Torch - Spring 2018

PHYSICAL Support

Wellness Prefect helps others find their joy

Wellness Prefect Haley Walker is passionate about health and well-being.

G rade 12 student Haley Walker has long known that her ideal sport is running. A competitor at the national and provincial level in cross-country and indoor/outdoor track, Walker plans to continue at the varsity level, with a dream to represent Canada internationally. While she’s eager to talk about her favourite sport, as Wellness Prefect she doesn’t expect everyone to follow in her footsteps. “Because I’ve had this positive experience with athletics, I think it’s really important that I help others find a similar physical activity. Being active is a beneficial way to increase your happiness. If everybody could find any type of physical activity that they really enjoy, that would be my ultimate goal,” Walker says. In her role as Wellness Prefect, Walker has already initiated several health-related activities, including a forum on mental health that helped students and faculty

share ideas. “The best way to come up with ideas is working together because you can always come up with something together that’s better than what I’m going to come up with on my own,” she says. Other projects include Havergal’s involvement in Pink Shirt Day held back in March to raise awareness about bullying and ponder ways to focus on kindness. “Being kind and having gratitude can ultimately make a lot of people happy and feel really good about themselves, so I think that contributes to health and wellness,” says Walker. Though Walker is a top athlete herself, her philosophy on wellness is broader. “Having that balance in your life, whether that be doing some sort of extracurricular that gives you satisfaction or being able to be happy at school and having enough time to do your homework and see your friends. That’s what wellness means to me.”

Being active is a beneficial way to increase your happiness.

—Haley Walker, Wellness Prefect

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