Principal's Message T4 W10 2021

What’s Not To Love

If you are a camper like me you will probably have a recurring ad for a T-Shirt come up on your social media spaces that says, I love my wife with a picture of a tent under it.

Upon closer inspection the shirt actually says, I love it when my wife lets me go camping with some of the words written so small you can hardly read them. I mean, what’s not to love?

I am a lucky man, I both love my wife and love it when we go camping. We recently did the thing that people do as they age and upgraded our canvas camper to a hybrid model. It has a few more luxuries and is much easier to set up making life easier for my aging bones. I look forward to those few opportunities we get each year, to hook up the van and head out into the bush. There is nothing quite like being on the beach or camped next to a rainforest stream. Bell birds piping in the trees while you sip on a coffee and ease lazily into a much-delayed novel or flick through a magazine you bought at the servo on the way out of town.

I mean what’s not to love?

Camping has always been part of the tradition of Lutheran Schools too. Sometimes we head up to the hills, other times to the beach, we may be little Preppies or Year 1 students and just ‘Stay Up Late’ at school or big Year 12’s who spend the night sleeping under cardboard as part of their Service Learning program around homelessness. The importance of learning and experiencing life outside the four walls of the classroom is well documented, and, probably the stuff we remember more once we have left school many years down the track.

Holidays will be here soon enough and the opportunities for camping that come along with them. For now, we work through these busy weeks of term, we get stuck into the very meat on the haunches of our learning and approach things like parent teacher meetings, end of term assessment tasks, carnivals and of course our upcoming Holy Week services.

I mean, what’s not to love?

Shane Altmann
Principal