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DAVID HOBSON NAMED GSC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION

On January 28th, 2020, the GSC Appointments committee met and deliberated on who to appoint as Executive Director of Education for GSC. That decision was ratified by the GSC Schools Board of Education on the 29th of January 2020.

"It gives me pleasure to introduce Mr David Hobson as Executive Director of Education. We believe that he will do a wonderful job in this new role,” said Terry Johnson, President of Greater Sydney Conference.

David comes to us from the North New South Wales Conference. He is a highly experienced educator with over 29 years in the field. David taught for 15 years as a classroom teacher and has 14 years in executive leadership (Deputy, Principal, Manager of Operations to name a few).

David is married to Megan and has two adult sons.

MVAC Student stands out in gymnastics

Gabriel, a Year 11 student of Mountain View Adventist College, recently placed first in the NSW Gymnastics State Trial 2, Level 7 competition.

Competing against 22 other competitors, Gabriel trains 20 hours a week and is also actively involved in school music as well as his regular studies.

Gabriel competes in all of the gymnastic disciplines and his favourite apparatus is the pommel horse.

Hurstville Primary School Students sharpen leadership skills

We took our student leaders from Hurstville Adventist School to Grip Leadership Conference. They were encouraged in their role as leaders and have already been discussing activities that they can run in our school to make a difference, to help our students and to give back to the community. We are very proud of them!

Mountain View College Celebrates Grandparents

There was excitement in the air amongst students in chapel and in class as our special guests joined us for a day in school. It was great to see students having grandparents in classrooms. They made other students whose grandparents weren’t available feel just as loved. – Staff member Mountain View College

Macarthur Adventist College Hosted Year 9-12 Day of Worship

Connecting over food and worshipping together is the purpose of the event. Our speakers were inspiring for the kids. Darlene Mene shared her gift of creative movement, Janice Fereti shared her passion for spoken word while, and Cassie Wallace shared her gift of singing.

Pastor Alexis said, “It was an awesome two days where students connected with their peers and where inspired to pursue Gods leading in their lives.”

Big Takeaway: God Dares you to be all that He has created you to be. – Daniel Lavaiamat

Hills Adventist College Students Help Clean Up Australia

Some of our Junior School students recently participated in the annual ‘Clean up Australia Day!’ initiative.

Time was taken thoroughly to tidy up and sort any rubbish found around our campuses. This activity also complimented our current geography unit which is about looking after places that are special to us. Students really enjoyed using their hands to help!

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