Wellbeing

Attendance: Why It’s Important

We all want our students to get a great education, and the building blocks for a great education begin with students coming to school each and every day.

If students miss school regularly, they miss out on learning the fundamental skills that will set them up for success in the later years of school.

There is no safe number of days for missing school – each day a student misses puts them behind, and can affect their educational outcomes.

Each missed day is associated with progressively lower achievement in numeracy, writing and reading.

Getting in early

Attendance patterns are established early – a child regularly missing days in kindergarten or in the early years of school will often continue to miss classes in the later years, and receive lower test scores than their classmates.

It’s vital that students go to school every day – even in the early years of primary school.

Child Safety and Wellbeing at Clyde PS

Information for families and the school community

Last year the Victorian Government announced new Child Safe Standards to further strengthen child safety across organisations, including schools.  The new standards recognise the critical importance of families and the broader school community in maintaining and promoting child safety and wellbeing. 

Clyde PS reviewed and updated our child safety policies and procedures last year to ensure they met the requirements of the new standards.  These are available to view on our school website. 

Clyde PS is committed to providing a child safe and child friendly environment, where students are safe and feel safe.  We are committed to continuous improvement in our approach to child safety and wellbeing and welcome feedback from families and members of our school community on ways we can further strengthen our child safety policies, procedures and practices. 

If you have any suggestions, comments or questions, please contact Hayley Taylor, Wellbeing Leader.

Chaplaincy Program

The chaplaincy program at Clyde Primary School was a great success in 2022.  We are looking forward to more fun activities, meaningful discussions and many new friends this year.  The chaplaincy program provides wellbeing support to students and families when life gets tough.  This is commonly in the form of student 1-on-1s and student small groups where we have meaningful conversations about life, conflict resolution, identity, emotions and so on, as well as complete activities that may facilitate mindfulness, emotional regulation and behavioural awareness.  Parents are also more than welcome to contact the chaplain for personal support where needed.  The chaplaincy program, however, does not replace professional counselling and referral recommendations may be made at the chaplain’s discretion. 

The chaplaincy program offers two social-emotional skills courses for students to participate in.  We have SPARC, which is a group program that runs for 40 mins once a week during class time for 8 weeks.  In SPARC we unpack conversations surrounding self-esteem, social skills, positive and negative relationships and identity.  We play games and have social time as well as time for discussion and directed activities.  It’s been amazing to see the students interact and talk about these topics together and encourage one another.  Our current group consists of grades 4 and 5s and they have made a great bond that will continue well after this SPARC course has concluded.  Our individual-based program is called JUMP and this comes in the form of a weekly activity that will be completed by the student in chaplaincy 1-on-1s.  This program covers areas of gratitude, emotions, self-worth and hopes & dreams.  We have seen great engagement in students as young as Foundation getting to know these concepts and are really pleased with our progress so far.

If you are interested in either of these programs for your child please contact the office.