S R C

Student Representative Council (SRC) Report

It has been an honour and a pleasure for us to represent you as your School Captains this term. As a leadership team, we are aiming to increase school spirit by encouraging student participation and achievement both inside and outside the classroom. We want students to feel that they can make valuable contributions to our school community. We want students to have pride through purpose and participation. Continuing from previous years, we want to build house spirit in the school community.

Student voice:

We are excited to have our year 7-12 House Captains meet at fortnightly SRC forums where they bring ideas and feedback on all student related issues. Currently, the canteen is the topic of discussion where we are seeking to implement change that will provide healthier alternatives that align with government recommendations.

Sport:

In Week 3 we had our House Swimming event and in Week 8 we had our House Cross-Country event. It has been fantastic to see so many students competing and dressing up in House colours.

Community:

Our Environment Captains, Connor Kinkead and Josh Brookes, have been hosting weekly Apocalypse Prevention Society (APS) meetings. They also coordinated Clean Up Australia Day on Friday 1st March when a group of student volunteers gave up their time to clean the school and make it look spotless.

International Women’s Day was celebrated on Friday 8th March with the theme ‘Balance for Better.’ Pat O’Luanaigh, our Social Justice Captain, spread awareness with purple face painting and a selfie campaign.

For Cultural Diversity Week we had a Vietnamese food truck arriving for lunch on Friday 22nd March, as well as activities organised by the International Student Captains.
On Wednesday 13th March, our Year 12 Wilsmere House Captains, Chelsea Nguyen and Talya Callahan, organised the World’s Greatest Shave. We had loads of students involved - shaving or colouring their hair to support the event and enjoying the sausage sizzle on the day. We’re stoked to announce that we’ve raised over $3000 for the Leukaemia Foundation.

Lastly, we’re happy to have Toasties up and running again on Friday mornings, with food and games for students.

We hope to keep running more events for the remainder of the year and continue to provide a voice for the students.

Dean Damevski and Alana Whitehead

School Captains