PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENT LEADERSHIP

This year has been a big year for the house system and student leadership in the Primary School. Not only have we introduced and established 6 completely new houses, but we also introduced those houses to encompass all students from Kindergarten to Year 6 and expanded the Student Representative Council to include both our Primary School campuses.

During our Year 6 Leadership Day, students participated in workshops led by the Heads of Student Houses and Dr Webster to better understand how to be successful leaders in Primary School.

Our annual Leadership Assembly was a chance to present badges and acknowledge the impact and roles that the House Captains, Year 6 Leaders and Student Representative Council members have on our school.

One of the things that the Primary house system is most proud of this year is how we have embedded Indigenous culture, stories and language into our new houses.

We’ve been so lucky to have the stories and origins of our house names taught to us by Aaron Chatfield and then they were brought to life by the artwork of Kalara Gilbert. We also worked with the Indigenous scholars from the Senior School to learn about how we can connect to Country and the importance of the land around us. We also wrote House Acknowledgements of Countries as a collective, which we say at the beginning of each house meeting.

The House Captains in particular, have been very busy this year from supporting all sports carnivals across Primary, to coordinating house meetings, to organising house debating, inter-house sport and e-sport tournaments.

– Lauren Dunn, Director of Students