WelCom June/July 2024
Belinda Backwell, Principal, St Marcellin School
Taniela Rasable, Year 7, a student at St Marcellin School’s students, won a speech-writing competition last year to be ‘Principal for the Day. Taniela’s speech was very convincing about all the things he would do if he was Principal for the day at our school.
This year, on Friday 10 May, Taniela actually got to undertake his ‘Principalship’ and help run our school for the day. Taniela had to plan the activities he wanted to do. On the day, he checked some invoices for payment and ran some errands down at Mitre 10, where he sourced and bought plant trays for the senior class to start their bean plant life cycle project the following week. We put on a special morning tea for Taniela and he had a meeting with our presiding Board Chair, Sandy Cuff.
Next, Taniela planned some fun activities for all the students. They had a scavenger hunt and quiz, which was lots of fun. We had organised to borrow the Whanganui Community Sports Trailer from Sport Whanganui and all the students had lots of fun playing with the various sporting equipment.
Taniela’s final job for the day was our school assembly and handing out ice blocks to the students as they went home. What a great day it was for everyone and a fantastic job by Taniela as Principal.
