Central Coast’s school leaders share their vision for 2021
Student leaders and captains from several Central Coast schools have revealed how they hope to make a positive difference at their school for the year ahead.
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Student leaders and captains from several Central Coast schools have revealed how they hope to make a positive difference at their school for the year ahead.
MacKillop Catholic College, Warnervale
Student Leadership is a very important part of College life at MacKillop Catholic College, Warnervale. After enduring the pandemic, Home-Based Learning and the separation of the Year groups, the present College Student Parliament have made the rebuilding of community, where everyone feels safe and that all belong, as a priority. By using the very strong House System that links students together with their core values of faith, discipleship, hope, integrity, justice and compassion the leaders are engaging in activities and events, as well as imparting awareness, to ensure MacKillop is a strongly integrated and inclusive school where all have a voice and can strive for their personal best.
Terrigal High School, Terrigal
At Terrigal High School we have a dynamic student leadership team who collaborate with the school and local community to foster enthusiastic, creative learners and global citizens. In 2021 we will continue to build on our theme of connectedness through social awareness campaigns, support of local and global causes and striving to be compassionate, thoughtful and resourceful contributors to society. We encourage the student body to participate in engaging opportunities for creativity , team building and personal growth and strive to be at the centre of our local community with positive links to many organisations including Rotary and our continued work with Central Coast Shelter.
Central Coast Grammar School, Erina Heights
Olivia Stewart, Head Prefect 20/21
This year, as COVID restrictions lift across our school community, I want to build deeper and stronger connections for students from Kindergarten to Year 12.
We’re currently looking for opportunities where older students can help out in the classroom or at sporting events like the cross country. I coach a Year 5 boys’ Basketball team. It’s amazing to watch them build their skills and confidence and I hope to be a friendly face to our younger students. I’d like to encourage more opportunities like this for older students to connect, mentor and support our younger kids.
Our team of prefects and school leaders head into all areas of school - before class, at recess and lunch - to help students be safe, find their way around or just to hang out and play. These connections are so important to building our school culture and sense of community. It’s a great feeling when a student in Year 1 proudly announces to you that they learnt to ride their bike, or you’ve helped a group of Year 6 students with leadership skills. We’d like to encourage more of these relationships. Maybe it’s helping a Middle School student with advice on managing school and personal commitments or running a warm-up exercise with a group of Kindy students. The opportunities to strengthen connections is endless.
As COVID restrictions ease, my vision for our school community would be cohesion, strength and unity across the year groups.
Jack Quinlan, Head Prefect 20/21
My vision for the school in 2021 is to inspire and engage a group of students ready to take on issues that impact us all. I want to help create global citizens who have the power to act and influence the world around us.
That’s why, this year I started the CCGS Inventors Club for Years 7 to 12. This club aims to provide a different way for students to engage with experts and use engineering skills to develop creative solutions to the varying problems facing our community.
We’re working with the University of Newcastle’s student ambassador program. They share some of the projects they are working through and show us how we can effect change.
We use these talks as inspiration to take on different social and civic problems like the environment or lack of affordable housing for example. We engineer different solutions and then hope to create a final product to help solve some of the issues facing communities – not just locally but globally too.
It’s a way to help students think creatively, solve problems and create a community that is civically and socially aware and engaged.
St Philip’s Christian College - Gosford
The Senior Leadership Team, desire to build a strong sense of belonging, by serving with integrity, students and the wider community. Their aim is to bring glory to God, as they contribute to creating a dynamic environment so that all students will thrive.
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