Weekdays

The Carey Right Track was established in 2010 by Carey Baptist College through the dedication of one teacher, Graeme Watson. He wanted to do something to help Aboriginal people, particularly those living in rural and remote parts of Western Australia, who were looking for direction and purpose in their lives.

Surprisingly, males accounted for 80% of all drowning deaths last season in figures published by Australia’s two peak water safety bodies Royal Life Saving Society – Australia and Surf Life Saving Australia, with risk taking behaviours around water a key issue.

Bec had a chat with Royal Lifesaving WA’s Senior Manager Health Promotion and Research, Lauren Nimmo, to talk more about what this research tells us about our behaviour around water and about how we can improve our water safety. 

It is FASD or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder awareness month and Bec had a chat with Louise Pekan who is from ARK Australia. Louise spoke about the causes and commonality of FASD. 

Bec had a chat with Kelley who is from Kin Women and today they spoke about no apologies. What are the values you hold? 

Bec had a chat with Sally Hewitt who is the founder of Ageing Gratefully. This week they spoke about self - awareness. Self –awareness is the way we really get to know ourselves. It’s not the same as being self-conscious because if we are self-conscious, we are then concerned about others think of us. It also has nothing to do with self-image because that has more to do with our egotistical view of ourselves.

Self-awareness allows us to get to know ourselves form the inside out and be comfortable in our own skin, accepting of all our strengths and weaknesses. It allows us to learn and grow on a personal level because we become a little more objective about our thinking and challenge our internal narrative where necessary. Self-awareness is truly a gift.

Bec spoke to her regular guest Craig Hunter who is the deputy principle at Rehoboth Christian College and today they spoke about student learning styles and what the different learning styles are.