Celebrating Our Diversity

St Catherine’s School experienced the joy and delight of all our students from Prep to Year 11 celebrating the diversity within our School Community during the inaugural Diversity Dash held during Wellness Week in Term 4, 2022.

The Week started with Year 9 student, Hexuan (Helena) Zhou performing a traditional Chinese Dance in Assembly, and our 2023 Student Executive explaining the realm of diversity within our community, including cultural, gender, age, and neurodiversity. This was followed by the pièce de résistance – the inaugural Diversity Dash.

Students laughed and soaked up the festive spirit of exploding colour as they ran through an obstacle course on the Village Green in Barbreck. The spectacle was a remarkable sight with music playing and puffs of purple, yellow, orange, red, green, blue, and pink filling the atmosphere with a visual array of diverse colours. Students embraced the opportunity to celebrate each other and the diversity that each person brings to the fabric of our School community.

In running a whole school event, diversity was discussed on a much larger scale. This discussion was beneficial as students offered their suggestions and input to the charities that their gold coin contributions for Wellness Week would be donated to.

The ever-present student voice elected three charities to donate to. The organisations selected are from three individual areas of education, health, and wellbeing, all as significant as each other. The charities were The Trevor Project, Believe: neurodiversity and One Girl.

The smiles, laughter and pure joy heard from the girls throughout Wellness Week was a wonderful reminder of how remarkable St Catherine’s community is and how much joy is created from celebrating each other, together.

Ms Samantha Basford Wellbeing Program Coordinator 2022

“The Diversity Dash was an amazing way to bring the whole Senior School together to celebrate everyone’s individuality. I had so much fun being a part of the Dash and seeing everyone having a smile on their face and enjoying themselves. It was a wonderful way to end the year with lots of colour and laughter.”

BRYDIE READ

“The Diversity Dash was a fantastic event which included everyone from Prep to Year 11. I loved being involved in the organisation of the event, setting it up with other students and being able to lead others around the course on the day. Everyone had a great time and laughed as they ran around the course, getting masses of colour thrown on their t-shirts.”

JEMIMA WILCOX