The Investiture of Student Leaders Ceremony took place on Thursday 22 February and is one of our formal College events each year. It is an opportunity to celebrate and formally induct our new College leaders for 2024 and wish them well as they begin their leadership journey for the coming school year. For our ceremony this year we welcomed our past College Captains from Catholic Regional College Sydenham, as well as our special guest 2019 College Captain Martin Nguyen, parents, students and staff.

The ceremony included formally inducting our College Captain Rita Yousef and College Deputy Captains Lucas Previti, Tomasso Corrente and Tileah Tabone. This part of the Investiture Ceremony included the passing over of leadership through the symbol of a lighted candle and the leadership journals which signify the work our College Captains for 2024 will accomplish. All student leaders from Years 8-10 were introduced to our College community and given their leadership pins which were blessed by Deacon Cris. Our student leaders recited their leadership pledge in front of the entire student cohort where they promised to uphold the traditions and culture of Catholic Regional College Caroline Springs.

College Captain for 2024, Rita Yousef, gave her address and made special mention of how past leaders and her parents have inspired her to be the leader she is today. We were also very blessed to invite Martin Nguyen back to the College to give his reflection on his experience of being a student leader and the impact the College has had on his personal journey since leaving. Martin highlighted the importance of being a servant leader and spoke about what it means to have a vocation and the influence that can have when working within a community. It was a real privilege to have Martin present to our students and we are very proud of all that he has achieved so far.

We look forward to what our student leaders will achieve this year, the work they will do, proposals they will put forward and how they will continue to be great young role models within our school community.

Katie Murray-Fawcett
Deputy Principal of Wellbeing