A reflection by our Werribee Campus Primary Captains: Melissa, Sophie, Joshua and Rajveer.
“As the Primary Captains, we've had so many opportunities at Heathdale this year to learn and grow as leaders!
One of our main responsibilities is running our Years 3-6 Assemblies. Before an assembly, we plan what will happen and make the run sheet. We then prepare our scripts. We do a run through on the day to make sure we are prepared and everything is seamless. Afterwards we reflect on what went well and where we can improve.
We also help at special community events including New Family and Mother's Day Breakfasts, do school tours, go off campus to develop our leadership skills and do meetings with the House Captains. Sometimes we even meet up with the College Captains and School Principals to build relationships with the other areas of leadership so we can work better together at all these events.
Our recent project has been the reconciliation fundraiser for First Nation students. We raised money for Opening the Doors foundation, an Aboriginal organisation that supports children in need of education.
As Primary captains, we have discussed in meetings about the best ways to earn money for the foundation. We met with Mrs Harvey (Principal of Primary - Werribee Campus) and Mr Pullar (Cross-Curriculum Co-ordinator for First Nations). In our meetings we discussed how we would run the fundraiser, such as what we were selling, which day would we be selling it and where in the school we would set up our stall. We then organised all the information and made videos and posters to spread the word around the school community. We held our stall on Tuesday lunch time for primary students to buy their aboriginal wrist bands.
We loved this process because it expressed all our passion and strengths of organising a school event by ourselves. After the stall, we all felt proud of what we achieved in such a short time. It also showed us the process of how to do something big in a community, with all the steps needing to be completed.
We have so much more planned to do for the rest of the year. We can't wait to get into it!”