We hope that you are all ready to start the year with excitement and passion, establishing an energetic spirit which will carry us through the school year. We are ready to lead you on your journey at college and walk beside you as you face the many brief challenges and exciting opportunities that you will encounter, encouraging you to embrace them with an open mindset. We aspire to foster a community which can support everyone and help them achieve their best. We want our culture to be inclusive, encouraging and unifying.

As a united prefect group, our priority is to GUIDE. Not only walk alongside each and every individual, but to lead through service and example. We will do this through:

Generosity

Unity

Inspiration

Determination

Empowerment 

This year will be full of opportunities, whether it be in house events, APS sport, co-curricular activities or academics, we urge you to take full advantage of everything this wonderful place has to offer. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such knowledge, experience and wisdom, and by fully immersing ourselves in the College culture we all gain a unifying sense of gratitude and real-life experiences. Let’s get involved and do something that makes you happy as it is almost certainly the right decision. 

Although it may be difficult to shift out of the holiday mindset, we would like to encourage everyone to focus on making good first impressions and setting yourselves up well for the year early on. Furthermore, we would like you all to start setting realistic goals and aspirations that you can work towards and achieve through the year. Set your goals high and focus on your progress. It is important to value the journey as much as the final outcome. These goals will look different for everyone and will hopefully help motivate you, giving you something to strive for. 

As Paulo Coelho once said, “when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” 

We know that you will all make the most out of this year and make it the best one possible. However, we urge you to make your health a top priority. Keep building healthy habits, enjoy doing what you do and find a comfortable balance between school, commitments and your own personal wellbeing. Only you will know when you can work that little extra more or give yourself that well-deserving break. 

Please feel free to reach out to us or to our wonderful prefect team as we would love to get to know you and support you on your journey. Know that you are not alone, and that the entire College community will have your back, whether that be on Derby Day or during the stressful exam period.

We wish you all the best for your 2026 schooling journey and we look forward to seeing everyone smashing their goals and achieving amazing things. Let’s make this a year where we can support each other through our ups and downs, celebrate our successes and achievements as well as take pride in everything we do at the college.

2026 School Co-Captains