The Score

Student Leadership

First Edition

Welcome to our first edition of The Voice! A student driven report put together by Secoresby’s proud and passionate student leadership body. This report is aligns with the college’s commitment to providing opportunities for our student leaders to have a ‘voice’ within the school community. Something the college values and believes has a positive influence in our effort to improve the student learning experience and raise overall achievement.

Knox Young Leaders

From Monday 3 until Friday 7 August a group of six Year 10 students – Ivory Eerden, Frazer Spence, Hendrica Hellemons, Kristy Prichard, Calista Jensen and myself (Luke Dodson) took part in a program run for the leaders of the next generation at the Knox City Council. The program is designed to teach young people about leadership, communication and the various resources available to help us all get through the tumultuous path of the teenage years.

 

The program started how many would expect, with introductions, ice-breakers and rough outline of what to expect over the forthcoming week. In the beginning most people remained in their school groups, where they were comfortable. The week taught us that being outside of your comfort zone can be enjoyable, even really good fun and it is acceptable to be yourself around others. Each day consisted of various activities, free time and occasionally leadership tasks. Some of these activities included different types of ice-breakers, defining the traits of a leader, speeches from guest speakers, putting puzzles together blindfolded, running our own teaching sessions, barn dancing, learning how to resolve conflict, organising a  45-minute presentation and many more, and that is no exaggeration.

 

The highlight of everyone’s week was the great people we had met. Everyone was kind, accepting and friendly, which goes to show that the passive aggressive stereotype of youth is far from the reality. The week was not without its disputes, but everyone came away from it really good friends. The program culminated on Friday evening with the night organised entirely by the 36 young people. The night ran smoothly at the end everyone said their emotional goodbyes. The week was one of the best we have ever had and I hope everyone jumps at the chance to do this or something similar in the future.

Luke Dodson Year 10

Vision 2020

On Friday 31 July the Year 7 and 8 leaders were lucky enough to go to the Vision 2020 day hosted by KIOSC at Swinburne, Wantirna. It was a day dedicated to the sustainability of Australia’s future. It was a great day with lots for us to take away from it. A key takeaway message for me was that no matter who we are, or how old we are, we all have an impact on our environment. Therefore, we can all change simple things to make our future brighter and potentially reverse and stop the negative effects we are having on our planet.

 

 

  • Some impacting facts that stood out to me from the day were:
  • By 2050 the world population is heading towards the 9 billion mark.
  • We currently have a world population of 7 billion people and 1 billion of those are without access to clean water.
  • The amount of pollution produced globally per day is 11 million tones. That is the same as 400.000 bombs.
  • The average temperature of the world is 14oC. This heat is causing the oceans to expand and as a result is causing more and more storms.

 

 

Vision 2020 was a real eye-opening day for me. There is much more we can do as Australians than I thought to help stop issues such as global warming and other environmental threats. This was such an impacting and memorable day for me personally.

 

 “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.” Elbert Einstein

Beth Dodson Year 8

Youth Council Forum

On Thursday 30 July we (Tina and Tom), went with the School Captains, Kat and Jack, to a youth council forum. The forum was held by Nike Wakeling (The State Member of Parliament for Ferntree Gully), Kim Wells (State Member of Parliament for Rowville) and David Hodgett (Deputy Leader of Liberal Party and Shadow Minister for Public Transport). We, along with about 10 other students from handful of schools from our area, spent the afternoon discussing public transport related issues and how we as students and young people saw the current public transport system. Some of the issues that were raised involved things like; the convenience of public transport, how safe we felt catching public transport and the cleanliness of buses and trains. The discussion was extremely informative and we all learned something from each other. It was rewarding also to know that the issues we had were now being recognised by Members of Parliament. Overall the entire afternoon was a valuable experience and we hope that Scoresby can be involved in more forums like this in the future.

Tina Waldron and Tom Wilson Year 11