by Janelle Clarke | Feb 5, 2024 | Parents Hub Articles, Principal's Thoughts
2 February 2024 I wonder what you would say if I asked you what freedom means? Would you say: words like liberty, salvation, delivered, pardoned, independence, rescued, unshackled, relief… Maybe it’s easier to ask you to share what freedom is not, or what words come...
by Janelle Clarke | Nov 28, 2023 | Parents Hub Articles, Principal's Thoughts
24 November 2023 I feel obliged to write about Christmas. It is that time of year, right? It is everywhere. I was at the orthodontist with my boy this week (there goes Christmas! ) when one of the assistants called the orthodontist a grinch. “They don’t like...
by Janelle Clarke | Nov 13, 2023 | Parents Hub Articles, Principal's Thoughts
10 November 2023 Ah, the deep and profound philosophical truths that came to us through the grunge-rock scene of the late 90s. Where would we be without it! It goes hand in hand with Greek philosopher, Heraclitus’s idea that ‘change is the only constant in life’....
by Janelle Clarke | Oct 30, 2023 | Parents Hub Articles, Principal's Thoughts
30 October 2023 Being an ‘old-skool’ Grafton boy, I love seeing Jacaranda trees in full blossom with a purple carpet underneath, especially silhouetted against a fresh spring sunrise or the imposing stormy sky. They remind me of the changing of seasons; the...
by Janelle Clarke | Oct 13, 2023 | Parents Hub Articles, Principal's Thoughts
13 October 2023 It has to be a thin world surely if you ask for an emblem at every turn, if you cannot see bees arcing and mining the soft decaying galaxies of the laden apricot tree without wanting symbols—–which of course are manifold*—–symbols of so much else?...
