Mental Health meeting with Ministers
Schools Plus Teaching Awards
Celebration Day
Multicultural Festival
Brad Headlam
Principal (Acting)
Mental Health meeting with Ministers
Suhail Jamshidi, Annah Beh, Ehp'Saw Dahdait and Halima Shee all participated in a round table discussion with Ministers Ella George, Alison Marchant and Christine Couzens. In addition to these high-profile powerful leaders of change in our community were members of Headspace, social workers and young people affected by mental health. The purpose was to discuss challenges and needs of young people to direct further inquiry. I was so proud of our students who contributed in a positive way utilising their own lived experience and presented what they see in their own contexts. I was particularly impressed when Ehp Saw responded to the claim that RUOK day was too tokenistic. She simply stated that the aspiration at our school is to educate others, whilst engaging in activities that promote fun and connection to create a more supportive and positive environment.
Schools Plus Teaching Awards
On September 15, I was privileged to step on the stage in the great hall of Parliament House Canberra to receive a Schools Plus Teaching award. This is in recognition of the work to establish and develop the Be Bold, Be Heard initiative and I look forward to sharing the learnings in 2027. Following the award I have had the privilege of sitting down with Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles to discuss the importance of the initiative to our students.
The award includes a fellowship; inclusive of mentorship, coaching and High Impact School Visits. All this under the overarching inquiry question of:
"How do I evolve my symbolic leadership and strategic change management to establish Be Bold, Be Heard as an autonomous, nationally influential lever for gender equity and student agency over the next decade and beyond?"
Celebration day
Multicultural Festival
Human Library
I had the incredible opportunity to sit and listen to the Human Library students. This is where refugee background students write and read their journey to an audience. These stories are unbelievable and the students showed their outstanding resilience and enthusiasm for our school and the opportunities ahead of them following their, at times, traumatic journey. I want to commend the 15 students who participated and Nestor Estampa for putting this program together.
Multicultural Festival -Parade
