It is a CGS tradition each year for our youngest student and our Head Boy to get together and plant a tree as a symbol of a child's journey through the School.

This year, our youngest student is Oliver Koch, in Pre School Green and our School Captain, Bradley Carron-Arthur, will join him. The tree planting ceremony will take place on Tuesday, 20 March at 10.30am, in front of the school with many Senior School boys and the ELC children, together with our Headmaster and Head of the Primary School.

As these two students together pile soil around the new little tree, we are reminded of how vulnerable yet full of potential our children are as they begin their journey at CGS, just as a tree needs nurturing as it grows and gains strength on its journey to maturity.

Bradley has his own blog on the front page of Grammar Central, and if you keep an eye on his writing, you can really get to know Bradley from many different perspectives.

Oliver, not yet able to write, needs us at this stage, to write for him. Maybe one day he too will have a blog in Grammar Central, but for now, we can let you know that he is just three years old and he has a big sister, Isabelle who is in Year 4 at Canberra Girls' Grammar School. His Mum and Dad are Jacqueline and Robert, and he has many cousins living in Canberra to keep him company. At School Oliver loves to build and to draw and to play with his many friends.

We look forward to sharing Oliver's days at School as he grows, and develops his strengths and interests, just as we have been an important part of Bradley's development at CGS.

We wish both boys well as they face a very different year in 2007, and as they move on in their life's journeys.