From the Leader of Wellbeing

Positive Education Day

On Thursday November 9, students across the College celebrated Positive Education Day.  Our focus was Character Strengths, and students were encouraged to wear their top character strength colours on the day. It was an opportunity for students to identify their own character strengths, and to see who else within our Community also had the same strength. Likewise it was great to see all the different strengths (& colours!) within our community. The Senior SRC also created a Photo Booth and gave out coloured drinks to express their character strengths and to raise awareness for positive education. 

Research tells us that knowing & using our strengths impacts positively on a range of outcomes - such as reaching our goals, overall wellbeing and energy. Thank you to all students who participated and got involved, and a big congratulations to our Captains & SRC who helped with the planning of the day.

Merit Awards & the House Cup 

There have been 2 developments with our Merit Awards this week. Firstly, all the data from our previous Merit platform has now been imported into Compass. This means students are now able to see how many Merit Awards they have received since they have been at St Andrews. There is a link on the students’ Wellbeing Google Classroom that has the instructions on how to do this. I encourage all students to have a look and see what their Merit total is. Secondly, we were able to announce the winner of the House Cup at the last online Junior Assembly. Dr Kennaugh presented the House Cup to the winning House - Gould! The Gould House Captains, Ava Alley, Nicole Wasef, Elijah Barret & Mihir Sundriyal, proudly received the House Cup on behalf of their House. This year, due to the delay of the start of the HSC, we were fortunate to have both Junior & Senior House Captains present. Our House Cup Celebration Day is Thursday December 9. Unfortunately we will not be able to go to Raging Waters this year, however we are currently finalising an alternate activity for Gould students to participate in, to celebrate their House Cup success.

The final totals are below:

Bennelong: 16, 127

Chang: 16, 887

Frances: 16, 645

Gould: 21, 454

Mrs Sue Cooper

Leader of Wellbeing