Student Wellbeing - Chaplain and YSC
We can’t believe how quickly this term is going with plenty of exciting student wellbeing events still to come to finish the term.
Pastoral Care
The School Chaplain at the College provides emotional, spiritual and social support to the students and wider school community. If you would like Chappy Kristian to provide one on one pastoral care conversations, please email katki121@eq.edu.au.
Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club usually operates Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:15am until access. It will kick off again next week. If you want to help out, please get in contact with us.
Talkin’ It Up
Our Year 10 Peer Mentors and our Defence Peer Mentors travelled to Lowood State High School on Friday 14th July to attend ‘Talkin' it up’, a forum to reduce the stigma around mental health. Our students and other young people from across the region, listened to a keynote speaker who spoke about practical everyday ways to manage mental health. Students also learned and spoke about mental health wellness at a series of interactive workshops based around the Wheel of Wellbeing.
R U Okay Day
Due to Year 10 camp and other extra-curricular activities in Week 10, the College is having our R U Okay Day Celebration on Thursday 7th September. I encourage you to remind your child to bring some extra money for the day so they will be able to purchase cupcakes and snow cones that the College’s Peer Mentors will be selling. There will be plenty of other activities on the day, so stay tuned for notices on Daymap, as well as posts up on social media and posters around the College.
Rock & Water
Rock and Water is well under way and so far we have looked at seeing things from another person’s perspective: the power of focus, identifying the physical cues of our bodies and the techniques we can use to calm ourselves down and boundaries. Thank you to all of those who are currently participating.
Love Bites
Early next term, Alicia and Kristien will be running a program called Love Bites for Year 10 and 11 students. This program focuses on building healthy relationships. If this is something that you think your child will benefit from, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
SU Camps
Scripture Union Australia, the organisation that employs the chaplains here in Ripley Valley and in hundreds of schools across the country is also a camping organisation. If you are looking for something for your child to do over the holidays, please follow the following link.
https://sucamps.org.au/?season=spring
Take care
