STUDENT LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Pride Squad Meetings

This year the meetings are every fortnight on a Tuesday, next meeting Tuesday 6 th March.

Meetings are held in the closet (named by members of the pride squad.) Any-one wanting to know more about the group speak to Mrs Andrews, Mrs Ward, Mrs Holt or school nurse Michael Ellison Jones or drop in to the closet any day of the week at recess or lunch to talk to the students. So far we have had 2 planning meetings for 2018. The squad has been planning for Open night display on Tuesday 6 th March, IDAHOBIT day on Thursday 17 th May, Wear it purple day Thursday, August 30 th , a social outing and painting the door of the closet. IDAHOBIT day – plans so far include a flag raising ceremony followed by a squad morning tea with staff.

Wear it purple day – Plans to hold an art exhibition featuring works of art with an LGBTQI theme

with local schools contributing to the exhibition. An outing to see movie Love Simon is also being organised –an American romantic teen comedy- drama  based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. A closeted gay teenager in high school who is forced to balance his friends, his family, his email pen pal Blue, and the blackmailer threatening to out him to the entire school. The film is scheduled to be released on March 16, 2018.

FMP – Frankston Morington Action Group

On Wednesday 7 th February the College hosted the first meeting for 2018 of the Frankston and  Mornington Peninsula Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Intersex Queer (FMP LGBTIQ) Action Group. (4 meetings are held a year) The invitation to attend was extended to local agency and school

staff along with student representation. There were 15 individuals who attended the event including

a number of school nurses, student well-being coordinators, Peninsula Pride, Headspace, Frankston

city Council Youth Workers, local youth support organisations. Staff representing the College

included Alison Ward and Robyn Andrews. The FMP LGBTIQ Action Group was established early 2015 to enable organisations and community members to engage in a coordinated approach to acknowledging, celebrating and including our LGBTIQ communities locally.

Pride March 2018

McClelland College for the 2 nd year running attended the Pride March. This year’s march again

saw hundreds of young people marching together in a momentous statement of support and

solidarity. This year was not as well attended by Pride Squad students given the searing heat on

the day. A huge thank you to Mrs Ward and Mrs Holt for supporting the March.

An enormous thank you goes to Barry Rea (Superior Etchworx) for his donation of time to

produce our banner in 2017, that students along with Alison Ward and Kellie Lindemann

designed and the College Council support. The March itself was a kilometre-long procession of Victoria's diverse queer communities along Fitzroy Street in St Kilda from Lakeside Drive to Catani gardens with the streets lined with supporters.