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On May 28th, our Finigan SDE school community came together to commemorate National Sorry Day with a meaningful and respectful assembly hosted by our student leaders.
Our students and staff took a moment to pause and reflect on the injustices faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout our national history, whilst also considering our shared responsibility in reconciliation as well.
The assembly featured a range of activities, for both students online and those attending our Term 2 Mini School in-person. This included: an Acknowledgement of Country, an overview on the purpose of National Sorry Day, an interactive activity where students had to sort key events from our past into chronological order, and then a craft activity which had students decorate a hand to build into our shared artwork.
We thank everyone who was involved in the planning and delivery of this event, particularly our student leaders who hosted or designed an aspect of the assembly – including Frankie (Y8), Angel (Year 11), Emily (Year 11) and Alexis (Year 12).
By observing National Sorry Day together, we have deepened our understanding of our past and have strengthened our school community’s dedication to creating a more inclusive future for all Australians.
Last year, our students and staff collectively completed over 50,000 push-ups and raised $1,500 for Lifeline and mental health services across Australia. What a fantastic feat this was for our school community!
This year, we’d love to ‘push’ even further than this – by including more students and staff than ever before in the Finigan SDE Push-Up Challenge, completing more push-ups, and raising even more money for charity.
Does this sound like something you’d like to be a part of?
Join our school community in this challenge between the 4th-26th of June. You can join our whole-school team, by registering your name and details at the following LINK.
Alternatively, if you’re not keen on doing the push-ups, you might like to throw a few dollars in to fuel our fundraising campaign and post some encouraging words for our participants. You can donate to our school team, by using the following LINK.
We hope to have you join us!
The eSafety Commissioner has some free webinars coming up to give parents and carers the knowledge, skills and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.
Some of the topics include:
Understanding & using parental controls to help protect your child online
Parental controls can be a useful addition to the strategies you use to help protect your child online. Parental controls can help keep children and young people by preventing access to harmful content, managing time spent online and who they communicate with.
Term 2 (Australian Eastern Standard Time):
Sexual extortion: What parents & carers need to know
Sexual extortion or ‘sextortion’ is a form of blackmail where someone threatens to share a nude or sexual image or video of a person unless their demands are met.
Sexual extortion is a serious, growing online concern, especially for young people. But what exactly is it? What conversations may help prevent it and how can you support your child if they’re targeted?
Term 2 (Australian Eastern Standard Time):
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