Student Voice

Year 7 - Amira Herrera  

I am Amira Herrera, one of the Thomas Reddall High school year seven SRC. Writing a perspective of this year from student in year seven. This year has been challenging at some stages but I have been able to get through it. As all of the year sevens have too. One thing I enjoyed this year and I think all of the year sevens did too was the day camp at Cataract Scouts Activity Centre. We completed the challenge valley, a mud obstacle course which involved climbing through tunnels, climbing over walls, swinging off ropes into water and a bunch of teamwork building activities. We also got to have a turn on both the giant swing and the flying fox. It was an amazing day! 

Being in the SRC has led me to some great opportunities, like attending the ANZAC march, helping with the ANZAC assembly, attending the SRC networking days, helping to design some new murals for the school and helping to plan the T-Red day. But I can assure myself that there will be many more things that I will help with in the future.

Moving from Primary school to High school has been a really big jump for me and all of the year seven students this year. But this fantastic school has helped many of us find our feet again, find our place and feel we belong in this new era of our life. Something that I think really helped many students was the Peer Support days we had in the first term this year. It helped us make connections with people that have been at this school for four years to make us feel welcome and safe as we feel that now we might have some older protectors for ourselves.

Something myself and many of the year seven are looking forward to is the end of term rewards day. This term we are doing a laser tag and arcade games as a reward activity. Everyone in year seven is so excited!

Year 8 - Samara Singh

Hello Everyone! I'm Samara Singh and I'm in Year eight and 14 years old. I am part of SRC and AECG Leadership. This year has been excellent so far being filled with dances, culture, community and fun! Something great that I really liked was reconciliation week and how supportive the whole thing was. I also enjoyed all the movements, socialising, activities and dances we all did together. I also liked when the leaders went and met other schools as well as people!

A great thing I love about school is break. Not because we get to stop learning, it's because we actually stop and hang out, have fun and take a moment to think and enjoy ourselves. We also get this time to sit back or have a blast playing games! For example: volleyball, soccer or netball. Classes are often fun when you have a cool teacher, class or subject!

Last year we had many events and I am proud to say I helped with many, for example Tred-Day! I helped out a lot and even did some cooking. It was a wonderful experience just like ‘R U Ok’ Day. R U OK day was a day to promote mental health.