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Welcome

From

HoS

In August of 2019, we were preparing for another typical year of

school intending to continue engaging our school community in
social and academic pursuits. Although history suggests global
change happens overnight, surely we have the science to prevent the

world from closing done because of a virus. As it turns out, we don't,
and this meant no-one in every society across the globe, not even the
rich and powerful, are immune to the effects of COVID-19.

By 2020, we changed from a physical campus to an online campus
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overnight. Given we had spent three years on developing Blended
Learning strategies, we felt confident in providing online learning

are in providing online learning for the next four to five months, I
suspect we would have been less sure about our capacity to do so.
But we did, and we did it well.

This yearbook captures a unique time in the school's history. After
the first 6 months, normality turned into sigificant disruption. We

effectively dealt with this period because of our open-mindedness to
learn, our flexibility to change, and our professional capability to
remain focussed on the task at hand. However, one critical
ingredient in our success during this period was the partnership with

our family community. Behind the images in this yearbook is the
powerful partnership our families maintained with us. For the benefit
of all the children under our care, I sincerely thank you all.

-Ken Sell
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