Girrawheen students completed at the Youth on Health Festival in Mandurah

The competition is one of Australia’s biggest health-themed youth performing arts events.

The Girrawheen Senior High School Year 10 drama students’ play Life is What You Make it won them a prize for best overall health message and best coverage of the festival’s theme of Our Community.

Drama co-ordinator Jenny Drpich said students spent six months writing the play, which is centred on themes of cultural diversity and challenging stereotypes.

‘The play is personal and reflects the day-to-day challenges that the students actually face,’ she said.

She said coming |runners-up in the competition reflected the students’ positivity and determination to succeed.

Performing schools came from as far as Broome, Karratha, Albany, Kalgan and Serpentine.