Over the last few weeks, a herd of 'Wellephants' have found their home in Presentation College. We promote Wellness in our school in many ways, through the support systems we have in place for students, (both personal and academic), the range of extra-curricular sports and activities, which we facilitate and the inclusive atmosphere, which we incorporate into our teaching. 

We believe that our mental health can be the ‘elephant in the room’, something which we very often do not speak about with our friends and family. In order to encourage people to start speaking out about their mental health we have decided to create the “Wellephant”. 

The “Wellephant” or Wellness Elephant, is a project undertaken by a range of students from S.P.H.E and Health Education to promote Wellness in our school. The students coloured and laminated many elephants and stuck them around the school, in every classroom and every common area. The purpose of the “Wellephants” is to encourage the students to talk if they are having a bad day. The idea is that they will see one, as they move from class to class and recognise it as a symbol of Wellness and be reminded that our mental health doesn’t have to be the ‘elephant in the room’, and they always have somebody with whom they can talk.