Year Coordinators
Year 8
Cyberbullying
Online bullying can have a devastating impact on young people, whose online life is a key part of their identity and how they interact socially.
Cyberbullying behaviour takes many forms, such as sending abusive messages, hurtful images or videos, nasty online gossip, excluding or humiliating others, or creating fake accounts in someone’s name to trick or humiliate them.
Bullying is never ok. It’s hurtful and can impact someone for a long time.
Resist the urge to respond
Stick to treating people the way you want to be treated online and offline
Screenshot evidence
Before you block or delete, make sure you screenshot. If you’ve seen or been the target of mean or nasty stuff online, it’s really important you keep evidence of it. This might help you out down the track if they continue to be nasty and you need to report it.
Report and block
Most social media services, games and apps have a function that makes it easy to report and block online bullying. You can find reporting links for social media, apps, games and websites in the eSafety guide.
Talk to someone
Cyberbullying can make you feel isolated and like everyone is out to get you, but that’s not the case. Make sure you talk to people you trust and get support from mates or adults that have your back, and you’ll realise that you are not alone
Report it to eSafety
You can report it to the cyberbullying team at eSafety.
Below are some links with more information on how to make an e-safety report:
https://www.esafety.gov.au/report/cyberbullying
https://www.esafety.gov.au/young-people/cyberbullying
E-SAFETY PARENTS
https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents
The BIG issues - Cyberbuylling
https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/big-issues/cyberbullying
Year 11 continue to impress with the way they have approached their Senior education. With week 5 almost over it won’t be long before they complete assessment tasks across many of their subjects. In fact, many students actually did their first Studies of Religion assessment task today. However, it does concern me that many students are feeling overwhelmed with the increase in workload from Year 10 into Year 11. I would like to remind students that there is great support here at the College in the form of your homeroom teacher, school counsellors and yours truly. We are here to guide you through this difficult transition period into Senior School so feel free to use and abuse us!
It was also great to see our House Captains gain recognition this morning at assembly for their Leadership and House Spirit shown at the recent swimming carnival and at the Tuesday lunch time Volleyball House challenge. Keep up the great work!
Our SRC and House Captains are in the “picking a design” phase for their Senior Jersey which will be available in Term 4. May I remind all leaders of year 11 to email me their chosen design asap.
Finally, don’t forget parent/student/teacher conferences are in week 7 which is only 2 weeks away. This is an excellent opportunity for students and parents to sit down and engage with teachers to discuss how they are going in their subjects.
Year 12
It has been a very busy start for the Year 12 group with 2 fundraising events held in quick succession. The BBQ at the school swimming carnival was very successful with nearly 600 sausages sold. The fundraising group would like to send out a massive thank you to Al at Big Country Meats who donated all the sausages and even supplied more when we ran out during the day. Also a huge thank you to Sharon at Hot Bake who donated all of the bread for the day. The generosity of these two businesses during difficult times was much appreciated by the whole year group. The work done by Ethan Sultana in approaching these businesses for support was a great example of a young person showing initiative.
The teachers race was also a great success with Mr. Furey taking out the honours with a perfectly timed race. Unfortunately, a lack of cameras at the start could not support the protest from Mr. Harrison that Mr. Fury dived in early, so we will have to wait until next year for the square up.
The recent Valentine’s Day fundraiser was a good learning experience for the group in regards to organization, planning, and working together as a team. The valuable lessons learned will only help the group with future event planning.
A big thank you to Lily-Rose Battaglia and Mr Carniato for organizing the cleaning of the venue, updating the appliances and making improvements to the senior kitchen which will no doubt be heavily frequented over the coming months.
