Positive Futures News

What is the EDSC Positive Futures program?

Positive Education brings together the science of positive psychology with best-practice teaching.

The school’s journey with Positive Education began in 2012 with Positive Education focuses and values implemented across each year level and over time has evolved into the whole school approach launched in 2020. 

Our Positive Futures program has some very clear goals:

• We want to improve student quality of life and their engagement with others, including with their teachers
• We seek to develop students in a more holistic way, with a stronger focus on wellbeing

There are six tenets of Positive Psychology that are embedded into our model:

Positive Health – Positive Self

Developing knowledge, understanding and skills to promote health and well – being.

Positive Relationships

Nurturing positive relationships based on respect. 

Accomplishment

Generating hope and optimism through the accomplishment of personal and community goals

Positive Emotion

Building and experiencing positive emotion. 

Meaning

Believing in serving something greater than ourselves.

Positive Engagement

Developing critical thinkers by promoting challenge, curiosity and creativity. 

More resources and information can be found here:

https://www.eastdonsc.vic.edu.au/wellbeing-engagement-positive-futures

The Resilience Project – 2023 partnership

We are proud to announce that East Doncaster Secondary College will be partnering with The Resilience Project to deliver some content in our Positive Futures sessions. We are very excited to see how this collaboration will enhance our sessions and connections to the wider community. If you would like to know more about The Resilience Project you can visit their website. 

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/

Positive Impact Project 

Congratulations to 9A and Mr Robb who ran games and fun activities for students on Thursday 8 December to raise money for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation.  Although the weather was not on their side they still managed to move the activities to the 400 Open area.  Well Done!!

Positive Futures Book of the Week  

Beloved artist Worry Lines shares a sweetly funny and deeply relatable illustrated story about hope, worry, and chocolate chip cookies.

Worry Lines has captured hearts around the world by posting daily drawings on Instagram. In this book, Worry Lines interweaves these fan-favourites into an entirely new story about the making of the book itself. Charting the creative process from its anxiety-riddled beginning to its (hopefully) hopeful end, This Book Is for You is a charming and honest portrait of worry.

This book is for you if you are:

1. A Brave Worrier (BW)

2. An Absolute Legend (AL)

3. Anywhere from Mildly Concerned About Something (MCAS) to Deeply Anxious About Everything (DAAE)

About the Author

Fans have described Worry Lines's drawings as "oddly comforting," "wonderfully pure," and "too relatable." Vulture described them as "tender, gentle and funny." Vogue went with "uncomplicated" and Preview opted for "cute" and "wobbly." If Worry Lines had to pick two words to describe themselves, they'd go with "nervous" and "potato."

Rebecca James

Student Engagement & Connection

Learning Specialist