HAPE

All HAPE classrooms in Term 2 have provided students with positive learning experiences.

The focus in Year 7 Physical Education (PE) has been on Fundamental Motor Skills where the students have filmed themselves and a partner performing these skills and then analysing their performance. The Year 8 and Year 9 PE students have been exploring the tactics and strategies involved with Invasion Games, whilst the Year 10 PE students have been exploring recreational activities both inside and outside the school as part of the Live Long, Life Long program.

Anti-Bullying has been the focus for our Year 7 Health students, with each of them creating an anti-bullying campaign. Our Year 8 Health students have been looking at Mental Health and understanding more about the two most common mental health illnesses for adolescents, which are anxiety and depression. The Year 9 Health students have been partaking in the Sexual Assault Prevention Program for Secondary Schools (SAPPSS) learning more about respectful behaviour with their peers.

Penelope Cleghorn

Health and PE Coordinator

An Anti-Bullying Poem - Friends

Being yourself is easy, is it really that hard?

When others spit poison, does it affect you or not?

You hear them speak, but you can’t see them talk.

Has this person ever, been this rude before?

You’ve known them for years and years,

But never have they made you cry tears upon tears.

You feel the hate in the air, never have you tasted such despair.

You jump and run, trying to escape their grasps,

But what’s the use? All you can do is scream and gasp.

Their strings wrap around you, controlling you like a puppet.

Tight, and stinging your skin with burns.

You ask for help, from family, from teachers.

Always with a face, stern.

They ask you questions, if you are alright.

“Don’t worry! They’re all bark, No bite!”

So you take their advice, but still search for extra.

On sites like http://www.bullyingnoway.gov.au/ or http://au.reachout.com/Search?s=bullying

So you continue on with life, until they confront you once more.

You hang your head down, and look towards the floor.

You ignore them, sure that’ll work!

But it does! But you walk away scared for next time.

The next day, they’re back. Persistent, too much.

Until you burst into screams, you’ve had enough!

You refuse to have your youth so rough!

They pull back for a swing, as you ask questions why!

Until they hit you to the ground, but you laugh it off. You agree with their jokes, try to merge to their thinking.

Then you run off crying, rumbling to a teacher.

It’s done.

They stop.

Teachers tell you what others have said, a person came earlier to say that they were done.

In standing around, watching from afar.

And now you have a new friend, and

a new scar.

Amira Pancharoen  7D