It’s difficult to know where to begin this week’s blog with so much happening at the moment…welcoming new students, dramas with buses, amazing football games, Mariners crowned champions and the list goes on….
So I stop to reflect on where we are now and what we have achieved so far. It’s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day dramas of our lives, the mountain of paperwork and emails, the needs of our family and friends which at times can feel overwhelming.
I come back to the knowledge that ours is an organisation of like-minded people, striving to achieve our potential. I reflect on the relationships which are developing at IFS, believing with all my heart here is the fundamental fabric of our college. Our success can only be measured by the willingness of our learners to seek support when needed, to feel provoked when they need to be pushed, to develop the inner drive to demand more of themselves and those around them. It is so important that our students and families feel they are supported,for our staff to know they are respected and cared for. In the end we are working for the same outcome, to create an environment where anything is possible.
As Sir Ken Robinson says, our role as educational leaders is not to command and control, but rather, to control the climate. For us at IFS, that is to create a climate of possibility.
Norm Brew says
The way you gauge that a college is doing great things is when its students are keen to attend, when at the end of each day you when you ask how they went at college you cant get them to shutup, and most of all by the smile on their face and the way they tell other proudly, that thay attend IFS.
As a parent I thank all the teachers and coachers for the job you have all done so far, in such a short time.
To all the students, appriciate and cheerish the oppotunity that has been given to you.