Out of the Box

Student Voice &  Leadership

Reshape our Future Youth Forum

On the 10th of June, alongside Miss Steele & Mr Acebron, fifteen year 7-9 class captains & SRC members attended the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria ‘Reshape Our Future’ Youth Forum at Melbourne Museum. This was a fun, informative and powerful event for young people aged 12-25. Students heard from several guest speakers, including VIC SRC representatives, a Youth Disability Advocacy Young Leader, the Hume City Council Young Citizen of the Year, activists, and advocates. They learnt about how to make a difference on the issues they care about and got to network with students from other schools.  

 

Thank you to the following students for attending: 

 

Yi Xu (7a) 

Junlin Yu (7a) 

Ishwin Kaur (7e) 

Fatima Ali (7f) 

Imogen Forward (7g) 

Tehreem Humayun (7h) 

Tafa Hirschmann (7z) 

Derrick Lu (8f) 

Yun Feng (8g) 

Aarav Akhouri (8i) 

Genevieve Patel (8i) 

Shi Jing Gan (8j) 

Nathan Tan (8j) 

Taj O'donnell (9b) 

Oak Eason (9f) 

 

International Student Buddy Program

 

This term, we have had several new students start at Box Hill High School. These students have only recent arrived in Australia. 11 junior class captains and SRC members have volunteered their time to be a buddy for these new students. They have attended lunchtime sessions, participated in a getting to know you ‘Aussie food’ themed lunch, attended lunchtime club sessions and have been a friendly face inside and outside of class for these new students.  

 

A big thankyou to Ms Tran for organising this lunchtime induction program to help our new international junior students settle into the BHHS community and to the following class captains who have exemplified our school values through this program: 

  • Imogen Forward (7G) 
  • Josh Lee (7C) 
  • Keya Prajapati (7D) 
  • Keaghan Lee (8A) 
  • Yun Fen (8G) 
  • Genevieve Patel (8I) 
  • Milly Foley (8I) 
  • Jerry Huang (9A) 
  • Lihan Guo (9B) 
  • Emily Jang (9D) 
  • Keira Ko (9H) 

 

Senior Leadership Development Afternoon  

 

On Wednesday 20th July, Year 12 Prefects, Year 11 Leaders and interested year 10 leaders met and undertook a leadership development and networking afternoon.   Leadership is more than filling positions and sticking to what’s been done in the past, it’s about striving to do things better than what has been done before. 

 

The purpose of the afternoon was to help our senior student leaders to step up and ‘raise the standard’ of leadership at BHHS by: 

  1. Reflecting on their personal leadership skills 
  2. Reflecting on their teamwork  
  3. Brainstorming ideas for school improvement 

Thank you to the following students who participated: 

  • Hannah Lee (Year 12 Vice-Captain) 
  • Felix Sun (Year 12 Vice-Captain) 
  • Ari Rego (Year 12 Prefect) 
  • India Bretel (Year 12 Prefect) 
  • Megan Choo (Year 12 Prefect)  
  • Ian Desouza (Year 12 Prefect) 
  • Flynn Gosby (Year 12 Prefect)  
  • Jemma Phelan (Year 12 Prefect) 
  • Sophia Choy (Year 11 Leader) 
  • Sam Montgomery (Year 11 Leader) 
  • Karan Dhavan (Year 11 Leader) 
  • Michelle Woang (Year 11 Leader) 
  • Paris Christakakis (Year 11 Leader) 
  • Tsifira Jawahar (Year 10 peer support leader) 
  • Kaitlyn Jacob (Year 10 peer support leader) 
  • Eshani Anand (Year 10 peer support leader) 

 

 

 

 

 

By Chloe Steele

Leading Teacher - Student Voice, Agency & Leadership