26 October!

Nga mihi

Scott