12 Gundagai High School students have now graduated from the SES Cadets program run by the Gundagai SES branch, making it a huge win for the local community all around.
Principal of the school, Simon Bridgeman, explains the benefits to the school for allowing the program.
“It’s an SES initiative. There’s a number of units over the state that are getting to do this course which is a ten week program, which includes the graduation itself.
“We are involved in it because they asked us to help them advertise it and get young people interested in it. We love to help the community.
“I thought it was a great initiative because it promotes things that the school does, which is being involved in community, promotes volunteering, and obviously the students learn a lot about teamwork and a lot of different skill sets being involved in the SES.”
Simon went on to explain the relationship between the SES and Gundagai High School.
“The SES does a lot of things for Gundagai High School, especially with our compulsory stage six course called life ready. Each year they come on board and do some lessons with our students about road safety, road accidents and a variety of other things, and they always finish off their little sessions with an accident scenario, so we get an old car in and they talk the students through what happens at an accident and how scary it can be. We’re trying to show the students that being involved in an accident isn’t a very nice ordeal and make sure that they’ve listened to their cues that the Police, the Firies and the SES give them about road safety.”
The SES and Gundagai HS aren’t the only ones working together, with the school always on the lookout for community drives.
“Gundagai High School does a lot of things. We’ve got a great partnership with the Ex-Services sub-branch, where our vet entertainment students are involved in all of their outdoor ceremonies and they supply the audio equipment for anything like Remembrance Day, Anzac Day, Vietnam Vets Day, they support all of those sorts of activities. We also are involved in a few other initiatives that our students raise money consistently every school day for Gundagai branch of Can Assist. All of the cans and bottles that our students use through the day the SRC collect and we donate all of the funds that we raise through the 10 cent refund campaign towards the Gundagai Can Assist. Our students volunteer to help out at primary school carnivals and lots of different events around the community that make sure that our students are involved and really a big part of the community.”
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