Welcome to the third Principal's Reflection for Term 2, 2025.
Partnership with Taroaniara Community School
St Luke’s Anglican School has a historical link with the Solomon Islands and the Anglican Church of Melanesia. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this link was scaled back for a time, but the School has been actively working towards a new agreement.
In 2024, through the office of the Archbishop, St Luke’s was able to form a connection with Taroaniara Community School, a small school 45 minutes by boat away from Honiara. During the Easter holidays earlier this year, Mr Matthew Cathcart, our Director of Community and Service, and I travelled to Taroaniara to spend time in the community and school, and explore how both schools could move forward together.
The staff and students of Taroaniara Community School are amazing people, and we received the most humbling welcome. It is clear from our time in Taroaniara that St Luke’s can do a lot to support them. Our students, in turn, will benefit from the joy and learnings that being in service to others can bring. We will start small, with our Primary students forming pen pal relationships with the children of Taroaniara, but we aim to grow our relationship. Next year, Mr Michael Moli, Principal of the Primary School, will travel to Bundaberg and spend time at St Luke’s. Our students, supported by Mr Cathcart, will seek projects to support the Taroaniara community, and in 2027, we aim to embark on a service learning tour to the Solomon Islands, where our students will have the opportunity to be among the people they have been supporting.
I look forward to sharing more with you as the relationship between St Luke’s and Taroaniara Community School deepens.
National Sorry Day
Monday of this past week was National Sorry Day. Every year on 26 May, National Sorry Day recognises the injustices done to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families, and became known as The Stolen Generation. It is not some distant memory of early Australia; this happened relatively recently, and members of our own St Luke’s community have parents and grandparents who are members of The Stolen Generation.
Part of the Anglican tradition is to work against injustice in the world and in our communities. I invite you to watch the Archbishop’s Sorry Day Message regarding Sorry Day and reflect on what our community can do as we work toward reconciliation.
St Luke’s Anglican School has begun reviewing and updating our own Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), and are asking staff, students and parents to consider being a member of the RAP committee. I would dearly love to have some parent representatives on this committee, and I encourage you to consider whether you can serve in this capacity. If you would like to, please email me, principal@stlukes.qld.edu.au, to express your interest.
Archbishop's Sorry Day Message
Thank you for your ongoing support of our School.
Mr Matthew Hughes
Principal
Date Claimers
All School
Wednesday 11 June: P&F Meeting
Primary School
Thursday 5 June: Year 5/6 Readers Cup
Middle/Senior School
Wednesday 4 June: Year 10 into 11 Information Evening
Thursday 5 June: Year 9 into 10 Information Evening
Friday 13 June: Rock Pop Mime
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