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The Power of Reading
I have always loved reading; it is the ideal break for me, especially in winter when the open fire is burning. However, I know it isn’t...

Karen McCoy
Mar 5, 20243 min read
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Trusting and Straight Paths
5Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your...

Karen McCoy
Sep 16, 20212 min read
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Winter leads to Spring
I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the...

Karen McCoy
Jul 29, 20212 min read
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Being 'In' Community
We often hear people refer to their community – sometimes they are referring to a close-knit group they belong to, but they are often...

Karen McCoy
Mar 5, 20212 min read
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Head, Heart, Hand: The way of education
In this third Part of looking at the topic of ‘What we Believe Informs our Actions’, I want to delve a little into what we believe about...

Karen McCoy
Feb 18, 20202 min read
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Influence = Leading
Supporting and empowering students to influence their world with integrity. It has become commonly acceptable in leadership literature to...

Karen McCoy
Sep 3, 20182 min read
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Clarifying Our Vision
Through the many discussions about why we exist as a school and how that should be reflected in our vision statement, it became very...

Karen McCoy
Aug 17, 20182 min read
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Living Change
I never liked school; well I think I was neutral about primary school but I really didn’t like secondary school. Curiously though, I was...

Karen McCoy
Mar 7, 20183 min read
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Creating
I must admit that there is some degree of nervous trepidation along with huge amounts of excitable expectation in the knowledge th at we...

Karen McCoy
Mar 2, 20182 min read
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Out Motto: Wisdom
Our purpose is that you may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that you may have the full riches of complete understanding, in...

Karen McCoy
Feb 28, 20182 min read
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A look at our Motto: Christ
Our purpose is that you may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that you may have the full riches of complete understanding, in...

Karen McCoy
Feb 26, 20182 min read
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The Power of the Mind
Our mind can be our greatest asset or our greatest hindrance, ‘for as he thinks, so he is’. In other words, whatever we focus on we...

Karen McCoy
Jun 15, 20172 min read
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Enrol Now - Year 7 & 8
We don't want you to miss out on stepping boldly with us into an exciting educational future. We have been planning our step into...

Karen McCoy
Apr 13, 20171 min read
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Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Perfect love casts out fear… Have you ever stopped and really thought about this statement. This phrase taken from I John 4:18 ‘Perfect...

Karen McCoy
Sep 16, 20163 min read
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Preparing Students to Influence their World with Integrity
In a world where reality television programs, YouTube, Facebook and other like social media avenues give people a readymade audience, and...

Karen McCoy
Sep 16, 20162 min read
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Beliefs and Actions P3
In this third Part of looking at the topic of ‘What we Believe Informs our Actions’, I want to delve a little into what we believe about...

Karen McCoy
May 26, 20162 min read
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Beliefs and Actions P2
What we believe informs our actions – Part II Following on from last week where I presented the core beliefs that inform our wellbeing...

Karen McCoy
May 19, 20163 min read
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Beliefs and Actions
What we believe informs our actions. This is the focus of our staff discussions at present: What we believe about God, what we believe...

Karen McCoy
May 16, 20162 min read
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I'm thinking about You
‘How many are your thoughts oh Lord, so many more than grains of sand in the sea. And if I tried to count them all I know how so...

Karen McCoy
Sep 30, 20152 min read
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The Big and the Little
Romans 12:2 says, “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.’ Recently I wrote about the importance of knowing our vision so that...

Karen McCoy
Sep 30, 20152 min read
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