Welcome Back

Welcome back to all our students and families as we enter the second semester of 2024. I hope the last three weeks have been a restorative time for students and a good opportunity for families to connect and enjoy a different routine for a few weeks.

This week our staff have been hard at work for our mid-year professional development week. One of the key elements of both our graduate/learner profile and our teacher profile that we have at Green Point is life-long learner, that we are designed for on-going discovery of ourselves, others, the world and the Creator. As part of this we spend two intentional weeks as staff learning together and deepening our expertise in our craft as teachers.

This week’s theme has been ‘Forming Staff … Forming Students’. This is an acknowledgement that as a staff we need to continue to grow and be formed as Christian Educators, so that we might be able to better educate and prayerfully form our students to reflect who God made them to be.

This week staff have participated in training on educational coaching. This will support staff in developing a coaching way of being, as well as being able to conduct good coaching conversations and goal setting conversations. This will help support the skills of collaboration, which is also part our GPCC learner profile.

On Wednesday the teaching staff attended the CSA State Conference held at Wyong. The theme for the day was, 'who are we becoming'? We heard from Mark Ryan on what is currently shaping our, and our student’s identity and from Rev. Dr Melinda Cousins on understanding our formation in the light of the biblical story. It was a great day of learning and fellowship with around 800 other Christian educators from across the region. 

Our other days have been full of learning and set up activities as we prepare for our students to return.

As always on weeks like this the College feels too empty without the sounds of students learning and playing across the campus and we are looking forward to next week.

We prayed this morning as a staff for all our families and our students, that we might have had a restorative break and that the transition back to school life might be smooth and full of Joy.

See you again soon.