IDAHOBIT on Campus
The Junior HASS class completed a timeline for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), which falls on the 17th of May, (so, a belated timeline) but hey, unprecedented times!
International Women’s Day 2019
Today is International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The first International Women’s Day was celebrated in 1911! At Alia College this year, we marked International Women’s Day by joining in the 2019 theme of #BalanceforBetter: call-to-action for driving gender balance across the world. We generated […]
Respectful Relationships Information Evening
The Respectful Relationships initiative at Alia College finished off 2018 with the third information evening for parents, students, and staff. Guest speaker, Anu Krishnan, facilitated a presentation on family violence and the approaches to tackling it, as well as some discussion around this. This evening was the most attended information evening thus far, with parents, […]
Come along to the third Respectful Relationships Information Evening!
In our ongoing commitment to engage with our community on this topic, we are inviting parents, guardians, staff and students to a third Respectful Relationships evening at Alia College from 6:30-8:30pm on Tuesday, 27 November. Guest speaker Anu Krishnan will facilitate a workshop on the concepts of primary prevention, why it is important to start […]
T-Shirt Competition for Respectful Relationships
The Respectful Relationships team this year held an exciting event, in which students were asked to design a T-shirt that provoked or encouraged discussion around topics we have been looking at in Health this year; Contraception (Years 9 and 10), Sexting, Consent, Discrimination, Bullying, Gendered Language and Stereotypes. We are so impressed by the designs and […]
Respectful Relationships Update – Term Three
Throughout Term Three, the Respectful Relationships team has persevered through the terror of ‘Term 3’. We’ve been meeting to discuss and implement engaging and effective ways to promote respectful relationships, and open the conversation within the Alia College community, around inequality and men’s violence towards women and children. It was good news to hear that funding for […]
Respectful Relationships Update
Over the course of Term Two, the Alia College Respectful Relationships team has been busy with various things relating to Respectful Relationships. We’ve continued meeting fortnightly to ensure we move forward with various items, and to share thoughts and opinions – nothing less at Alia! Some things we’ve done this term include creating a formal […]
Respectful Relationships Information Session
Late in Term One, Alia College held its second Respectful Relationships information session, and the first for 2018. The information session aimed to bring together parents and staff, to let them know what the Respectful Relationships initiative is and why the school is part of it, and to discuss the sorts of activities and content […]