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Legoland Excursion Student Voice and Student Wellbeing Leaders _ 2023.mp4
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2023 Children's Forum


Childrens Forum (2).pdf
Little Day Out Poster (A10125746).pdf

THE LITTLE DAY OUT 2023

Thank you Anthony for helping out at this important community event.

 26/7/23       Student Voice Newsletter


On Wednesday 26th July we (Amanda and Anthony, Student Voice Leaders)  went to another Children Advisory Group meeting with students from our local Primary Schools. 


POSTER COMPETITION

We voted on a poster competition titled ‘Born A Child Will Stay A Child’ The poster that won  was poster number fourteen. The winner was not from St Joseph’s Primary School. However Amanda, Angelina, Anna and Miranda were runners up from St Joseph’s School. 


TEAM BUILDING

We then did a team building activity. Our table group tried to build a really tall tower with spaghetti sticks and masking tape. After we built it really tall we had to stick a marshmallow on top of the sticks. Our one was the tallest but then it was leaning so four of us including me (Amanda) and Anthony tried fixing it. Unfortunately it broke at the last minute and we gave up because there was no hope left. 


You could say that  our one was the tallest and then the shortest!!!!


We are looking forward to our next meeting in August.


From Amanda and Anthony - Student Voice Leaders

STUDENT VOICE: Children's Forum and the Little Day Out

On Wednesday 30th August the Student Voice Leaders, Anthony and Edeline, went to the Children’s Advisory Group meeting and worked with students from our local Primary Schools.

At the meeting we talked about two important events: The Children’s Forum and The Little Day Out.


The Children’s Forum is on the 25th of October. It is a whole day event which is from 9:30 AM-2:30 PM. The Children’s Forum is a day where there are a lot of school’s that gather together and talk about how we can improve our local environment. Four students from the Student Voice Team will get chosen to go to the Children’s Forum.

The Little Day out is a fun day for kids to gather and have fun. There are stage performances such as K-Pop Dancing and Irish Dancing. There will be activities like drawing competitions, lantern making and movie watching. ( Puss In Boots: The Last Wish). The Little Day Out is on Sunday the 17th of September at Ross Reserve.  We hope lots of children from St Joseph's Primary School will attend and enjoy the exciting activities. 

From Student Voice Leaders Edeline and Anthony

Children Advisory Group


Wednesday June 14, 2023


Today on Wednesday the 14th of June we went to Springvale Library to talk with other schools at the Children's Advisory Group. 


We wrote titles for the ‘Little Day Out’. The ‘Little Day Out’ is an event that is happening in Noble Park later in the year and everyone in the community will be welcome to come.


Then we got to meet someone new, her name is Lynne. She asked what we wanted to do for elderly people in our community to have fun. Then we wrote our ideas on another piece of paper as a table group. There were lots of ideas and two things we wrote on the paper were, to play board games and do makeup and hair dressing for the elderly people. 


We really enjoyed working with other students from other schools. We hope to have much more fun the next time we go!


By: Anthony Pham and Amanda Nguyen



City of Greater Dandenong - Children's Advisory Group

On Wednesday 10th of May we (Amanda Nguyen and Anthony Pham) went to the children’s advisory group at the Springvale Community Hub and talked about what they could do to make parks better. We worked with other students from lots of other schools.

The main thing we did was we made up ideas which could improve the Springvale Reserve. The council wanted the Springvale Reserve to be a better place. The Council are going to be talking to children to ask how they could improve the parks and they will also be coming to St Joseph’s school to talk to some children here as well.

We also learnt about the Little Day Out, a festival held in Noble Park.

We have been asked to find out what students here at St Joseph would like to see at the ‘Little Day Out’ which is coming up later in the year. We might send out a survey to the older students soon.


Many thanks from Amanda and Anthony. (Student Voice Leaders)

The Children's Advisory Group 2023


What is the Children’s Advisory group?

The City of Greater Dandenong (Council) values children as active and engaged citizens. They are a Child Friendly City where children are valued, respected and celebrated.

The advisory group is comprised of 2 student representatives from local primary schools in grades 5 & 6, a

member from each school, City of Greater Dandenong Children’s Services staff and staff from Mission Australia Communities for Children. 

The group meets twice a term, as representatives of their wider school community, to talk about the local community, facilities, and activities in Greater Dandenong, and to support Council in its commitment to

being a Child Friendly City.

Our St Joseph's School Representatives are Amanda Nguyen (5/6F) and Anthony Pham (5/6B). Our back up representatives are Edeline Nguyen (5/6G) and Anthony Nguyen (5/6C).

Thank you to Amanda and Edeline who represented our school on Wednesday 29 March at the first meeting for the year.

Children's Advisory Group

Our two School Captains Steven and Natalie are our representatives on the Dandenong Council Children's Advisory Group. Steven and Natalie meet each month to work with the Council and Represetaives from other local Primary Schools.  They share ideas and have give feedback about how things can be improved in our local community. They also plan the Dandengong Children's Forum which is a Day of Action that many students attend in October. 

https://issuu.com/greaterdandenong/docs/web_version_-_councilnews_may22_a8677206_/6 

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