From the Wellness Centre

Year Seven Health Education, Week Four

It’s been my distinct privilege and honour to have spent some time with the Year Sevens again this week during Health Ed, in what has been a continuation of work that commenced in Term One. This week’s content, clips and activities were entitled Mapping My Social World, and included some information on how to be a good friend, what boundaries are and how to set them and assertive communication. I really enjoyed the curiosity and enthusiasm the Year Sevens demonstrated during our time together.

Year Eight teen Mental Health First Aid Weeks Nine and Ten

During the last two weeks of this term, the Year Eights will be participating in the teenMHFA training, which occurs during Health Ed classes. As you would no doubt be aware this well-regarded, impeccably researched and relevant course upskills our young people in the areas of help-seeking when we are struggling with a mental health challenge and also building our confidence in having a pro-active conversation with a friend whom we might be concerned about. So watch this space for more detailed information in a couple of weeks’ time.

Asking For It– a must watch for families

The new series is a follow-up to SBS’s critically acclaimed ‘See What You Made Me Do’ by SBS,

Every day in Australia around 85 sexual assaults are reported on average – which is likely to be a fraction of the total number that occur – with an estimated 90 percent of sexual assaults going unreported.

SBS’s ground-breaking new documentary series Asking For It explores the sexual revolution we’re all living through: one that’s taking us from the ‘sexual liberation’ of the 1960s and ’70s to the era of ‘enthusiastic consent’.

Journalist Jess Hill (See What You Made Me Do) returns to SBS with Asking For It, reigniting a national conversation about the epidemic of sexual violence impacting millions of Australians. From schools to universities, aged care, same-sex relationships, in institutions and at the highest level of government – this series asks: "how can we change our rape culture into a consent culture?”

This is a quote from the SBS website which promotes the new series by Jess Hill, whose first book and series See What You Made Me Do, I remember recommending via this mode to families a couple of years ago.

This recent series, Asking For It, explores the shifting ground and dynamics around relational consent, which we surely must all be aware of given the times in which we exist. Last year I wrote of the brutalism of language and sexual literacy which young people are exposed to, the influencers such as the visionary activists Chantal Contos and Grace Tame, and the odious misogynist Andrew Tate. 

I’ve viewed this series and cannot recommend it highly enough. 

Ms Sheryl Moncur | School Counsellor & Teacher