Community Engagement Program

Pasifika and African Student Clubs

Well done to the Pasifika and African Student Clubs who have been running weekly sessions to engage the students through youth leadership capacity and peer mentoring support. The Pasifika STARR program which has been running on Wednesdays from 2:30pm – 3:30pm for Year 7 and 8 students help students to connect culturally with Liaisons mentors and peers of Pasifika heritage.  Students have been using cultural reflections to understand how to utilise the MSC STARR values in their everyday high school experience. Pasifika Liaison Officers welcome suggestions from staff for student participation in the Pasifika STARR program’s Term 3 intake.

In contrast to the Pasifika program, the African Student Club has been an avenue for many students of African heritages and different cultural backgrounds to connect. Many of the African students and their friends have been learning traditional dances from the different cultural groups within Africa, watched a documentary, formed some goals for the year and made new friends. Akuol A has incorporated important discussions in and amongst the fun.  Coming up for the rest of the term we will be cooking traditional African food, celebrating Refugee Week and having some special guests come into school to share their stories.

Partnership Programs

Our school community prides itself in having strong partnerships with local and regional community organisations through internal and external co-curriculum activities that enhance students’ wellbeing, learning, retention, and links to community mentors. Thank you to Western Bulldogs Community Foundation, Melbourne Victory Football Club, Mushroom Group, Melton Youth Services and Community Support groups through CMY (Centre for Multicultural Youth).

Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre - Parenting in a New Culture (PINC)

MSC has worked closely with Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre for a number of years incorporating parent engagement and support programs to families who have experienced stressful situations. They provide programs such as PINC which assists parents in managing intergenerational and cultural issues, while providing strategies to support positive relationships with their children and managing their behaviour in a new cultural setting.

Developing African Heritage Culturally Safe Resources 

DET and DEAKIN University recently initiated a research project focused on “Developing African Heritage Culturally Safe Resources to Support Victorian School Leaders Create More Inclusive Schooling Environments” for students with African heritage.  The DET objective of this project is aimed at creating and producing “a suite of culturally safe digital teaching and administrative tools for Victorian government upper primary & secondary schools. The resources aim to address cultural safety and competence involving African Heritage students” Both MSC students’ and teacher’s focus group were conducted on the 24th - 25th of May, 2022.  Many thanks to Amy-Rose Livesay, Michael Lavery, Tracy Luu, Daniel Griffin, and Rufaro Zivave who were part of teachers’ focus group. 

Movie Night

Shout out to all the staff who assisted on movie night which was a huge success.

On Track - school holiday program

The Mushroom Group will be holding a holiday program in the REC centre from 27 June to 1 July. Consent forms can be collected from the Community Liaison Team.