WELLBEING TEAM NEWS 

Wellbeing Team Highlights: Supporting Connection, Growth and Belonging

Throughout Term 3, our Wellbeing Team has continued to provide a range of proactive programs and initiatives designed to support students' social, emotional and personal development. Through targeted groups, educational workshops and whole-school events, students have had opportunities to build resilience, strengthen relationships and develop important life skills across the school community. 

Wear It Purple Day

This event is celebrated in the last week of August every year and is planned by staff and students at the weekly Pride and Allies group, which is a lunchtime social space for LGBTIQ+ students and staff.    Wear It Purple Day, celebrates diversity and promotes inclusion for LGBTQIA+ young people, this year’s theme was Colours of Courage, highlighting the everyday bravery of LGBTQIA+SB young people and allies. 

Students and staff participated in lunchtime activities such as the LGBTQIA+ flag scavenger hunt, question and answer competition, chalk drawing in the quad, all whilst listening to a Rainbow playlist.  This day of recognition and celebrations demonstrates to all students their support and commitment to creating a safe, respectful and welcoming school community where everyone feels valued and accepted.

Be Real Group

The Be Real Group continued throughout the term, providing students with a supportive space to explore self-esteem, confidence and positive identity. Through engaging discussions and activities, students developed strategies to navigate challenges, build resilience and strengthen connections with their peers.

Real Talk Groups

Our Real Talk Groups offered students in Years 8 and 9, a small group and safe environment to discuss topics relevant to their everyday lives. These sessions encouraged open conversation, reflection and problem-solving while helping students develop communication skills, emotional awareness, confidence in their conversations whilst building healthy coping strategies throughout their participation during the Term.

Year 8 Consent Groups

The Wellbeing Team facilitated Year 8 Consent Groups, focusing on an understanding of Consent, the laws relating to this, personal boundaries and effective communication. These important sessions provided students with age-appropriate information and opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions that promote respect, safety and understanding the complexities of Consent when entering into all types of relationships throughout their developing lives. 

On the Ropes Production

Students from across many year levels had the opportunity to attend the powerful theatre production On the Ropes, performed by Red Stitch Theatre (Melbourne) in partnership with Peninsula Community Legal Centre in the performing Arts space at Mount Eliza Secondary College.  The play follows two 16-year-olds as they navigate the complexities of a coercive relationship and the life-changing consequences of a single moment of violence. Through this story and the guided discussion that follows, students will build empathy and awareness around issues that are very real for young people today.  The performance encouraged students to reflect on the challenges young people can face and highlighted the importance of reaching out for support when needed and understanding the complexities of the law and their rights to legal representation and support. 

Party at the Alfred

Selected students from Years 10 and 11 participated in an excursion to the Alfred Hospital where they attended the program ‘Party at the Alfred’, an interactive and in person program that explores the impacts of alcohol and other drugs, peer influence and decision-making.  Through realistic scenarios and hands-on learning experiences, discussions with medical and nursing staff and patients with lived experience, students gained valuable knowledge and skills to make informed and safe choices for themselves and their peers for their future selves. 

Looking Ahead

We are incredibly proud and impressed by the engagement and enthusiasm shown by our students in these wellbeing initiatives throughout Term 2, 2026. The Wellbeing Team remains committed to fostering a positive and inclusive school environment where every student feels supported to thrive both academically and personally. We look forward to continuing this important work and providing further opportunities for students to learn, connect and grow in the coming Term, where the Wellbeing focus of young people sits alongside to that of their academic learning and achievements.