General News
12 August, 2025
Hopetoun P-12 wrap up - Week 2 Term 3
By the Community Connections Class
NADOIC Week
This week at Hopetoun P-12 College, all students and staff came together to recognise NAIDOC Week.
NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, which is a great chance to recognise and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ culture, traditions and history.
The school’s SRC came up with many fun and engaging activities for all students and staff to participate in, such as an Indigenous-themed colouring in competition, a competitive trivia session about NAIDOC Week, and story time with the primary students.
However, the main event was during Buddies, where everyone beautifully coloured coasters with a NAIDOC-based design, which made stunning decorations around the school.
We would like to thank the college’s SRC for creating such wonderful and exciting activities for a lovely week of recognition.
The Song Room
This term, students from Years Prep-6 have started a new class called the Song Room.
In this class, the students learn how to use their voices and express different movements to music, before going on to learning the ukulele with Mars, their instructor.
During these doubles, they were taught how to strum multiple cords, which later became music.
Many students stated that, when they first walked in, they knew this class was going to be amazing and fun.
The reason for the Song Room program is to help develop social skills, improve student participation and behaviour, as well as involve more engagement with their peers whilst showing the school values: Respect, Responsibility, and Teamwork.
Another favourite activity of the students was a game where they would be in a circle and one student was chosen, based on good behaviour, to stand in the middle and do a little dance that the rest of the class would then repeat.
Luckily for us, all of these music skills and cords they’re being taught will be put on display on the last Friday of Term Three, with a combined performance from the Prep-6.