THE FACE OF THE FUTURE

If you found the transition from primary to high school a bit daunting, spare a thought for Zoe Mavromatis. In 2015, she made the leap from her primary state school in the western Darling Downs town of Chinchilla to boarding at John Paul College in Daisy Hill, south of Brisbane. Like many country kids, it meant she had to cope with the multiple challenges of moving away from home and family and all that was familiar. She went from being the student who could walk to school to living more than four hours’ drive away from her parents. It also involved changing from a school with a few hundred students to one with almost 2000 students from early learning to year 12.