Annual Love Week

This week at Santa, we have held our annual love week celebrations. Love week is time for us to come together as a community and celebrate the universal experience of love. This ties in with our team’s focus on community, and this week has been filled with lots of activities to bring us together as a Santa community.

On Monday, we celebrated Love Yourself day, with a very successful chalk drawing session, as well as dancing at lunch. We also wrote our teachergrams ready for Wednesday. We had music playing in the Piazza as well, which meant students were free to come and hang out with their friends, adding to the atmosphere of recess and lunch.

On Tuesday we celebrated Love Your Culture day, which involved painting a banner showcasing our school’s diversity of culture, and cultural dancing. There was a great atmosphere at recess and lunch, and it was fantastic to see everyone celebrating their culture and heritage.

Wednesday was Love Your Teachers and Friends Day. We distributed over 400 teachergrams written on Monday that show appreciation for our teachers’ constant support! Thank you to all of the students who wrote these teachergrams, it is so important to acknowledge all of the hard work that our teachers put into our learning.

We also had a very dramatic students vs. teachers debate, with the topic of, Should We Call Teachers By Their First Names? Thank you to Mrs Van der meer, Mrs Harris, Ms Graniero, and Ms Burton for providing the winning argument! This event will go towards our students vs. teachers competition, with more events coming throughout the year. Today we celebrated Love Your World day, with a mufti day to raise money for the many people living in distress due to the earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria. We also had an environment walk, where students could sign a variety of petitions surrounding the environment, to raise awareness about the many environmental issues affecting our society.

On Friday, students will watch the much anticipated Year 12 theme launch, for Love Your School day.

Thank you to all of the students who participated in this year’s Love Week. We were very happy to see lots of participation, and this will just be the start of many more fun community events.

The Student Leadership Team