Wellbeing Report 

In Search of Beauty – Year 9 Incursion

Last week during our Extended Pastoral program our Year 9 students had an incursion on finding ‘the beauty within’, facilitated by Steve and Annie Lawrence. With our young people being bombarded daily by unrealistic beauty stereotypes and body images, Annie’s presentation on ‘In Search of Beauty’ seeks to expose these distortions and show where true beauty lies.

Annie led the girls through her idea of a beauty treatment – the ‘beauty challenge’:

Annie also instilled in the girls the power of words, to build up or cut down. She powerfully presenting the following poem ‘The Rose’, visually showing the rose being torn apart by the personification of ‘criticism’.

Please have a read of this beautiful short poem here:

Meanwhile, Steve took the boys on an inspiring journey of self-reflection with compelling personal anecdotes of his life as an AFL player, husband, father of six children, educator and world adventurer. As a man of deep faith and spirituality, he encouraged the young men to be resilient and respectful, having courage to stand up for their beliefs, and encouraging good people to become great.

Ms Jackie Kol

Director of Wellbeing