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SRC Immersion Day Report

Last week, on Thursday the 21st of March, the SRC members, including myself, attended their annual Immersion Day. We run these days yearly as an introductory event for our new members and our year 7 leaders, going over basic skills and tasks for the coming few months.  Already hard at work, we went over some topics brought up during the day, but didn’t have time to fully explore them as much as we need to. We had some excellent ideas proposed, and leadership techniques demonstrated that we’re excited to be implementing in our school and community. Our enthusiasm only broadened throughout the day.

These work sessions and discussions obviously are meant to be taken seriously, but seeing as each topic had to run for an extended period of time, we opened each session with a series of games to, in a sense, ‘Break the Ice’. This allowed us to focus all attention towards our leaders delivering their speeches. We started off the day with a simple game run by our College Captains, Sarah Garnier and Caitlin Mitchell, to ease us in, titled ‘Password’. Unfortunately, this did not go as planned - our contestants were extremely good at formulating guesses and managed to figure out the words each time. Despite our total enjoyment of these activities, we weren’t just there for playing and having fun, as our original intent was for it to be a learning session for us to be able to fix our problems surrounding the school and our community.

Multiple SRC leaders, spanning across different year levels, spoke about multiple topics we’d chosen prior. One thing that caught my eye this year that differed quite a bit from last year’s session, was the total confidence and participation from our new members and year 7’s. It was brilliant to see so many of us have a go and share our insights on what could be possible for the future. I’d like to congratulate our members who did speak, and thank them for their valuable contributions. As my first experience on the SRC was last year, I couldn’t imagine myself at the time doing what they had done, and it was honestly a triumphant effort.

Continuing, our ideas that were raised were very intuitive and thoughtful. We kept all ideas to a realistic minimum. We have future plans for a ‘Disability awareness’ week and a cultural event, as well as working with the College leaders on School Wide Positive Behaviours and environmental enhancement. 

I’d like to mention how wonderful the experience was for me, as it wasn’t just for us to learn and prepare ourselves, but as we were split away from our usual cohort SRC, we’d found the session as a wonderful co-operative activity and I myself had spoken to many new students, younger and older, and had made some new friends. Along with this, our ideas were extremely valuable, ethically wise, and I couldn’t picture the day going any better. I’d even managed to ask and receive some kind words on behalf of our SRC members.

The overall response was extremely positive and demonstrated our capabilities to not only work hard and play even harder, but to also be able to listen to one another and take in everybody’s advice. Nobody was left out. In conclusion, the day was overall wonderful and a very useful experience for all members of our SRC, including our Teachers, and although all ideas may not be used, we still appreciate all efforts portrayed by our excellent leaders and all were worthwhile.

Thanks for reading!

 Angus - Year 8 SRC Representative

Grip Conference -

Our Introduction To Leadership

On the 12th of March, 18 members of the SRC arrived at Frankston station and started the early morning on a trip to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition centre. There, we were exposed to a massive amount of captivating ideas and amazing opportunities, not only for me, but for the whole school. From discussions ranging from the core character of a leader to chances for us to further understand the concept of leadership, we learned this alongside many other student leaders coming from a variety of schools and backgrounds. For each of us leaders, the event educated us on ways to improve as role models for our school and enlightened us with useful topics such as “How to maximise my contribution to my team” and “How to choose and advance a cause”. Additional things we learned during that day were “Ways to create an astounding school culture” and the concept of “Involving more people in school events” which I definitely see us using in the future to further advance the quality of our school. Not only that, however, there’s a likelihood that this knowledge we’ve obtained will assist us with later events both in and out of school.

One thing the conference made me think more about was that not only is leadership vital for me, but it leaks to everyone around me and pushes us to do better. To do better as a student, a leader and a person. I strongly believe we should be reaching out more and take grasp of the opportunities we’re given to help ourselves excel and improve ourselves so that other kids and students like us will feel inspired and also do their best. A line we learned during the conference - “Leadership is about people, not position or power.” And I hope to stay true to that.

An astounding introduction for those both new and familiar with leadership. Especially for a year 7 student like me. I found the conference such a great introduction to the world of leadership and a confident first step to my journey as an empowering leader.

Eana Dimog - Year 7