Pastoral Care
Harmony Day Council Event
My Mind Check
Year 7 Camp
Year 10 Vaccination Clinic
Parent webinar - Healthy Masculinity
Harmony Day Council Event
On Tuesday, 20 Year 11 students had the opportunity to go to a Willoughby City Council event to celebrate Harmony Day. We were joined by members of the community as well as another 20 students from Mercy.
It was a day to celebrate multiculturalism in Australia and learn about the different cultures in our community. There were 6 tables consisting of food from various countries including, Singapore, Italy, Japan, Iran, Indonesia and a quiz for guessing different spices from different cultures. While enjoying the food, we learnt about the history, how they were made and the significance of it in their culture.
We were then given the opportunity to ask about their culture. It opened our eyes to how diverse our community is and how important it is for those from other cultural backgrounds to express and teach us about their own culture.
We were all pleased to learn more and benefit from each other in society.
Luke Austin - Year 11 student
My Mind Check
The college commencing a new evidence-based initiative called My Mind Check. This tool will conduct mental health and wellbeing check-ins for students in all years.
Please see the attached letter for more information.
Year 7 Camp
Mr Tassone and our Year 7 Pastoral Care team are completing preparations for the Year 7 Camp at Tea Gardens departing on Wednesday 26 March at normal school time.
The camp aims to instil a sense of journey, inclusion and community within the year and students will engage in growth mindset activities such as Kayaking, Raft Building, Ropes Courses and Flying Fox and Rock & Water Resilience Training. We look forward to the teachers vs students commando spotlight challenge.
Please communicate any questions or concerns to Mr Tassone as we prepare final details and arrangements. Students will assemble at school from 8:30 am on 26 March and return at approximately 3:00 pm on 28 March, with final ETA communicated enroute after 1:00 pm via the College App.
Year 10 Vaccination Clinic
NSW Health will offer vaccinations to all Year 10 students on Friday 28 March.
Year 10 - Meningococcal ACWY
Also
Year 11 - Meningococcal ACWY (if not already vaccinated in Year 10) and
Year 8 - HPV and dTpa for those who missed the vaccination in Year 7.
Vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received. Please complete this consent at least 2 days prior to the school clinic.
How to provide consent:
To complete online consent for your child’s school vaccinations, visit: https://engage.health.nsw.gov.au/engage and log in using your ServiceNSW details.
Follow the steps to log in to your existing ServiceNSW account. This is the same account you may already use to renew your driver’s licence. If you don’t have a ServiceNSW account, refer to ServiceNSW to create one.
Update or confirm your personal details in ServiceNSW as required.
Complete the School Vaccination Consent Form for your child/ren. You will need to:
Enter your child’s personal details
Provide the Medicare card details for you and your child
Read the linked Parent Information Sheet and privacy statement. Translations available in 28 languages
Provide consent. (For detailed steps on how to provide consent please refer to guide on how to provide consent online on the NSW Health webpage.) If you require information in your language please visit Arabic, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese
No Medicare?
If you or your child do not have a Medicare card or you don’t have I.T. access, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper-based consent form directly from your child’s school.
The benefits of providing consent online:
• easily update your child’s details
• receive SMS and/or email notifications when vaccinations are given
• faster upload of vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
(Year 7 students will be offered free vaccines for diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (dTpa) and human papillomavirus (HPV) at school later this year.)
Follow this link for a 2 minute video of a young man who had Meningococcal disease; Seb’s Story
For more information on routine school vaccinations, visit
www.health.nsw.gov.au/schoolvaccination .
If you require information in your language, visit
www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/school_vaccination_language.aspx
If you have difficulty completing the online vaccination consent form, please email
nslhd-phuschoolvaccinationprogram@health.nsw.gov.au or phone 02 9485 6971 for assistance.
Please see attached for further information on the school vaccination program.
Parent Webinar - Healthy Masculinity
Mr Martin Gillogly - Assistant Principal, Pastoral Care