Year 9
Djeembana Program
The Djeembana program builds knowledge and understanding through real world problem solving and utilises and extends skills learnt in core subjects.
The Year 9 Djeembana program allows students to participate in a range of life skills activities. Participating in Djeembana this term are the students from 9A & 9B.
The Djeembana Year 9 program builds knowledge and understanding through real world problem solving, utilising and extending skills learnt in core subjects. It focuses on contemporary issues and includes ideas and themes such as global citizenship, ethics, entrepreneurship and respectful relationships. Students have been immersed in these ideas, being exposed to diverse perspectives and information from a wide range of sources including incursions, expert lectures and working with peers and teaching staff.
The Djeembana program aims for students to think critically about social issues that impact us as individuals and as a wider community. Students are encouraged to consider a range of different perspectives, provoking deep reflection, problem solving, flexibility, creativity and collaboration.
Students have explored the issue of racism and its impacts on both individuals and communities. We have considered our areas of privilege and bias, explored what intersectionality means, and challenged our assumptions while reflecting on past experiences to inform our future behaviours.
Representatives from BATYR - a preventative mental health organisation, created and driven by young people, for young people - spoke to us about mental health challenges, sharing their own mental health stories and suggestions of how we can seek support for ourselves or how to support those around us.
Students also explored strategies to support good mental health and resilience, including: meditation, journaling, gratitude and mindfulness.
Students have explored what it means to be an Ally;
- supporting equal rights for everyone – regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender or religion
- doing what you can to call out discrimination and to fight for equality
A guest speaker from Minus 18 guided us through the foundational differences between sex, gender and identity.
Students discussed how they can be an ally to the LGBTQIA+
community, promoting a respectful and inclusive society.