College News

A Message from our School Captains

Jack Phillpotts

To the members of our school community – students, teachers and parents

 

I would like to offer you all a few words of support amid the ongoing situation. 

 

Having now been in enforced isolation for a couple of months it is starting to take its toll on some of our mental and physical health. I'm sure some of you may be struggling to stay motivated to do homework or schoolwork, I know motivation has been a problem of mine too. This is why, especially now, it is crucial to take some time to do what things are still available to you and enjoy what you can, take some time to have some fun indoors with family or give yourself some self-care. 

 

Furthermore, I cannot stress enough the importance of staying physically active in these times. Without noticing, while at school you are walking a fair distance just from class to class and for those catching public transport, walking or riding even more kilometres are cut out by staying at home. It is crucial to replace this in your daily routine just by going for a walk around the block, along the beach with your family, going for a run, 7-minute workouts and countless other techniques to stay healthy. 

 

As I previously mentioned some people may be struggling mentally, I’d like to remind you that there is support available for you everywhere. Your teachers and fellow students are always willing to listen to whatever you have to say as well as the wellbeing team being just an email away. Even more important though, is now we’re all at home, it gives us all a chance to stay connected and support our family and show just how much they mean to you in our current time. 

 

Thank you, 

Jack Phillpotts

 

 

 

Elisa Barone

There are about a hundred different ways that we can think about this global crisis: we can be scared, we can be angry, we can be appreciative of the time we now have to reflect on ourselves and spend with our loved ones, we can laugh at all the ways people have tried to entertain us during this new way of living. 

 

If there is something I have learnt personally from this experience, it is that we cannot take life for granted. From now on we will begin to appreciate the smaller things we didn't realise before; we will be able to see our friends, we will be outside, we can study, with appropriate social distancing of course, but we can be face to face with our peers and our teachers. In life, it's inevitable there will be times where we are hit with difficult challenges and it's ok to let in all the emotions that come alongside them, it's ok to feel vulnerable, and it’s ok to feel bewildered and overwhelmed. We have to channel these emotions, acknowledge them and then find ways to help us see the optimism in these times of darkness.

 

Mordialloc College is a community with students who demonstrate strong values of respect, integrity, personal best and responsibility and so I have full faith in all of you to keep strong and keep striving to push through online learning, after all, it won't be long now to be back in classrooms.

 

Jack and I have attached some ideas that we would love to see you participate in. It would mean so much to us that the students of Mordialloc College are willing to work together to make something memorable and just communicate and help one another.

Elisa Barone

 

 

  • We have discussed an idea where students from each year level can document a short ‘day in a life’ of their online learning. We believe this is a creative and fun approach to highlight the positives of this experience and gives students the ability to step away from their work for a moment and reflect on how the process has been.
  • We would really love if you participated :)
  • After we have collated all the responses, we will aim to have the journal complete by the end of term 2 so that we can publish it and share it with you all.

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