Assistant Principal's
Report
Mr Lockhart
Year 12 Last Day – Whole School Assembly – Friday 18/10 at 10.00am – Donaldson Park
A reminder to our College community that our Year 12s have their last day this Friday 18 October. A Whole School Assembly will be held at 10.00am (1b) to celebrate their journey at Wedderburn College. This is a calendared event and all parents and carers are invited.
Year 9 Podcast – A must listen!
Wedderburn College and Anglicare Victoria partnered with Live FM to create three Podcasts. The first Podcast is about listening to a young man Fred, who has lived with a Gambling Addiction, he speaks openly with the Wedderburn students about how his addiction began and his journey in seeking professional help. This is a wonderful interview by four of the Year 9 Wedderburn students. They make a deep connection with Fred and provide some great ideas to help anyone who may know someone or themselves to seek help.
The other two Podcasts are interviews with people who provide health services in this region: Jeri Mayers, Therapeutic Counsellor with Gamblers Help and Grace Owen, Youth Psychosocial Recovery Worker. These services provide general support for people of all ages and they are definitely worth a listen. The Podcasts were organised with Anglicare Victoria as a competition to win Wedderburn College the equipment to produce our own Podcasts in the future. Our Year 9 students have absolutely excelled and we hope you enjoy listening. If you go through the pages in the Flipbook you will find the PLAY buttons to listen to the three Podcasts. For every listen Wedderburn get points, if they receive more points than the other school we will win the challenge.
Thankyou and I hope you can help the Year 9 students win this challenge. They have already learnt so much from this activity, but future opportunities to create Podcasts that relate to their peer groups would be an outstanding opportunity.
Please click on the link below to access the Flipbook/Podcasts.
Please share this link with your extended social groups and advertise it in your community newsletters.
WEDDERBURN LIVE 2024 produced by Wedderburn College.
Wellbeing Day - 15 November for all Secondary Students
SEED Workshops - Girls
Our experienced educators deliver a range of fun, inspiring and interactive well-being workshops to help foster and enhance self-esteem, positive body-image and respectful relationships. SEED Workshops delivers in-schools (Year 5 - Year 12), community facilities and workplaces. We plant the seeds and provide the tools for students to become critical consumers of advertising and media messaging, to foster healthy relationships with friends and peers, and to take the reins in their own lives. Our SEED Workshops' holistic approach blends innovative teaching techniques to create an engaging environment helping students THRIVE.
"I expected this was going to be boring, but it was the opposite! I learnt to be assertive, how to respectfully resolve conflicts, about gender equality, to respect my body, to respect my friends and not talk behind their backs, and that media representations are unrealistic. I feel like I have learnt a lot from these workshops in a way I haven't with any other organisation. It was excellent." Year 9 student
Man Cave- Student Workshops - Boys
The whole day workshops experience encourages participants to explore the concept of ‘masculinity’ and the impacts of outdated societal expectations placed on men , and to build healthier relationships with themselves and those around them.
Based on the Rites of Passage framework the workshop creates safe places for participants to have real conversations with each other. They include group building activities, interactive games and healthy discussions on mental health, relationships and consent.
The Man Cave programs have been designed in consultation with young men , Psychologists and mental health experts to safely and reliably create an attitudinal and behavioural shift in the boys that participate.
Feedback from workshops show:
95% of participants would recommend the program to other young men
98% think our facilitators are awesome
94% of boys rate the workshops 4 or 5 out of 5
Uniform
It would be a newsletter without the mention of our school uniform. It is a highlight of our school that our students wear their school uniform. That being said, there are a few areas that we could improve on.
- Hats are to be worn at recess and lunchtime – either bucket or broad brim with school logo
- Hair that is touching your shoulders to be tied back
- Socks are to be dark – navy blue or black