2023 | ISSUE 9 | SJC Newsletter

Deputy News

TEEN MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID

All Westcourt students have had the Teen Mental Health First Aid course delivered to them this term. Our SJC home gown facilitators all received appropriate training in 2022 after the Old Collegian Society donated $30,000 to the cause to see this type of education delivered to our Year 9 students each year. All facilitators are really pleased with the level of engagement from our students and the boys’ feedback has been extremely positive with the key messages and takeaways from the course. Each student received a Teen MHFA certificate and has a greater understanding of Mental Health literacy and how to support themselves or the peers when they are experiencing a mental health problem. A big thank you to our facilitators Ash Crook, Mary Malone, Luke Parsons, Karen Shum, Vicki Mills, Annalee McKew, Lisa Pope, Matthew O’Brien, Cassie Gleeson, Andrew Dowd and Sam Querella who delivered the program along with myself.

BUS BEHAVIOURAL NORMS

It is a timely reminder to discuss the following behavioural bus norms with your child. We would like to ensure we finish the semester with no incidences and full respect shown to the buses, drivers and fellow bus travellers.

Whilst travelling on a bus St Joseph’s students will adopt the following bus norms;

• Greet the bus driver and scan their valid Myki when boarding and leaving the bus.
• Eat their food and not throw it.
• Keep the bus equipment and furniture in good condition.
• Only push the stop bell when required.
• Avoid using any inappropriate language.
• Keep the volume of noise to a reasonable level.
• Place food and rubbish in bins and not on seats or floors.

LONG SERVICE LEAVE

Here’s hoping everyone has a safe and happy mid-year holiday. I am taking long service leave for all of Term 3 and taking my young family in our caravan up to far North Queensland for much of it. Cassandra Gleeson will be Acting Deputy Principal Wellbeing and I trust the Joey’s community will support her in this time.

Mark Kennedy
Deputy Principal - Wellbeing