Around and Beyond the school
Term 3 School Wide Positive Behaviours
Baimbridge College has continued to develop a school-wide approach to teaching and rewarding our values. Term 3 has seen the installation of our values signs and location-specific expected behaviours. Teachers have continued to use acknowledgement cards to praise students who are showing positive behaviours across the school.
In form assemblies over the final few weeks of term students have participated in a few activities that support our values. We looked at our names and how simple, yet important, it is for people to take the time to learn, know and use each others’ names. Perhaps your child may have asked recently why they were given the name they were. As shown in the photo below, many students took the opportunity to research and share the stories behind their names.
On the final day of term the students will be participating in a gratitude activity. The purpose of this activity is to remind the school community about how important to ones’ own health it is to share and experience gratitude. Whilst the person receiving the thanks feels the upshot of the positive emotion of gratitude, the person expressing their gratitude can get a significant boost to their own sense of wellbeing as well.
Earlier this year the following quote was relayed at a Positive Education conference. I’m not sure who it can be attributed to but it neatly encapsulates why expressing gratitude is such a personally rewarding experience: “By cultivating gratefulness, we are freed from envy over what we don’t have or who we are not. It doesn’t make life perfect, but with gratitude comes the realization that right now, in this moment, we have enough, we are enough.”
So, in that spirit I would like to thank the following students who were recognised for showing the school values of PRIDE, COURAGE and RESPECT across term 3.
Year 7 – Tyler Watt, Adrian Charman, Isobel McCrea, Lucy Hardy, Cameron Tayler, Zander Joseph, Chelsea Fitzpatrick, Archie Buch, Emily Crawford, Danielle Knight, Indianna Freeman, Emily McGregor, Jorja Fox, Kane Agnew, Sharlene Doherty, Brayden Rose, Rylan McConachy, Bella Trembath, Cody Glenn, Samuel Price, Brodie Reynolds, Zander Beardsell, Jonothan Dennis, Ella Sevior, Siana Jacobson, Kaden Cunnington, Bree Marsden
Year 8 – Adanna Morey, Jordan Edwards, Emily Hunter, Luke Hussey, Rylan Pech, Kyambah Barker, Tori Cheesman, Rori Charman, Isabella Burow, Zara Anderson-Hutchins, Dana Worthy, Aderito Niyigibira, Ryan Holmes, Ben Brabham, Xavier Geebung-Couzens, James Plunkett, Bailey Jervies, Ethan Farlech, Aiden Brown
Year 9 – Tia Speight, Oscar Bosch, Iluka Warren, Charlotte Rice, Dylan Forsyth, Georgia Pitts,
Year 10 – Ethan Gray, Emilee Baulch
Year 11 – Jackson White, Shelby Nolte, Mitchell Williams, Abe Tucker, Liam Gellert, Deegan Kinna
Year 12 – Sophie Paterson
Fit 2 Drive
Year 11’s have been lucky to have the learner driver program offered to them this week and all Yr 11’s have been involved in an extensive workshop about driving and driving responsibilities including mobile phone use and risks on the road. Feedback from those involved was extremely positive.
Passport to Employment- by Tia Speight
Passport to employment focussed on helping students to find the right pathways in getting the best-fit jobs in the real world. The first week was just getting to know the other students and the adults that would run the program, but the fun was just beginning.
The experience that the P2E program definitely gave a new perspective for us in what the work place is about, the struggles to get into the right jobs and even making the right choices. Along the way, decisions were made that were not that big, although they gave a true understanding on the work place troubles. We did a whole lot of teamwork and team building skills that made us think, not necessarily under pressure either.
The program gave us a chance to find different work places that can be of use, walking around Hamilton and asking companies like Match works, WDEA Works, Axis Employment, and others like SGAE, where we had to take initiative to ask the employers/workers questions about what happened in the buildings, the possibilities available, and all sorts.
There was the chance to buy our own clothes that would be suitable for job interviews, and then it came to graduation. Although nerves were visible, it was probably the most exciting thing to know we had come this far in the weeks we participated in P2E. That said, we may not have come too far in the way of being wiser like adults, or smarter in knowing exactly what to do in the way of having all the answers, but we have grown as people and grown as a group.
We may just be students of our generation, but through the P2E program, we can lead our generation, hopefully the right way, into the future. My one wish is that somehow, even little by little, we can make a change to the mess that generations beforehand have created in our world.
VVLN
Our VVLN students have featured in their 2020 enrollment information flyer.
Footy Colouring Competition
Well done to Ella Sevior who won the footy colouring competition.
Can you please help??
Our canteen is in desperate need of volunteers. With limited names on the roster in 2019 (thank you thank you thank you for your contribution to our school to those who have volunteered) we are calling for volunteers.
We do not care how long you can give. One hour will be better than nothing.
Our canteen has already lost one trading day and the students miss that dearly. Without volunteers we could lose another.
If you are able to assist please complete the form below and return it to school. We appreciate anything we receive from our volunteers.