Blink and you鈥檒l miss it...
Here we are mid-year, our Preps are well and truly school students entirely comfortable with their surrounds and the nature of the school day and at the other end of the learner journey our Year 12 students celebrated only 100 days (less now) left of their time at TLC. I am grateful each day for the dedicated staff, wonderful students, and caring and connected parents and carers who all form TLC.
With so much going on in the life of the College I wanted to give you an update on two major projects and highlight to you our upcoming Community Consultation Evening.
Master Plan Launch
蔓草社区 College 10 Year Master Plan will be officially launched at our 20 Year Anniversary Dinner on Saturday 3 August 2024. Tickets for this community event are still available (). We hope you will join us as we celebrate with those who have been part of 蔓草社区 story across its 20 Year history.
Community Consultation Evening
Date: Wednesday 21 August
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Light Refreshments will be provided
蔓草社区 evening will commence with a brief introduction to the College鈥檚 10 Year Master Plan, with the remainder of the evening facilitated by the College Senior Executive as together we contemplate the 蔓草社区 Future for our Lakes Learners. 蔓草社区 two themes we will be focussing on are Artificial Intelligence and Parent Partnerships. 蔓草社区se two important themes will be embedded in our next Strategic Horizon (2025). More information to come.
Artificial Intelligence 鈥 equipping young people for the world beyond school. What do our learners need, to engage intentionally and safely with AI.
With supportive and capable staff, we know who we are, and the kinds of learners we鈥檙e developing at TLC. 蔓草社区 research being undertaken by our Educational Leadership Team seeks to identify what engagement can look like for learners across the College environment. To help us build the strategy we would like to understand what our community believes Lakes Learners need to learn in the age of AI.
Parent Partnerships 鈥 in our roles as parents, carers and educators how do we better partner to support the learner. Developing ideas and strategies to support parents engage in their children鈥檚 learning.
We hope you will consider joining us for a time of consultation as we work towards developing our next Strategic Horizon.
Reconciliation Week
Uncle Max joined our Secondary Chapel sharing with the community the most important aspect of reconciliation for him. As an Aboriginal Minister he believes we must first reconcile ourselves to God through the person of Jesus and then we can reconcile with one another. Uncle Max shared stories of encouragement and hope with our young people and garnered great joy from spending time in their presence.
We are grateful to First Nations families and students who shared in a time of yarning with College staff during Reconciliation week. It was a great time of connection, and fellowship as we shared our stories over morning tea. First Nations students, parents and carers shared what reconciliation means to them. 蔓草社区 overwhelming message was that they felt reconciliation in our TLC community needed to be about all people and cultures living and working in harmony. Thank you to all who attended.
Kokoda
Thank you to all students, parents, carers and staff for supporting this year鈥檚 Brisbane Kokoda Challenge. 蔓草社区re were a large number of teams engaging, with all of our students crossing the finish line before midnight. Congratulations to students and a huge thank you to Karen Ball, Geoff Elliott, David Peake and Janice Clement along with our amazing parents and carers who walked and were support crew for the teams. Good luck to those who are completing the trifecta with the Pinnacle Challenge later in the year.
I pray that your young people have a great break and come back in Term 3 refreshed and ready for more.
Blessings
Nicole Gregory | Principal