A word from the Principal
Alan Salt
I understand how clichéd this is, but I can’t really think of a better analogy: life is rather like
a canvas. With each passing year, a new brushstroke is applied; a vivid shade, a brighter hue,
an illustration of your mounting experience. All that you see and learn, everything you take in
throughout your life, is exhibited on this canvas… though, eventually, you need to step back and
properly look at it. The vitality of your work, this mosaic of colours, it can’t be seen when you are
standing a foot away from it. A measurement of how far back you need to stand is determined by
how long you have been painting – for me, it’s been nine years.
After a decade of living in Totnes, it is time for me to buy a frame for my painting is nearly finished.
When I complete my final exams this Summer, I won’t have just finished Year 13. Soon after, I will
be going home. I will be returning to Australia for a working gap year, to fly across the country
searching for universities as well as the culture of a homeland I amyet to properly explore. Expanses
of red desert, sliced by roads so long you reach the horizon four times before seeing another car.
Another cliché would be to call this a 'learning journey', but it is more than that – it is the initiation
of a new period of my life, a new beginning in the place I left almost ten years ago. I am returning
to Australia to once again immerse myself in my heritage, to explore what I have not seen and
am yet to discover. And, when I get there, I will have a startling white canvas ready for me,
shining in the sun. One of life’s most important lessons is to evolve from experience, to look back
on achievements or failures, in whatever colour it appears, and to move onwards. Use the entire
spectrum: paint your past and create your own future, all in living colour.
Liam Heitman-Rice Press Team editor
Student editorial
Kate Mason planting a flowering cherry tree on the Redworth site
Sharon Leighton-Boyce and Alisha Ducie using the new disabled
access path at Kennicott .. thanks to D.C.C. for funding the cost!
I feel both privileged and slightly intimidated to
be asked to write my first editorial for the Courier.
Privileged because a quick glance through this
edition shows not just some of the wonderful
things our students achieve, but also how
eloquently they can describe their experiences.
Intimidated because I am fearful that my own
addition to this edition will pale in comparison
with what our students produce!
Suffice to say that I hope, as you read on, you
are as impressed as I am by our students’
enthusiasm, the great variety that comprises life
at KEVICC, and the dedication that our staff put
into making this such a special place. Alan Salt
Alan taking part in Ready, Steady, Cook
(page 13)
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