Glenroy students take the lead
Footy colours day
On Thursday the 7th of September Glenroy College celebrated Footy Colours Day. There was a sea of Footy Colours through the school. We had a BBQ lunch and a handball competition that Ramzi from Year 10 won and a kicking competition that Mohammed won from Year 11.
It was a great vibe around the school!
Global Youth forum 2024
Year 9 Student Leaders: Jez Jones, George Adamopoulos, Muhammed Khan and Hayley Lazzaro.
Our year nine student leaders have been participating in an online global youth forum over the past two weeks. This has been an opportunity to work with schools from South Korea, China, India and Indonesia. Students were able to learn about being a global citizen, identity, AI, biases and stereotypes. We have also been able to learn from guest speakers as well as how to improve our presentation skills. They have learned how to use the design thinking process to create a project to improve a problem within our school.
Our year 9 student leaders have decided to focus on the issue of vaping in schools and how it could potentially be resolved through education. They developed a how might we statement to explain this problem. “How might we educate students about the dangers of vaping and the health impacts.” Students were able to come up with creative solutions to this problem that could potentially be used to solve this issue. They also developed a clever slogan “Vaping is a pollution, not a solution.”
Students were able to develop their confidence and were able to present their “pitch” to over 108 screens. Glenroy was the first team to pitch their idea to the main forum group as well as in our breakout rooms. Glenroy students were able to develop their confidence from not wanting to speak on zoom to being the first group to raise their virtual hand. This was an amazing achievement, and we are so proud of our students.
Students were able to connect with students across the world and learn how similar and different problems occur and affect students in different countries. We heard pitches for problems from Indonesia, South Korea and China. It was interesting to hear the range of issues. Issues ranged from vaping, harmony day, year 7 transition, underpaid teachers (Indonesia), ministers in education/laws (South Korea) and the limited extracurricular activities (China). This was an invaluable experience for our year nine students to be a global citizen and participate in a global program.
Students will be looking forward to continuing working on this project and developing possible solutions and ways we can improve this problem. This will be an extended project for students to develop throughout the year. Potentially this refined design process and solution could be implemented to create solutions to other problems.
