We have come to the end of 2024, and it is a time to reflect with real pride.
In past weeks we have celebrated at concerts, Christmas plays, P+F picnics, speech days, farewells, Film Festivals, drama performances and graduations. Each of them are rites of passage that we expect at this time of year, but each of them shine lights on tremendous success and achievement.
Every time we watch a performance, a student walk across a stage, a certificate passed between hands or a trophy held high it is a reminder of all that creates that moment. The rehearsals, practices, failed attempts, perseverance, effort and energy are often invisible, but they are what lay the foundations of success. That is what we really celebrate.
On Friday 25 October we farewelled the Year 12 class of 2024 at their Graduation Dinner, and today we celebrate their success on the release of their SACE results. We are enormously proud of their academic achievement as a cohort, with tremendous individual performances that rank amongst the best in South Australia.
- 5 students achieving an ATAR over 99
- 47 students achieving an ATAR over 90
- 52% of all grades awarded being A-grades in Stage 2 subjects
- 42 Individual SACE Merits and 13 High Distinctions in Accelerated University subjects
✅ Our detailed analysis of their results are available here.
The fruits of Year 12’s work over their senior years opens doors beyond our gates in a broad range of ways. While much of the media coverage will focus on the ATAR as a measure of success, we know that reducing schooling to a single metric does not tell the story. We graduate students who will chase diverse pathways and do extraordinary things in so many contexts. We are equally proud of our students with plans to head into tertiary study here and overseas in 2025, and of those who graduate with Certificate II and III qualifications from VET programs giving them an accelerated entry into apprenticeships and traineeships.
I wish all Scotch families the best for Christmas and the new year, and hope that the annual school break is an opportunity to reconnect and reenergise after a busy year. Safe travels, and I look forward to crossing paths with everyone as we come back together at the start of 2025.
Trent Driver
Principal
