SRC CONGRESS

During the July school holidays three representatives from SRC attended the Victorian SRC Congress, a three-day event at Ormond College, Melbourne University, filled with other SRC representatives from all over Victoria.

During the July school holidays three representatives from SRC attended the Victorian SRC Congress, a three-day event at Ormond College, Melbourne University, filled with other SRC representatives from all over Victoria. One of the first activities we did at the Congress was to pick an Action Group, which had a certain problem that often occurred within schools. In those three days, we came up with solutions in our Action Group to share with representatives from State government as well as other important education based organisations on July 12, at what was called the Open Market.

That’s not to say that the Congress was all intense discussion about the school system and its issues. Various games and small activities were offered, as well as free time, where everyone gathered to play table tennis or Uno. At meal times, everyone gathered in a Hogwarts-esque dining hall to eat delicious food. On the second night in that hall, a Mad Hatter’s Secret Garden Party was held, some people going wild with costumes – making a ginormous Hatter’s hat – or some being more creative, like us, wrapping teabags around our bodies and hanging a cup from our necks. The night was filled with trivia, conversation, pasta and blasting tunes.

The three days were action filled as we listened to what other schools were doing or trying to do in SRC at their schools. Our Action Groups were often filled with personal stories from people’s own experiences of their particular issue, and at Open Market it was amazing to see all these people from different schools with different experiences expressing their thoughts and solutions.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the Congress, from the spacious dorm rooms where we slept, (some even contained a queen-sized bed), to the table tennis table, to meeting different people from different schools with similar interests. Some of the people we met we will keep in contact with and remember, and we won’t forget the exciting conversation and ideas that were brought up.

Lachlan Peele, Evelyn Ranogajec, Hamish Peele

SRC Leaders