Elevating student voices

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Sharing what young people say matters to them most.

South Australia's Commissioner for Children and Young People, and Mercedes College Old Scholar, Helen Connolly is again running her Student Voice Postcard initiative as a way of providing young people with an opportunity to be heard.

Our Year 2 to Year 6 students will complete a postcard in Week 7, fittingly aligning with Child Protection Week, answering four questions:

1. What is important to them.
2. What aspirations they have.
3. What they are worried about.
4. What they would change about their lives if they could.

No personal identifying data is collected.

This project has grown from more than 8,000 responses from 239 SA schools in its inagural year in 2019, to well over 13,000 responses from 289 schools in 2021. This year we look forward to seeing these numbers continue to grow so that our young people's voices from wide and far are heard.

You can read more about this initiative online.