Issue 7 Term 3 2021

Welcome to Term 3 and what a start it has been! It wasn't quite the way we were expecting to start the term. 

Once again, we would like to thank you for your incredible cooperation as we navigated online learning last week. Our students showed us again, how resilient they are with all that is expected of them. We are very proud of them, and we sincerely thank you for your on going guidance and support with your daughter's learning.

On a different note, we are absolutely delighted to announce that our new building project has commenced:

Introducing Our Tullow Centre (Innovation Hub)

Since 1966 when the Brigidine Sisters arrived in Adelaide and laid the first foundations for Kildare, the focus has always been on the academic and wellbeing needs of our students. History has shown us that the first Brigidine Sisters were risk-takers, resilient and demonstrated that by being creative, innovative and brave (and continue to be) anything is possible. In 1807, six women in response to an invitation from Daniel Delany, established the Brigidine Sisters in Tullow, Ireland.

Hence, we are delighted to announce that our innovation hub will be named the Tullow Centre, in honour of these determined and courageous women.

Purpose and Opportunity | Tullow Centre Design

The Tullow Centre will allow our students to enter a new world that challenges the stereotype of a female learner. It will be a space that inspires creativity, construction and innovation.

The Tullow Centre will provide our existing and future students with a point of difference from other schools.

The building will include the following:

• Large construction area to house Woodwork and Metalwork in an all-girls’ environment.
• High-end STEM, Science and Digital Technology rooms
• Media Studio with green screen and soundproof booths
• Auditorium for presentations and break out study spaces
• 3 General Classrooms to cater for expanding student enrolments.
• First Floor Terrace connected to the classrooms
• Conference Room
• The facade itself will encapsulate innovation, which will feature a canopy constructed of glass solar panels linked to a digital information screen within the Lobby space. This will enable students to see energy production in action and experience innovation from the moment they enter the Tullow Centre.

Tullow Centre Architects and Builders | Walter Brooke Architects and        Sarah Constructions

Over the past year, we have been working with Walter Brooke Architects developing this incredible new state of art innovation hub. We are also delighted to announce that Sarah Constructions have been engaged to construct the building.

Walter Brooke and Sarah Constructions also designed and built our award-winning Brigidine Centre.

Schedule | Timeline for the project

The Tullow Centre will be ready for full occupancy in mid-2022.

It is with great anticipation and excitement for our College community, that the Tullow Centre will enhance creative learning in an interactive space, which is truly reflective of society's modern, divergent, flexible and dynamic thinking.

We will keep you posted along the way as we build this incredible new innovation hub for our College community.

Thank you for your support.

Best wishes always

Tina Neate
Principal

Welcome to Term 3. We hope that families made the most of the mid-year break and then navigated the one week of lockdown and online learning. Our students have restarted this week with great enthusiasm and have taken to the wearing of face masks in their stride.

Term 3 marks a busy term for Senior Years students; Year 12 students will begin to conclude their studies at Kildare College and Year 10 and 11 students will begin to plan for 2022 and beyond.

Our Middle Years cohort has enjoyed an interrupted but enriching start to Term 3 through our transition to online learning and the continued exploration of positive education.

On Sunday 25 July our church celebrated, for the first time, World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. The date was chosen to coincide with the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. The theme for the day is, “I am with you always” (Mt28:20).

PRAYER FOR THE FIRST WORLD DAY FOR GRANDPARENTS AND THE ELDERLY

I thank You, Lord,
for the comfort of Your presence:
even in times of loneliness,
You are my hope and my confidence,
You have been my rock and my fortress since my youth!

I thank You for having given me a family
and for having blessed me with a long life.
I thank You for moments of joy and difficulty,
for the dreams that have already come true in my life and for
those that are still ahead of me.
I thank You for this time of renewed fruitfulness to which
You call me.

Increase, O Lord, my faith,
make me a channel of your peace,
teach me to embrace those who suffer more than me,
to never stop dreaming
and to tell of your wonders to new generations.

Protect and guide Pope Francis and the Church,
that the light of the Gospel might reach the ends of the earth.
Send Your Spirit, O Lord, to renew the world,
that the storm of the pandemic might be calmed,
the poor consoled and wars ended.

Sustain me in weakness
and help me to live life to the full
in each moment that You give me,
in the certainty that you are with me every day,
even until the end of the age.

Amen.