Social Action

What is Social Action?

At the Launceston Big Picture School, our learning model is built around students interacting with their community and finding their place within it.

Social Action at LBPS is either a side project, parts of a larger project or smaller actions that students take to make a change in the community and support people around them.

I haven't done a full "Social Action Project" during my time at Big Picture, but I have still done plenty of social action.

To the left is a poster for a student-run market organised by the year 10s and 11s last year. James (a classmate) and I were assigned with the task of designing this poster.

Student leaders

In 2023, I joined the Student Leader Group. A group of students, two from each class, voted for by classmates to act as student representatives in meetings with the principal and occasionally other senior staff.

Each term, as a group, we wanted to organise special days to raise money and awareness for different charities and social issues.

For term 2, we all came up with ideas for a special day, and came up with the idea of a beanie day to raise money for "Strike It Out", a not-for-profit organisation helping bring food, warmth and shelter to the homeless.

As contribution to the cause, I made this poster to put up around the school using my knowledge on 3D software and graphic design.

I have also made other contributions during my time in the student leader group. I attended an after-school meeting between the teachers, senior staff and the student leaders. This meeting aimed to refine the design of a new "wellbeing plan" which every student would fill out, as a way to help students get through tough times.

We also discussed and created a program for a session which would take place in every classroom over a week or two, where the student leaders of that class would help out the other students to fill their wellbeing plans out.