Celebrating with Families

It has been wonderful to be able to welcome grandparents, mothers, fathers and other significant people in the students’ lives, back on campus this year and to celebrate the importance of each one.

ELC Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Morning Junior School Mothers’ Day Celebration

The ELC Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Morning on 30 May featured a beautiful performance from the children. The visitors enjoyed Morning Tea with the children before visiting the Joigny Centre. Mothers' Day was celebrated with a special stall organised by parents Phoebe Malouf and Kate Sanchez. The function for mothers' and children began with an outstanding performance by the Junior School children for the visitors and this was followed by a Morning Tea.

Mother Daughter Lunch

Senior School students and their mothers celebrated the Mother Daughter Lunch at Le Montage on 7 May with over 600 guests attending. Erica Eather (Year 12) and Emma Smith, mother of Eva (Year 12) and Amelia (KRB 2021), gave wonderful speeches about the special relationship between mothers and daughters.

Year 12 Mothers' Lunch

A lunch for Year 12 mothers and relatives was held on 2 September, the first of a number of events to celebrate the Graduating Class of 2022. Karen Ricardo, mother of Lily (2018) and Charlotte (Year 12), spoke movingly of her time as a mother of two boarders, the support that her family had experienced during the drought and the friendships made with day and boarding parents.

“I did not realize how much we would gain, how much my family would gain as a whole .. I had no idea how much I would be enriched or nurtured all these years or the beautiful friendships I would make. I dreamed of all those things for my daughters but not for myself … it has simply changed our lives.”

Fathers' Day

Fathers' Day was celebrated with a stall, a breakfast for Junior School Children and their dads or carers on 1 and 2 September and a Dinner at The Hyatt Regency on 3 September for Senior School students. A number of fathers whose eldest daughter was graduating in 2022 were acknowledged for being a KRB or a Sacred Heart school parent for ten years or more, or a boarder parent for six years or more.