Wellbeing Hub Happenings

Year 7 focus = Building positive friendships through Peer Support Sessions with their Year 10 mentors and Year 7 Camp. Sessions on raising awareness of what bullying and racism is and the impacts it has on young people following on from the Victoria Police presentation to the cohort. 

Year 8 focus = Being an upstander not a bystander to forms of bullying and racism. 

Year 9 focus = Students reflecting on the role they play in creating a safe school community that embraces diversity and strategies to support their peers stand up to any forms of bullying or racism.  

PARENT RESOURCES 

• SAVE THE DATE PARENT WORKSHOP                                                                            Term 2 Monday 29th May 6.30pm-8.00pm - The Resilience Project, 'Connected Parenting Workshop' with Lael Stone – in person at Box Hill High School. 
• Great article by Andrew Fuller on jow parents can support teenage boys to be motivated to learn. 

International Women’s Day 2023 Embrace Equity 

Staff and students celebrated all the people in their lives that do or have strived for fairness in recognition of IWD 2023 theme “Embrace Equity”.  Year 9 Students had the privilege of hearing from Ultra Marathon Runner, Lucy Bartholomew; on how she focusses on the small things she can control to overcome gender and ageist stereotypes in her sport.  One story she illustrated was how she was in a race, running in the dark, deciding if to give up on the race due to exhaustion.  But decided to just keep stepping into the little circle of light from her head torch in front of her.  Not only did she run through the night she was able to complete her first long run in Europe to gain sponsorship. 

Harmony Week 

Brilliant effort by our wonderful Languages Domain for hosting Harmony Week and all the terrific lunchtime and in class activities. 

It was great to have Whitehorse Youth Connect come in to celebrate the cultural diversity at BHHS. 

Wellbeing Hub Lunchtime Activities  

Students who would enjoy a peaceful space at lunchtime are warmly welcome to the Wellbeing Hub 1.15pm-1.45pm daily. 

Monday = Yoga 

Tuesday = DND 

Wednesday = Mindfulness 

Thursday = Q&A Club  

Friday = Brain Challenge 

New Team Members Welcome 

Our school community warmly welcomes our new Learning Support team members who will be working with students and teachers in classrooms.   Joy Zhong and Caitlyn Dimech joined our team this term and have been an asset in assisting our students. 

By Felicity Shiel-Jones

Learning Leader Student Services

(Wellbeing & PSD Program)

Wellbeing Team 2023

Classroom Learning Support Staff