Dear members of the MLMC community
Welcome back. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you back and welcome all our students back to on-campus learning and ‘the Hill’. The College is certainly a far more welcoming place with students filling the classrooms, corridors and interactive spaces. At the College Advisory Council, which met via Zoom last night, I commented that since the May meeting our students have not been on campus for more than three consecutive days. This is due to a range of things including lockdown 4, lockdown 5, public holidays, Staff Professional Development days, storms and, of course, the much-needed Term 2 holidays. Hopefully this will no longer be the case and with the restrictions currently in place and the vaccination program continuing we will remain in on-campus learning.
Having said the above, we continue to look ahead and plan in an ever-changing environment and continue to receive almost daily changes to the ways we operate. Currently, we are restricted in that we cannot have large group assemblies or incursions and must limit all visitors to the College. We are continually looking at the College calendar to re-evaluate what we are able to undertake, what must be postponed and what must be cancelled. Last week, I wrote to you to inform you that the College Musical has been moved to the week of 16 August and the Year 11 Debutante Balls to the second week of the September school holidays. In the coming months, we have a number of important events like subject confirmation interviews, Year 7 2023 interviews, College assemblies, book launch and 125 year celebrations, the Frayne Speech Festival, parent seminars and Mercy Day.
Events that can be reimagined and done remotely will be and others will be postponed where possible or cancelled.
The current restrictions are expected to last until 11.59pm on 10 August and so at that time the College will make final decisions about all events moving forward until the end of the term.
Last night, the College hosted a webinar for parents entitled ‘Parenting in a Pandemic’ hosted by the College Counselling and Wellbeing team. Topics included:
- Understanding common responses from young people to the challenging environment: what are you noticing?
- What you, as a parent/guardian, can do to help the young person. This section contains information about resources — apps, websites and the like
- Self-care for parents/guardians.
This session was informative, well worth attending and hopefully of use to those who joined.
I hope you all continue to be well.
God bless
Philip A Morison
Principal
