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Wear It Purple Day, 2021
Wear It Purple Day, 2021.
In spite of some of the costume challenges posed by lockdown, the school community came together (virtually), on Wear it Purple day on Friday 27 August, to celebrate the spirit of LGBTQIA+ youth, to raise awareness and stand up to discrimination and bullying. Teachers, staff, students and families come up with creative and imaginative ways, to show solidarity and pride, get educated, and celebrate LGBTQIA+ young people, by proudly displaying purple backgrounds in meetings and classes, dressing up themselves, pets and toys with whatever purple and colourful costumes and objects they found at home, entering the photo competition, changing their email signatures, writing poems, and learning about the importance of using preferred pronouns, and demonstrating respect and non-discrimination for our diverse and vulnerable young people.
Big shoutout to the student members of StandOut, our LGBTQIA+ ally student group, who sent out a series of communications to year level classes throughout the week, providing resources and highlighting some important facts, and simple steps that everyone can take to make RSC inclusive, safe community, and celebrate the strength and diversity of our student body. For any enquiries or to join the Stand Out group, please email Anna Jenkins (ajenkins@ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au)
The winners of the Wear It Purple photo competition, who will all be receiving vouchers to support local businesses are: Cassandra Karabelas, Chalie Draper, Shanai Williams, Scarlette Shallcross, Maya Garrett, Jaime Virgona, Zee (Zoe) Veldhuizen, Shayne van de Heide.
The Standout members would like to send a grateful thank-you to the teachers below, who made efforts in their classes to come up with ways (big and small) to send their support and help raise awareness of the issues experienced by LGBTQI youth:
Jessica Hilet – who set an English poetry task on the Wear it Purple topic
Kain Gardner – who spoke on the difference between sex and gender in the Biology lesson and helped diverse students feel really welcome in class
Ms Bruce – who wore purple in a class meeting and invited students to do the same if they wanted to.
Mrs Wright – who changed the lesson plan to a purple theme.
Anna Jenkins
Wellbeing
Engineering & IT Girl Power program
Recently I have had the great opportunity to be a part of Melbourne University’s Girl Power in Engineering and IT Program. This program gives many high school girls the chance to develop their interests and skills in STEM and meet other like-minded individuals. As a part of this program, I spent a few days at Trinity College at the UniMelb campus with many other girls from across Victoria. We did coding classes, a panel meeting with inspiring engineers, engineering workshops, had movie and trivia nights, and much more. My personal favourite was the bridge building workshop, where we competed in teams to build a model bridge and see who’s could hold the most weight. I absolutely loved this experience, and it was a great opportunity to meet people and learn about STEM and career pathways in Engineering and IT.
If you’re interested in this program, you’re welcome to contact me with any questions, or you can visit this website to find out more: https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/engage-with-us/schools/girl-power-in-stem
Amelie Winter
Year 10 Media
Year 10 Media have been working on creating magazine front covers and contents pages. They have been developing skills in using inDesign and Photoshop.
James Johnstone and Gemma Lindley
Jasmine Chacko, Indiana Naylor and Rebecca Poole
Melissa Muller
Media
Year 10 Dollars and Sense
As Part of Year 10 Dollars and Sense students learn about the Sharemarket, they can put into practice what they are learning by playing the Sharemarket Game. Students receive a virtual $50,000 they can invest over a 10-week period, in over 200 companies listed on the ASX. The prices students buy and sell at are the same prices as they would get in the live market so this is as close to real life share trading as you can get.
As a result of playing the Game students:
- Develop their knowledge of the sharemarket
- Learn how to research companies
- Discover the importance of wise investment decisions
- Gain a greater knowledge of economic and world events
Over 10,000 thousand students from all over Australia, New Zealand and Australian International schools play the game.
Oliver Owen-Fraser, with his syndicate is Stainless Steele, is currently 1st in Victoria and 3rd overall in the game. Awesome investing Oliver.
The Game finished on the 28th of October Good Luck to all the students who are challenging themselves to make effective trades, choosing not only what to buy but when it is the right time to sell!