On Wednesday 24 May we ran our Junior Health Day. All Year 7-10 students were off normal timetabled lessons and experienced a series of guest speakers, workshops and presentations.

It was an action packed day with sessions led by external providers and our very own wellbeing team at St Paul's College and some team building sessions from our Year 12 and 13 students.

We were very fortunate to have Wetta Nuualiitia come and speak about heart health and resilience to our Year 7 and 8 students and Tai Tupou from The Last Chance Project speak to our Year 9 and 10 student about men's mental health and addressing our 'inner critic'. In the afternoon we had another guest speaker, Tagaloa Samuela, discuss the importance of knowing who we are and where we are from, our culture and identity and how this links to our wellbeing.

Students in years 7 and 8 also experienced a cyber safety session from the police and nutrition workshops from the Heart Foundation focusing on sugar in our foods and drinks. The Year 9 and 10 students will also be involved later this year in these workshops during their health classes.

We would also like to extend a massive thank you to our parents who work in the health sector who also came in to present to our young men; Rayonee Henry and her team from Specsavers talking about eye health, Demetrius Savai'inaea leading bucket drumming sessions and Faavae Simamoa and her team from Tupu Alcohol and Drug Awareness.

We finished the day with a reflection led by our Director of Religious Studies, Mr Dominic Schryvers, about Hauora and focusing on our spiritual wellbeing.

Thank you to all of our presenters in making this an enjoyable, fun and informative day for our young men.

Health Day Art 

Thank you to Roman Fruean (Year 9) for designing our amazing Health Day Booklet covers based around the theme of Te Whare Tapa Whā model of Health - Hauora. Each student had a booklet to complete as they moved around the health day and could reflect on the sessions and information they received. 

Luka Nemaia (Year 10) designed the covers for the take away bags at the end of the day combining his own designs and a pencil drawing by Braydon Sapolu (Year 12). The bags contained information which provided the boys with information on a range of topics.