Mission Action Day

The year 2004 has been a year of significant change on the Tiverton Campus. As many of you would be aware, due to the building program that took place at Kinnoull last year, Year 10 students are now located on the Kinnoull Campus, with the Tiverton Campus becoming a Year 4-9 Campus. The transition to this new format has been particularly smooth, as staff have continued to challenge students to provide leadership to each other in a variety of ways. For the first time in many years there is now only one recess and one lunch break which, combined with a majority of eighty minute periods, has provided students and staff with a much more settled and focussed approach to student learning. Importantly, through this period of transition, the Tiverton Campus, has continued to be a very happy and positive environment where there is a great sense of community. I firmly believe that the education of young men has to be done in partnership with students, staff and parents, and I sincerely thank each of these groups for their preparedness to work in partnership with each other throughout 2004 to provide the best outcomes for the students of De La Salle College. The opportunities for students through a diverse and varied array of co-curricular activities is quite extraordinary. Many of these activities are highlighted throughout this magazine and a great deal of credit must go to the staff of De La Salle for their generosity in working with students in so many different ways. Further to this, I congratulate all students for their positive involvement in a wide variety of activities that may have included a spiritual, academic, social, cultural or sporting dimension. There is no doubt that this involvement enhances a student’s life at the College, as they make new friends and answer different challenges. The Student Representative Council has again been a committed and dedicated group of young men who have been very capably led by Mathew Windley (Campus Captain) and Tom Curry (Campus Vice-Captain). I sincerely thank this group for the work they have performed at De La Salle this year. Two new initiatives were introduced with great success for Year 9 students this year. After much discussion, it was decided that Year 9 students would become leaders in our Peer Support Program, and after a two day training program at Jan Juc, the results of their work with Year 7 students was quite outstanding. During Term 3, almost seventy Year 9 students worked with small groups of Year 7 students on a weekly basis, following the guidelines of the Peer Support Program. In Week 2 of Term 4, all Year 9 students were given a Lasallian Service placement. Again, the excellent feedback from the various organisations, parents and students surpassed our expectations for this initiative. In my role as Head of Tiverton Campus I am extremely grateful for the support given to me by a number of people. I sincerely thank the College Leadership Team, the Year Level and Primary Coordinators, the Homeroom teachers, Campus Counsellor, subject teachers, the Daily Organiser, Key Learning Area Coordinators and ancillary staff for their loyalty, support, dedication and commitment to De La Salle College throughout 2004. I am also very grateful to the office staff, in particular my secretary Mrs Joan Ferguson, for their administrative assistance this year. I would particularly like to thank Br Tim for his friendship, support, wisdom and fine leadership of the College in the five years I have worked with him. His pastoral care and concern for all members of the De La Salle community is quite extraordinary. Finally, I thank all members of the De La Salle community for their contributions and involvement on the Tiverton Campus throughout 2004.

Peter Riordan Head of Tiverton Campus

Tiverton Campus

Mr Peter Riordan presents Andrew Di Cosmo with the mountain bike he won in the Mission Action Day raffle. All students who raised fifty dollars or more received a ticket in the raffle.

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