Principal’s Message | Dr Michael Carroll
Dear Members of the Terrace Family,
This week I am attending the EREA Principals gathering in Adelaide. This time will provide an opportunity to network, share and learn from each other. I will provide some updates of this meeting in future newsletters.
In recent editions of the Terrace News I have included a commentary on how the College is acting on the issue of sustainability. Recently, EREA published the EREA Principals’ Sustainability Statement. In summary, this statement aims to bring together the work already happening in our schools and align this with the Pope’s encyclical Laudato si'. I have included part of the statement below:
Our Aspiration
In his encyclical Laudato si’, Pope Francis declares, “A great cultural, spiritual and educational challenge stands before us, and it will demand that we set out in the long path to renewal. As educators, we have a unique opportunity to promote a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature” (Laudato si’ #25)
Inspired by this urgent declaration, we the leaders of EREA Schools, invite our communities to:
• Contribute to cultural transformation, whereby an ecological conversion of heart and mind can take place.
• Come together to care for our common home as a way of embodying our commitment towards becoming a national community in mission.
• Be awakened to a new reverence for life and a firm resolve to achieve sustainability. (Earth Charter 2000)
• Come to experience our common home as a “joyful mystery to be contemplated”.
(Laudato si’ #12)
The full document can be seen by clicking on the link: .http://www.erea.edu.au/about-u...
Finally this week, I share the news of Old Boy, Nicholas Gattas - GT 2007. Nicholas has recently graduated from the Harvard Business School where he was awarded the top graduate in his year. This is an outstanding achievement and on behalf of the Terrace Family, I congratulate Nicholas.
Have a great week.
Dr Michael Carroll
College Principal