St Bernards Lower Hutt - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:17:02 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg St Bernards Lower Hutt - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 St Bernard's College students raising awareness of mental health https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/11/19/st-bernards-awareness-mental-health/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:02:21 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=113903 mental health

A group of Year 12 students from Lower Hutt's St Bernard's College are spreading only good vibes with their Posi Vibes business. Set up at the start of the school year, five students decided to sell wristbands to raise money and awareness for the Mental Health Foundation. John Balao, 17, Andrew Hislop, 16, Sam McCloy, Read more

St Bernard's College students raising awareness of mental health... Read more]]> A group of Year 12 students from Lower Hutt's St Bernard's College are spreading only good vibes with their Posi Vibes business.

Set up at the start of the school year, five students decided to sell wristbands to raise money and awareness for the Mental Health Foundation.

John Balao, 17, Andrew Hislop, 16, Sam McCloy, 16, Jabez Castro, 17 and Ralph Consignado, 16 started their business project under the Young Enterprise Scheme.

They created a business with a community focus about social issues.

"We looked at what makes a social issue and what are the most common social issues. We found things like depression and bullying," said Balao, the chief executive.

The students began looking at statistics around mental health.

"One in five New Zealanders will have experienced mental health problems. Everyone knows someone," Balao said.

Looking around at their peers, those problems could include anything from depression and bullying to stress and anxiety around exam season.

They wanted to raise awareness of these issues, as well as fundraising for the Mental Health Foundation.

They settled on making wristbands after surveying and talking to their peers.

"We found out that the best way to make our business a success was to look at our own generation," John said.

They decided to make four different wristbands, each one a different colour, marking a different theme.

A pink band represents awareness of mental health, green for depression, white as a peaceful colour as well as the company's colour, and a blue band which represents their school and the core values taught there.

They made 300 of the bands to sell for $2 each and set to work marketing and selling them both at school and at a Wellington market.

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Last week two Lower Hutt Colleges, St Bernard's and Sacred Heart staged a joint production of The Battalion, which was overseen by Te Rakau Trust and stage veteran Jim Moriarty. Sacred Heart College drama teacher Jack Boyle says audiences were moved and delighted by performances of The Battalion. The Battalion has been performed many times since its Read more

The Battalion successfully staged by Lower Hutt Colleges... Read more]]> Last week two Lower Hutt Colleges, St Bernard's and Sacred Heart staged a joint production of The Battalion, which was overseen by Te Rakau Trust and stage veteran Jim Moriarty.

Sacred Heart College drama teacher Jack Boyle says audiences were moved and delighted by performances of The Battalion.

The Battalion has been performed many times since its first performance in the 2006 International Arts Festival but this is the first time a student has been entrusted to take turns playing Matene. Hosea Tapuai-Tuita'alili put his heart into 16 weeks of rehearsals knowing that if he "didn't cut the mustard" in the lead role, he would not be allowed to perform it in other than matinees.

But he excelled, and Moritarty stepped back to put him under the spotlight on Monday and Thursday nights.

The Battalion written by Moriarty's partner, Helen Pearse-Otene, looks at the experiences of young soldiers in the 28th Maori Battalion, and follows the grandchildren of one of the veterans.

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