Student Voice

SRC Term 4 Updates 

This term, the SRC Garden Team has solidified our design of the garden, featuring rock seating in the form of yarning circles that students can hang out on while on breaks, and teachers could use as an outdoor class space. Through meetings with the assistant principal, Mr. Breese, and local council members, we have been discussing how to transport these heavy stones into the school.  Our aim is to complete this over the summer holidays. 

This year the Podcast team has managed to finish the first episode of their podcast, ‘In the Box’ and is dispersing to leave the podcast to a specialised group that can commit more to the episodes.  We truly enjoyed working on this podcast and wish it well for future year levels at Box Hill High School in the hands of a committed team. 

The School Values Team aimed to foster resilience, creativity, respect, and growth in students by improving their wellbeing, education in the classroom. This term we have finalised our Brain-Break Kits, which are teaching tools and games that will be put in every classroom for teachers to use next year! It is our hope that these will help learning and engagement. 

HOUSE Term 4 Update 

This year’s House Champion’s Day was one of the best we’ve ever had! Some of our dedicated Year 11 leaders helped with the barbeque which ran very smoothly and we were entertained on the day by the 'WSND' dance troop and Year 11 band, 'Dishwasher Forknife'. Thank you to our amazing House Prefects who have done an amazing job this year: Miko T (Chang), Yonal A (Blackburn), Cindy X (Freeman), and Liam W (Irwin).  

The final 2023 House Points ladder looked like this: 

1st Chang – 40,187 

2nd Irwin – 38,560 

3rd Blackburn – 38,189 

4th Freeman – 37,554 

And congratulations to our top House Points scorers for the year: 

Chang House - Ocean X (2550 points) 

Chang House – Zahra B (1166 points)  

Blackburn House - Shijing G (2090 points) 

Irwin House – Toby W (410 points) 

Our House points staff superstars for 2023 were: 

Mr Acebron (Irwin House), Ms Pearson (Freeman House), and Ms Chait (Irwin House) 

By Sarah Weyenberg

SRC & Student Voice Coordinator