FROM THE PRINCIPAL

KAYA AND WANJU TO OUR WINTER EDITION OF THE DOVE FOR 2023.

Recent news that the WHO Chief has officially declared the end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency was welcomed, and life has well and truly returned to (our new and, we hope, even better!) normal this year at Ewing Avenue, with Pasar Malam 2023 being a very visible and highly celebrated early sign of that.

And there are just so many other signs of the return of our wonderfully active and thriving community at All Saints’ College, with many of those events captured in the pages that follow – from our unique and much-loved sport program to the all-singing, all-dancing, laugh-out-loud, super-colourful production of The Addams Family!

This edition of The Dove celebrates this and so much more, including the breadth and diversity of our progressive and innovative teaching and learning program, and the partners who help us in this. As part of this, we are proud to include in this edition the results of our Class of 2022 who are now engaged in life, in study and/or work in this city, across Australia and the globe.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EDITOR: Emily Garbett

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PROOFREADERS: College staff and students, John Beaverstock, Ben Fitzpatrick, Belinda Provis, Wendy Macdougall

ART DIRECTION: Sava Hatzi (Design Vault)

FRONT COVER ARTWORK: Andy Zhou (Year 10)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY: KIA. NOONGAR. BOODJA.

We would like to acknowledge the deep and ongoing connections that the Noongar people have to the land that our school is built on. We give our respect to the traditional owners of this land and promise to do our best to take care of it, both today and in the future.

We are, as always, very, very proud and appreciative of the staff at our College, and know our students value very much the care, support and expertise ASC staff bring to our community. We are pleased to share with our community some snippets of staff news, and to introduce to you some of our newest staff members: a warm welcome aboard!

We are very excited to be progressing this year our tripartite construction project: our new Facilities Operations Centre, Junior School car park expansion and long-awaited Childcare Centre. We look forward to welcoming our littlest Saints (from 12 months old) in mid 2024, and to the service that this new facility will provide our staff, ASC families and the wider community. This edition of The Dove also provides for us the opportunity to acknowledge and thank the College Foundation and its Board for all it does for ASC’s present and future. I recall former Foundation Chair, Mark Stickells, describing the Foundation – the entity into which all enrolling families pay the Endowment Fee – as being like the College’s ‘superannuation’, investing wisely and providing security for our future. The Foundation also supports a large range of programs at the College each year, sponsoring for instance: staff members’ individual further study programs; our Year 12 families’ annual Valedictory Dinner; Djaaliny, our community learning forum; our ASC community choir; and the development of our facilities including, this year, our new bike shed, a Visual Arts spray booth, a new entrance for our Early Childhood Centre, and the research for our proposed wetlands project which is part of our Treading Lightly initiative. I thank the Foundation Board for its ongoing support for all areas of our College community. And I thank you, our community, for your wonderful ongoing support of All Saints’ College – we are indeed blessed! – and I hope you enjoy reading the celebration of our community in the pages that follow.

College Principal