Student Leadership

College Student Leadership 

Wellbeing

Last week the Junior and Senior Student Leadership Team with the guidance of the Wellbeing portfolio has successfully organised Mental Health Week activities. Leaders put together a multitude of activities to encourage better mental health and generate the conversation about the importance of this issue, especially with 70% of adolescents experiencing a period of poor mental health at some point. Both junior and senior leaders worked hard to organise an interactive pastoral program focusing on the signs, symptoms and treatment of mental health problem, resilience talks and challenging activities, meditation and comedy lunches and finishing the week off with a mental health panel with both students and teachers able to talk about their views on mental health in our community. As a Student Leadership Team, we hope that students and teachers were able to learn more about mental health, strategies that may help improve their everyday mental health for the better and to encourage the conversation about such a prevalent issue in order to remove the stigma associated with mental illness. We, as an MSJ community, must continue to display understanding, compassion and solidarity for all people that may struggle with their mental health.

By Chelsea Gray - Wellbeing Captain