Spring 2025 - Grief
As we experience this loss and grieve remember that grief is an expression of our love. While it is painful it comes from a place of love and we should accept it, not try to push it away. We honour those we have lost by grieving.
Summer 2024 - Diversity
What does it mean to belong? We live in a school community and must respect each other’s dignity, working together for a common purpose: to create a happy, safe, ambitious, and successful learning environment where we see and treat each other as an extension of ourselves.
Spring 2024 - Why Did the Titanic Sink?
Most answers to this question confidently say “Because it hit an iceberg”. While this is true, it is only a partial answer at best. Further questions such as “Why did it hit an iceberg?” and “Why did that cause it to sink?” open up a dialectic path that provides a more intelligent, meaningful and scholarly explanation.
Autumn 2023 - Rhetoric
There have been many great public speakers in the past whose words and delivery have changed people and, in some cases, changed the course of history. Rhetoric and public speaking has along tradition dating back 2500 years ago to Cicero.