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Fight Like a Girl (F.L.A.G) Club is Back!

This club is designed to empower, build confidence, and create social connections in our female and non-binary students at all year levels. 

This term our focus is around providing a space where our female students feel safe and empowered to engage in physical activity and socialise together!

The ECA will be supervised and open to all female and non-binary students in Years 7-12 every Thursday lunch time. Female and non-binary staff will also pop in to visit or to strut their skills in the staff vs student competitions. The first of which was a volleyball match yesterday.

If you don’t want to play sport, you can come and watch, listen to the music, colour, play board games, make jewellery, or have a chat with us! 

We can’t WAIT to see you Thursday! Any questions, feel free to message Mrs. Dougherty or Ms. Howell.

Wear it Purple Day

On Friday 25 August, we participated in ‘Wear it Purple’ Day which was founded in 2010 as a response to global stories of real teenagers, real heart ache and their very real responses. In 2010, several rainbow young people took their own lives following bulling and harassment resulting from the lack of acceptance of their sexuality or gender identity. ‘Wear it Purple’ was established to show young people all over the world that there is hope and they have a right to feel proud of who they are.

This year’s theme was “Write your own story”. Placing emphasis on the importance of personal expression and individuality for Rainbow youth. In a world where social media, the media and school often creates pressure to conform to norms and certain standards. This theme aims to encourage young people to embrace their perspectives and share their stories with others.

Why wear it purple? It strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering, and inclusive environments.

To celebrate Wear It Purple Day on Friday 25 August and show their support, students and staff wore a touch of purple. We ran a bake sale at lunchtime outside Mason House, with music, colouring, and jewellery making (bracelets, necklaces etc) activities. All proceeds raised will go to Minus 18. We are also running a writing competition in line with this year’s theme. 

Thank you to Sky, Nyx and Michael Bellm and all those who helped pack up/set up and helped at the Bake sale.

Rebecca Howell

RRRR Leader