International Students
Homework Club: positive self-talk
During the Homework Club, we introduced the benefits of positive self-talk to students, and guided students to practice creating positive self-talk in a sentence with three parts: “I am”, “I can” and “I will”.
Students were able to identify their strengths, reflect on successful experience and plan for future strategies to solve a problem. After the practice, students worked on colouring pages with positive affirmation, for example, “I can always improve”. Everyone was engaged in the activity and some students gave their work to the Wellbeing Hub for decoration.
We hoped that students could use positive self-talk in the face of challenge, make a realistic appraisal of capacity, circumstances and effort and achieve greater success with persistence.
Ann and Sam
The DSC Wellbeing Team
Victorian Global Learning Awards: Global Citizenship Award
The annual Victorian Global Learning Awards
celebrate international student excellence and recognise schools and homestay families for outstanding global learning and engagement. Among all applicants from government and non-government schools in Victoria, our international student Harry B. was selected as one of the finalists for the Global Citizenship Award.
The Department of Education and Training Victoria. will be sending a filming crew to produce a film at the College. It is a fantastic opportunity to showcase our school, our fantastic facilities and of course, our nominated Year 12 student, Harry B. The Awards Ceremony will be held in July 2021. A big congratulations to Harry and his achievement. It’s so amazing to see what you have done and the many awards and certificates you have received over the last year or so.
Sally Huang
Director of International Student Program
Water Safety Training
Water Safety is important for anyone and everyone in Australia should be aware of possible risks and safety precautions for their family and friends when visiting or swimming in this nature. We have sad news of people drowning tragically every year in beaches, rivers, waterfalls, and bays across Victoria. While these are the popular spots to visit, everyone should be educated on potential hazards and safety tips to prevent themselves from life injuries or permanent disability.
Having the knowledge of water safety can be life-changing for some of our international students and can save lives. Our junior school international students had a Zoom seminar on this important topic with a presenter from Life Saving Victoria earlier during the term. Although the virtual nature of the seminar made the whole session more informative rather than demonstrative, the students were quite engaged.
Our students maintained their concentration for the entire presentation and attempted to answer every question asked by the presenter.
In the lecture on water safety last week, I learned a lot about water safety. For example, you must be accompanied by an adult when playing in the water, you must play between two yellow flags, you must wear a life jacket to avoid sinking after falling into the water, rock fishing is very dangerous, and so on. The teacher is very interesting and gave us many examples in life to let us understand. This knowledge is very important, and it will definitely save our lives at the critical moment.
Nicole L. 8J
In the course of water safety, the teacher gave us a lot of detailed knowledge, and I learned a lot. If you swim without being prepared, you will be very prone to drowning accidents if you are not aware of safety precautions, panicking and not being able to help yourself in an accident. Not only children, but adults too will drown very quickly. We learned that when playing on the beach, we should not swim in unfamiliar waters without signs and lifeguards. The teacher interacted with us, for example, asking us a question, which made the course more fun.
Che C. 8K
Soulong Lee
International Student Program Assistant