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Late last year a report came out entitled “The State of Student Social and Emotional Health” by the Australian Scholarship Group, and was based on 4 years of research and surveys of more than 10,000 students across Australia. The results of the work reveal that a large percentage of students are experiencing social and emotional difficulties. (highlights of the report can be viewed at www.acer.edu.au/edlivewire/0703_socialandemotionalhealth.html )
To help students (and their families) in the later years of high school Pittwater Library will be holding a free talk at Mona Vale Library on Wednesday 13th Feb – called “Surviving the HSC” the talk will be about stress management techniques and will be run by an expert from the Macquarie Uni’s BRAVE programme. For details about this and our other FREE talks in February and March follow the link below to the Inside Break website.
www.insidebreak.org.au
Louise – Youth Librarian, Manly Library

Louise, Youth Librarian at Manly

Our HSC talk programme is part way through, if you want to go to one of the 3 remaining talks ring the library that is holding it to book your place – the venues have differing capacities. It’s been great to see students travelling “from afar” to get to lectures, one student caught 2 buses, which took over an hour. Below is a picture of one of our lecturers Lyndall Hough with 3 local students after her “Writing for the HSC” lecture.
Louise – Youth Librarian at Manly Library