School News

Middle School Positive Thinking

On Thursday the 18th of August,  the Middle School Positive Thinking Assembly took place. To kick off the assembly and to put us in a positive mood, we were treated to an outstanding performance by year 9 student Jamila Jalloh, singing ‘Stay’, by Rihanna. Our guest speaker Emma, from the organisation, Beyond Blue, detailed her experiences battling mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue and anorexia.  She described to the girls her methods of dealing with these challenges, how she managed to overcome most and how she stays positive, whilst she continues to battle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Emma shared with the Middle School students, 10 things she finds helpful to get her through tough and troubling times. Her words were inspirational and informative. We are grateful for Emma’s courage to share her personal story.

The Middle School Executive are excited to be running follow up activities for the year 7’s and 8’s in their upcoming wellbeing lessons. Thank you to the Parent’s Association for their Grant which has funded the materials we will use in these lessons. 

Lucy Vogel

Middle School Vice-Captain 2016

Hello from Gnurad!

Hello from Gnurad! This term we are away in the country near Warrnambool at the School for Sudent Leadership program. We’ve had 5 weeks here so far, and we have 4 more to go. It has been going so well, we are enjoying every minute of it. So far we have done surfing, canoeing, bridge building, climbed Mt Noorat, completed expo 1, learnt how we best learn and think and met heaps of amazing people from school all over Victoria, just to name a few. It’s been so interesting getting to know people from all different backgrounds and we think we have become more confident and well-rounded people from this experience.

Not being connected to social media and being forced to spend time outside, talk to people and confront our problems has taught us that there is a lot more to life than how many likes you get on a photo. We are so grateful that we were able to come here, and we are having the time of our lives! See you in term 4!

From Chelsea Hammond, Liv Walkinshaw, Daisy Batten and Lola McCaughey.