Peer Support Training 

Senior Sub School Peer Support Training 

Thirty Year 11and a couple of Year12 students were involved in Stride’s Peer Support workshops on Wednesday, 26 June which helps train selected groups of senior secondary students, to work with their peers and younger year levels to help them best navigate the school experience.

How Peer Support Works

Peer Support leaders are trained to deliver scheduled workshops with students from younger year levels, covering topics and skills that are designed to help them make friends, build confidence and flourish in the year ahead. In the Peer Support workshop students are introduced to the skills of listening, assertiveness, giving instructions and planning, to make sure they not only conduct themselves professionally but to ensure each workshop contains relevant and age appropriate content and themes.

Furthermore, the Peer Support Program develops a protective culture at SASC, where senior students become mentors and points of contact for peers and younger students to seek out in times of need. This develops a supportive environment that fosters student relationships between year levels and creates a more connected and understanding school community.

Students were very engaged and were excited to begin the next stage of pairing up with the incoming year 7’s

Laura Gough

VCE/VCAL Coordinator