The love that flows through your heart purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.
– St. Valentine
Our school community celebrated our annual Love Week leading up to Valentine’s Day in February 2025. Love Week is a fun-filled, community-based event that focuses on celebrating all forms of love. This is to encourage students to move away from the commercialised hype of Valentine’s Day and to challenge us to embrace love in all its forms and in all aspects of our lives; our friends, ourselves, environment, culture, faith, and school.
It started with a bang on Monday, ‘Love Yourself Day’ which saw students across year groups come together and braid each other’s hair, write positive affirmations for one another, and celebrate each other’s individuality. On Tuesday we continued to spread the love for ‘Love Your Culture Day’ as students left a stamp of their culture on a community banner and united in the piazza with a celebration of busking and traditional cultural music.
The festivities only ramped up on Wednesday, ‘Love Your Earth Day’ as students flocked to the piazza with their reusable cups ready for a free scoop of icecream in order to support small and realistic, sustainable habits that we can build in order to show love for our earth. The environmental theme continued with a screening of The Lorax in the Lecture Theatre.
It was double trouble on Thursday, with a joint celebration of loving our Friends and Faith. In appreciation of friendship, students shared photos and memories of themselves and their friends to be displayed across the school. During lunchtime mass, celebrated with Fr. Kim, staff and students came together to honour Christ as the epitome of love and sacrifice embodied in the Eucharist.
‘Love Your School Day’ came to a spectacular close with the sounds of engines revving as Year 12 announced their much anticipated Year 12 theme ‘2025: Ready, Set, Drive.’ Staff and students gathered to watch the Theme Launch on the field as Year 12 made a commitment to help each other, move forward together, and drive change together in their final year at the College.
We are so grateful for the incredible time we had in Love Week, and we hope it served as a much needed reminder that…
…love actually is all around.
2025 Student Leadership Team
