School Leaders

With another year coming to the end, we reflect on a year that one of us were anticipating. 2020 will play its role in history at Ignatius Park for its 51st year of being founded. With COVID-19 interrupting and changing traditions for our Seniors, we reflect on this year and instead of being negative, realise that this can be best described as a year of learning.

In 2020, Ignatius Park College was able to reach new heights and have success through many accomplishments and achievements at all year levels of the College.

As we celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of the College this year, we still must acknowledge those students who missed out on their success story due to stoppages of certain co-curricular activities. These students also deserve their accolades as no one was prepared for our world to be flipped upside down so abruptly. 2020 has redefined success for us and this is why Ignatius Park College is admired by many. The success of our students both in a sporting arena and in the books studying hard does not define the culture we have created at Ignatius Park. The successes are a testimony to our culture and brotherhood we all share. With our brothers standing side by side, pushing us to achieve greatness, students at Ignatius Park College thrive, continuing the success of the College.

Our culture and history of the Park' is built upon the foundations of brotherhood and the valued foundations of Edmund Rice. The culture that has been created allows us young men to dare to dream and also have the courage to achieve those dreams. Ignatius Park College allows young men to become role models and leaders of the future. We are all dream seekers and world beaters. Iggy has allowed us to have a voice in standing up for what is right and wrong. The culture has been embedded into our DNA, and will continue now we are ‘Old Boys’. The last day we walked out of the school grounds, all students felt a sense of confidence and belief that this College has developed and taught the young men of the future to be successful brothers, partners, fathers and leaders.

The legacy of the College is what makes us motivated every day to be better, the motivation to ensure the year levels below us are exposed to tremendous role models for their future endeavours at the Park. A special legacy that we leave behind is the unity between the Seniors and Juniors of the College. The bond between the students is unbreakable. To me, this is what it means to be an Ignatius Park College student. Past, present and future, all students who wear the badge will forever be a part of a band of brothers. 2020 has been a year of learning. I have been honoured to wear the badge upon my heart for the past six years. Ignatius Park College, forever and always.

Jared Mitchell | College Captain