Our Community
Mullumbimby is a meeting place that has long welcomed all kinds of people from all kinds of places. Our School community is diverse but connected, creative, passionate, joyful.
We provide regular opportunities for community involvement in school activities, and actively encourage the regular participation of parents, students, teachers and alumni in the social and cultural life of the School, through festivals and celebrations, concerts and plays, school projects and excursions, as well as planning and study groups.
Strong and enduring relationships between staff and students and between the students themselves are a hallmark of a Shearwater education. Our graduates frequently return to visit, to work, to share their successes and to enrol their children! The School lives deeply in them, as they do in us.
Mullumbimby is a meeting place that has long welcomed all kinds of people from all kinds of places. Our School community is diverse but connected, creative, passionate, joyful.
We provide regular opportunities for community involvement in school activities, and actively encourage the regular participation of parents, students, teachers and alumni in the social and cultural life of the School, through festivals and celebrations, concerts and plays, school projects and excursions, as well as planning and study groups.
Strong and enduring relationships between staff and students and between the students themselves are a hallmark of a Shearwater education. Our graduates frequently return to visit, to work, to share their successes and to enrol their children! The School lives deeply in them, as they do in us.
The Board
The School Board of Directors governs the administrative, legal and business matters of the School.
The School Board of Directors governs the administrative, legal and business matters of the School.
The College
At the heart of this school lies the College, which is responsible for the educational philosophy and direction of the School. The College is open to all Shearwater staff and meets weekly. Teachers are invited to share the work of their class, the content of their lessons, and discuss the progress of their pupils.
The Parent Community
The Parent community takes responsibility for fundraising, community liaison and other initiatives. The families forming the school community may also share in the rich cultural life of the school through its festivals and celebrations, concerts and plays, school projects and excursions, planning and study groups.
The Student Representative Council
The Student Representative Council, with its two elected representatives from each Class (8 to 11), gives students an avenue to express their thoughts, needs and concerns to the College of Teachers and the School Board.