Middle Years

Student Leadership

Yearly Report

This year the Student Leadership Team have done countless things, in Term One we established our SRC’s for 2016 with a speech and a student vote to help choose SRC’s that would help our school grow with fundraisers and school events. The school captains helped show the community how the lakes cover all learning bases for every student’s benefits from paper work to technology in a school tour. The team also involved our school in ‘clean up Australia day’ to help keep our school clean of litter. Later in the term the SRC’s went to their first SRC cluster for the year, working on their leadership skills and working on ways to improve our school for the better. At the end of the term we had an end of term assembly, where the school captains ran their first assembly for the year.

In Term Two we did many exciting things like on Middle Years we had an Open Evening where the student leaders were ambassadors showing what our school students have worked on in the past term. The Lakes also had our own ‘ANZAC ceremony’ where the student leaders spoke a few words to honour the soldiers who fought for our country. The SRC’s ran their first fundraiser for the year ‘Crazy Hair Day’ where students could wear their craziest hair for a day. The House Captains were preparing for the ‘athletics carnival’ where they introduced spirit points to people who were supporting their house. After that the Student Leaders helped with another fundraiser ‘The Biggest Morning Tea’ to support cancer research and clinical trials it was a success we donated a lot of money to a great cause. The year 8 students went on a Leadership Camp to help build on their skills as a leader preparing them for a leadership role in Year Nine. Our team also assisted the performing arts captains running ‘Song Dance and Drama Night’ where students demonstrated what they had learnt in music, dance and drama classes to the public and families. Another fundraiser the SRC’s ran in Term Two was ‘Winter Woollies’ where students could wear beanies, scarves and gloves to school for winter. The last thing the school captains did in Term Two, was present their experiences of ten years at the lakes at the Prep Information Evening

Term Three was a busy term as the student leaders were ambassadors for the Middle Years ‘Domain Expo Night’ showing parent and the community everything The Lakes has to offer. The SRC leaders ran a sausage sizzle and also a ‘BBQ breakfast’ was held to fundraise for The Lakes Sponsor Child. The school captains and SRCs attended the Shrine on the ‘Vietnam Veterans Day’ to support the soldiers who fought and passed. Later in the term the SRCs held ‘Genes for Jeans day’ where the students could wear jeans to school and bring a gold coin that went to support children’s research. Near the end of the term the student leaders ran activities at lunchtime for students to participate in as it was Footy Colours Day where students came dressed in their favourite footy team jersey, scarf, gloves or beanie. Another SRC cluster approached near the end of the term where the SRCs came together at the Middle Year’s Campus and organised the kids teaching kids program for next Whittlesea SRC cluster. “We worked on our image for our school, we contributed on what we liked and didn’t. We also shared how we learn best” Apryl in year 8 said.

Term Four came around quickly, the student leaders ran the kids teach kids workshop on the EY campus where we ran activities about leadership and teamwork with the year 4s, they had so much fun working with different student from other schools. Walk to school October tally started to count up how many students walked to and from school. At our ten year school production we invited some of the community to watch our show, the performing arts captains also said a speech at the community show. “…we worked on how to change the school like bringing in new furniture. They asked opinions from students” Chelsea in year 8. Near the end of the term our swimming carnival came around unfortunately our year nine leaders couldn’t run it they had graduation so it gave the year eight leaders a chance to practise for their opportunity to become a leader in year nine. It was amazing to see all the support for each of the houses. The school captains finished up the last term of 2016 with a school council meeting where they presented any last proposals they had before they were finished at the lakes.