Wellbeing

In Term 4, Year 5 students will be focusing on the “Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program Topic 5: Stress Management.

The activities we will engage with are:

1.  Stressors: Identifying the various contexts and situations in people’s lives that can cause stress and understanding that stress is often felt when we feel challenged, frustrated or inadequate.

2. Lifting the Mood: Students will use inclusive and collaborative play to lift the mood and build a sense of social support.

3. A Guided relaxation: Identifying situations where people may need to use self-calming strategies. Practise some self-calming strategies, and discuss the effects these strategies have on their mood.

Aims:

This unit aims to help students recognise that feeling stressed is a normal part of life and to develop healthy ways to manage it. By learning how to identify their own signs of stress and practising calming and mood-boosting strategies, students will build confidence and resilience to support their wellbeing both at school and beyond.

We encourage you to continue these discussions at home, engaging in conversations about what your child has been learning in their Wellbeing sessions.  If you have any concerns about topics raised, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher.

In 2016, Respectful Relationships education became a core component of the Victorian Curriculum from Foundation to Year 12 and is being taught in all Government and Catholic schools and many independent schools. A core element of this initiative is the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) curriculum.  Efforts to promote social and emotional skills and positive gender norms in children and young people has been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing. It also reduces antisocial behaviours including engagement in gender-related violence.

Further information about Respectful Relationships education can be found at:  https://www.vic.gov.au/respectful-relationships

PCMS – Positive Classroom Management Strategies

In Grade 5, we are continuing to focus on establishing and reinforcing Positive Classroom Management Strategies to support a calm, respectful, and productive learning environment. This includes revisiting routines and expectations such as bringing diaries to school each day with nightly reading recorded and signed by a parent, moving appropriately in and around school buildings, demonstrating respectful behaviour during assemblies, and engaging in positive, respectful dialogue with peers and teachers. These consistent expectations help build responsibility, independence, and a strong sense of community in our classrooms.

Puberty Clues

This term we run a 3 week unit on Puberty. This will be facilitated by an external expert, Gair Miller. More information for parents on this program will be provided via Compass and an optional online information session.

Sunsmart Term - Slip Slop Slap

This term is a ‘Sunsmart’ term which means that students should apply sunscreen each day and have a hat at school for all outdoor activities.