by | Oct 19, 2022 | Personal stories
“We have many families who have come from a refugee background and have experienced trauma. So [chaplain] Brad has come into this community and the change has been profound. We once had something of an unspoken divide here between non-Muslims and Muslims. But I don’t...
by | Oct 19, 2022 | Personal stories
“I see students and families who experience anxiety, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse and with mental health and wellbeing concerns. Our Chaplain plays an important and critical role in our whole school process around Community and Parent Engagement and our...
by | Oct 19, 2022 | Personal stories
“When my girls first arrived at school, they were practising Muslims and their accents were a bit different. Whenever a terrorist incident was on the news, my girls would feel the repercussions of that. Navigating differences like that in a school is hard, but...
by | Oct 19, 2022 | Personal stories
I moved my two children from a school where they were very reluctant to go to school to this current school which has a chaplain. The chaplain offered a parenting course which I attended. I had been brought up with a single dad and so did not have a mother to ask,...
by | Oct 19, 2022 | Personal stories
“When I was going to school and things were falling apart, I could just talk to [my chaplain]. There was a relationship there and I had built up trust in someone who never broke my trust. Looking back on it now, I was quite horrible going through my teenage years and...
by | Oct 19, 2022 | Personal stories
“[The bullying] affected me a lot. It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough and had a huge impact on my life. It scared me. It still affects me to this day. Two years down the track and it’s still affecting me. “I had no idea that I would be capable of doing a...
