International Student News

Celebrating Lantern Festival

On Tuesday, 19th February, our International Students had sticky rice dumplings to celebrate the Lantern Festival. The students felt very grateful to the International Student Office for organising the celebration to make them feel at home when they are far away from home.

Acknowledging and celebrating international students’ cultural events can help them to ensure their cultural identities and create a sense of belonging. 

Health and Safety training session

On Thursday 21st February, the Year 10 international student group took their annual Health and Safety Training Session run by the school wellbeing team and local police officers. The aim of this session is to raise international students’ awareness in youth health and social safety, and to promote healthy lifestyles. The session covered a range of topics including healthy living, general youth wellbeing, mental health, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, social and community safety and protection. The students thoroughly enjoyed the session and gained valuable knowledge, which will certainly help international students to build a healthy lifestyle and to bear safety in mind all the time. The students especially showed curiosity and interest in police officer’s duty gear and equipment like gun, capsicum spray, spontoon, handcuffs and bullet-proof vest. They had a chance to ask questions about these weapons. Simon, Jason and Anh even got a chance to put the vest on!

Many thanks to school nurse Helen for organising this special annual session. Our appreciation also goes to the Youth Police Officers from Northcote police station.

International Student Office