International Students 

Wellbeing Workshop : mental health is just as important as physical health

Last week, the international office in our school kindly invited all international students to join the wellbeing meeting with Kat Brissett, our Northcote High School Mental Health Practitioner, Sabatine Balasooriya, one of our Student Wellbeing Coordinators, Ms Hill, and Ms Fiona.  

It was such a great opportunity for everyone to talk and share lots of care and love to each other especially in this lockdown when all of us are going to have to face and prepare for our year 12 final exams in the very near future! During the meeting, all the students were able to listen to helpful advice and ways to improve our mental wellbeing in this hard time where we are under pressure of preparing for our studies. Especially for students like me who sometimes face anxiety and stress after studying for a long period of time or stay up late to revise for SACS. Besides the tips that were given to us, I feel so grateful to have the school staff to show care and support to each student and I’m pretty sure that those tips are now actually helping me a lot in my sleep and study routine.  

We would love to give many thanks again to Ms Fiona and Ms Hill for always being such great and supportive people. We appreciate having you beside us and listening to our concerns and challenging us supportively all the time especially to us as Year 12 students who are well on our way in preparing and practising for final exams. Thank you! 

Cynthia Nguyen - Year 12