Student Leadership
Student Leadership Update
Term 2 is off to a wonderful start for the Student Leadership Team. The Academic and Civics and Citizenship Committees collaborated to launch an all new Student Newsletter. The Arts Committee announced the winners of the International Women’s Day ‘Break the Bias’ Art Competition, and the Sport Committee helped deliver fun and engaging activities for Athletics Day.
As the new Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 class captains are announced shortly, we hope to welcome them to our student leadership committees. We have a number of important celebration days coming up including; International Nurses Day, IDAHOBIT, and Reconciliation Week. It will be a great opportunity for our newest members to get involved!
Bec Perkin
Student Leadership Coordinator
Student Newsletter
In a world full of mixed messages, the Student Newsletter aims to provide unbiased and reliable resources for students to access information and educate themselves on global, national, local and school news.
The Student Newsletter has been created by the student body for all THS students; we tried to keep it uplifting by including interesting news articles in conjunction with more heavy stories that are topical to the climate in which we live.
The Student Newsletter also features a wellbeing section, where we focus on a new topic in every issue. In our first issue we focused on stress, where we provided free resources to help students manage burn out and the return to school.
The front cover of the Student Newsletter features student artwork. In our first edition, we have displayed the work of two very talented Year 7 students, Eloise Thornton and Olive Elliot Darsow, who won the Year 7 International Women’s Day ‘Break the Bias’ Art Competition.
Finally, to add more positivity to the Student Newsletter we have included a page of interest, which features playlists, books, games, YouTube videos etc. that might interest students. The Student Newsletter is released every two months. The next one is scheduled to be released on the 4th of July.
Mia Armstrong
Civics and Citizenship Captain
International Women’s Day ‘Break the Bias’ Art Competition
During the week that THS was celebrating International Women’s Day, the Arts Committee ran a Year 7 art competition with the theme of ‘Break the Bias’. Year 7 art teachers dedicated a couple of classes to create submissions for this competition and others submitted them through email. The Arts Committee and myself, judged all of the submissions and decided on 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners for the two categories we created. The winners were:
Most creative use of materials:
1st: Eloise Thornton 7B
2nd: Stella Skenderis 7B
3rd: Alanis Wong 7E
Most creative message:
1st: Olive Elliot Darsow 7A
2nd: Mia Smith 7B
3rd: Ella Hitchen 7A
Congratulations to all art competition winners! Their submissions were featured in the new Student Newsletter which is super exciting. We hope to see more art competitions and student participation in the future! Also a shoutout to Ramona Ware of 7B for painting her submission at home and sending it through via email!
Awesome stuff!
Sarah Arquiza
Arts Captain