WAYS Youth Forum 2026 · School pack
Five stages, from deciding whether to come to what happens on the day. Skip to wherever you are up to. Nothing here needs a login and nothing costs anything.
Whether a day out of class is worth it, and what your students come back with.
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The programme in detail, the 2024 results, and the five services students meet in person.
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The ask, what the day involves, supervision and safeguarding, and what the school gets back.
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The day
9:20 sign-in. Keynote at 10:00 with student questions. Two workshops in small groups of eight to ten, mixed across schools, with two WAYS facilitators each. Services expo. 3:00 finish.
See the detail ↓Your Principal’s yes, and the excursion paperwork. Your school writes its own risk management plan; this is the material only WAYS can give you for it.
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The whole ask on one page, written to be forwarded rather than read on a screen.
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Venue, supervision model and ratios, Working With Children Checks, first aid, emergency procedures, and a risk table with the WAYS controls already filled in.
Download PDFShort, and it answers the two questions they will ask.
Subject: Youth Forum, 16 October, no cost to us Hi [name], WAYS Youth & Family are running a wellbeing day for Year 10 and 11 students on Friday 16 October, and we have been offered places. It is free, WAYS supervises the students for the whole day, and we are not required to send a staff member. They are asking for eight to ten students, a mix of student leaders and those who would get the most out of it. The one-page summary is attached, along with the information we need for the excursion risk management plan. I would like to confirm our place before 18 September. [your name]
Certificate of currency. Proof of public liability cover, if your excursion approval asks for it. Email [email protected] and we will send it now.
Child safe statement and venue accessibility. Our child protection position, and access at 63a Wairoa Avenue. Ask and we will send what we have.
Eight to ten students from Years 10 and 11, a mix of student leaders and those who would get the most out of the day. The content is relevant to everyone in the room.
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One page for students, with the date, what happens and how to put their name down.
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One sheet for the student and the parent together, because no school sends them separately.
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On Friday 16 October you have the chance to spend a day at WAYS in Bondi, looking at the patterns everyone gets stuck in. Putting things off until they are a crisis. The phone at midnight. Going over something at 2am that happened at lunch. You will hear from Luke Kennedy, who left school early and took years to turn things around, then work in small groups mixed with students from other schools. You leave with a plan in your own handwriting. It is free, lunch is provided, and it is not a punishment or a lecture. If you want to come, let me know.
Student selection brief. A short note on choosing your group, and what makes a mix work on the day.
One form per family. Your job is forwarding the link and chasing the last few.
Use this once your students are chosen. The consent link is in it.
Your child has been offered a place at the WAYS Youth Forum on Friday 16 October 2026, 9:20am to 3:00pm, at WAYS Bondi Beach, 63a Wairoa Avenue, North Bondi. It is a free wellbeing day about the patterns behind the choices young people make. WAYS supervises students for the whole day and provides recess and lunch. There is no cost. Every student needs a parent or carer to complete a short registration and consent form before the day. It takes about four minutes and covers medical information, dietary requirements, an ambulance indemnity and photography:Youth Forum 2026 Registration FormIf you have any questions, contact [your name] at the school, or WAYS on (02) 9365 2500.
Friday 16 October. Everything a student, a parent or a staff member needs on the morning.
Run sheet for your staff. A one-page timetable for the day, published the week of the forum.
