From the Pastoral Care & Wellbeing Coordinator
Good afternoon everyone,
After a wonderful day of celebrations last Friday for Champagnat Day, followed up with a well-earned long-weekend, we are now coming towards the final two weeks of what has been another very eventful and productive term.
This week saw a number of various Pastoral Care, Wellbeing, Learning and Spirituality activities take place. The most significant of these was the Year 8 Geography excursion to Homebush Bay Wetlands and Encounter Day held at the College. These occurred on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, with half of Year 8 doing the excursion one day and Encounter Day the next, and vice versa for the alternate half of the group. Many thanks to Mr Duval and the Year 8 RE team for organising the Encounter Day, Mr Rodoreda and the Year 8 HSIE team for overseeing the excursion to Homebush Bay and the cooperation and participation of the year 8 cohort.
Earlier today we conducted a range of year based activities during our Pastoral lesson. These included:
| Year 7 | Assembly - recap of Champagnat Day, follow up to Brainstorm Productions presentation in week 6 on relationships and some basic uniform, grooming and behaviour reminders. |
| Year 8 |
Pastoral Class based follow-up activities from Brainstorm Productions presentation on Bullying and Harassment, with a particular focus on Assertiveness. |
| Year 9 | Assembly - with a focus on future planning, particularly with respect to careers options and revisiting elective subjects for 2023. |
| Year 10 | A selection of individual activities with a focus on Team building and Collaboration. |
| Years 11 & 12 | Individual study to assist with the current schedule of stage 6 assessment tasks that are due over the next few weeks. |
Next Friday will see Year 7 attend their on site Encounter Day.
As is the case every year, Year 7 to 10 Semester reports are currently being written and will be available to students and carers next Friday. These are an important tool for providing an accurate account of where each student is currently at with respect to their learning and also provides feedback for ways to improve over the coming semester. An important part of this process of feedback are the Parent, Teacher and Student Interviews which will be conducted on Monday June 27, Thursday June 30 (4pm to 8pm) and Friday July 1 (8.30am to 12:30pm). Please refer to Compass for bookings.
As always, thanks to all members of our community for their ongoing support with the learning and wellbeing of our students.
Mr Simon Huntly
