From the Student Representative Council

R U OK? Day - Junior Campus 

The R U OK? Day organisation focuses on the promotion of meaningful conversations that could save a person’s life. On the 10th of September, the St Andrews College community participated in this movement by running numerous events on the day, fundraising and empowering students and teachers to meaningfully connect with the people around them. During the morning of R U OK? Day, students used “conversation cups” to sell breakfast juices to help initiate conversations between each other. Yellow ribbons were also being sold, symbolising the optimism and enlightenment the R U OK? Day movement promotes amongst people. Countless students contributed towards the fundraising, preparing chocolates and themed face masks that were sold on the day. Each of these items were being sold for a gold coin donation, resulting in over $100 being raised for the R U OK? Day suicide prevention organisation. 

Apart from using fundraising as a means of communicating the idea of meaningful conversations to save a person’s life, a yellow picture frame was being used to unite the student body together, representing the support the St Andrews community have for one another. To wrap up the events of the day, the school buildings were decorated with paper chains and balloons which consisted of ways to commence encouragement and actions for the problems an individual may carry. A big thank you to everyone who assisted, donated and participated on R U OK? Day. As a community, let’s continue to ensure that lending support towards the peers amongst us is sustained throughout our daily lives.

Prayer for R U OK? Day

Dear God, 

Today is R U OK? Day. Thank you for the amount of support and love we have at St Andrews College - for all the teachers, students, school leaders and access to counsellors. Please help and guide each student at SAC to seek help if they have any problems and to always show kindness and support to each other. Help us to always ask and check in on our families and friends if they have had a bad day and to show our appreciation for all that we do for one another. We hope that R U OK? Day will help everyone here know that God and the community is always looking out for us, with everything we do.

Amen 
St Andrew 
Pray For Us

Sabrina Tomas
SRC - Faith In Action Portfolio, Year 9

Janella Canete
SRC - Publicity Portfolio, Year 10