Gioia House Action Girls Awards

It has been wonderful to see the Gioia House students work towards being Action Girls through their words and actions each day. As part of the three-way-interview process, the students were required to share how they are an Action Girl and the actions they have taken to be Action Girls each day. Many of the students shared how they are becoming more aware of taking action to invite students sitting on their own, when they notice rubbish flying around on the playground they pick it up to protect our environment, when they see a student who needs help in their learning environment or on the playground they offer their support. The students were able to list many wonderful qualities they have as well as a couple of goals they will continue to work towards.

Congratulations to the following Action Girls who received their awards and badges at our Gioia House Assembly last week:

Year 5 Action Girls:

Mila Amore 
Lillian Ayoub
Ines Bolger
Madeline Dus
Ovilia Chamoun

Year 6 Action Girls:

Emilia Srdanovic
Alicia Bouantoun
Eden Gregory
Audrey Luey 
Mikayla Sarkis

Making a difference

Service Learning – Outreach

This term, we invited the students to bring in some grocery items to create ‘snack packs’ or warm winter accessories and blankets for the St Vincent De Paul Night Patrol van. A big thank you to all the students who continuously contributed to a very worthy cause, by bringing in different items each week.

All Gioia House students put together the snack packs and were asked to stop and think about other ways they can continue to offer service and outreach to those who are less fortunate than ourselves. 

During our Gioia House assembly we shared five shocking facts about homelessness in Australia to highlight the importance of trying to do our bit to help those in need:

1. There are over 122,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night.
2. Only six percent of people who are homeless sleep on the streets.
3. There are many different reasons why people experience homelessness.
4. In Australia, one in seven people experiencing homelessness are over 55 years.
5. Over 17,600 children younger than 12 years are homeless.

It is through your generosity and compassion we were able to create over 200 snack packs for the homeless people in our community. We have encouraged the students to continue to think of ways they can make a difference and when they see a need they have the power to make a difference, no act of kindness will ever go unnoticed.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the parents, students and staff for another wonderful term and I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday break.

Marisa Maks
Assistant Head of Gioia House