Edition Four 24 MARCH 2023
THE DRAGON FORTNIGHTLY NEWS AND EVENTS FOR ST GEORGE’S PARENTS
From the Principal Tina Campbell
The ACC Swimming Championships this week were a wonderful example of team spirit at its absolute best. A strong and united whole team effort saw St George’s take out victory at the ACC Division E Swimming Carnival held at HBF Stadium. St George’s were able to work together to secure the win 104 points ahead of their nearest rival. Team St George’s was elevated from F Division in the last carnival series of 2021, so to win the E Division so convincingly was a fantastic result for the team. Congrats Team St George’s!
more successful. This has been evidenced this week across a multitude of different areas where the sense of being part of a St George’s Team has shone particularly brightly. As a small school community, we create several wide-ranging opportunities for our students to be part of a broad cross-section of teams. Whether this be on the sporting field, through a variety of our co-curricular endeavours, in the classroom, or as members of our wonderful vertical PCG groups, there are many opportunities for all St George’s students to be part of a team across multiple year groups and with a wide variety of different students – they just need to sign up and seek to be part of the team.
Being part of a team is a vital and integral part of life as a student within a school-based setting. Collegiality, collaboration, developing the capacity to listen and learn from others by interacting with a broad cross section of society, enhancing one’s own happiness and sense of self, and consistently trying one’s best all emerge naturally from being part of a well-oiled team.
We have a culture of students getting involved, underpinned obviously by a genuine sense of curiosity to try something new and to develop and master their current skill set – from joining our Debating or Mock Trial teams, to being involved in the ACC Swim Squad with its early morning training sessions, to being selected as a member of our SRC, an Anglicare Ambassador or a PCG Mentor or even being committed to the St George’s Worlds’ Greatest Shave
The American Psychologist released ‘The Science of Teamwork’ in 2020, a study of a body of evidence that found that working in a team actually makes you smarter, more creative and overall, much 1
St. George's Anglican Grammar School – THE DRAGON