Wellbeing

Welcome to The Well

The Endeavour College community has been blessed with a brand new, purpose-built space to support student wellbeing! Over the summer holidays, the former Senior Study Room in the round building was completely transformed, to now accommodate counselling rooms, meeting rooms and a staff office, as well as a reception desk and open plan area for supervised student use. The space, which will be know as “The Well”, is a destination for students seeking counselling or ministry support, or a safe and discrete space to utilse strategies to self-regulate, should they need it.

Our new Student Counsellor, Henry Lee, and I are located in The Well, and will continue to provide counselling services to students across Middle and Senior Years. We work collaboratively with the other pastoral staff who play an important role in supporting student wellbeing and will provide assistance in The Well. Henry’s appointment late last year, in addition to the creation of this new space, highlights the College’s ongoing commitment to wellbeing and greatly increases our capacity to respond to diverse student needs.

We are very grateful to Craig Vale, Director of Arkvale Architects, for understanding our requirements and capturing our vision by designing an incredible space which incorporates elements of biophilic design! We are also thankful for Felice Shrimplin and her team from Comace, who brought the space to life over a very short time period, with the support of dedicated tradespeople who approached the project with the care and sensitivity it deserved.

While we are still awaiting the delivery of some furniture which has been impacted by COVID delays, we are working hard to support the evolution of the space over the coming weeks, and look forward to sharing the amazing results with students and the broader community as the finishing touches are added! Until then, it is business as usual, and The Well is open for any students requiring counselling support.

It is our hope that The Well will be a place of retreat, reflection, restoration and rejuvenation for our community - a destination where students can access the valuable support and resources they need to endure, heal and thrive, to fill their bucket, supporting their wellbeing, and ultimately their learning, during their time at Endeavour.

Marni Harding

College Counsellor