Wellbeing & Engagement

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

PBL Term 2 Lessons

Week 5 - How to Play a Game

Week 6 - Right to teach and learn in a safe environment

Week 7 - Reconciliation Week - Respecting First Nations Culture

Week 5 - How to Play a Game

Learning to play games is essential for student's development in several ways:

Social Interaction: Games often involve playing with others, teaching children how to interact, cooperate, compete, and communicate effectively.

Teamwork and Cooperation: Many games require teamwork and cooperation, helping children understand the importance of working together towards a common goal.

Rules and Boundaries: Games have rules that children must follow, teaching them about structure, boundaries, and the importance of fair play.

Emotional Regulation: Playing games can evoke various emotions like excitement, frustration, joy and disappointment, helping children learn to manage their emotions and cope with different situations.

Learning to Win and Lose Gracefully: Games teach children about winning and losing graciously, emphasising good sportsmanship, resilience, and how to handle success and failure.

At GSPS we explicitly teach the steps on how to play a game. Have a look at some of our GREAT students playing games.

Week 6 - Right to Teach, Right to Learn

In this PBL lesson, students are revising their classroom rules and routines. Following these rules and routines, allows teachers to effectively teach all students in their class and allow all students to learn in a safe environment. Right to teach and right to learn has a focus on respecting ourselves, others and our environment.

Week 7 - Reconciliation Week

In Week 7, students will be learning about Reconciliation week. Reconciliation is about building relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians. By participating in Reconciliation Week, we can all play a part in fostering understanding, respect, and positive change. This is a great opportunity to learn about our history, engage with Indigenous cultures, and foster a spirit of mutual respect and understanding.

Starting the Conversation...

As parents and carers, we are all keen to know what happens in our children's day-to-day lives. The standard “How was school?” doesn’t seem like enough to start the conversations we need with our children. In each newsletter, we will be providing five questions to help you stay connected to your child and get insight into their day to day school life.

What was your favourite thing you did today?
What was the hardest thing you did today?
What’s something you did today that you’re proud of?
What happened today to make you laugh?
What’s one thing you learned today that you think I might not know?

Uniforms

Wearing our school uniform helps students feel a sense of belonging, pride and safety. We have been speaking to students about the importance of wearing the correct uniform and reminding them that some second-hand uniforms can be purchased from the tuckshop for $2.00. Please ensure that as the weather gets colder, your child wears the school jumper and green tracksuit pants. Students who arrive without a school jumper will be given one for the day, to be returned before going home. Uniforms need to be labelled as during winter, many jumpers without names are misplaced, ending up in the lost property. Please ensure your child wears their school uniform every day.

Respectful Relationships Education (RRE)

Respect is one of the GREAT Expectations students learn about when they start their educational journey at Goondiwindi State School.

Respect emerges as the most important value to the Goondiwindi State School community. In this week's assembly, our School Captains, Ollie and Annabel, presented a speech about respect. Here is the final paragraph of their presentation- Respect is the most important expectation for everyone in our school. Please remember the ‘Golden Rule’, which is, “Treat people how you would like to be treated”. That’s respect.’

As part of our Respectful Relationship Education program, all students will define and give examples of respect. Please, as parents and carers, have conversations with your children about what respect means to you and your family in various contexts.

House Competition

E-Sport

The House E-Sport competition is on next week. Students will be competing against each other to earn points for their house. Each student participating will get a point for their house. Which house will claim the glory? Stay tuned!

Checkers

The students have had the opportunity to learn Checkers to prepare for the Checkers House Competition occurring in Week 8. It is voluntary, so please encourage your child to participate and get points for their house. Will it be Watson for the win or Campbell? Lucas may come through with the goods, or maybe Bishop will be the hero of the day. Please remind your children they have to be in it to win it.

News from Chappy Sonia

Chappy Week: 20 May to 24 May

National Chaplaincy Week is an annual event hosted by SU Australia to raise awareness of the value of school chaplains. Our School Chaplain, Chappy Sonia, has organised some activities during this week to acknowledge Chappy Week. We also take the opportunity to thank Chappy Sonia for her commitment to our school and our wider community. Thank you, Chappy!

Activities

Minute to Win It Games - Monday, May 20
Bookmark Making - Monday, May 20

Colouring in Competition - closes May 21
Treasure Hunt - Tuesday, May 21
Teachers vs Student Trivia Competition - Tuesday, May 21
Free Dress Friday - Dress as something starting with C for Chappy or S for Sonia. Friday, May 24