Engagement & Wellbeing

Breakfast Club

The Bemin Breaky Club has been a huge hit with students, so much so that it has expanded to two days on each campus! Students on Bemin’s Senior Campus now enjoy a range of breakfast options on Monday and Thursday mornings, while our Junior students are able to access Breaky Club on Tuesdays and Fridays. Students have fully embraced having a breakfast club at school and numbers of students attending Breaky Club are climbing each week.

We have also been lucky to have had several student helpers on our Senior campus – big shoutout to Lenox from 10B, who has consistently shown up to Breaky Club each morning this term to assist the Wellbeing Team in preparing and serving food. More opportunities for student involvement in Breaky Club and other Wellbeing-led events will be available as part of the upcoming launch of the Student Wellbeing Committee…

We would also like to again acknowledge Deb and the team at Garrang Wilam and thank them for their ongoing support of our Breaky Club – we couldn’t do this without them!

The Student Wellbeing Committee

The Student Wellbeing Committee is being formed to provide student representatives an opportunity to be more deeply involved in the foundational and Tier 1 work of the Wellbeing Team at Bemin Secondary. The SWC will be comprised of around 10 students from each campus at this stage who have a passion for wellbeing, an interest in mental health and who want to support the Bemin College community to grow and develop in positive and inclusive ways.

The SWC will support the Wellbeing Team with planning and running Wellbeing events at both campuses of the College, as well as act as a voice for student concerns or ideas and identify themselves as leaders in the inclusion space of the school.

They will meet several times a term with members of the Wellbeing Team and sometimes Sub Schools, to share their suggestions and ideas. The students on the SWC will first be able to support the Wellbeing Team with preparations for upcoming R U OK? Day events, as well as delivery of the events on each campus during R U OK? Day.

The Wellbeing Team, with support and leadership from the SWC, aims to create a collage of questions or conversation starters with every student in the College having the opportunity to add to the R U OK? Mural, instilling each student with the basic knowledge on how to check in on a friend if they don’t think they are feeling ‘OK’. Students on the SWC will also have the opportunity to present to their classes about R U OK? Day activities, as well as hand out milkshakes as part of our breaktime R U OK activity.

Shooters Shoot – Afterschool Basketball Program

The College has recently wrapped up a five week after school basketball program – Shooters Shoot – on our Senior Campus. Shooters Shoot is a program that aims to provide a develop a

basis for positive wellbeing practices, teaching students the basics of journalling and the powerful impacts this activity can have on overall wellbeing and goal setting.

Students who participated in Shooters Shoot completed around 30 to 40 minutes of journalling on different topics brought to each session by the Shooters Shoot team, before diving into basketball skill development workshops and games.

Student reviews of the program were positive, with Year 10s grateful for the opportunity to develop their basketball skills and learn more about themselves in the process. Some lucky students also received hoodies, trackies, t-shirts or gym bags for their continual high-level participation in the program and commitment to showing up each week – great job team!

Thank you to Sagalee and the rest of the Shooters Shoot team for this fantastic opportunity for our students!

Football Empowerment – Afterschool Soccer Program

Football Empowerment is an eight-week program kicking off in week eight of Term 3 for 20 of our Senior students. Football Empowerment is a not-for-profit organisation that launched in 2016 which aims to address social issues facing young people in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs.

Football Empowerments aim is to “empower culturally and linguistically diverse communities by leveraging the power of sports to break down barriers and create opportunities for the youth in the Victoria”. Football Empowerment will allow Bemin Secondary Students to learn more about themselves and develop skills with a professionally trained team of elite sportspeople and football specialists, while building stronger links to both school and the wider Western Melbourne community.

We look forward to working, playing and learning alongside Tom, Gordon and the rest of the Football Empowerment Team over the next eight weeks!