Opportunities to get dolled up are few and far between when you’re a year eight student, however walking, sitting and standing in a dress is a skill for life for young women.
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Cootamundra High School’s Shine graduation lunch provided a perfect chance to put newfound skills into practice while having fun this week.
Shine is a program run exclusively for girls in year eight, focussing on empowerment and personal development.
It has been a fixture of the curriculum since 2008.
During the program, girls are taught the skills to develop a healthy self image with focus on aspects such as inner strength, healthy living, decision making, and how to achieve life goals.
Teenage years are formative and the positives lessons the girls learn are extremely important.
Among the varied lessons are instructions in hand and skin care, makeup and doing hair.
Beauty is however more than skin deep and the girls are also taught how to build inner strength, self respect and respect of others, how to deal with difficult circumstances, will power, healthy living and social etiquette such as how to set a table.
At the graduation lunch, the girls were treated to a guest address by Cootamundra-based motivational speaker Jessica Roxburgh.
The lunch was waited by Cootamundra High School year nine students who graduated from the Shine program last year.
