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Dear parents,   Everywhere I turn, it's Michelle Milthorpe. When I catch up on some news on YouTube, there she is again. We don't get a residential postal service in Jindera, but that's not stopping Michelle Milthorpe. When I unlock the parcel compartment of the letterbox, I half expect to see her jump out to hand me a flyer.   The Farrer by-election feels quite different to a general election, which tends to be marked by the  de facto  presidentialisation we are long accusto

Dear parents,   The House Cross Country will be run and won this coming Tuesday at the Jindera Country Club. While it is the most accessible sporting carnival, it is also the most testing of students' resolve and persevering spirit. When will I give up, is the question that may not become consciously considered even while it is being actively implemented.   At the end of his life, St Paul talks about being spent, literally 'poured out in sacrifice.' "I have fought the good fi

Dear parents,   The skeleton. Not the one in the Science lab, the one at the Winter Olympics. Have you seen it? It's when someone rides a mechanic's creeper on their tummy, headfirst at 140k/h on a thin track composed entirely of ice and death. The latter looks to be a heartbeat away, which I suppose is why we watch it in horror, but watch nonetheless.   Lent can feel like the skeleton. We dive in head first only to wonder early on whether we've made a terrible mistake. But,

Dear parents,   What a delight to welcome students back to school this week! I hope you've had a happy and relatively productive start. Sometimes it's the anticipation that kills me, while the getting-back-into-it is a relief.   The first day of school coincided with the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in which Simeon's long-held anticipation of the Saviour's coming was rewarded by the sight of Jesus. His expectant faith was a sign of the trust that issued from God to S