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For Mullaley Public School have not just welcomed several new kindergarten students into their community, but a new principal as well.
Ben Carter has taken over the reigns as principal of the school and is eager to ensure every student at the school’s dreams are supported.
“My biggest goal is to show our kids that there is a big wide world out there and they are not limited,” Mr Carter said.
“We want to make sure we have happy, healthy, resilient students who are enjoying their time and are active members of the community later on.”
Originally from the NSW far north coast Mr Carter has previously served as a principal in Barham and in the remote NSW town of Claire, an experience which he says will hold him in good stead.
“When I was out at Claire it was one of the three most isolated schools in NSW,” he said.
“It was certainly a challenge but I am firm believer that location doesn’t stipulate or dictate your educational outcome and a big priority for me as principal of Mullaley is to provide our students with the resources to achieve those quality outcomes.”
Mr Carter praised the strength of the Mullaley community and said community engagement would be a high priority for the school in 2018.
“The community has been extremely welcoming to me so far,” he said.
“One thing I want to work on is to really engage with the community and tap into some of the resources that are available to us.”
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The new principal also hopes to increase the school’s number of students during his tenure.
“Like most regional schools we will be looking at increasing our size,” he said.
“We will look at a variety of ways of doing that including hopefully building strong ties with local early learning centres to hopefully form that bond going forward.”
Mr Carter’s role will not be restricted to just principal but teacher as well.
“Along with this role I also teach our grade four,five,six class four-and-a-half days a week as well,” he said.
“It’s great to be able to give the kids all the fundamental stuff they need like English and Maths while being able to link to other things such as science and music.”
Above all, the new principal said he “was very excited” for the new school year.
“Everyone has been very warm, welcoming and supportive and I can’t wait for this year,” he said.
“It will be great to get into it and help lead all these great kids and help put them on the right path so-to-speak.”