From the Leader of Wellbeing

 

 

 

My Marist Compass Goals Parent Conferences  Monday, November 4  2024

On Monday 4 November, your daughter will communicate to her tutor teacher and you an assessment of her growth and learning with the My Marist Compass Goal/s that she set for herself earlier in the year. The purpose of these 15-minute conferences is to provide your daughter with a supportive and safe environment to articulate her achievements to date with the goal/s that she set for herself at the commencement of the year and provide evidence of her progress.

There will be no classes on this day as the interviews will run between 8:30am – 6:30pm. It is mandatory that each student from the College (Year 7- 11) and parent(s)/carers attend and actively engage with this conference that your daughter will lead.  

The College is committed to engaging you and your daughter with her learning. By collaboratively working with you we will guide your daughter as she develops her ‘compass for Life’ and in doing so enable her to flourish and become an independent person of our world. 

 

 

Each year young people aged 15 to 19 in Australia are asked to share their challenges, concerns and experiences in Australia’s largest annual survey of young people. Below are statistics from the 4,584 NSW respondents to the Youth Survey 2023. 

SOURCE: MISSION AUSTRALIA –  Youth Survey 2023 State sub-report NSW

 

Parents and carers of high-school-aged young people are encouraged to engage in a 60-minute Zoom Webinar that addresses teen mental health at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, November 6 coordinated by The Black Dog Institute.

The webinar will be Co-hosted by a Clinical Psychologist facilitator, and Black Dog Institute lived experience presenter, we will provide strategies and support whilst exploring the following:

1. How to make sense of adolescence.
2. Identify signs of mental health struggles.
3. Understand how to support your teen.
4. Know where you and your teen can get support.

Complete your registration here: LINK

Unable to attend this event?

This event is also scheduled to take place on the following dates and registration at these is via the link provided above

• Monday, November 25
• Thursday, December 12

 

No conversation about ‘kids these days’ has created more confusion and contention than the ‘screen-time’ discussion. How much is ok? How old should they be before they have a phone? Are games making our kids violent? Is social media destroying wellbeing?

Until now, our challenge has been that so much research is contradictory, there’s so little good-quality research, and there has been so much we simply don’t know. But all that is changing.

Join Dr Justin Coulson, one of the nation’s leading parenting experts, as he unpacks – step by step – the specific conclusions we can draw about our digital kids.

In this presentation you’ll discover:

• Why screen time is an unhelpful way to talk about children/adolescents and screens

• How boys and girls are affected differently by their screen use

• The true story about screens and social media

• The uncomfortable truth about boys and violent video games, and

• Why ‘the displacement hypothesis’ is the critical lever to pull in balancing screen use for our children’s wellbeing

Tweens, Teens & Screens is the conversation the nation needs to have about our kids and their screens.

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