Wellbeing

PBL

At SFS, our PBL (Positive Behaviours for Learning) school wide expectations are:

Respect,  Responsibility and Kindness

We have a whole school social skills lesson where we explicitly teach an expected behaviour from our Behaviour Expectation matrix. 

This week we have focused on Respect in all areas of the school: 

Use good manners. 

We discussed with the students why it is important to use good manners.Using good manners helps us to interact with others in a more positive way and helps create a kinder, more considerate environment at school. 

We need to respect the dignity of the human person as we are all created in the image of God. The students practiced using different phrases that demonstrate good manners such as please, thank you and excuse me. Here are some of our PBL raffle winners  who have been seen demonstrating school expected behaviours. 

Child Safety standards

To highlight the importance of Child Safety in schools, MACS (Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools) has created a resource called “11 standards in 11 months.” 

Let’s look at Child standard 6 in more detail through a newsletter created for parents and carers by MACS. Child safe standard 6 is “People working with children and young people are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice”.

Action for Happiness Calendar: Joyful June

This month’s calendar is all about looking for the joyful little moments in each day to be grateful for. This helps us to have a more positive mindset and outlook on life. 

Why not try some of these actions together with your family and spread a little joy around!

If you have any concern about your child’s mental health or wellbeing, please do not hesitate to contact me or make a time to speak with me. My working days are Monday to Wednesday and Friday.

Rachel Lenko

Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader

rlenko@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au