From the Deputy Principal

World Mental Health Day (and week, and month!)

This week we are reminding our community about the importance of our mental health, or mental fitness, as Simon Sinek likes to call it.  Sinek makes a very useful point about our mental health being a work in progress rather than a finite end point, and so he refers to it as mental 'fitness' - an ongoing project we need to work on, in much the same way as our physical fitness.  You may like to watch this short clip:

Mental Health Australia have produced a very helpful calendar for the month of October with some suggestions about what we can do each day of this month to support our wellbeing.  These have been distributed across the campus and we have discussed this at assembly; you may like to discuss this with your children.

And, the World Health Organisation reminds us:

World Mental Health Day 2023 is an opportunity for people and communities to unite behind the theme "Mental health is a universal human right" to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human right.

Mental health is a basic human right for all people. Everyone, whoever and wherever they are, has a right to the highest attainable standard of mental health. This includes the right to be protected from mental health risks, the right to available, accessible, acceptable, and good quality care, and the right to liberty, independence and inclusion in the community.

Good mental health is vital to our overall health and well-being. Yet one in eight people globally are living with mental health conditions, which can impact their physical health, their well-being, how they connect with others, and their livelihoods. Mental health conditions are also affecting an increasing number of adolescents and young people.  

Mrs Emma Franklin | Deputy Principal