Room 15

Yumi Strong

In 2022 we continued to deliver Yumi Strong, our school-wide program designed to support students to be the best they can be at school, at home and in their future endeavours. This year, Years 7, 8 and 9 focused on: the importance of mental health, developing emotional literacy, connecting with the new PVIS values (excellence, respect, curiosity, courage and equity), positive coping strategies and developing healthy and respectful relationships. Year 9 students also undertook Peer Support Leadership Training, in preparation for their role as mentors to Year 7 students in 2023. Every young person has the potential to become a good leader, though this potential needs to be developed. Engaging in the process of leadership training provided Year 9 students with the opportunity to learn and practise the skills of leadership, and we are excited to welcome to them into their new roles in 2023. We also look forward to continuing to deliver Yumi Strong Program so we all have the best opportunity to promote social and emotional well-being, to foster authentic connections, to positively impact our school community and to provide experiences that ensure the development of leaders for the future. See you next year! James a member of the UK SAS.

Andrina

trying to achieve my goals. Still reading comics!

Luka in my room playing video games. Dreaming big with Year 8 @ PVIS In 2022 we continued to deliver Yumi Strong, our schoolWhere I see myself in 10 years… wide program designed to support students to be the best they can be at school, at home and in their future endeavours. This year, Years 7, 8 and 9 focused on: the Dennison importance of mental health, developing emotional starting my literacy, connecting with the new PVIS values (excellence, own business, respect, curiosity, courage and equity), positive coping or a police strategies and developing healthy and respectful officer. relationships. Year 9 students also undertook Peer Support Leadership Training, in preparation for their role as mentors to Year 7 students in 2023. Every young person has the potential to become a good leader, though this potential needs to be developed. Engaging in the process of leadership training provided Year 9 students with the opportunity to learn and practise the skills of leadership, and we are excited to welcome to them into their new roles in 2023. We also look forward to continuing to deliver Yumi Strong Program so we all have the best opportunity to promote social and emotional well-being, to foster authentic connections, to positively impact our school community and to provide experiences that ensure the development of leaders for the future. See you next year! Haruka Studying and dancing in eastern Nispriha working towards a PhD in economics or science. Asia. Living a hardworking and happy life with big dreams.

Oliver working in a law firm. Bradley playing soccer for Vanuatu.

Eva travelling the world before settling in Korea, Japan or China.

Gabrielle

financially independent, living on my own and working as an architect. Happy with my life.

Lanah

Living in Fiji, working as a lawyer and trying to live my best life. Layne playing professional rugby for the All Blacks, even though I’m South African 100%!

Chloe

swimming competitively, studying engineering and still in touch with my friends from school.

Jeremy studying in a different country about medicine and doctors.

Dylan

living near the ocean in far northern NSW.

Vepaia happy with my life choices and content with where I am. Studying for a Masters or PhD. Daniel – running a carpentry business with my own crew.

Tina

at a TNT concert! Lydia NO idea, actually too many ideas choose from! Maybe an actress or artist? Holly Doing something in New Zealand or Japan or Korea. Eating chocolate.

Samantha

in a theatre watching a musical or performing in a musical myself.

HPE

H.P.E........All I can say about it is that it is the source of happiness for Year 7. As soon as we see Miss Seagoe walking towards us with her whistle everyone is filled with joy. Although because of the lockdown we couldn’t do sports in term 1 and we missed Sport in term 2. Terms 3 and 4 were filled with exciting activities to keep students occupied at different times of the week. Term 3 was all about preparing for the biggest sporting event in P.V.I.S Athletics. From practicing shotput to jumping over 1.5m in the high jump we were all prepared for athletics. I would also like to congratulate Elo on winning the 2022 athletics carnival. Term 4 was filled with all our favourite sports starting with soccer just in time for the world cup. I would like to thank Miss Seagoe and Mr. Abby for providing us with multiple moments of joy and making our first year in high school fun and exciting and hope that this will continue until next year. - Kailav Lal, Year 7 Health and Physical Education was an exhilarating subject for the Year 8 class this year. While the majority of Term 1 was spent in lockdown, meaning there were no HPE lessons involving sport, the next three terms definitely made up for the lost time. Happily teaching the Yr8 students in Term 2 was Ms Janetta. All the lessons were filled with laughter and all the students loved spending the lesson outside, playing sport and having fun. Each lesson was spent playing a different sport: volleyball, T-ball, dodgeball and cricket- just to name a few.

In terms 3 & 4, Year 8 had a new teacher: Ms Seagoe! These terms were greatly enjoyed since the class could enjoy restriction free lessons. A highlight of the HPE lessons were practising for Athletics Day, as well. Ms Seagoe made sure that every lesson had a completely new sport to be played, hardly ever the same one. Year 8 played sports they had never, or very rarely played at school, such as badminton and tennis. Skills such as catching, throwing, aiming, batting, kicking were learnt in each sport lesson, and the students also increased their positive sportsmanship towards their peers during games. An enormous, “Thank You!” goes to Ms Janetta, Ms Seagoe and Mr Abby for teaching the Year 8’s HPE lessons this year, we all enjoyed it immensely.

In the first semester of 2022 for the year 9 class, things were rough sometimes, especially with covid around and having students do online classes for the first two months in term 1. The whole class had barely done any sports, even in term 2 when we came back to school, there were lots of strict regulations for covid protocols, and we were not allowed to do any sport. In Term 3 we were allowed to have PE. This was fun for us in year 9. In term 3 we prepared for the Athletics Carnival. So, we practiced our high jumps and long jumps, shot put, running relays and all the other athletic skills. We also played basketball, volleyball, soccer, tag football, tee ball, badminton and many more games.

- Jimmy Nguyen, Year 9