Year 10
Over the last week we have been introducing Luminary Representatives with Year 10. Luminary Representatives will be two nominated students from their Luminary group who will take the responsibility for a term for having input, providing feedback and helping to run Luminary time. It is a great opportunity for students to start leading their peers in a safe area along with providing many of the students with this opportunity throughout Year 10 – Year 12. The goal of our Luminary group is to provide that extra level of connection for our students, the goal of the Luminary Representatives will be to attempt to strengthen that connection within their groups. I congratulate our first round of Luminary Representatives. Please see below the nominations for the following Houses.
| Abbeythorpe | Yuuki Onuma and Elena Tulloch |
| Booralee | Jemima Hardy and Zoe Pollard |
| Leawarra | Lilah Randall and Jordan Vo |
| Lester | Hannah Shortus and Yoyo Wu |
| Mooramoora | Genevieve Beattie and Maria Stamoulos |
| Prescott | Kathleen Chrun and Sasha Murray |
| Sutton | Laila Chopra and Leylim Ozer |
| Whitley | Jenny Nguyen and Stella Sivyer |
I will share the Luminary Representatives for Churunga and Wade next week.
During Academic Care this week, the students received a thought-provoking presentation from Marianna Carlino, Director of eLearning regarding the challenges we face in society with Deepfakes, in particular the risk to young women. In recent times, schools have had to navigate new areas about Deepfakes. You may recall the trials faced by Bacchus Marsh in June this year and a Spanish high school in September last year in supporting young women in their communities. These articles from The Conversation, may be helpful for you with guiding discussions with your daughters.
Deepfake AI pornography is becoming more common – what can parents and schools do to prevent it?
What to do if you, or someone you know, is targeted with deepfake porn or AI nudes
and from the e-Safety Commissioner – Deepfake trends and challenges – position statement
MLC School aims to keep our students informed along with providing support for incidents that could potentially happen. The feedback we received from the students was that some of them were unaware of Deepfakes and that they learnt something from the presentation. A follow-up session will occur in two weeks by Andrew Taylor, Deputy Head of Senior School, Pastoral which will be based on some of the information above. Please reach out to Andrew by email here or me if you have any questions.
I can be contacted via email arenwick@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au or my direct line 8741 3278.
– Angela Renwick
Head of Year 10