Alumni Corner Talking Mental

with Aaron Stadlin-Robbie

AISHK students were fortunate to hear from visiting Alumni student Aaron Stadlin-Robbie in June. Founder of Talking Mental, Aaron utilises his platform to speak frankly as a dedicated advocate for mental health antistigma campaigns. His mission is to start meaningful and, most importantly, relatable conversations on the subject. Thank you to Aaron for sharing your mental health journey and learnings with our young adults.

Drum circles are not only a musical experience, but also a wellbeing tool, proven to create positive changes in physical, emotional and mental health for all involved. In countries including Africa, drumming is an essential, community-centred part of everyday life and culture which brings people together. Drum circles are increasing in popularity around the world for team building events and as a strategy for wellness and stress relief.

By both improvising and drumming under Thomas’ guidance, students learnt about following a conductor in a large ensemble, responding to dynamic level changes, experiencing different tone colours of percussion instruments and engaging in call-and-response-activities.

Sports Roundup

In May, the long-awaited return of sporting events burst back onto the scene with our Early Childhood Swimming Gala.

Students in Prep to Year 2 had the opportunity to swim in five different events, allowing them to showcase the skills and confidence they have been developing in the water throughout a seven-week swimming unit.

Students demonstrated a variety of movement skills in the water. Swimming on their own or with various swimming aides, students had a chance to show off their progress with backstroke and freestyle skills as well as engaging in some truly highlight-worthy bombing and diving skills.