Wellbeing Zone

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Welcome to the Wellbeing Zone. When you enter the zone, you will find a wealth of information about all the things happening in the Wellbeing space at Sunshine Heights PS as well as strategies, articles, book recommendations and events that will help build our dream and culture of Wellbeing throughout our school community, inside and outside of school, so that we can sail together through a universe of possibilities with all the emotional and social skills we need to thrive.

Good Shepherd - Tuning into Teens Program 

Good Shepherd will be running Tuning in Teens starting Thursday 8th August 2024 and running until Thursday 12th September 2024, at the Brimbank Aquatic and Wellness Centre.

Please find attached our flyer along with an information sheet around what the program entails.

Parents/Carers can register using the QR code on the flyer or contacting the Good Shepherd office directly, on 8312 8800, and speaking to Lynda or Rachel. 

A light morning tea will be provided. 

Mackillop Family Services On-Demand Webinar: Overcoming Separation Anxiety

Last term, we were due to have Mackillop Family Services run an onsite workshop to support parents in making school drop offs easier. Unfortunately, due to small numbers, Mackillop had to postpone the delivery of the onsite workshop. 

However, Mackillop Family Services, have put together this great on-demand, one-hour video called Overcoming Separation Anxiety. The video is suitable for parents/carers of children six months to 10 years over. This video will support parents who are struggling with day care drop off or finding mornings to be filled with tears and long goodbyes to head off to school. This webinar help explore the anticipated stage of separation anxiety and helpful things you can do to better prepare your little one for times away from you.

The video can be accessed here.

Mackillop Family Services offer a range of supportive videos for parents, which can be accessed here. 

Happy Space Allied Health Speech Pathology Program

Our partnership with Happy Space Allied Health has been so amazing and having Liv onsite to support our students (and staff) has been so insightful and useful. 

Liv works at our school every Thursday and is now at capacity with the number of students she can see. But... in exciting news... she is keen to increase her days to 2 days every week, so if your child has NDIS and you are looking for a speech pathologist to support them with their communication and social goals and would love your child to attend onsite speech pathology sessions, please reach out to me to let me know what support your child needs and I can connect you with Liv! 

Glasses for Kids Program 

We are very excited to announce that Sunshine Heights PS will be getting the Glasses for Kids program in Term 4. This program aims to remove vision impairment as a potential barrier to educational engagement. 

The program will be available for all students in Prep to Year 3 and will take place in Term 4, Week 7 from Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st November 2024. 

There is no cost for students to participate in the program and receive glasses if needed. Students who require glasses will be able to choose from a range of frames. 

All students who return their consent form and optometrist questionnaire will be screened. Any students who require further testing will have this done on the day. 

Consent forms and optometrist questionnaires have been sent home with students in Prep to Grade 3. 

If you haven't already done so, please remember to return your completed consent form to your child's teacher by the end of Term 3. 

More information on the program can be found here - https://stateschoolsrelief.org.au/programs/glasses-for-kids-program/ 

New Telephone Translation Service

We’re excited to announce our new phone translation services to help non-English speaking and EAL families. If you need translation, you can follow these steps: 

Step 1: Call (03) 7039 9021

Step 2: Choose your language:

• For Mandarin, press 1
• For Cantonese, press 2
• For Vietnamese, press 3
• For Arabic, press 4
• For Persian, press 5
• For all other languages, press 6

Step 3: You will be linked with a translator and connected to the school.

Happy Space Allied Health School Holiday Programs

Are you looking for some language-based fun this school holidays? 

Our friends over at Happy Space Allied Health are running some speech-pathology based literacy programs - Story Champs Intensive & Literacy Intensives - in the first week of the holidays. 

Cost is 3 workshops for $50. 

They are also offering low-cost, discounted language assessments and reports!

Check out the attached flyers for further information on the programs, costs and bookings! 

Brimbank Youth Services 'Youth Fest' in the West

Brimbank Youth Services is back running an incredible festival for young people aged 10-25 called 'Youth Fest' opened to all young people living or working in Brimbank. 

Brimbank Youth Fest begins on September 1st and continues for the whole month. 

There’s a range of free social, physical, and creative arts activities across all ages. 

Click the link below to download the program...

You can also visit their website to find out more information. 

Brimbank Youth Services 'Youth Fest' in the West

The annual Brimbank Families and Children Expo will be held from 10:00-2:00 on Tuesday 22nd October at the Salvation Army Hall, 42 Devonshire Road Sunshine.

The Expo brings together service providers around Brimbank to showcase their services and a range of community initiatives for families and children (0 – 12 years). 

It aims to increase awareness of and connection between family and children services in Brimbank and is open to all service providers working in and around Brimbank.

The Expo will have a range of activities for families and children like an animal farm, face painting, story time and much more! 

It will also be a networking space for various service providers to inform families of the various services available to them.