On Tuesday the 23rd of October, Tara and Jacqui were put to the test and became Student Leaders for the day.

It was 6:30 on Tuesday the 23rd of October when Tara and Jacqui were awoken to the slamming of doors and the starting of showers. It was going to be a big day as it was time for them to step up to the plate and become Student Leaders for the day at the Snowy River School for Student Leadership.

Breakfast was the usual bright, happy place with all the student looking like zombies and saying they could do with an extra 4 hours sleep! The duty group was pumped to get into the dishes and group 1A were so excited to get going on their 15 km hike. Things couldn’t be better!

As 9:00 approached, Tara and Jacqui set their goals and did their leadership duties before rounding everyone up for class.

Tara and Jacqui both had Beliefs and Values in the morning. This included realising what our beliefs and values were and why we believed those things whether it was because of family, friends, religion or culture. We wrote down out top 5 beliefs and we worked out which values matched with these beliefs. Both Jacqui and Tara found this class very worthwhile and they really enjoyed working out what influenced their beliefs and values.

In the afternoon, Tara and Jacqui had CLP (Community Learning Project) this included creating our project for the community. Jacqui and Tara are both in different CLP groups; Jacqui is in the Warragul Regional College CLP group and Tara’s is Chaffey Secondary College CLP group. Warragul are planning to do a health living day at one of the local primary schools and Chaffey are planning to read to ill children at a local hospital. Although Chaffey where a little distracted they still go their work done but Warragul were on task the whole time.

Being student leaders for the day was a great challenge for Tara and Jacqui but it was also a great experience and a lot of leadership skills were learnt that will benefit them for the future and they can’t wait to have the chance to once again be student leaders.

Tara and Jacqui from 2A