Marian College Newsletter - English

Student Wellbeing

Kerrie Williams

Assistant to the Principal - Student Wellbeing

Student Wellbeing

 

COVID Update:

With all of our students having now returned to campus we need to ensure that we provide for all of our community to continue to be safe and well. This means that all of us, staff and students, need to follow the expectations that the government have placed on all of us. 

 

This includes:

  • Wearing face masks at all times – except when eating or drinking. This needs to be taken seriously by all of us
  • Physical Distancing is extremely important and all classes have been set up to try and ensure that there is as much space as is possible between all of our students
  • Washing hands and using hand sanitiser frequently over the course of the day. We have placed an extra 15 hand sanitiser stations around the school to encourage this to be the normal practice for all of us
  • Regular cleaning of high touch and common shared surfaces such as door handles and frequent cleaning of toilets
  • Our canteen is only using the lunch order process to ensure we have no lines for food etc. during the day

 

We need to also remind all of our students that if they are feeling unwell and have any of the symptoms such as headache, fever, coughing or a runny nose that they should stay home and receive a COVID test to ensure that they do not have COVID 19.  We recognise that this is a challenge at this time of the year with so many of us suffering from hay fever symptoms but we will send any student home that seems to have any of the symptoms associated with COVID. 

 

While the number of infections in Melbourne and Victoria are now very low we cannot drop our guard or revert back to old behaviours, as the virus has not gone away and we are still waiting for a vaccine that is still a little way off.

 

VCE Exams and Wellbeing

With the start of our VCE exams this week, with English being the first exam on Tuesday, we need to remind all of our families that this can and will be a very challenging and stressful time for our students.

 

We need to support them, listen to them and ensure that they are eating and getting enough sleep.  Lack of sleep will only make those challenges of exams greater.

Our Year 11 exams are just around the corner as well. This is a time for all of us to support them through this.

 

Student Leadership for 2021

With the final day of the Year 12’s occurring on Friday 30 October, we were able to reveal our Year 12 Student Leadership Team for 2021.

 

We are pleased to acknowledge that our Lamp Bearers for 2021 will be:

Renee Scothern and Noami Bawi Tha Khun Thang Eng

Our Student Representative Council will be:

  • Tehreem Rana
  • Aishwarya Lakshmi
  • Sarah Varisanthi Sridhar
  • Biak Sui Zanthang
  • Nyat Ebuy

We congratulate all of these students for their achievement and commitment to take on student leadership in 2021.

 

We look forward to working with these student leaders in 2021 as they bring about change and continue to improve our school community.

 

Awards Night

2020 have been such a challenging year for all of us and many of  the things that we would normally do we have had to rethink – this includes our annual awards night.

This year it will occur virtually on the 2 December and we look forward to acknowledging all of those students from Years 7-12 who have lived out our core values in this most challenging year. 

 

We are in the process of finalising our award recipients and we will share these with you in later editions of the Marian News.