In 2023 Gleeson College enters its 35th year of providing excellent education in the Northeast of Adelaide and has now fully incorporated Year 7 into secondary education, growing to almost 900 students. It is increasingly evident that secondary schooling provides a journey for students which takes them from the dependency of their early middle years to the search for personal excellence in their senior years and finally to the development of a life-long educational foundation as they venture forth into the world. The journey requires a metaphorical compass which our college community will provide. It is our hope that as the journey takes shape, student agency allows our young people to take hold of the compass and navigate their own path through secondary education and into society at large. Developing thriving people of service with integrity and a love for others and all of creation is the first half of the equation (the heart); preparing each person for lifelong learning and to have a sense of purpose in the world (the mind) completes it. And so we move into the next part of our future together on this journey of the heart and expedition of the mind. Joe Corbo, Principal