To call Ms. Boyall, a “ball of fire”, would be similar to calling albert Einstein “a smart fella.” We don’t believe it would be an overstatement to say that since 2013, when she assumed her current responsibilities, she has energized not only her students, her teaching team, but also the community at large. We can truthfully say that her charisma penetrated even the coldness of the Zoom technology that Covid restrictions forces The Club to employ. In her tenure as Principal, she has positioned the student as the centre of the school and the focus of their teaching efforts. She told us that she has a motto that serves as her guiding force: We Do It Together.
Ms. Boyall started as Principal at Katoomba High in 2013 when the school had only 520 students. Now in 2021 there are 970, with "an increasing number of students moving into their senior years and completing their HSC", she said. Ms. Boyall has the energy of three nuclear reactors going full tilt. She has the vision, smarts, gumption, and the determination to change the lives of every single one of her students. I am sure that we all wish we had had a Principal such as Jenny when we were in High School. How different some of our lives might have been. How many mistakes could have been avoided. How much further we could have gone.
The educational world has taken notice of her accomplishments. recently being awarded one of only three Harvard Principal Scholarships in Australia for 2021.
Once COVID restrictions ease and she is able to travel to the United States, she will participate in a professional education leadership program, valued at $16,000, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
We can only say that if there were a Nobel Prize awarded for practitioners of secondary education, Ms. Boyall would be on everyone’s short list.
Well done, Jenny. You have certainly made The Blue Mountains proud of you.
Ms. Boyall is equal parts "thrilled" and "humbled" after recently being awarded one of only three Harvard Principal Scholarships in Australia for 2021.
Once COVID restrictions ease and she is able to travel to the United States, she will participate in a professional education leadership program, valued at $16,000, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "It is recognition for the work we have all done, in making Katoomba High the school of choice in the Upper Blue Mountains. It is a great example of what can be achieved when parents, students and community work together in genuine partnership," she said.
The scholarship will start next year with a trip to the oldest institution of higher learning in America and also one of the most prestigious in the world - Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As someone who knows Boston very well, our parting words to her were simple and to the point: you must have the clam chowder. As New York is famous for its hot dogs and Paris for steak au poivre, Boston is world-renowned for its thick cream-based soup overflowing with freshly shucked local clams, leeks, potatoes, onions and special herbs and spices.
Bon Appetite, Jenny.