Community Engagement
Welcome back to Term 2.
We began the new term with our students participating in the Anzac Day dawn service at a number of various local clubs.
I was fortunate enough to attend the service at Canley Heights RSL and witness our choir students lay the memorial wreath and lead the singing of the hymns and the Australian and New Zealand anthems as dawn was breaking on Tuesday, the 25th of April.
A large choir contingent also supported the impressive Dawn Service at Cabravale Diggers where they met up with representatives from Patrician Brothers’ Fairfield.
Thank you to the parents who accompanied their daughters and to Kate Penson and Liana Bugge who were our choirmasters. The hymns, chosen by the club, were not easy to sing but our choir did a great job at both venues.
Emma Bonora, of Year 8 was proudly wearing her “poppie’s” pedals from his time in World War II as an underwater (hard hat) bomb diffuser.
Wellbeing Portfolio
Our Wellbeing Portfolio students attended the Youth Mental Health Summit on Wednesday, the 3rd of May. The summit, organized by SW Connect, has been an annual event which brings together young leaders from secondary schools in the Fairfield-Liverpool area to participate in a number of workshops and programs that focus on improving the mental health of young people.
Our College was invited to share our challenges and successes in promoting positive wellbeing. Valentina Yousif, the Wellbeing Portfolio Captain and Elize Sevim did a presentation and spoke of our school’s initiatives in front of an audience of close to one thousand students and teachers.
The Year 10 girls who had participated in the Connectedness workshops last term had a follow up session with Core Community workers, Matthew and Mawa on Friday the 5th of May.
Last Tuesday, during the Pastoral Care lesson, the Year 8 and 10 students watched a Brainstorm presentation on bullying, cyber-bullying, domestic violence and sexual harassment, called “Sticks and Stones”.
Year 12 students took part in a workshop on the importance of sleep, called “Sleep Connection”. Every student was given a sleep diary to monitor her sleep habits. We hope that these workshops and presentations will benefit our students in making the right choices in their relationships and in their overall health and wellbeing.
