Acting Pastoral Care & Wellbeing Coordinator
Welcome to Term 3
I hope that everyone enjoyed the mid-year break and have returned to semester two refreshed and re-energised. Today we celebrated Our Lady of Mount Carmel feast day with a whole school Mass. I was lovely to be able to join as a community and celebrate such a significant event. Thank you to all staff and students for their involvement in today’s celebration.
As we embark on the commencement of another term of learning, all students have the opportunity to reflect on their past semester of learning and identify areas of growth and areas for improvement in each of their respective subjects. Semester One reports provide clear feedback regarding each of these areas and are a valuable starting point for the setting of learning goals and as a stimulus for conversation with class teachers and Pastoral Advisors over the course of the next few weeks.
Campbelltown Council Youth Forum
Thank you to Ms Armour for organising for the 2023 House and Vice Captains to attend a youth forum in Campbelltown with Mayor George Greiss at the end of last term. This was a unique opportunity to identify and discuss the current lived experiences of Campbelltown’s young people with other students and community leaders. A great opportunity for our students to have a voice in their local community.
A Student Reflection
On Thursday the 29 of June, the Year 10 House Captains and Vice Captains attended Campbelltown Council's Youth Forum at Campbelltown Civic Centre. This was a unique opportunity to identify and discuss the current lived experiences of Campbelltown’s young people with other students and community leaders, including Campbelltown Mayor George Greiss.
Year 10 students broke off into groups, collaborating with students from other schools to formulate various ideas for possible initiatives aimed at appealing to the youth of society. These ideas were centred around key ideas such as sustainability, road safety and sporting opportunities.
Below is a summary of one of the initiatives presented to the Mayor on the day:
Combined with students from other schools, the strategy for our group was targeted around ‘the voice’ of the youth. As a group, we proudly proposed that the Campbelltown City Council invest in the construction and implementation of youth centres. These youth centres would be large-scale buildings featuring community gardens, sporting equipment, pet therapy areas, a library for study, complimentary nutritious food as well as psychologists and career advisors available to support the youth of Campbelltown. This initiative would place all the facilities that the youth require into one central hub to foster connection, improve mental health, increase employment opportunities through business advertising within the centre, decrease crime and overall, improve the well-being of young people in this LGA.
Message from CEDoW - Take It Down Platform
"Take It Down" Platform - Preventing the Unwanted Spread of Intimate Child Images Online.
A powerful new tool has emerged to safeguard the online privacy of young people who have unwillingly or unknowingly shared intimate images or videos of themselves with malicious recipients.
The Take It Down platform empowers individuals under the age of 18, regardless of their location, to remove or prevent the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of them.
This service is provided anonymously and does not require the uploading of any images or videos to the platform's system.
Take It Down sends a unique fingerprint of the intimate content to their participating social media/content ditribution platforms who use the fingerprint to block the content.
The participating platforms include Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pornhub, OnlyFans, Clips4Sale and Yubo.
Instances of image-based abuse can also be reported to eSafety or the police.
Uniform Reminder
- Only College caps to be worn to, from and at school.
- School shoes should be polished, plain black leather lace up (with a slightly raised heel). Variations of leather, canvas or athletic type shoes are not part of the uniform.
- Only MCCC school or sports socks are to be worn.
- Sports jackets to be worn on Tuesday for sport, or designated practical days for PDHPE, SLR or PASS only.
- Refer to pages 17-20 of the student diary for further information regarding uniform expectations.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Mrs Theresa Moore