Deputy Principal/Student Wellbeing
Assemblies
Term 3 Assemblies will be held on Fridays at 2:30pm in the MPR. Parents are invited to attend. The following dates indicate which class/year level will be presenting Spotlight on Learning:
Friday 12 August (1HC)
Friday 19 August (Prep CB)
Friday 26 August (Year 5)
Friday 2 September (No Assembly-School Closure Day)
Friday 9 September (3MS)
Friday 16 September (No Assembly-End of Term 3)
Wellbeing activities and conversation starters for parents (Problem Solving)
Your child can develop their critical and creative thinking skills to explore different types of problems. This can build your child's ability to make responsible decisions that consider the likely consequences of different ways of solving problems.
Problem Solving activities Prep-6 | ||
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| Prep | Goal: Recognise solutions to problems. | Activity: Come up with three positive and different ways to solve this problem. You and your family arguing over which show to watch on TV. |
| Year 1/ 2 | Goal: Build collaboration and teamwork at home. | Activity: Using items that are safe and stackable (e.g. paper cups, playing cards), make a tower as tall as you can. Once your tower is complete, remove one item at a time, trying not to make the tower collapse. Or, if you have Jenga, play it together. |
| Goal: Work together to solve problems. | Activity: Talk about this scenario with your child: I had a disagreement with my best friend and felt left out. What are three positive ways one could solve this situation? | |
| Year 3/4 | Goal: Identify and evaluate strategies to solve problems. | Activity: Encourage your child to talk to a family member and ask: Tell me about a small problem you faced? How did you solve the problem? If you were faced with the problem again would you solve it differently? |
| Goal: Differentiate between levels of problems. | Activity: With your child decide how big the following problems are. Rank them from 1 (little problem) to 3 (big problem): -You miss your friends at school. -You are feeling bored being at home all the time. | |
| Year 5/6 | Goal: Solve personal problems. | Activity: Discuss this scenario with your child: Your very important homework task is due today but the internet is down. How would you solve this problem? |
| Goal: Solve common problems. | Activity: Discuss a repeated problem in your family and make a list of ways to deal with this problem. | |