Be Bold Be Heard (BBBH) Program 2023

Throughout this year, we have had 9 wonderful female students from Years 9 and 10 involved in a fantastic program that builds the confidence, strengths and leadership skills of young women across the Geelong region – Be Bold Be Heard (BBBH).

Through their involvement with BBBH, our students needed to identify an issue or area of the school that they believe needed a positive change and improvement. After a lot of research, pouring over data and many discussions with staff and students, our BBBH girls noticed that there was a lack of knowledge and awareness regarding consent and sexual violence within our community.

Nency Patel, Dhyana Bhrambhatt, Lillie Butcher, Chloe Rowley, Jayda Warren, Ruby-Rose Braddock, Omra Akkas, Katelin Cobb and Em Carter have since put in a power of work across the past four terms to lead what is going to be a successful and positive change within our school, resulting in increased understandings and awareness of this complex issue.

Mr Murphy and Ms Montano were both able to join the students at the BBBH interschool event, at GMHBA Stadium on Friday, October 27^th, and were proud to witness firsthand how confident our young leaders are becoming with their skills in collaboration, communication and leadership. In particular, it has been commendable to see our young leaders committing to promoting increased awareness about such a pressing and complicated subject area.

On behalf of the school community, the Newcomb Secondary College Leadership Team would like to thank our BBBH leaders for their dedication to this goal, and also to Mrs Stonely, for her time in supporting the leaders across their journey to date.