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From the Assistant Principal - Students

Thanks for a great term.

Term 3 has been a very busy and rewarding term at the College. I would like to thank all the Staff, Students and parents for all their assistance and participation in Learning and all other activities that have taken place. Your effort and hard work is appreciated.

I would like to thank Year 12 for their presence and hard work this term and I wish them the best in their upcoming HSC examinations.

Start of Term 4

The first day for students is Tuesday 15th October. Students will return in College Summer Uniform. Please be mindful on return that the College expectations regarding grooming are being met.

Mindsets

In life and learning we can have different mindsets that will either build our capacity for learning or keep us from achieving success. There are many areas of our mindset that we should be aware of. The following table lists some of the mindsets that we deal with. Our mindsets can be either fixed (not willing to change) or Growth (open to change).

We are all capable of “Doing more- Going Beyond”. Then one thing that is stopping us is our mindset. We must focus on Growth if we wish to develop and we must avoid limiting ourselves with a fixed mindset.

Mindset	Fixed	High Growth
World view	You feel like you are unchangeable	You understand that with hard work and determination, you can change yourself to create the abilities you need
Challenges	You avoid challenges	You are open to and embrace challenges
Obstacles and difficulties	You give up immediately	Persist with setbacks and new skills
Effort	You expect that things be easy and give up if not	You understand that effort is the key to mastery
Feedback and Criticism	You ignore feedback	You request feedback and use it to improve
Success of other	You feel threatened when someone does well	You seek out people who have mastered something and learn their secrets
Making Mistakes	You hide or ignore mistakes	You see mistakes as an opportunity to learn. FAIL means First Attempt In Learning
Offered help and support	You turn down help and support	You seek out support

The challenge for all students is to look at the different mindsets and focus on how you can develop your mindset in the high-growth area of each.

What’s in the planner?

Walter Elliot was a Priest and Writer. He said:

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another”

Perseverance is completing something even though it's difficult or there is a delay in seeing the results of what you are doing. Many aspects of our life can be a series of short races. Life, school, work etc can test our perseverance. Setting goals, both long and short-term, can help you persevere when things get difficult and you find it hard to see the end of the task.

Key strengths to focus on are Honesty and gratitude.

Enjoy the holidays.

God bless,

Mr. Nick Thrum

Assistant Principal - Students