Somerset Lifetimes 2020

Contents 3 From the Headmaster 6 Somerset@Home - Learning During a Pandemic 8 Somerset@Home - A Student Perspective 18 Blaze Aid 20 Tribute to Founding Teacher 23 New Staff 24 Staff Updates - Babies 25 The Alumni Chapter - Volume 2, 2020 26 Alumni Updates - Aptly Awarded Alumna Receives Royal Recognition INSIDE THIS ISSUE

27 Alumni Updates - Former Student Researches Covid Vaccine 29 Alumni Updates - Babies 30 Alumni Updates - Achievements 31 Alumni - A Few Years Down the Track 34 Alumni Staff - Forrest Butcher (Class of 1994)

10 Innovative Junior Spaces 12 Cover Story - Art Drives Reconciliation 14 Junior School Musical - Peter Pan 16 House Plays 2020 Information Somerset Lifetimes is published twice a year by Somerset College to share items of topical interest relating to overall activities of College life and the greater Somerset community. Cover Photo: The article on page 12, Art as a Vehicle of Reconciliation explains the background to this art featured in a new meeting space as part of the newly constructed Aitkenhead Building. Editor: Narelle Higgs

Contributing Photographers: Paul Broben, Mick Kirby, Kate Grigg Acknowledgements: Thank you to Tayla Haynes for assisting in layout and to Linda Keefer, Wendy Bacon and John Bacon for their review and editing assistance.

Layout: Narelle Higgs Contributing Writers:

Craig Bassingthwaighte, Jenna Goldie, Georgina Powell, Rebecca Collie, Jacinta Mai, Allison Foster, Kate Grigg, Brad Walker, Bev Gallus, Julia Crilly, Larisa Labzin, Julian Van der Waal, Forrest Butcher

Somerset Alumni Association All students become life members of the Somerset Alumni Association, founded in shared experience and comradery. The Association seeks to create, nurture, and grow positive and mutually beneficial associations within the College community.

All College alumni can access the Association, simply visit us on any of our networks. This network is your network, so come and join us! For further information regarding the Association, please contact our Community Relations Office: Instagram: @ReturnToSomerset | www.instagram.com/ReturnToSomerset Facebook: /ReturnToSomerset | www.facebook.com/ReturnToSomerset Linkedin: /in/ReturnToSomerset | www.linkedin.com/in/ReturnToSomerset Web: SomerNet.com.au | www.SomerNet.com.au Email: alumni@somerset.qld.edu.au Phone: 07 5559 7100 Mail: Community Relations Office Somerset College Somerset Drive Mudgeeraba Qld 4213

The Association also provides all members with a copy of the College’s annual Somerset Lifetimes publication, and works to contact our many Association members with information about upcoming events and engagement opportunities.

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