By Mr Andy Gordon, Interim Principal

Where do you put the tired?

Term One is leaving us behind and it has been full of learning opportunities and engagement experiences that leave all in our community energised, surprised and sometimes starting to fatigue. Feeling tired doesn’t need to be a negative space or place. It is exactly where we are meant to be. It means we have grown, have moved forward, put in effort.

Author and blogger Seth Godin suggests that everyone who runs a marathon gets tired. So the challenge in running a marathon, isn’t to not feel tired, but to figure out a strategy of where to put the tired. No matter who you are, where you are or what you are doing, this short video from Seth might be the four minutes you need.

We want your stories

As we celebrate our 40^th year, we would love to hear from collegians (students and staff).

We would love you to complete and share this form with friends, family, colleagues, who you know have been a part of the Radford community.

We look forward to bringing these stories from our shared history to you in the coming weeks and months.

Two Best Friends: When things are great, good or a bit rocky | Complaints Handling

As we continue into our 40th year we look towards the future and think about the kind of College and community we can be. There are many parts to this and the most important is to be honest with ourselves. I normally have a saying that goes “our capacity to receive feedback will be our ceiling.” It is reasonable to believe that most in our community have a view on how we perform and where we can improve. It is also a reality that the majority of legislative acts and regulations that apply to education, independent schools, working with vulnerable people, child protection, early childcare, workplace health and safety, to name a few, require robust processes for complaints to be received and responded to.

Effective partnerships, strong communication and improvement have two best friends.

Reflecting on what we do on a regular and routine basis is our best friend.

Our other best friend is feedback. Including the feedback that can be defined as a misunderstanding or a complaint.

With this in mind, we feel it is important to be transparent, vulnerable, in the way we have the capacity to hear and understand feedback . . . complaints . . . and opportunities to grow!

Our Public Policies page on our website lists our Complaints Handling Policy, along with our Public Complaints Form. Complaints made via this form are recorded in a register and are allocated to the most appropriate person to follow up on the complaint in a fair and timely process.

Our hope and preference is that as a community we engage with each other with ‘unconditional positive regard’, meaning that we presume good intent, rather than an intentional mean action.

We know that holding each other accountable is important because the work that we do in educating young people for their best post-schooling outcomes, is important.

Best friends want the best for each other. That is our intention.