News from Frankston High School

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Year 9 LEAD Students Attending Year 7 Camp

On Tuesday 3 May, our LEAD team visited the Year 7 camp to host activities for a second time, and it was an experience that we will never forget.  We had some raspberry and white chocolate muffins for morning tea, followed by an assortment of pizzas for lunch.  

 

We helped to run activities such as tile hop, octopus, capture the flag, big swing, low ropes, and creek studies.  We all got to work with the Year 7 students in a different environment and understand them whilst doing something they enjoy.  We enjoyed working with Year 7 students and getting to know and understand the way they work and what they are interested in and improve our personal leadership skills.  Using the teacher reflection feedback that we received from the previous camp we attended, we worked on our skills that needed improvement and developed them during the second camp.  

 

Our key takeaways for this experience were to take time to plan and be clear with instructions, be collaborative, share ideas, be confident and be respectful of everyone around us.  We also found that we need to be flexible and take into consideration of student voice.  We listened to the students and their thoughts on what they wanted to play.  That worked a lot better and everyone was clearly enjoying it more.  Our leadership skills have improved drastically throughout our time working with each other and the Year 7 students.  

 

We enjoyed our day with the Year 7 students and we would like to thank Mrs Sarah Bahramis for driving us and to all the teachers on camp for their support.

Jasmine Brennan, Taylah Farey, Degan Johnson, Eireann Makey,

Ashlee Smith, Maryjo Vakson and Brooke Williams

Year 9 LEAD Class

 

Lord Somers’ Camp

Lord Somers’ Camp is a life-changing experience which will challenge you in ways that you could not have imagined and push you to be the best version of yourself, also, it is a lot of fun!  The week-long camp was an absolute blast for me as I made so many friends and had so many laughs.  I can say that by the end of this camp I had pushed myself the hardest I’d ever gone and found a completely new wellspring of motivation within myself that I never knew I had.  If you are in Year 11 or Year 12, this camp is for you, no matter your background; You will not regret it!

 

Find out more at: https://www.lscph.org.au/big-camp/”

 

Oli Craig, Year 12

SLC member

 

Easter Egg Hunt

On Wednesday 27 March, the International and Community Engagement SLC team hosted our 2022 Easter Egg Hunt.  The team had been hard at work ensuring the event would run smoothly and in the most environmentally sustainable way, creating and hiding reusable tokens and allowing students to recycle their foil wrappers when finished.  All VCE and SLC students were invited to participate in the hunt, and in the end, we had over 30 hunters. 

 

The House Spirit SLC team also had a bit to do with this year’s Easter Egg Hunt, adding an extra element of competition by counting eggs as house points. The end result was extremely tight, with only a six-egg difference between first and last place! The final rankings were:

 

1st place – Burrbunin with 32 eggs

2nd place – Yawa with 20 eggs

3rd place – Brim with 29 eggs

4th place – Tir-rer with 26 eggs

 

Special mention to Lorelei Tildesley (Year 11), who, with 15 tokens, made up almost half of Burrbunin’s eggs! She gained the grand prize (a jar full of lollies and chocolate), and with it took the title of Frankston High School's Greatest Egg Hunter.

 

A huge thank you to all students who helped run this incredible event – we look forward to hosting it for many years to come.

Alyssa Lancaster, Year 9

SLC member

 

International Student Forum

Last term, Frankston High School was given the opportunity to attend an International Students Voice Forum with other schools in Melbourne.  We were given the task of suggesting strategies to incorporate international students and their culture into our school community.  We as Senior Students including two international students travelled to the State Library where we were introduced to other groups of students from various schools who were also interested in supporting the integration of international students.

 

The day consisted of a number of interactive activities that enabled us to introduce ourselves and work harmoniously together as a team.  One of the major focuses during the event was the notion of teamwork despite various backgrounds, ethnicities and language barriers.  This allowed us both collectively as a school and also as a group of schools to establish new innovative ways that will support our international community.

 

Each school was given time to brainstorm new suggestions that focused on:

  • how we can increase awareness within our schools of the diverse group of international students & their cultures;
  • collaboration (involving local and international students enjoying their time at school);
  • giving students both local and international a voice in their school and activities within their school; 
  • how we can present these ideas to our school community.

All schools were given time to present and share their brainstorming ideas and methods of implementation (this allowed schools to share their ideas which was great).  We also had an opportunity to meet other students both international and local and it was great to see the passion that everyone had for school and supporting our international students.

 

Overall this experience gave us an amazing opportunity to introduce and create better integration between international students and local students.  We hope that this year we will be able to implement our ideas with new strategies through SLC and the wider school community.

 

Adam Chapman (Year 11), Diana Li (Year 11), 

Eden Mestdagh (Year 12) and Miranda Yang (Year 12).