Well-being News

Being an Active Learner – Having a Go!

At SMPPS, we are continuing to focus on our value of being an active learner. This means encouraging every student to have a go, challenge themselves, and actively engage in their learning each day.

Being an active learner isn’t about always getting the right answer straight away, it’s about trying, asking questions, and staying involved even when learning feels tricky. In classrooms across the school, students are showing this by contributing to discussions, attempting new tasks, and using feedback to improve their work.

We are proud of the way our students are building confidence and resilience by stepping outside their comfort zones and giving things a go. These are important skills that support not only academic growth but also lifelong learning.

Families can support this at home by encouraging children to keep trying, celebrating effort, and talking about what they are learning each day.

Student Safety Lessons – Inform & Empower

Over the next fortnight, all students will take part in a safety lesson delivered through the Inform & Empower website. This organisation provides engaging, live online sessions designed to support students in understanding how to stay safe in a range of situations.

These lessons are interactive and age-appropriate, giving students the opportunity to learn practical strategies, ask questions, and build confidence in recognising and responding to unsafe situations.

We value the important role these sessions play in supporting student wellbeing and helping our students feel safe, informed, and empowered.

Term 2- Focus Healthy Digit Habits.

Prep- Focusing on active and passive screen time. They will explore the difference between creating and consuming whilst considering how this can help us make clever screen choices. 

Year 1 & 2- The importance of balancing screen time and green time, the value of healthy sleep habits and why it can be hard to put our devices down. 

Year 3 & 4- Focusing on screen time, how it makes us feel and it’s effects on sleep. We will also investigate the importance of balancing screen time with green time. 

Year 5 & 6- Focusing on building a healthy relationship with devices. Also explore the benefits of green time, the importance of sleep and the impacts of excessive screen time. 

Conversation Prompts  for at home - 

• Can you think of a time when you found it hard to finish up your screen time? 
• What are some of the “addictive features” that are built into games or apps that you use? 
• Thinking about how you spend your time online... When are times that you feel happy & excited? When are times that you feel frustrated & upset? 
• What can we do in that hour before bedtime to get our brain and body ready for sleep?
• Let’s talk green time! What are your top 3 things you’re loving doing right now that are not on a screen? 

Johanne Abbott

Well-being