Peer Support

Peer Support is a program designed to assist Year 7 students in settling into High School. Year 11 students are trained as peer leaders to run sessions to assist Year 7 in their transition from primary to high school as this transition can be a traumatic experience for some students.

Throughout the first term, peer support runs once a week where peer leaders are assigned to particular classes and working in smaller groups, engage year 7 students in a variety of activities such as:

·         Getting to know each other

·         Getting to know the school

·          Being organised

·         Time management

·         Optimism

·         Empathy

·         Positive self talk

·         Perseverance

·         Resilience

·         Coping

·         Relationship building

·         Assertiveness

·         Decision making

For year 11 students to be trained as peer leaders, they are required to do a two day training course in Term 4 of Year 10. Students are usually nominated by their year advisor and are nominated on the prospect of further developing their leadership skills.