The Resilience Project:

The Resilience Project is committed to teaching positive mental health strategies to prevent mental ill-health and build young people’s capacity to deal with adversity.

Teachers and students will engage in weekly lessons and activities around the key principles, of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM) and Emotional Literacy to build resilience.

Empathy:

Working on empathy helps us to identify, understand and feel what another person is feeling. When we show empathy or we do something kind for someone else our brain releases oxytocin. This leads to increasing our self-esteem, confidence, energy levels, positivity and overall happiness.

Whole Family Activity:

Neighbourhood Kindness Challenge.

As a family, choose an act of kindness from the list below that you would like to do for a neighbour or family friend. Each family member can select one to commit to, or you can choose to do one together.

Cook them something delicious like a cake, bread or cookies.
Write a note to put in their letter box thanking them for being a great neighbour or friend.
Design them a Thank You card.
Pick or buy some flowers to deliver to them.
Choose a little plant from your garden to give them.
Make them a gift from things around your house.
Offer to do a job for them, like wash their car or water their garden.
Offer to take their pets for a walk.
Invite them over for afternoon tea.
Invite them on a walk.
Recommend one of your favourite books to borrow and read.
Ask them if they need anything from the shops next time you buy groceries.
Say hello next time you see them, and ask them how their day is going.
Feel free to do more than one and spread the kindness even further!
Report back to each other in one week and share how your acts of kindness were received, and how doing them made you feel.

Family Habit Builder:

Every night at dinner, have each person thank you or another family member for something they’ve done or said today, or give another family member a compliment.

Check out their website for more information:

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/

And check out TRP@HOME; a place filled with inspiration and activities for the whole family, to help improve your wellbeing and build resilience.

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/at-home/home-2023/

Year 12 Graduation:

To celebrate the completion of secondary education, St John’s Regional College organises a Year 12 Graduation Mass and Dinner Dance for the graduating students and parents of the Class of 2023.

The Year 12 Graduation Mass, followed by dinner, will be held on 24 November 2023 at St Patrick’s Cathedral from 6:00 pm until 7:00 pm and the MCG Olympic Room from 7.30 pm until 11:30 pm respectively.

For the Graduation Mass, celebrated at St Patrick’s Cathedral, graduates are asked to arrive by 5:00 pm to enable time for a group photo to be taken. Please be mindful of Friday afternoon traffic, allowing sufficient time for a timely arrival, especially if coming in on the Monash Freeway (M1). Many families in recent years have unfortunately missed some of the formal proceedings.

Families will need to organise parking as there is no parking available at the MCG. There are public parking facilities nearby at Federation Square (cnr Flinders and Swanston Sts), City Square (202-208 Flinders Lane), MOPT (Entrance D off Olympic Boulevard - Meter (Jolimont Tce, Claredon St).

A two-course menu will be served at the MCG, including a non-alcoholic beverage package. Alcoholic beverages can be purchased at the bar.

Parents of graduating students can purchase as many tickets as needed, at the cost of $125 per ticket. This must include tickets for the graduating student and for the parents or guardians of the student, and any other person over the age of fourteen. Please note that a parent or guardian must accompany the graduating student, regardless of whether the student is 18 or not.

Tickets can be purchased via TryBooking. The TryBooking link is: https://www.trybooking.com/CICOC.

Tickets must be purchased and paid for in full by 15 September (end of Term 3). No additional tickets will be sold after this date.

You must also include dietary requirements at the time of booking using the link. Please make sure you include any requirements you have, so that the venue can accommodate for you.

Deputy Principal & Student Wellbeing

Greg Van Es

Deputy Principal &
Student Wellbeing