Erin Wright steps up to SCSC’s top job

This comes as principal Scott Diamond leaves the school after eight years in the role.

Ms Wright has been with the school since it was founded and is eager to build on the positive environment the school has created for teachers and students alike.

“The main thing is that we have such happy kids here. I see one of the greatest responsibilities that we have as the growth of happy, resilient young people, and I’m very happy with that culture.

“Our staff work in really strong teams across the school and the result of that has been that this year we’ve had some of the strongest data sets indicating our student achievement is strong and improving.”

Mr Diamond said Ms Wright has played a significant role in shaping the school’s culture.

“She’s been just a huge, huge driver in the success that we have at our school. She’s a highly intelligent and motivated school professional and she has an amazing sense of justice for the young people that she works with.

“She’s going to do an amazing job as the acting principal to start with and whatever else comes after that.”

Much like Mr Diamond, Ms Wright places a great importance on giving the students agency over their learning.

She said this was one of the main things she was looking to continue.

“That’s a really strong passion of mine. I’m actually starting a student voice cluster with some local primary schools next year so we can expand that and maybe some of our students can teach some of the younger students that will come here about how they can positively participate in their student community and the wider community.

“We need to know as much as we can about every student and the individual student, not just groups of students, so that we are best placed to support every student in their development.”

Ms Wright said that while it was nice to see the school perform well statistically, they looked to “celebrate individuals” rather than numbers.