SRC Wrap Up for 2025

We've had an ambitious year! Next week, members of the SRC will give updates to their double classes that they each represent, thanks to our Year 5/6CD student rep, Eddie, for putting together a speech.

As you parents will miss that, here's a report by our Year 5/6AB student representative, Nelly:

As the student representative council, we have been working on many projects over the year. We worked with VicSRC to run a ‘teach the teacher’ program. First, we imagined the perfect school and developed our visions into ideas and thought about how we could apply and improve our school to make it the perfect school. But so that it wasn’t just the members of the SRC deciding what ideas we will put into action, we did a survey. Then we analysed the results and decided on two to focus on. 

The 5/6s worked on one of the two foci since it mainly affected them. We discussed with the 5/6 teachers about how we could add more student involvement to the planning and expand the creative learning. In the end the teachers extended the student involvement and creative levels to a perfect balance so that we can still be learning the necessary learning material while using our creativity. 

While the 5/6s focused on this, the other SRCs were working with the rest of the teachers on how and why to create a space in the school dedicated to ongoing learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories and cultures.

Which leads us to our next topic. Especially in the past few months we have been working with our KESO (Koorie Education Suppoert Officer) and the Aboriginal students and parents of this school to develop ideas and discuss how we could put them into action. Us SRC are looking forward to how the big goal of creating a space dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learning will go in 2026. 

Nelly, Year 6

SRC in 2026

Next year I plan to use the same process that we pioneered this year for selecting our Student Representative Council: screened and randomised selection of student nominations (self-nominations). This ensures that our SRC is more genuinely representative of the students that it serves, rather than just being made up only of the more typically outgoing or popular students who feel comfortable making speeches and canvassing votes.

I will leave it up to next year's SRC to decide whether to continue with this year's focus, or have their own focus, though something that can be achieved in under a year. 

If they have a new focus, then we will create a working group consisting of any eager students (especially Aboriginal students and members of this year's SRC) to carry forth the huge and exciting work of creating a dedicated space to learn about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, and therefore a more culturally safe school. If you're interested in being a part of this, please reach out.

Best,

Nerida