"Don’t count the days; make the days count."

Mohammad Ali, the world famous heavy-wight boxer is attributed to the following quote, which has been resonating a lot with me over the past weeks. This period of remote learning has provided new learnings and challenges that all of us (teachers, students and parents) have had to embrace. For our Senior Years students, many are now missing the social interaction with their peers and teachers. This has turned learning from being something that students enjoying into a long countdown to the time when everyone is able to come back to campus.

Ali’s quote encourages us to change our perspective. Students have an opportunity to make the remote learning days count. Get ahead in your assessment. Spend time revising work from Term 1. Read a book connected to one of the topics you are studying. Create a study group in Teams with your peers. There are many ways that students can get ahead by making these days count.

I am proud of our Senior Years students for the way that they are approaching their new way of learning. There are many days ahead in this learning format, let’s make them all count!     

Matt Hodge

Assistant Principal Senior Years