Margaret Lowe – Deputy Principal

SAVE THE DATE 
Monday 21 August 2023

The adage ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ carries great weight when we speak about the importance of maintaining consensual and respectful relationships. Across our School community, our children and young people need to feel and to be safe. As parents and teachers, we have a crucial role to play in ensuring the safety of every child.

On Monday 21 August 2023, Emanuel School will host an evening to showcase to parents the programs in place to educate our students about Consent and Respect. We will also be seeking parent feedback as a means of furthering our programs in this area.

Grace Tame will be our keynote speaker for the evening. Please see her biography below.

The focus of the evening is on bringing parents and staff together to build our capacity as a community to ensure all children are safe at all times.

Grace Tame (exclusively represented by Saxton)

After being groomed and raped by her maths teacher when she was just 15 years old, Grace Tame has turned her traumatic experience into advocacy for survivors of child sexual abuse and she has been a leader of positive change for over a decade.

Recognising the injustice of Tasmania’s gag order that prevented survivors from self-identifying publicly, Grace offered her story to the #LetHerSpeak campaign, created by Nina Funnell, along with the stories of 16 other brave survivors. In 2019, she finally won a court order to speak out under her own name, making her the state’s first female child sexual abuse survivor to do so.

Current work: 
Now, 26 and based in Hobart, Grace is dedicated to eradicating child sexual abuse in Australia, and supporting the survivors of child sexual abuse. Her focus is around enabling survivors to tell their stories without shame, educating the public around the process and lasting effects of grooming and working with policy and decision-makers to ensure we have a federal legal system that supports the survivors, not just the perpetrators. She is also a passionate yoga teacher, visual artist, and champion long-distance runner, having won the 2020 Ross Marathon in a female course record time of 2:59:31.

An open book about her experience, but even more passionate about preventing this from happening to other children, Grace speaks from the heart and will have her audience simultaneously inspired and in tears. She is a regular keynote speaker, media guest and advocacy commentator.

Grace is the 2021 Australian of the Year.

Bookings can be made for this event and others in the Speaker Series by clicking here.