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High Notes, Vol 26 No 1, February 07 2025

From the Principal

Welcome or welcome back!

Welcome to all our returning staff and students to what I am confident will be a year of consolidation of our improvement in learning outcomes. I want to welcome our 180 Year 7 students and our 49 new students in Years 8, 9, 10 and 11. I want to assure you of our commitment to foster your rapid and successful integration into the High culture. We have five priority actions. We nurture your academic growth through a wide range of subjects, courses and competitions. We develop you as a whole person through the formal curriculum and a large variety of co-curricular activities. We try to promote in you a sense of belonging to High through encouraging full participation in our six-day programs. We endeavour to develop you as global citizens and future leaders through our community service and school leadership opportunities. We support you in all your activities through our numerous support staff, incorporated associations, committees and governance organisations.

Our focus this year is on essay conscious pedagogy. We want to try and teach sentence building and combining explicitly to enhance the clarity, coherence and quality of our written responses in all years. We have a small set of proven strategies that will be applied across the curriculum to support teachers and students in the collaborative task of improving whole-school literacy through sentence and paragraph building exercises. This year we want to join the pieces together to craft more coherent, insightful and complete essays.

Staff Changes

We welcome also our new staff members for 2025. In Mathematics, Vicki Likourezos is relieving for Angie Ward. Ray Wang is relieving for Robyn Wang and Colleen Nolan is relieving in various positions. In English, Leone Boulle, Scott Robinson and Harry Charlesworth are relieving for various teachers. Sharon Ong is relieving for Sarah Kim in Music. Ying Lou is relieving in LOTE for Rachel Fong.

Properties works maintenance and upgrades.

Teaching spaces:  The Junior Library was air conditioned. Blinds were replaced in 12 classrooms and workspaces. Drama room store refurbished. Progressive replacement of staffroom locks. New furniture for Room 402. Mould in the cadet Room was mitigated. Replacement of gym curtain hoist.

Public spaces: Block B roofing replaced, and external guttering installed. Additional security cameras installed. The Print Room was air conditioned to keep the paper dry. Our wayfinding project to improve our public-facing information is now complete with internal direction signage.

ICT : Relocating and building network switching in Drama storeroom.

Grounds: Trees on site pruned and crowned. Asphalting works in Anzac Parade carpark near gate 10 to create parking spaces.

Cutler Drive: Tennis Clubroom completed and fitted out. Water mains repaired and pipes and taps installed. Fire diesel generator and pump housing replaced. Data distribution switch and cabinet installed near tennis office.

COLA:  Roof extended 3.5 metres. Netting replaced. Hollowed out palm tree removed near barbecue shack.

Cleveland Street: The LED sign was commissioned and is operating. Asphalt works were completed between gates 1 and 2. Damaged tree removed overlooking gate 2.  Future proofed electrical and data capability installed between gates 1 & 2. Boom gate replaced at gate 3. Protection bollards installed around the electrical mains and the LED sign. Excavation works to supply the electrical capacity. needed for air conditioning to classrooms is progressing well.

Thank you to Jim Crampton, Daniel Xu and John Prorellis for their work throughout the year to make all these things happen.
Dr K A Jaggar
Principal