Good afternoon everyone,

This week’s Pastoral lessons conducted earlier today included the following :

Year 7 - Year Assembly: Technology use, Respectful Behaviour, Organisation and Assessments.

Year 10 - Pastoral Class activities centred around Goal Setting

Year 12 - Pastoral Class discussion following up from Thursday’s High Achievers Assembly and Question and Answer session, and time for private study.

Years 8, 9 and 11 attended the first of our 2 Opening Masses for the year.

Year 10 Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) Program
Due to last year’s COVID intervention, we were unable to conduct our scheduled YAM program for Year 9 students. We have been fortunate to secure dates for it to be presented to this year’s Year 10 cohort during March as a means of “catching up” for what they missed in 2021. All year 10 students will be able to participate in the program. The dates for the presentations will be Tuesday March 8, 15 and 22.

The program is run by CEO staff and is a program from the Black Dog Institute. Year 9 will be participating in the program over 3 consecutive weeks and they will be learning about a range of topics including mental health, stress, crisis, self-help and suicidal thoughts/ behaviour and support. For more information, please click on the following link YAM: Youth Aware of Mental Health. More information will be forwarded to parents and carers over the coming weeks.

Elevate Education
As explained previously, parents of Mount Carmel Catholic College have exclusive access to Elevate Education’s Parent Webinar Series for Term 1, 2022. Elevate works with our students, delivering high impact workshops on study skills, motivation, wellbeing, and exam preparation. By tuning into their webinar series you will learn how to better support your children at home through reinforcing the skills they learn at school. 

The webinars take place across Term 1, with the next webinar happening on Wednesday 23 February at 7pm. Registration is essential and is free for parents of Mount Carmel Catholic College. The topic for this next seminar is Motivation, and addresses questions such as: