Australia’s Biggest Child Safety Lesson

This week, students at YSS joined thousands around the nation as we engaged in Australia's Biggest Child Safety Lesson.

This years lesson focussed on consent!

Communication is key to giving and getting consent. This safety lesson provided a platform for conversations about consent. Students learnt how to recognise, react and report and practice strategies they can use when they need to give or refuse consent.

You can watch the lower primary and upper primary videos on the Daniel Morcombe Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DanielMorcombeFound/videos 

 Student Leadership 2024

It’s that time of year again, where we start our student leadership journey for 2024. Its very exciting, and we love seeing the students buzzing with excitement as they prepare for their final year of primary school.

Senior Shirts

This year, we are introducing a new step in the leadership process, where the students are invited to design their own senior shirts!   We’ve not done this before at Yeronga State School, so it’s an exciting time. 

This, the year 5 students met with Miss Clare and Miss Kirk for our first provocation session around this project.  We have hopefully sparked their interest and curiosity in designing a senior shirt that resembles our core values at YSS! 

Next term, the senior shirt project will continue with the students putting forward their design for a vote.  The term 4 HASS unit focuses on democracy and voting, so this provides a great opportunity to experience voting first hand.  All year 5 students will have an opportunity to vote for their preferred senior shirt, and the one with the most votes will be made into the senior shirt for 2024. We’re looking forward to seeing some great designs!  We aim to have the design ready by November.

Leadership Position Nomination Process

Next week, the year 5 students will meet with Miss Kirk for our first orientation session for the nomination process for student leadership positions for 2024.  This session will focus around the big picture of student leadership, and we will hear from staff and our current captains about what makes a good leader at YSS. 

There’s lots to look forward to in the student leadership space!