Wellbeing

This year, we started the year with all students engaging in a Term 1 Inquiry Unit called Harmony. In this unit students celerbated our wonderful, diverse and vibrant multicultural society.

Throughout the year we have continued to focus on aspects of Harmony with students engaging in the Racisim. No Way! Program and Inform & Empower Cyber Safety resources. Students have been taught about inclusiveness, respect, and creating a safe community where everyone feels a sense of belonging.

We would like to encouage you to continue discussing inclusive, respectful and safe behavour at home with your children. 

Below, we have included information about both programs that have been running this year.

Racism. No Way! Program

We invite you to read the Forward of the Racism. No Way! program, written by Sir William Deane Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past – it persists throughout the world and even in our own country. There are Australians young and old, from many different cultural, religious and language backgrounds, including communities whose members have lived in Australia from earliest times and those who frequently have recently arrived, who experience racism. We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around. 

Knowledge of the history and impact of racism is essential for understanding and change. It can be the spark that ignites action against racism by individuals and local communities. And education is the key to that process. 

Schools play a critical role in developing young minds, building relationships between people of different backgrounds and creating a socially just civil society. From today’s generation of school students will come the community leaders of the future – leaders to tackle the complexity of racism in all its forms. 

Racism. No way! is about change. It asks us to reflect on our attitudes, to overcome our own prejudices and to challenge discrimination and racism. By linking students and schools across Australia, the Racism. No way! project has the potential to stimulate a nation-wide, and indeed global, challenge to racism led by Australia’s youth. 

My hope is that Racism. No way! will give young people the knowledge, strength and conviction to fight racism wherever it occurs and to aspire to a world free of it. 

I congratulate the governments and education systems of Australia for their vision in initiating this project and the national anti-racism in education taskforce for making it a reality. I commend Racism. No way! to teachers and students, in the belief that the project will result in greater understanding and commitment to ending the evil of racism in our land. 

Sir William Deane Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia

For further information please click on this link: https://racismnoway.com.au/

Inform & Empower

An open letter to parents of Primary School Aged Children about raising children in a digital world written by Carley McGauran.

“There is all sorts of content on the internet and a lot of it is not suitable for children yourage. Just like it is important to eat healthy food to nourish your body, it is important to watch content that is healthy for your brain. If anyone asks you to watch something or do something online that makes you feel uncomfortable you are allowed to say “no”. Try saying “I'm not allowed to watch that/do that” and blame your strict parents. If you ever find yourself in a situation that makes you feel yucky, worried, scared or unsafe at all, you can tell me. I promise you won’t be introuble. I can and will help you. No mistake you make will ever stop me loving you -seriously nothing!! If there is ever a time you need help and for some reason you can’t come to me, don’t forget you can talk to another trusted adult or contact Kids Helpline”. 

Please click here to read the entire open letter: https://www.informandempower.com.au/post/open-letter-to-parents