From the Leader of Learning Wellbeing Year 7

It seems crazy to think that just a few weeks ago, year 7 were anxiously starting high school. While it has only been ten short weeks, the group have settled in beautifully and it is hard to imagine St Andrew’s without them. It has been an eventful term with more ups than downs and I’m excited to see what the rest of the school year will bring

The hurting game incursion

During the term we were lucky enough to have Brainstorm Productions come out to present the play “The hurting game”. Here students followed the story of two high school students struggling to fit in, and making some mistakes along the way. This production fostered some great discussions in our wellbeing lessons about safe online behaviour, friendships and having confidence in who you are. 

The camp that wasn’t but will be! 

The camp scheduled for this term was unfortunately a wash out. The unprecedented rain that we experienced in week 9 meant that conditions were too dangerous to send students to camp. However, thankfully the venue had one more available date for us to reschedule the camp to. We will now be going Term 2 Week 9 just after the long weekend on June 15th and 16th. The weather will be cooler, but hopefully dryer. I’m looking forward to our camp next term, as I am sure all of year 7 are. 

Learning Group leaders

This term we elected the Learning Group Leaders for each Year 7 Learning Group. Congratulations to the following students

B3- Joshua Tolentino and Hayden Bilbie

B7- Samanta Cardona and Amelia Manks

C1- Aaron Geevarghese and Sean Healy

C3- Sharron Harry and Saihaj Reehal

F1- Alistairre Reyes and Gem Wong

F2- Rowena Kubik and Lara Temel

G5- Angelo Demian and Gian Portelli

G16- Kaydence Wells and Danijela 

These students will assist their learning advisors for Semester One. 

Sport 

This term has been very successful for sport. As well as the basketball and volleyball teams, sport at school has also been rewarding for year 7. Ranging from hip hop to self defence, year 7 have grown in confidence learning new skills and getting involved. 

Other achievements 

It is so wonderful to see year 7 getting involved in all the opportunities available at St Andrew’s. -Samantha Xavier and Lexi Iskander represented the College in the CSDA public speaking competition wonderfully. 

-Jett Crook came third in the CCC Diving competition

- Ranveer Rattan and Archisha Thumma gave an incredible speech to potential St Andrew’s families at Open Day

- Several year 7 students have entered the Young Archies portrait competition and we look forward to hearing more about this soon. 

- Countless students are trying out for representative teams and rehearsing for CAN auditions 

- Students have raised funds for project compassion in their Learning Groups. 

- I’m sure there are many achievements that I don’t even know about yet! So please let me know what amazing things have been happening. 

Helpful reminders 

To help next term be just as successful as this one, students and families are reminded of the following

• On the occasion that students need to be out of uniform, please provide a note indicating why this is the case. 
• Students are asked not to bring flip combs to school. These are the ones that look like a pocket knife that seem to be the trend at the moment. We don’t want people in the wider community getting worried or confused about what they are seeing. They are not appropriate for school.

Lyndal Symmonds
Leader of Learning Wellbeing Year 7