Secondary

Years 7-9 Homeroom Leaders

Last week the Homeroom Leaders from Years 7-9 met for their first leadership training session of the year. The 7-9 leadership program seeks to find a balance between practical action and formation. The theme for this session was “The Compass of a Leader”. The student leaders worked through a process to develop a statement of success in which they were able to capture the essence of what they would like to achieve as a leadership team in each year level. This was both a productive and enjoyable process with students including a nice balance of humour and insight into what makes a school year valuable. The teams then moved on to discuss how they would establish the right expectations and high standards required to make those statements of success a reality at John XXIII.

We look forward to what these very fine young leaders achieve with, and for, their year groups in 2019.

Cameron Haines, Kalo Bell and Aaron Peters

Assistant Deputy Principal – Year 9, 8 and 7

Social Justice

At the Twilight Retreat on Friday, Nathan from Caritas Australia came in to talk to us about social justice, Project Compassion and the issues facing our world today such as poverty and it effects, lack of access to clean drinking water, shelter and education, just to name a few. As a result, a group of Year 11 students are seeking to create awareness about these issues by hanging posters in homerooms, having Project Compassion boxes around the school, particularly at the canteen and also by hosting events on the chapel lawn on Live Simply Day, 29 March. We encourage everyone to come along and participate in Live Simply Day and Project Compassion so you can do your little bit in our global community!

Ashleigh Smith

Year 11

PE Studies General Excursion

The Year 12 PE Studies General students spent Tuesday morning touring the West Coast Eagles facilities at Domain Stadium.

The students spent time in the West Coast Eagles lecture theatre, viewed the pool and player’s lounge, learnt about the conditioning required to play AFL and saw the impressive gym set up. A highlight of the tour was getting on the playing surface and trying to replicate the Dom Sheed kick to seal the 2018 Grand Final from the forward pocket.

The tour was a fantastic way to consolidate the Exercise Physiology concepts that have been discussed in class over the past seven weeks. Hearing about how the physiologists and strength and conditioning staff prepare the players using their knowledge of sport science but also “gut feel” was interesting and informative. The students enhanced their knowledge on designing training programs, the need for adequate recovery to maintain peak performance and the amount of time and effort it takes to play elite sport.

Cameron Tremayne

Head of Health and PE